VMware VCP-VCF Administrator (2V0-17.25) Practice Exam

What the VMware VCP-VCF Administrator (2V0-17.25) exam covers

• 2.1 Private Cloud Vision26 questions
• 2.2 VMware Compute Fundamentals45 questions
• 2.3 VMware Storage Fundamentals71 questions
• 2.4 VMware Network Fundamentals64 questions
• 4.1 VCF: Deploy and Configure119 questions
• 4.2 VCF: Manage93 questions
• 4.3 VCF: Operations149 questions
• 4.4 VCF: Consume and Automate120 questions

Free VMware VCP-VCF Administrator (2V0-17.25) practice test questions

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1. Question 12.3 VMware Storage Fundamentals

   An admin sets a vSAN storage policy to FTT=2 using RAID-1 mirroring. What is the minimum number of hosts required, and the storage overhead?

   • A3 hosts minimum, with 2x raw capacity overhead from two mirrored copies
   • B6 hosts minimum, with 4x raw capacity overhead from four mirrored copies
   • C4 hosts minimum, with 1.5x raw capacity overhead from parity encoding
   • D5 hosts minimum, with 3x raw capacity overhead (three copies of data)Correct
   ✓ Correct answer: D

   vSAN RAID-1 (mirroring) with FTT=2 means the cluster must tolerate two simultaneous host failures. To achieve this, vSAN keeps three complete copies of every data object plus witness components. The minimum host count is calculated as 2 x FTT + 1 = 5 hosts, providing enough fault domains that two can fail and the third copy plus quorum remain intact. The storage cost is 3x raw capacity because three full mirrors are maintained, making it the most storage-intensive FTT policy.

   Why the other options are wrong

   • AThree hosts and 2x overhead describe FTT=1 RAID-1, not FTT=2, which needs three copies and more hosts.
   • BFTT=2 RAID-1 keeps three copies (3x overhead) needing five hosts, not four copies across six hosts.
   • CFour hosts with parity encoding describes a RAID-5 erasure coding layout, which is a different fault tolerance method from RAID-1 mirroring and does not keep three copies of the data.
2. Question 22.2 VMware Compute Fundamentals

   An administrator puts a host in a fully automated DRS cluster into maintenance mode and the task sits at a low percentage for a long time. Which condition most likely blocks it?

   • AA powered on machine DRS cannot migrate, such as one with a local ISOCorrect
   • BThe cluster EVC mode is higher than the generation of the host itself
   • CvSphere HA admission control is disabled, so the host cannot evacuate
   • DThe host still holds the vSphere Cluster Services quorum for the cluster
   ✓ Correct answer: A

   Entering maintenance mode requires all running machines to be evacuated. A machine attached to an ISO or device that exists only on that host, or one with an affinity rule that leaves no legal destination, cannot be moved by DRS, so the task waits rather than fails. Disconnecting the device or relaxing the rule lets the evacuation finish.

   Why the other options are wrong

   • BA host whose processors do not meet the cluster EVC mode could not have joined the cluster in the first place.
   • CDisabling admission control removes a restart guarantee; it does not prevent machines from being migrated off.
   • DvSphere Cluster Services agents are handled automatically and are not a quorum the administrator must clear.
3. Question 32.3 VMware Storage Fundamentals

   A workload domain currently stores several applications on vSphere Virtual Volumes presented by an external array. What is the correct statement about vVols in VCF 9.0?

   • AIt is deprecated but still present, so plan a move to another optionCorrect
   • BIt has been removed, so those datastores will not mount after upgrade
   • CIt is the recommended principal storage for new workload domains
   • DIt is unchanged in this release and remains fully supported longer
   ✓ Correct answer: A

   Deprecation is a signal rather than a removal: the existing vVols datastores continue to mount and serve the applications, and there is no forced migration at upgrade time. What it does mean is that no new design should be built on vVols, and the applications currently there need a planned move to vSAN, NFS or VMFS on Fibre Channel before support finally ends. Treat it as a tracked item, not an emergency.

