Reading Time: 10 minutesSee the complete interview on: How To Use Certifications To Become a Virtualization Expert – with Andrea Mauro
In this interview you will find:
- What steps you must do to become VMware Certified Design Expert?
- Why you should not concentrate only on a virtualization technology, but also on other technologies like networking, storage and even SQL?
- Do you need to work with the biggest systems in the world to become a VCDX?
- What other certifications are good for vEngineers?
IT Certification Master: Tell us something about the beginning of your career and about your first IT certification.
Andrea Mauro: I’ve started (a lot of years ago) with a Commodore 64, but only with my first experience on a PC (with MS-DOS) I understand that this passion would also be my possible work area. During University, I also played with Linux distributions and this gave me a better understanding of Operating Systems and networking.
Things are really change. Now start in IT is simpler and cheaper (I remember how expensive my first PC was and how difficult it was to find good books or good documentation).
My first officially certification was the VCP3 obtained on 26-Apr-2007, so not really early (I’ve started my career on 1996). Why so much time before a certification? First reason was the cost of a certification (my previous employers have no interest in paying for certifications). But there was a second reason, where initially I was not convinced about the real value of a certification.
To be honest when I’ve started, certifications were not so common as know and was simple to verify the capacity and the knowledge of a person. Now the knowledge level has raised a lot and there are several interconnections between different areas and technologies.
