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1. A Security Administrator has created a new Tier-1 Gateway for a new application environment. All segments and VMs have been attached. A default "Deny All" rule is in place for East-West traffic. The administrator adds a rule to allow SSH traffic from a 'Jumpbox' security group to a 'Web-Servers' security group.

Connectivity still fails. The administrator checks the Distributed Firewall logs and finds no entries for blocked traffic between the source and destination IPs. The traffic does not appear to be reaching the DFW.

What NSX component, besides the Distributed Firewall, could be blocking this East-West traffic between segments connected to the same Tier-1 Gateway?

2. Which NSX service provides external connectivity for workloads in VCF?

3. Which ESXi issue would cause a workload domain creation to fail?

4. A VMware Consultant needs to migrate a large number of virtual machines from a legacy data center to a new VCF private cloud. The applications can sustain a brief period of downtime for the final cutover. The primary goal is to move the VMs in parallel and as quickly as possible.

Which HCX migration type is best suited for this requirement?

5. A VCF Support Engineer is troubleshooting an ESXi host that has unexpectedly disconnected from vCenter Server. The engineer suspects the issue might be related to a known problem with excessive logging rates causing the syslog service to fail.

Which log file on the ESXi host would be the most important to analyze for messages indicating that log messages are being dropped by the syslog service?

6. An administrator is investigating an issue where an ESXi host running ESXi 8.0.2 is showing as disconnected in vCenter. Analysis of the `vmkernel.log` on the affected host reveals the following recurring messages.

Review the log snippet:

2025-10-07T11:30:15Z cpu1:2097615)WARNING: nmlx5_core: nmlx5_QueryNicVportContext:188: command failed: IO was aborted

2025-10-07T11:30:15Z cpu1:2097615)nmlx5_core: Health: Miss counters detected alerts for Mellanox driver.

Based on the Diagnostic Findings knowledge base, what is the most likely cause of this issue?

7. Which dashboard provides visibility into workload domain capacity in VCF?

8. A Cloud Administrator is troubleshooting an HCX configuration issue. While attempting to extend a Layer 2 network from the source site to the VCF destination, the operation fails.

The administrator checks the status of the Service Mesh and observes the following.

Review the Service Mesh status:

Service Mesh: 'Prod-to-VCF'

Appliance Status:

- Interconnect Appliance (IX): UP

- WAN Optimization Appliance (WO): UP

- Network Extension Appliance (NE): DOWN

- Sentinel Gateway Appliance (SG): UP

Tasks:

- Deploy Network Extension Appliance ... FAILED. Reason: No compatible datastore found on destination cluster.

Based on the provided information, what is the most likely cause of the network extension failure?

9. What is required before converting an existing vSphere environment into a VCF workload domain?

10. An administrator is attempting to remove an ESXi host from a vSAN-enabled cluster using the SDDC Manager "Remove Host" workflow, but the operation is blocked by a pre-check validation.

Which of the following conditions would prevent SDDC Manager from allowing a host to be removed? (Select all that apply.)

11. A Network Administrator is deploying a new NSX VPC for a development team. The team needs their VMs within the VPC to be able to access the public internet for software updates. The VPC has been configured with both private subnets and a public subnet.

What must be configured on the VPC's gateway to allow VMs on private subnets to initiate outbound connections to the internet?

12. The SDDC Manager UI shows a “license compliance error.” What should be done?

13. Which is required for multi-region VCF deployment?

14. Which type of certificate authority can be used for VCF certificate replacement?

15. Which SDDC Manager service handles password rotations?

16. An Automation Engineer is troubleshooting an issue where users of a specific tenant Organization, "Org-B," are unable to log in to the VCF Automation portal. Users of other Organizations can log in successfully.

The engineer checks the Directory status for "Org-B" and finds the following information:

Directory: 'VIDB-Connection'

Type: VMware Identity Broker

Status: FAILED

Details: Sync failed. Unable to establish a connection to the identity provider. Please verify the provider's health and network connectivity.

What is the most likely cause of this Organization-specific login failure?

17. An Application Developer is working within an NSX VPC and needs to create two subnets. One subnet will host web servers that need to be directly accessible from the internet, while the other will host database servers that should only have outbound internet access.

How are these two types of subnets classified within an NSX VPC?

18. When upgrading from VCF 8.x to VCF 9.0, which of the following must be upgraded first?

19. Which tool is used to upgrade ESXi hosts within VCF?

20. A VMware Consultant is planning to create a new VCF 9.0 fleet by converting a customer's existing standalone vSphere 9.0 environment into a VCF Management Domain.

Which VCF 9.0 tool or component is used to perform this specific conversion operation?

21. An Infrastructure Administrator is reviewing alerts from a vSAN cluster and notices that a datastore is unavailable. Upon investigation, a storage adapter on an ESXi host indicates an "Operational State" of "Lost Communication," and all paths to a specific storage device are marked as "Dead."

Which storage condition does this scenario describe?

22. If vCenter Server is unavailable in a workload domain, what impact does it have?

23. An HCX vMotion migration fails with an error stating that the destination host is not compatible.

The administrator has already verified the following:

- The Service Mesh is healthy.

