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VCP 6 - Delta Exam or Full exam

     Last week I completed the VMWN course, so now need to pass the exam to re-certify to 6. Which exam do I do? I've never done a Delta before. Presumably the Delta exam concentrates on the changes between 5 (5.5?) and 6? And the normal exam is broader.

Is it a bit like Mastermind - where the more specific the specialist subject, the more specific the questions are??

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The objectives are very similar, and I'm sure there are items common to both exams.

This thread may help: 2V0-610 vs 2V0-610D


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The objectives are very similar, and I'm sure there are items common to both exams.

This thread may help: 2V0-610 vs 2V0-610D


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Thanks Scott.

I had looked for a thread but obviously without success!

I'm really undecided. I have a small lab now running 6 on Workstation, which I didn't have for my VCP4/5 exams, so hopefully that will help this time!  What puts me off the Delta is more of the very specific knowledge questions, as opposed to some of the broader questions I remember from the full VCP4/5.5 exams I did, which demonstrate a broad understanding, concepts etc.

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So I did the Delta exam yesterday. Failed with a 230 :smileycry:

The "topics you were crap at" list on the printout were, unsurprisingly, mostly things I've never used in anger, or stuff that we do day-to-day.

I also think that some of the questions were incredible. Several questions where you needed to know the command line/advanced settings syntax for things like auto-deploy image building, upgrading vmtools, setting a custom passphrase policy! I realise this may come across as sour grapes, as I failed, but is this *really* a reflection of real-life, working knowledge of the product? Wouldn't most people go to a command-line reference, MAN page or --help to formulate a CLI command?!

I really don't remember the full 5.5 exam I did being so technically specific. I've currenrly got the delta exam re-booked for next Thursday (£182 :smileycry::smileycry:) but I'm tempted to switch it to the full thing.

Argh.

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Totally agree on this. I've just started my preparations for VCP6 Delta, I have VCP4 and VCP5, I must say the questions and topics I see makes no sense. I cannot say I have a lot of experience, and I am not pretending to pass Advanced level Exam, I just want to keep my current certification  updated. But I administered 100 hosts 1200 VMs environment and have some good practical experience. I must say those questions/topics are ridiculous. In VCP4 and VCP5 exam I was able to answer 50% with my practical knowledge, without need to google it; here I just look at them and realized I know nothing about vSphere.

I saw long list of contributors who worked on this Exam, and I must say they did disguising and horrible work. Asking theoretical questions about command-line? Are we supposed remember them all to maintain existing VCP status??? Seriously???:smileyshocked:

Topics of exam are oriented on the features 80% I've never seen or configured in my whole life.

VMware, what your are trying to achieve with this? What knowledge should we have to pass this exam? Academical knowledge? Learn by heart all your thousands pages of documentations of features we'll never use in real life? Is it another way to get more money from us? It's not a good idea, my company reimburses exam fee only if I successfully pass exam, otherwise I need to pay it from my pocket and this kind of expenses is not something that makes me happy and respectful to VMware products and services.



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Hi,

as i remember correctly ( i did both exams and failed with the Delta-Beta), question were very different.

My advice would be always -> go with the full one.

Erich

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I was thinking about this same thing and am glad I came across this thread.  I was leaning towards studying for the full exam rather than the delta already and this helped confirm it.  If anyone has any other opinion on this I'd like to hear it since I've still got at least another month or two before I test