Iāve just been informed by an unnamed but very reliable source about the outcome of my VCP4 beta exam..... I passed it!!! I was the first one to break the news on Twitter, but soon afterĀ some of the otherĀ fellow vExperts also shared their happiness. The firstĀ VCP4 graduates worldwide are:
Jase McCarty (@jasemccarty)
William Lam (@lamw)
Eric Sloof (@esloof)
Rick Scherer (@rick_vmwaretips)
Kenneth van Ditmarsch (VirtualKenneth)
WadeĀ Holmes (@wholmes) -> VCDX
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Friday, August 28. 2009
Yea, I'm VCP4 Certified!!!
Thursday, August 20. 2009
vSphere4 Documentation Notes Version 1.0 Released
Forbes Guthrie over at the revamped vReferenceĀ has released version 1.0 of his vSphere Documentation Notes. His latest updates are:
ā¢Ā Completed the documentation set.Ā Just added:
ā¢Ā vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation and Reference Guide
ā¢Ā vCenter Update Manager Administration Guide
ā¢Ā vCenter Converter Administration Guide
ā¢Ā vCenter Orchestrator Administration Guide
ā¢Ā VMware Consolidated Backup ā Virtual Machine Backup Guide
ā¢Ā Added ESXi notes
ā¢Ā Added 2 supplementary (not officially vSphere 4.0 documentation) notes covering:
ā¢Ā vSphere Management Assistant Guide (vMA)
ā¢Ā Data Recovery
This is a great resource when studying for your VCP4 exam, which will be launched in a few weeks.
When youāre over there, donāt forget to take a peek at the vSphere 4 reference card.
Sunday, July 26. 2009
VCP410 August 1st, August 8th or August 31th?
There seems to be some confusion about the availability of the VCP410 exam at VUE.Ā The VUEĀ website states the VCP on vSphere4 (VCP4) certification exam will be publically available on August 8th.Ā The VMware certification website said it was August 1st until a week ago, but now itās also at August 8th. The VMware Partner Central has announced a VCP 4 EXAM UPDATE: The VCP on vSphere 4 (VCP 4) exam will be available publically on August 1st, 2009. But when youāre trying to register at VUE, the first available date is August 31th.
Official response from VUE: The VCP410 exam is not available to take until 31st August. There for you will not find any dates for this exam prior to that date.
Official response from Jon C. Hall over at VMware: The exam is open for registration beginning August 8th, which is reflected on the Certification page on the VMware website. This means you can register with VUE to take the exam. However, the first date you can actually take the exam is dependent on the time needed to process the results of the beta, so if you are seeing a date further out, they are allowing time for that. Once the exam is actually posted in their system, I imagine new schedule dates will become available between the 8th and the 31st.
I assume because VUE has enough information about the exam to start taking registrations now, they are. Since they know we will have the exam ready early August, they probably figured that they could just open registration now but set dates pretty far out just in case. That being said, once the 8th gets here we will probably start seeing some additional dates between then and the 31st become available.
Folks - there is a process involved here. We have to evaluate and process the Beta results (which will happen next week). Then, VUE has to publish the form, a process that I have seen take 1-2 weeks. If it takes a week, then the exam will be ready by the 8th and some dates pretty close to that should become available. If it takes two weeks, then some dates between mid August and the 31st should become available. The only part I can personally tell you for sure is that the beta results will be processed by the end of next week.
Tuesday, July 14. 2009
VCP4 study tip | VMware vSphere Online Library
In this online library, you can view VMware product documentation, search across all books in a product documentation set, and print or bookmark topics.
Searching the Online Library
This online library uses the features of your Web browser as well as some additional capabilities to help you access product information. You can search the library using terms, phrases, and wildcards with the following limitations:
ā Searches for multiple terms retrieve only topics that include all the search terms.
ā You cannot use Boolean operators such as AND, OR, and NOT in your searches.
Saturday, July 11. 2009
Becoming a VCP4 will be tough
Last Friday I took the VCP4 beta exam. This exam contains 270 questions and lasted four hours and 45 minutes. I ām not a native English speaker so I got some extra time. What can I say about it. Since Iām bound by the NDA, I wonāt share any questions. After 270 questions you donāt remember that much questions anyway. I agree with Rick Scherer, 35% of the questions is vSphere 4 related. The other 65% can be divided in two parts. The really hard questions and the low hanging fruit. If you want to pass this exam, you wonāt get away with studying some PDFs and attending the vSphere ICM course. Iāve delivered the vSphere whatās new a few times now, and prior to my exam Iāve delivered my first vSphere Install Configure and Manage course. Besides that Iām already playing with the beta for the past months. Even with his experience, the hard questions really astounded me. When these questions will stay in the VCP4 exam, becoming a VCP4 will be tough. Some study tips at last, donāt limit your view to ESX, take a look at the ESXi version to. You also have to know what other products from VMware can do with virtual machines.
Simon Long over at the Slog has created a VCP vSphere Practice Exam
vSphere 4 Documentation Notes from vReference