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June 21, 2023

I’ll highlight the most important things first before I’ll give you the full details. Below is mostly pertaining to the deploy exam (3V0-22.21N)

note: I passed this the 2nd time, the first attempt I was off by 6 points to pass, and I blame the exam for a little bit as it was broken. There was a long wait before retaking because they were fixing the issue, I had to wait almost 3 months, I was sad but never gave up!

1. Take this exam at home or somewhere where there is a big monitor that handles great resolution
   If you take this in Pearson VUE testing center you might run to the same problem that I had, the resolution was not great and you had to play with the floating bar and actual lab, this can get annoying and time consuming.
   If there are multiple test takers and the proctor is busy you will wait for your turn if you are having issues in your exam, if you did this at home Pearson is a call away.
2. Read the blueprint! Everything laid out there is the exam itself
3. Don’t take this exam if you have not deployed vCenter and created clusters and added hosts.
   This exam is an actual deployment of the environment, with some support
4. Experience will help you pass this exam
5. Don’t wait for the task to complete per question, some can take a while.
6. I highly suggest using two tabs, one with the current question then switch to the other tab to proceed with the next question

I still can’t believe it!

3 years ago I was just dreaming of becoming a VCIX!
This deploy exam is my favorite exam of all the exams I have taken, it’s all Interactive with no multiple questions! the help command also works in esxi:)
oh my! I am loss for words with this one. I want to thank everyone that I worked with in the past years and gave me the chance to learn VMware. Now… Do I go for VCDX or ?

Tips:
Learn how to setup a VMware environment from scratch
Learn how to create clusters, add hosts, vds, vmkernels
Learn VSAN
Learn basic esxi and vimtop commands
Experience! If you have the opportunity for break / fix scenario, take that task!