Overview

Section 1 – Architectures and Technologies

• Objective 1.1 – Identify the pre-requisites and components for a VMware vSphere 8.x implementation
• Objective 1.2 – Describe the components and topology of a VMware vCenter architecture
• Objective 1.3 – Describe storage concepts
  • 1.3.1 – Identify and differentiate storage access protocols for VMware vSphere (NFS, iSCSI, SAN, etc.)
  • 1.3.2 – Describe storage datastore types for VMware vSphere
  • 1.3.3 – Explain the importance of advanced storage configurations (vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI), vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA), multipathing, etc.)
  • 1.3.4 – Describe storage policies
  • 1.3.5 – Describe basic storage concepts in VMware vSAN and VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLs)
  • 1.3.6 – Identify use cases for RDM, PMem, NVMe, NVMe-oF, and RDMA (iSER)
  • 1.3.7 – Describe datastore clusters
  • 1.3.8 – Describe Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
• Objective 1.4 – Describe VMware ESXi cluster concepts
  • 1.4.1 – Describe VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
  • 1.4.2 – Describe vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
  • 1.4.3 – Describe how DRS scores virtual machines
  • 1.4.4 – Describe VMware vSphere High Availability (HA)
  • 1.4.5 – Identify use cases for fault tolerance
• Objective 1.5 – Explain the difference between VMware standard switches and distributed switches
  • 1.5.1 – Describe VMkernel networking
  • 1.5.2 – Manage networking on multiple hosts with vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)
  • 1.5.3 – Describe networking policies
  • 1.5.4 – Manage Network I/O Control (NIOC) on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)
  • 1.5.5 – Describe Network I/O Control (NIOC)
• Objective 1.6 – Describe VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager concepts
• Objective 1.7 – Describe the basics of VMware vSAN as primary storage
  • 1.7.1 – Identify basic vSAN requirements (networking, disk count, and type)
  • 1.7.2 – Identify Express Storage Architecture (ESA) concepts for vSAN 8
• Objective 1.8 – Describe the role of Virtual Machine Encryption in a data center
  • 1.8.1 – Describe vSphere Trust Authority

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Section 2 – VMware Products and Solutions

• Objective 2.1 – Describe the role of VMware vSphere in the Software-Defined Data Center
• Objective 2.2 – Not included in the exam
• Objective 2.3 – Identify use cases for VMware vCenter Converter
• Objective 2.4 – Identify disaster recovery (DR) use cases
  • 2.4.1 – Identify VMware vCenter replication options
  • 2.4.2 – Identify use cases for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

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Section 3 – Planning and Designing

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Section 4 – Installing, Configuring, and Setup

• Objective 4.1 – Describe single sign-on (SSO)
  • 4.1.1 – Configure a single sign-on (SSO) domain
  • 4.1.2 – Join an existing single sign-on (SSO) domain
• Objective 4.2 – Configure vSphere distributed switches
  • 4.2.1 – Create a distributed switch
  • 4.2.2 – Add ESXi hosts to the distributed switch
  • 4.2.3 – Examine the distributed switch configuration
• Objective 4.3 – Configure Virtual Standard Switch (VSS) advanced virtual networking options
• Objective 4.4 – Set up identity sources
  • 4.4.1 – Configure identity federation
  • 4.4.2 – Configure LDAP integration
• Objective 4.5 – Deploy and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)
• Objective 4.6 – Create and configure VMware HA and DRS advanced options (Admission Control, Proactive HA, etc.)
• Objective 4.7 – Deploy and configure VMware vCenter High Availability
• Objective 4.8 – Set up content library
  • 4.8.1 – Create a content library
  • 4.8.2 – Add content to the content library
  • 4.8.3 – Publish a local content library
• Objective 4.9 – Subscribe to content library
  • 4.9.1 – Create a subscribed content library
  • 4.9.2 – Subscribe to a published content library
  • 4.9.3 – Deploy virtual machines (VMs) from a subscribed content library
• Objective 4.10 – Manage virtual machine (VM) template versions
  • 4.10.1 – Update template in content library
• Objective 4.11 – Configure VMware vCenter file-based backup
• Objective 4.12 – Configure vSphere Trust Authority
• Objective 4.13 – Configure vSphere certificates
  • 4.13.1 – Describe Enterprise PKIs role for SSL certificates
• Objective 4.14 – Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Objective 4.15 – Configure different network stacks
• Objective 4.16 – Configure host profiles
• Objective 4.17 – Identify ESXi boot options
  • 4.17.1 – Configure Quick Boot
  • 4.17.2 – Securely Boot ESXi hosts
• Objective 4.18 – Deploy and configure clusters using the vSphere Cluster Quickstart workflow
  • 4.18.1 – Use Cluster Quickstart workflow to add hosts
  • 4.18.2 – Use Cluster Quickstart workflow to configure a cluster
  • 4.18.3 – Use Quickstart to expand clusters
• Objective 4.19 – Set up and configure VMware ESXi
  • 4.19.1 – Configure Time Configuration
  • 4.19.2 – Configure ESXi services
  • 4.19.3 – Configure Product Locker
  • 4.19.4 – Configure Lockdown Mode
  • 4.19.5 – Configure ESXi firewall
• Objective 4.20 – Configure VMware vSphere with Tanzu
  • 4.20.1 – Configure a Supervisor Cluster & Supervisor Namespace
  • 4.20.2 – Configure a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster
  • 4.20.3 – Configure vSphere Zones
  • 4.20.4 – Configure Namespace permissions

