Microsoft certification for .NET Technical Leads

I have spent some good time in analyzing pros and cons of getting a certificate and convinced that advantages of having a certification outweigh the disadvantages.
Having a certificate will indicate that you are interested to learn and improve on your career.Of course, there are chances of getting pay hike if you can show case your certification a right way.

I would suggest the technical leads who are working on .NET to get Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) certification.This certification is valid for 2 years.Microsoft is offering this certification in 5 Microsoft technology categories. 

 They are

1)MCSD: Windows Store Apps

2)MCSD: Web Applications

3)MCSD: SharePoint Applications

4)MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect

5)MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management

Based on our area of expertise, we can select any of the above certifications. To pass MCSD certification, we have to select any 3 exams given under that category.

For example,to get MCSD: Web Applications certification, we have to pass below exams.

 Exam 70-486     ---- Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications

Exam 70-480    ----- Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
      (or)
Exam 70-483    ----- Programming in C#

Exam 70-487    ----  Developing Microsoft Azure and Web Services

Top 5 .NET websites all the developers should know

Here is the list of best 5 websites I am recommending for all .NET developers.

1)MSDN Library: MSDN should be the first point of reference for learning any .NET technology as it is from the product owner of .NET technology. Whatever the websites I refer to learn a certain concept, I wouldn't be satisfied unless and until I cross check that with MSDN website.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff361664(v=vs.110).aspx

2)Code Project : Code Project is a community website. It has great content on different technical languages. I refer this web site for .NET developers for learning .NET skills like ASP.NET, C# and WCF. As most of the articles are submitted by common .NET developers they are very easy to understand.

http://www.codeproject.com/

3)C# Corner : This is also a great website for .NET learners and developers. As most of the articles are submitted by community developers, they are easy to understand.This web site provides you lot of code snippets with different examples for every concept.

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/

4)StackOverflow: This is one of the best web site to refer to when you encounter any practical problem with your .net development. It has answers to thousands of practical problems faced by .NET developers.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp.net

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23

5)Channel9 : Channel9 has great video tutorials on .NET technologies delivered by .NET experts.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/asp.net