I was told about a school that offers a MCSE and they said that it only took four months to learn it, Does anyone think that this is for real?

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4 month does not sound unrealistic.

I started on the path to MCSE by first taking a college course in NT4 workstation.

The only reason I took the first MCP exam is because passing it waived my final exam in that college course and gave me the A in it.

After I passed my first MCP exam, I studied on my own to complete MCSE. It took me about 3 month to finish the rest 5 exams.



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I can't believe you guys can study and learn all the material needed to be an MCSE in 4 or 5 months.
By the time I'd read from cover to cover all the Sybex study guides and set up an NT and Novell Network at home and practiced all the different setup configurations and scenerios until I felt proficient at what I was doing, 18 months had gone by.
But I know that when my company charges $95 per hour for me to do onsite service, I can get the job done in minimal time and the client isn't paying for me to trial & error my way through a project.

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I took an NT workstation, server, and enterprise course at a local junior college (much, much cheaper than the certification mill schools), and worked with NT workstation at my job. In the meantime I studied a couple hours a night and got MCSE, plus a couple other MCPs and CompTIA certs in about 11 months. I would say I was a better tech for it, but I wouldn't pretend that I was ready to take on a senior LAN Admin. position.

If you have the resources to set up a practice network at home that great, too. But a home LAN, no matter how much you practice, will not mimic the potentially hundreds of troubleshooting issues that can manifest on a 500 node network being hammered by users 40+ hours a week. It will likely make you a better tech, but even 18 months on a home LAN has vast limitations compared to "the real world"

I wouldn't blow thousands of bucks on a class though. Check out some of your area junior colleges or vo-techs as some have some really good courses.

P.S. I've been "in the biz" nearly three years, and I don't know a single tech who doesn't have to rely on "trial and error" at some point each week, and I've known some great ones. You can never, never know all the hardware, software, and everything in between.

[This message has been edited by darthw (edited 07-25-2000).]

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True. True. @dartw

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