MCPD certification is still a valid certification path and Microsoft recommends using this certification path for Visual Studio 2010 and earlier. More information about the MCPD certification path can be found here
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mcpd.aspx.
Microsoft recently released a new certification program called MCSD however the naming of this new program uses the same acronym used for the old MCSD .Net 2.0 certification which is confusing. As the new MCSD certification is still in the early stages
of development, there are currently no exams assigned to this new certification path i.e. you cannot currently get the new MCSD certification. Once the new MCSD certification path has been fully released, upgrade exams will become available to upgrade
from MCPD to MCSD. More information about the new MCSD certification path can be found here
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mcsd.aspx
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