Microsoft Certifications

I've come to the conclusion that my charm and good looks can only take me so far in IT, and that sometime soon I should knucke down and get some proper technical qualifications. I've started with an MCSE subject, Server 2003, so I can at least get an MCP. I'm then going to grow my qualifications into a full blown MCSA, followed by MCSE. I've got a book, and some video files that fell of the back of a digital truck, and I'm going to start studying now with a view to knocking over the first exam within two months.

Does anyone have any advice regarding things to watch out for? I've heard that the correct answers in the exam are often the answers that are "least wrong" and that you need to always consider the "microsoft answer" rather than the correct answer... thoughts?

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Your lasp paragraph describes exactly why MCSE's aren't worth shit. What happens if you firms wants migrate it's servers to some sort of unix/linux/bsd ? What happens if microsoft decided... "It's time to be innovative again, we must now release new versions of our programming and server environments that are totally different and totally uncompatible with the previous ones", in both cases... you are screwed... the information you gained from microsoft... useless.