Practice Exam 2V0-17.25: VCP - VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator

Question bank: 100 · timed mock exam: 135 min

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  • Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 54 questions
  • VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals 46 questions
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10 free sample questions

Question 1 VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals

An architect is explaining the VCF 9.0 taxonomy to a new operations team. One slide describes the VCF fleet, the environment managed by a single set of fleet-level components. What can a VCF fleet contain?

  1. One or more VCF Instances and possibly standalone vCenter instances
  2. Workload domains only, with the management domain kept outside the fleet
  3. One or more VCF private clouds, each with its own management domain
  4. Exactly one VCF Instance, with every other vCenter running as a separate fleet
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: A

A VCF fleet contains one or more VCF Instances and might also contain standalone vCenter instances, all managed by the VCF Operations instance of the fleet.

Source: official documentation

Question 2 Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

A deployment team wants the VCF Installer to deploy a new VCF platform directly at the latest build, which Broadcom shipped as an express patch release. Which statement about VCF Installer and release types is correct?

  1. It supports major releases only; minor releases are applied after deployment
  2. It supports express patch releases only, not maintenance releases
  3. It supports major, minor, and maintenance releases, but not express patches
  4. It supports any release type, as long as the binaries are downloaded first
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Correct answer: C

VCF Installer works with major, minor, and maintenance releases but does not support express patch releases; those are applied manually after the installer workflows complete.

Source: official documentation

Question 3 VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals

A company already runs a VCF fleet with one VCF Instance and is adding a second VCF Instance in another data center. The team asks where the fleet-level management components, VCF Operations and VCF Automation, are hosted. What should the administrator answer?

  1. In the management domain of the first VCF Instance of the fleet
  2. On a dedicated appliance cluster outside any VCF domain of the fleet
  3. In the management domain of each VCF Instance, one copy per instance
  4. In the first workload domain created in the newest VCF Instance
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: A

The fleet-level management components are hosted by the management domain of the first VCF Instance in the fleet; the initial management domain hosts the fleet components in addition to the instance's own management components.

Source: official documentation

Question 4 Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

A consulting team will build three separate VCF platforms for three customers over the next months and wants to reuse one VCF Installer appliance for all of them. Where should the appliance be deployed?

  1. Outside the management infrastructure, with connectivity to it
  2. On the local disk of a host that will form the management domain
  3. Inside the first management domain after the vSAN datastore is created
  4. On one of the ESX hosts that will form the first management domain
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Correct answer: A

Deployed outside the management infrastructure, on a machine with connectivity to it, the appliance can deploy multiple VCF or vSphere Foundation platforms.

Source: official documentation

Question 5 VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals

A service provider plans 30 business units. Each unit must get its own workload domain, with a dedicated vCenter and vCenter Single Sign-On domain, and all units stay in the same VCF fleet. Based on the VCF 9.0 workload domain model, what is the minimum number of VCF Instances to plan?

  1. One VCF Instance, since a workload domain count has no documented ceiling
  2. Three VCF Instances, since each instance scales to ten workload domains
  3. Two VCF Instances, since each instance scales to 24 workload domains
  4. Thirty VCF Instances, since each workload domain needs its own instance
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: C

The workload domain model scales up to 24 workload domains per VCF Instance, so 30 dedicated workload domains need at least two VCF Instances.

Source: official documentation

Question 6 Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

A data center currently boots all its ESX hosts as stateless hosts from the network. The team wants to reuse these servers for a new VCF 9.0 management domain. What must be done first?

  1. Keep the stateless boot and add a local disk for vSAN only
  2. Keep the stateless boot and let VCF Installer convert the hosts
  3. Keep the stateless boot and import the hosts as a workload domain
  4. Install the supported ESX version on each host, then configure it
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: D

VCF does not support stateless ESX hosts. Preparing the hosts means installing the correct ESX version and performing basic configuration tasks.

Source: official documentation

Question 7 VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals

A trading application cannot tolerate any downtime or data loss when the physical host running it fails. Restarting the VM on another host is not acceptable. Which vSphere capability fits this requirement?

  1. vSphere vMotion
  2. vSphere High Availability
  3. vSphere Fault Tolerance
  4. vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: C

Fault Tolerance provides continuous availability of an application during a hardware failure, with no data loss or downtime.

Source: official documentation

Question 8 Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

A company has two vCenter instances. vCenter-A manages hosts that run VMware Aria Operations; vCenter-B manages only business workloads. The company converges this environment to a new VCF fleet and keeps Aria Operations as the fleet's operations component. Which infrastructure becomes the first VCF Instance with the initial management domain?

  1. Either vCenter instance, whichever the administrator selects first
  2. A new vCenter deployed by VCF Installer on new hosts, then both are imported
  3. Both vCenter instances, merged into one management domain during convergence
  4. vCenter-A and its ESX hosts, since they run VMware Aria Operations
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: D

When converging to a new VCF fleet with VMware Aria Operations, the vCenter instance and ESX hosts running Aria Operations become the first VCF Instance with the initial management domain.

Source: official documentation

Question 9 VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals

After upgrading to vCenter 9.0, an administrator plans to switch vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) to retreat mode on a cluster to save resources. A colleague worries that vSphere DRS and vSphere HA will stop working. What is the correct assessment?

  1. HA keeps operating, but DRS stops balancing until vCLS is reactivated
  2. DRS and HA keep operating, because deactivating vCLS does not affect them
  3. Both services stop, so retreat mode is only for clusters without DRS or HA
  4. DRS keeps operating, but HA stops restarting VMs until vCLS returns
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: B

vCenter 9.0 deprecates the requirement for vCLS to be active and recommends retreat mode; deactivating vCLS does not impact the operation of vSphere DRS and vSphere HA.

Source: official documentation

Question 10 Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

An ESX administrator changed the password of a service account directly on the host where the account resides, outside VCF Operations. The VCF components that use this account now fail to connect. Which password management action should be run in the VCF Operations console?

  1. Reset, to return the account to its initial deployment password
  2. Update, to set another new password on both server and client
  3. Rotate, to replace the password with a new auto-generated one
  4. Remediate, to provide the new password on the client side only
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: D

Remediate provides the new password on the client side, where the account is used, after the password was already changed on the server side, where the account resides.

Source: official documentation

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