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Thanks mate.
Caveat: Certification path if you hold no VCP certification
Step 2: (Required) Attend ONE of the training courses
Deal breaker!
Seems to just be dry online modules. If you know your shit it shouldn't take long and if you don't.. well why are you doing the certificate lol
I guess I can deal with a few hours of torture for a free certification.
Oh I think you’re right… I thought may needed to sit a ‘paid’ course as a pre req!
I just booked in the exam for $0, haven't done any prerequisites
Can't help but think they'll let you sit the exam but then won't give you the certification until you've completed them.
Right, no restriction on exam attendance. You can do training afterwards to get certified.
In past you have been able to submit proof if you have an active CCNA, CCNP or CCIE to get Vmware certification.
This is great. Just got a CCNA 1 v7.0 certification, so I can use that. Thank you for posting this!
CCNA only helps as a prerequisite for the NSX exam. As this is cloud your CCNA won't help.
You could get VCP-NV using your CCNA and then use that to get your VCP-VMC.
Of note it is very difficult to find anyone who is good with networks and NSX. So if you get those skills you will have no issues getting a contract with a great rate.
@Aureus: Bummer, however this isn't completely my field of interest anyways. I only did networking in my first year of uni since I was doing IT, but now I'm doing Computer Science for programming and software development.
Although I think there's nothing wrong with getting as many certificates as you can get, it looks good when looking for a job and is a good backup. I'm always trying to get free degrees and certificates (eg. got two free TAFE courses bc of COVID).
I'll still do this exam and see how I go. Maybe I wouldn't mind doing some training anyways. :D
Any pdf document to study in order to prepare for this exam?
I did the exam and it was pretty easy since I work with VMware. I don't have any study materials as such but the exam guide gives you an idea of what you're in for.
So whose got all the answers lol
When in doubt the answer is most likely 'D'
who dat?
LPT: i use a 1D4 for this.
I'm booked in for June!
Thanks OP. Booked in for June.
Booked, thanks,
no idea what this is but i signed up.
Keeps saying 'Profile is not currently Active. Your profile is under trade compliance review.'
Thanks, just need someone to post the deal for answers $0
Is it useful? What's this for? Similar to CompTIA
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Yep but if you’re asking these questions I don’t think this is for you. Employers would be looking for other qualifications before this.
VMWare + Cloud is an oxymoron.
It could be private cloud.
Private cloud is an oxymoron
It is still cloud. You can codify infra provisioning on the same infra you were running anyway.
@dealsucker: Infrastructure as code != cloud
VM (virtual machines) != cloud either
Put em together + a bunch of other things and you'll get something that resembles modern cloud computing.
If you make the infra your problem again (e.g. have to buy more 'private' hardware to scale) then it's not cloud, it's marketing fluff to make yourself feel better that you're doing cloud and being modern with the cool kids
@Indomietable: Exactly. Not YOUR data centre (hence why Private cloud is just rebranding of your own shit).
@eddyah: In a private cloud, the underlying infrastructure is abstracted away from the consumer of those resources, just like in a public cloud. It isn't just a rebranding and there is a distinction.
@Indomietable: Anyone claiming that cloud is just "other people's datacentres" has no flapping idea what they're talking about.
Modern cloud providers, particularly but not exclusively of the AWS, Azure, and GCP variety, offer fully managed services, abstracting away many of the extremely tricky scalable/stateful problems, often in a way that if not vendor-specific at least offers their own flavour. It has very little to do with where you're hosted and everything to do with what is your responsibility vs. what is a vendor-provided service.
AWS has over 200 services. One of these is VM hosting.
The simple act of uploading a file to Amazon's S3 storage service gives you 11 9s of durability. Automatic resiliency and replication in 3+ physical datacentres in a particular region. The ability to put a global CDN in front of it and cache these objects it in 130+ edge locations around the world. Or replicate into other regions for disaster recovery. Or automatic lifecycle rules to transition these files to different tiers as they age.
A virtual machine or dedicated server in someones datacentre gives you none of this. You're on your own, if not in building, certainly in configuring and maintaining this.
