Good component based way to improve your CV (Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in general)

Member Name: AndreBoyle

Product:	Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in general
Date:	31/07/00 (102 review reads)
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Advantages: Good for career, Relatively Cheap if you self-study

Disadvantages: Expensive if you go on courses

The MCP, being the modular bit of all other MS certifications is simply groovy in terms of what it can offer you.

Just choose any topic i the MS catalogue and do a course, at the end of the course you sit MCP exams and get certified in the product.

It's great for support types who want recognition of their abilities and even better for career progression.

What I'd suggest is to get your employer to agree a development plan allowing you to sit MCP exams as and when agreed. If you're clever and you choose the right ones they can build into an MCSD or MCSE certification which is worth BUCKS for you in your job.

The courses themselves aren't too difficult. You'll find yourself working out the usability functions of word but then might not expect to have to do diagnostics and troubleshooting. But yes, this IS a comprehensive course and you'll be pushed a little. Go onto the server technologies and you'll find it more of a detailed theory on a few topics and an overview of many more topics. I.e. details on subnetting and IP structures but then only an overiew of how they're implemented in a domain structure or a workgroup structure, then it's back to more detail for IP packet structures.

A Great all-round certification if you can invest the money yourself or get an employer to pay.

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