Topic: Online Training

On top of the huge price tag, there is an additional $50 for each member of the staff that you wish to train to use and install it. Would I be correct in assuming that mostly this would be for the administrator and not the workstation users? I would assume that the admin would then further train people-otherwise, that adds another massive cost to running this.

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You've got it right I believe. They wouldn't put every member of staff who uses the work stations through this $50 training course, but would train one or two to then pass on that knowledge. That's pretty common practise.

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I should think that the ones that most companies would train for this would be the IT people so that they could maintain it at the company.  Tech support would have to know how it works and how to fix any issues.

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Yes, tech support would need to know it how to work it, but then so would the end users. Tehc support may not be the best suited for teaching but someone in the department will be able to and I'm sure its them that will be trained.

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No real user training should be required all the work would be done by Admin. The end user would just be accessing applications in a slightly different way. It managers would probably allocate the training to a small number of IT staff who become specialists.

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Very few companies pay to have all of their staff trained.  It simply wouldn't be cost effective from a business standpoint.  They have one or two people trained who then go back and train others at the company.

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It's not so bad, getting IT staff trained to use Microsoft Kit costs thousands, if they want to be certified thats even more. Even just buying Microsoft Press products costs a fortune.

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Few would be certified though on the Microsoft products. Certainly you'd have your staff set up so that each person has a different role-each person having a different cert to save money, just what they needed to do their job.

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Getting certified is a little more complicated. I spent over a year of hard work and nearly $16,000 to get my MCSE. You really need the training, which is the expensive part of the certification process, if your going to run a Windows server environment. Training isn't cheap but training your staff on the cheap could disadvantage you elsewhere.

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Which is why you wouldn't have every one of your staff trained for all of the certifications. Too expensive and too time consuming. Between the MCSE, all the Cisco certs you could be working never ending and never get it paid for either.