Welcome to EH-Net and thanks for the compliment on the site.

All certs can be attained through self-study (unless of course they don't offer that option). Some people prefer self-study while others don't. People are just different. If you put your mind to it and are disciplined, then without a doubt, it can be done.

Sometimes it's hard to focus with work, kids, distractions of every day life and flat out procrastination. A boot camp helps you focus and has the exam(s) scheduled, so you can't change it. With self-study, one is always tempted to put it off until you know the material a little better. First of all, you may never know the material better and sh!t happens that may force you to quit your studies. A lot never get back to it.

As with most things in life, it's up to you.

Hope this helps,
Don

When I first got into this line of work I self studied my A+ and my MCSE NT4 (that probably dated me).  I find that self study can be done as long as your dedicated to the material at hand.  I have been having a hard time lately because work keeps approving the courses I want to go on.  I know that's not really something to complain about.  I think I have to much of a thirst for knowledge (once again, could be a bad thing).  But as Don said anything can be done by self study as long as it's offered.  Good luck and study hard.

I work for the public service in canada.  They are the best, well maybe just where i work.  My boss loves the fact that I'm getting into the security side of our world...  Not so much when I set off the intrusion detection on our ISA and he get a flood of e-mails from it.....