VMware VCP-VCF Admin Certification Exam Syllabus

• Deploy and configure a VMware Cloud Foundation management domain using VMware Cloud Builder
  - Validate the prerequisites for deploying VMware Cloud Foundation
  - Deploy the VMware Cloud Builder appliance
  - Prepare ESXi hosts
  - Deploy the VMware Cloud Foundation management domain (including vCenter, vSAN, NSX, and SDDC Manager) using VMware Cloud Builder
• Configure the VMware Cloud Foundation management domain.
  - Identify the different backup methods for components within the VMware Cloud Foundation management domain
  - Configure the Backup of VMware Cloud Foundation Management Components
  - Identify the use case for certificate management in VMware Cloud Foundation
  - Configure Certificate Management
  - Configure Password Management

- Deploy and configure an NSX Edge Cluster

• Validate the prerequisites for deploying an NSX Edge Cluster
  - Identify the uplink requirements for deploying an NSX edge cluster 
  - Identify the TEP requirements for deploying an NSX edge cluster
• Scale an NSX Edge cluster by adding or removing edge transport nodes
• Given a scenario, identify the role of BGP in route propagation with NSX Edge Cluste

- Deploy VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle using SDDC Manager

• Validate prerequisites for deploying Aria Suite Lifecycle.
• Create Application Virtual Networks (AVNs) in preparation for deploying the VMware Aria Suite
• Complete basic configuration of VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

- Deploy VMware Aria Suite using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

• Validate the prerequisites for deploying the VMware Aria Suite
• Deploy VMware Aria Suite

- Deploy and configure a virtual infrastructure (VI) workload domain using SDDC Manager.

• Validate prerequisites for deploying a VI Workload Domain
• Identify the steps for deploying a VI workload domain
• Deploy a VI Workload Domain using SDDC Manager

- Enable vSphere IaaS control plane (formerly workload management) within VMware Cloud Foundation

• Identify the prerequisites for enabling Workload Management
  - Identify NSX Edge requirements for enabling Tanzu on a Cloud Foundation workload domain
  - Identify Overlay network requirements for enabling Tanzu on a Cloud Foundation workload domain
  - Identify Ingress and Egress network requirements for enabling Tanzu on a Cloud Foundation workload domain
  - Validate prerequisites to enable and configure Supervisor

- Create and configure a vSphere Namespace

• Download the vSphere CLI tools to a developer workstation

- Deploy stretched clusters across availability zones for VMware Cloud Foundation.

• Validate the requirements for deploying stretched clusters
• Identify the procedure for deploying stretched clusters

- Deploy and manage VMware Cloud Foundation using the VMware Cloud Foundation APIs Objective
- Given a scenario, scale a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment.

• Validate the prerequisites for host commissioning
• Add hosts using host commissioning
• Remove hosts using host decommissioning
• Scale a cluster within VMware Cloud Foundation
  - Add a host to the existing cluster
  - Remove a host from an existing cluster
• Scale a VMware Cloud Foundation Domain
  - Add a cluster to an existing VMware Cloud Foundation Domain
  - Remove a cluster from an existing VMware Cloud Foundation Domain
• Scale a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment with a workload domain
  - Add a workload domain to an existing VCF deployment
  - Remove a workload domain from an existing VCF deployment

- Given a scenario, perform Day 2 Operations within VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager

• Implement backup and recovery strategies for VMware Cloud Foundation components.
• Perform lifecycle management for VMware Cloud Foundation components.
• Perform update/rotate/and sync for passwords managed by the SDDC Manager
• Perform rotation of certificates managed by the SDDC Manager
• Upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation
  - Differentiate between the types of bundles available in VMware Cloud Foundation
  - Based on a scenario, identify the correct upgrade procedure for VMware Cloud Foundation.
  - Download update bundles in a connected environment using the SDDC Manager UI
  - Download update bundles in a disconnected environment using the Offline Bundle Transfer Utility (OBTU) CLI tool
  - Apply software updates using the Async Patch CLI Tool
  - Perform an update pre-check for a workload domain in preparation for performing an upgrade

- Given a scenario, perform Day 2 Operations within VMware vCenter.

• Given a scenario, configure Role-based Access Control to vCenter
  - Identify the capabilities of the different out of the box roles within vCenter
  - Create vCenter Roles
  - Add an identity source (such as Active Directory) to vCenter
  - Assign Roles to Users/Groups
  - Assign Permissions to Users/Groups

- Given a scenario, manage the lifecycle of a Virtual Machine.

• Create a Virtual Machine template
• Create a Virtual Machine from a VM Template
• Create a Virtual Machine from an ISO/OVA
• Destroy a Virtual Machine
• Given a scenario, manage virtual machine snapshots
  - Identify the capabilities of the different out of the box roles within vCenter
  - Create vCenter Roles
  - Add an identity source (such as Active Directory) to vCenter
  - Assign Roles to Users/Groups
  - Understand the impact of completing different snapshot operations.
• Given a scenario, complete day 2 operations on a virtual

- Given a scenario, configure vSphere Networking components

• Configure a Virtual Distributed Switch
• Configure Network IO Control
• Configure a Port Group

- Given a scenario, configure Content Libraries to manage resources

• Create a Content Library
• Publish a Content Library
• Subscribe to a Content Library

- Given a scenario, configure vSphere storage components

• Given a scenario, configure VM storage policies

- Given a scenario, manage ESXi hosts

• Given a scenario, manage host lifecycle using VMware Lifecyle Manager images
• Given a scenario, secure a ESXi host
• Given a scenario, configure a ESXi host and host profile

- Given a scenario, secure workloads and infrastructure using encryption

• Given a scenario, identify how to secure workloads using Virtual Machine Encryption
• Given a scenario, identify how to secure workloads using host-based encryption
• Given a scenario, identify how to secure vMotion with encryption

- Given a scenario, perform Day 2 Operations within VMware NSX.

