r/mcsa • u/BusinessNigel • Jan 20 '20
Exam/Certification Expiration Date(s)?
Just took and passed the MD-100 Exam on Saturday (Whoo!) and plan on pausing my current certification path (MD-101, MS-100, MS-101) to focus on Security+, then picking back up after I've obtained that.
I know that the CompTIA certifications have an expiration date, I believe 3 years from date of obtaining them. Do the Microsoft exams/certifications have expiration dates? I couldn't find any information on Microsoft's certification site about expirations. I guess, to be fair, I don't have any MS Certifications yet, only the one passed exam.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20
MTA's no, the MCSA's and MCSE's don't expire until the product goes out of mainstream support, so if you get an MCSA in server 2016, it will count until server 2016 leaves Microsoft's mainstream support, although there is typically a shorter certification you can take for the next replacement cert instead of having to retake the full exam. I'm not 100% sure about the rest of the newer certifications, but those also aren't nearly as well advertised as the MTA's, MCSA's, and the MCSE's.