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MTA Overview

What is Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)?

MTA is a new, entry-level certification that validates the fundamental technology knowledge that students need to start building a career in Microsoft technologies.

12 initial titles on Developer, IT Pro, and Database high-demand topics.

9 initial languages: English, Spanish, S. Chinese, T. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, Russian, Br.

Portuguese

What can MTA do for me?

You can offer students a solid career foundation that enables career exploration.

You get an education solution including learning and an industry-recognized credentials.

MTA lowers the barriers to entry to the Microsoft Certification Program by providing a stepping stone to our professional certification.

Who needs MTA?

MTA is exclusively for academic customers: technology-focused high schools and higher education institutions. It’s driven by Certiport partners and Microsoft’s Public Sector, Education and Evangelism teams in the field.

How can I get MTA?

Get it through Certiport. It’s an internet-based platform that gives you unprecedented testing flexibility.

There are testing centers with educators empowered as proctors. You receive an MTA Exam Review Kit to facilitate curriculum adoption.

Microsoft Certification Program

Information Worker

Productivity Certifications

Master Series

Overall comprehension and deep expertise of Microsoft Office. Requires

Word Expert, Excel Expert, PowerPoint, and Outlook or Access exams.

Expert Series

Advanced skills in specific Microsoft

Office applications. Requires passing either Word Expert or Excel Expert.

IT Pro and Developer

Technology Certifications

Advanced Series

IT architects who have completed a rigorous industry-driven peer validation process.

IT experts with demonstrated mastery of a product through hands-on lab-based testing.

Specialist Series

Validates core skills with the

Microsoft Office suite.

Includes exams in Word, Excel,

PowerPoint, Access, Outlook,

Project, and SharePoint.

Professional Series

Comprehensive set of skills required to be successful on the job.

Technology Series

In-depth skills working with Microsoft technologies.

Associate Series

Fundamental knowledge for students to start building a successful career in technology.

Path from MTA to MCTS to IT Jobs

• One MTA exam = One MTA certification

• MTA exams are not pre-requisite to each other or to MCTS exams

MTA Certification Paths – IT Pro and Database

MTA Certification Paths – Developer

What Does MTA Test?

Software Developer

98-361: Software Developer

Fundamentals

 Understanding core programming

 Understanding object-oriented programming

 Understanding general software development

 Understanding web applications

 Understanding desktop applications

 Understanding databases

98-362: Windows Developer

Fundamentals

 Understanding Windows programming basics

 Creating Windows Forms applications

 Creating WPF applications

 Creating Windows Services applications

 Accessing data in a Windows Forms application

 Deploying Windows application

98-363: Web Developer Fundamentals

 Programming web applications

 Working with data and services

 Troubleshooting and debugging web applications

 Working with client-side scripting

 Configuring and deploying web applications

98-372: Microsoft.NET Fundamentals

 Understanding .NET Framework concepts

 Understanding Namespaces and Classes in the .NET Framework

 Understanding .NET Code compilation

 Understanding I/O Classes in the .NET

Framework

Exams are defined based on career tracks with high demand in the industry. Specific topics are designed by MSL experts and vetted with college instructors.

What Does MTA Test?

Software Developer

98-375: HTML5 Application

Development Fundamentals

 Understanding Platform fundamentals

 Managing the state of an application

 Understanding how to publish an application

 Building the UI using HTML5

 Understanding core CSS concepts

 Understanding JavaScript for basic programing

98-374: Gaming Developer

Fundamentals

 Understanding game design

 Designing the UI

 Understanding components

 Working with XNA

 Understanding game platforms

 Rendering engines

 Animations

 Transforming objects

98-373: Mobile Development

Fundamentals

 Understanding mobile device tools

 Understanding design for mobile devices

 Understanding basic Silverlight

 Understanding mobile device APIs

 Understanding mobile device controls

 Building a UI

Exams are defined based on career tracks with high demand in the industry. Specific topics are designed by MSL experts and vetted with college instructors.

What Does MTA Test?

IT Pro Titles

98-365: Windows Server Admin.

Fundamentals

 Understanding server installation

 Understanding server roles

 Understanding Active Directory

 Understanding storage

 Understanding server performance management

 Understanding server maintenance

98-366: Networking Fundamentals

 Understanding network infrastructures o Internet, intranet, extranet, LAN, WAN, wireless, topologies, access methods

 Understanding network hardware o Switches, routers, media types

 Understanding protocols and services o OSI model, IPv4, IPv6, names resolution, networking services, TCP/IP

98-349: Windows Operating System

Fundamentals

 Understanding Operating System

Configurations

 Installing and Upgrading Client Systems

 Managing Applications

 Managing Files and Folders

 Managing Devices

 Understanding Operating System Maintenance

98-367: Security Fundamentals

 Understanding security layers

 Understanding operating system security

 Understanding network security

 Understanding security software

Exams are defined based on career tracks with high demand in the industry. Specific topics are designed by MSL experts and vetted with college instructors.

