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Exam Details (Last Updated: 1/18/2023)
The VMware vSphere 8.x Professional exam (2V0-21.23), which leads to the VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2023 (VCP-DCV 2023) certification, is a 70-item exam with a passing score of 300 using a scaled method. Candidates are given an exam time of 135 minutes, which includes adequate time to complete the exam for non-native English speakers.
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Minimally Qualified Candidate
The Minimally Qualified Candidate is able to install and configure a VMware vSphere 8.0 infrastructure, which includes VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter; but occasionally needs to research topics.
The candidate understands most of the requirements for managing, operating and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.
The candidate is able to monitor the day-to-day operations of a vSphere infrastructure with minimal assistance.
The candidate has a basic understanding of virtual data center, network and storage concepts.
The candidate possesses most of the knowledge shown in the exam sections (blueprint). Exam Sections VMware exam blueprint sections are now standardized to the seven sections below, some of which may NOT be included in the final exam blueprint depending on the exam objectives.
Section 1 – Architecture and Technologies
Section 2 – Products and Solutions
Section 3 – Planning and Designing
Section 4 – Installing, Configuring, and Setup
Section 5 – Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
Section 6 – Troubleshooting and Repairing
Section 7 – Administrative and Operational Tasks

If a section does not have testable objectives in this version of the exam, it will be noted below, accordingly. The objective

numbering may be referenced in your score report at the end of your testing event for further preparation should a retake

of the exam be necessary.

Sections Included in this Exam

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 raw device mapping (RDM), Persistent Memory (PMem), Non-Volatile

Memory Express (NVMe), NVMe over Fabrics (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

1.8.2 – Describe the role of a Key Management Services (KMS) server in vSphere

Objective 1.9 – Recognize methods of securing virtual machines

1.9.1 – Recognize use cases for a virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)

1.9.2 – Differentiate between Basic Input or Output System (BIOS) and Unified Extensible Firmware

Interface (UEFI) firmware

1.9.3 – Recognize use cases for Microsoft virtualization-based security (VBS)

Objective 1.10 – Describe identity federation

1.10.1 – Describe the architecture of identity federation

1.10.2 – Recognize use cases for identity federation

Objective 1.11 – Describe VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine

1.11.1 – Describe the role of a data processing unit (DPU) in vSphere

Objective 1.12 – Identify use cases for VMware Tools

Objective 1.13 – Describe the high-level components of VMware vSphere with Tanzu

1.13.1 – Identify the use case for a Supervisor Cluster and Supervisor Namespace

1.13.2 – Identify the use case for vSphere Zones

1.13.3 – Identify the use case for a VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) cluster

Section 2 – VMware Products and Solutions

Objective 2.1 – Describe the role of VMware vSphere in the Software-Defined Data Center

Objective 2.2 – Identify use cases for VMware vSphere+

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)

Section 3 – Planning and Designing - There are no testable objectives for this section

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

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

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

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