VCF 9.0 Administrator - 2V0-17.25

An administrator is preparing to deploy a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) fleet to an environment that does not have Internet access. Which two binaries must be uploaded to the VCF Installer appliance before initiating the deployment? (Choose two.). Identity Broker. ESX. NSX. VCF Operations. Lifecycle Manager.

After a migration to VCF 9.0, an administrator must import only logging data newer than 90 days from Aria Operations for Logs 8.x into VCF Operations for Logs. If VCF Operations for Logs has enough space available, what is the correct way to achieve this?. Configure log forwarding in Aria Operations for Logs. Import logs from an NFS archive used for Aria Operations for Logs. Initiate the transfer from the Control Panel in VCF Operations. Initiate the transfer from Aria Operations for Logs.

Which tool does an administrator use to collect and validate the initial inputs for the deployment of a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) fleet?. SDDC Manager. Cloud Builder. VCF Installer. VCF Operations.

Which two resources can be configured in a VM Class in VMware vSphere with vSphere Supervisor? (Choose two.). CPU. Memory. Network interface. PCI devices. Storage.

An administrator must deploy a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) instance using a supported VCF Operations model with the smallest possible resource footprint. Which VCF Operations deployment model should be used?. Stretched Cluster. Continuous Availability. Simple. High Availability.

An administrator is tasked to deploy a new vSAN Storage Cluster to an existing VCF instance. The VCF instance is deployed as a single workload domain. What must the administrator do to achieve this without deploying additional management components?. Deploy an additional VCF instance and workload domain with a vSAN storage cluster. Deploy additional hosts as vSAN storage-only nodes within the existing cluster. Deploy a second cluster as a vSAN storage cluster in the existing workload domain. Deploy an additional workload domain with a vSAN storage cluster within the existing VCF instance.

Which two types of group can be created to collect and manage objects in Istio Service Mesh? (Choose two.). Security. Cluster. Service. API. Node.

An administrator must configure a new Project in the Development tenant of VCF Automation. The requirement is to minimize ongoing management overhead as new developers onboard. Which four steps should be taken? (Choose four.). Log in to the Development tenant as a Project Administrator. Assign at least one Cloud Zone to the Project. Assign both Project Administrators and Project Members to the Project using Active Directory Users. Create a new Project. Assign at least one Namespace to the Project. Log in to the Development tenant as an Organization Administrator. Assign both Project Administrators and Project Members to the Project using Active Directory Groups.

During creation of a new Organization for All Applications in VCF Automation, which four NSX constructs are automatically configured at the regional networking step? (Choose four.). A Default Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). A Provider Tier-0 Gateway. An outbound Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) rule. An NSX Transit Gateway. An outbound Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) rule. A Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS). A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connectivity profile.

An administrator creates a custom alert in VCF Operations for a VM with a symptom definition: “Read Latency > 1 ms.” The alert should trigger immediately once the symptom condition occurs. What additional step is required to ensure the alert functions?. Enable the alert in an Active Policy. Create a new Payload Template. Create an instance of the REST Notification Plugin. Create and enable a super metric for read latency in the Active Policy.

A large corporation recently experienced a power outage at one of its primary data centers resulting in service disruption for customers in that region. An administrator is tasked to assess the current infrastructure and propose a plan to improve resiliency. Current configuration: Single-site vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) cluster 12 hosts Cluster resource utilization (CPU, memory, and storage) is under 30% Which solution would improve resiliency and minimize service disruption in data center outages with a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero without requiring additional hosts?. Relocate six ESX hosts to another data center and configure a vSAN Stretched Cluster. Deploy VMware Live Recovery to maintain an identical copy in a secondary site. Convert existing production workload to a 2 failures – RAID-1 storage policy. Configure the twelve ESX hosts into six fault domains.

An organization wants to enable Service and Application Discovery across their VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) fleet. Which optional VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution must the administrator enable or deploy to facilitate this capability?. vSphere Supervisor. VCF Operations for Logs. VCF Operations Collector. VCF Operations for Networks.

An administrator is responsible for monitoring VMware vSAN performance across a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) instance. The administrator confirms VCF Operations is configured correctly. When viewing Storage Operations, the vSAN Cluster Performance widget is not displaying any data. What additional configuration should the administrator complete to ensure the widget displays data?. Enable Support Insight for all vSAN Clusters in vCenter. Select a Cloud proxy as Collector in the vSAN integration. Select "Enable SMART data collection" in the vCenter integration. Enable Performance Service for all vSAN Clusters in vCenter.