   Why the other options are wrong

   • BNothing is removed in 9.0, so the datastores still mount; the change is a deprecation notice rather than a breaking one.
   • CA deprecated feature is never the recommended principal storage for new workload domains, whatever its support level.
   • DDescribing it as unchanged and fully supported misses the deprecation, which is exactly what drives the migration planning.
4. Question 44.3 VCF: Operations

   An administrator needs to be told as soon as an ESX host stops responding to its vCenter instance. What produces that signal in VCF Operations?

   • AA symptom on the host connection state feeding an alert definitionCorrect
   • BA vSAN storage policy compliance change reported against the objects
   • CA dynamic threshold learned on the host CPU usage metric over time
   • DA log alert on the messages the host writes to its local scratch partition
   ✓ Correct answer: A

   Connection state arrives as a property and an event from the vCenter integration, so a symptom can test for not responding or disconnected. The alert definition that contains it declares the impact and the recommendation, and a notification rule decides who hears about it. VCF Health also reports the same condition in its connectivity view for the affected components.

   Why the other options are wrong

   • BPolicy compliance changes describe vSAN object protection, which may lag a host outage by a long way.
   • CA dynamic threshold on CPU usage flags an unusual load level and stays silent when the host simply stops answering vCenter.
   • DMessages the host writes to its local scratch partition are never indexed by the log platform, so there is no log alert to raise when the host stops answering vCenter.
5. Question 54.2 VCF: Manage

   An administrator needs one place to see and replace the certificates of vCenter, NSX Manager, SDDC Manager and the fleet appliances. Where is that in VCF 9.0?

   • ACertificate management in VCF OperationsCorrect
   • BThe Certificate Management tab in SDDC Manager
   • CThe vCenter Certificate Management panel
   • DThe NSX Manager certificate store per instance
   ✓ Correct answer: A

   VCF 9.0 introduces unified, non-disruptive TLS certificate management in VCF Operations. One console shows the certificates and their alerts for the fleet appliances, VCF Automation and VCF Identity Broker as well as the instance components ESX, NSX Manager, SDDC Manager and vCenter. Configuring an authority, generating signing requests, replacing a certificate and turning on automatic renewal are all done from there.

   Why the other options are wrong

   • BThe SDDC Manager UI is deprecated in 9.0 and its certificate workflows moved out; the appliance is now a managed resource rather than the console.
   • CThe vCenter panel handles that one instance and its solution users, so it gives no view of NSX Manager or the fleet appliances.
   • DThe NSX Manager certificate store is per instance and local, which is exactly the fragmentation unified management removes.
6. Question 64.3 VCF: Operations

   Which areas does VCF Health report for a vCenter instance?

   • AConnectivity, utilization and the state of the critical servicesCorrect
   • BThe power state and the snapshot count of the appliance virtual machine
   • CThe outcome of the most recent upgrade and the version it installed
   • DThe alerts an operator has acknowledged and the ones still outstanding
   ✓ Correct answer: A

   For a vCenter instance VCF Health reports reachability by network, user interface and API as a seven day trend, measures CPU, memory, disk and database space against a warning threshold of 75 percent and a critical threshold of 85 percent, and shows the health and run state of six critical vCenter services. That gives an operator one place to confirm whether the component is fit before troubleshooting further.

   Why the other options are wrong

   • BPower state and snapshot count describe the virtual machine that hosts the component and would look healthy while its services were failing.
   • CUpgrade outcome and installed version are lifecycle records rather than a continuous view of operational state.
   • DAcknowledged and outstanding alerts are workflow counters; the health status is evaluated from the component itself.
7. Question 74.3 VCF: Operations

   Which objects does compliance assessment in VCF Operations evaluate?

