Whos a VCP and who actually has their paper cert!

So after numerous emails to vmware and the generic reply of you are confirmed please wait 1 week for your certificate, I was wondering how many other people are still actually waiting for their certs to drop through the letter box.

Found a blog post that suggests there are 53k VCP's of which 15K are Vsphere VCP's, So either vmware are printing our certs on a HP deskjet or they are just taking their time to actually post these things out.

I know they have had a rebranding recently but come on does it really take this long to send a template and DB to a printing press for at most 53K copies!

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jasonboche

The VMware certification department has an extremely small headcount. They will be looking to have their budget and headcount increased to resolve these latency issues. Don't ask me why their staff is so small with the volume of work they handle. I'm sure paying customers do not feel it is a real good excuse when they are paying a lot of money into the system.

avlad

I still haven't receive my paper cert. I have passed the VCP-310 exam almost 6 months ago !
The small headcount of VMware certification department is not a very good excuse.
Look at the price of their trainings. I'm sure that they can afford hiring some extra people.

dales

Still no certificate at present, TBH I've given up pestering them about it and I guess it'll come eventually. Surely its not hard to bash out a template certificate and send that and a csv to a printing company, couple of days jobs a good 'un. Not impressed by their rebranding the VCP heading is rather dull!

Mishra

I received my cert about 1-2 weeks ago now.

HeroPsycho

Received mine about 3 weeks ago. I must be special...

Paul Boz

It took SANS 3 months to mail me my plaque, don't feel too bad. Hell cisco never even mailed me two of my certificates and I had to fight tooth and nail to get them to give me free electronic copies so I could print them myself.

jasonboche

Complain to the VMware certification/education department and let your voice be heard.

avlad

I have send them an email 2 weeks ago.
Yesterday evening, I have received an answer that a new kit will be sent to my address.

charles123

so nice and interesting sharing.I totally agree with you.its nice post.I bookmark the site and mail ll of my friends to check it.

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cageybee

Hyper-Me wrote: »

Are they any cheaper?

you should check your local community college. they offer a course here in St Louis at St Louis Community College VMWare Academy. they started offering the first course this year which leads to VCP. it is a 4 credit hour course that lasts 2 months each Saturday 8 hours. each credit for in-district students is $80. so, the course cost $320. however, there are prerequisite course, which are Cisco I Network Fundamentals (which is a 5 credit hour class) and Unix/Linux (which is a 3 credit hour class). so, if you're just starting out, you'd have to pay for 12 credit hours ($960.00), but if you already took those other classes, then you can just take that vmware class. the vmware class is titled IT211 intro to virtualization and cloud computing. it is definitely a cheaper way to attend the required class, but it will take lots of time to get through. you're looking at possible 1.5 terms - Fall and Spring. you could take network fundamentals and unix/linux in the fall, and the in the spring take a half-term class vmware. there is a possibility to get all of that done in 1 term also. in the first half of the term you'd take network fundamentals and unix/linux, and in the second half of the term you'd take vmware. good luck!

jibbajabba

cageybee wrote: »

you should check your local community college. they offer a course here in St Louis at St Louis Community College VMWare Academy. they started offering the first course this year which leads to VCP. it is a 4 credit hour course that lasts 2 months each Saturday 8 hours. each credit for in-district students is $80. so, the course cost $320. however, there are prerequisite course, which are Cisco I Network Fundamentals (which is a 5 credit hour class) and Unix/Linux (which is a 3 credit hour class). so, if you're just starting out, you'd have to pay for 12 credit hours ($960.00), but if you already took those other classes, then you can just take that vmware class. the vmware class is titled IT211 intro to virtualization and cloud computing. it is definitely a cheaper way to attend the required class, but it will take lots of time to get through. you're looking at possible 1.5 terms - Fall and Spring. you could take network fundamentals and unix/linux in the fall, and the in the spring take a half-term class vmware. there is a possibility to get all of that done in 1 term also. in the first half of the term you'd take network fundamentals and unix/linux, and in the second half of the term you'd take vmware. good luck!

Since he posted that almost two years ago - I'd guess he found a course by now