EXAM OVERVIEW
The Professional VMware vSphere 7.x (2V0-21.20) Exam validates that an
individual can implement, manage, and troubleshoot a VMware vSphere® 7
infrastructure, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7.
Exam Details (Last Updated: 7/22/2020)
The Professional VMware vSphere 7.x Exam (2V0-21.20), which leads to the VMware
Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2020 certification, is a
70-item exam with a passing score of 300 using a scaled method. Candidates are
given an exam time of 130 minutes, which includes adequate time to complete the
exam for non-native English speakers.
Exam Delivery
This is a proctored exam delivered through Pearson VUE. For more
information, visit the Pearson VUE website.
Certification Information
For details and a complete list of requirements and recommendations for
attainment, please reference the VMware Education Services – Certification
website.
Minimally Qualified Candidate
A minimally qualified candidate (MQC) has 6-12 months hands-on experience
implementing, managing and troubleshooting a vSphere 7 infrastructure. They are
typically administrators, capable of performing deployment and administration of
a virtual infrastructure using vSphere. The candidate also has working knowledge
of storage, networking, hardware, security, business continuity and disaster
recovery concepts.
Exam Sections
VMware exam blueprint sections are now standardized to the seven sections
below, some of which may NOT be included in the final exam blueprint depending
on the exam objectives.
Section 1 – Architecture and Technologies
Section 2 – Products and Solutions
Section 3 – Planning and Designing
Section 4 – Installing, Configuring, and Setup
Section 5 – Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
Section 6 – Troubleshooting and Repairing
Section 7 – Administrative and Operational Tasks
If a section does not have testable objectives in this version of the exam, it
will be noted below, accordingly. The objective numbering may be referenced in
your score report at the end of your testing event for further preparation
should a retake of the exam be necessary.
Sections Included in this Exam
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
QUESTION 1
What are two supported ESXi boot options? (Choose two.)
A. NFS
B. iSCSI
C. vSAN
D. SAN
E. vSphere Virtual Volumes
Correct Answer: AB
QUESTION 2
An administrator receives an escalation to investigate a low disk space
alarm on a datastore. The
administrator discovers that a snapshot has been accidentally taken on a
production, write-intensive database
server. The snapshot has grown to nearly 1 TB in size in less than an hour and
continues growing every second.
Which behavior should the administrator expect while deleting the snapshot?
(Choose the best answer.)
A. ESXi will create a virtual RAM disk to cache ongoing database write activity;
performance impact will be limited.
B. ESXi will commit the snapshot delta disk into the base disk; ongoing database
write activity could result in long stun times.
C. ESXi will merge the snapshot delta disk into the base disk; the virtual
machine will be briefly stunned.
D. ESXi will instantly switch from the base disk to the snapshot delta disk with
no performance impact.
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 3
Which two storage technologies can an administrator use to deploy the
Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)?
(Choose two.)
A. Fibre Channel storage
B. vSAN storage
C. Virtual Volumes storage
D. NFS storage
E. iSCSI storage
Correct Answer: AE
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