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Old 10-21-2009, 07:26 PM
 
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Does anybody know a good place that offers MCSA/MCSE training?
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Old 10-27-2009, 01:51 PM
 
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Have you considered self study? I have an MCSA, and a MCITP: Enterprise Administrator. I went to a local school in Virginia called ECPI for the MCSA. It was around 1,200 a month and I feel like a complete waste of money. During class we would just go through the Microsoft Self Paced Study books, and then deploy the examples on a virtual machine. You can buy the entire set of books at amazon for around 100 dollars.

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Old 10-28-2009, 09:49 PM
 
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Wow I would have never thought I'd see this post in this kind of forum.

Honestly I would recommend the home training kits too. I actually been to training classes that my work has paid for but the best training is learning things on your own both reading the material and doing the labs hands on.

With the Microsoft Press books you can study the case scenarios which I recommend doing. Sybex has good books too. Have a miniature lab or setup some VM's and practice. It's the best way I learned and practicing the labs really helped me obtain my MCSA and soon MCITP Database Administrator (2/3 done with that one).

See if your company can pay for classes if you want to take classes, I recommend C-TREC. I took some MCP courses there (near the galleria) about two years ago.

Good Luck!
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Old 10-28-2009, 09:50 PM
 
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CTREC Hilton IT Academy
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Old 10-28-2009, 09:51 PM
 
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Have you considered self study? I have an MCSA, and a MCITP: Enterprise Administrator. I went to a local school in Virginia called ECPI for the MCSA. It was around 1,200 a month and I feel like a complete waste of money. During class we would just go through the Microsoft Self Paced Study books, and then deploy the examples on a virtual machine. You can buy the entire set of books at amazon for around 100 dollars.

I agree. The classes just make you go though quick exercises. You can pretty much forget everything within a few days the way they tech you.
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Old 11-01-2009, 12:30 PM
 
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Consider GTSS which is a provider of IT training and their programs are designed to cater to both, business and individual needs.
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Old 11-03-2009, 04:13 PM
 
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It's hard not to do this at class because of wife, kids, dog etc as distraction.
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Old 11-03-2009, 05:58 PM
 
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I have MCP 2000.
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