Thanks all that helped by their comments and insight. I would say the having an Vmware infrastructure to play with helped immensly.
I used the sudy material, vmreference pdf, and all the pubs from vmtn. The most helpful was certainly the basic admin and resource mgmt guides. (Thridplace goes to the FC guide).
Anyways I am done, thrilled and now I go on vacation for two weeks, great to start off.