{"id":205,"date":"2012-01-12T10:42:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2012-01-12T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:48:15","slug":"office-365-certification-exams-being-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Office 365 Certification Exams Being Developed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Office-365.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Office 365\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Office 365\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Office-365_thumb.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a>Microsoft is currently working on two new certification exams for IT professionals who work with Microsoft Office 365 online systems.&#160; The exams are due to be released in April, 2012.&#160; If you work with Office 365 you should be working on the knowledge needed to pass these exams starting NOW!&#160; You can read more about what skills each exam is designed to test using the links below:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/en\/us\/Exam.aspx?ID=70-323&amp;Locale=en-us#tab1\">Exam 70-323: Administering Office 365<\/a> <\/strong>intended for IT professionals who administer Microsoft Office 365 in an environment that may include Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Lync, and\/or Microsoft SharePoint<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/en\/us\/Exam.aspx?ID=70-321&amp;Locale=en-us#tab1\">Exam 70-321: Deploying Office 365<\/a><\/strong> intended for consultants and IT professionals who plan and implement Office 365. This includes migrations to Office 365 (simple and hybrid deployments)<\/p>\n<p>Passing these exams will give you the following&#160; certifications:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist<\/strong> (MCTS): Administering Office 365 (pass Exam 70-323) <\/li>\n<li><strong>Microsoft Certified IT Professional<\/strong> (MCITP): Office 365 Administrator (pass Exam 70-323 and Exam 70-321) <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>The links above provide an outline of what skills are being tested but at this point there is no official training material available for the exams.&#160; Your best way to prepare is to work with the Product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is currently working on two new certification exams for IT professionals who work with Microsoft Office 365 online systems.&#160; The exams are due to be released in April, 2012.&#160; If you work with Office 365 you should be working on the knowledge needed to pass these exams starting NOW!&#160; You can read more about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Office 365 Certification Exams Being Developed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[58,55],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-certification","tag-office_365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}