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.
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) – In preparation (SW) |
| 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.) |
| 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 |
| 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) – in preparation (1 for F) |
| 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 |
| 64. | Objective 7.4 | Manage storage (datastores, storage policies, etc.) |
| 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.) |
| 72. | Objective 7.9 | Configure and manage host profiles |
| 73. | Objective 7.10 | Utilize baselines to perform updates and upgrades |
| 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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- VMware VCP7-DCV Exam page here.
- VCP6.7-DCV Study Guide – VCP-DCV 2019 certification