Anyone a MCTS?

noobert

With my education coming to an end a very poor job market I am considering becoming a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in ASP .NET. I was wondering if any of you forumers have done any of the Microsoft Learning exams and how you found them, also what method did you use to learn the material? Really just anything you can tell me about it all.

To anyone currently working in the industry, is being a MCTS desirable? Will the qualification alone get jobs? I have an education background in Java, VB.net and Oracle/SQL but no university degree or previous related work experience.

Thanks

GothicLargo

At Return to Verticon (AnimeIowa 2006) we had our network fileserver for the video rooms die. We learned later that C:'s drive controller gave out but at the time our main concern was that it was dead. Now, the AI Tech team at the time consisted of 3 people with 4 engineering degrees between them.

We had a line, a real line, as in more then one person (technically 6) people outside the tech center standing around telling everyone they saw that they were MCTS's and that the video rooms would be fixed in five minutes if we would let them take care of it (we were, at the time, installing windows onto a new drive and I kinda doubt they could make that happen any faster without making sacrifices to their pagan gods). We did ultimately throw them a bone; we gave them the dead drive and asked them to make it spin again.

So I personally have a dim view of Microsoft Certified anything.



But to seriously answer your question... a certificate can shine up a degree (particularly the "lesser" degree of Bachelors of Business Computing or Business Technology), but it can't really take the place of a degree. Quite frankly, it's a buyer's market for labor right now, and the buyer typically wants a bachelor's degree.