VCAP4-DCA Certification
This morning I’ve received a pleasant email from VMware.
The subject was: Your VCAP4-DCA Score Report
And I’m excited to say that I passed the VCAP4-DCA exam. I’ve got 382 point of the 500 where 300 point are necessary to pass the exam.
How did I prepare for this exam:
- The book Mastering VMware vSphere 4 by Scott Lowe
- Duncan Epping yellow-bricks.com website
- The Remote Command-Line Interface Installation and Reference Guide PDF from VMware.com
- 8 year of VMware experience
- 4 years of trainer experience with VMware
- 2 weeks of preparation will updating the VMware courses I give for Ictivity Training
I must say that this was the most difficult test I have ever done in my IT career. My test exists on doing 34 labs in 4 hours (not native English speaking) . When I was finishing the last lab (the command was issued but was still running) I ran out of time. The stuff you really have to now for this exam is:
- vSphere ESX and ESXi (Duh!)
- Update Manager
- CLI
- PowerCLI
- VMware Management Assisant (vMA)
- vCenter with all it’s features (Distributed Switches, Host Profiles, Reporing, etc)
But most important is real live experience or a lot of lab time. This is not an exam that you can study with a exam essentials.
So now up to the next level: VCAP-DCD
Michael Wilmsen is a experienced VMware Architect with more than 20 years in the IT industry. Main focus is VMware vSphere, Horizon View and Hyper Converged with a deep interest into performance and architecture.
Michael is VCDX 210 certified, has been rewarded with the vExpert title from 2011, Nutanix Tech Champion and a Nutanix Platform Professional.
