Ok, so I sat the VMware 5.5 Install, Configure, Manage course last week and it raised more questions than answers. I'm comfortable with pretty much all of the material in the course, but I'm concerned at the 20% of the exam that it doesn't cover. I'm intending to cover the Optimize & Scale off the back of the Jason Nash course at Pluralsight, but for those of you who have done the 5.1 exam (I appreciate that the 5.5 has only just been released) do you have any tips?

I've run through the VMware practise exam on MyLearn, as well as the tests on Simon Long's blog and I'm consistently getting between 85-95%. Theoretically I should be good for 300/500 for the exam but I'd really like to pass first time (especially as I'm hoping to go on for VCAP-DCA in about 6 months)


If I'm honest I'm probably weakest with the networking: comfortable with HA/FT/DRS/vMotion etc, but as the course doesn't cover DVS I'm a little nervy about it.