With the start of the semester, and my other responsibilities in the Sacramento Region, I’ll admit to being to busy to complete a single certification. I need to set aside some time to focus on the Mobility+ certification. I’m thinking Friday will be certification day, once things calm down a little. I did managed to get the VMware VCP-Cloud certification on my transcript, but that necessitated contacting Dave Nelson with VMware to get it issued.

Took and passed the VMware VCPVCD510 certification exam today. There is a bit of confusion relative to the effects of this exam, but from what I’ve been able to figure out through research, passing this exam gives me the VMware’s VCP-Cloud certification. The path I took to reach this certification was to pass the Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) certification exam prior to taking today’s exam. My scoring report is shown below. The exam was a bit challenging, simply because there are so many components involved and each of them are interrelated and have related dependencies.

I’m going to purposely slow down on my certification efforts, likely focusing on CompTIA’s Mobility+ certification next.

The week in the online TTT (train-the-trainer) course through CSSIA, coupled with a last few of days of intensive studying and playing with the Horizon View product in the NETLABS+ environment enabled me to score well (449/500) on the VCP5-DT certification exam this morning (see scoring report below). So now I’m facing a decision relative to which certification I will tackle next. I have signed up for the beta CompTIA certification exams for IOS and Android mobile security, planning to take them in late July. Unfortunately CompTIA notified me by email that I had better reschedule those exams for sometime this month or it is unlikely I will be able to take them. So I’m giving myself a day to figure out what to do.

Managed to score a 869/900 on the Project+ PK0-003 exam this morning (see score sheet below). It was pretty much what I expected and the book I referenced in my previous post on this exam was a great source of study material. The key on all of these is to find good instruction sources and focus in on the published exam objectives for each certification exam.

My next effort over the next few weeks is obtaining the VMware certification relating to its View VDI product (VCP-DT Exam).  Preparation will be supplemented through the online course I mentioned in a previous posting that is being provided by CSSIA. Again to that organization I want to send my message of appreciation for all it does to keep community faculty like me trained.

With the CASP exam behind me and a little extra time as my teaching for the semester ends, I’m poised to tackle yet another certification. This one should not be all that challenging. I’m viewing it as an effort to update the IT Project+ certification I received a while back from CompTIA. That certification has effectively been retired (even though my transcript reflects the fact that I hold it for “life”). My primary study source will be the Wiley book titled “CompTIA Project+ Study Guide Authorized Courseware: Exam PK0-003.”

Since this is primarily a review effort, I am going to shorten the study time so that I take the exam on Tuesday, May 21st. This will provide time for me go get ready of a five (5) day online class on VMware’s View (a desktop VDI solution) that begins on May 28th. The course is being provided to community college faculty at no cost (other than a small $16 charge for the eBook). Thank you CSSIA for this learning opportunity.