Microsoft certifications on SharePoint 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Server Certification Overview
Many companies are investing in collaborative technologies like those offered by Microsoft SharePoint Server to help manage and share vast quantities of valuable information. With a Microsoft SharePoint Server certification, 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 helps validate that you have the knowledge and skills required to deploy and administer an enterprise SharePoint Server environment.


Review the requirements for MCTS certifications
Microsoft Professional certifications
When you earn a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) or a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) certification, you help demonstrate your expertise in using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to excel in a specific job role. Professionals who earn an MCITP or a MCPD certification typically have at least two to three years of experience in using the technologies covered in the exam and have already earned the MCTS certification.


Review the requirements for Microsoft Professional certifications
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.


Learn about the MCM certification for SharePoint Server
Microsoft Certified Architect certification
Validate your capability to translate business problems into technology solutions. Individuals who earn the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) certification have achieved the capstone certification from Microsoft, proving their ability to architect large-scale complex solutions with Microsoft technologies. As such they can be recognized by Microsoft and the IT industry worldwide as an expert who holds the highest level of professional certification from Microsoft.


MCITP and MCPD for SharePoint Server

The Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) certifications help you demonstrate your ability to use Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to excel in a specific, market-relevant job role. We offer two paths: each builds on MCTS prerequisites and is relevant to professional roles in today's technology marketplace. Use the following table to identify the certification that best fits your current role and career goals.

Note The MCITP and MCPD certifications will be retired when Microsoft discontinues mainstream support for the related technologies.

Microsoft Professional certification	Prerequisite MCTS certification	Exam
MCITP: SharePoint Administrator 2010	MCTS: SharePoint 2010, Configuration	Exam 70-668: PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator
MCPD: SharePoint Developer 2010	MCTS: SharePoint 2010, Application Development	Exam 70-576: PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications

Advanced Certifications for SharePoint Server

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM)

The Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for SharePoint Server 2010 certification is developing the next generation of technical leaders in this dramatically growing business. A combination of in-depth technical instructor-led training, whiteboard discussions, goal-based labs, and thorough exam testing delivers the most comprehensive training available today for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 delivered by top SharePoint experts. Successful completion of this program demonstrates knowledge of SharePoint products and technologies at a deeper level than has ever been assessed before. Graduates of this program are recognized by Microsoft as the top SharePoint experts in the world. To be accepted into the MCM program, applicants must meet or exceed the prerequisites, which include:

1. A thorough understanding of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 design and architecture.
2. A thorough understanding of Microsoft ASP.NET, Windows Server, Internet Information Services, and other core technologies related to SharePoint products and technologies.
3. The ability to speak, understand, and write fluent English.
4. The following experience:
   
   • Hands-on experience via early adoption programs with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010: installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and custom development
   • Three or more years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and custom development
5. Candidates must have passed the following certification exams prior to applying to the MCM program:

Microsoft Certification exams on SharePoint 2010 (available mid-year 2010):

• Exam 70-573: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
• Exam 70-576: PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications
• Exam 70-667: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring
• Exam 70-668: PRO: SharePoint 2010, Administrator

or

All Microsoft Certification exams on SharePoint 2007 (for rotations starting before December 31, 2010):

• Exam 70-631: TS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring
• Exam 70-630: TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring
• Exam 70-541: TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development
• Exam 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) certification is designed for architects who specialize in using Microsoft technologies to provide solutions for enterprise customers. MCAs are recognized by Microsoft and the IT industry worldwide as individuals who hold the highest level of professional certification on Microsoft server products.

• Find out more about the MCA program and MCA: Microsoft SharePoint Server

Exam 70-668: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator

Designing a SharePoint 2010 Farm Topology

# Design physical architecture.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: translating information architecture to physical architecture, determining capacity for a SharePoint farm (storage, number of users, bandwidth utilization, intranet/extranet, hardware), and scaling Web farm and services infrastructure

#Plan for farm deployment.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: sequential deployment, planning standalone deployment (Microsoft SQL Server Express), planning single-server farm (SQL Server), planning multi-server deployment in an N-Tier Farm, and designing a SharePoint virtual environment

# Plan for availability.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: designing SQL Server failover clustering strategy, types of availability (high-performance, acceptable downtime, Recovery Point Objective, Recovery Time Objective ), types of mirroring, high availability, high protection, whole farm as a failover cluster, and designing the Web Front-End NLB strategy

#Design SharePoint integration with network infrastructure.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: planning for internal and external farm communications, establishing network perimeter configuration, networking, Active Directory, DNS, SQL storage, IIS, and analyzing infrastructure services

# Design logical taxonomy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: planning sites and site collections, planning for collaboration sites, planning My Site sites, planning for zones, planning for Service Applications, Web applications, content databases, sites and sub-sites vs. libraries, libraries vs. folders vs. document sets, security boundaries, site hierarchy, and content deployment path methodology

