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Re: VCP 2019 recertification query

Iain_Worsfold — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:53:40 GMT

Hi,

Please see a link to yesterdays announcement regarding the recertification policy. This I hope will answer your question.

https://blogs.vmware.com/education/2019/02/04/vmware-certification-recertification-is-changing-and-what-it-means-to-you/

Re: To learn vmware from the beginning

Iain_Worsfold — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:19:24 GMT

Don't forget that there are Hands-on Labs as well. This is a free resource where you can get some guided practical experience.

VMware Learning Platform

Re: Recertify on or before expiration date?

Iain_Worsfold — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:28:55 GMT

Personally, for my certification renewal, I did last year I took the full VCP 6.5 exam, as others that I had spoken to had suggested it would be slightly easier. Whether this is actually true or not is debatable.

If you are thinking of using the Full VCP exam as a backup, then I would highly recommend to review and compare both exam blueprints. Without looking myself, there is a chance some objectives on the Full VCP exam do not appear on the delta.

Best of luck anyway. Hopefully, you will pass the first time around.

Re: VCP 6.5 Expiring soon - Looking for options

Iain_Worsfold — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:32:40 GMT

Hi,

As suggested you can renew your VCP status by taking and passing a different VCP exam on a different track such as NSX, Desktop, Cloud, or you can take and pass a VCAP-DCA or VCAP-DCD level exam.

In addition, the exam you took was the full VCP exam. If you do not want to take any of the options above, then the alternative would be to take the VCP delta exam which is a different exam number. In your example, you would need to take the 2V0-622D exam instead.

Re: Recertify on or before expiration date?

Iain_Worsfold — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:23:24 GMT

Hi,

While the exam policy does state to wait at least 7 days, a possible way around this is should you fail the delta exam is to take the full VCP exam within 7 days because this is a different exam and passing it would renew your VCP certification. But this is provided you did not take the same full VCP exam to achieve your certification previously.

Note that I do not work for VMware, so this is simply a possible idea that might work in getting around your problem.

Re: It has to be asked: Will there be a VCP6.7-DCV Exam?

Iain_Worsfold — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:04:00 GMT

Based on the new certification roadmap as discussed in the blog post below, I would expect the next VCP-DCV based on vSphere 6.7 to be released in January 2019.

https://blogs.vmware.com/education/2018/08/22/we-are-changing-the-way-we-name-vmware-certifications-the-year-makes-it-clear/

Re: VCAP-DCV Deploy Exam Tips

Iain_Worsfold — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:05:23 GMT

Here is a list of things I worked through for my preparation.

The first tip like with any exam is to download a copy of the exam blueprint pdf document. https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/certification/vmw-vcap6-dcv-deploy-3v0-623-guide.pdf I recommend opening the document using Adobe Reader. The reason for this is that you can use the highlight tool to mark through each of the exam objectives. I also use different colour highlighters to highlight which items within each of the exam objectives based on how comfortable you know the exam topic. Green = Completely comfortable, yellow = some help needed, red = little or no knowledge. It is important that you are completely honest with yourself and do not feel you have to have every item green before taking the exam.

If you can, I would recommend setting up a lab environment. I went with quite a large setup made up of 2x vCenter Servers (one embedded PSC and one separate PSC+VC), 5x ESXi hosts, 1x ADDC, 1x ADCS, 1x DHCP Server. For storage, I have a Qnap storage appliance which provides iSCSI and NFS storage. A simple 1x VC and 2x ESXi host setup would perhaps be the smallest setup but you will not be able to practice all tasks. Instead, you can try hands-on labs which is a great tool because not only is it free to use, you can deviate from the lab manual to practice anything you need.

I also work through Jason Nash's Optimize and scale course on Pluralsight which if you are not a subscriber, you can always sign up of a trial period.

In addition to working through the blueprint, I also pulled together my own study sheet based upon the Chris Wahl's study sheet posted on his blog for the VCAP5-DCA exam. http://wahlnetwork.com/2012/07/02/the-vcap5-dca-study-sheet/

Not only is it another method to track what tasks I've done, but it enables me to screenshot particular tasks that perhaps I find more tricky to remember or understand. I found referring to screenshot taken from a task I practice made it more easier to remember that referring to screenshots from a book or someone else's lab.

There are many exam experience articles out there on the web. I won't list them because I am bound to miss someone. Just search for VCAP DCA experience. Even the version 5 experience will still help provide you with some guidance.

The final tip I can share is to learn the VMware pdf documentation. You certainly do not want to rely on the documentation for the exam, time is your biggest enemy. But understand where you need to go to will help save time for if you ever need it.

Hope this gives you a base to start from and good luck with your studies.

Re: Add Permission to the vCenter (Error)

Iain_Worsfold — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:20:21 GMT

Hello all,

Ran into the same issue here running separate vCenter and PSC version 6.5.0-8307201 and using Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication).

I discovered my likely cause was that some of the user accounts had a space in their user ID. Even adding the users to an AD security group and assigning the permission also caused an issue with logging onto the vCenter server with that account.

After changing the username by replacing the space with an underscore, the issue went away.

Thought it to be worth sharing in case anyone else receives the same problem.