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You're reading from Data Center Virtualization Certification: VCP6.5-DCV Exam Guide Everything you need to achieve 2V0-622 certification – with exam tips and exercises

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789340471

Length 598 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Andrea Mauro

Paolo Valsecchi

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Configuring and Administering vSphere 6.x Security FREE CHAPTER

2. Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Networking

3. Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Storage

4. Upgrade a vSphere Deployment to 6.x

5. Administer and Manage vSphere 6.x Resources

6. Backup and Recover a vSphere Deployment

7. Troubleshoot a vSphere Deployment

8. Deploy and Customize ESXi Hosts

9. Configure and Administer vSphere and vCenter Availability Solutions

10. Administer and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines

11. Mock Exam 1

12. Mock Exam 2

1. Understanding VMware Certification Paths

2. VCP6.5-DCV Certification

3. Before, During, and After the Exam

4. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

After the exam

When you have finished your exam, you will get an immediate response and score. What should you do if you fail?

If you fail a proctored VCP6.5-DCV exam, you will have to wait at least seven days before retaking the exam. There is no waiting time for a Foundation exam taken online.

Note

Note that no details will be provided on why you have failed.

If you pass the exam, you will receive a score and earn a VMware badge. When you accept your badge, you'll immediately be brought to a sharing workflow that will allow you to share to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, on a personal website, or over email.

Scoring in VMware exams

The following is quoted from the VMware Education site:

"Your exam may contain unscored questions in addition to the scored questions, this is a standard testing practice. You will not know which questions are unscored, your exam results will reflect your performance on the scored questions only. VMware exams are scaled on a range from 100-500, with the determined raw cut score scaled to a value of 300. Scaled scoring allows for raw scores from different VMware exams to be scaled to a consistent value. Raw passing scores differ between VMware exams based on different technologies or different levels of competency. A scaled score provides a standard range for test takers and permits direct and fair comparisons of results from one exam form to another."

What does the preceding quote mean? It's not clear; nobody (except VMware Education) really knows how many questions you must get right to pass the exam. So, try to have a high target, and be prepared.

What's next?

What should you do next if you succeed? You can think of other certifications.

VCP, VCAP, VCIX, and VCDX certifications are the main certifications from VMware, but there are also some minor certifications, such as the VCA (on Digital Business Transformation) and specific exams on specific products (such as VSAN Specialist).

All progress can be tracked (and shared) in different ways, including through digital badges (http://www.pearsonvue.com/vmware/badging/).

One interesting aspect is that your VCP6.5-DCV certification will recertify any older VCP certifications! It will also open up all of the different certification paths.