If you have the time than the community college district classes are the way to go..They come with the MOC (Microsoft original cirriculum books). One nice thing is that you also get free academic software. The one really irritating thing is that you get this constant Microsoft knows best attitude. It's really amazing how disorganized the Windows OS system. MS puts there configuration in the Mydocuements folders for some crazy reason. Users and admins are forced to spend a lot of time finding where windows puts things. The other irritating thing is that Windows has all these useless features. There is also some online self paced training as well.
----- Original Message ---- From: Joshua Penix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 3:17:44 PM Subject: Re: [OT] MCSE training and exam in San Diego On Jan 8, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Lan Barnes wrote: > My work wants me to become a MCSE. OK, why not. Indeed! If you go in with an open mind I bet you'll have some fun. > I'm looking for a recommendation of a training course/certification > service here in SD. The ideal course would be: > > - not that long > > - not that expensive > > - evenings/weekends > > Substance would be nice, but teaching to the test is acceptable. > It's all > about the piece of paper. Hmm. I'm afraid "Not long" and "Not expensive" might not come together. If you want to whip it out in 1-2 months, you generally have to go through one of the certification schools, all of which are charging in the $6000+ range for the full program. Alternately I believe you can put together a mix of community college or Coleman college classes that will get you certified, but their durations are all going to be measured in terms of semesters. Is your employer paying? If so, then head over to Vortex, the best there is in San Diego. http://www.vortexdata.com/certification/mcse_2003.htm > Also, if there's a training book for MCSE that stands above the > rest, I'd > like to know about that, too. When I went through my MCSE (self-study), I actually found Microsoft's own books to be quite good. And if your employer isn't paying and you're feeling very self motivated, you could be to get the books and self study it. All you *have* to do for the certification is go and pass the tests (~$125/ea, and there are 7). I also found the Transcender Exam prep software to be very useful, but only after having worked through the books. Transcender focuses on "teaching the test" but I'm not sure it's good enough to use alone. I'd also highly recommend joining the San Diego Windows 2003 user group mailing list. It's filled with hugely knowledgeable Windows sysadmins, and their posts contain a wealth of good info. You may even want to toss this question their way. The list traffic is slightly higher than kplug-list. -- Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