An administrator is tasked to configure network connectivity to the organization's corporate network for their container workloads to be deployed on VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) clusters backed by VMware NSX networking on a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployment. Which gateway connectivity type should the administrator deploy?. Round-robin Connectivity. Distributed Connectivity. Physical Connectivity. Centralized Connectivity.

What is the purpose of Istio Service Mesh?. Provides service discovery across multiple clusters. Provides an infrastructure layer that makes communication between applications possible, structured and observable. Provides dynamic application load balancing and autoscaling across multiple clusters and sites. Provides a centralized, global routing table to simplify and optimize traffic management.

An administrator is deciding on a storage solution to create the first management workload domain for a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) instance. Which three storage solutions can be used as principal storage? (Choose three.). NVMe/TCP. Virtual Volumes (vVols). VMFS on Fibre Channel (FC). NFSv3. vSAN OSA.

An administrator is responsible for the management of a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment and has been tasked with creating a new Organization in VCF Automation. The customer previously upgraded from VCF 5.2 and this is the first new Organization since their upgrade. The following requirements have been provided for the additional Organization: Onboard existing Virtual Machines (VM) for management through VCF Automation Use third-party integrations, including Tanzu Salt and Active Directory Deploy to Native Public Cloud (NPC) endpoints What action should the administrator take to complete the objective?. Create the new Organization for VM Applications using the VCF Automation API. Create the new Organization for All Applications within the VCF Automation Provider Management Portal. Create the new Organization for All Applications using the VCF Operations Fleet Management API.

An administrator is tasked with upgrading a vSphere 8-only environment to VCF 9.0. Which three components must be deployed as part of the upgrade? (Choose three.). VCF Operations fleet management. VCF Identity Broker. VCF Operations for Logs. VCF Operations. VCF Operations for Networks. VCF Operations Collector.

An administrator is preparing to create a new workload domain within an existing VCF instance. Which two tasks must be completed before starting the deployment workflow? (Choose two.). Commission the new ESX hosts into the existing VCF instance from the new workload domain vCenter. Commission the new ESX hosts into the existing VCF instance from the management domain vCenter. Pre-install a supported ESX version onto the server with VCF Installer. Pre-install a supported ESX version onto the server using a valid ISO image. Commission the new ESX hosts into the existing VCF instance from VCF Installer.

Which two are use cases for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Automation? (Choose two.). Implement alerting based on resource utilization. Implement VMware Cloud Foundation Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Provide a Self-Service Catalog. Deploy VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA Workloads. Provide application dependency mapping.

An administrator of a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) fleet is tasked to delegate the resource management of a group of Virtual Machines (VMs) to another department. The following information is provided: VMs should power on only if resources are available. The VMs are within development and production environments. The production VMs require guaranteed levels of resources. The VMs support a three-tier application within each environment. Each tier of the application has varying levels of demand. What VCF feature should the administrator use to manage these VMs?. vSphere Availability. VCF Operations. vSphere Resource Pools. vSphere Dynamic Resource Scheduling.

An administrator is tasked to converge an existing VMware vSphere environment to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The following information has been provided to the administrator for this task: Three VMware vCenters in Enhanced Linked Mode. Five vSphere clusters per vCenter. Lifecycle Manager configured with baselines and images. Each VMware ESX host has 10 Gbps uplinks. All ESX hosts are configured with LACP. All clusters within a vCenter share a single vSphere Distributed Switch. Which two configurations need to be changed before the environment is converged? (Choose two.). All ESX hosts must have a minimum of 25 Gbps uplinks. Enhanced Linked Mode needs to be deactivated. Add an additional VMkernel interface per host for vMotion traffic. Create a vSphere Standard Switch per host. Lifecycle Manager needs to be configured with Images only.

Which Kubernetes object is used to grant permissions to a cluster-wide resource?. RoleBinding. ClusterRoleBinding. RoleReference. ClusterRoleAccess.

An administrator must ensure the network team can fully utilize the Network Operations feature in VCF. What component must be installed and configured?. VCF Operations for Networks. vDefend Firewall. VCF Operations Collector. NSX Networking.

Which Container Network Interface (CNI) is selected by default in a VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) workload cluster?. Flannel. Cilium. Calico. Antrea.

