Student support is absolutely essential - locate a good company offering 24x7 direct access to instructors, as not obtaining this level of support will severely hold up your pace and restrict your intake. You'll be waiting ages for an answer with email based support, and telephone support is usually to a call-centre that will make some notes and then email an advisor - who'll call back sometime over the next 1-3 days, when it's convenient to them. This isn't a lot of good if you're lost and confused and have a one hour time-slot in which to study.

Keep looking and you'll come across professional training packages which give students direct-access online support all the time - no matter what time of day it is. Unless you insist on direct-access round-the-clock support, you'll very quickly realise that you've made a mistake. You may avoid using the support late at night, but you may need weekends, early mornings or even late evenings at some point.

One area often overlooked by people thinking about a course is that of 'training segmentation'. Essentially, this is the breakdown of the materials for drop-shipping to you, which makes a huge difference to what you end up with. Individual deliveries for each training module one stage at a time, taking into account your exam passes is the typical way that your program will arrive. This sounds logical, but you should consider these factors: What happens when you don't complete every section? And what if you find the order of the modules counter-intuitive? Due to no fault of yours, you may go a little slower and not receive all the modules you've paid for.

Put simply, the very best answer is to obtain their recommendation on the best possible order of study, but get all the study materials at the start. You then have everything in case you don't finish quite as quick as they'd want.

Many people question why qualifications from colleges and universities are less in demand than the more qualifications from the commercial sector? Key company training (as it's known in the industry) is most often much more specialised. The IT sector has acknowledged that such specialised knowledge is necessary to cope with a technologically complex commercial environment. CISCO, Adobe, Microsoft and CompTIA are the key players in this arena. University courses, for example, often get bogged down in too much background study - with much too broad a syllabus. Students are then held back from learning the core essentials in sufficient depth.

If an employer understands what work they need doing, then all they have to do is advertise for the exact skill-set required to meet that need. The syllabuses are set to meet an exact requirement and aren't allowed to deviate (as academic syllabuses often do).

The MCSE track also offers messaging and security as two specialist subjects. These necessitate either two further 'MCP' exams, or one single additional examination where one of the principal seven has been suitably selected. It makes sense to consider this from the very beginning if you're serious about one or both of these subjects, as a little forward-planning will mean you only have a maximum of eight MCPs to take. The Server-2008 'Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist' ('MCTS') up-date exam also has been released by MS - the MCSA is exam 70-648 and the 'MCSE' is exam 70-649. One of these updates (or an equivalent accreditation) really should be thought about early on in your decision process. If you do, you will open up your possibilities for extra work, & be future proofed to some degree.

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