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Who is "Microsoft Certified?"

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TechHead87

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My local college has a Microsoft certification program going, and I'm interested in getting certified. What should I expect? Is the process more or less book related, or hands on? How difficult was the certification process? ANY HELP AT ALL is GREATLY appreciated. If you don't have any personal info on on MS Cert., but you do know of a few good links, feel free to post them also!!! 🙂
 
A lot of the MCSE stuff is hands on. If you can obtain the OS/Server and install it from scratch and play with it, you should be good to go. A good reference book will help too.

MCSE
MCP
MCDST
 
Not to brag or anything, but I've assisted in building BOTH of my computers (first one used Win98, current one uses winXP pro), and I've fixed a friends computer. His computer had WinXP home AND win NT (basic NT, no bells & whistles), so I THOUGHT I had to navigate about on NT, and reinstall XP from scratch, but I somehow managed to get his then "dead" XP back up and running. And he didn't lose a single file! 😉

I think that's pretty slick for a 20 year old college dropout.
 
Originally posted by: TechHead87
Not to brag or anything, but I've assisted in building BOTH of my computers (first one used Win98, current one uses winXP pro), and I've fixed a friends computer. His computer had WinXP home AND win NT (basic NT, no bells & whistles), so I THOUGHT I had to navigate about on NT, and reinstall XP from scratch, but I somehow managed to get his then "dead" XP back up and running. And he didn't lose a single file! 😉

I think that's pretty slick for a 20 year old college dropout.
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Would you like some help? You seem to have your enormous head stuck in the door.
 
Not to brag or anything, but I've assisted in building BOTH of my computers (first one used Win98, current one uses winXP pro), and I've fixed a friends computer. His computer had WinXP home AND win NT (basic NT, no bells & whistles), so I THOUGHT I had to navigate about on NT, and reinstall XP from scratch, but I somehow managed to get his then "dead" XP back up and running. And he didn't lose a single file!
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No offense, but jsut about anybody here can do that... Anybody who has some problem solving skills, and knows a thing or two about viruses can get it done in no time. And I have built all three of my computers. My first was when I was 11.

Gee, now I'm sounding like you... I'm going to shut up now...

*deflates head*

[edit] Oh yeah, and microsoft offers some decent books on the subject of certification. If your a good learner via reading these should be a more than good enough framework.[/edit]
 
haha. Yeah, I think most people on this board have built there computers.

Back to topic: I would recommend learning on your own time and just getting the books and software and playing with it. Most of these classes cost about $3-5000. If I did it again, I would have saved that money to build/buy cheap 3 computers to setup my own dedicated network to practice on and saved 1/2 the money. Also, that way, if you decide you don't like it, you can sell the computers and get most of your money back.
 
Got my MCP, MCSE right now. Taking A+ (because I haven't bothered yet) next week. Then on to Cisco.

And I thoguht I knew a lot about Microsoft OSes until I started cramming for those exams. Mess with the stuff hands on, and by all means take practice exams.
 
alot of hands on stuff. i took a few classes, then took got my mcp. got the a+ shortly after, that one was cake. i hear they made it harder though. gl, and do a lot of hands on training. im not sure if those practice exams have been outlawed and made illegal yet. but you may be able to find some good resources.
 
Take care with some study guides. There are some that will spoon feed you the answer.

If you land a job because of a certification then get fired two weeks later because you don't know what you were doing then you are worse off than before. Now you're unemployed and your previous work references will be useless.

Reading and study guides are great for passing the exam, but true hands-on is the real way to go. It's also a hell of a lot funner fooling with new technology than reading about it!

 
Originally posted by: TechHead87
Not to brag or anything, but I've assisted in building BOTH of my computers (first one used Win98, current one uses winXP pro), and I've fixed a friends computer. His computer had WinXP home AND win NT (basic NT, no bells & whistles), so I THOUGHT I had to navigate about on NT, and reinstall XP from scratch, but I somehow managed to get his then "dead" XP back up and running. And he didn't lose a single file! 😉

I think that's pretty slick for a 20 year old college dropout.
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you deserve a :cookie:

sarcasm intended.
 
you know.. college dropouts can't really get their mcse.. they don't know enough.. especially one in their early 20s.
 
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