An administrator is responsible for managing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) fleet. The administrator has been tasked with creating a solution that allows Kubernetes development teams to complete the self-service creation of Active Directory (AD) accounts with the following requirements: Only users within the Development tenant should be able to create user accounts. Users must be able to create and destroy user accounts in the development AD only. The administrator has already deployed a dedicated VCF Operations Orchestrator for the Development tenant. What four additional tasks must the administrator complete to meet the stated objective? (Choose four.). Publish the Active Directory User creation action to the self-service catalog in VCF Automation through the Content Hub. Configure the VCF Operations Orchestrator integration to connect to the dedicated VCF Operations Orchestrator. Publish the Active Directory User creation workflow to the self-service catalog in VCF Automation through the Content Hub. Configure the VCF Operations Orchestrator Active Directory plugin to connect to the production Active Directory. Configure the VCF Operations Orchestrator Active Directory plugin to connect to the development Active Directory. Create a Custom Resource object and select the appropriate VCF Operations Orchestrator workflows for object creation and destruction. Configure the VCF Operations Orchestrator integration to utilize the embedded VCF Operations Orchestrator.

Before creating an Organization for All Applications in VCF Automation to support Kubernetes workloads, which two prerequisites must be completed? (Choose two.). vSphere Supervisor must be activated in the Management workload domain. vSphere Supervisor must be activated in the workload domain. A Region must be configured in the Provider Management Portal. Workload domain must be configured for NSX Federation. VKS must be activated in the Management workload domain.

An administrator configures a new NSX overlay segment for virtual desktops using default segment policies. Desktops must obtain IPv4 leases from a DHCP server on the same segment. What must the administrator do?. Edit default segment security profile, disable DHCP server block, and apply. Clone default segment security profile, disable DHCP server block, and apply. Clone default IP discovery profile, disable DHCP server block, and apply. Edit default IP discovery profile, disable DHCP server block, and apply.

An administrator must create different pricing information for clusters in a VCF fleet. Requirements: CPU, memory, storage costs same across clusters. VM setup charges only for SAP HANA cluster. All other settings remain default. Name new policy “Resources.” Which three settings must be configured? (Choose three.). Create new policy “Resources” under Base Settings and define CPU, memory, storage costs. Set “Resources” policy as default. Set “Default Policy” as default. Create new policy under “Resources” for SAP HANA VM setup charges. Create new policy under “Base Settings” for SAP HANA VM setup charges. Create new policy under “Default Policy” for SAP HANA VM setup charges.

An administrator must replace a component’s certificate in VCF with an external CA-signed certificate. What format must be used when creating the certificate?. DER. PFX. P7B. PEM.

An administrator is responsible for a vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) cluster running workloads with a RAID-6 policy. The administrator must enable auto-policy management in vSAN ESA. What is the minimum number of hosts required for workloads with RAID-6?. 2. 4. 8. 6.

An administrator is deploying a VCF fleet with two VCF instances and wants a full-stack monitoring solution. Which two components must be installed after initial deployment? (Choose two.). VCF Operations Fleet Management. VCF Operations for Logs. VCF Operations Management Pack Builder. VCF Operations. VCF Operations for Networks.

An administrator has been asked to create a dashboard in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations and share it with a specific group of users. The following requirements have been provided: The users must be authenticated in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations. The individual users should receive access to this dashboard for 3 months after which it must be revoked automatically. Which three steps should the administrator take to complete the stated requirements? (Choose three.). Schedule and send a report using the dashboard as a view. Create an embedded code to the dashboard. Grant access for 3 months. Use Identity Broker to authenticate users. Grant users access to the dashboard. Publish the embedded code on the company intranet.

An administrator is deploying a new VCF instance in an existing fleet. Which three components must be deployed? (Choose three.). vCenter. vSphere Supervisor. VCF Automation. NSX Manager. SDDC Manager. VCF Installer.

An administrator has been tasked with creating an alert in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations with the following settings: Wait cycle: 2 Cancel cycle: 2 Assuming the alert is not resolved, how much time elapses by default between the symptom triggering and the alert automatically cancelling itself?. 40 minutes. 4 minutes. 10 minutes. 20 minutes.

An administrator is tasked to upgrade a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment from 5.2 to 9.0. During preparation, the administrator sees only the SDDC Manager 9.0 bundle available. Why are no other bundles available?. An offline repository was used for upgrade bundles. A proxy server was used to download bundles. The ASYNC tool must be used to download all required bundles. SDDC Manager must be upgraded first.

Which statement describes a Container Storage Interface (CSI) in vSphere Supervisor?. It is a plug-in that only works with vSphere object storage. It is a plug-in that allows providers to expose storage as persistent storage. It is a plug-in that is only used for clusters which require cloud native storage. It is a plug-in that is required for ephemeral storage.

