Today, after countless hours and weeks of revision I have passed the VMware VCP 410 exam.

I completed the required course (I chose to do the VCP FastTrack – 5 day) about 3 weeks ago and have been revising for about 2 weeks or so whilst using vSphere as part of my day job.

Like most, prior to taking the exam I had been looking around for mock exams. Mainly because I wanted a feel for the level of understanding that was required from the exam. VMware have a mock exam on their site which, to be honest, doesn’t give a very accurate representation of the actual exam. One or two questions maybe, but mostly nothing like what you’ll see on the day.

I had also been using Simon Long’s site for VCP practise exams and this was pretty close. And I urge any potential VCP’ers to go check out his site.

Of all the reading I had to do I found the following documents/sites to be most useful;

• VMware vSphere Book Bundle – A 14mb zip file containing 13 highly detailed documents covering almost all areas of vSphere
• VMware vSphere library (Online) – Great for quick searches across the whole document library
• vReference PDF reference cards – Fantastic cards chock full of useful information (plenty of  configuration maximums on these in a well laid out context)
• VMware KB Digest
• B3RG vSphere Learning Guide (PDF) – Fantastic guide that breaks out the VMware ESX blueprint and fills in the details.

I will add some more soon…

Good luck to any visitors considering or revising for a VCP, I wish you all the best.