Microsoft MCTS Certifications
(Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist)
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certifications enable professionals to target specific technologies and to
distinguish themselves by demonstrating in-depth knowledge and expertise in Microsoft specialized technologies. An MCTS is
consistently capable of implementing, building, troubleshooting, and debugging a particular Microsoft technology.
This list includes some active Microsoft MCP Certifications as well.
Exam 70-178: TS: Microsoft Project 2010, Managing Projects
This course provides students with the knowledge to initiate projects, build and monitor a schedule, manage
resources, and communicate project information; as well as using tools for managing multiple projects.
Exam 70-236: TS: Exchange Server 2007, Configuring
This course provides students with the knowledge to prepare the Exchange Server 2007 Infrastructure, as well as how to install
and transition to Exchange Server 2007. You will learn how to manage, remotely execute and access Exchange Server 2007.
The training also covers managing default, custom, and public folders, connectors, transport rules, and message compliance
as it relates to the Exchange Server. This course will teach students to perform data protection, disaster recovery,
monitoring and security as well as how to configure Outlook 2007 for Exchange Server 2007.
Exam 70-270: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional
This course provides students with the knowledge to install, manage files, folders, and devices in Microsoft Windows XP. The training
also covers system reliability, networking protocols and services and how to do backup and security Settings in Microsoft Windows XP.
Exam 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment
This course provides students with the knowledge to create and manage user, group, and computer accounts as well as manage file
and share permissions> In this course you will learn how to help control Web server access and manage sites with Microsoft
Internet Information Services (IIS) and to manage hardware devices, disk storage, software, and print services. Lastly, you will learn
to implement backup procedures and perform system recovery.
Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
This course provides students with the knowledge to install and configure TCP/IP, use DHCP to manage IP addressing and to configure
and manage DNS clients, servers, and zones. This training will also teach you to manage routing and remote access, including VPNs and
how to implement and administer security procedures and monitor traffic, troubleshoot connectivity, and resolve service issues.
Exam 70-293: Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
This course provides students with the knowledge to plan TCP/IP network infrastructure, topology, and Internet connectivity and to
configure server roles and baseline security settings. You will also be taught how to plan name resolution, routing, and remote
access strategies and the ability to maintain server availability with clusters and network load balancing. This course will also give
you the knowledge to deploy IPSec, harden servers, and manage certificates and to design and administer a security infrastructure.
Exam 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Active
Directory Infrastructure
This course provides students with the knowledge to plan, install, and configure an Active Directory infrastructure and the ability
to manage forest and domain structure and site replication as well as create and manage OU structure and user and group accounts. In
this course you will also be able to plan Group Policy strategy using Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP), configure user and computer
security settings and be able to manage and troubleshoot Group Policy and Active Directory performance.
Exam 70-297: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and
Network Infrastructure
This course provides students with the knowledge to create the design of the infrastructure, the network services infrastructure
conceptual and logical design and to design RAS Services for the network infrastructure. The training also covers the Active
Directory physical design and the network infrastructure physical design as well as the internet connectivity.
Exam 70-298: Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network
This course provides students with the knowledge to document the impact of business and technical constraints on the security
design process and to create a security design for: logical infrastructure, network infrastructure for physical security, network
management and maintenance, basic network functions and wireless networks and Web servers.
Exam 70-299: Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft Windows Server
2003 Network
This course provides students with the knowledge to implement and administer network security in a Windows Server 2003 Environment
and the ability to implement, manage, and troubleshoot security policies. This course will also cover patch management
infrastructure, secure network communications and how to plan, configure, and troubleshoot authentication, authorization, and PKI.
Exam 70-432: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - Implementation and Maintenance
This course teaches students about the components and management tools of SQL Server 2008 and what steps are required to
install and upgrade a SQL Server. Students will learn how to create a new database, DDL and logon triggers and an event
notification to audit access. This course also covers managing database integrity, using maintenance plans, database
monitoring, database performance, SQL Server backups and disaster recovery.
Exam 70-433: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - Database Development This course teaches students how to create and manage database objects used to store and view data. It covers everything from how to create stored procedures to how to implement database mail and scripts. You’ll also learn to work with new technologies for Microsoft SQL Server 2008, such as “SQL Server Always On”, improved support for multimedia, Powershell integration and improvements to searching reporting and compression.
Exam 70-448: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance
This online course provides students with the knowledge to create a data package and use SQL Server 2008
Integration Services tools, control flows, Property Expressions, checkpoint and transactions. Students will
also learn how to install, run, schedule, deploy, debug and secure SSIS packages. This course also covers how
to deploy, deliver and maintain SQL Reporting Services, manage analysis solutions and work with data mining in SSAS.
Exam 70-502: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Windows Presentation
Foundation Application Development
This online training course will introduce you to WPF and the various controls used to develop rich user interfaces
and teach you various application types, basic application creation, configuration and event handling. Learn
how to create and configure graphics, utilize images and multimedia in WPF as well as logical resources in WPF
applications. Study how to create and manage content, bind data and customize and deploy WPF Applications using
Visual Basic 2008. Click here to see a detailed curriculum outline.
Exam 70-503: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Communication Foundation Application
This online training course provides students with the knowledge to create, host, configure and implement a basic WCF service
using code as well as configuration. You’ll gain the ability to use the XML Serializer to serialize data, and employ MTOM encoding
to transmit large amounts of data over a network. This online training course will also teach you how to transfer and configure
security, client authorization, client impersonation, tracing, logging and performance counters and WMI.
