VMWare Certified Professional.

iaind said:
I just sent a colleague on it for £1500 so its do-able cheaper

You can sit the exam if you like but you wont get the cert until you do the course. Too many paper MCSEs and things about, I think its a good idea
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Well if you had to do the MCSE via courses then you're looking at £1500 x 7 = £10,500 and then the exams on top so another £1,000 for that makes it really impossible to do even if you're supported by a very good company.

The course, also, differs vastly depending upon what trainer you get. The trainer I had was superb answering lots of questions we had where as the trainer my colleague had was poor in comparison.



M.
 
DAS is pretty much plug and play really!

I phoned the place and negotiated with them - they needed to fill a space up for a course starting the following week so knocked 1k off the price.

Never pay full prices for course, when I did my CCA course it cost £600!
 
iaind said:
DAS is pretty much plug and play really!

I phoned the place and negotiated with them - they needed to fill a space up for a course starting the following week so knocked 1k off the price.

Never pay full prices for course, when I did my CCA course it cost £600!
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What place?
 
For the CCA or the VCP? Cant remember the name of the VMware one - it was one of the smaller chains, was done in Manchester... Can check for you tomorrow if you like
 
iaind said:
For the CCA or the VCP? Cant remember the name of the VMware one - it was one of the smaller chains, was done in Manchester... Can check for you tomorrow if you like
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If you wouldnt mind please.
A £1000 discount would make a big difference tbh. lol.
 
Will have a look tomorrow then - email me if i forget (in trust)

Almost all training places will have big room for movement on courses, provided you dont want to book months in advance and be picky about location/dates.
 
I know we did our training with ETC in Birmingham. They knocked £1,400 off for both of us (so a saving of almost £3k).

Not sure if this helps! It was also the fast-track course if that makes any difference.



M.
 
You can either do I&C, DSA (Deploy, secure, analyze) or Fast Track.

The first 2 are 4 days and I wouldnt reccomend the latter unless you've done the first. The fast track covers bits of both and is 5 days so more expensive.

In terms of VI4, most places are offering the 2 day "whats new" course but nothing on the full courses, they're likely to be around september
 
Have you done any iain? If so, do you have an idea of what jobs/salaries are around which would benefit from having VCP status?
 
stokefan said:
Have you done any iain? If so, do you have an idea of what jobs/salaries are around which would benefit from having VCP status?
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Lots of jobs benefit from it now as it's the new buzz word. Virtualisation is very popular by a lot of companies. Not only the but data centres are also after VCP's as saving space and money = more profits/

Salaries are dependant upon experience as you can guess - usually around £30-40k outside of London for a solid VCP with experience.



M.
 
BoomAM said:
Thanks.

Its the ' VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure V3.5' i need to get the code to do the VCP exam isnt it?

Anyone heard of any plans about v4 exams....?

And wheres the etc website? lol.
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www.etc-dist.co.uk (you should see a big VMWare banner near the top of the page - click that)

I was going to get you the code but the website is in maintenance mode (www.pearsonvue.com for all your examination needs). I think its somethin like vcp350 but not 100% sure on that as it's been a while now.



M.
 
Its hot in the contract world as well, i've done work for Capgemini, BT and my local council in the last 18 months....

Lets not have too many more VCP's though, wouldn't want them to be two a penny like MCSE became ;)
 
stokefan said:
Have you done any iain? If so, do you have an idea of what jobs/salaries are around which would benefit from having VCP status?
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I've done both the I&C and DSA - both were very good courses although I wouldnt do the latter before the former. I've done quite a few implementations in my "spare time" as a consultancy type role, having the qualifications definitely reassures clients but as with everything, experience is important too.

According to this, the average salary is 42k although thats down from 47k a year ago, probably due to the increased popularity and therefore number of people who are qualified

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/vmware certified professional (vcp).do

The VCP was a major factor in getting my current job because they wanted to virtualise and consolidate. Managed to help them dodge a bullet because they were going to virtualise everything using the free VMWare Server! :eek:
 
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