I have been an avid lurker here for a long time but have just now decided to post. I am studying for the VCP-410, but am in a quandary on how to go about doing it. I have several labs here at work and one at home and have been installing ESX(i) since 3.5. I have followed Scott's (great site BTW) advice, used Forbes' vReference Cards, read Simon Long's notes and links daily. I even bought Scott Lowe's "Mastering vSphere 4 (GREAT BOOK). I am up to speed I think on that.
My question/problem is how do/did you all go about studying for this exam? It's not like any IT exam I have studied before. Did you go through all 8 Sections and "Master" each one before moving on to the next or did you just go down the list of the blueprint one by one? I have labbed a lot of things in no particular order but that seems chaotic and for me I like order when I study. But with so much to study and 17 pages of objectives, sometimes it seems like I will never get to the end.
Then my next gripe is I have a coworker who, to me at least, took the "easy way" and studied ONLY braindump material (I wont name them to give them that tag) and now my boss has given him an opportunity that I believe I could've done and also he passed the exam in less than a month using this material and I have yet to do it. Of course, they let him go to the class and I have not been given that opportunity, but irregardless. I wanted to know your thoughts on that as well
I apologize for being long-winded especially on my first post, but my intention is to LEARN the material not CRAM it in. Thanks for listening. I look forward to any help you all have.
PMan
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