{"id":313,"date":"2013-07-09T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2013-07-09T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:41:02","slug":"mcsd-sharepoint-certification-officially-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"MCSD: SharePoint Certification Officially Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MCPD-SharePoint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MCSD SharePoint Applications\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MCSD SharePoint Applications\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MCPD-SharePoint_thumb.jpg\" width=\"642\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There have been rumors running around for months about what exams would be required to earn the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer certification for SharePoint 2013.&#160; MS Learning officially added <strong>MCSD: SharePoint<\/strong> to their site today.&#160; You can see all the SharePoint certifications, including MCSD, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/en\/us\/sharepoint-certification.aspx#fbid=Nh9miusRdDn\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Two SharePoint specific Development exams haven\u2019t been released yet, but should be available later this summer.&#160; In the meantime you can get started on the two non-SharePoint specific certification exams.<\/p>\n<p>Another point that should be noted.&#160; This announcement continues the trend started with the SharePoint Microsoft Certified Masters certification.&#160; Certifications will now be time constrained.&#160; You must recertify every two years to maintain the MCSD: SharePoint certification.&#160; This is also true for MCSM: SharePoint (three years) and MCSE: SharePoint (two years).&#160; This recertification requirement reflects Microsoft\u2019s move away from doing major specific releases, like 2007, 2010, and 2013, to a more continuous release cycle with quarterly service releases for Office 365.&#160; You can expect to see On-premise SharePoint going to a more continuous evolution over the next several years also.&#160; These new certs anticipate that development in both the Online and On-Premise environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been rumors running around for months about what exams would be required to earn the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer certification for SharePoint 2013.&#160; MS Learning officially added MCSD: SharePoint to their site today.&#160; You can see all the SharePoint certifications, including MCSD, here. The Two SharePoint specific Development exams haven\u2019t been released yet, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MCSD: SharePoint Certification Officially Announced<\/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":[85,13,63],"tags":[58,78,60],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-certification","category-news","category-sharepoint-2013-dev","tag-certification","tag-news","tag-sharepoint_2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}