VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2024 Practice Exam

The VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2024 (VCP-DCV 2024) certification confirms an individual's expertise in VMware vSphere solutions, encompassing virtual machines, networking, and storage. Occupations linked with this certification encompass roles such as virtualization administrators, system engineers, and consultants.

Exam Requirement:

EXAM 2V0-21.23 - VMware vSphere 8.x Professional:

This examination assesses a candidate's capacity to deploy, set up, oversee, operate, and sustain a vSphere 8.x infrastructure.

Who should take the exam?

• The Minimally Qualified Candidate should be capable of deploying and configuring a VMware vSphere 8.0 infrastructure, comprising VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter, though occasional research may be necessary.
• This individual comprehends most aspects of managing, operating, and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.
• They have skills at monitoring the day-to-day operations of a vSphere infrastructure with minimal support.
• Additionally, they have a foundational understanding of virtual data center, network, and storage concepts.

Exam Details 

• Required Exam: 2V0-21.23 : VMware vSphere 8.x Professional
• Certification Name: Data Center Virtualization 2024
• Exam Languages: English
• Exam Questions: 70 Questions
• Time: 135 minutes
• Passing Score: 300 (scaled on a range from 100-500)

Course Outline 

The Exam covers the given topics  - 

Section 1 – Understand Architectures and Technologies

• Identify the pre-requisites and components for a VMware vSphere 8.x implementation
• Describe the components and topology of a VMware vCenter architecture
• Describe storage concepts
• Describe VMware ESXi cluster concepts
• Explain the difference between VMware standard switches and distributed switches
• Describe VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager concepts
• Describe the basics of VMware vSAN as primary storage
• Describe the role of Virtual Machine Encryption in a data center
• Recognize methods of securing virtual machines
• Describe identity federation
• Describe VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine
• Identify use cases for VMware Tools
• Describe the high-level components of VMware vSphere with Tanzu

Section 2 – Learn about VMware Products and Solutions

• Describe the role of VMware vSphere in the Software-Defined Data Center
• Identify use cases for VMware vCenter Converter
  
• Identify disaster recovery (DR) use cases

Section 3 – Planning and Designing

Section 4 – Understand about Installing, Configuring, and Setup

• Describe single sign-on (SSO)
• Configure vSphere distributed switches
  
• Configure Virtual Standard Switch (VSS) advanced virtual networking options
  
• Set up identity sources
• Deploy and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)
  
• Create and configure VMware HA and DRS advanced options (Admission Control, Proactive HA, etc.)
• Deploy and configure VMware vCenter High Availability
• Set up content library
• Subscribe to content library
• Manage virtual machine (VM) template versions
• Configure VMware vCenter file-based backup
• Configure vSphere Trust Authority
• Configure vSphere certificates
• Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Configure different network stacks
• Configure host profiles
• Identify ESXi boot options
• Deploy and configure clusters using the vSphere Cluster Quickstart workflow
• Set up and configure VMware ESXi
• Configure VMware vSphere with Tanzu

Section 5 – Understand Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades

• Identify resource pools use cases
• Monitor resources of a VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) and vSphere 8.x environment
  
• Identify and use resource monitoring tools
• Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC)
• Configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
• Configure a virtual machine port group to be offloaded to a data processing unit (DPU)
• Explain the performance impact of maintaining virtual machine snapshots
• Use Update Planner to identify opportunities to update VMware Center
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to determine the need for upgrades and updates
• Use performance charts to monitor performance
• Perform proactive management with VMware Skyline
• Use VMware vCenter management interface to update VMware Center
• Complete lifecycle activities for VMware vSphere with Tanzu

Section 6 – Troubleshooting and Repairing

• Identify use cases for enabling vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) retreat mode
• Differentiate between the main management services in VMware ESXi and vCenter and their corresponding log files
• Generate a log bundle

Section 7 – Administrative and Operational Tasks

• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Create virtual machines using different methods (Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates, content library, etc.)
• Manage virtual machines (modifying virtual machine settings, VMware per-VM EVC, latency sensitivity, CPU affinity, etc.)
• Manage storage
• Create DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules for common use cases
  
• Migrate virtual machines
• Configure role-based access control
  
• Manage host profiles
• Utilize VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Use predefined alarms in VMware vCenter
  
• Create custom alarms
• Deploy an encrypted virtual machine