MCSA/MCSE Certs....

[Fisher]

For those of you savvy in the microsoft certification world, this post is asking for your pity.

So this past week, I've been in a MCSA course and next week is MCSE. MCSA is Microsoft Certified System Administrator, or something along those lines. Well, I've been doing the MCSA stuff for 4 years now in the military and I pretty much know all there is to know about the basics in a microsoft server environment. Seriously. So all week, I'm gritting my teeth through the course and actually studying the material at night for at least an hour... and my test was today (after the 4 days of class). Guess what. I failed. yea.... I got a 603/1000 and you need 700 to pass!!!!

WHAT THE F*CK!?!!?!?

I'm half drunk right now, trying to numb the pain of failure, but it's not quite working - and they don't allow scotch in the barracks. Bastards.

So yea... I FAILED a course testing all the skills I've been SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTING during the past 4 years of my career. I'm so angry right now, I'm in half the mind set to drink a case of beer, and go drive around and hope a bus full of kids gets in my way. I mean c'mon, that test was freaking reDICULOUS.... some of the questions they asked, a system admin would NEVER see in real life, and even if they did, they sure as hell wouldn't have solved the problem like the test answers went! If I had a dog I'd kick it. I mean how freaking embarrassing and devastating to fail a test that you should pass any day of the weak?! This test is paid for by my command and would look like gold on a resume...but no... I failed. Failed. Lost... nothing. but there is a chance for retaking the test.

I'm so consumed by anger and failure I'm not even seeing the chance of retaking the test in 7 days and passing as a silver lining to the storm clouds. This is probably the same kind of trash that drives men to lose their minds and walk into a shopping mall with a fully automatic weapon and unleash hell - I mean not to say that I'm going to do that or anything. But c'mon, I have to sit through MSCE next week while trying to REMEDIATE MYSELF on MCSA the entire time... I haven't got an ice cube's chance in hell at MCSE.


And 5 months ago, my command paid for me to go to a Security + course. I went to that course for a week, took the test and got a 623/1000, 700 to pass. Yep... I failed that to. F*cking failed. Mind you, this has no repercussions on my career, but my command is trying to make me a better person, smarter, more qualified, at the expense of the government....but we see how well that is going with my rap sheet of failure after failure.

Maybe I take these tests too seriously. But come on, do college students take their final exam tests too seriously? YES THEY DO BECAUSE IT'S THEIR CAREERS ON THE LINE! Same thing is true in my situation. With these microsoft certifications, they make your resume look like gold and make it difficult for companies to turn you down. The difference between living in a house or a cardboard box. F*ck. I don't know. I think i take failure a little more personally than others do. But then again, I'm 26 years old - a grown-ass man. Sure I could give some leeway to someone that's 16-22, because they're still pretty young and allowed to make mistakes. I should pretty much give up and become a vagabond. LOL

The questions on the test were'nt the problem... it was the stupid ass answers that were provided!!! I swear on EVERY question, NONE of the answers made sense so I had to choose the least f*cked up answer to choose! MAN I'm so pissed.... and I know you aussies say "get on the piss" to mean "get drunk" but when i say "pissed" I mean "im so angry i could kill someone"...... wait a minute..... I just discovered the perfect motivation for troops before they enter battle.... put them through a test and make them fail.... make them so pissed off, you'll have a hard time keeping them from killing even the women and children!


Fuck Microsoft and fuck their damn test.


Me:

[geldslaw]

hey, you can have another go, also if I remember correctly there's something called the brain books where people have written out the answers to the possible questions you can get, its been such a long time since i did the microsoft exams, I did them when you when micorsoft were the only ones who would train there software back in the days when it was a small company.

good luck on passing the exams, a lot of people fail, it happens so don't be so hard on yourself, I remember the shock i got because you get the results straight away but you can rebook and take the test again cos at least you'll know from the report which areas your were weak in and as I said it should be easy to find those brain notes, if thats what they still call them.

good luck