I’m considering MCSE certification very shorty. My core knowledge is two years desktop support with a company on Active Directory network/Exchange 2000 combo.. Most of my time was spent dealing with users. Since the desktops were all Windows 2000 everything was fine..the network however…
I’m was deciding on getting my MCSE for a couple reasons: 1)community college/unversity is expensive/to long, 2) technical schools(devry, ITT) lock you in when you finance at a high rate over a number of years. 3) I’ve been told that I don’t have enough experience and jobs are looking for certs.
My thinking from job hunting is that either jobs want mutiple talents(SQL, network admin, VB.NET, etc), high number of years experience, or certification.
Since my core knowledge is avandance desktop support and can’t help with multiple talent, lack of expierence, but I can get some type of certification.
I do realize that a cert means less if you don’t have some real word training.
I’ve selected between a cal state college offering a MCSE course for $5k and New Horizons Learning (http://www.newhorizons.com) for $9k. As far as I know at this point the cal state only offers the MCSE certification, if they intern I don’t know and the length..
New Horizons I believe offers internship, its a 27 week course, and job placement.
I’m leaning toward New Horizons because they offer internship, it may be more through, and job placement I think..
I would like some core feedback on anyones views about anything related to MCSE(tips, experience, pitfalls)
I want to make sure I do this right since life is always uncertain…
