VMware VCP-DTM 2024 Certification Exam Syllabus

• Describe the purpose of Horizon Agent
• Explain VMware Tools
• Describe the Session Collaboration feature
• Describe VMware Integrated Printing
• Describe 3D rendering options available in Horizon 8
• Discuss scalability options available in Horizon 8
• Describe different security options for the Horizon environment
• Describe Horizon Connection Server features and function
• Describe the features and benefits of Workspace ONE Access when used with Horizon 8
• Describe how a load-balancing capability improves VMware Horizon performance
• Describe benefits of the Cloud Pod Architecture feature for a large-scale VMware Horizon deployments
• Discuss the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway
• Describe RD Host on RDSH Farm and an application pool
• Compare remote display protocols that are available in VMware Horizon

- Describe conceptual and logical architecture of VMware Horizon

• Use the vSphere Client to access your vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
• Recognize ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server
• Create and Provision a VM

- Work with VMware Horizon Desktops

• Create and optimize Windows VMs to create VMware Horizon desktops
• Configure, manage, and entitle desktop pools of full VMs
• Configure desktops for HTML Access
• Create Windows VMs
• Create Linux VMs
• Optimize the Horizon desktop using OSOT

- Work with Horizon Agent

• Create a golden image for VMware Horizon Windows desktops
• Add Application shortcuts to the Desktop and Start menu of Windows client devices
• Configure an application to start before a user opens the application in the Horizon Client

- Work with VMware Horizon Desktop Pools

• Set up a template for a desktop pool deployment
• Entitle user and groups to pools
• Access the setting and status of a pool
• Configure, manage and entitle pools of instant-clone desktops
• Push updated images to Instant Clone desktop pools
• Set up and automated pool of instant clones

- Work with VMware Horizon Clients

• Configure and manage the VMware Horizon Client systems and connect the client to a VMware Horizon desktop
• Identify the steps to enable and configure Session Collaboration
• Configure VMware Integrated Printing
• List the management options for permissions and folders
• Use Group Policy Settings (and registry) to configure Horizon Client

- Work with a Published Application

• Create and use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktops and application pools
• Create an application pool to give users access to an application that runs on a Windows VM in a desktop pool
• Create an RDS Desktop pool and application pool and access desktops and applications from Horizon Client
• Create application pools from installed applications in RDSH or Linux farms
• Describe default load-balancing procedure for RDSHs on a farm and configure a load balancing script on RDSH

- Work with Horizon Connection Server

• Add desktops to the Horizon Connection Server inventory
• Configure a Horizon Event database
• Describe Horizon Connection Server installation, architecture, and requirements
• Describe the structure of the AD LDS database and how it is navigated
• Describe how to apply/consume a Horizon license

- Work with authentication methods and certificates in a Horizon solution

• Describe the authentication and certification options for a Horizon environment
• Describe the authentication methods supported by Horizon Connection Server (incl. smart card authentication)
• Outline the steps to create a Horizon administrator
• Outline the steps to create a custom role
• Describe the purpose of using Transport Layer Security certificates for VMware Horizon
• Integrate Horizon with Workspace ONE Access and other SAML providers

- Work with Horizon protocols

• Analyze the remote display protocols that are available in VMware horizon
• Describe BLAST Display protocol codecs and options
• List ideal applications for each BLAST codec
• Describe BLAST and PCoIP ADMX GPO common configurations

- Work with graphics cards in a Horizon solution

• Describe the 3D rendering settings available in VMware Horizon
• List the steps to configure graphics for use in A VMware environment

- Work with Horizon scalability options

• Configure load-balancing settings in Horizon Console
• Explain how multiple Horizon Connection Server instances in a pod maintain synchronization
• List several best practices for a multi-server deployment in a pod
• Describe the Cloud Pod Architecture LDAP replication
• Compare the purpose of the global LDAP instance and the local LDAP instance
• Describe the purpose of the interpod communication and the View Interpod API(VIPA)
• Describe Cloud Pod Architecture Global Entitlements
• Initialize Cloud Pod Architecture

- Work with App Volumes (specific to 4.x)

• Create and assign packages, working with Writeables, etc

- Work with Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM)

• Work with Horizon Smart Policies

- Configure roles and privileges in VMware Horizon
- Work with Horizon security

• Identify the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway in the DMZ
• Identify the tunnel points when the security gateway is not used
• List the two-factor authentication methods that the Unified Access Gateway supports
• List Unified Access Gateway firewall rules

- Describe and use the capabilities of the VMware Horizon console

• Use the dashboard to perform day 2 operations
• Monitor performance of remote desktop/s using the Horizon Performance Tracker
• Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool
• Describe how information found on the Users and Groups page is used to control and monitor VMware Horizon users

• Schedule maintenance of instant clones
• Resolve basic network troubleshooting (DHCP, NTP, DNS, AD)
• Awareness of log files (generation and location)