VMware Certification Changes - VCIX replaces VCAP

Damn it. Now I want elite status for multiple VCAPs. Maybe I'll collect the last 2 VCAPs before they go away.

tstrip007

Do current vcap's auto obtain this? Surely if you have design and admin you get this

iBrokeIT

tstrip007 wrote: »

Do current vcap's auto obtain this? Surely if you have design and admin you get this

VCAPs stop at the vSphere 5.x product line and VCIXs start with the vSphere 6.x product line.

Great write up here. Thoughts, Rants, and Suggestions on vSphere 6 Training and Certifications - Wahl Network

Damn it VMware, keep it simple. Freaking HR having no clue whatsoever about VCAP's anyway, will be even more befuddled than ever before. Now there are two types of Experts - Implementation (with a design component!) and Design. At face value, it kind of takes the sheen away a little bit from the VCDX. The 'X' in there made it sexy. Wouldnt stop me from getting there.

Whatever though, like Dave, I want that 'elite' status too! For water cooler bragging rights, that is

F*CK I just ordered the VCAP5-DCV study material too....

Pissed now

It's not too bad mate, the knowledge wont go to waste..

Essendon wrote: »

It's not too bad mate, the knowledge wont go to waste..

I know, guess I'll wait for the other book....

Slowhand

It's as if though the industry learned nothing from Microsoft's shift from the old MCSE to MCITP. By the time HR reps and IT directors became aware of what the MCITP series was, it was back to the MCSE acronym again. Changing the internal workings and requirements for a cert is one thing, but changing the name is always bad mojo, especially when the old name, VCAP, was just beginning to get a foothold in the industry as "one better than VCP" for a lot of companies.

Here's to putting both VCIX and "VCAP6" on our resumes so we show up properly in all those recruiter-databases, just like we did with "MCSE 2008".

Announcing Mastering VMware vSphere 6

Deathmage wrote: »

I know, guess I'll wait for the other book....

iBrokeIT

kj0 wrote: »

Announcing Mastering VMware vSphere 6

Hahahaha I was just thinking... where is the preorder link?

Mastering VMware vSphere 6: 9781118925157: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com

iBrokeIT wrote: »

Hahahaha I was just thinking... where is the preorder link?

Click the word "pre-order"

Deathmage wrote: »

F*CK I just ordered the VCAP5-DCV study material too....

Pissed now

You should rejoice. They changed the exam name and made it easier.

Just did up a quick Blog post. http://vexpert.me/yb

GSXRules

The exams won't be easier.

scuttlebutt is 1 VCAP exam + 1 VCIX exam (assuming same silo, one design, one admin) = 1VCAP cert & 1VCIX cert

same price

tstrip007

Wonder what the beni's of "elite status" are? Besides the knowledge, power, fame, women, and fast cars of course...

Essendon wrote: »

Whatever though, like Dave, I want that 'elite' status too! For water cooler bragging rights, that is

I'm really going to have to get the Elite status now ..We just bought a water cooler!

tstrip007 wrote: »

Wonder what the beni's of "elite status" are? Besides the knowledge, power, fame, women, and fast cars of course...

Wank factor. No more

GSXRules wrote: »

The exams won't be easier.

scuttlebutt is 1 VCAP exam + 1 VCIX exam (assuming same silo, one design, one admin) = 1VCAP cert & 1VCIX cert

same price

A 2 hour exam is easier than a 4 hour exam even if the exam material are the same difficulty level because a 2 hour exam isn't as mentally and physically tough as a 4 hour exam.

More importantly, what about elite status for those of us with multiple VCAPs?

GSXRules

dave330i wrote: »

A 2 hour exam is easier than a 4 hour exam even if the exam material are the same difficulty level because a 2 hour exam isn't as mentally and physically tough as a 4 hour exam.

More importantly, what about elite status for those of us with multiple VCAPs?

If you are not any more likely to pass one than the other, it's not easier

Working on what "Elite" means if that has been decided.

dave330i wrote: »

You should rejoice. They changed the exam name and made it easier.

True, easier isn't always better.

tstrip007 wrote: »

Wonder what the beni's of "elite status" are? Besides the knowledge, power, fame, women, and fast cars of course...

Rofl, if you go up to a girl at a bar and say your a VCAP5-DCV and you walk out with her I envy you.

Deathmage wrote: »

Rofl, if you go up to a girl at a bar and say your a VCAP5-DCV and you walk out with her I envy you.

No. What you're suppose to do is walk up to a girl and ask her, "Wanna see my VCAPs?"

Xavor

Essendon wrote: »

Damn it VMware, keep it simple.

This is why I stopped trying to do VMware certs (and the 2 yr change) and I'm transitioning to OpenStack.