Passed VCP5 exam today, advice for future candidates

So I went at it again, got almost an entirely new pool of questions, that were less scenario oriented which was such a blessing.

A piece of advice I would give for any exam as I've seen it across the board, is to watch your acronyms between the possible answers and the question being asked, and be very aware of pluralization between the two as well.

I'm awaiting vmware to confirm my results and get back to me with certification status, but the long hard road is finally over, and I strongly advise future candidates just to be very aware of what your being asked and the answer you are giving

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RouteMyPacket

Congrats, but "the long road" is far from being over...it's just beginning.

smailk

Wonderful! Congratulations! I hope to get there too in the next few months.

Asif Dasl

Congratulations! Great to hear you passed and glad you kept on plugging away at it!

What's up next for you?

ande0255

Next up is going to be my motorcycle endorsement for my drivers license, that manual is a whopping 80 pages

Then CCNP Voice, but in the next months I plan to work through the accidental administrator ASA book in GNS3 just to get some more familiarity with those as I work with those heavily as well, but I don't need all the extra knowledge from the Cisco certs down the security path.

jibbajabba

Hard road ? That was the easy bit

Congrats

dave330i

Congrats.

Essendon

Congrats! And yes, the road's only just started. Bigger, better, badder things await - get 'em!

ande0255

Yeah my family and girl asks me when studying will be over, and when I say never they kind of laugh, until they realize I wasn't kidding.... and then look kind of shocked

Doyen

That is good to hear! Congratulations on the pass

I was wondering about it since you didn't update your wordpress site in a while.

Deathmage

Congrats man!

Myself and 3 other people at my new job are also studying for the VCP5-DCV. However they both already have 2 year expereince with VMware without the certification and they are showing me sooo much it's insane....

ande0255

Deathmage wrote: »

Congrats man!

Myself and 3 other people at my new job are also studying for the VCP5-DCV. However they both already have 2 year expereince with VMware without the certification and they are showing me sooo much it's insane....

That is as good as it gets man! I'm fortunate enough to have access to dozens of infrastructures just to see how they're setup, so although I can't change stuff unless I hsve a ticket for it, just being able to see how things are config'd for production. I am vety fortunate to work with all vendors of firewall / route / switch, but almost every customers shares the vmware infrastructure.

Good luck with studies!