At the moment I am going to school and have done and er working on the following certs.

A+ (hardware done, software exam very shortly)
MS course 2152C (implementing 2000 server and pro)
CCNA (first semester done. Got it like a week ago it still on my desk )

CCNA is great if you ask me. I like it the most of what i'm doing. Going through this really learns you something.

A+ was boring. I don't like cramming my brain full of tables like what IRQ belongs to what device. I don't think that it's useless but i won't be using it a lot.

MCSA sucks. Don't know whats so good about it, it guides you throug menu's and wizards but it doesnt really build knolidge about what you are doing yust how to do it.



I think(don't have any RL experience though) that some certs are more usfull then others. And that they CAN give you some information on an applicants possibilyties when backed up with experience.