Category Archives: Certification

VCAP-DCA Study Material

Study Materials for VCAP-DCA First I wanted to say thank you to Pluralsight for give CISCO Champions and VMware vExperts a 1 year subscription. I know I need to utilize it more! Here is a list of material I am currently using: Study Material by Jason Langer vBrownbag broken out my Nick Marshall Paul Grevink Jason… Read More »

VCAP-DCA take 2, Part 1

Part 1 VCAP-DCA In May I took the VCAP-DCA. I received a score of 260. A score of 300 and above is required for a passing score. Here is the list of sections that I need to re-learn: 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.4, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2 When I saw that… Read More »

Nutanix Platform Professional (NPP) Exam

NPP in NOS 4.X I took the NPP exam on Saturday. I scored a 72%.  The good thing it is online and free. 🙂 Here are the requirements to pass: The exam consists of 50 multiple choice and true/false questions. You will be allowed up to two hours to complete the exam. A minimum of… Read More »

NPP online training

NPP training I had a small amount a free time the last couple days. So I decided to work my way through the NPP training. I have completed my online training and I hope to take the NPP exam sometime tomorrow. I will write about how I did later. Early I was talking to a… Read More »

Nutanix and VCDX

Nutanix and VCDX OK I have to admit it, I got a little side tracked today. After months of digging and asking the correct people, I found out that the Nutanix NPP and NPX are completely free. With the NPX you still will have to travel to the Nutanix headquarters to defend your design. So… Read More »

VCDX Design Day 2 vDM30in30

VCDX Design Day 2 vDM30in30 A couple of days ago I started my design document. At my previous employer I designed the virtual infrastructure. I had to create infrastructures to support multiple environments. Production, test, train, company, and DMZ. So I started to put everything I previously design on paper. I will be using vSphere 5.5… Read More »

Upcoming VCAP-DCA

Upcoming VCAP-DCA Test I am starting to become a little un-easy with my VCAP-DCA test less than two weeks away.  I am scrambling to study as much as possible. I have deadlines to meet and I really want to have the DCA passed!  The next step will be even worse.  Preparing my design to defend… Read More »

Looking into the Future

A look into the future of this blog I am starting to write consistently again. I want to give you a synopsis of what I am doing and what is coming. I needed to make sure that I can keep my current titles. #ciscoChampion and #vExpert. Here are my up coming articles. My first impression(s) of… Read More »