- There is network connectivity between the sites.

- The destination cluster has sufficient resources.

Which of the following are likely causes for this specific "host compatibility" failure? (Select all that apply.)

24. A VCF Support Engineer is troubleshooting a failed "Add Cluster" workflow in SDDC Manager. The pre-check validation within the wizard is failing.

The validation error message states:

Pre-check: Host Validation

Status: FAILED

Details: The selected hosts ('esx-05.corp.local', 'esx-06.corp.local') are not in a usable state. Current state: 'UNASSIGNED_USEABLE'. Required state: 'COMMISSIONED'.

Based on this error, what is the root cause of the failure?

25. A Cloud Administrator is preparing to upgrade an existing Aria Operations instance as a prerequisite for a larger VCF 9.0 upgrade. The current version of Aria Operations is 8.16.

Review the upgrade requirements documentation:

Step 2: Upgrade Existing Aria Automation and Aria Operations Components to VCF 9.0

Before VCF core components can be upgraded, any existing Aria Automation and Aria Operations components that are deployed must be upgraded. However, before these components can be upgraded to VCF 9.0, they must be on version 8.18. This means that multiple upgrades may be required if on a version prior to this. Note that VCF Operations is now a mandatory component in VCF 9.0.

Based on this information, what must the administrator do before upgrading Aria Operations to the VCF Operations 9.0 equivalent?

26. A Platform Engineer has successfully configured a new Organization in VCF Automation and connected it to an identity provider. Users from the Organization can log in, but when they go to the Service Broker catalog, it is empty. Users from other Organizations can see and request items.

What is the most likely reason the catalog is empty for this specific Organization?

27. To generate a support bundle for VMware GSS, which tool is used?

28. An Application Developer complains that their VM is intermittently very slow. A VCF Support Engineer uses `esxtop` on the host and observes that while CPU `%RDY` time is low, the host is experiencing memory contention.

Which `esxtop` metrics, when consistently showing high values, would confirm that the host is reclaiming memory from this specific VM, causing performance degradation? (Select all that apply.)

29. A VCF Support Engineer is troubleshooting a failed VCF 9.0 upgrade. The administrator initiated the upgrade from SDDC Manager, but the "Upgrade Prerequisite Check" task failed.

The engineer reviews the precheck validation report in the SDDC Manager UI:

VCF Upgrade Precheck Report - Management Domain: mgmt-wld

Overall Status: FAILED

Component Checks:

- [SUCCESS] Temporary IP addresses for vCenter are available.

- [SUCCESS] Required upgrade bundles are downloaded.

- [FAILURE] Password validity check for vCenter component. Details: Password for account '[email protected]' has expired.

- [FAILURE] Certificate validity check for NSX Manager. Details: Certificate 'nsx-mgr-1-cert' will expire in 12 days. Recommended: >30 days remaining.

- [SUCCESS] vSAN Hardware Compatibility Database is updated.

What actions must be taken to resolve the precheck failures before the upgrade can be started? (Select all that apply.)

30. An admin is unable to log in to SDDC Manager.

Which issue is most likely?

31. A VCF Support Engineer is troubleshooting a failed "Add Host" task in SDDC Manager. The validation of the selected host failed before any changes were made.

The validation error message states:

Pre-check: Host Validation

Status: FAILED

Details: Host 'esx-10.corp.local' is running ESXi version 8.0.2. This is not compatible with the cluster's current vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) image, which is based on ESXi version 9.0.

Based on this error, what is the correct remediation step?

32. Which tool is primarily used to scale-out a VCF instance by adding new workload domains?

33. Which vSphere feature is mandatory for VCF Management Workload Domain?

34. Which component is automatically deployed during the creation of a new workload domain?

35. Which HCX service establishes a secure tunnel between source and destination?

36. A VMware Consultant is using the VCF Installer to convert a standalone vSphere 9.0 environment into a VCF Management Domain. The pre-check fails with an error related to the vCenter Server's inventory.

The pre-check report displays the following:

Pre-check: vCenter Server Inventory

Status: FAILED

Details: The source vCenter Server 'vcsa-mgmt.corp.local' manages multiple vSphere clusters ('Cluster-Mgmt' and 'Cluster-Test'). Conversion to a VCF Management Domain is only supported for vCenter Servers managing a single cluster.

What must be done to remediate this issue?

37. Which action is required when an SDDC Manager admin password expires?

38. A VCF environment is configured to use VMware Identity Broker (VIDB) for single sign-on with an external identity provider. A security audit is being performed. To ensure the integrity of the SSO process, the Security Administrator needs to verify the health and status of the VIDB appliance and its connection to the upstream provider.

Which VCF component's user interface is the primary location for deploying, managing, and monitoring the health of the VMware Identity Broker?

39. A VMware Consultant is planning an upgrade of a VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x environment to version 9.0. The existing environment includes SDDC Manager, vCenter, NSX, and an instance of Aria Operations.

According to the documented upgrade sequence, which component or group of components must be upgraded first, before the core VCF management domain components?

40. Which certificate type is replaced during a VCF certificate renewal task?