VCP course different than exam

[raffapol]

Dear Community,

I was wondering... if I'm not certified at all, decide to take VCP exam (let's say VCP-DCV) attending, let's imagine, a VCP-NV course: will this course enable me to take that exam?

Thank you

Raff

[TimVCI · Accepted solution]

All the certification paths and requirements can be found here - https://www.vmware.com/learning/certification.html

If you go to the VCP-DCV page and select 'no VCP certifications' you'll see the step required. You will also notice that the VCP-NV course is not a qualifying course for VCP-DCV.

Also worth noting that you can take an exam before taking the course but you will not get the certification until all steps have been completed. 

[jsm79]

While there are multiple courses that qualify you for the VCP-DCV cert, you can only pick from ones that fall along the same path (for example, "Install, Configure, & Manage" will qualify, as well as "Optimize & Scale"). But choosing training for NV would only pertain to the VCP-NV cert, not the DCV. You could theoretically take an NV training and pass a DCV exam, but that combo would not satisfy the certification requirements for either path, so it wouldn't make much sense to do it that way.

Hope that helps!