Looking for How to Get MCT Certified? Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
You may have arrived here because you want to become a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
That search tells us something important: you are ready to do more with the technical expertise you already possess.
You may want to teach. Consult. Lead. Coach. Develop customers. Support implementations. Build another income opportunity. Expand where your expertise can take you.
That opportunity is now bigger than one vendor, one technology, or one instructor title.
Your Expertise Built Your Career. Now Expand What That Expertise Can Do.
You Already Have the Expertise. Now Build the Capability to Transfer It.
You May Be Searching for a Certification. What You Really Want May Be a Bigger Professional Future.
Most professionals do not pursue instructor credentials merely because they want another certificate.
They are trying to create something larger from expertise they worked hard to build.
More Ways to Earn
Add training, consulting, customer education, enablement, coaching, and implementation to the ways your knowledge may create value.
More Career Flexibility
Develop capability that can complement different jobs, technologies, industries, employers, and clients.
More Professional Independence
Build more than one way to use your expertise so your professional value is not defined by one role alone.
More Geographic Mobility
Portable professional capability can support work across distributed, client-facing, consulting, and international environments.
More Clients and Markets
Cross-platform capability can make your expertise useful across broader technology and business environments.
A More Adaptable Future
Build human capability that can continue creating value as technology, AI, employers, and professional roles change.
You Are Probably Not Searching for a Course. You Are Searching for What the Course Can Help You Become.
The bigger goal is professional optionality.
Microsoft Certified Trainer Was an Important Opportunity. The Professional Opportunity Is Bigger Now.
For decades, Microsoft Certified Trainer represented an important pathway for professionals who wanted to teach Microsoft technologies.
FDTEC spent more than two decades developing instructional capability for professionals working inside that ecosystem.
Microsoft now controls its own MCT program.
FDTEC's role has evolved into something broader: developing and certifying professional instructor capability that can move across technologies, vendors, industries, clients, and learning environments.
The Microsoft MCT pathway changed. The professional need behind instructional capability did not.
Professionals still need communication, facilitation, coaching, questioning, problem solving, adaptability, and knowledge transfer.
If You Are Going to Build Professional Instructor Capability, Why Limit It to One Technology Ecosystem?
Today's technology professionals rarely operate inside only one platform.
Microsoft environments may connect with AWS, Linux, Cisco, cybersecurity, cloud, data, AI, SaaS platforms, customer systems, and business applications.
The workplace is increasingly cross-functional. Technology is increasingly interconnected.
Professional instructors need capability that can move across both.
Your professional instructor capability should belong to you—not to a vendor.
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
The Next Evolution of Professional Instructor Development™
Cross-Platform Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.
You bring the subject-matter expertise.
FDTEC develops the professional instructor capability that helps you transfer it.
FDTEC Certified Instructor™
One Cross-Platform Professional Instructor Capability
Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™
Understanding → Retention → Application → Performance → Capability
Your technical certifications prove what you know. FCI develops and certifies your ability to transfer what you know—across platforms.
Technical Expertise Is Powerful. Professional Instructor Capability Makes It Transferable.
Being highly capable in Microsoft, Azure, cloud, AI, cybersecurity, networking, healthcare technology, or another domain does not automatically mean you know how to develop someone else.
That requires another professional capability layer.
Communication
Explain complexity clearly and credibly to different audiences.
Facilitation
Move people through discussion, participation, learning, and action.
Questioning
Reveal understanding, stimulate reasoning, and strengthen application.
Coaching
Help professionals move toward stronger independent performance.
Problem Solving
Help people work through realistic technical and business challenges.
Knowledge Transfer
Move expertise from what you know into what someone else can understand and use.
Knowing the Technology Is One Capability. Developing the People Who Use It Is Another.
Use AI to Increase What You Can Accomplish With the Expertise You Already Have.
AI changes the economics of professional capability.
A capable professional instructor can now use AI to accelerate preparation, generate scenarios, develop questions, explore examples, adapt explanations, organize information, and support coaching workflows.
AI does not replace the professional instructor. It increases what a capable professional instructor can do.
Prepare Smarter
Accelerate research, organization, examples, scenarios, and instructional planning.
Adapt Faster
Develop alternative explanations, questions, examples, and activities for different audiences.
Create Better Scenarios
Build richer real-world situations for discussion, problem solving, and application.
Support Coaching
Expand opportunities for practice, reflection, feedback preparation, and individualized support.
Increase Productivity
Spend less time starting from zero and more time using professional judgment.
Increase Professional Leverage
Combine expertise, human capability, and AI to create greater value for learners, clients, teams, and organizations.
