Now a days, knowing the mpe operating system, its administration and the use of it is rather a percentage of the MIS professional skill set.  Why in the world anybody would pursue this non-sense when the tide wave of technology and new programing languages and systems is ever changing?  What would it buy you?  A foot in the door of an obsolete credential reviewer.  Good luck.  Today's world is about ideas and the implementaion of them.  If you don't have business savvy, understand what that company is doing and where it is going, you are doomed to be a certified underpaid loser.  Big business for the school and the market unaware fools.  You are about 20 years too late.  I would encourage someone  to re-post the message given by Oracle's president at one of the great universities.