Yesterday I started a series of blogs about the new VMware VCP5-IAAS certification. To get you started I wanted to provide you the resources needed and create a quick download page for all VMware PDF’s mentioned in the blueprint.
In my first post, you can find a couple of blogs that are a great resouces for this study as well as the link to the training page for the vCloud Install and Configure training, so if you need those click here
I do want to share another resource with you of which I heard it is a a good training to get you started. I can’t tell by own experience, but from what I’ve seen from some other training material done by Trainsignal (and David Davis in special) on VMware topics, this must be great. And as said judging some of my twitter and facebook friends it is a great training. So I just wanted to point you to the Trainsignal vCloud Director Essential training.
The exam blueprint provided by the VMware education services is devided in 5 sections which on their turn are devided into sub sections. The 5 sections are:
- Setion 1: The exam
- Section 2: Intended Audiance
- Section 3: Objectives covered in the VCPVCD510 Exam
- Section 4: VCP-IaaS Paths and Course Requirement Options
- Section 5: Additional Resources
Section 1, 2, 4 and 5 are informative sections which you should read. Make sure you know the information included in these sections before taking the exam.
Within section 3 you will find all Sections and objectives needed to be able to nail the VCP5-IaaS certificate. I’ll cover these in later posts, but when looking through the blueprint I noticed a lot of guides are named a couple of times thoughout the blueprint. I thought it would be great to have a source where all these guides are named once so you can download them all from 1 place. So here are the direct links to the guides:
- vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
- vCloud Director User’s Guide
- vCloud Director Security Hardening Guide
- Architecting a vCloud
- vShield Administration Guide
- Using vCenter Chargeback with vCloud Director
- vCenter Chargeback Manager User’s Guide
- VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT)
- vCloud Connector Installation and Configuration
- Best Practices and Troubleshooting Guide (Chargeback)
- vCloud Director Installation and Configuration Guide
- vShield Manager Quick Start Guide
- vCenter Chargeback Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide
- VMware Journey to Your Cloud
- Using vCloud Connector
- vShield Edge Design Guide
- vCloud Director Performance and Best Practices
- vCenter Server and Host Management guide
- vSphere Networking guide
- vSphere Storage guide
Link to “vCloud Director Security Hardening Guide” does not work, you can find it here: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_10Q3_WP_vCloud_Director_Security.pdf
Thanks for the compilation!
Thanks for the heads up! I changed it, so it should be good!
Anyone know of a book in the works for this cert? The # of docs as per this list is a bit insane 😉
Did you look at the list of docs on the VCP5 one? This # of docs is one of the shortest 😉
There will be some books on this, but how long that will take?? I guess a year 🙁