The Opportunity Is Not Simply to Use AI. It Is to Become More Capable Because You Know How to Use It.
The Goal Is Not to Show People What You Know. The Goal Is to Help Them Become Capable.
Professional instruction becomes valuable when knowledge moves beyond presentation and becomes usable capability.
Training Is Not the Objective. Capability Is.
Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™ moves the focus from simply delivering information toward developing people who can apply and perform.
Professional Instructor Capability Can Expand How Your Expertise Creates Value.
Technical Training
Develop professionals who need to understand and apply technology.
Consulting
Translate technical complexity into decisions, understanding, and action.
Implementation
Transfer knowledge during deployment, migration, modernization, and adoption.
Customer Education
Help customers understand, adopt, and use products more successfully.
Internal Enablement
Multiply expertise across teams instead of keeping knowledge concentrated.
Professional Services
Combine technical expertise with communication, customer interaction, and capability development.
Coaching
Help professionals develop stronger judgment, performance, and independence.
Technical Leadership
Develop people, facilitate decisions, and strengthen team capability.
Your Expertise Built Your Career. Now Give It More Places to Go.
One employer can change. One platform can change. One technology can change. One role can disappear.
The larger objective is developing professional capabilities that can give you additional ways to remain valuable when the environment changes.
More Ways to Earn
Give existing expertise additional ways to create professional value.
More Career Flexibility
Move professional capability across roles, employers, clients, and technologies.
More Markets
Apply professional capability across broader industries, customers, and technical environments.
More Geographic Mobility
Build capability that can support distributed, consulting, client-facing, and global opportunities.
Greater Professional Independence
Create more than one way for what you know to remain economically useful.
A More Adaptable Future
Strengthen capabilities that remain useful as technology, AI, organizations, and job markets change.
One of the Most Important Forms of Professional Freedom Is Having More Than One Way to Create Value.
More capability can mean more choices. More choices can create greater professional freedom.
Expertise → Capability → AI Leverage → Opportunity → Flexibility → Freedom → Future
Do Not Put Your Career on Hold to Build Your Next Capability.
FDTEC Certified Instructor™ and FCI Capstone Verified are self-paced programs.
That gives working professionals control over when they develop, how quickly they progress, and how professional development fits around work, clients, projects, family, travel, and other responsibilities.
Learn on Your Schedule
Progress when development fits your professional and personal commitments.
Keep Working
Continue building your current career while developing another capability.
Control Your Pace
Spend additional time where needed and move efficiently through familiar material.
Protect Your Flexibility
Build professional capability around your life, rather than putting your life on hold.
Professional development should expand your options—not reduce them.
25+ Years Developing the People Behind Technology Learning.
FDTEC did not arrive at cross-platform professional instructor development by ignoring its history.
We built it from what more than two decades of developing technical professionals taught us.
We Understand the Difference Between Knowing the Technology and Teaching the Technology.
FDTEC was the longest-serving provider of MCT instructional-skills development before Microsoft moved that function in-house.
For more than two decades, professionals came to FDTEC with Microsoft technical expertise already established.
Our role was developing the professional capabilities behind effective instruction: communication, facilitation, presentation, questioning, coaching, engagement, adaptability, problem solving, and knowledge transfer.
Microsoft is part of our history. Professional instructor development is our business.
Modern Programs. Proven Foundation.
15 Professional Instructor Competencies. One Portable Professional Capability.
Communication & Presence
- Communication
- Active Listening
- Presentation
- Emotional Intelligence
- Executive Presence
Facilitation & Engagement
- Facilitation
- Questioning
- Classroom Management
- Conflict Resolution
- Adaptability
Development & Transfer
- Coaching
- Feedback
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Knowledge Transfer
You Already Have the Expertise. Now Build the Capability to Transfer It.
Relevant Technical, Industry, or Professional Certification
A relevant certification can establish the technical, industry, or professional expertise you bring into FCI.
1+ Year of Relevant Professional Experience
Certification is not the only way to demonstrate professional expertise. FDTEC also recognizes relevant professional experience.
relevant certification OR 1+ year of relevant professional experience.
Candidates need only one pathway. No degree required.
Go Beyond Certification Through the FDTEC Research Institute™.
Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™
Explore the framework connecting instruction to understanding, retention, application, performance, and capability.
Explore KTE™ →Professional Instructor Development Toolkit™
Practical resources for instructors, SMEs, facilitators, coaches, consultants, and organizations.
Explore the Toolkit →Professional Library
White papers, research reports, professional frameworks, Instructor Toolkits™, Implementation Playbooks™, and professional guides.
Visit the Professional Library →Your Expertise Is Already Valuable. Now Multiply What It Can Do.
