IT certificates tend to be meaningless crap in general, be it microsoft, cisco, oracle, whatever. People pay big bucks for this stuff and it does help them impress potential employers or clients, but in practice it says almost nothing about the person. (Note that I said meaningless, not useless. Impressing employers can be pretty useful in some situations.) The cost of those things is huge and is probably not worth it (especially considering the fact that a place where they judge you by the number of silly pieces of paper you have is probably not one where you want to work), but who am I to judge?
