🚀 go-pugleaf

All I know is there are MCSE's who go to get hired.  And the interviewer
asks them simple questions.  Like what is DHCP? or Subnetting with
TCP/IP.  Where in the control panel do you configure the TCP/IP stack?
There are people who SOME how pass the MCSE exams after many
tries, and don't know these simple questions.  Your have a valid point,
in the real world you can't possibly work on every scenario out there.
Thats where its a balance between the two, I personally believe more
of experience, and less of book.  But both is good, and compliment
each other nice.  But my main point is the people who are buying these
kits want to get certified overnight, land a picture perfect job tomorrow,
and things will be all peachy.  Not gonna happen.  You can't just go through
these bandwagon training courses in a flash and expect to be an expert.
Most of the learning really begins when they get that job.

I am proud to be a MCSE and hold other certifications.  But they don't
seem to mean that much to me anymore.  Thats just how I feel.  I see too
many people with chips on their shoulders cause they are a MCP, or MCSE
whatever, and they can't answer the simplest of questions.  Let alone
troubleshoot a complex WAN network.  One last comment, my original
post was not meant to discourage anybody from getting certified, or to
totally discredit the certification program.  But to say "What are your
motives
for getting certified?"

Dan