Karl Childs

Karl Childs is a Senior Manager with VMware Education Services. He has 20+ years experience in IT Education and Certification, working with global companies such as HP, Novell, and MCI. While his background is in Instructional Technology and Training Development, he enjoys applying those skills within the IT and software industry.

Recent Posts

SME Spotlight: Ross Wynne

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Last month we kicked off a new series profiling some of the subject matter experts (SMEs) who dedicate hours of their time to making VMware Certifications the best in the industry. Developing a certification exam takes a lot of work by a lot of different people and hope you enjoy getting to know them like we do. Read more...

Advice to VCDX Candidates from a Double VCDX

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By Guest blogger: Joseph Griffiths, VCDX #143 Ed Note: The following are excerpts from Joseph’s blog…we recommend reading the full blog including all of Joseph’s guidance and recommendations. Requirements, Constraints, Assumptions and Risks Becoming a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) does not mean you have to be the most technical person in the room. It Read more...

VCDX6-NV Certification Now Available

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The elite VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certification represents a highly skilled group of design architects working in enterprise deployments across the the entire VMware solution suite. Our newest certification at this level reflects the earner’s world-class skills, knowledge, and experience with vSphere and NSX 6.x. VMware Certified Design Expert v6 – Network Virtualization (VCDX6-NV) validates your skills Read more...

SME Spotlight: James Bowling

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Developing a certification exam takes a lot of work by a lot of different people. Our subject matter experts (SMEs) dedicate hours of their time to making VMware Certifications the best in the industry, so we thought our readers should get to know them like we do. Our first spotlight is going to be James Read more...

Demonstrate Your Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Expertise

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Today we’ve expanded our digital badge offerings with the release of a new digital badge type: Co-Skilled. These Co-Skilled digital badges recognize earners for their knowledge and skills in technology solutions from VMware and select partners. We’re excited to introduce our first Co-Skilled digital badge: Dell EMC VMware Co-Skilled – VxRail 2017. These digital badge Read more...

New VCA Level Certification Released

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New Certification Now Available Today we’re releasing the newest version of our entry-level certification for the cloud and virtualization industry: VMware Certified Associate – Digital Business Transformation (VCA-DBT) certification. Earning the VCA-DBT will showcase your digital transformation expertise — highly valued in today’s IT marketplace — by validating your knowledge of: How virtualization concepts drive an Read more...

Show Off Your vSAN, vRealize Operations, and SDDC Skills with Our New Digital Badges

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Today we’ve added to our digital badge offerings with three important announcements.   Introducing a new digital badge type: Specialist VMware Specialist badge earners are technical experts who understand select VMware technology architectures and leverage best practices and advanced capabilities to optimize their VMware environment. Two new digital badges, which build on your VMware Certified Read more...

Announcing VCA6-HC Retirement

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Effective September 15, 2017 we will no longer offer the VMware Certified Associate 6 – Hybrid Cloud certification or its related exam (Exam# 1V0-602). This certification reflects ones ability to define technical requirements for public, private and hybrid cloud platforms, describe and differentiate vCloud Air and related services and technologies and identify common use cases and Read more...

Difference between the VCP6.5-DCV Regular and Delta Exam

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Written by Guest Author: Diane Huntsinger, Exam Development Project Manager   We’ve received a few questions recently about the difference between the VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV) exams. The exam for new candidates (2V0-622) and the Delta exam for current VCP6-DCV holders (2V0-622D) may have similar details and objectives, but they are Read more...

Time Extensions Added to Certification Exams

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One of my goals for our certification program is to tell you about some of our internal program changes. While they may not be as obvious as something like a new certification, they still make a positive difference for our candidates. A couple months ago, we introduced the new method of running our beta exams Read more...