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VCP6-DCV or VCP6-DCV Delta? What’s Your Way?

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Since I have started to work on my VCP6-DCV Page, which shall helps out with studying for VCP6-DCV exam, I had few questions from my readers on which exam to take. VMware has two options to pass VCP6-DCV exam, but depending if you're current VCP or now you can schedule only a “delta” exam which has less questions and few chapters less to study. We'll see that in the post.

1. VCP6-DCV Delta exam (Exam Number: 2V0-621D) which you can currently schedule for first Available Appointment: August 30, 2015. The delta exam can be taken by current VCP's. Usually like half of the questions will be generic VMware questions which you use to know for previous VCP exams with certainly more new material concerning vSphere 6 and products in the vSphere suite (VR, VDP etc…). The delta exam is limited in time and won't be on the schedule forever but it's limited in time as the current VCP's 5 (or 5.5) will expire one day.

Recommended training – vSphere: What's New [V5.5 to V6]

2. VCP6-DCV Exam (Exam Number: 2V0-621) which you can also currently schedule for the first appointment on 30 August 2015, but the number of questions isn't still available. The 75 min exam limit is. If you look at the exam blueprint and you compare with the delta, you can see that only very few chapters are missing in the delta compared to the full VCP6-DCV exam.

Recommended training – vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6]

VCP6-DCVWhich chapter is in the delta exam and is not in the Full exam?

  • Setup and Configure AppHA

Which chapters are NOT in the delta exam?

  • Troubleshoot and Monitor vSphere Performance
  • Troubleshoot HA and DRS Configurations and Fault Tolerance
  • Consolidate Physical Workloads using VMware Converter
  • Configure and Maintain a vCloud Air Connection

If you're studying to become VCP6-DCV certified professional, I highly recommend checking out my VCP6-DCV study guide which is  work-in-progress (currently about 70% done) project 

now finished. Additionally, you can download it as a Free PDF thanks to Simplivity.

VCP6-DCV Study Guide

Here are few more exam links from VMware.

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Comments

  1. Joshua Post says

    Thanks. Any word on how long the Delta exam will be available? I’m not planning on taking it until next Summer when my cert gets ready to expire.

  2. Alex says

    Hi,
    At this time I’m not a VCP, what certification exam do you recommend for first time take VCP6-DCV Delta or VCP6-DCV?

    Regards,

    • Chet says

      In the U.S., VMware exams are done in an examination center. I don’t know if it’s different elsewhere.

      I’m scheduled to take the delta exam on 5/20. VMware website lists topics covered on delta and standard exams. The lists now don’t show any difference in topics covered; however, the delta is 65 questions while the standard is 85 questions.

      Thank you Vladan for maintaining this site!

  4. Abhay Tewari says

    I have been following up your website since 2009 i believe .. and finally want to thank you for the effort you have been putting up for many people like me

    Great Work !! & Thanks

  5. Nidheesh says

    I have completed vmware 6 training and passed foundation exam . Today i took the second part exam but , took 2V0-621D and not the 2V0-621 exam and passed too. How should i go about this ?
    will it be valid ? i should have taken 2V0-621 only ???

  6. mohammad says

    Hi
    I’m not a VCP, what certification exam do you recommend for first time ?
    please tell me exam code Number
    Thanks a lot

  7. Ricardo Dias Marques says

    Hi Vladan 🙂

    First of all, thanks and congratulations for this great blog post comparing the VCP6-DCV “Full” Exam (2V0-621) and the VCP6-DCV “Delta” Exam (2V0-621D)

    I realize that you posted this about 4 months ago (on April 28, 2016 and I’m writing this comment on September 2, 2016). I’m now reading (once more) the VMware Blueprint for the Delta Exam – located at https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=64181&ui=www_cert – and the 4 topics that you mentioned that are on the “Full” Exam but NOT on the Delta Exam, are now also on the Delta Exam, namely the following ones:

    + Objective 7.4: Troubleshoot and Monitor vSphere Performance

    + Objective 7.5: Troubleshoot HA and DRS Configurations and Fault Tolerance

    + Objective 8.3: Consolidate physical workloads using vCenter Converter

    + Objective 10.3: Configure and maintain a vCloud Air connection

    You may want to update your blog post with this information 🙂

  8. Shosho says

    Hi there,

    What is the different between 2V0-621 and
    2V0-621PSE?

    Are Exam questions different?

    Thank you,

  9. Jas says

    Hello ,

    What is the different between 2V0-621 and
    2V0-621PSE? Are they not same it is exam different and you get certified differently. please reply

  10. Rajeev says

    is it same value of these certification VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization Delta Exam and VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization Exam

  11. Sohail says

    Hi Vladan

    Thanks for the wonderful sites. Can you please let me know when VCP-6.5 Delta Exam Study Guide will be available?

    Thanks
    Sohail

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