EMC Cloud Architect

I finally found the time to sit the Cloud Architect exams recently and so have now achieved EMC Proven Professional status at the Specialist Level.

The exam was relatively straight-foward. Most of the terms and concepts will be generally familiar to anyone working in the space. Specific knowledge of VMware, EMC and Cisco technologies and products (at a positioning level) would be a massive help - but the exam is certainly not about feeds and speeds. I did the course way back in September and so most of my prep for the exam was reviewing the course materials and the practice exams.

In order to become a Proven Professional, one also has to have passed a foundation exam. The previous exam was very storage related and I wasn't looking forward to it. Thankfully, EMC has released an alternative exam (Cloud Infrastructure and Services) which was much more familiar to me. If you've passed the Cloud Architect exam, the CIS exam would be a doddle. There is lots of overlap between the two.

I'm now looking forward to progressing to the IT-as-a-Service based 'Expert' certification