MCSA boot camp

Though phrase “boot camp” is basically used for army training but now a days for IT related courses, program name Boot Camp has been developed as an intense residential training programme in a distraction free environment.

MCSA(Microsoft certified system administrator) boot camp program has been developed for IT professionals want to pursue a career as a system administrator. To become an MSCA anyone interested in computer or networking can join a boot camp program and get a MCSA certification from Microsoft Corporation signed by Bill Gates. The duration of MCSA boot camp training is approximately three to four weeks.

Requirements for passing MCSA

Any candidates interested to earn the MCSA on Windows Server 2003 certification need to pass four exams in total (in any order):

1. Two exams on networking systems

2. One exam on client operating systems

3. One elective exam

Eligibility of MCSA

Anyone having one year experience in Windows environment can take the exam.Yet I have seen many doing this course and taking the exams even without any kind of job experience. It will be much easier for you to do the course if you are familiar with Microsoft Windows Products.Most importantly to do this course you don't necessarily have to be from a computer background.

Before doing the course if you find time try to be familiarize with the following concepts:

DNS,DHCP,TCP/IP, OSI layers ,Client server models, Proxy server, IIS,IP security,Email system

MCSA Specilalization

There are mainly two tracks of MCSA on one of which you may be interested to be specialized.The two tracks are:

1. Messaging on Windows Server 2003

2. MCSA Security on Windows Server 2003

I did my MCSA specialization on Messaging so I took the following four exams to get my MCSA certification.

1. 70-270

2. 70-290 

3. 70-291

4. 70-284
   

If you are interested to become MCSA security specialist then no need to take exam 70-284.Instead choose any of the two exams from the following list.

For MCSA boot camp information you can visit the site training-classes.com or you can visit koenig-solutions.com .Most of the European , North American and Asian countries have the facilities for MCSA training.If your are looking for cheap training then you can try out some Asian countries like India,Bangladesh,Thailand,china etc.I have found that the the total cost of the boot camp including exam fees are one almost one third in some of the Asian countries in comparison to European and North American countries.

Average salary of MCSA professionals

The average salary offered to MCSA certified professionals is in the range of US$35000 to UD$60000.This figure mostly depends on the reputation of the company you are working for and how many years of job experience you have.

There are many university offering online MCSA course.But I would suggest not to do the MCSA boot camp training in any online university because this course in entirely practical oriented, theory portion of the courses is very less.It will be better for you to do the course in your city or in any suitable place and the information can be found in web or you can visit the site training-classes.com