• Given a scenario, create a segment using VMware NSX
• Given a scenario, configure logical routing in NSX
• Configure logging for NSX components
• Differentiate between the use cases for deploying a new NSX Fabric vs. joining an existing NSX Fabric
• Create a VPC and configure projects to enable mutli-tenancy in NSX
• Given a scenario, identify the use cases for VMware NSX advanced features
• Given a scenario, configure VMware NSX advanced features
  - Configure a DHCP server for an NSX Segment
  - Configure an NSX load balancer (not AVI)
  - Configure Network Adress Translation (NAT) in VMware NSX
  - Configure an IP Pool and IP Block
  - Configure VPN service for NSX

- Given a scenario, perform Day 2 Operations for VMware vSAN.

• Configure and manage storage resources, policies, and performance using VMware vSAN and other storage technologies
• Identify the procedure for setting vSAN in maintenance mode
• Identify steps to add storage to a vSAN datastore
• Identify use cases for enabling/disabling vSAN health alerts

- Given a scenario, perform Day 2 Operations within VMware Aria Suite

• Given a scenario, perform Day 2 Operations within VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
  - Patch / upgrade the components of VMware Aria Suite (including Aria Operations for Networks)
• Complete SSL Certificate Mangement for the Aria Suite Components (including Aria Operations for Networks)
  - Differentiate between the different ceritifcate creation
  - Identify the steps for creating an SSL Certificate
  - Create a Certificate Request
  - Generate a self-signed SSL certificate
  - Import a CA-signed certificate
  - Apply an SSL certificate to a Aria Suite Component
• Complete License Management for the Aria Suite Components (including Aria Operations for Networks)
• Given a scenario, scale an existing Aria Suite Deployment.
• Configure Multi-Organizational Tenancy
  - Identify the prerequisites for enabling Multi-Organizational Tenancy
  - Enable Multi-Organizational Tenancy in Aria Suite Lifecycle
• Create a Log Bundle for an Aria Suite component
• Configure Content Management in Aria Suite Lifecycle
• Given a scenario, operationalize VMware Cloud Foundation with the VMware Aria Suite
  - Manage the health, performance, compliance and capacity of the VMware Cloud Foundation environment using VMware Aria Operations
  - Automate deployment and configuration of workloads using VMware Aria Automation
  - Implement log event monitoring and management with VMware Aria Operations for Logs
  - Monitor networks using Aria Operations for Networks
  - Configure single sign-on using VMware Identity Manager (aka Workspace ONE Access)

- Deploy workloads on vSphere IaaS control plane (formerly vSphere with Tanzu) 
- Given a scenario, perform virtual machine migrations, operations or tasks using HCX

• Identify the relevant tools for troubleshooting technical issues related to VMware Cloud Foundation
• Diagnose and identify technical issues related to VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager
• Diagnose and identify technical issues related to VMware vSphere (including Hosts, Clusters, Networking and Storage)
• Diagnose and identify technical issues related to VMware vSphere
• Diagnose and identify technical issues related to VMware vSAN.
• Diagnose and identify technical issues related to VMware NSX

- Given a scenario, troubleshoot the VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment/Bring Up Process
- Perform troubleshooting tasks for vSphere

• Identify the procedure for setting a host in maintenance mode.
• Resolve host connectivity issues
• Resolve certificate issues
• Troubleshoot vCLS
• Troubleshoot snapshot issues
• Troubleshoot vSphere HA host states
• Troubleshoot lifecycle management

- Perform troubleshooting tasks for vSphere Networking

• Identify the health of an NSX Edge Cluster to include tier-0 and tier-1 routers.
• Resolve NSX overlay network connectivity or configuration issues in VMware Cloud Foundation
• Resolve network connectivity or configuration issues on a vSphere Distributed Switch
• Resolve load balancing issues in NSX

- Perform troubleshooting tasks for vSAN

• Resolve connectivity or configuration issues with vSAN in VMware Cloud Foundation
• Recover from a disk or controller failure in vSAN
• Identify the process to update the vSAN database
• Identify the process to update the driver/firmware in vSAN
• Interpret the Skyline vSAN Health Score and complete remediation action(s)

- Identify and perform troubleshooting tasks in VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager

• Resolve issues related to password management in VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Identify how to use the "sos" CLI tool to identify potential health issues in VMware Cloud Foundation
• Identify how to use the "sos" CLI tool to collect logs for a workload domain as part of a support request
• Identify scenarios for using the SDDC Manager local admin account.
• Identify how to query passwords for deployed components using SDDC Manager
• Identify the steps to restart/resume a failed workflow

- Perform troubleshooting tasks with VMware Aria Suite

• Generate and analyze reports on infrastructure performance, capacity, utilization, and compliance
• Optimize resource allocation and utilization to ensure efficient operation
• Identify and implement improvements to enhance the efficiency, performance and reliability of the VMware Cloud Foundation environment
• Verify the health of a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment

- Identify and perform troubleshooting of vSphere IaaS Control Plane and its components