Today, I did the VCP (VMWare Certified Professional) test and passed. The exam is not too hard to pass but the wording of the questions could be a bit better. I am quite fluent in English (although I make many mistakes, just read my posts on this blog ) but as a non-native speaker it is not so easy.

I studied quite a lot for this test using the following materials:

Of course, hands-on experience is required to have a better feel for all the stuff you read. Even though you work with a product all the time, an exam always has questions about stuff you never actually use. So it's a good idea to practice that.

One note about practice exams. The practice exam from http://www.testking.com is almost identical to the real thing. We acquired the practice exam yesterday to validate our knowledge. It was our understanding that the questions in these exams were sample questions but me and my colleague (who also did the test) were surprized to learn that they actually are the real thing (with some errors though). This is too bad because it can (will) lead to paper-based VCPs which devalues the certification.