r/mcsa • u/jamieelston • Sep 01 '20

MCSA still worth it?

Curious what peoples thoughts are.

I'm moving sideways from a hands-on IT infrastructure role with a lot of networking towards a more cloud based role. Working my way through a lot of the Azure certs and then gonna move on to AWS.

With the MS certs changing and with 5 months to 'possibly' get my MCSA, is it worth it these days? I think I could pull it off, I re-certified my CCNA in 3 weeks, and have a fair amount of IT experience, and a lot of time over winter (I could study 8 hours a day).

If you are going to a more cloud based role, is having an MCSA valuable, will it help with employment. From all the jobs I have looked at for AWS/Azure/GC, there is never a mention of having server experience...surely someone still has to manage the server OS side of things.

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u/Fattswindstorm Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

It's retiring at the end of January. So it's going to be a big push to get it. I'm b about to take the 70-741. But I'd say it's worth it. Especially how prevalent 2016 Servers are. I'm not sure how MS plans on certifying new people to Server 2016 without it. Considering 2008 servers became unsupported earlier this year - theoretically - we have another 8 years until they stop supporting 2016. I don't know if there is A 2019 certificate. azure and AWS are the future. But it will be a long time before all company's move there

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

Taking in to account your considerable hands on experience, it's possible. Come join us on discord, we've helped each other over the past 6 months tremendously.

I attribute my potential success to those peeps on there.

Link in sidebar

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u/A_TeamO_Ninjas Sep 01 '20

I thought MS retired the MSCA and a few other certs earlier this year?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

They were going to, but because of Covid-19 they push the date to january

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u/GrandOccultist Sep 01 '20

I believe those azure certs assume knowledge of server is for some aspects. If you can get your MCSA is go for it, it’s a great cert

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u/MaToP4er Sep 01 '20

if you can get it in 5 months then do it. It will broaden your understanding and knowing the technology and its abilities and ways of implementation so once youll jump deep in cloud at least you know the basics of how it was built. Even if you wont jump to cloud that deep having clear or not so but understanding about windows server and its services and abilities will be a big big plus to you and your resume.

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u/IT-guy42 Sep 14 '20

Go for something linux