Free/Cheap VMWare certification (VCA)

[sknot1454]

http://mylearn.vmware.com/portals/certification/


VMWare is offering 50% off their new VMWare Certified Associate exams through Jan 31st, 2014. My company has a code that makes it free and I'm sure codes won't be hard to come by on the webs. Even without the promotion code, the exam is only $60.

The cert has three tracks. Cloud, Datacenter, and end user computing. VMWare also has free training for those certs too.

The exam is stupid easy and you don't even need a proctor. You can take it online at home on the PVue website. You'd be stupid not to do it.

Now, is this cert going to be a resume cornerstone? No. This isn't something that will "nail" you that CEO10k/day IT job either.

However, for guys like me already in the field, this will be something to include on my yearly eval for "self-education". It's a check in the box. It should also satisfy CompTia CE requirements for those who fall under DoD 8570 regulations.

Cheers

[BullStampede]

InfoSec brah checking in. Thanks OP. This will be useful to me. On spread with you though.

[sknot1454]

InfoSec brah checking in. Thanks OP. This will be useful to me. On spread with you though.

Same here.

Since I'm required to be 8570 compliant, my Security+ is no longer valid unless I do the CE stuff too. Getting another cert should satisfy the CE requirements for 3 years.

[DafarheezyRises]

Thanks OP.

But I'm completely new to this stuff, will their free 3hour training session cover enough material for me to pass the Certified Associates exam?

[sknot1454]

Thanks OP.

But I'm completely new to this stuff, will their free 3hour training session cover enough material for me to pass the Certified Associates exam?

It should. This is low level stuff.

Worst case scenario, you just look up the answers when you're taking the test. Like I said, it's not proctored, so you can take the exam from home if you want.

[DafarheezyRises]

Should I just jump to VMware Certified Professional - Cloud and then do VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure Design instead of the Associates Certificate? Only because the associates cert is $60 and it's new, so it wasn't required before... so if I do spend money on this I'd rather get certificate on a more advanced knowledge. Do you have any idea on how much the Professional and Adv Professional certificates cost?

[Sounds Good]

Should I just jump to VMware Certified Professional - Cloud and then do VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure Design instead of the Associates Certificate? Only because the associates cert is $60 and it's new, so it wasn't required before... so if I do spend money on this I'd rather get certificate on a more advanced knowledge. Do you have any idea on how much the Professional and Adv Professional certificates cost?

you're required to complete a course and take a test for the VCP. The course usually costs $3000-5000, but can be found for cheaper. VCAP is years away if you have little/no experience with virtualization.

[sknot1454]

Should I just jump to VMware Certified Professional - Cloud and then do VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure Design instead of the Associates Certificate? Only because the associates cert is $60 and it's new, so it wasn't required before... so if I do spend money on this I'd rather get certificate on a more advanced knowledge. Do you have any idea on how much the Professional and Adv Professional certificates cost?

I think the VMWare professional vouchers are like $225. You can prob find cheaper ones that people sell, too.

[wings_unhinged]

Thanks for sharing.

[SuperBison]

Thanks for this!

I will do this one instead of the VCP. Much cheaper!

[Fist-Of-Freedom]

Thanks brah, I'll paypal you 20$ for the free code too

[devilbones]

Thanks for passing this along. Repped.

[jj00ee]

InfoSec brah checking in. Thanks OP. This will be useful to me. On spread with you though.

Sup brah. current sysadmin here trying to break into infosec. please aware me on how to do dis

EDIT: i got the VCA last month for free. i did the Data Center Virtualization one. it was pretty easy after taking the ~2 hour e-learning course.

[SuperBison]

Oh yeah! I did my exam tonight and i got it first try!
The question aren't that hard if you worked with vmware but some are tricky if you didn't use some vmware features (SRM, VcOps, Replication, FT)

I got a free code on the vmware forum:
https://communities.vmware.com/commu...tification/vca
I used: VCA13ICS but if it's not working a lot of people are posting other code!

[sknot1454]

Oh yeah! I did my exam tonight and i got it first try!
The question aren't that hard if you worked with vmware but some are tricky if you didn't use some vmware features (SRM, VcOps, Replication, FT)

I got a free code on the vmware forum:
https://communities.vmware.com/commu...tification/vca
I used: VCA13ICS but if it's not working a lot of people are posting other code!

Nice!

[OneStepCloser]

Nice man. Repped

[BAMF_T]

sub, thanks!

[lguzman]

Thank you OP...repped and subbed...

[Celeste4467]

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[EuphoriaPL]

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thank you so much for that and for the strong bump

[leo4896]

I did my VCP this way and you do get a voucher. In all honesty though don't expect the course to do much to help you pass the exam it is very basic. Ticks the requirement for the course though and only 185 bucks.

[Alex988]

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