Successfully completed Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer certification on 6th Sep 2016 through my Company STG.

Pivotal Certified Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer! – Thirumalai Veerasamy

Out of 32 questions I answered 25 questions correctly and 7 wrong answers.

It is bit challenging as some of the answers are very close. 24 questions need to be answered out of 32 questions to clear the certification.

I did the following to complete the certification, it took around 3-4 weeks of time as I could spend few hours every day with other office work.

• Signup @ Pivtoal Academy
• Complete the following Free Courses @ Pivtoal Academy
  • Getting Started on Pivotal Academy
  • Getting Started with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
  • Introduction to Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• My company bought the Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer eLearning course which is $600 and comes with lot of videos and labs to go through. It is valid for 30 days from the date of purchase.
• Make sure you go through the complete documentation @ Pivotal. Lot of questions asked from there as well. The latest version is 1.7 but it showed 1.6 in the exam results, please refer the passing score screenshot above.
• Understand the 12 Factors for Cloud Development
• Buy the PCF Developer Certification. From the date of purchase, the certification has to be completed within 90 days.
• Wait for a day or two, you should get an email to redeem the Exam Credit
• Signup @ examslocal.com with the same email id used @ Pivtoal Academy
• When you login you should see the Credit Applied.

• Schedule the Exam by
  • Search for PCF-D and click ‘Next’
  • Provide the Date & Timezone
  • Check the time slot available, please check the screenshot below

• Run the compatibility test and make sure all the checkboxes are ok except the 3rd Party Cookies, Webcam/Resolution. Which has to be done manually.
• Make sure you login 15 mins before the test and work with Live Agent to go through certain checks to get ready.
• Good Luck !