50 VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Administrator Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

An administrator is explaining VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to a new team member. Which component is primarily responsible for orchestrating bring-up, lifecycle management, and patching of the VCF cloud environment?

A company is designing a VCF environment and wants to ensure the management components are isolated from tenant workloads. Which VCF construct is designed to host shared management infrastructure components?

During planning for a VCF deployment, the network team asks what type of connectivity is required so that hosts can communicate reliably between racks without blocked MAC learning or flooded multicast. Which underlay network characteristic best supports VCF with NSX overlay networking?

An administrator needs to add compute capacity for a new application while keeping it logically separated from existing workloads. Which VCF approach best meets this requirement?

After starting a VCF update in SDDC Manager, prechecks fail due to incompatible firmware on several hosts. What is the most appropriate next step to maintain VCF-supported lifecycle management?

A VI Workload Domain is short on capacity. The administrator wants to expand it by adding hosts that are currently not managed by any vCenter Server. Which sequence best aligns with VCF best practices for adding capacity?

A security team requires micro-segmentation for east-west traffic and the ability to enforce distributed firewall rules close to the workload. Which VCF component provides this capability?

An administrator receives reports that new VMs in a workload domain cannot reach external networks, but internal VM-to-VM communication on the same segment works. Which NSX component should be checked first for north-south connectivity configuration issues?

During bring-up, SDDC Manager fails while validating host networking. The physical network supports only 1500-byte MTU end-to-end. The design uses NSX overlay networking. Which change is most likely to resolve the issue with minimal redesign risk?

A VCF administrator must apply a security fix to a workload domain with the least operational risk and while maintaining compliance with VCF lifecycle management. Which approach is most appropriate?

An administrator is explaining VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) components to a new team member. Which component is responsible for orchestrating bring-up, lifecycle management, and upgrades of the VCF system?

A company is planning network segmentation for a VCF deployment. Which traffic type is typically isolated on its own VLAN to support automated host imaging and initial provisioning during bring-up?

Which VCF construct is used to group compute, storage, and networking resources into an operational boundary where lifecycle management can be performed consistently?

During planning, a customer asks why VCF requires a dedicated management domain. What is the primary purpose of the management domain in a standard VCF architecture?

An administrator needs to expand a VI workload domain by adding capacity. Which approach aligns with VCF best practices for maintaining lifecycle manageability and configuration consistency?

A VCF administrator is planning certificate management. Which statement best reflects recommended operational practice for certificates in a production VCF environment?

After a failed lifecycle operation, SDDC Manager reports that a target ESXi host is not compatible with the desired image. The host was recently replaced due to hardware failure. What is the most likely cause?

An operations team wants to reduce the risk of configuration drift across clusters in a workload domain and simplify future upgrades. Which operational approach best supports this goal in VCF?

A new VI workload domain deployment fails during NSX preparation with an error indicating it cannot establish connectivity to the NSX management plane. All IPs and credentials are verified as correct. Which prerequisite is MOST likely missing?

A VCF environment experiences intermittent VM connectivity issues after expanding to additional racks. The issue correlates with increased east-west traffic. The physical network team confirms that jumbo frames are enabled only on some leaf switch ports. What is the best next step to validate and remediate in a VCF context?

An administrator needs to determine which service in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is responsible for lifecycle management of the SDDC software stack (including ESXi, vCenter, NSX, and vSAN) across workload domains. Which component provides this capability?

A VCF administrator wants to add a new cluster to an existing workload domain to increase compute capacity while keeping consistent networking, storage policies, and lifecycle management. What is the recommended VCF approach?

An administrator is asked to quickly verify overall platform health and to view alarms for VCF components from a single interface without logging into each product separately. Which interface is best suited for this task?

During a planned expansion, an administrator needs to commission new hosts so they are compliant with VCF requirements (network settings, association to the correct domain, and readiness for future lifecycle operations). What is the appropriate workflow?

A tenant requires strict separation from other tenants and needs the ability to use overlapping IP addressing for their application networks. Which VCF/NSX construct best meets this requirement within a single VCF instance?

After running a VCF upgrade precheck, SDDC Manager reports that the NSX Manager cluster is not healthy and blocks the upgrade. The NSX UI shows one NSX Manager node with datastore latency warnings and frequent management plane disconnects. What is the best next step to remediate and proceed safely?

An administrator needs to validate that the physical network is correctly prepared for a VCF deployment using NSX with an overlay. Which physical network requirement is most critical to confirm to avoid MTU-related overlay issues?