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Section 5 – Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades

• Objective 5.1 – Identify resource pools use cases
  • 5.1.1 – Explain shares, limits and reservations (resource management)
• Objective 5.2 – Monitor resources of a VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) and vSphere 8.x environment
• Objective 5.3 – Identify and use resource monitoring tools
• Objective 5.4 – Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC)
• Objective 5.5 – Configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
• Objective 5.6 – Configure a virtual machine port group to be offloaded to a data processing unit (DPU)
• Objective 5.7 – Explain the performance impact of maintaining virtual machine snapshots
• Objective 5.8 – Use Update Planner to identify opportunities to update VMware vCenter
• Objective 5.9 – Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to determine the need for upgrades and updates
  • 5.9.1 – Update virtual machines
  • 5.9.2 – Update VMware ESXi
• Objective 5.10 – Use performance charts to monitor performance
• Objective 5.11 – Perform proactive management with VMware Skyline
• Objective 5.12 – Use VMware vCenter management interface to update VMware vCenter
• Objective 5.13 – Complete lifecycle activities for VMware vSphere with Tanzu
  • 5.13.1 – Update Supervisor cluster
  • 5.13.2 – Back up and restore VMware vSphere with Tanzu

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Section 6 – Troubleshooting and Repairing

• Objective 6.1 – Identify use cases for enabling vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) retreat mode
• Objective 6.2 – Differentiate between the main management services in VMware ESXi and vCenter and their corresponding log files
• Objective 6.3 – Generate a log bundle

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Section 7 – Administrative and Operational Tasks

• Objective 7.1 – Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Objective 7.2 – Create virtual machines using different methods (Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates, content library, etc.)
• Objective 7.3 – Manage virtual machines (modifying virtual machine settings, VMware per-VM EVC, latency sensitivity, CPU affinity, etc.)
• Objective 7.4 – Manage storage
  • 7.4.1 – Configure and modify datastores
  • 7.4.2 – Create virtual machine storage policies
  • 7.4.3 – Configure storage cluster options
• Objective 7.5 – Create DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules for common use cases
• Objective 7.6 – Migrate virtual machines
  • 7.6.1 – Identify requirements for Storage vMotion, Cold Migration, vMotion, and Cross vCenter Export
• Objective 7.7 – Configure role-based access control
• Objective 7.8 – Manage host profiles
• Objective 7.9 – Utilize VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • 7.9.1 – Describe firmware upgrades for VMware ESXi
  • 7.9.2 – Describe VMware ESXi updates
  • 7.9.3 – Describe component and driver updates for VMware ESXi
  • 7.9.4 – Describe hardware compatibility check
  • 7.9.5 – Describe ESXi cluster image export functionality
  • 7.9.6 – Create VMware ESXi cluster image
• Objective 7.10 – Use predefined alarms in VMware vCenter
• Objective 7.11 – Create custom alarms
• Objective 7.12 – Deploy an encrypted virtual machine
  • 7.12.1 – Convert a non-encrypted virtual machine to an encrypted virtual machine
  • 7.12.2 – Migrate an encrypted virtual machine
  • 7.12.3 – Configure virtual machine vMotion encryption properties