I will not be taking any W2K exams or even bothering with the studying as I find the whole situation to be a waste of money and unnecessarily stressful.

I will do the 2 electives for my NT4 MCSE and thats it - enough. It will expire in the MS database but not in my ability to use it.

Anyone else feel the same ?

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Honestly, at this point, no I do not feel the same. NT4 will not always be around. I feel that to be marketable to this career, staying on top of new information is the price that one must pay. It is not just MS that required upgrades to their certification; Cisco requires that you pass the current exam every two years...

I feel your pain with the constant study and monetary commitments, but I do what I have to do.

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This is the way it work for information technology, if you stop updating, you are out.

I feel the same 3 years ago and I take a long holiday without even touch a computer for long long time. Then come back again and everything is change and now I am eager to learn the new things.

If you feel tire, why not take a break.

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vr2zjw, do you mind telling me what you are working as i see you having a few cisco titles.

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It ticks me off too.

On one side, you have MS saying that 2000 certification is being driven by all the anticipated customer switcheroos that will be taking place as more and more users upgrade from NT to 2000, and that there will be this need for certified engineers for 2000 when this happens. It just seems to me that that's a marketing spin, trying to create the market before it actually exists. And there's no allowance for the users who are perfectly happy with NT, and will have NT MCSEs working for them long after Dec 31, 2001. Are these NT engineers going to lose their jobs because their MS certification isn't current? That would be cutting off your nose to spite your face...and I don't think businesses would do that anyway. An NT MCSE still knows NT.

On the other hand, I'm just being stubborn. I want to hold a "valid" MCSE certification (as far as MS is concerned) after Dec 31. So I'll go through the motions. It's probably what MS wants, and I'm playing right into their hands. And the system I work on now is NT, and it'll probably be NT for at least a year from now. But I took the first step and just wrote W2K Pro this past weekend, so at least I'm a W2K MCP.

It just ticks me off that, if I want a "valid" MCSE certification, I have to jump through these hoops all because of what I perceive to be a marketing ploy.

I wrote in to NT-CIP and I have their certification in NT now (grandfathered in from my NT MCSE, and costs nothing). I'm still curious as to what weight that will hold come 1/1/2002.

I also wonder if current MCPs and MCSEs could raise some kind of collective outcry to MS and get them to extend the Dec 31 deadline as they did with the NT core four tests. I would think that as the Dec 31 deadline approaches, if enough objection was raised, MS wouldn't want the negative publicity...

And what do they expect us to do about XP????

My two cents...

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