Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)          

The Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) credential helps validate that an individual has the comprehensive set of skills necessary to perform a particular job role, such as database administrator or enterprise messaging administrator. It provides widely recognized, objective validation of a candidate's ability to perform critical, current IT job roles by using Microsoft technologies to their best advantage.^[9]

These certifications are designed for IT professionals including administrators and support personnel in addition to database specialists (both administrators and developers). To obtain an MCITP certification, you must first obtain one or more prerequisite MCTS certifications, and then pass the qualifying "PRO" exam(s):

Server Administrator

• PREREQ: MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration (70-640)
• PREREQ: MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration (70-642)
• Exam 70-646 (PRO): Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator

Enterprise Administrator

• PREREQ: MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration (70-640)
• PREREQ: MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration (70-642)
• PREREQ: MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure Configuration (70-643)
• PREREQ: MCTS: Windows 7, Configuration (70-680), OR, MCTS: Windows 7, Deploying Windows and Office 2010 (70-681), OR,
• MCTS: Windows Vista, Configuration (70-620)
• Exam 70-647 (PRO): Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator (70-647)