Remembering the MCSE+I, Microsoft's Terminal Certification
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@scottalanmiller I missed this post when you made it years ago.
I got the MCSE in NT4.0 - they claim it was hard? not really - at least not in my opinion - what was hard was the study material at the time was just flat out bad! the NT 4.0 workstation books left out all kinds of unix/linux connection/printing part meaning you didn't stand a chance on those parts on the workstation test unless you had external knowledge.
I barely passed the workstation test because of this.
After reading the server book and realizing "here's the shit that was missing from the workstation book" - I read the book for the next test before taking the test I was on. From that point forward I passed the test with flying colors!
Networking Essentials was probably one of the best books I read back then - It really educated me a lot on networking I didn't know beforehand.I eventually did the upgrade test to move to MCSE 2008, but haven't maintained it since.
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@dashrender said in Remembering the MCSE+I, Microsoft's Terminal Certification:
the NT 4.0 workstation books left out all kinds of unix/linux connection/printing part meaning you didn't stand a chance on those parts on the workstation test unless you had external knowledge.
I barely passed the workstation test because of this.I never took the NT4 Workstation. I did the WIndows 98 / DOS test instead, the one where the study book was over 2,000 pages. It was harder than the rest of the MCSE+I combined. It was definitely the foolish choice as it was easily 20x the work of the NT 4 Workstation test and not one single item of all of that did I ever use, ever, in my entire career.
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@dashrender said in Remembering the MCSE+I, Microsoft's Terminal Certification:
Networking Essentials was probably one of the best books I read back then - It really educated me a lot on networking I didn't know beforehand.
YES!! That book was fantastic.
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@scottalanmiller said in Remembering the MCSE+I, Microsoft's Terminal Certification:
@dashrender said in Remembering the MCSE+I, Microsoft's Terminal Certification:
the NT 4.0 workstation books left out all kinds of unix/linux connection/printing part meaning you didn't stand a chance on those parts on the workstation test unless you had external knowledge.
I barely passed the workstation test because of this.I never took the NT4 Workstation. I did the WIndows 98 / DOS test instead, the one where the study book was over 2,000 pages. It was harder than the rest of the MCSE+I combined. It was definitely the foolish choice as it was easily 20x the work of the NT 4 Workstation test and not one single item of all of that did I ever use, ever, in my entire career.
Yeah - I've heard that win98 was a beast of a test - so much craziness almost not IT person ever needs.
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@scottalanmiller I agree. I great book on networking basics. Still use that information today.
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@dlandersson said in Remembering the MCSE+I, Microsoft's Terminal Certification:
@scottalanmiller I agree. I great book on networking basics. Still use that information today.
Yeah, it is amazing how many times I have to be like "if only people knew the networking basics from that book, they'd know how to do this thing" even today. Back then, it was "no one knows networking, here is how it works." Everything in that book should be common knowledge today, almost. At least for every IT position, including intern. And yet, I feel fewer people know it than before!
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Lol here is mine... does it still have value these days? or are we considered as dinasours?
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@Cagatay said in Remembering the MCSE+I, Microsoft's Terminal Certification:
Lol here is mine... does it still have value these days? or are we considered as dinasours?
Roar!
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@Cagatay said in Remembering the MCSE+I, Microsoft's Terminal Certification:
Lol here is mine... does it still have value these days? or are we considered as dinasours?
Oh man, I don't remember getting a cool card like that. But it does look a little familiar.
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That's very cool that yu still have it!
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@Dashrender I concur about the Networking Essentials material. Good then and lot of it still relevant today.
