With some efforts I passed OCP's, MCSD in last two years. My quest was more for mastering these books. But I have seen no one has really noticed that on my resume though I have a big logo of OCP on my resume. Almost all asked me on my job experience. Also, there is a trend that now employers asking more and more technical degree. If I do not have a degree I will try to get that part-time. That will endure more than these certifications. Besides, now one has option to learn Oracle, java, etc while pursuing these degrees, in older days college in CS courses will not teach these courses they will strictly teach computer science courses like compiler, db design, pascal(a good language to learn).