> I see a lot of folks misunderstanding the meaning of certification from the MS perspective. MS says cert says "Minimally Qualified Candidate" for a job using the product they are cert'd in. Minimally qualified is quite a distance from expert.

wow, excellent point Jim. Kind of interesting to think about how much effort and work it can take to get the MCSD cert (as opposed to a single MCP cert), and look at that effort as what it takes to officially be called 'minimally qualified'.