In these days on the new Microsoft
Architect Resource Center is appeared a new link with official
details about the future Microsoft
Certified Architect certification (I was talking about this in the
past).
This will be a high level certification only reserved for IT experts with
about 10 years of more of experience on building enterprise architectures and
will be a totally new way to get certified. This new way will be more similar to
a standard university degree, with a tutor (or a staff) that will evaluate your
final project.
In the future we'll see more about this... for the moment remember
that during its beta phase, applications to the program are only being
received through trusted referrals. The program is expected to be opened
publicly in the first half of 2006 when a non-referral application process will
be made available to experienced architects.