For the most part, I must agree.

My only gripe is that the requirements have been relaxed significantly; I sat the FAS900 hardware and ONTAP Admin exams when they were still needed for the NACA. Then I sat the ONTAP Advanced and the 3 NACP exams for my NACE. Now I find you only need 4 exams to get to NACE ...... hmmmm.

The exams were no nonsense, I either knew all my stuff and passed, or didn't know it all and failed. This happened with the Data Protection exam when the snaplock stuff was introduced in 6.5. So I had to update myself to pass the exam the second time. This was acceptable.

There were no long-winded questions that tried to baffle me intentionally like many other vendor exams I have taken. NetApp ask you a question straight up and then you answer it, no unnecessary ambiguity that I could detect.

Almost all the exam content is found in the course material as mentioned. It is also very wise to do a NOW search on the technology you are studying and basically learn and read as much as possible. The rest is memory training and as we all know, there are many tricks that can be employed to make that easier.

Experience will make answering the troubleshooting questions a breeze. When I felt I lacked experience in a particular area, I read through the KB articles and found them very helpful.

Aaron

-----Original Message----- From: Alan Biren [mailto:ABIREN@amccorp.com] Sent: Monday, 9 May 2005 10:36 PM To: Jacek Nogala; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: New certification path (NACP/NACA)

I fond the NetApp exams to be probably some of the best in regards to the following:

1) They do not ask questions that are on notes in the training materials. 2) The questions are all on relavent information that is contained in the training materials 3) There are 5 questions related to experience in working with the Filer This is done to help eliminate the 'paper' certifications. 4) On the above experience questions should not cause you to fail if you have studied the training material. 5) After any of the exams I've been able to go to the training material and find the answer rather easily. From other vendors, I am still looking for answers to.

Good Luck on the Exams.

I also hear that NetApp is changing the Certification Process yet again.

Alan, NACE

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jacek Nogala Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 4:28 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: New certification path (NACP/NACA)

Some time ago I have passed exams required for NetApp Certified Professional certification. Unfortunately NetApp does not permit for any upgrades to new path and I have to pass new exams from scratch. Can anyone share with me some experience from new exams (I am not asking about explicit questions or other secret stuff)? My past experience was not very good:

1. due small number of questions (30 per exam) it is not so difficult to fail exam by simple mistake or obscure question

2. I have found several question that (without aby doubts) could not be answered without additional data

AFAIK problem no 1 is still valid...

Best regards,

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