An administrator must obtain an overview of all vSAN and non-vSAN datastores within a VCF environment using VCF Operations. Where should the administrator access this information?. Storage Overview. Diagnostic Findings. Data Protection & Recovery. VCF Health.

An administrator must deploy a new VCF instance in a dark site (no Internet). How should binaries be downloaded before starting installation?. Use the VCF Download Tool. Use Broadcom Downloads. Use the VCF Installer. Use SDDC Manager.

An administrator has been tasked with configuring the external connectivity for a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) within a new VMware NSX project. The Transit Gateway (TGW) associated with the project will use VLAN(s) and external subnets to connect the VPC to the physical routers. What prerequisite must the administrator ensure is completed before starting the configuration of the external connection?. TWO BGP Peers must be set up on the Distributed TGW for dynamic routing. The vSphere cluster must have a Transport Node Profile (TNP) attached to it. All the hosts running VPC workloads must have access to the VLAN(s) used by the Distributed TGW. All the hosts running VPC workloads must have access to the Edge TEP network.

Which statement describes Harbor?. Harbor is an open source registry that secures artifacts with policies and RBAC, scans images for vulnerabilities, and signs images as trusted. Harbor, formerly known as Bitnami, is an image catalog for downloading verified open-source packages. Harbor is an image scanner used to verify that images are free from vulnerabilities and patches. Harbor requires all images be pulled from GitHub for validation.

Which VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Automation component provides a self-service catalog in the VM Apps tenant?. VCF Operations Orchestrator. VCF Assembler. VCF Service Broker. VCF Config.

What is the function of Velero?. Publish DNS records for applications to DNS servers. Monitor cluster services. Collect data and logs from different sources, unify them, and send them to multiple destinations. Backup and restore Kubernetes clusters.

An administrator is responsible for managing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based private cloud. The private cloud consists of a single organization with two projects, appdev and production. The administrator has been tasked with ensuring that the following are standardized across all existing and new blueprints within the production project: Inputs: size, os, location Constants: salt master id Which three actions should the administrator take to meet the objective? (Choose three.). Update all existing blueprints within the appdev project with the new Property Group(s). Update all blueprints within the organization to use the same locally configured inputs. Create a new Property Group containing all input properties for the production project. Create a new Property Group containing all required properties for the production project. Create a new Property Group containing all constant properties for the production project. Update all existing blueprints within the production project with the new Property Group(s).

An administrator is responsible for managing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based private cloud. The private cloud consists of a single tenant with two projects: Development and Production. The administrator has been tasked with ensuring that, when users deploy new VMware Supervisor-based resources within the private cloud, they meet the following criteria: By default, all Kubernetes clusters must tolerate a single control plane node failure. Only Kubernetes cluster resources will be deployed within the production project. In the development project, resources must be minimized. Which three actions should the administrator take to meet the objective? (Choose three.). Create a new IaaS Resource Policy for the production project using the Disallow VM resource template. Create a new IaaS Resource Policy for the development project using the Enforce multi-control-node Kubernetes cluster template. Create a new IaaS Resource Policy for the organization using the Disallow VM resource template. Create a new IaaS Resource Policy for the development project using the Enforce single-control-node Kubernetes cluster template. Create a new IaaS Resource Policy for the production project using the Enforce single-control-node Kubernetes cluster template. Create a new IaaS Resource Policy for the organization using the Enforce multi-control-node Kubernetes cluster template.

Which three statements are characteristics of a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud? (Choose three.). VCF supports only vSAN storage technology. VCF offers automation of operations and the ability to optimize network services. VCF supports the provisioning of both VMs and containers. VCF supports only the industry and regulatory compliance offered by the cloud service provider. VCF offers manual scalability of the environment through configurations or custom scripts. VCF offers the ability to configure full isolation of organizations in the private cloud.

An administrator is tasked with creating a new VLAN-backed segment in a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment to provide connectivity for a group of Virtual Machines (VMs). Which two actions must the administrator take when creating a VLAN-backed segment in NSX Networking? (Choose two.). Define the default gateway IP address. Specify VLAN ID. Bind to segment profiles. Connect segment to Tier-1 gateway. Specify VLAN transport zone.

An administrator is tasked to monitor business-critical Virtual Machines (VMs) within a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) fleet. The following requirements must be met: The existing policy named "Organization Policy" must be used for the entire environment. Only business-critical VMs must be assigned additional metrics. Business-critical VMs will be organized based on a naming schema. Which three steps must an administrator complete to satisfy the requirements? (Choose three.). Assign the Custom Datacenter to the new policy. Assign the Custom Group to the new policy. Create a new policy under "Organization Policy" and enable the additional metrics. Create a Custom Datacenter and add the business-critical VMs. Create a new policy under "Base Settings" and enable the additional metrics. Create a Custom Group and add the business-critical VMs.

