Solarwinds Certified Professional - Free Cert - How to

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  • pertpert Member Posts: 250
    chanakyajupudi wrote: »
    I believe there are certs that are of levels. This is only the start.

    The advanced ones though are not going to be free like this.

    That's entirely not the point, the point is the certs has little to do with Solarwinds NPM, and its a cert for Solarwinds NPM.
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  • chanakyajupudichanakyajupudi Member Posts: 712
    Oh. Misunderstood the previous post.

    The questions are not entirely pertaining to SolarWinds.
    That has to change.

    Lets hope they come up with that change soon.
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  • ZartanasaurusZartanasaurus Member Posts: 2,008 ■■■■■■■■■□
    For those of you who don't feel like the questions are geared towards NPM enough, here is what they were trying to accomplish:
    As most of the SCPs can attest, the SolarWinds Certified Professional program was designed to validate a network engineer’s skillset in network management, but only in part with NPM (Orion). The primary focus of the exam is on industry standard technologies and best practices around network management skills; hence validating an SCP’s expertise in both.


    So think of it as Network Management+ exam. :)
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  • chanakyajupudichanakyajupudi Member Posts: 712
    Any other success stories ?
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  • wiresharkwireshark Member Posts: 10 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Greetings to all.
    Just sent an email for this cert.
    I will take the exam after going through the resources, especially on orion.
    Knowledge is more important than just having the cert. So i suggest to learn first and then go for the exam as they are providing more than enough time.

    @chanakya, Thanks buddy for sharing about this exam. Will see you around.
    Good Luck to All.
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  • chanakyajupudichanakyajupudi Member Posts: 712
    @wireshark : Best of luck to you !
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  • ChooseLifeChooseLife Member Posts: 941 ■■■■■■■□□□
    I am now a Solarwinds Certified Professional... and I still have not touched Orion. As Zartanasaurus pointed out, the cert is mostly about network management and not as much about using their products. Ironically, this exam is almost vendor-neutral, much more so than some officially "vendor-neutral" exams out there.

    The exam has a typical multiple-choice format, 75+ questions, 70% to pass. There are 5 subject areas, of those one is on Orion, and the rest are on network management concepts. Tested topics include SNMP, WMI, ICMP, NetFlow, TCP/IP, Syslog, pulling vs pushing, design and performance considerations, etc.

    All in all, I thought it was a great exam. It covers a variety of topics on network management, things that NOC techs and sysadmins typically work with in real life.
    kurosaki00 wrote: »
    I also work A LOT with Nagios
    would this (nagios) be relevant with solarwinds?
    It is relevant. I am a 100% Nagios person and passed the exam based on that knowledge. I scored sufficiently high in 4 domains that bombing the Orion section did not matter.
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  • SteveO86SteveO86 Member Posts: 1,423
    Took this exam a few weeks back. Pretty decent, very relevant for network management, only a small portion of the exam was actually SolarWinds specific.

    I did a quick write up concerning my experience with the exam.
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  • chanakyajupudichanakyajupudi Member Posts: 712
    Congratulations on the pass! Great write up too.
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  • ccnpninjaccnpninja Member Posts: 1,010 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Congrats! and thanks for the feedback :)
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  • epcgepcg Member Posts: 65 ■■□□□□□□□□
    I took this exam a few weeks ago and it has some teeth. I've put this on my resume and most really like that I have it. Its well worth the price of free. So any of you who haven't really should get this while you can for free.
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  • chanakyajupudichanakyajupudi Member Posts: 712
    Congratulations
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  • ccnpninjaccnpninja Member Posts: 1,010 ■■■□□□□□□□
    This is good news, thanks for the info!
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  • chanakyajupudichanakyajupudi Member Posts: 712
    And best of luck to you !
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  • stealthgeekstealthgeek Registered Users Posts: 4 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Just passed..... with 70.1%!
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  • chanakyajupudichanakyajupudi Member Posts: 712
    Congratulations ! Keep up the good work !
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  • WeldinitWeldinit Member Posts: 7 ■□□□□□□□□□
    I emailed my info last week but no reply yet. Guess I should try again.
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  • cruwlcruwl Member Posts: 341 ■■□□□□□□□□
    So I just got my welcome kit this weekend. Pretty impressed! Came with the cert already mounted in a pretty nice frame and came with a Solarwinds Certified Professional Branded Coffee mug.

    So far this is the best welcome kit I've received!! Not to mention everything was F*&$ing free!
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  • kingholmeskingholmes Member Posts: 32 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Is this still being offered free? I submitted a request and have not heard anything back yet.
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  • ElevenBravoElevenBravo Member Posts: 6 ■□□□□□□□□□
    I got this cert back in 2011 - great cert to have! Good luck to all who are going to attempt it!
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  • CodyyCodyy Member Posts: 223 ■■■□□□□□□□
    I just received a reply back from them today, so this is still active. I followed all of the steps on their website to register for the exam, waited a few days for them to email me the test info, gave up on them and figured the offered expired, then boom they came through.
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  • k2737k2737 Member Posts: 10 ■□□□□□□□□□
    I just emailed them so we will see. I am changing jobs and going from out home grown ish Nagios platform to using the Solar Winds package so I need to get brought up to speed fast.
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  • kingholmeskingholmes Member Posts: 32 ■■□□□□□□□□
    It took a few days but I finally got the email with my logon information. I looked at the introduction demo last night. Hopefully I will take the test this week.
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  • kingholmeskingholmes Member Posts: 32 ■■□□□□□□□□
    I took this yesterday and passed with a 79%. I didn't do the greatest on the Solarwinds parts, but I also haven't used Solarwinds in a year. I was happy to get through it on the first attempt and look forward to my Welcome Kit.
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  • KonfliktKonflikt Member Posts: 43 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Is it still available for free?
    I will send a mail..
    for 2013: [x] 3x VCA, [x] VCAP5-DCA, [-] VCAP-DCD - failed. PASSED in 2014
    for 2014: [x] BACP, [x] SCP, [x] 70-409, [x] VCAP-DCD
    for 2015: [x] VCP6-DCV,
    for 2016: [x] upgrade VCAPs to VCIX6-DCV, [x] CCNA [-]
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  • chanakyajupudichanakyajupudi Member Posts: 712
    Not sure. Please send a mail and try though !
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  • KonfliktKonflikt Member Posts: 43 ■■■□□□□□□□
    No answer till now.
    for 2013: [x] 3x VCA, [x] VCAP5-DCA, [-] VCAP-DCD - failed. PASSED in 2014
    for 2014: [x] BACP, [x] SCP, [x] 70-409, [x] VCAP-DCD
    for 2015: [x] VCP6-DCV,
    for 2016: [x] upgrade VCAPs to VCIX6-DCV, [x] CCNA [-]
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  • zxbanezxbane Member Posts: 740 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Does anyone know if this is still valid?
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  • bermovickbermovick Member Posts: 1,135 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I sent the request a couple weeks back and never got a response, so I'm guessing not.
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  • d4nz1gd4nz1g Member Posts: 464
    Is it still available (for free)?
    Will i receive the documentation needed and the topics covered in the test?
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