Quote Originally Posted by andypaul View Post
Some paper it peeps can quote me allsorts of intresting details on technolgy 3 years old or more as most material and equipment is never bang up to date. I have hnc, a+, n+, s+, mcsa, mcse and a bucket load more but learned loads more on the job. The problem is the ones who have used cram and brain dump sites to get mcp exams and have long list of certs but never learned what it all means.so now most employers will test both theory and pratical skills while also still prefering a few years of work experience.
true about the paper mcse's years ago, i was one of them , well kinda, did the first few like a good boy and then thought this, i'll just skim thru the books and do the dumps ..., but microsoft now used adaptive testing, harder to cheat...

wether your technology is 3 or 30yrs old, still the same basic principles, i use to programme video games in the early 80's and basics still the same, and so are most trouble shooting techniques, i've not done any micro cert since i failed the upgrade from nt4 to win 2000 ( what an exam 3 or 4 in 1 - a real son of a , no breaks, the book was like 1500 pages , i think more than 70% failed), what 7 years ago ,

well seeing that work put a in charge of our IT !!, i've had to sort basic stuff out he can't do, never used win 2k3 server or much of win2k , but most of it is the same from the nt4 days, just active dir now.

have you got a current mcse andypaul? and what type of work do you do ? have you done vista yet? was thinking about it, or maybe i'll wait for server 2008,,,,

scouser keith, you must have done some sql , worse subject i ever did on the O/U put me to sleep