VCAP-DCD-BETA-Experience

Today I was scheduled to start my VCAP-DCD beta test today.  The last month, or so I have been working on my prep for my DCA on Dec 6th which is a lot, lot of lab prep which takes forever….Last week I got a beta invite for the DCD so I choose at the last minute to switch gears.   Houston, didn’t show available seats till Friday evening. I actually called Person Vue VMware Friday morning to see if there was a glitch when there was 0 open seats…

I decided to take the test and wish for the best.

Arriving at the test center at 8:00am when my test was scheduled to start I was confronted with a long line of doctors and told to take a number literally.  These doctors had to take biometrics both palm and finger prints for there exam and it took a hella long time for them to get going.  I was instructed “not to worry your exam doesnt start till your seated”

Anyhow, I was seated around 8:25 then started a 10minute survey….The exam seemed reasonable in difficulty as I was plowing away, however all the sudden I realized the questions were taking me to long being 130 questions with 4 hours.  The questions had a lot of situations and they were involved which means you have to read it more than once.  I could only answer the 1st 90 or so questions then speed through the rest in my last half hour and my test ended at 12:10 so I didnt even get 4 hours..I think my clock started at 8:00 even though my exam wasnt started then…Ugh….The problem is there is these situational questions and there is a ton of information, hindsight knowing what I know now I would have skimmed the questions more also I had a drag and drop question I had to reset 7 times.  Basically drag 4 from the left more than once to the 7 on the right but that whole system was bad.  I wasnt expecting a perfect glitchless exam though.  For the most part I thought the questions were good, one visio one was pretty awful though.  If the exam is cut down to about 100 questions that will probley be about right.  I did see one guy only finished 80/130 so who knows.  Hopefully I am not penalized for quick answering the last 30 of my questions who knows.

Anyone who reads this here is my advice…One thing watch your time, and don’t dwell on any one thing and if you don’t know it move on….Oh and btw there is no back button you cant go back….:)I am glad I am not getting my results for 6-8weeks after my DCA…