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[red-scully.livejournal.com]

Not strictly on topic, and I'm sure some of you don't care or may wish to mock me, BUT, I just took my first Microsoft-certified exam (70-270) and I freaking passed it!  WHOOO HOO FOR ME.  Next time I get shit from a User Who Thinks They Know Better Than Me, I'm gonna wave my MCP certificate in their faces, lol.

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[jecook]

Congrats.

To play Devil's advocate though: the XP client is the easiest one of the bunch. :D

Me? I'm pondering taking the rest of the core needed to bump my MCSA to a proper MSCE. I forsee a lot of solitare and Minesweeper going down that road, though...

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know it is. But I'm sure most of the users don't know that ;)

MCSE

[seaofdestiny.livejournal.com]

I'm pondering taking the rest of the core needed to bump my MCSA to a proper MSCE. I forsee a lot of solitare and Minesweeper going down that road, though...

I guess that's why it's called Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert....

Re: MCSE

[jecook]

... which is why I tossed that joke in.

In all honesty- the current iteration of the MSCA suite is actually pretty damn tough. Apparently, Micro$oft learned their lesson and cranked up the difficulty levels for the post Server 2000 versions of the certifications.

[dark-fx.livejournal.com]

If you waved that thing in my face, I think I I'd laugh harder about it.

/me doesn't think very highly of Microsoft certified "experts".

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I know a lot of people think they're not worth the paper they're printed on, but it makes me feel better about myself, which is the important thing!

[dark-fx.livejournal.com]

Well, At least you didn't come on here and say you /didn't/ pass the exam.

Congrats.

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

LOL, yeah, that probably *would* have involved me slagging off Microsoft certs as a pile of wank...

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

congrats!

I got me an MCP too. NT server 4.0 implementation.

Got an 800 page book to read, read 2 pages about the raid and passed with 98%.

hmm.

Just wish Microsoft would realize that Ö is not spelled with a DOT.
7-bit mofos!

And the Novell certs are given on much nicerlooking paper.
oh well. 8)

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

The later tracks are MUCH more difficult than NT4, which was a bloody joke as certs go.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna wave my MCP certificate in their face

Well that'll sure convince 'em.

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

It'll surely stun them long enough for me to run away!

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

No, no, they'd have to fail a +2 save vs. confusion.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

1st, 'cause I am old. I mean, oldschool.

Fuck we can do this shit Blue Book Basic style if you want. ALL weapons do 1d6!

[polarbee.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. :)

I'm fitting that test into my schedule next month. My boss wants me to actually have a cert saying MCSE. So hey ho, off to the center we go.

If anything, they are good for resume padding.
(I once walked a "I'm a certified MCSE" guy through resetting a router and connecting to a wireless network.)

[wolfhound668.livejournal.com]

(I once walked a "I'm a certified MCSE" guy through resetting a router and connecting to a wireless network.)
I can top it. A couple of jobs ago I was working in IT and one of the factory-monkeys took a bootcamp, got his MCSE, and became "Instant Computer Genius". He used to drive me crazy with rookie questions every time I walked through the shop. The time I completely gave up was when he was complaining about yet another computer at home that wasn't working. By the symptoms it sounded like a corrupt drive so I told him to boot off a floppy and run a scandisk. "How do you boot from a floppy?". The punchline is when I left the company he applied for my job. The CIO was seriously considering him, "well, he does have an MCSE".

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Especially if you worked for it instead of memorizing the answers from the braindumps...

There are a couple of students in my class who have regularly been getting 1000s on their MS cert exams. It's like -- guys, seriously, at least pretend you're doing it the honourable way.

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

Oh, I worked for it for sure. I only started my first 'proper' support job a month ago (I've been doing IT for 3 and a half years, btw, but have had a bizarre career path) so it's been quite good because everything in the book has come up in my job at the same time. I know it's easy to blag your way through these, so a lot of people think they're worthless, but I know I did it properly, and I've learned a lot from it, so I'm smug!

Thanks :)

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

And by 'a month ago', I mean three months ago. Fail.

[mariasama16.livejournal.com]

I freaked out a lady at my testing facility on one of those tests, walked out half an hour after starting the test (including all the intro survey and outro survey), and scored in the upper-900s. I think her eyes got bigger when I mentioned that I didn't study either, that it was all material I'd picked up during work.

[jecook]

... That's a neat trick.

I'll cheerfully admit- the braindumps and 'cheat' sheets are at least useful to give you an indication as to the style of the questions.

But crap like subnetting? and the more practical planning aspects? That takes actual thinking...

[claidheamhmor]

Congrats! Despite what people say, the MS exams can be pretty difficult, *especially* without braindumping.

[brothersterno.livejournal.com]

The worst arguments I ever had with customer "techs" were with people who informed me that they were Microsoft certified. So, don't be that guy. Congrats!

The other one I recall was some guy who was cisco certified and he was getting snippy with me when I told him I could reach my router and it was his subnetting which was broken, and that he was a CCIE so he could take it from there.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this! Congrats to the OP, that's great news!

But please, don't be that person who waves the MCP around. The people who do that are part of why everyone devalues the microsoft certs. We've all heard of people ranting and raving about how they're microsoft certified so they shouldn't have to properly troubleshoot with a tech, or they plain don't understand their systems. I'm not saying that you're one of those people, but anyone who waves the MCP around looks like those people, unfortunately :(

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

LOL. I was of course joking about the paper waving ;-) I'm very aware that I'm still new at this stuff and am missing a ton of knowledge, so I'm actually very modest, and *always* admit to the customer when I don't know the answer and need to go and consult books/google/colleagues/my boyfriend. I am of course proud of myself for getting it, but I totally know I have a lonnnnng way to go.

Thanks!

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

I actually scored higher on the 290 (Server '03) than I did on the 270. Even then, there were always the uber geeks in the class who looked down on those who didn't get a perfect score. (Yeah, but I got people skills, bitches!)

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

If only there was a certificate in 'all-round Helpdesk skills'... the guys I work with would totally fail. They can kick my arse at the technie stuff, but they have zero people skills, seriously.

[devilish69angel.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I've yet to take any of them. My college was a fail and neglected to tell me 'oh btw you should get your certs too not just the BS from us'
So here I am having to add even more money to my student loans (luckily my company will reimburse)