I am currently doing a VMware ICM course run by a VMware IT Academy. They have given us some practice questions. They looked a little polished, and then some had images with watermarks of a notorious braindump site. I suspect the whole lot was taken from brain **** sites.
Honestly, I'm surprised that this training organisation would do this. I've done previous courses there, and they have had quite realistic conversations about what happens when you use **** - yes they exist, but they are against the rules, and ultimately harm you and the value of the certification. The fact that they are a VMware Academy as well...
It's also makes me angry. I have VCP5 already, I earned it legitimately (an ICM course, experience and wading through a 600pp text book, official practice tests, labs). Potentially the fact I've even seen these questions puts not only that certification at risk, but any future VMware certifications.
This is the
word from VMware:
You will neither: (i) provide nor accept improper assistance; nor (ii) use unauthorized materials in attempting to satisfy certification requirements (including unauthorized certification content provided by third parties).
and
You understand and agree that, if for any reason and at its sole discretion, VMware believes your exam results do not accurately reflect your true knowledge or mastery of the subject matter of the test and/or that you have violated this Agreement, VMware has the right (without refund of any kind) to deny you any further participation in the test, cancel a passed test result, revoke any pre-existing VMware certifications, your VMware certified status and any other rights previously conferred on you by VMware, and to permanently bar you from any further participation in the Program.
What would you do?
