Re: MCSE - how easy?

Thank you that helped alot - sorry for posting in the wrong group

So, maybe i can give the easier ones ago myself (like XP and Vista) and
write those and enroll for the more difficult exams so that i can have the
help of a college if need be?What do you think?


"Florian Frommherz [MVP]" <florian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Howdie!

MSExchangeStudent schrieb:
Just a question - how easy would you say is it to buy the MCSE set of
books, self study it, ask friends and in forums what you dont know; and
go write the exams WITHOUT registering at a educational organization.
...or would you advise to do it through a college, technickon, etc?
Obviously you need to have done the coarse to answer the question

There are specific .certification. newsgroups for your questions, just to
let you know.

I'm doing this self-study thing myself. It can be quite time-consuming
depending on what you know (where your experience is) and how strong your
expericence is. There may be fields you work on every day which will be
easy to learn but there will be fields you've not touched much yet so
they'll be more work in the first place.

It's up to yourself, how much you are of a diciplinite learner and how
much time you can dedicate to it. Why don't you just start off with a
client exam book, study it (Windows XP 70-270 or Windows Vista 70-620) and
see how far you get? The client exams are the easier ones (especially
Vista) so you should take one of those - just to get the feeling of how
those exams are - but don't get yourself fooled: the server and design
exams (design exams are needed for MCSE) are a lot harder. Those questions
can be tricky and nasty.

I wouldn't recommend doing this all the self-study-way if you're not that
much experienced.

cheers,

Florian
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