Still worth doing the vmware 3.5 course?
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Yes - vSphere is an evolution rather than a revolution. Some of the UI in the new client is in a slightly different place but its easy enough to find again!
There arent any details on the 4.0 full courses but there is a 2 day upgrade course.
3.5 is still very valid - if I was doing an install for a customer I wouldnt be using 4.0 yet as its only been out a few weeks!
There arent any details on the 4.0 full courses but there is a 2 day upgrade course.
3.5 is still very valid - if I was doing an install for a customer I wouldnt be using 4.0 yet as its only been out a few weeks!
At least until the end of the year, qualified 3.5 VCPs just have to sit an exam to convert their certs to 4.0 - no need to attend an additional course. As someone has said, the product hasn't changed in any dramatic way - it seems more like a feature realignment (in the bundles) and subtle changes.
Not that difficult really, the MS courses I have done are so full of holes..
The exam is around £100 and you have to do the course. If you do the exam and pass you won't get the qualification until you have completed the course.
The course costs around £2000-£2500 for a 5-day fast track course - I enjoyed the course but a colleague who went on the same course a couple of weeks later (different instructor) had a completley different experience with a lot of the stuff being 'instructors experience' rather than in the course manuals.
The MS courses are completley different as they're trying to pack a ton of information (as most MS products cross into different products) into a few days - they're not brilliant but not bad. The Windows 2003 course, for example, was superb.
M.
Just passed my VCP exam about an hour ago 
I did the 4 day course about a month ago and it gives you a lot of info, but I still think you need a fair bit of hands on experience and revision to pass the exam as there were a lot of questions not directly covered in the course, but buried deep in the documentation.
I did the 4 day course about a month ago and it gives you a lot of info, but I still think you need a fair bit of hands on experience and revision to pass the exam as there were a lot of questions not directly covered in the course, but buried deep in the documentation.
It's annoying how the "Vsphere4 Install & configure" course is available right now, but the "Vsphere4 fast track" isn't going live until Q4 2009. I'm going on the "VI3 fast track" next month. I asked if I could wait a few months and do the "Vsphere4 fast track" course, but they're really pushing for more virtualisation at our place atm and said it can't wait. So it was either "VI3:fast track" or "Vsphere4 install & configure", and I see the fast track as more valuable. I'm guessing there's a *lot* of overlap though, and hopefully it will be fairly easy to go from VCP3 to VCP4.
If you're going to be doing stuff related to the Cisco exams then they are good, but like most things I wouldn't recommend them if what you want to do job wise doesn't really relate to them.
I know they are good for understanding/learning network stuff though.
I know they are good for understanding/learning network stuff though.