A VCF environment must meet a security requirement that management workloads (SDDC Manager, vCenter, NSX Manager, and other management appliances) remain isolated from tenant workloads at the compute layer. Which design choice best aligns with VCF best practices?

A workload domain patch attempt fails partway through and leaves the environment in a state where vCenter is healthy but several ESXi hosts are in maintenance mode and the SDDC Manager workflow shows 'Failed' with retry options. The administrator must minimize risk and ensure the environment returns to a supported VCF state. What is the recommended action?

A company must provide a disaster recovery (DR) capability for a critical workload domain. They want automated failover/failback and orchestrated recovery plans while keeping the VCF management domain independent at each site. Which solution best fits this requirement?

An administrator is preparing to add a new workload domain in VMware Cloud Foundation. Which component is responsible for automating the creation of the vCenter Server instance and applying the standardized configuration for that workload domain?

A network team requires that ESXi management traffic remain isolated from vMotion and vSAN traffic in a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. Which VCF design approach best meets this requirement?

An administrator needs a centralized place to view VCF alarms and initiate common management tasks such as domain expansion and lifecycle operations. Which interface is most appropriate for these VCF-specific operations?

A security team asks how VMware Cloud Foundation helps enforce consistent security configuration during deployments. Which VCF capability best addresses this?

After attempting to expand a workload domain cluster, the task fails with a precheck error indicating the new hosts do not match the existing cluster's ESXi build and vendor add-on. What is the recommended next step?

A company wants to provide east-west micro-segmentation for virtual machines in a VCF workload domain. Which component delivers distributed firewalling and security policy enforcement at the vNIC level?

During an update, SDDC Manager reports it cannot download update bundles from the repository. The environment uses a proxy for outbound internet access. Which configuration should the administrator validate first to restore download capability?

An administrator needs to perform lifecycle upgrades with minimal disruption and wants to follow supported VCF practices. Which approach is recommended when planning component updates across the SDDC?

A VI workload domain creation fails because the selected license cannot be applied to the new vCenter Server during the workflow. The organization uses a central licensing approach. What should the administrator do to ensure the workflow can complete successfully in a compliant manner?

An organization experiences intermittent VM connectivity issues after adding new hosts to an NSX-enabled workload domain. The issue occurs only on VMs attached to overlay segments. Which troubleshooting step is most directly relevant to NSX overlay transport health?

An administrator is planning day-2 operations for a new VMware Cloud Foundation environment. They want a single workflow to apply an approved bundle across ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, and NSX components in a workload domain with built-in prechecks and drift awareness. Which VCF component should be used?

A VI workload domain will be used for production workloads with strict separation of management traffic from tenant traffic. Which VCF best practice satisfies this requirement?

An administrator needs to add a new ESXi host into an existing VCF workload domain cluster. The host already has ESXi installed. Which requirement must be met for SDDC Manager to successfully commission and add the host?

After an NSX segment is created for a workload domain, virtual machines connected to that segment cannot reach the upstream physical network. In NSX, the segment is connected to a Tier-1 gateway. Which is the most likely missing configuration to enable north-south connectivity?

A company wants to introduce a second workload domain for a new business unit while keeping the same VCF management domain. The primary goal is operational separation of compute and policies while maintaining centralized lifecycle management. Which design aligns best with VCF architecture?

During a VCF bring-up, validation fails due to inconsistent time across hosts and the management appliances. The NTP servers are reachable and correct. Which additional factor most commonly causes this symptom in a new environment?

An administrator is preparing to run a VCF upgrade. Prechecks report that one ESXi host in a workload domain has a different driver/firmware level than the rest of the cluster. What is the best operational response to ensure a successful VCF lifecycle operation?

A workload domain uses vSAN. After adding hosts, storage performance is inconsistent and a review shows mixed disk group configurations across hosts (different cache device types and capacities). Which action is most likely to stabilize and optimize performance in line with vSAN best practices in VCF?

An organization wants to automate provisioning of networks and security for applications deployed in a VCF workload domain. They require a declarative approach where application connectivity and security policies follow the application lifecycle. Which NSX capability best matches this requirement?

An administrator is troubleshooting a failed VCF domain operation initiated in SDDC Manager. The task failed partway through and they need the most authoritative source to identify which sub-task failed, the API call details, and the exact error returned by the orchestrator. Where should they look first?