VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: Exam VCP-550

A deep text into the topics covered in questions on the VCP550 exam for VMware Certified Professional. Built in test questions on CD are good practice to get familiar with the exam question structure. I have been to Boot Camp for this certification and find the focus of this text and the Official Cert Guide are different even though they are related to the same product base. There is one page in this book that in matrix form describes the different "Kits" offered and the components supported within them such as HA, vMotion, FT for the exam this is the one thing that must be drilled into your mind to pass. You get flash cards from this book with questions and answers in addition to test questions for each chapter.

The book is a good guide for studying for the test, but to get the full use of it you'll need the setup necessary to run several virtual machines, with multiple physical boxes. If you don't have this, and access to a licensed copy of VMware, many of the labs can't be done. So, if you're trying to use this to study on your own time (say, at home) to learn more or get certified for work, you may have some trouble with that. Otherwise, great book, just loses a star because there's no way to do the labs without a lot of pre-existing equipment.

I bought this book as it is required for a class I'm taking in the spring semester at Rock Valley College. Upon skimming the book it looks very informative and well organized.

EXCELLENT, Read this over twice in two weeks. Ran through the labs for 10 days completing all of them at least twice. Also have 4 years of experience using VMware in Production environments. Passed the Exam with a 452 out of 500 on the first try. Would recommend this for anyone looking to learn vSphere 5.5 for the first time or anyone looking to brush up to upgrade from VCP410

I bought this book as a requirement for a college class. It has a lot of pictures and steps to follow along to learn how to do things with VCP5-DCV. There are some explanations, but it seemed to me that most of the book was walk throughs of doing things. This was not a good book for me as a beginner, and based on the title it was probably never meant for beginners anyway. Someone looking to get certified may find it a lot more useful, although VMware has already released newer versions of the software.

The best practice book to learn VMware , excellent book. If you follow all the exercises you will be a master

This is a great book for studying for the VCP exam. The flow of the book is good, although necessity dictates that there are some parts of the book contain things that you haven't actually learned how to configure. The beginning of the book glosses over a few things because you go into detail about configuring them later on. It is helpful to actually understand the tasks and questions rather than memorizing the answers. The actual exam questions, while similar, are not the same as the ones that are included in the book. If you can dedicate a good portion of your time to going through this book, you'll have a good chance of passing the exam.

This book is clear and helped me with the updating of my certification. I will also keep it as a good reference (when offline without google)

Bom

Upon going through the first 6 chapters, I am being surprised how little it seems to take these days to publish such a close-to-useless book. How can it pretend to be called "Study Guide" while there's evidently not enough information to get even half the score necessary to pass the VCP exam ?? It might be sufficient to serve as a roadmap to objectives and topics that need to be studied to prepare for the exam but the content is clearly lacking the detail. I've had to constantly go for such details, clarifications and error checking to the book by Scott Lowe and Nick Marshall "Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5" that I also bought here from Amazon. Just a few examples... Chapter 5 "Planning and Configuring vSphere Networking": - p.201, Configuring vSS and vDS Policies, NIC teaming and available load-balancing policies - no consideration whatsoever to some bare specifics of each (e.g. Route Based on IP Hash requires EtherChannel; respective ESXi uplinks must be connected to the same physical switch, etc.), pros and cons of each method compared to others, etc.; - p.181, the so-called Real World Scenario is a far-fetched, extremely unlikely situation which, on top of its artificial nature, contains an error (max number of port groups supported by VSS) that may cost a valuable point at the exam; - on same p.181, a misleading statement re: use of VSS port groups for VLAN trunking; - p.210-211: VLAN Configuration - types of Ethernet tagging are given out of the context of the VLAN configuration options provided much earlier on p.181, thus making the reader wonder how one relates to the other; p.235-236: SAN Zoning and Masking - not even 1/4 of the page (12 lines to be exact) is allocated to this important topic. After which the author writes: "Now that I have covered zoning and LUN masking, we will identify the hardware and software iSCSI requirements". Are you kidding me ?? Unless you already know this stuff, that's for sure a couple of questions on the exam just for this and/or related subjects... In the end, the reader is left wondering: what 800+ pages have gone for ?... I will probably have more to add as I go through the rest of the book, but for now my strong advise is definitely avoid this "study guide" and look for other titles with more solid and credible content. One such example would be the book by Scott Lowe I noted above.

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Il prodotto acquistato ha soddisfatto le mie aspettative. Questo libro è ben strutturato, le argomentazioni sono trattate in maniera semplice e scorrevole, ricco di esercizi ed esempi step-by-step. Lo consiglio!

Helped me with studying, and what I like about this book is I still use it as a reference. There is no getting away with the fact that you will still need some practical experience with the product.