Summer (May 20) 2013 Stanly CC vSphere 5 ICM Class Thread

Thought since this is such a popular class referenced in this forum, I'd start a new thread for the Summer session.

19 days and counting until the class begins ....

Find more posts tagged with

Free for TechExams community: Cybersecurity salary guide

Compare cert salaries and plan your next career move

Button

Comments

emerald_octane

**sigh**

for some reason VMware thinks it's OK to give students access to the Enterprise license which happens to not include vDistributedSwitches ,but it is on the blueprint. It's even covered in the class. So the year long enterprise licenses are worthless if we can't build labs based on vDS x.x since we have to use the eval version.

ITMonkey

Worthless? ... I can live with it. And when I absolutely have to work with vDS, I can nest the shorter-term evaluation download vm within the Enterprise version.

emerald_octane

Ok Ok it is a minor inconvenience. I was shocked is all.

scott28tt

I'm surprised the exam blueprint wasn't mentioned as part of the training, it really is key for those aiming towards the certification. I used to work as a VCI for a VATC and no students left my classes without knowing that.

I'll add that it's the Fast Track class on vSphere that gets closest to matching the exam objectives, not Install Configure Manage.

FireFire

Any one took the VCP510PSE exam? Wonder any diff between VCP510 and VCP510PSE...

emerald_octane

I'm taking the VCP510PSE tomorrow, hoping for a win!!!

cyberguypr

Best of luck!

emerald_octane

Thanks. I am so genuinely sick of studying. I've reviewed over 3 of the study guides floating out there, 2 of the VMWare cert books, working on my production environment and toying around in the test environment. Doing ok on the practice exams but I hear those aren't a good representation. Ugh.

emerald_octane

Made it! Woo! 300/500.

Those were the most obscure questions on the face of the planet and I am glad that I will never have to go through it again. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Will post resources and non NDA breaking tips to teh community.

Asif Dasl

Congrats emerald! You just got it!! I agree about the questions being obscure I passed with 325 2/3 weeks ago and was so relieved as well. I was sick of studying for it too. What's up for you next?

emerald_octane

Hmm what's up next I might do CCNA R:S or CCNA:S (depends on how much time I can find).

But first I have to decompress from this experience, plus I have some infrastructure projects on hold.

ITMonkey

Congrats, guys! It will be a little longer for me to schedule the exam. I just finished installing a failover vSphere environment in my home lab. Now the hard slog of reading the two books I bought cover-to-cover and labbing them outside the Stanly lab cocoon.

jalu6

Congrats!

Hey, has the course started showing up in VMware transcripts yet? Just curious as I don't want to miss out.

FireFire

Passed exam on Friday.

jalu6

jalu6 wrote: »

Congrats!

Hey, has the course started showing up in VMware transcripts yet? Just curious as I don't want to miss out.

Spoke too soon! Just got an email telling me I was registered and my transcript shows I passed the class.

cyberguypr

Congrats to all who passed.

emerald_octane

Indeed. Good to see all these wins given the (purported but completely true IMO) difficulty of the exam.

jalu6 wrote: »

Spoke too soon! Just got an email telling me I was registered and my transcript shows I passed the class.

I'm pleasantly surprised at the smoothness of the system. I assumed there would be some type of song and dance to get everything to sync up, but it look like my exam and class have both registered immediately within the profile.

revbillyg

anyone have issues logging into myvmware.com? I cant get in with the email address I supplied the school..

also, seeing how this is for 5.0 and not 5.1 should I just use 5.1 anyways or try to DL all 5.0 environment for lab?