Newbie alert!!

Start by going to the success center and reading the getting started guides, there's links to lots of little videos as well to get the ball rolling.   Definitely read the admin guide and check out all the features in your environment, or stand up an eval on a vm for 30 days to mess with.   If you already have a paid license you can do the live webinars through solarwinds academy

Success Center and lastly Its worth pointing out that some solarwinds reseller partners run training classes as well, like the ones we do at the company I work for

https://loop1.com/solarwinds-public-training/

And we now have a session focused specifically on the NPM cert.

Are there any kind of exam guides besides reading the Admin guide?  I just took the test and pretty much studied everything that was not on it.  LOL

When I took it I just rolled through the topics outlined here

https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/scp-npm-exam-guide

But I do monitoring consulting for a living for 5 years now, so I have maybe an unusual amount of exposure to this stuff, hard for me to remember what I learned from the admin guides and what I learned on thwack and what I learned from smashing my head against the keyboard over the years.

When I took it I just rolled through the topics outlined here

https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/scp-npm-exam-guide

But I do monitoring consulting for a living for 5 years now, so I have maybe an unusual amount of exposure to this stuff, hard for me to remember what I learned from the admin guides and what I learned on thwack and what I learned from smashing my head against the keyboard over the years.

I spent the past two weeks going over this Success Center and making notes and trying to figure out what they actually were going to ask.  Took the test this morning and realized pretty much the stuff I was focusing on was not on the test.    At least it was free and I have one more wack at it.