| Trent Collicutt 2003-01-31, 4:23 pm |
| "David Zimmerle" <DZIMMERLE@student.volstate.edu> wrote in message news:< 748a01c2bdb2$2be23ab0$89f82ecf
@TK2MSFTNGXA01>...
> >-----Original Message-----
> > Which should come first for a person who wants to be a
> >network administrator: a college degree or the Microsoft
> >certification?
> >
> >
> >.
> >Most employers would prefer that the person have a
> college degree. A college degree gives instruction in
> people and management skills as well as a technical
> training.
Where the heck do you get that? Where did you get your degree? Most
degree'd people I know, and from personal experience, find management
and/or people skills are completely unneeded for a degree.
Also, spending 3 hours a week sitting in a class on Operating System
fundementals, and regurgitating class notes onto a peice of paper
don't make one better able to configure a Win 2000 Active Directory
tree than studying for a certification test. The only difference is
that the cert test is multiple choice.
I agree that a degree will take you farther, but boy do people put too
much faith in degrees. Most of the admins I know who have degrees,
have them in Sociology or English. Don't try to tell me that analysis
of the different poetical styles of Shakespeare and Donne make you
better able managing a product development team. I know people from
Community college who have spent more class time studying computer
systems in two years than my entire degree program, and receved more
hands on work as well. The differnce is that I had to take
Antropology 1000, and he didn't.
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