Cca?

Looking at starting a citrix path? what are the best methods. Is it pricey? Do you have to take instructor led courses or just read books! Never really branched much further than microsoft to be honest. What Cumulative qualifications are they, like MCP upto MCSE, what does CCA go to etc?
Currently having a break after the MCITP:EA. Citrix or Cisco next, not sure!
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1.) Welcome to the world of Citrix
2.) Which CCA are you looking at taking (http://www.citrixtraining.com/content/index.cfm/content_id:49)? I will assume that are you are referring to the CCA for XenApp 5 (the new name for Presentation Server)
3.) There is not a requirement to take any instructor led course(s) (like VMWare). However, depending on your experience with the Citrix products it maybe your best option.
4.) In terms of study material for the CCA for XenApp 5 you could use the administrators guide, downloadable from Citrix. However, the official Citrix courseware (which you can only obtain from a Citrix Authorised Learning Centre, by taking a course, in the UK) is a much easier read and offers the vast majority of the information with hands on labs. I know that in the US you can order them from CALC's without having to take a course.
5.) The path of CCA leads on to CCAA then CCEE (which I believe is replacing the current CCEA in the near future) then finally the CCIA. This page shows more http://www.citrixtraining.com/courses/certifications/index.cfm as Citrix are changing the certification tracks at the moment.
I hope this helps, if not please let me know.
XenApp 5 for Windows 2008 has a lot of new features. Do you know which one you will be deploying?
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That's not quite right! They did update the version number from 4.5 to 5.0
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There is also an exam for XA5 on Windows Server 2008 which covers entirely different objectives.
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