topic Re: VMware Spring Professional Certification in VCP: VMware Certified Professional Discussions

VMware Spring Professional Certification

pocho183 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 08:37:12 GMT

Dear all,

I was studying for the certification EDU-1202, to get the badge without the required course.

Now, it's retired. I'm wondering if VMware is planning a new certification, without pay the expensive and mandatory course.

Another vendor like Microsoft and Oracle, offer a course, but they aren't a requirement, even because, usually, these certification

are self payed.

Thank you

Manuel

Re: VMware Spring Professional Certification

scott28tt — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:48:00 GMT

I doubt it, all other VCPs have a training requirement, now this one does too.

Re: VMware Spring Professional Certification

exody — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:42:34 GMT

Any update on this? I also wanted to go to the exam without the courses. When and why the course became mandatory again?

Re: VMware Spring Professional Certification

RDPetruska — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:48:59 GMT

@exody wrote:

Any update on this? I also wanted to go to the exam without the courses. When and why the course became mandatory again?

ALL VMware Certifications have always required a mandatory course before you can be awarded the certification. Even if you pass the exam without taking the course. It's likely been that they don't want to have 'paper experts' out there, who only crammed to pass an exam without actually learning the material.

Re: VMware Spring Professional Certification

scott28tt — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:24:42 GMT

@exody

Not sure why you’re expecting a different answer to the one I gave 2 days ago.

This VCP now has the same type of requirements as all the others.

Re: VMware Spring Professional Certification

pocho183 — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:47:26 GMT

It isn't correct, because there are people certified on Spring 5 with the exam EDU12, they payed just the exam.

I could understand if with the new version Spring 6, VMware could change the rules, I spent a lot of time studying this exam, and now I can't do it becasue the course is too expensive, they aren't serious

Re: VMware Spring Professional Certification

scott28tt — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 08:08:10 GMT

They had to make the switch at some point to bring this VCP in line with all the others, both exam options were available in parallel for some time, with an expiry date published for the now retired exam.

You could email certification@vmware.com to have your say, but I very much doubt that anything will change/revert back, for the reasons above,