What does MTA Test?

Database Titles

98-364: Database Admin. Fundamentals

 Understanding core database concepts

 Creating database objects

 Manipulating data

 Understanding data storage

 Administering a database

Exams are defined based on career tracks with high demand in the industry. Specific topics are designed by MSL experts and vetted with college instructors.

MTA Campus License

You can offer up to 500 MTA exams per calendar year with just one license.

All you need is a computer with internet access, and you can administer the exam at any time! Plus, your students have unlimited access to MTA Exam

Review Kits.

Two

Campuses

= Two

Licenses

Get Started!

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Register as a Proctor with Certiport. Instructions are available at www.certiport.com

Create a proctor pool. When you build a strong community of certification exam proctors at your school, you help to ensure the success of your certification offering.

Take the MTA exam yourself. Have a Certiport peer proctor administer the test. This will familiarize you with the student experience and exam content.

Map the MTA exam objective domains to the content you are currently teaching.

Use your Certification Exam Review Kits to prepare students for any exam content not covered by your existing curriculum.

Get Your Students Started!

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Send students to http://www.microsoft.com/click/areyoucertifiable/ to practice their knowledge and challenge their peers to a game of AYC! MTA game questions are based on MTA exam objectives.

Have your students register at http://dreamspark.com

to download full versions of Microsoft software and to find more student resources from

Microsoft.

Have students register for the exam a few days prior to administering it.

This will ensure that all students are ready to take the exam in a single class period. (Exam time is 50 minutes.)

MTA Student Study Guides:

IT Pro Edition / Developer and Database Edition

Available in print-ready or study-ready format

Download free of charge at: www.certiport.com

/mrl

MTA Exam Review Kits

As an MTA customer, you can download review kits for free. Developed by MS Learning,

MTA Exam Review Kits are collections of 20 review lessons, 50 minutes each, covering the topics of each individual MTA exam.

Course syllabus

• Learning objectives

• Unit scope and sequence

• Pacing chart

• A mapping of the unit learning activities to the MTA exam objectives

Instructor materials

• Lesson plans for each day of instruction

• Presentation slides for each day of instruction

• Annotated speaker notes for each slide

Content delivery resources

• Occasional class demonstrations

• Occasional interactive whole-class sessions

• Guides for occasional discussions to foster dialogue about key topics

Student learning materials

• Instructor presentation slides

• In-class exercises (including the code for those exercises)

• Practical out-of-class work

• Labs as appropriate

Student assessment materials

•End-of-lesson/sub-unit questions and answers

Microsoft Official Academic Courseware available from Wiley Publishing

5 Scenarios you might encounter

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The Perfect Fit – course maps exactly to the OD (overall exam O bjective D omain)

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Rough Alignment – course is incomplete for some elements of some ODs

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Incomplete – course completely misses some ODs

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No Alignment – course does not match OD, but instructor provides MTA Certification opportunity

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Independent Study – Instructor offers MTA as independent study or to a small group

Scenario 1: Perfect Fit

Course maps to the complete set of ODs

Use the ERK as a review tool

 Use all of the lessons as classroom activities

 Use those lessons in which students need the most review

 Assign lessons as out-of-class activities

 Mix and match to fit the needs of individual students

 Use as an individual study guide

Scenario 2: Rough Alignment

Course is incomplete for some ODs

Use the ERK as a basis for new learning

 Select portions of the lessons to introduce new concepts

 Use the structure of the lesson to build a more complete and robust lesson

 Refer to the “Microsoft resources and Web links” as tools

 Use the sections that match as a review tool

Scenario 3: Incomplete

Course completely misses a few ODs

Use ERK as a starting point to create new units

 Expand the activities to more completely introduce and teach the new concepts

 The “Microsoft resources and Web links” section provides sources for content

 Use the review lesson as a culminating review activity

 Use the sections that match as a review tool

Scenario 4: No Alignment

Instructor wants to provide MTA course

Use as a starting point to create a new course

 Develop new course that matches the OD

 Combine the OD and the content in the review lessons to build or select courseware

 Use the review lesson as a culminating review activity to measure the effectiveness of the new course

Scenario 5: Independent Study

MTA as independent study or to a small group

Provide the ERK to students as study guides

 Enable motivated students in a class to prepare for the exam independently or in a study group

 Provide ERKs to guide their learning and/or review

 Schedules a convenient time to administer the exam on the school campus and provide proctoring

MTA Courseware and Additional Resources

Vendor Courseware

• Wiley, CCI

MeasureUp Practice Tests

MTA Student Study Guides

• Available free at www.certiport.com/mta

AreYouCertifiable (AYC) Practice Game

(no-charge online game)

• http://www.microsoft.com/click/areyoucertifiable www.microsoft.com/learning/mta

• Prep Guides and Learning Plans www.certiport.com/mta

• See marketing materials, become a test center, purchase a license

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