VCAP-DCA Passed!

Finally received the results after 2.5 weeks of waiting due to the Thanksgiving holiday. I posted my experience in another thread:

I also just took the VCAP-DCA last week and am waiting for the results. I work for a VMware partner and am the lead on all storage / virtualization projects, so I have hands on experience with a majority of the blueprint. The biggest thing about the DCA is to know how to configure things quickly. I got through all of the questions with about 6 minutes to spare, but I had to skip 1 or 2 because I knew it would take too long to complete given my remaining time, and another 1-2 I only partially completed because I was spending too much time on it. You have access to a lot of the PDF documentation, but again, since time is so limited, its hard to look anything up unless you know exactly where it is in the documentation.

I used the following resources in case anyone is interested:
VMware Advanced Fast Track Class (Includes Troubleshooting and Manage for Performance Courses)
Sean Crookston - Study Notes and Mock Labs
vExperienced.co.uk - Study Notes
VMware vSphere 4 VCAP Training Package | Train Signal

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vCole

Congrats!!

slinuxuzer

Sweet, is the test taken on computer or is it written? How long do you have and how many questions are there?

meadIT

slinuxuzer wrote: »

Sweet, is the test taken on computer or is it written? How long do you have and how many questions are there?

It's on a computer. You have an RDP to what's basically a jumpbox with the vSphere management tools installed (vSphere client, Putty, RDP client) and are given tasks ("less than 40") that you have to complete on a live lab environment. You get around 3.5 hours for everything.

vCole

meadIT wrote: »

It's on a computer. You have an RDP to what's basically a jumpbox with the vSphere management tools installed (vSphere client, Putty, RDP client) and are given tasks ("less than 40") that you have to complete on a live lab environment. You get around 3.5 hours for everything.

Interesting, I'd much prefer that type of test over multiple choice tbh.

slinuxuzer

Awesome, I want one now!

anobomski

congrats. time to remove the question marks from the cert too.

dave330i

Congrats. Hopefully I'll join end of next year.

blargoe

Congratulations!

I'm trying to be ready to sit for this in the next couple months.

meadIT

Thanks for all of the congrats! I received my certification number this morning. It looks like the 500 barrier has been broken, as I'm VCAP-DCA #500.

dave330i

Just noticed OP is DCA & DCD. Which exam did you feel was tougher?

meadIT

dave330i wrote: »

Just noticed OP is DCA & DCD. Which exam did you feel was tougher?

I would say, for me, that the DCD was tougher just because I took it during the first day of the beta period. Since it was beta, there were no study guides or notes available, plus instead of a subset of questions from the question pool, the beta testers had to answer ALL of the questions from the pool.