Your career after Microsoft Certifications

Over the years, Microsoft certification has become one of the most sought-after certification in the IT domain. It gives measurable rewards to students, IT professionals, their managers, and the organizations that employ them.

Microsoft has introduced a wide range of Microsoft Certification exams for entry level to experienced professionals and for domains ranging from networking, system administration, database management to programming, web development and other advanced technologies. The Microsoft certification test ensures whether IT professionals acquire or don't acquire the necessary skills to successfully implement business solutions using Microsoft Technology.

Microsoft certification is a very vast area and it covers many aspects:

• MCP: MCP or Microsoft Certification Professional is a program of professional certifications and it is being awarded by Microsoft. It is designed for individuals who implement a Microsoft technology or product as part of a business solution in an organisation.
• MCITP: MCITP or Microsoft Certified IT professional can create professionals capable of deploying, building, designing, optimizing, and operating technologies for a particular job role. They make the design and technology decisions necessary to ensure successful technology implementation in projects.
• MCPD: It is also known as Microsoft Certified Professional Developer. This program demonstrates one's ability to use Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft .NET Framework to excel in a specific, real-world job role.
• MCTS: It is commonly known as Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. It is designed to validate your skills on the features and functionality of key technologies. In this specific program, one can show its own depth of knowledge in one specific technology, earn multiple MCTS certifications to show breadth across different products.
• MCSA: It is designed for professionals who implement, manage, and troubleshoot existing network and system environments based on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Operating System.
• MCDBA: It is also known as Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) certification. It is designed for individuals who derive physical database designs, develop logical data models, create physical databases, create data services by using Transact-SQL, manage and maintain databases, configure and manage security, monitor and optimize databases, and install and configure Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
• MCDST: Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician certification is designed for individuals who wants to enhance their ability on troubleshoot desktop environments that run on the Windows operating system.
• MCSE: It is also known as Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE). This certification shows clients and employers that you are skilled in designing, implementing, and administering infrastructures for business solutions based on Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server.
• MOS: It is commonly known as Microsoft office specialist. This certification helps you in differentiating yourself in today's competitive market. This certification features Web-based pretests, program-specific certification exams, and a series of Microsoft Press step-by-step books that help you demonstrate expertise in accomplishing essential job tasks across multiple programs.
• MS BI SSAS, MS BI SSIS, and MS BI SSRS: All the mentioned programs provide specialization in analytics and business intelligence. The usual functions of business intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics.
• MS Office: It is a computer programme or software that is used to perform various tasks. MS Office is a collection of applications that can help you perform various day to day tasks.

Eligibility criteria:

• To be eligible for this program, one should have completed 10+2.
• To be more precise, there is no such eligibility criteria for this program, a school goer can also apply for this program.

Career prospects for Microsoft Certified Professionals:

You can begin your career as a:

• Network and systems administrator
• Database administrator
• Helpdesk and customer support
• Programmer
• Software developer
• Software engineer
• Web developer or systems analyst
• Application developer
• Enterprise applications developer
• Software architect
• Consultant and senior systems analyst