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We have an MSCE who freaked that a NIC was broken because he couldn't ping the subnet mask. Yes, you did hear that correctly. That was a couple of months ago. Monday he sent me to replace another broken NIC, he had not bothered to ping the loopback. The wall jack had a loose pair.

If that MCSE really is so bad as to not know subnet mask, loopback testing or basic cabling there's a very high probability he obtained his certification fradulently. You can contact MS, they'll take a report from management and, if what you say really happened, they'll yank his certification. Imo, he's a disaster waiting to happen.

Cheating is rampant in most of the more popular certifications via 'study guides' like Cheetsheets and Troytec that basically have the entire test and corresponding answers. It really burns me that people can get or maintain jobs that way. That's why I declined to go after the MCSE, it's such a bogus certification and so many people cheat to get it that I don't want it on my resume. From what I've discerned many businesses have an overall negative opinion of the certification.

Sounds like that dude cheated on his tests. Anyone who starts replacing hardware before making sure he can't ping that workstation is a fraud. I've seen it more times than you might think. Working independantly for several years, it amazed me at the people who considered themselves "system administrators", and worse yet, their employers did too. Some of these people shouldn't have been turned loose on a home PC, yet they were somehow in charge of whole networks. Scary. I got lots of stories about incompetents in this field!