Yes that is true, you do need to take a couple of exams but they are all free and online; you get to pick from a number of exams and most are quite simple. I'm an Oracle techie with only a little knowledge of MS tools and I passed easily with just a little research before taking the tests.
However, I just checked the MAPS site and it now shows Windows 2008 Server rather than 2003 so I'm not sure if it still includes 2003. I signed up about 18 months ago and at that time Win2003 was included.
Still worth a look though.