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The Awarding Bodies - Microsoft

Awarding Bodies are organisations that are authorised to make awards, certification, or award qualifications.

Listing Awarding Bodies

Courses.ie lists all of the awarding bodies in Ireland, the UK and abroad. Most major awards are made by bodies with statutory powers, but there are also many professional organisations that make their own awards. While courses and educational programmes in Ireland lead to qualifications from Irish awarding bodies, it sometimes be the case that courses lead to non-Irish awards, for example awards from international bodies, or national awards from other countries.

Certain Irish institutions are both providers of courses / programmes and awarding bodies in their own right: these are the Irish universities and the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).

In Ireland, following the changes in the qualifications system as a result recent legislation, the number of statutory bodies has been reduced as the new awards councils FETAC and HETAC have assumed the the awarding functions previously fulfilled by several other Irish organisations such as the National Council for Educational Awards (NCEA), National Council for Vocational Awards (NCVA), Solas, Teagasc, the National Tourism Certification Board (CERT) and Bord Iascaigh Mhara.

Courses.ie lists all of the awarding bodies in Ireland and the UK below.
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Microsoft (MSFT) offers certifications on server, desktop, application, database and developer platforms. The company’s certification programme teaches qualified administrators and technicians to support its system and application products.

The Certification Program

The Certification Program is divided into five main categories:

  • Server: Windows Server, Exchange Server, Lync, SharePoint and Microsoft Azure certifications
  • Desktop: Windows, devices certifications
  • Applications: Office, Office 365 and Dynamics certifications
  • Database: SQL Server certifications
  • Developer: Visual Studio, SharePoint, Applications and Azure certifications

Credentials

Certifications include the following credentials:

  • MTA: Microsoft (MSFT) Technology Associate
  • MCSA: MSFT Certified Solutions Associate
  • MCSE: MSFT Certified Solutions Expert
  • MCSD: MSFT Solutions Developer
  • Microsoft Specialist
  • MOS: Office Specialist

The Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certifications primarily deal with older editions of Windows Server, Windows clients, Exchange Server and related platforms.

About the company

MSFT is an American multinational technology company. The corporate headquarters are in Redmond, Washington. They develop, manufacture, license, support and sell computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Windows operating system, the Office suite of programmes, and Internet Explorer. The corporation's flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game console and the Surface tablet.

The company was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s. This was followed by Windows. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market. They have also made a number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011, the company bought Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion.

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