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Yah, what Mark said about Certification

Mark DiGiovanni brings up a good point about certification and posting of exam questions. While I teach at ITPro, which certainly helps others to obtain their certs, I insist on teaching people to become good developers and not just good test takers and memorizers. This is partly why I only teach part-time, and work as a software developer full-time!

Just look at what has become of the MCSE certifications! There's hundreds of thousands (seriously!) of certified MCSEs out there (over 200,000 for Win2K); http://www.mcpmag.com/ posts the statistics. Talk about diluting the value of an industry certification . . .

In conjunction with Microsoft, we're responsible for ensuring the integrity of the MCSD program. Let's keep it “premium“ certification!

Happy .Netting!

Published Nov 21 2003, 10:01 AM by grant.killian

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friend said:

# November 21, 2003 9:06 AM

Josh Baltzell said:

I think it will stay a premium certification for some time to come. Even if MCSE is diluted with people who are certified but can't tell you what the point of DHCP is you have to give it to Microsoft. They put a set of learning tools out there that people ate up. Now there are 200k certified Microsoft Admins out there compared to the older, nore expensive Unix admins that are still around. What would you choose to use as a business owner when you are hunting for people to set things up?

# November 22, 2003 6:33 PM

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