The current ruling is in order to sit for VCP5 exam , one has to compulsorary attend an official training of Vsphere 5 from an authorized training center .
Why ? Is it because Vmware could not find any other way to increase its business ?
Please be considerate as some of the candidates are not be sponsored by their employers
I believe Microsoft certifcations are much more considerate as they don't really force you to attend their official courses
Furthermore Hyper-V in Win2008 R2 is much nimble than Exsi