#Plan for sandbox solutions.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: content isolation, feature deployments, and trusted solutions


Planning for Search and Business Solutions

#Define search requirements.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: types of data, types of distribution (Internet, extranet), segregation of data, index file location, index size, federation requirements, content sources, search scopes, search taxonomy, server name mappings, promoting or demoting exclusions, synonyms and compound search processing, and defining facets for search

#Enterprise content management.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: records management, BPM (record deployment), document management, metadata planning, information management policies, implement data taxonomy structure, Web Content Management (WCM), and Information Rights Management (IRM)

#Social computing and collaboration.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: user profile service, user profiles, organization profiles, audiences, My Sites, social tags, and planning enterprise wikis, blogs, and personalization sites

#Business intelligence strategy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: PerformancePoint service (dashboards and scorecards), Excel Services Service, Visio Graphics Service, SQL Reporting Services, chart Web parts, and report center


Planning SharePoint 2010 Deployment

#Service applications.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: formulating a Business Connectivity Services (BCS) strategy, planning a Microsoft Excel Services strategy, implementing a BI solution, planning service application server roles, and planning a Web server forms strategy (Plan InfoPath Forms Services)

#SharePoint component strategy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: Web parts, Web applications, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, SharePoint features and solutions, workflow, site templates, site definitions, multilingual deployment, master pages and layout files, and e-mail integration

#An upgrade strategy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: supporting hardware upgrades (for example, 32 to 64 bit), OS upgrade, in-place upgrade, MOSS upgrade, and SQL Server upgrade

#Design a migration strategy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: database migration, custom features, read-only and detached databases, designing a test and QA implementation plan (for example, development to production), migrating content databases, moving content between farms, moving content to and from the farm, moving content within the farm, and rollback

#Design security architecture.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: planning security for WebApp site collection, designing SharePoint users and groups administration, taxonomy of SharePoint security groups, managed accounts, site security (permission levels , list permissions, site permissions, personal permissions, default and custom security groups), and planning for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

#Plan and deploy authentication methods.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: planning for integration of multiple authentication sources/types, planning for NTLM authentication, planning for Kerberos authentication, planning for Forms-Based Authentication (FBA), planning for Claims Authentication (Identity and Access Management), planning for Secure Store Service

Defining a SharePoint 2010 Operations Strategy and Business Continuity

#Design a maintenance strategy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: preparing test plans for patching and maintenance, SharePoint Maintenance Manager, rebuilding SQL indexes, search maintenance

#Recommend provisioning strategies.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: managing self-service components (My Sites, service architecture administration), delegating site administration, limiting site templates and page layouts, assigning quotas, defining policy for Web application

# Establish an enterprise monitoring plan.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: developing monitoring points for performance and availability, utilizing performance monitoring, analyzing search reports, Web analytics, diagnostic logging, usage logging, analyzing health and usage data (SharePoint Health Analyzer), and validating farm topology against performance requirements

#Plan SharePoint backup and restore.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: developing and testing recovery strategy and implementation plan, server recovery, site recovery, granular backup and recovery strategy, exporting a site or list, recovering data from an unattached content database, and backup and restore of the following: farm, farm configuration, site collection, Web applications, Secure Store Service, snapshots, content database, configuration database, custom features, solutions, code, service, site, list, document library, performance site collection, and recycle bin

Resources:-

Here are a few of the resources I utilized to help prepare for the exam.

SharePoint 2010 Advanced IT Professional Training – This is a boiled down set of videos made available to those who passed the 2007 IT Pro exams. While some of the videos tend to drag on, it’s a good place to learn & understand 2010.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff420396.aspx

TechNet Virtual Labs: SharePoint Products and Technologies
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb512933.aspx

if you have any doubts or queries regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know, Thanks...

Exam 70-668: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator

Designing a SharePoint 2010 Farm Topology

# Design physical architecture.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: translating information architecture to physical architecture, determining capacity for a SharePoint farm (storage, number of users, bandwidth utilization, intranet/extranet, hardware), and scaling Web farm and services infrastructure

#Plan for farm deployment.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: sequential deployment, planning standalone deployment (Microsoft SQL Server Express), planning single-server farm (SQL Server), planning multi-server deployment in an N-Tier Farm, and designing a SharePoint virtual environment

# Plan for availability.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: designing SQL Server failover clustering strategy, types of availability (high-performance, acceptable downtime, Recovery Point Objective, Recovery Time Objective ), types of mirroring, high availability, high protection, whole farm as a failover cluster, and designing the Web Front-End NLB strategy

#Design SharePoint integration with network infrastructure.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: planning for internal and external farm communications, establishing network perimeter configuration, networking, Active Directory, DNS, SQL storage, IIS, and analyzing infrastructure services

# Design logical taxonomy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: planning sites and site collections, planning for collaboration sites, planning My Site sites, planning for zones, planning for Service Applications, Web applications, content databases, sites and sub-sites vs. libraries, libraries vs. folders vs. document sets, security boundaries, site hierarchy, and content deployment path methodology

