I used to be MCSE certified. It did actually help be get a (system administration) job. Sure you pick up a few things along the way (some of which you wish you hadn't) but for the most part, there's no way you're going to be able to memorize all that (at once).
Getting MCSE certified was most certainly not worth the money, and I consider it the biggest waste of my time ever (although CISCO certification is a pretty close second - hrmm starting to see a pattern here), but at least I got 12kgs worth of reference material (seriously), so I could at least look like I was doing something incredibly tedious and time consuming when the principal came by.
And by the way, if you think the BlitzMAX manual is bad, wait until your books from Microsoft Press arrive - complete with "cut out and glue in" addendum sheets. Oh joy.
Ironically six months after I was hired partially because of my MCSE certification, the school began a transition to Solaris because the Microsoft School License Agreement was getting too pricey. Go figure.
Getting MCSE certified was most certainly not worth the money, and I consider it the biggest waste of my time ever (although CISCO certification is a pretty close second - hrmm starting to see a pattern here), but at least I got 12kgs worth of reference material (seriously), so I could at least look like I was doing something incredibly tedious and time consuming when the principal came by.
And by the way, if you think the BlitzMAX manual is bad, wait until your books from Microsoft Press arrive - complete with "cut out and glue in" addendum sheets. Oh joy.
Ironically six months after I was hired partially because of my MCSE certification, the school began a transition to Solaris because the Microsoft School License Agreement was getting too pricey. Go figure.