VCAP-DCA Passed!

meadITmeadIT Member Posts: 581 ■■■■□□□□□□
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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
CERTS: VCDX #110 / VCAP-DCA #500 (v5 & 4) / VCAP-DCD #10(v5 & 4) / VCP 5 & 4 / EMCISA / MCSE 2003 / MCTS: Vista / CCNA / CCENT / Security+ / Network+ / Project+ / CIW Database Design Specialist, Professional, Associate
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  • vColevCole Member Posts: 1,573 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Congrats!!
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  • slinuxuzerslinuxuzer Member Posts: 665 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Sweet, is the test taken on computer or is it written? How long do you have and how many questions are there?
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  • meadITmeadIT Member Posts: 581 ■■■■□□□□□□
    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.
    CERTS: VCDX #110 / VCAP-DCA #500 (v5 & 4) / VCAP-DCD #10(v5 & 4) / VCP 5 & 4 / EMCISA / MCSE 2003 / MCTS: Vista / CCNA / CCENT / Security+ / Network+ / Project+ / CIW Database Design Specialist, Professional, Associate
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  • vColevCole Member Posts: 1,573 ■■■■■■■□□□
    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.
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  • slinuxuzerslinuxuzer Member Posts: 665 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Awesome, I want one now!
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  • anobomskianobomski Member Posts: 53 ■■□□□□□□□□
    congrats. time to remove the question marks from the cert too.
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  • dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Congrats. Hopefully I'll join end of next year.
    2018 Certification Goals: Maybe VMware Sales Cert
    "Simplify, then add lightness" -Colin Chapman
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  • blargoeblargoe Member Posts: 4,174 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Congratulations!

    I'm trying to be ready to sit for this in the next couple months.
    IT guy since 12/00

    Recent: 11/2019 - RHCSA (RHEL 7); 2/2019 - Updated VCP to 6.5 (just a few days before VMware discontinued the re-cert policy...)
    Working on: RHCE/Ansible
    Future: Probably continued Red Hat Immersion, Possibly VCAP Design, or maybe a completely different path. Depends on job demands...
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  • meadITmeadIT Member Posts: 581 ■■■■□□□□□□
    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.
    CERTS: VCDX #110 / VCAP-DCA #500 (v5 & 4) / VCAP-DCD #10(v5 & 4) / VCP 5 & 4 / EMCISA / MCSE 2003 / MCTS: Vista / CCNA / CCENT / Security+ / Network+ / Project+ / CIW Database Design Specialist, Professional, Associate
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  • dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Just noticed OP is DCA & DCD. Which exam did you feel was tougher?
    2018 Certification Goals: Maybe VMware Sales Cert
    "Simplify, then add lightness" -Colin Chapman
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  • meadITmeadIT Member Posts: 581 ■■■■□□□□□□
    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.
    CERTS: VCDX #110 / VCAP-DCA #500 (v5 & 4) / VCAP-DCD #10(v5 & 4) / VCP 5 & 4 / EMCISA / MCSE 2003 / MCTS: Vista / CCNA / CCENT / Security+ / Network+ / Project+ / CIW Database Design Specialist, Professional, Associate
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