Choose professional instructor certification or add applied performance validation through FCI Capstone Verified.
FDTEC Certified Instructor™
Develop cross-platform professional instructor capability around the expertise you already possess.
- Self-paced professional development
- 15 professional instructor competencies
- Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™
- Cross-platform professional capability
- AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators
- Professional instructor certification
- FDTEC credential and verification
- 36-month credential validity
FCI Capstone Verified
Take professional instructor development further with applied instructional-performance validation.
- Self-paced FCI pathway
- Everything included in FCI
- Applied instructional performance
- Professional capability evaluation
- Knowledge-transfer application
- Enhanced evidence of applied capability
- Capstone Verified credential distinction
Build capability around your career and life—not your life around professional development.
Keep working. Keep building expertise. Develop at your pace. Expand your professional options.
Organizations Need More Than Technical Experts. They Need Experts Who Can Multiply Capability.
Organizations already contain enormous amounts of technical, operational, customer, industry, and professional expertise.
The challenge is transferring that expertise across employees, customers, teams, implementations, functions, and changing business environments.
Professional instructors, SMEs, consultants, technical leaders, customer educators, enablement professionals, and implementation teams become more powerful when they know how to develop others.
Microsoft Certified Trainer and Professional Instructor Development
How do I get MCT certified?
Microsoft controls the Microsoft Certified Trainer program and its current requirements. FDTEC no longer controls the MCT pathway. FDTEC develops its own cross-platform professional instructor certification: FDTEC Certified Instructor™.
Is FDTEC Certified Instructor™ the same as MCT?
No. Microsoft Certified Trainer is Microsoft's instructor program. FDTEC Certified Instructor™ is FDTEC's cross-platform professional instructor certification.
Why would I consider FCI if I originally wanted MCT?
FCI is designed to develop professional instructor capability that can complement expertise across multiple technologies, vendors, industries, employers, customers, and learning environments.
Does FCI replace my Microsoft certification?
No. Your Microsoft or other technical certification demonstrates subject-matter expertise. FCI develops and certifies professional instructor capability that complements that expertise.
Does FCI certify my Microsoft, Azure, AWS, Linux, or Cisco skills?
No. You bring the underlying technical or professional expertise. FCI develops and certifies your professional capability to transfer that expertise.
Is FCI cross-platform?
Yes. FCI is designed as a cross-platform professional instructor certification that can complement expertise across Microsoft, AWS, Linux, Cisco, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, healthcare technology, and other domains.
What professional capabilities does FCI develop?
FCI develops 15 competencies across communication and presence, facilitation and engagement, and development and knowledge transfer.
What is Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™?
Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness™ focuses beyond information delivery toward understanding, retention, application, performance, and capability.
How does AI fit into professional instructor development?
AI can support preparation, research, scenario development, questioning, adaptation, coaching, productivity, and knowledge transfer while the instructor retains professional judgment.
Does AI replace the professional instructor?
No. AI does not replace the professional instructor. It increases what a capable professional instructor can do.
What are FCI eligibility requirements?
relevant certification OR 1+ year of relevant professional experience.
Is a degree required?
No. A degree is not required.
Is FDTEC Certified Instructor™ self-paced?
Yes. FDTEC Certified Instructor™ is a self-paced program priced at $1,497.
Is FCI Capstone Verified self-paced?
Yes. FCI Capstone Verified is a self-paced program priced at $2,497 and adds applied instructional-performance validation.
Can professional instructor capability create more career opportunities?
It can broaden the environments in which existing expertise may create value, including training, consulting, implementation, customer education, enablement, coaching, leadership, and professional services. Individual outcomes vary.
Does FCI guarantee income, clients, or employment?
No. FCI does not guarantee income, employment, clients, travel, or financial outcomes. Its purpose is to build greater professional capability, portability, adaptability, and optionality.
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
The Next Evolution of Professional Instructor Development™
Cross-Platform Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.
You Already Built the Expertise.
Now Build More Ways to Use It.
Microsoft. Azure. AWS. Linux. Cisco. Cybersecurity. AI. Cloud. And the technologies that come next.
More Ways to Earn.
More Ways to Work.
More Roles.
More Clients.
More Markets.
Greater Career Portability.
Greater Professional Independence.
One of the most important forms of professional freedom is having more than one way to create value.
Your technical certifications prove what you know. FCI develops and certifies your ability to transfer what you know—across platforms.
AI does not replace the professional instructor. It increases what a capable professional instructor can do.
Training Is Not the Objective. Capability Is.
You Already Have the Expertise. Now Build the Capability to Transfer It.