2V0-21.20 Study Guide!

Hi All, the plan is to create a study guide for all the objectives on the “Version 7” of the exam….

To start with please check out the blueprint of the exam.

I anticipate this will take me a few months to put together, as I have a 3 year old and a day job – But I am aiming to get going very soon. Links will be updated in due course with the sections filled out.

Good luck with your studies.

Section 1 –Architectures and Technologies
Objective 1.1 – Identify the pre-requisites and components for a vSphere implementation
 
Objective 1.2 – Describe vCenter Server topology
 
Objective 1.3 – Identify and differentiate storage access protocols for vSphere (NFS, iSCSI, SAN, etc.)
1.3.1 – Describe storage datastore types for vSphere
1.3.2 – Explain the importance of advanced storage configuration (vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA), vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI), etc.)
1.3.3 – Describe storage policies
1.3.4 – Describe basic storage concepts in K8s, vSAN and vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
 
Objective 1.4 – Differentiate between vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC) and vSphere Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
 
Objective 1.5 – Describe instant clone architecture and use cases
 
Objective 1.6 – Describe ESXi cluster concepts
1.6.1 – Describe Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
1.6.2 – Describe vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
1.6.3 – Describe how Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) scores virtual machines
1.6.4 – Describe vSphere High Availability
1.6.5 – Describe datastore clusters
 
Objective 1.7 – Identify vSphere distributed switch and vSphere standard switch capabilities
1.7.1 – Describe VMkernel networking
1.7.2 – Manage networking on multiple hosts with vSphere distributed switch
1.7.3 – Describe networking policies
1.7.4 – Manage Network I/O Control (NIOC) on a vSphere distributed switch
 
Objective 1.8 – Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager concepts (baselines, cluster images, etc.)
 
Objective 1.9 – Describe the basics of vSAN as primary storage
1.9.1 – Identify basic vSAN requirements(networking, disk count + type)
 
Objective 1.10 – Describe the vSphere Trust Authority architecture
 
Objective 1.11 – Explain Software Guard Extensions (SGX)
 
Section 2 – VMware Products and Solutions
Objective 2.1 – Describe the role of vSphere in the software-defined data center (SDDC)
 
Objective 2.2 – Identify use cases for vCloud Foundation
 
Objective 2.3 – Identify migration options
 
Objective 2.4 – Identify DR use cases
 
Objective 2.5 – Describe vSphere integration with VMware Skyline
 
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) deployment topology
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 VSS advanced virtual networking options
 
Objective 4.3 – Set up identity sources
4.3.1 – Configure Identity Federation
4.3.2 – Configure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration
4.3.3 – Configure Active Directory integration
 
Objective 4.4 – Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
 
Objective 4.5 – Create and configure VMware High Availability and advanced options (Admission Control, Proactive High Availability, etc.)
 
Objective 4.6 – Deploy and configure vCenter Server High Availability
 
Objective 4.7 – Set up content library
 
Objective 4.8 – Configure vCenter Server file-based backup
http://www.v-ms.uk/2020/11/05/vcsa-7-0-backups-with-smb/
Objective 4.9 – Analyze basic log output from vSphere products
 
Objective 4.10 – Configure vSphere Trust Authority
 
Objective 4.11 – Configure vSphere certificates
4.11.1 – Describe Enterprise PKIs role for SSL certificates
 
Objective 4.12 – Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager/VMware Update Manager (VUM)
 
Objective 4.13 – Securely Boot ESXi hosts
 
Objective 4.14 – Configure different network stacks
 
Objective 4.15 – Configure Host Profiles
Objective 4.16 – Identify boot options
4.16.1 – Configure Quick Boot
 
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 vCenter Server Appliance and vSphere environment
 
Objective 5.3 – Identify and use tools for performance monitoring
 
Objective 5.4 – Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC)
 
Objective 5.5 – Configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
 
Objective 5.6 – Explain the performance impact of maintaining virtual machine snapshots Objective 5.7 – Plan for upgrading various vSphere components
 
Section 6 – Troubleshooting and Repairing – There are no testable objectives for this section.
 
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 Virtual Machine Format (OVF) templates, content library, etc.)
 
Objective 7.3 – Manage virtual machines
 
Objective 7.4 – Manage storage (datastores, storage policies, etc.)
 
7.4.1 – Configure and modify datastores (expand/upgrade existing datastore, etc.)
 
7.4.2 – Create virtual machine storage policies
 
7.4.3 – Configure storage cluster options
 
Objective 7.5 – Create Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity and anti-affinity rules for common use cases
 
Objective 7.6 – Configure and perform different types of migrations
 
Objective 7.7 – Configure role-based user management
 
Objective 7.8 – Configure and manage the options for securing a vSphere environment (certificates, virtual machine encryption, virtual Trusted Platform Module, lock-down mode, virtualization-based security, etc.)
 
Objective 7.9 – Configure and manage host profiles
 
Objective 7.10 – Utilize baselines to perform updates and upgrades
 
Objective 7.11 – Utilize vSphere Lifecycle Manager
7.11.1 – Describe Firmware upgrades for ESXi
7.11.2 – Describe ESXi updates
7.11.3 – Describe component and driver updates for ESXi
7.11.4 – Describe hardware compatibility check
7.11.5 – Describe ESXi cluster image export functionality
 
Objective 7.12 – Configure alarms