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This is the volume credential of the VMware world and it is caught mid-disruption. Broadcom scrapped the training prerequisites and switched to flat exam pricing (May 2024), and its licensing strategy keeps shrinking the very ecosystem the cert certifies.
Virtualisation engineers running vSphere estates. For two decades they have been the operational backbone of on-prem enterprise IT; now they are managing estates their employers are actively reviewing.
Here the rating is the instruction. The install base guarantees years of maintenance work, but the direction of travel is set. Holders should stack toward the migration destinations — Nutanix, OpenShift or a hyperscaler credential — while VMware experience still carries transition value.
This risk has already arrived, and it compounds. Every Broadcom licensing announcement speeds up customer exits, and the credential is worth whatever the estate is. The transition window is the real asset, and it closes gradually, then all at once.
How VMware VCP-DCV's market value changes with years since it was earned.
Bottom half of the CertBueno Top 100.
This certification pays 9% below the rest of the Top 100.
One of 2 VMware certifications in the Top 100 — ranked 2nd among them.
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