Sunday, March 1, 2009

The Process of becoming a VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

By Scott Heron

What virtualization achieves is simply this; it lets a single PC carry out the job of multiple PC's by sending onward the resources from a singular computer device over many desktop environments.

Virtualised desktops and servers let the user have many systems and applications hosted together tightly as well as hosted in different positions. This is handy because it removes problems such as geographic limitations.

There are many advantages to installing VMware, benefits such as reducing costs, uses the resources of the hardware to its potential and also it has better security over regular IT infrastructures. With respect to things like disaster recovery, this also greatly improves.

Why choose authorised VMware training?

Only VATCs (or VMware authorised training centres as they are more commonly know) are the ones able to teach the authorised courseware for VMware technical training to students and individuals. There are a few companies that deliver unofficial courseware however this is a disadvantage to the student as they wont receive the VCP certification at the end of it all.

How you can benefit from authorised Training:

* Be safe in the knowledge that authorised VMware training will be delivered by certified professionals who have completed the high standard VMware program.

* Gain access to dynamic live help & support from VMware themselves, this happens as the training class is being run.

* Authorised courseware for VMware training is updated on a regular basis. This guarantees the student the freshest and most accurate course content. It is only the authorised VMware trainers who gain access to the course updates from the creators themselves, VMware.

* If you wish to obtain the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification, only authorised VMware training on VMware Infrastructure 3 achieves the course requirements

Wish to become a VMware Certified Professional?

You must show your knowledge of virtualisation and proficiency in that field. You will hold all the required skills (many of which very detailed) and you must obtain the industry standard on applied science for VMware. VMware Certified Professional courses are designed to be sat by any technical individual.

Professionals that wish to demonstrate their knowledge on virtual environments and gain more opportunities for vocation progression. To achieve VCP accreditation, attend either Install and Configure or Deploy, Secure and Analyse course. You must then sit and pass the official courseware exam.

So in short if you were to attend a authorised VMware training course you would bring benefits such as your employer will have the assurance of your skills and abilities, the business will maximise profits and efficiency, you will examine your own skills and last but not least you will reduce overheads for your company.

In addition to that, employers wishing to send their staff on a VMware training course will be delighted in the knowledge that if you invest in training your staff you will greatly improve staff retention rates.

The benefits this can bring to the individual are that they can become an expert VCP, maintains you skills (this is vital as the IT market evolves rapidly today), gives career progression as you can climb higher in your organisation if you become a VCP, you will have an industry recognised and highly desired accreditation.

The main thing that the student should remember that their number one benefit for going on the course is that after they have the qualification, they can now differentiate themselves from other IT workers i.e. their competition. - 16036

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