June 2019 MCT Town Hall Resume

Hi fellow MCT,

If you did not attend any of the two sessions meeting for the June 2019 MCT Town Hall and still want to get news about Microsoft Learning updates and specially the MCT Program you have two options.

First, you can access, and watch, the replay of the two sessions from the MCT dedicated forum "MCT Central"

Or, you can continue reading the resume bellow.

• The duration of the meeting was about 40 minutes.
• 03 main topics were addressed, Training updates, Certifications updates and MCT Program updates.

Training updates

May Top 10 MOC courses

• The "May Top 10 MOC courses by units" was provided for four areas "Americas", "MEA", "Europe" and "APAC" and I noticed that the courses AZ-900* and AZ-103 are on the Top 2 worldwide.

Courseware updates

Many courseware updates including:

Offline Skillpipe App retirement

• The retiring of the native offline Skillpipe apps is for June 30, 2019. (Read this previous post: Retrait de l'application Skillpipe à compter du 1er juillet 2019 )

Courses Numbering

• Changes in Migration courses numbering to signify no exam alignment. Example WS-500T00: migrating Windows Server Workloads to Azure becomes WS-050T00.

More

• A bunch of new, and planned, courses & workshop are here or comming. For example, the "C" version of the 20778 Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI (Read this previous post: Course 20778 version "C" is comming )

MCT Competencies

• MCT Competencies have been added to the MOC Title plan and is accessible from the MCT Central.

Certifications updates

Top 10 Certifications Since July 1, 2019

1. Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
2. MCSA: Windows Server 2016
3. MCSA: Web Applications
4. MCSA: Windows 10
5. Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
6. MCSA: Office 365
7. MCSA: Windows Server 2012
8. MCSD: App Builder
9. MCSE: Productivity
10. Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Top 10 Exams Since July 1, 2019

1. 70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016
2. 70-483: Programming in C#
3. 70-741: Networking with Windows Server 2016
4. 70-742: Identity with Windows Server 2016
5. 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012
6. 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications
7. AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
8. AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
9. AZ-102: Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Transition
10. AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design

Business Applications Certifications (Dynamics 365)

• All the beta exams, for the Business Applications path, are currently targeted to come out of beta by the end of June.

Exam Retake

• The Exam replay offer is back (Read a previous post: Exams Replay is back !!!)

Additional resources

• Guide to Role-based Certifications are provided at the end of all role-based certifications pages and are maintained up to date.

MCT Program updates

MCTs at Ignite

• Microsoft is recognizing the added value of the MCT Community and decided to bring more opportunities for us to speak and be a part of Ignite scheduled from November 4 to 8, 2019 with an MCT Day on Saturday November 2, 2019.

MCT Support Forum feedback

• The MSL Team is aware about the quality of the support provided using the MCT Support forum and to improve it, they have added a "user voice like" option. So now you can give your feedback using an email provided in the forum post "We value you feedback".

New Fulfillment Vendor

• Starting July migrating to a new fulfillment vendor, MCT have until June 26th to order from Certification Marketplace.

75% Exam Discount MCT Offer

• The 75% Exam Discount offer ENDS on 30 June 2019 and new discounts will be annonced end of June. Check this link MCT Offers.

Next MCT Town Hall is planned for the week of July 24

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