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MicrosoftBecause Fundamentals don't expire, it's your choice if you want to update to the new AI fundamentals or not.
Hi LibertyMunson , sorry but Fundamentals do get a nice Retired state slapped on the certification transcript, and the cert gets relegated to Historical. Please see my post of March 16. If it's Microsoft's intention that Fundamentals don't expire/retire, then this isn't being reflected in how those certifications are treated.
MicrosoftI'm going to need more details. We have retired some fundamentals certifications without a replacement. In those cases, that's exactly what the experience should be. We are not retiring AI Fundamentals. We are replacing the requirement and retiring the previous exam.
Hi Liberty, thanks for the reply. Let me know what details you need, and if it's better to take this offline.
Please don't get me wrong, I am not sore about this for myself. It just seems unfair that candidates are studying and passing soon-to-be-retired exams, only to have them dumped in Historical/Retired. My case point here is that Dynamics 365 Fundamentals CRM (December 2025) is now relegated to transcript status 'Retired' the same as my MCTS: SQL Server 2005 (October 2008).
My MCTS: SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance (June 2009) is, apparently, alive and well and still an active certification. I care slightly more now about D365 CRM than I do about SQL Server 2005/2008. Too right the MCTS SQL 2005 is 'Retired', not so much the D365 CRM!
MicrosoftLet's take this offline because I need to see your transcript. The Dynamics stuff makes sense because we did retire that one and didn't replace, but I thought the system moved that stuff to 'retired' two years after it happened when they cert didn't expire. It's possible that someone changed the experience without telling me, but I'd like to get to the bottom of that.
More concerning, however, is that your MCTS is still showing as active. That should not be the case. Can you email me directly through the blog? If not, I'll figure out a different way to connect without sharing my email address with the world (but my guess is that you can figure it out... 😉)
