Vcp-nv

Exam scheduled for this Saturday. Originally had it scheduled for Thursday, but that was a little too aggressive. It's somewhat of a low hanging fruit for me. Hopefully 2 weeks is enough.

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cyberguypr

Best of luck!

Asif Dasl

I'm interested in doing this cert after DCA and maybe before DCD. My networking is a little weak so I'm interested to see how I get on with it, I think Pluralsight have videos being released this month about NSX so I'll give those a watch before playing about with it in the lab.

Good luck with it Dave!

tomtom1

dave330i wrote: »

Exam scheduled for this Saturday. Originally had it scheduled for Thursday, but that was a little too aggressive. It's somewhat of a low hanging fruit for me. Hopefully 2 weeks is enough.

Which materials did you use in preparing? It's something I want to achieve too, since it overlaps between my networking and virtualization knowledge.

dave330i

tomtom1 wrote: »

Which materials did you use in preparing? It's something I want to achieve too, since it overlaps between my networking and virtualization knowledge.

Read the pdfs off the blueprint. I skipped the vSphere ones and skimmed the vCAC ones (pretty familiar with vSphere and vCAC). As for the lab, I'm using the VMware HOL. A lot of the virtual networking concept is familiar to me, since I went through it while studying for the Cloud certs.

dave330i

Ugh.... Work's killing me. Rescheduled to next Sat.

JoJoCal19

Sorry to hear. That seems to be the common theme around these parts with work ruining cert plans.

jibbajabba

JoJoCal19 wrote: »

Sorry to hear. That seems to be the common theme around these parts with work ruining cert plans.

Isn't that the truth ...

dave330i

Failed it. Got a 273. I guess ~3 weeks of studying isn't quite enough. Overall I thought the exam was fair.

cyberguypr

What was the passing score? Planning a retake?

Essendon

Jeez that was close Dave. What topics got ya and like my mate, cyberguypr, said when are you retaking it?

EDIT: Gotta ask this, as an employee do they give you free attempts/retakes?

slinuxuzer

Don't worry your sure to get it next time around.

dave330i

Passing score is 300. In terms of difficulty, it's about as hard as DCV. There's lots of stuff to learn. I'll try again at a later. As a VMware employee I do get 2 free attempt voucher.

dave330i

I got wait listed for end of the month ICM class and registered for a class in Nov. This exam may go to the back burner depending on the wait list.

dave330i

Passed it this morning. Kept having to reschedule the ICM class.

Study materials were:

- 5 day ICM class
- 3 rounds of NSX HOL
- NSX install, admin & design guide v2.1

JustFred

Awesome. Congrats Dave

Dakinggamer87

Congrats I may look into this one next year.

Essendon

Congrats mate! There was little doubt you'd not pass. Onto the VCIX now? I wonder how it stacks up with the VCAPs. The 'Expert' in the name indicates it may be harder than the VCAPs.

Deathmage

Congrats!

Been reading into this cert myself, pretty hard-set on going deep into VMware and Cisco (as a specialization) so SDN seems to go hand-in-hand with this track..

dave330i

Thanks all. As an added bonus, all my VCPs have new expiration date.

@Essendon,

No VCIX. Switching gears to vCO.

Sirin V G

Dear All

Today i passed VCP-NV .. study as per blueprint

SimonD.

Currently attending the NSX-ICM course, I can tell you that the course covers about 80% of the exam requirements, the design and admin guides are what you need to concentrate on.