Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Becoming an MCSA+Messaging+Security – An “EXCEL”lent Plan

I used to keep a database of all of my collections such as movies, baseballs, coins & bills, Sports Illustrated magazines, patches, Marvel and MacFarlane toys in Access file but I wasn’t able to update my records because I tinker a lot on the look of the forms and edited the table fields as often as I open my file.

One day my wife ask me to send her a computation of my budget for our incoming travels and gave it to her from an Excel file and after that I began to add sheets after sheets on that same file. Eventually, I began to enjoy making an organized budget plans as well as many stuffs that I want to manage in a simpler way than my previous record thus created my Certification Plan sheet which until now I haven’t edited much except with God’s abundant grace, adding a “Passed” remarks on the column that says “Status”.

In doing so, I listed all the appropriate exam numbers and titles and projected a date of taking it so that I’ll know the number of weeks that I need to prepare. This has help me a lot in achieving my specializations both in Messaging and Security where I took two well planned subjects (70-284 & 70-299) as to my preparation, not only for MCSA but for my MCSE as well. Having passed my CompTIA Security+ has helped me also in getting my Security specialization because it’s being recognized by Microsoft as an elective from another organization.

Messaging requires three (3) core exams and one (1) elective while Security requires three (3) core exams and two (2) electives. Messaging deals with Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 as 70-284 implies. As 70-299 advocates, Implementing and Administering Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network and Security+ deals with most computing security concepts, a Systems Administrator is being equipped with the skills and knowledge of a bona fide specialist. In addition, it’s a step closer to becoming a certified Systems Engineer.

I read or heard a famous quote before but can’t remember where that states “A wise person is better than an intelligent one” and truthful to its meaning and I believe that an EXLELlent plan is a wise decision.

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