   • AHosts, virtual machines, distributed switches and their port groupsCorrect
   • BThe vCenter appliances and the fleet management appliances alone
   • CThe virtual machines that have an agent installed inside the guest
   • DThe NSX segments and the distributed firewall rules applied to them
   ✓ Correct answer: A

   The benchmarks test the configuration of the objects the adapters collect from a vCenter instance or a VCF data source, so hosts, virtual machines, distributed switches and distributed port groups are all assessed, together with vSAN and NSX objects where the benchmark covers them. That breadth is what makes the score meaningful rather than a check of the appliances alone.

   Why the other options are wrong

   • BAssessing the appliances alone would ignore the hosts, guests and switches the benchmark rules are written against.
   • CAn in-guest agent adds operating system and application metrics; configuration compliance is assessed without one.
   • DSegments and firewall rules are covered where a benchmark includes them, but the assessment reaches far wider than networking objects.
8. Question 84.4 VCF: Consume and Automate

   A provider is designing tenancy for a shared VCF 9.0 platform. Which statement best describes the top level tenancy entity?

   • AIt groups resources, users, policies, services and catalog entriesCorrect
   • BIt groups the ESX hosts that a single vCenter instance manages
   • CIt groups the Tier-1 gateways that hang off one Tier-0 gateway
   • DIt groups the images that a content library publishes to a site
   ✓ Correct answer: A

   The organization is the unit of tenancy in VCF Automation and usually represents a line of business. Everything a tenant owns lives inside it: allocated capacity, identity, governance policies, the IaaS services it may consume and its catalog entries. The boundary is enforced, so one tenant cannot see or reach what belongs to another.

   Why the other options are wrong

   • BA set of ESX hosts under one vCenter describes a workload domain, which is infrastructure rather than tenancy.
   • CTier-1 gateways hanging off a Tier-0 are networking objects and do not constitute a tenancy boundary.
   • DImages published by a content library are content, and content is shared into a tenant rather than defining one.
9. Question 92.3 VMware Storage Fundamentals

   A VM disk has a storage policy of FTT=1 RAID-1. The administrator examines the object layout in vSAN and sees two data components plus a third small component. What is the third component?

   • AA witness component that breaks ties and preserves object quorumCorrect
   • BA compression metadata component that speeds up later read operations
   • CA warm spare replica held on a third host for instant failover
   • DA deduplication hash table for the disk group holding the object
   ✓ Correct answer: A

   For an FTT=1 RAID-1 object, vSAN places two full data replicas and one witness component across three separate hosts. The witness contains no actual VM data but holds metadata and a vote that counts toward the quorum calculation. If one data replica becomes unreachable, the remaining replica and the witness together hold more than 50% of the total votes, maintaining quorum and keeping the object accessible. Without the witness, two equal replicas would be unable to determine which side to serve in a network partition.

   Why the other options are wrong

   • BThere is no compression metadata component in a vSAN object layout, so nothing of that kind appears.
   • CA RAID-1 object has two replicas plus a witness, not a warm spare replica waiting on a third host.
   • DA deduplication hash table is internal disk group metadata and is never shown as an object component.
10. Question 104.2 VCF: Manage

    An environment moving to vCenter 9.0 still authenticates administrators with Integrated Windows Authentication. What must the team plan for?

    • AA re-registration of the machine accounts in the Windows forest
    • BContinued support, with a configuration change after the upgrade
    • CMigration to Active Directory over LDAPS or federation with MFACorrect
    • DA rejoin of each vCenter to the Windows domain after the upgrade
    ✓ Correct answer: C

    vCenter 9.0 discontinues support for Integrated Windows Authentication. The documented path is to migrate to Active Directory over LDAPS, or to identity federation with multi-factor authentication, and it has to be planned as part of the move rather than deferred. The login format changes alongside it, because the broker expects the user principal name rather than the older down-level string.

    Why the other options are wrong

    • ARe-registering machine accounts in the Windows forest is domain housekeeping and restores nothing that was withdrawn.
    • BThere is no configuration switch that brings the feature back; support for it ends with the release.
    • DRejoining vCenter to the Windows domain re-creates the very mechanism that has been removed from the release.

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