Vcap5-DCD Official Cert Guide (with DVD): Vmware Certified Advanced Professional 5 - Data Center Design (Vmware Press Certification)

The VCAP5-DCD Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending exam preparation tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly.

     •    Master VMware VCAP5-DCD exam topics

     •    Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes

     •    Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks

     •    Practice with realistic exam questions on the DVD

The VCAP5-DCD Official Cert Guide focuses specifically on the objectives for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5–Data Center Design exam. VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) Paul McSharry shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

The companion DVD contains a powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine that enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take a complete, timed exam. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, comprehensive design scenarios, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

The VCAP5-DCD Official Cert Guide is part of a recommended learning  path from VMware that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized VMware instructors and self-study products from VMware Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning,  and hands-on instruction offered worldwide, please visit  www.vmware.com/training.

PAUL MCSHARRY (VCP, VCAP, VCI, MCSE, MCITP, CompTIA CTT+ and Microsoft MCT credentials), has more than 15 years of IT experience and is an independent virtualization consultant and instructor based  in the United Kingdom. When not working in the field, he is often found instructing VMware-authorized classes for various VMware authorized training providers. He has been awarded the vExpert designation  for his work within the VMware community and blogs at http://www.elasticsky.co.uk.

The official study guide  helps you master many of the topics on the VCAP5-DCD  exam, including

     •    Understanding the design process and associated terminology

     •    Creating the design, information gathering, and logical design presentation

     •    Making meaningful choices  in virtualization design

     •    Creating logical designs and the process to evolve them into the final physical design

     •    Comprehending project execution and the order of delivery, task validation,  and project documentation

     •    Preparing for the exam with tips and strategy

     •    Reviewing the VCAP-DCD experience

Ace your VCAP5-DCD, demonstrate your exceptional knowledge of VMware virtualized datacenter design, and differentiate yourself from thousands of VMware professionals!

The Official VCAP5-DCD Cert Guide is the only VMware authorized and approved guide to the new VCAP5-DCD certification exam for datacenter virtualization designers. Authored by top VMware expert Paul McSharry, it thoroughly covers every new exam objective, helping you sharpen your skills in designing and integrating multi-site, large enterprise virtualized environments. Organized to follow VMware's newest exam blueprint, it's packed with illustrations, tables, figures, screenshots, and realistic sample test questions — all designed to help you learn more, learn faster, and remember more. McSharry covers all this, and more:

• Starting out with datacenter virtualization design and VCAP5-DCD exam preparation
• Creating the design: gathering data, identifying gaps, implementing best practices
• Planning for high availability, manageability, performance, and security
• Taking the vSphere platform from logical designs to actual implementations
• Designing VMs to optimally support your user applications
• Executing the datacenter virtualization project

 McSharry also offers practical tips, best practices, templates, and crib sheets that will be valuable to all experienced vSphere professionals involved in datacenter virtualization design and implementation, whether they're currently preparing for the exam or not.

Paul McSharry is an independent virtualization consultant and instructor based in the UK. He has been an IT professional for 15 years and now specializes in virtualization technologies and web hosting solutions, working with large retail and financial enterprises. When not working in the field, he is often instructing the VMware-authorized classes for various VMware VATCs. Paul holds a variety of vendor-based IT certifications, such as MCSE, MCITP, VCP, and VCAP, and he is also a qualified IT instructor, holding VMware Certified Instructor (VCI), CompTIA CTT+, and Microsoft MCT credentials. His recent consultancy projects include the following:

¿ Producing a large-scale hybrid cloud platform to deploy and enable secure e-discovery web-based applications for data review

¿ Several large datacenter migrations using various vSphere platforms

¿ Multiple public and private vCloud director platform designs and implementations

¿ Several enterprise-wide VMware view-based VDI deployments

Paul is an active blogger ( http://www.elasticsky.co.uk ) and Twitter user (@pmcsharry). He has also been awarded the vExpert designation for his work in the VMware community for two years running (2012–2013).