Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Certifications

Distinguish your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server skills and knowledge by earning a Microsoft Certification. Combined with hands-on experience, Microsoft Certification demonstrates your understanding of specific technologies and job roles, inspires confidence in employers, and broadens your career opportunities.

Many companies are investing in collaborative technologies like those offered by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to help manage and share vast quantities of valuable information. With a Microsoft Certification on Office SharePoint Server, you can assist them. Get certified to build and configure Web portals, integrate business applications, and manage administration and deployment of collaborative solutions.

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist certification

The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification highlights your area of expertise and validates that you have the knowledge and skills required to deploy and administer an enterprise Office SharePoint Server environment.

Microsoft Certified Master program

Differentiate yourself as the technical expert. The Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) program helps the best professionals in the IT industry become even better. Whether you want to enhance and validate your advanced skills or take your career to the next level, achieving a Microsoft Certified Master 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 certification

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

MCA: Microsoft SharePoint Server certification is in development. Check back for updates.

Validate your in-depth technical knowledge of and skill in using the features and functionality of key technology areas in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. To earn this certification, you must pass one exam (see table).

Note These certifications will retire when Microsoft discontinues mainstream support for Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Your profile

Certification

Exam number

Developer who works with Office SharePoint Server 2007 to build Web portals and integrate business applications

MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Application Development

Exam 70-542

IT professional who configures and deploys Office SharePoint Server 2007

MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Configuration

Exam 70-630

Developer who builds applications that use Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development

Exam 70-541

IT professional who configures and deploys Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Configuration

Exam 70-631

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM)

The Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server program provides in-depth and comprehensive training for Office SharePoint Server. Choose the MCM career path to demonstrate your extensive skills and distinguish yourself as a seasoned expert in this technology.

Through presentations, white-board discussions, demonstrations, and goal-based labs, MCM training covers the individual core Office SharePoint Server technologies as well as broader architectural and operational areas. Topics include information architecture, capacity planning, disaster recovery, SQL Server performance tuning, enterprise search, Hyper-V, Business Data Catalog, content migration, geo-distributed systems, custom Office SharePoint Server application development, troubleshooting, and performance testing and tuning.

In order to be accepted into the MCM program, applicants must meet or exceed the prerequisite, which includes:

  • Extensive hands-on experience

  • In-depth understanding of Office SharePoint Server technology and products design and architecture along with ASP.NET, Windows Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), and other core technologies upon which Office SharePoint Server depends.

  • Successfully pass Exams 70-630 TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring, 70-631 TS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring, 70-541 TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development, and 70-542 TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Application Development.

  • Learn more about the MCM: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA)

The Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) credential is for technical or solutions architects who specialize in using a specific Microsoft server technology. MCAs are recognized by Microsoft and the IT industry worldwide as individuals who hold the highest level of professional certification on Microsoft server products.

Microsoft Certified Architect: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server content is in development. Check back for updates.