Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) Reviews

This review of the MCSE course is based on Windows NT, for which the course and exams have been made redundant and has been replaced by Windows 2000. This new course is apparently harder but the same principals apply. I feel it was very primature of Microsoft to do this as most business will not even conside using Windows 2000 until there have ...  Read the complete review

This is a must for anybody who takes their career in Systems support/engineering seriously. I personally am a developer and I have just achieved this certification because of the the overlap of exams with the MCDBA and the usefullness of having this certification on my CV. This is quite hard work to achieve and it is ideally done from ...  Read the complete review

About a year ago both my husband and myself embarked on the MCSE - or Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer course. We had heard that most employers were asking for this qualification and as we were both trying to break into the IT market, we chose this form of certification. The MCSE is an exam track for the NT4 system (soon to be ...  Read the complete review

It’s the qualification that more and more employers are asking for, but how do you pass your MCSE? The key is to find the right method for you, and what works for someone else may not work at all for you. There are 3 main ways to study and I will detail the pros and cons of each. (Note: For the purpose of this review the MCSE is ...  Read the complete review

I gradually worked my self towards MS cert but found the actual course rather difficult. /Not that I am simple, I have a maths degree, it was just that the teaCHER RELIEd to much on people second guessing where he was going. I think it might have just been him as others I know who did the cert had great times. Well any way I did pass and now teach ...  Read the complete review

I recently bought some Sybex MCSE books in Networking Essentials and Windows NT Server in the Enterprise. They are well structured and have review questions at the end of every chapter which point out which topics you may need to read over again. They also come with training CD’s which are very useful and contain preparatory exam questions. ...  Read the complete review

I gained my MCSE about three years ago now and I must admit it has boosted my career from first line to fourth line support since I have been qualified. It was a long drawn out process of about 9 courses and exams. I think the route taken to MCSE is a little obscure. The problem is that qualifications are gained in specific MS products, ...  Read the complete review

I'm an MCSE myself but I believe that there are simply too many MCSE's out there and the certification has lost it's value. Don't get me wrong, it's better than no certification but it is no longer a badge of competence. Anyone with a few weeks to spare and access to cramsessions and braindumps can pass with little or ...  Read the complete review

You can't help but notice in the job press these days that certification is more and more important, not more so in any area other than MS products. The sheer diversity of systems possible now with MS networking products has made this certification a vital addition to making your CV stand out fro the crowd. Increased ...  Read the complete review