Practice Exams for VCP4

There are more than 30,000 VCPs worldwide, and more people "join the club" every day. Certification is big business, and not just to the vendor, or those that get the certification. There's company after company on the internet that will sell you brain dumps and practice tests, but I would advise to be careful if using them to help you study and pass the VCP exam.

The attraction is obvious, you want to get an idea of the kind of questions you're going to get when you take the real thing. The danger is that the questions you see are not representative of the real thing, or more worringly the test you are using has invalid questions or the wrong answers - which completely defeats the point of practice tests!

From my experience, practice tests are never perfect, they all contain errors in varying numbers - I've seen some that had as many as 25-30% of the questions that were wrong or invalid in some kind of way. This means that you could be studying from pratice tests that are designed to help you pass but could actually help you fail.

All of the resources you need to pass the exam can be found in various places on the VMware web site, see my page on studying for the exam for the resources I would recommend using. I would always recommend studying using the official resources as much as possible.

VMware know that unofficial practice tests exist, and there's not exactly a huge amount they can do to stop them. From conversations I've had with the Certification team at VMware, they review these practice tests and when they find questions that are identical to those in the real exam they remove them from the real exam. BUT if practice tests contain incorrect or invalid questions they deliberately leave those questions in the real exam - they want to catch out anyone who is memorizing practice tests.

There is another way of preparing and focusing yourself, you could come and attend the VCP4 exam preparation workshop with us at Global Knowledge, developed and presented by me! The workshop will help you develop your exam-taking technique to help you pass, there are lots of practice questions that we go through on the day, and the session is run either by myself or one of my colleagues - we're all VMware Certified Instructors, and although the regular passing score is 300 we have to get 350!!

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