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

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