The VMware 2V0-21.23 exam preparation guide is designed to provide candidates with necessary information about the VCP-DCV 2024 exam. It includes exam summary, sample questions, practice test, objectives and ways to interpret the exam objectives to enable candidates to assess the types of questions-answers that may be asked during the VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2024 [v2] (VCP-DCV 2024) exam.
It is recommended for all the candidates to refer the 2V0-21.23 objectives and sample questions provided in this preparation guide. The VMware Data Center Virtualization 2024 certification is mainly targeted to the candidates who want to build their career in Data Center Virtualization domain and demonstrate their expertise. We suggest you to use practice exam listed in this cert guide to get used to with exam environment and identify the knowledge areas where you need more work prior to taking the actual VMware vSphere 8.x Professional exam.
VMware 2V0-21.23 Exam Summary:
VMware VCP-DCV 2024 Syllabus:
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Objectives |
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Architecture 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
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Identify and differentiate storage access protocols for VMware vSphere (NFS, iSCSI, SAN, etc.)
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Describe storage datastore types for VMware vSphere
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Explain the importance of advanced storage configurations (vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI), vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA), multipathing, etc.)
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Describe storage policies
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Describe basic storage concepts in VMware vSAN and VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLs)
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Identify use cases for raw device mapping (RDM), Persistent Memory (PMem), Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe), NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), and RDMA (iSER)
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Describe datastore clusters
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Describe Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
- Describe VMware ESXi cluster concepts
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Describe VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
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Describe vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
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Describe how DRS scores virtual machines
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Describe VMware vSphere High Availability (HA)
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Identify use cases for fault tolerance
- Explain the difference between VMware standard switches and distributed switches
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Describe VMkernel networking
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Manage networking on multiple hosts with vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)
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Describe networking policies
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Manage Network I/O Control (NIOC) on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)
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Describe Network I/O Control (NIOC)
- Describe VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager concepts
- Describe the basics of VMware vSAN as primary storage
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Identify basic vSAN requirements (networking, disk count, and type)
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Identify Express Storage Architecture (ESA) concepts for vSAN 8
- Describe the role of Virtual Machine Encryption in a data center
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Describe vSphere Trust Authority
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Describe the role of a Key Management Services (KMS) server in vSphere
- Recognize methods of securing virtual machines
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Recognize use cases for a virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)
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Differentiate between Basic Input or Output System (BIOS) and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware
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Recognize use cases for Microsoft virtualization-based security (VBS)
- Describe identity federation
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Describe the architecture of identity federation
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Recognize use cases for identity federation
- Describe VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine
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Describe the role of a data processing unit (DPU) in vSphere
- Identify use cases for VMware Tools
- Describe the high-level components of VMware vSphere with Tanzu
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Identify the use case for a Supervisor Cluster and Supervisor Namespace
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Identify the use case for vSphere Zones
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Identify the use case for a VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) cluster
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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
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Identify VMware vCenter replication options
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Identify use cases for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
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Planning and Designing |
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Installing, Configuring, and Setup |
- Describe single sign-on (SSO)
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Configure a single sign-on (SSO) domain
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Join an existing single sign-on (SSO) domain
- Configure vSphere distributed switches
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Create a distributed switch
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Add ESXi hosts to the distributed switch
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Examine the distributed switch configuration
- Configure Virtual Standard Switch (VSS) advanced virtual networking options
- Set up identity sources
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Configure identity federation
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Configure LDAP integration
- 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
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Create a content library
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Add content to the content library
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Publish a local content library
- Subscribe to content library
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Create a subscribed content library
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Subscribe to a published content library
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Deploy virtual machines (VMs) from a subscribed content library
- Manage virtual machine (VM) template versions
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Update template in content library
- Configure VMware vCenter file-based backup
- Configure vSphere Trust Authority
- Configure vSphere certificates
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Describe Enterprise PKIs role for SSL certificates
- Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- Configure different network stacks
- Configure host profiles
- Identify ESXi boot options
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Configure Quick Boot
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Securely Boot ESXi hosts
- Deploy and configure clusters using the vSphere Cluster Quickstart workflow
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Use Cluster Quickstart workflow to add hosts
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Use Cluster Quickstart workflow to configure a cluster
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Use Quickstart to expand clusters
- Set up and configure VMware ESXi
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Configure Time Configuration
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Configure ESXi services
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Configure Product Locker
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Configure Lockdown Mode
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Configure ESXi firewall
- Configure VMware vSphere with Tanzu
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Configure a Supervisor Cluster & Supervisor Namespace
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Configure a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster
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Configure vSphere Zones
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Configure Namespace permissions
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Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades |
- Identify resource pools use cases
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Explain shares, limits and reservations (resource management)
- 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 vCenter
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to determine the need for upgrades and updates
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Update virtual machines
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Update VMware ESXi
- Use performance charts to monitor performance
- Perform proactive management with VMware Skyline
- Use VMware vCenter management interface to update VMware vCenter
- Complete lifecycle activities for VMware vSphere with Tanzu
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Update Supervisor cluster
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Back up and restore VMware vSphere with Tanzu
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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 |
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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
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Configure and modify datastores
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Create virtual machine storage policies
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Configure storage cluster options
- Create DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules for common use cases
- Migrate virtual machines
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Identify requirements for Storage vMotion, Cold Migration, vMotion, and Cross vCenter Export
- Configure role-based access control
- Manage host profiles
- Utilize VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
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Describe firmware upgrades for VMware ESXi
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Describe VMware ESXi updates
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Describe component and driver updates for VMware ESXi
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Describe hardware compatibility check
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Describe ESXi cluster image export functionality
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Create VMware ESXi cluster image
- Use predefined alarms in VMware vCenter
- Create custom alarms
- Deploy an encrypted virtual machine
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Convert a non-encrypted virtual machine to an encrypted virtual machine
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Migrate an encrypted virtual machine
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Configure virtual machine vMotion encryption properties
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