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Since I was already a VCP3 (took a class and passed the exam), I took advantage of the upgrade promotion.\u00a0 If you are already a VCP3 and pass the VCP410 exam by 31 Dec 2009, you don’t have to take any further classes.<\/p>\n
To prepare for the test, the first and most important thing I did was USE THE PRODUCT<\/strong>.\u00a0 I\u2019m a daily ESX user.\u00a0 I have a production HA\/DRS cluster running on Fibre Channel storage, and I\u2019ve been dinking around with using iSCSI for a backend store.<\/p>\n I used the book \u201cMastering VMware vSphere 4<\/a>\u201c.\u00a0 This is a great all around book, although there are so many new features and products in vSphere, like distributed switches, this book can’t cover them (no book currently available covers them).\u00a0 To read up on all the facets of vSphere, you have to read the manuals.\u00a0 REALLY.<\/strong> I literally printed all the vSphere documents<\/a>, like 2000 pages and studied them.\u00a0 This seems like a bit much, but the test covers all this.\u00a0 You should probably read them once.<\/p>\n There is a new VMware VCP4 Mock exam<\/a> (free registration required), but I found it to be too beta to be much use (“wrong” answers-meaning I didn’t agree with them, and beta-ish GUI bugs).\u00a0 For example, questions that require you to select multiple responses don’t tell you how many are required unlike the real exam.\u00a0 I emailed the VMware test guy<\/a> a couple of times, but he didn’t seem too interested in my feedback.<\/p>\n As far as third party practice tests go, there aren\u2019t any (well, any that live long).\u00a0 VMware hunts down prep test vendors and shoots them.<\/p>\n The test itself is rapidfire, 85 questions in 90 minutes.\u00a0 No time for much deliberation.\u00a0 Not so many “How many widgets are supported in VMware?” type questions like the previous VCP310 exam.\u00a0 There are questions on a little bit of everything, no big focus on one particular topic.<\/p>\n You should read all the manuals.\u00a0 Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I took the VCP410 exam for VCP4 on 25 Nov 2009 and passed!\u00a0 Here’s my thoughts on the test and how I prepared for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}