One crafty way that course providers make more money is by adding exam fees upfront to the cost of a course and offering an exam guarantee. This sounds impressive, until you think it through:

We all know that we're ultimately paying for it - it's not so hard to see that it's already in the overall figure from the training provider. Certainly, it's not a freebie (although some people will believe anything the marketing companies think up these days!) We all want to pass first time. Taking your exams progressively when it's appropriate and funding them as you go puts you in a much stronger position to qualify at the first attempt - you take it seriously and are mindful of the investment you've made.

Don't pay up-front, but seek out the best deal for you at the appropriate time, and hang on to your cash. You'll also be able to choose where to do the examinations - meaning you can choose a local testing centre. Is there a good reason to pay interest on a bigger loan than is necessary because you've paid early for examinations when there was no need to? Big margins are secured by training companies charging all their exam fees up-front - and then cashing in when they're not all taken. Remember, in the majority of cases of 'exam guarantees' - you are not in control of when you are allowed to have another go. You'll have to prove conclusively that you can pass before they'll pay for another exam.

Average exam fees were about 112 pounds in the last 12 months via UK VUE or Prometric centres. So why pay hundreds or thousands of pounds extra to get 'Exam Guarantees', when it's no secret that the best guarantee is study, commitment and preparing with good quality mock and practice exams.

Being at the forefront of the leading edge of new technology really is electrifying. You become one of a team of people creating a future for us all. We're barely beginning to get to grips with how all this change will affect us. The way we communicate and interact with everyone around us will be inordinately affected by technology and the web.

And keep in mind that typical remuneration in the IT market over Britain as a whole is a lot higher than in the rest of the economy, therefore you will more than likely gain noticeably more with professional IT knowledge, than you would in most typical jobs. With the IT marketplace growing at an unprecedented rate, it's likely that demand for qualified professionals will continue actively for decades to come.

There are not many 'Windows' NT Servers still around, although Server 2000 are still fairly widespread. It's actually still early-days yet for Windows Server 2008, with '2003' continuing it's dominance. This being so, the leading 'Microsoft' certifications remain heavily based around Windows Server 2003. Whilst the Microsoft MCSA and 'MCSE' qualifications have been available for some years now, (keeping up with 'Windows' server through its evolution,) the MCSA 2003 & 'MCSE' 2003 are the mainstay of present day 'Microsoft' network certification. Because up-grade training for Server '2008' is also available though, its a good idea to bolt this on as well.

With the appropriate quality of training-materials & 24/7 help and support, and also an authorised examination simulation software, an MCSA should take around 300 to maybe three hundred and fifty hrs to complete, and an MCSE all over 500 to 550 hours. And so with some experience you can actually complete all of them in something like 8-12 months training part-time. Without any previous experience it would be foolish to jump straight in. The 'Comptia' A+ and 'Network+' really should be viewed as the starting place. Specifics of these certifications are available on their particular sections on this website, however this should add two hundred hrs or 6 months of part time training into the mix, possibly longer.

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