Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Microsoft Office Communications Server Certification

Microsoft Certifications for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 help you make the most of the growing demand for improved communications. Help validate your expertise to perform as a lead IT professional and support more effective communication in an enterprise organization. Choose a certification path that relates to your current job role or your next career step.

Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) certification

The MCITP: Lync Server Administrator certification is appropriate for Microsoft Certified Professionals who have earned the MCTS on Lync Server 2010 certification. This MCITP certification helps demonstrate your professional expertise in using Microsoft Lync Server 2010 to excel in a specific job role, such as the lead administrator for messaging solutions within an enterprise organization.

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) program

Are you a highly skilled technical expert on Microsoft Lync Server 2010? Differentiate yourself as the technical expert. The MCM program helps the best professionals in the IT industry become even better. Whether you want to enhance and help validate your advanced skills or take your career to the next level, achieving an MCM certification will help differentiate you from others in the competitive ranks of senior IT professionals.

This unique program consists of three weeks of mandatory, hands-on training led by experts, and extensive written and lab-based testing. Candidates' practical product knowledge, technical acumen, knowledge of best practices, personal and professional stamina, and communication skills are constantly challenged as they work toward attaining this premier Microsoft technical certification.

Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) certification

Help validate your ability to translate business problems into technology solutions. When you earn the Microsoft Certified Architect certification, you can be recognized by Microsoft and the IT industry worldwide as an expert who holds the highest level of professional certification from Microsoft.

Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Configuring

Demonstrate that you have the knowledge and skills that are required to deploy and administer an enterprise communications environment by using Microsoft Lync Server 2010.

Candidates for this certification should have a minimum of one year of experience installing, managing, deploying, configuring, monitoring, and maintaining Lync Server 2010, Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communications Server 2007 R2, or related technologies. In addition, candidates should have experience using and configuring Active Directory and network infrastructure components that support the deployment and ongoing management of Lync Server 2010 or Office Communications Server 2007 versions.

The best way to prepare for Microsoft Certification exams is to spend time with the technology. Review the exam preparation guides and work with Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and related tools as much as you can. To earn the MCTS certification on Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Configuring, you must pass one exam.

Note This certification will be retired when Microsoft discontinues mainstream support for the related technology.

Note This certification will be retired when Microsoft discontinues mainstream support for the related technology.

MCITP on Lync Server 2010 certification

The MCITP certification helps validate that an individual has the comprehensive set of skills necessary to perform a particular job role, such as database administrator or enterprise messaging administrator. MCITP certifications build on the technical proficiency measured in the MCTS certifications. Therefore, you will earn one or more MCTS certifications on your way to earning an MCITP certification.

Note This certification will be retired when Microsoft discontinues mainstream support for the related technology.

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM)

The Microsoft Certified Master (MCM): Microsoft Lync Server 2010 certification provides in-depth and comprehensive training for Lync Server 2010. A three-week training program is delivered by recognized experts from Microsoft and Microsoft partner organizations to deepen and broaden the technical skills of experienced professionals who work with Microsoft communications technologies.

Through presentations, white-board discussions, and goal-based labs, MCM training covers the individual core Lync Server 2010 technologies as well as broader architectural and operational areas, such as telephony integration, upgrade and migration, application integration, performance analysis, management, and operations.

To be accepted into the MCM program, applicants must meet or exceed the prerequisites, which include:

*Exam 83-640 has been suspended and replaced with Exam 70-640.