{"id":6506,"date":"2015-12-10T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2015-12-10T14:01:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T21:01:19","slug":"windows-10-mcsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/windows-10-mcsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Announces New Windows 10 MCSA Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft has announced a couple of new Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Windows 10 certification exams. Previously Microsoft announced Exam<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-70-697.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Exam 697: Configuring Windows Devices<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now Microsoft has announced the path to <strong>MCSA: Windows 10 certification for IT professionals<\/strong> by adding two Windows 8.1 exams to the list. To become an MCSA in Windows 10, you will be required to prove your expertise in configuring, managing, and maintaining a Windows 10 enterprise system. Microsoft is offering the following three exams to help you achieve MCSA: Windows 10 status.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-70-687.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Exam 687: Configuring Windows 8.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-70-688.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Exam 688: Supporting Windows 8.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-70-697.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Exam 697: Configuring Windows Devices<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No, it&#8217;s not a typo on my part. You need to pass two Windows 8.1 exams to become an MCSA in Windows 10. Microsoft hasn&#8217;t said what will happen in July 2016 when two of the three Windows 8.1 exams listed above will retire. None of the three exams mention &#8220;Windows 10&#8221; in their description.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The exams are usually $150 in United States. However, if you earned an <em>MCSA: Windows 8<\/em> certification between February 15, 2015, and May 31, 2015 you can take<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-70-697.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Exam 697: Configuring Windows Devices<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">for free by visiting this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-70-697.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>. The MCSA: Windows 10 certification will\u00a0be available on December 14, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced a couple of new Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Windows 10 certification exams. Previously Microsoft announced Exam\u00a0Exam 697: Configuring Windows Devices. Now Microsoft has announced the path to MCSA: Windows 10 certification for IT professionals by adding two Windows 8.1 exams to the list. To become an MCSA in Windows 10, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,76,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-certification","category-windows-10","category-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Windows10_logo_1100x620.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}