While preparing and studing for the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 exam, I created an overview of resources that could help preparing the VCP5 exam. The VCP5 exam consist of:
– 85 questions
– Time limit is 90 minutes. For candidates in a country where English is not the primary language will have additional 30 minutes
– Passing score is 300 out of 500
– Scheduling and taking the exam through Pearson VUE
– The yellow highlighted paths are available until 29 February 2012
General
– vSphere 5.0 CLI reference poster
– VCP5 documentation notes by Forbes Guthrie
– What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0 Platform
– What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0 Storage
– What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0 Performance
– What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0 Networking
– What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0 Availability
– What’s New in VMware vCloud Director 1.5 Technical Whitepaper
– What’s New in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0 Technical Whitepaper
– What’s New in VMware Data Recovery 2.0 Technical Whitepaper
– VMware vSphere Storage Appliance Technical Whitepaper
– VMware vSphere 5.0 Licensing, Pricing and Packaging
Forum
Exam experience
– vJason
Exam preparation
Books
– Mastering VMware vSphere 5 by Scott Lowe
– VMware vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive by Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman
CBT training
– Trainsignal vSphere 5 training
VMware courses available
– VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 5.0
– VMware vSphere: What’s New 5.0
If you have additional resources let me know.
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