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I don't disagree with your overall point about the gaps, but MSCA is definitely going away. It's pretty poor form to put. expired/inactive certifications on your resume.

I talked to my husband who's had dozens of certs over the years, he removes expired certs from his resume whenever he updates his resume.  He would NEVER keep an expired cert on there for any reason.

MCSA's and VCP's officially do not expire anymore, I'm not sure how long that's been the case. Knowledge for Cisco, Microsoft, VMWare certs doesn't "expire" and changes very little and I can't think of a single hiring manager or team that I know of that would care. Mark it as "expired" or have a column for current & expired certs. They are paper. Nothing but paper.

A three year expired CCNP would have more sway with me than an active CCNA. I've heard of someone hired post 2013 with a MCSE NT 4.0 from the 90s. All the time you spend studying to keep paper exams active could be put to better use working on a home lab building projects or MOOCs. This is why being decked out in certs is not impressive and will probably hurt you. MSP's, Microsoft/VMware/Cisco/Redhat partners or tech support engineers are the only ones that need these so they keep "partner" status.

The best career advice I can give anybody is don't worry about your degree or certs past what it takes to get past HR. Your manager and the team hiring you will not care. This goes for IT/CS master's degrees that aren't MBA or management as well. BS + one good expert level cert is going to be the best thing for tech careers.

Again, you are ONLY looking at this very narrowly.  My husband has specifically been asked to get certs to keep partner status many times, and been hired because he has the cert to keep partner status as well.  This is VERY important to some companies.

He also got an AWS cert, and about 2 days later was contacted by Amazon to come and work there.  He got an offer, but decided not to take it for various reasons.  I'm not saying the only reason he got offered the job was the cert, but it certainly opened up the door for him.

You are only looking at this from one particular angle, it does not apply to all certs, to all jobs, to all companies.  I feel bad for anyone taking advice from you, because you don't try to see this from other ways.  You do not know everything about IT, but you act like you do.  You aren't the first here, and you won't be the last I suppose.