It would essentially require you to operate multiple machines in multiple datacentres in multiple regions using software you have to install, maintain, patch, and configure yourself, if it even exists. Configuring, operating and patching your own MinIO servers might get you 75% of the way there but it's not even close to the same effort proposition from an operational perspective, and it's just one example.
There are highly performant queueing services, Kubernetes control planes, highly available replicated databases, video transcoding engines, realtime data streams, pub/sub messaging services, complete autoscaling solutions, and spot instances, the ability to patch and upgrade with zero downtime, etc. and that's before you get to the even larger abstractions with things like Sagemaker for ML, and serverless computing that abstracts compute all the way down to function invocations on your runtime of choice.
Running your own replication and backup service for databases, a highly performant message broker, distributed storage etc. on virtual machines is possible. But it's a completely different ballgame in terms of operational effort and responsibility. And outside of the DB engine, virtually guaranteed to be wire-incompatible in terms of your app stack's integration code.
You can take all of your ancient RHEL virtual machines out of your VMware ESX clusters and move them to EC2 and use the cloud as an extremely dumb and cost ineffective datacentre, aka lift-and-shift, but anyone choosing to stop there either a) has an extremely poor level of cloud maturity and technical execution and has no idea what they're doing… or b) is so large and so complex and has such a huge team that investing all of this very specific engineering effort is a better value proposition to them. Now if you happen to be Twitter or Dropbox, great. But I would argue virtually no one is at this level in Australia.
In terms of vendor agnostic solutions, you have something like OpenStack understanding that cloud = services, not machines ("cattle not pets"). But the quality is low and the jank is high there
VMWare is, for the most part, stuck in this 10+ year old, virtual machine mentality. They have some very basic replication tech and they're certainly trying with things like Tanzu, which is an attempt to bring some cloud native technologies like Kubernetes outside of the confines of a VM. But they simply don't have the service offerings. There is no S3 equivalent, no RDS. No SQS. No Kinesis, Aurora, Sagemaker, SNS, API Gateway, Lambda…
You can take all of your ancient RHEL virtual machines out of your VMware ESX clusters and move them to EC2
That is like half of my cloud projects… the other half are to Azure.
@Aureus: I give up. If you think moving VMs to EC2 instances is cloud then you're costing whoever you work for a shit ton of money (based on your location the government which is our tax money straight into AWS / Azure's pocket).
@eddyah: Bit dramatic don't you think?
Unfortunately if a customer wants to do it, it will be done. They are always well informed on the potential costs + added complexity.
I have implemented lots of solutions that I disagree with. It simply is not my call.
If you want to argue that EC2 is not cloud, then you are not well informed.
@SteveBuscemi: For VMware Cloud … The word cloud literally means other people's data center. You rent 2 or more physical host and provide you with vsphere access.
You can have VMware Cloud on AWS
You can also shit on a dinner plate what's your point?
Any suggested link to study and prepare for exam ? really need to pass the exam
chatgpt
what kind of jobs will I get after completing this?
It is just a certification. But, your previous knowledge should come into effect as well. This will help you to land a job under the role of VMWare Server Administration.
It will be beneficial to anyone who is currently working in Cloud
thanks
Thanks OP. Booked one
135 Minutes 70 Questions $250 USD
In one bullet point, they tell you the exam cost, duration, and number of questions.
Booked in June, as some others have mentioned. This will give me enough time to completley forget about it and freak out when I see it looming in the calendar.
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Damn, missed out. Would have loved this, poor as hell and trying to get back into IT.
To get the certification for this exam you either need an existing up to date VCP cert, or pay for very expensive training.
Microsoft often gives out free exam vouchers for the Azure fundamentals cert if you attend the free Azure virtual training day. Microsoft also provides a lot of free training. A good frugal option if you want to get a free cert that has value.
Yeah that's good info thank you very much.
I'm currently studying for CompTIA a+ and ITIL4 foundations cert
booooooo. limit reached
Thanks OP