What’s the difference between the MCSE and MCPIT Microsoft certifications?
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What's the difference between the MCSE and MCPIT Microsoft certifications?
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What is the difference between the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and the Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCPIT) certifications?
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The MCITP and MCSE are at the same level of certification. The MCITP certifications are for the newer products (SQL Server 2005+, Windows 2008+, etc).

The MCSE is for Windows 2003 and below.
Last Answered: Apr 9 2009  10:57 PM GMT by Mrdenny   46795 pts.
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Edtittel   1005 pts.  |   Apr 23 2009  4:54PM GMT

The previous answer very much captures the gist of the biggest difference: the subject matter and vintage of the Microsoft products involved, but it fails to address the levels of specialization open to MCITP that are not open to MCSE. For the latter, target roles are three and basic: system administrator, security administrator, or messaging administrator (see <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcitp/default.mspx#E5D" title="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcitp/default.mspx#E5D" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mc…</a> for details).

By contrast, there are TONS of roles for the MCITP cert: Business Intelligence Developer, Consumer Support Technician, Database Developer and Administrator, Messaging Administrator, Project Management/Project Server administrator, Enterprise Administrator, and Server Administrator. Going forward I think this gives the MCITP a lot more coverage and potential credibility than the MCSE (see <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcitp/default.mspx#E5D" title="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcitp/default.mspx#E5D" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mc…</a>) for details.

HTH, and do feel free to follow up with additional questions if you have any.

Best wishes,
–Ed–

 
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