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VCP7-DCV Study Guide – VCP-DCV 2021 Certification

The latest VMware certification has been announced. VMware just released a new certification for 2020 and it's focusing on installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere 7. You can become certified with a  label of VCP-DCV 2021 certified.

This page is a new page where you'll find all the necessary information about How to pass the VCP-DCV 2021 Exam. So far I have published a new post called VMware released VCP-DCV 2020 Exam based on vSphere 7 .

This page (will get updated frequently) will host a VCP7 Study guide which will be released as a FREE PDF.

If you're studying for a VCP exam right now, you should know that VCP-DCV 2021 exam can also be achieved by passing the 2VO-21.19 based on vSphere 6.7.

 

In fact, you have two options:

Either you pass the exam based on vSphere 6.7 or based on vSphere 7.x. The result will be the same. You'll be certified VCP-DCV 2021.  

Note:

Free VCP6.7-DCV Study Guide is available for download as a PDF at our partner Nakivo. Our detailed page about that exam is here – VCP6.7-DCV. You can use this guide to pass VCP-DCV 2021 certification.

(The 6.7 exam has been extended to the end of June 2021!!!)

If you are willing to become VCP-DCV 2021 and pass the VCP7 exam, 2V0-21.20,   you will not be required to pass the Foundation exam…. Good to know.

No Foundation exam required when passing 2V0-21.20

Sections included in The VCP Professional VMware vSphere 7.x Exam (2V0-21.20)

Section 1   Architectures and Technologies
1. Objective 1.1 Identify the pre-requisites and components for a vSphere implementation
2. Objective 1.2 Describe vCenter Server topology
3. Objective 1.3 Identify and differentiate storage access protocols for vSphere (NFS, iSCSI, SAN, etc.)
4.  1.3.1 Describe storage datastore types for vSphere
5.  1.3.2 Explain the importance of advanced storage configuration (vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA),vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI), etc.)
6.  1.3.3 Describe storage policies
7.  1.3.4 Describe basic storage concepts in K8s, vSAN and vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
8. Objective 1.4 Differentiate between vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC) and vSphere Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
9. Objective 1.5 Describe instant clone architecture and use cases
10. Objective 1.6 Describe ESXi cluster concepts
11. Objective 1.6.1 Describe Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
12. Objective 1.6.2 Describe vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
13. Objective 1.6.3 Describe how Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) scores virtual machines
14. Objective 1.6.4 Describe vSphere High Availability
15. Objective 1.6.5 Describe datastore clusters
16. Objective 1.7 Identify vSphere distributed switch and vSphere standard switch capabilities
15. Objective 1.7.1 Describe VMkernel networking
16. Objective 1.7.2 Manage networking on multiple hosts with vSphere distributed switch
17. Objective 1.7.3 Describe networking policies
18. Objective 1.7.4 Manage Network I/O Control (NIOC) on a vSphere distributed switch
19. Objective 1.8 Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager concepts (baselines, cluster images, etc.)
20. Objective 1.9 Describe the basics of vSAN as primary storage
21. Objective 1.9.1 Identify basic vSAN requirements (networking, disk count + type)
22. Objective 1.10 Describe the vSphere Trust Authority architecture
23 Objective 1.11 Explain Software Guard Extensions (SGX)
Section 2 VMware Products and Solutions
24. Objective 2.1 Describe the role of vSphere in the software-defined data center (SDDC)
25. Objective 2.2 Identify use cases for vCloud Foundation
26.  Objective 2.3 Identify migration options
27. Objective 2.4 Identify DR use cases
28. Objective 2.5 Describe vSphere integration with VMware Skyline
Section 3 Planning and Designing – No testable objectives for this section.
Section 4 Installing, Configuring, and Setup
29. Objective 4.1 Describe single sign-on (SSO) deployment topology
30. Objective 4.1.1 Configure a single sign-on (SSO) domain
31. Objective 4.1.2 Join an existing single sign-on (SSO) domain
32. Objective 4.2 Configure VSS advanced virtual networking options
33. Objective 4.3 Set up identity sources
34. Objective 4.3.1 Configure Identity Federation
35. Objective 4.3.2 Configure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration
36. Objective 4.3.3 Configure Active Directory integration
37. Objective 4.4 Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
38. Objective 4.5 Create and configure VMware High Availability and advanced options (Admission Control, Proactive High Availability, etc.) – In preparation (1st for May)
39. Objective 4.6 Deploy and configure vCenter Server High Availability
40. Objective 4.7 Set up a content library
41. Objective 4.8 Configure vCenter Server file-based backup
42. Objective 4.9 Analyze basic log output from vSphere products – In preparation (2nd for May)
43. Objective 4.10 Configure vSphere Trust Authority
44. Objective 4.11 Configure vSphere certificates
45. Objective 4.11.1 Describe Enterprise PKIs role for SSL certificates
46. Objective 4.12 Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager/VMware Update Manager (VUM)
47. Objective 4.13 Securely Boot ESXi hosts
48. Objective 4.14 Configure different network stacks
49. Objective 4.15 Configure Host Profiles
50. Objective 4.16 Identify boot options
51. Objective 4.16.1 Configure Quick Boot
Section 5 Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades
52. Objective 5.1 Identify resource pools use cases
53. Objective 5.1.1 Explain shares, limits, and reservations (resource management)
54. Objective 5.2 Monitor resources of vCenter Server Appliance and vSphere environment
55. Objective 5.3 Identify and use tools for performance monitoring
56. Objective 5.4 Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC)
57. Objective 5.5 Configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
58. Objective 5.6 Explain the performance impact of maintaining virtual machine snapshots
59. Objective 5.7 Plan for upgrading various vSphere components
Section 6 Troubleshooting and Repairing – There are no testable objectives for this section.
60. Section 7 Administrative and Operational Tasks
61. Objective 7.1 Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
62. Objective 7.2 Create virtual machines using different methods (Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) templates, content library, etc.)
63. Objective 7.3 Manage virtual machines – same as above
64. Objective 7.4 Manage storage (datastores, storage policies, etc.) – from vSphere 6.x
65. Objective 7.4.1 Configure and modify datastores (expand/upgrade existing datastore, etc.)
66. Objective 7.4.2 Create virtual machine storage policies
67. Objective 7.4.3 Configure storage cluster options
68. Objective 7.5 Create Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity and anti-affinity rules for common use cases
69. Objective 7.6 Configure and perform different types of migrations
70. Objective 7.7 Configure role-based user management
71. 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.) – from vSphere 6.7
72. Objective 7.9 Configure and manage host profiles
73. Objective 7.10 Utilize baselines to perform updates and upgrades – from vSphere 6.7
74. Objective 7.11 Utilize vSphere Lifecycle Manager
75. Objective 7.11.1 Describe Firmware upgrades for ESXi
76. Objective 7.11.2 Describe ESXi updates
77. Objective 7.11.3 Describe component and driver updates for ESXi
78. Objective 7.11.4 Describe hardware compatibility check
79. Objective 7.11.5 Describe ESXi cluster image export functionality
80. Objective 7.12 Configure alarms

Links:

Check the official VMware VCP-DCV 2021 exam guide (blueprint) here.

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