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VCP certification exam

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Foosa

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Has anybody here taken this or the Vmware Academy course? I am currently in the course and was just curious to the format and overall toughness of the exam process. I am doing well in the course and should complete it in 2 weeks, and hopefully take the exam 2 weeks after that.

Any input or discussion on the matter feel free to post.
 
I have taken and passed (thank god) the VCP class and exam. VMWare's cert process for VCP is weird. Note that the following only applies for the classroom delivery of the Exam prep information:

1.) You must take a class
2.) Instructor takes roll call on the first day of class, within the first hour
3.) Last day of class, you get a backpack for your training materials (VMWare logo on it) after you turn in a "test" or "survey" (it varies)
4.) If you are not present for the roll call within the first hour of day one, plus turning in paperwork on the last day, then VMWare considers you to have not met the requirement of attending the class
5.) Failure to meet the requirement of class attendance will cause you to be become certified, even if you pass the test (more on this in a second)
6.) Study for, and take the test. If you pass, your results are transmitted with your candidate ID (assigned when you took the class, but you didn't know it)
7.) Certification review team checks your score against your Candidate ID, and class attendance records.
8.) Candidate ID info at class must match test registration information, test score must be passing, and class attendance requirement must have been met. If all of those are true, then about a week or two after you pass the exam, you'll get an e-mail confirming your VCP status.

The test is a real bitch. I took the class, deployed our (at work) environment, played with it at home, ran an environment in a box demo scenario, read a 3rd party book on ESX3.5 (my VCP was obtained in November, 2008) Administration cover to cover, took practice tests, and just barely passed it.

My main gripe with the VCP test is that some of the questions were honestly so poorly worded that I really did not know what the question was asking. Let me repeat that in a clarifying manner - I understood that I was reading the question properly, and I understood what the answers were (the choices, from a technical perspective), but I could not decipher what the actual question was. Some of it really was just bad sentence structure and grammar, which you'd think wouldn't happen on a certification test that is put through a certifcation board which is lead by certified subject matter experts and master trainers.

It's a rough test, no doubt about it. I'm currently waiting for VMWare to release the official steps to update my VCP form ESX3.5 to ESX4 (not published, as of yet), and I also have to take the VTSP exam (to keep our VIP Enterprise level membership). I also need to update my VSP to ESX4, and I am hoping to get to start on VCDX this year, but we need to do more VMWare business before I can justify it.

Any particular questions you have about the exam?
 
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Definitely sounds like a lot of hoops to jump through. I bought a book off of amazon explaining more indepth of VI3. We have 3.5 and 2.54 at work. I don't have the 2000+ dollars to pony up for the class and work has no money to pay either.
 
The test isn't hard. The key is taking the class. Do that..play a bit and you'll be fine.
 
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