#Plan for sandbox solutions.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: content isolation, feature deployments, and trusted solutions


Planning for Search and Business Solutions

#Define search requirements.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: types of data, types of distribution (Internet, extranet), segregation of data, index file location, index size, federation requirements, content sources, search scopes, search taxonomy, server name mappings, promoting or demoting exclusions, synonyms and compound search processing, and defining facets for search

#Enterprise content management.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: records management, BPM (record deployment), document management, metadata planning, information management policies, implement data taxonomy structure, Web Content Management (WCM), and Information Rights Management (IRM)

#Social computing and collaboration.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: user profile service, user profiles, organization profiles, audiences, My Sites, social tags, and planning enterprise wikis, blogs, and personalization sites

#Business intelligence strategy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: PerformancePoint service (dashboards and scorecards), Excel Services Service, Visio Graphics Service, SQL Reporting Services, chart Web parts, and report center


Planning SharePoint 2010 Deployment

#Service applications.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: formulating a Business Connectivity Services (BCS) strategy, planning a Microsoft Excel Services strategy, implementing a BI solution, planning service application server roles, and planning a Web server forms strategy (Plan InfoPath Forms Services)

#SharePoint component strategy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: Web parts, Web applications, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, SharePoint features and solutions, workflow, site templates, site definitions, multilingual deployment, master pages and layout files, and e-mail integration

#An upgrade strategy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: supporting hardware upgrades (for example, 32 to 64 bit), OS upgrade, in-place upgrade, MOSS upgrade, and SQL Server upgrade

#Design a migration strategy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: database migration, custom features, read-only and detached databases, designing a test and QA implementation plan (for example, development to production), migrating content databases, moving content between farms, moving content to and from the farm, moving content within the farm, and rollback

#Design security architecture.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: planning security for WebApp site collection, designing SharePoint users and groups administration, taxonomy of SharePoint security groups, managed accounts, site security (permission levels , list permissions, site permissions, personal permissions, default and custom security groups), and planning for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

#Plan and deploy authentication methods.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: planning for integration of multiple authentication sources/types, planning for NTLM authentication, planning for Kerberos authentication, planning for Forms-Based Authentication (FBA), planning for Claims Authentication (Identity and Access Management), planning for Secure Store Service

Defining a SharePoint 2010 Operations Strategy and Business Continuity

#Design a maintenance strategy.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: preparing test plans for patching and maintenance, SharePoint Maintenance Manager, rebuilding SQL indexes, search maintenance

#Recommend provisioning strategies.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: managing self-service components (My Sites, service architecture administration), delegating site administration, limiting site templates and page layouts, assigning quotas, defining policy for Web application

# Establish an enterprise monitoring plan.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: developing monitoring points for performance and availability, utilizing performance monitoring, analyzing search reports, Web analytics, diagnostic logging, usage logging, analyzing health and usage data (SharePoint Health Analyzer), and validating farm topology against performance requirements

#Plan SharePoint backup and restore.
-This objective may include but is not limited to: developing and testing recovery strategy and implementation plan, server recovery, site recovery, granular backup and recovery strategy, exporting a site or list, recovering data from an unattached content database, and backup and restore of the following: farm, farm configuration, site collection, Web applications, Secure Store Service, snapshots, content database, configuration database, custom features, solutions, code, service, site, list, document library, performance site collection, and recycle bin

SP 2010: Certification exam details for SharePoint 2010 published

SharePoint 2010 certifications are mainly classified into two main sections:

1. For IT Professionals: SharePoint 2010 drives productivity and offers a scalable unified infrastructure and flexible deployment.

2. For developers, SharePoint 2010 provides a business collaboration platform you can use to rapidly build solutions for your business needs.



For the IT Pros

New on for IT Pros are 2 certifications. MCTS SharePoint 2010 Configuring and MCITP SharePoint 2010.

•70-667 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover configuration of SharePoint 2010 including deployment, upgrade, management, and operation on a server farm.

•70-668 PRO: SharePoint 2010, Administrator
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover advanced SharePoint 2010 topics including capacity planning, topology designing, and performance tuning.

For developers

Also for developers there will be 2 new certifications. MCTS SharePoint 2010 Application Development and MCPD SharePoint 2010.

•70-573 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led course designed for developers with six months or more of .NET development experience. Course covers what you need to know to be an effective member of a SharePoint development team using Visual Studio 2010.

•70-576 PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led training course designed for development team leads who have already passed the Developing on SharePoint 2010 technical specialist exam. The course covers choosing technologies for and scoping a SharePoint project, best practices for SharePoint development, configuring a SharePoint development environment, advanced use of SharePoint developer features, and debugging of code in a SharePoint project.

For more information, Please refer this site:
https://partner.microsoft.com/40121316?msp_id=sharepoint2010ready

Please let me know in case of any doubts/queries, I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues,Thanks...