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VMware 2V0-21.23 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Products and Solutions | 15% | - VMware Aria operations - NSX integration basics - VMware ecosystem integration - vSphere with Tanzu |
| Installing, Configuring, and Setup | 20% | - Deploy ESXi 8.x hosts - Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance - Configure standard and distributed switches - Configure vSphere HA, DRS and EVC - Set up VMFS, NFS, vSAN and vVols datastores |
| Performance-Tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades | 15% | - Configure Network I/O Control and Storage I/O Control - Monitor resource utilization - Upgrade vSphere components using vLCM - Optimize VM and cluster performance |
| Troubleshooting and Repairing | 20% | - Analyze cluster availability and DRS issues - Diagnose storage performance and accessibility problems - Troubleshoot network connectivity issues - Resolve vCenter and ESXi service failures |
| Planning and Designing | 15% | - Network and storage design - Security and compliance design - Capacity and resource planning - High availability and business continuity |
| Administrative and Operational Tasks | 15% | - Configure permissions and authentication - Perform backup and restore operations - Manage virtual machines, templates and snapshots - Use Content Libraries |
| Architecture and Technologies | 15% | - ESXi and vCenter Server components - vSAN including Express Storage Architecture - vSphere 8.x core architecture - Distributed Services Engine |
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VMware sets the following prerequisites for the VMware vSphere 8.x Professional: No mandatory prerequisites; VMware recommends completing 'vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]' training and having 6–12 months hands-on experience with vSphere environments.
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The VMware vSphere 8.x Professional blueprint is organized into these main domains:
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VMware vSphere 8.x Professional Sample Questions:
Which two datastore types store the components of a virtual machine as a set of objects? (Choose two.)
- A. VMware vSAN
- B. vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
- C. Network File System (NFS) 3
- D. Network File System (NFS) 4.1
- E. VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
Correct Answer: A,B 🗳️
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After a number of outages within a production VMware software-defined data center, an administrator is tasked with identifying a solution to meet the following requirements:
* Reduce the risk of outages by proactively identifying issues with the environment and resolving them.
* Reduce the complexity of uploading log bundles when raising support tickets.
Which solution should the administrator recommend to meet these requirements?
- A. VMware Skyline Advisor Pro
- B. VMware Aria Operations for Logs
- C. VMware Aria Operations
- D. VMware Skyline Health
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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An administrator is tasked with adding two additional hosts into an existing production vSphere cluster to support the need for additional capacity.
The vSphere cluster currently has four identically configured ESXi hosts (esxOT esx02. esx03 and esx04) that utilize Intel Skylake-based CPUs. The two new hosts (esx05 and esx06) are configured identically in terms of memory and storage to the existing hosts: but utilize Intel Ice Lake-based CPUs.
The administrator must ensure that:
* Any virtual machine migrates to any of the six ESXi hosts running in the cluster.
* There is no virtual machine downtime during the process of adding the new hosts.
Which step should the administrator take to meet these requirements?
- A. Create a new vSphere cluster with vSphere High Availability (HA) enabled and move all hosts into the new cluster
- B. Create a new vSphere cluster with Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) enabled and move all hosts into A' the new cluster
- C. Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) mode on the existing cluster and add the two new hosts into the cluster.
- D. Create a new vSphere cluster and move only three hosts into the new cluster.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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An administrator needs to update a VMware vCenter instance to a newer minor release version. Due to restrictions within the environment, the vCenter instance does not have access to the Internet As a first step, the administrator downloads the required update on another machine.
What are the next steps the administrator must perform to complete the update?
A Place the update ISO file in a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore.
' Use the vSphere Client to select the update ISO file as the source for the update.
- A. Mount the ISO update file to the CD-ROM drive of the vCenter instance Use the vCenter Management Interface to select the CD-ROM as the source for the update
- B. Place the ZIP update file in a folder accessible to the vCenter instance over HTTPS Use the vSphere Client to select the update file as the source for the update.
- C. Place the update ISO file in a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore.
Use the vSphere Client to select the update ISO file as the source for the update - D. Place the ISO update file in a folder accessible to the vCenter instance over HTTPS.
Use the vCenter Management Interface to select the update file as the source for the update
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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An administrator wants to create virtual machine (VM) templates and store them in a content library. The administrator would like to use the content library to manage different versions of these templates so that reverting to an earlier version is an option.
How should the administrator create these templates?
- A. Select a VM template in the vCenter inventory. Clone the template to the content library.
- B. Export a VM in the vCenter inventory to an OVF template. Import the OVF template into the content library.
- C. Convert a VM to a template in the vCenter inventory.Clone the template to the content library.
- D. Select a VM in the vCenter inventory.
Clone the VM to the content library as a VM template type.
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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