unfortunatly the requirement (at present) is 10 years verifiable experiance, thats not going to help the majority of techs out there proove thier worth, they need to improve the MCSE a bit too, the materials there, but the executions not

hell even i'm only just coming up on 10 years and i started at the wee age of 14, and some of that wont be verifiable unless i dig up tax records which dont mean much to a cert board lol

its an exciting development, that we have covered before, and i hope it brings some order and respect back to microsoft certs, the fact the interviews are peer based (ie other techies with the qualification) makes me think it may just have what it takes!

Thanks for posting the message, tripwire45!

My reason for posting this article was really the concept of tying a certification to job security. So many of our members come in here at the beginning of their IT careers with the idea that getting an MCSE is the end all and be all of IT and will grant them access to riches and glory.

I'm probably exaggerating somewhat, but it seems that at least some IT training vendors re-enforce that illusion in order to sell their rather expensive wares. While certs can be an important component in a technical career, they are not *it*. Learning and doing is more valuable. Learn your craft and practice it. Certs are just there to provide some sort of standard that says you know what the *bleep* you're doing. You can know what you are doing without a singe cert to your name.

So such thing. There is NO job security no matter what field you are in.

Hi All

For somebody new into IT the MCSE is only the start. Looks like Microsoft are planning a Cert, like RedHat & Cisco, that is aimed at Systems Architects. We will see if it takes of. In my experience Systems Architects have spent little time in the same space time dimension as us.