{"id":270,"date":"2009-07-17T14:40:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2009-07-17T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T19:40:16","slug":"vmware-vcp-on-vsphere-vcp4-beta-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/vmware-vcp-on-vsphere-vcp4-beta-test\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware VCP on vSphere (VCP4) Beta Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I took the test today, and I can say, I&#8217;m happy to have it over with.<\/p>\n<p>In my limited preparation, I relied on these links (sorry Cody, I stole your HTML):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mylearn.vmware.com\/lcms\/mL_faq\/2726\/VCPonvSphere4ExamBlueprint.pdf\">VCP4 Exam Blueprint<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/support\/vsphere4\/doc\/vsp_esx40_vc40_book_bundle.zip\">VMware vSphere Documentation Bundle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vmwaretips.com\/wp\/2009\/07\/08\/vcp4-beta-exam-complete\/\">Exam Experience from Rich Scherer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntpro.nl\/blog\/archives\/1190-Becoming-a-VCP4-will-be-tough.html\">Exam Experience from Eric Sloof<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonlong.co.uk\/blog\/vcp-vsphere-4-practice-exam\/\">Simon Long\u2019s VCP4 Practice Exam<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonlong.co.uk\/blog\/vcp-vsphere-upgrade-study-notes\/\">Simon Long\u2019s VCP4 Resource Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtfm-ed.co.uk\/?p=1302\">Mike Laverick\u2019s VCP4 Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/searchvmware.techtarget.com\/tip\/0,289483,sid179_gci1361159,00.html\">iSCSI initiator changes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellow-bricks.com\/2009\/03\/18\/iscsi-multipathing-with-esxcliexploring-the-next-version-of-esx\/\">iSCSI multipathing with esxcli<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boche.net\/blog\/?p=1519\">vSphere PerfMon Counter Info<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtual-strategy.com\/Eric-Siebert-s-Top-10\/Top-10-things-you-must-read-about-VMware-vSphere.html\">Top 10 things you must read about vSphere (Licensing, Editions, etc)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I went to Verssa Consulting in Lafayette today, and sat for the VCP4 Beta test.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll echo everyone&#8217;s comments on what to study (everything vSphere!).\u00a0 As far as some saying that only 35% was vSphere related, I would have to question that.\u00a0 I felt that every part of the test was related to vSphere.\u00a0 I did critique some of the questions, but most I was fine with.<\/p>\n<p>I only hate that I have to wait for my results.\u00a0 Hopefully VMware will let us know how we did sooner than later.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers and best of luck to everyone that took the test!<\/p>\n<p>Update: I found out a few days before VMworld 2009 that I <a title=\"\/blog\/?p=314\" href=\"\/blog\/?p=314\" target=\"_self\">passed the test<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I took the test today, and I can say, I&#8217;m happy to have it over with. In my limited preparation, I relied on these &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}