An administrator has been tasked to create a new cluster in an existing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) instance. The hosts within the cluster have different generation Intel processors. What feature must be configured on the cluster to ensure VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is able to automatically move Virtual Machines within the cluster?. vSphere Fault Tolerance. vSphere Availability. Host Affinity Rules. Enhanced vMotion Compatibility.

What is the required update interval for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) licenses in connected mode to maintain the entitlement?. 90 days. 180 days. 365 days. 270 days.

An administrator needs to scale out the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Automation node from a small to a medium form factor. The environment is currently deployed using the Simple VCF Automation Model. Which action should the administrator take to achieve this?. Deploy a separate VCF Automation instance in the environment. Redeploy the VCF Automation node as a single medium form factor using the VCF Operations Console. Scale up the VCF Automation node to medium form factor using the VCF Operations Console. Scale out the VCF Automation deployment to a High Availability model with medium form factor.

A security team informed an administrator that a VMware vCenter root password was compromised. As a precaution, the password was changed directly in vCenter. What should an administrator do to regain management capability of this vCenter by VCF Operations?. Enter the new root password using the Reset password function in VCF Operations. Use the Rotate password function in VCF Operations. Enter the new root password using the Update password function in VCF Operations. Enter the new root password using the Remediate password function in VCF Operations.

Which component is used to provision Kubernetes workload clusters?. Carvel. Cluster API. cert-manager. Harbor.

An administrator is tasked with creating a custom dashboard for the security team. The team has the following requirements: Monitor the CPU, memory, and disk usage across all Virtual Machines (VMs) in a workload domain. Export the data to CSV. Which custom view in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations meets these requirements?. Object Relationship View. Scoreboard View. List View. Trend View.

An administrator has deployed a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment and needs to monitor the health of the environment. Which three components can be monitored using VCF Health in VCF Operations? (Choose three.). VCF Operations. ESX hosts. vCenter Server. VCF Operations Fleet Management. VCF Operations for Logs. NSX.

An administrator has been tasked with providing audit information from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) such as logins and configuration changes in VCF Operations. What must be configured to provide the required information?. Configure Audit logs for every VCF instance. Integrate VCF Operations for Logs. Enable Audit Events. Enable Event logs in every vCenter server.

An administrator has been tasked with showing the average health of all virtual machines (VMs) in a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) fleet. The following information has been provided: All clusters are connected to the same VCF Operations instance. The Virtual Machines in scope are located across different clusters in the same VCF instance. What should the administrator create to meet the stated objective?. A dashboard. A super metric. A symptom. An alert.

An administrator is tasked with deploying several VMware ESX hosts in a new VMware environment. The administrator wants to understand the general flow of a manual ESX installation and setup process in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). What are the stages of the ESX deployment process?. Install ESX using VCF Installer → Configure host settings → Perform hardware compatibility check → Create datastores. Hardware validation → Network configuration → ESX installation → Join vCenter. Boot from installation media → Select target disk → Configure management network → Set root password. Install vCenter Server → Configure cluster settings → Deploy ESX using VCF Installer → Create virtual machines.

What prerequisite must an administrator complete in VCF before configuring Provider Networking in VCF Automation?. Create a T0 Gateway in the Organization. Create a T0 Gateway in NSX Manager. Create a vDS in Provider Management. Create a vDS in vCenter.

An administrator is responsible for the management of a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based private cloud. The environment is configured in the following ways: A single Organization for VM Applications with 50 application development projects. Relevant configuration for the FitnessTrackerApp project: Project Administrators: FTA_Admins (Group) Project Members: FTA_Developers (Group), FTA_LeadDevelopers (Group) Provisioning Zone(s): vcf-wld-01 The administrator has been tasked with ensuring that the newly created catalog item (Mobile Application Backend) is initially only visible to the Lead Developers of the FitnessTrackerApp project. The administrator has already completed: Logged into VCF Automation. Updated the Content Source to include the Mobile Application Backend blueprint. Which four additional steps must the administrator take to complete the objective? (Choose four.). Create a new Deployment Limit Policy. Add the Mobile Application Backend catalog item to the new policy. Configure the Scope of the new policy to be Project and select the FitnessTrackerApp project. Create a new Content Sharing Policy. Add the FTA_Developers Group to the policy. Add the FTA_LeadDevelopers Group to the new policy. Configure the Scope of the new policy to be Organization.