I am wondering for the way to be a Microsoft Certified IT Professional- Applications for Microsoft Dynamics NAV
The fact is that some of MS Dynamics NAV exams ( from 4.0 ) in the table of getting certified are retired.
I already have the MB7-515 Certification and it seems that it is impossible to get the microsoft certified IT Professional
. (You must pass one required exam (MB7-515) and three elective exams to obtain a certification) . Now beside the required one only 2 exams are active .(MB7-638 and MB7-639 ) and mathematically is impossible to get another one.
There are versions of every test for 5.0 and 2009. If you take the correctly named exams you will be fine. You can always call up Microsoft to confirm. Microsoft is awful about updating their certification pages for Dynamics. So if it says to take a 4.0 Warehouse Management exam you can take any current version of Warehouse Management, etc.
and those for v4, although are still listed in MS Learning, can not be passed anymore.
It always is better to pass the latest version available (now it is 2009), although passed exams never never “expire” for the person who passed them.
I understand, that there IS difference between passing exams for v2009 and all previous (5, 4), but looks like for v5 there never existed full set of exams, the same as above I found at Prometric (examination) site, except the expired ones, of course.
Santuco, as you have postponed passing v4 exams, you have no choice - now you must learn a little bit additionally and go for v2009 exams… If you HAD already passed the required v4 exams, they would still count for certification
Microsoft Certified IT Professional – Applications for Microsoft Dynamics NAV
but now it’s too late, you can get only
Microsoft Certified IT Professional – Applications for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009
As some of the required exams currently are available only for v2009 (v4 expired, for v5 never have been released), THESE are the ones you have no other way than passing v2009 - Service Management, for example.
In that manner you CAN collect a mix of passed v5 and v2009 exams, giving you the “MCP Applications” certification.
BUT - if you are looking towards gaining this certification, it makes sense to do it for the latest Navision version - and you do not need to start preparing from ground up, as v2009 exams differ from v5 only in the part of what is new in v2009.
Some application areas had no or minimal additions/changes over different versions, I think that is the reason why some exams haven’t ever had a special, say, v5 version, only v4 and then v2009, leaving v5 out in this chain. Now MS has “expired” these v4 ones to enforce us to pass newer exams… But MS “is the boss” and we can’t do anything there [;)]
Still having problem with the certification issue.
A previously mentioned in the post i already attain the certification but the Microsoft Certified IT Professional - Application for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is not shown on my Mcp account page.
Can you help me what is going on or how can i report this issue ? My region is Albania
How much time has passed? It may take a while, I do not know exactly how much it is now, when all is done online through MCP site, but in those old days when certificates were a piece of paper I recall I waited for mine for about 6 weeks…
Thank you for the reply. I agree with you about the fact what a certificate is but my company see it differently ( Since that they are paying).
The fact is that my colleague that passed the last exam one day after can see the certificate on his MCP account and i cant. As time period since the last exam i passed is about 6 days.
Im worried if it will not be possible for me to take the cert since that 2 of my exams are from NAV 5.0
Call up the MCP number and ask them what is going on. The phone number should be listed on the Microsoft Certification site. I think it’s also on the Prometric site.
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