Well, I guess I'll put my two cents in....
All certifications are very important except Micro$oft. Has anyone ever been to a Micro$oft boot camp? They tell you whats on the test in one room, then scramble you into the next room to take the test. There is no learning involved. Novell, Cisco, and A+ are some of the few certifications that require skill and ingenuity. Until Micro$oft changes their testing structure to an adaptive test, the certifications are toooooo easy to get.
At a company I used to work for, I loved to screw with the MCSE by goofing up things on his computer, and seeing what he did to fix it. Nothing real hard, you know, misplace a file here, delete a driver there. Easy stuff, but ended up in a format & reinstall most of the time. Hee Hee, I'm so mean.
Bottom line is, any idiot can get a MCSE, and it will get you better pay, but real techs learn by experience.
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If you make it idiot-proof, someone will make a better idiot.
