After two weeks of crazy studying (sitting with a sinus infection during the second week) passed my VCP5-DCV (450-300). Had a ton of work experience on vShpere 4.1 (never wrote the exam though) and only very few on vShpere 5.x. Blueprint helped and so did my virtual lab I franticly build up in the last week. Couple of observations:
- Don't even bother going through all the documentation! There just is not enough time to do that - use the Blueprint to the tee.
- Hands on helps a ton and in my case most importantly do not listen to other peoples judgement of the exam. I feel that this exam was not that difficult - lots of really basic questions.
I am glad I have this behind my back as I was getting away with not having this standard certification due to my job experience and track record. It is hard to explain how good it feels to get this finally done.
I have no idea how if my accreditation is going to be granted - I have attended the course, used the same e-mail address for all VMware based registrations. Guess I am going to wait for a week or so and see what happens.
My question now is which one to do next - I feel this one was a little bit basic. I would love to do the design but might that be a little to enthusiastic. Does VMware have accreditation that are somewhere security centric or even in the line of doing optimizations/troubleshooting? Really looking into getting and additional VMware certification which is of industry value but not complete overshot.