To excel in today’s competitive job market, whether looking for new opportunities or enhancing your current position, you need to build and showcase your technology expertise and skills. When evaluating new candidates or considering the competencies of existing staff, employers recognize the value of a Microsoft Certification. These certification provide the recognition you need to excel in your career and provides employers with validation of your skills. Certifications are available for most Microsoft technologies and skill levels from business workers to IT professionals, developers, technology trainers, and system architects. Pursuing a certification, provides you with up-to-date, relevant skills that can not only lead to a more fulfilling career, but offer valuable Microsoft Certified Professional(MCP) benefits, including access to the MCP member site and a vast, global network of other certified professionals.

By earning the MCTS credential, you can prove your ability to successfully implement, build on, troubleshoot, and debug a particular Microsoft technology, such as a Windows operating system, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Visual Studio.

Level : One or more years of experience implementing, troubleshooting, and debugging a specific technology
Audience : IT professional

Here are a few available MCTS certifications in Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies.
Exam 70–536: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Application Development Foundation
Exam 70-526: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Windows-Based Client Development.NET Framework 2.0
Exam 70–528: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Web-Based Client Development.NET Framework 2.0

In this case, the Exam 70–536 is a pre-requisite for the other two exams. After pasing the Exam 70–536, one could specialise in either windows-based or web-based development framework, as per the candidate’s discretion. More information about the various Microsoft certification programmes can be found here.

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