Exam 70-504: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Workflow
Foundation Application Development
This online training course provides students with the knowledge to create a state machine and sequential workflow.
You’ll gain the ability to create and update composite activities and rules, perform serialization and deserialization
and use a Policy Activity to define rules in a workflow. This online training course will also teach you how to implement
a custom activity, modify the workflow and implement conditional branching logic into rules.
Exam 70-505: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Forms Applications
This online training course provides students with the knowledge to create and customize forms, add controls, set tab order
and group controls. You’ll learn data binding, creating and controlling a connection pool and detect, handle database
connection exceptions and more.
Exam 70-515: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 4 – Web Application Development Visual Basic
This online training course provides students with the knowledge to: develop web applications and integrate data and services
with Visual Basic 2010 and ASP.NET 4. You’ll gain the ability to do ASP.NET AJAX and client-side scripting, learn XML and
mobile web applications, configure and deploy web applications. This online training course will also teach you how to debug,
trace and monitor ASP.NET applications as well as optimize and customize with Visual Basic 2010 and ASP.NET 4.
Exam 70-515: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 4 – Web Application Development C#
This online training course provides students with the knowledge to: develop web applications and integrate data and services
with C# 2010 and ASP.NET 4. You’ll gain the ability to do ASP.NET AJAX and client-side scripting, learn XML and
mobile web applications, configure and deploy web applications. This online training course will also teach you how to debug,
trace and monitor ASP.NET applications as well as optimize and customize with C# 2010 and ASP.NET 4.
Exam 70-536: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework - Application Development Foundation
This course provides students with the knowledge to use types, collections, generics, and regular expressions to manage data and to
develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications as well as implement code access and role-based security, and
data encryption. This course will also teach you to work with serialization and reflection techniques, develop instrument applications
with logging and tracing and how to interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke.
Exam 70-542: TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 – Application Development
This course provides an overview of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Server 2007, the direct upgrade from the 2003 version. You’ll
learn about the main features of MOSS 2007 as an application development platform, integrate business data, create business
intelligence solutions and how to search data using MOSS 2007.
Exam 70-573: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
This course provides students with the knowledge on writing, implementing and supporting code in SharePoint 2010. They will
also learn how to test custom features in a SharePoint solution such as a Visual Web Part or Event Receiver. This course
will cover information can be used on new and existing projects in SharePoint 2010.
Exam 70-620: TS: Windows Vista, Configuring
This course provides students with the knowledge to install and upgrade Windows Vista, configure and troubleshoot Post-installation
system settings and to configure Windows security features. This training will also teach you to configure network connectivity and to
configure applications included with Windows Vista. In this course you will learn how to maintain and optimize systems that run
Windows Vista and the ability to configure and troubleshoot mobile computing.
Exam 70-630: TS: Configuring Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
This course provides students with the knowledge to implement Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, configure the content
management, configure the business forms, configure the business intelligence and the managing of Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server 2007 Administration. You will also learn how to upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Exam 70-632: TS: Microsoft Office Project 2007, Managing Projects
This course provides students with the knowledge to initiate projects, plan projects, execute projects, monitor and control projects
as well as how to manage project professional and PWA environments.
Exam 70-633: TS: Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Managing Projects
This online course teaches students to recognize some of the main capabilities, features and permissions of Project Server 2007.
Students will learn how to create an enterprise project by initiating and importing projects; creating workspace sites and risks;
tracking project processes using PWA; and making a project proposal, resource and activity plan. Students will also learn how to
check resource availability and assignments; establish and update baselines for project costs; and help to accomplish quality
assurance.
Exam 70-640: TS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring
This course provides students with the knowledge to configure Domain Name System (DNS) for Active Directory and to configure the
Active Directory infrastructure. You will also learn how to configure additional Active Directory server roles, create and maintain
Active Directory objects and to maintain the Active Directory environment.
Exam 70-642: TS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring
This course provides students with the knowledge to configure IP addressing and services, configure name resolution and to configure
network access. This training will also teach you to configure file and print services and how to monitor and Manage a network
infrastructure.
Exam 70-643: TS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuring
This course provides students with the knowledge to deploy Windows Servers, configure Terminal Services, configure a Web Services
Infrastructure and to configure Network Application Services.
Exam 70-662: TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1, Configuration
This course provides students with the knowledge to prepare the Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure, as well as how to
install and transition to Exchange Server 2010. You will learn how to manage, remotely execute and access Exchange Server 2010.
The training also covers managing default, custom, and public folders, connectors, transport rules, and message compliance as
it relates to the Exchange Server. This course will teach students to perform data protection, disaster recovery, monitoring
and security as well as how to configure Outlook 2010 for Exchange Server 2010.
Exam 70-667: TS: Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1
This course provides students with the knowledge to install and configure Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010,
authentication and web application security and managing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Features and Solutions.
You will also learn how to upgrade to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
Exam 70-680: TS: Windows 7, Configuring
This course provides students with the knowledge of upgrading, installing and migrating to Windows 7 and how to prepare
various installation sources. You’ll learn how to dual boot with Windows Vista, migrate files and settings and capture a
Windows 7 image and prepare it for deployment. You’ll also learn how to configure hardware and applications, network
connectivity, access to resources and mobile computing in Windows 7.
