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

An administrator is new to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and wants to identify which component is responsible for deploying, expanding, and patching a workload domain through automated workflows. Which VCF component provides this lifecycle orchestration?

A support engineer needs to quickly determine whether vSAN is enabled and healthy for a cluster within a VCF workload domain. Where is the most appropriate place to start this check?

A VCF environment is experiencing intermittent management plane issues. As a first step, an administrator wants to confirm that the DNS services used by VCF are consistent and resolvable from management components. Which troubleshooting action is MOST appropriate?

During routine operations, an administrator wants to follow best practice for time synchronization across all VCF components to avoid authentication and certificate issues. What is the recommended approach?

A workload domain expansion task in SDDC Manager fails during host commissioning. The physical host appears reachable on the network, but SDDC Manager reports that it cannot complete prerequisite checks. Which issue is MOST likely to cause this behavior?

Users report that a specific application VM in a VCF workload domain is slow. The cluster has no active alarms. Which metric is MOST useful to quickly determine whether the issue is likely storage-related versus CPU scheduling-related?

An administrator needs to collect logs for a support case related to intermittent ESXi host connectivity in a VCF environment. Which approach is MOST aligned with support best practices to ensure logs persist even if a host becomes unreachable?

A support engineer needs to explain the separation of responsibilities in VCF to a new team member. Which statement BEST describes the role of vCenter Server within a VCF workload domain?

An organization plans to apply a VCF update. After running prechecks, SDDC Manager reports a warning about certificate validity for one management component. The customer wants to proceed quickly, but also wants to avoid update failure. What is the BEST next action?

After a planned maintenance event, multiple VCF services appear up, but SDDC Manager shows domain operations stuck in a running state and new tasks cannot be started. The engineer suspects one of the internal services responsible for workflow execution is unhealthy. What is the MOST appropriate first troubleshooting step?

An administrator is asked to explain which VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) component is responsible for deploying and managing the software-defined infrastructure (SDI) stack across workload domains. Which component should they name?

A support engineer needs to verify the health of ESXi hosts and cluster services for a VCF workload domain using the primary management interface for that domain. Which interface should be used?

After a planned maintenance activity, an administrator needs to confirm that the VCF management domain is healthy before returning the system to operations. Which action is most appropriate as a first step?

A workload domain is experiencing intermittent east-west connectivity issues between VMs. VM network port groups appear correct in vCenter. Which NSX feature should be checked first to confirm that hosts are properly prepared to carry overlay traffic?

During routine monitoring, an administrator observes increasing vSAN read latency in a cluster, while CPU usage remains low. Which metric is most useful to check next to determine whether the issue is likely storage-device related rather than compute related?

An administrator is preparing to remediate ESXi hosts as part of a VCF lifecycle operation. What is the recommended approach to minimize workload impact while keeping the cluster compliant?

A VCF support engineer is troubleshooting an alarm indicating that a vSphere cluster in a workload domain is not meeting availability expectations after several host failures. Which configuration should be reviewed to ensure sufficient capacity is reserved for failover?

A VCF environment shows overall management plane slowness when performing domain-level operations. Which action is most appropriate to identify whether the issue is related to underlying service health versus resource contention?

A VCF administrator initiates a lifecycle upgrade but the precheck fails due to an NSX cluster health warning. The NSX UI shows one manager node is down. What is the best next action to restore upgrade readiness while maintaining management plane resiliency?

A vSAN-backed VCF workload domain reports repeated object health issues after a host is placed into maintenance mode. The administrator selected a maintenance option that caused reduced data availability warnings. Which maintenance mode option most likely led to this behavior?

An administrator is asked which VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) component provides the centralized user interface and APIs for managing VCF operations across workloads and domains. Which component is responsible for this role?

A VCF environment uses a dedicated set of management components (vCenter, NSX, vSAN, etc.) separated from tenant workloads. Which VCF construct is designed to host these management components?

A support engineer needs to determine whether a reported issue is isolated to a single workload domain or is impacting the overall VCF management plane. Which first step is most appropriate?

After a planned maintenance window, several ESXi hosts show as disconnected in vCenter within a VCF workload domain, but the hosts respond to ping and SSH. Other clusters are unaffected. What is the most likely cause?

A VCF administrator wants to proactively detect storage performance bottlenecks impacting a vSAN-backed workload domain. Which metric is the most directly useful to identify vSAN latency issues affecting VMs?

A patching task is scheduled in SDDC Manager for a workload domain. The task fails early with a precheck error indicating insufficient free capacity to evacuate hosts. What is the best corrective action to enable patching with minimal risk?

A support engineer needs to collect logs for a VCF case involving SDDC Manager workflows failing intermittently. Which approach is most aligned with support best practices?

A VCF workload domain experiences intermittent packet loss between ESXi hosts and the NSX overlay network. The physical network team confirms the underlay is stable. Which NSX component or configuration is most important to verify first in this scenario?

During an upgrade of a workload domain via SDDC Manager, the process fails after upgrading vCenter but before completing ESXi remediation. The environment is operational but in a partially upgraded state. What is the recommended next action?

A performance alert indicates high CPU Ready time for multiple VMs across a cluster in a VCF workload domain. Utilization is moderate, but Ready time spikes during business hours. Which action is most likely to reduce CPU Ready without adding hardware immediately?

An administrator needs to explain how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) manages and automates the full SDDC stack (compute, storage, network, and management services) across workload domains. Which component is primarily responsible for this centralized orchestration and lifecycle operations?

A support engineer is troubleshooting why a newly commissioned ESXi host does not appear as available for a workload domain expansion in VCF. The host is reachable on the network and responds to ping. Which prerequisite is MOST likely missing?

A VCF operator wants a single pane of glass to view performance metrics, capacity trends, and alerts across workload domains and their underlying vSphere/vSAN components. Which solution is MOST appropriate in a VCF environment?

During routine operations, an administrator needs to apply updates to the VCF stack in a way that maintains compatibility across components. Which VCF construct defines validated combinations of component versions for lifecycle operations?

A workload domain cluster is experiencing intermittent VM latency. Aria Operations indicates high datastore latency, but CPU and memory are normal. Which metric should the support engineer check FIRST to validate whether the latency is storage-path related rather than VM-level contention?

A VCF environment uses NSX for overlay networking. After a maintenance activity, several VMs lose connectivity to networks connected to an NSX Tier-1 gateway, while connectivity within the same segment remains fine. Which component should be checked FIRST for the health/status of the logical routing services impacting north-south or inter-segment traffic?

An operator needs to perform a VCF lifecycle update but wants to minimize risk by verifying readiness and prechecks before any changes are made. Which is the BEST practice approach in VCF before starting remediation?

A support engineer notices frequent vMotion failures between hosts in a VCF workload domain. The failures correlate with brief network interruptions on the vMotion VLAN. Which configuration is the MOST appropriate to validate to improve resiliency for vMotion traffic?

A VCF environment shows a degraded vSAN cluster health warning after a host replacement. The warning indicates a mismatch in vSAN disk group configuration compared to other hosts, and capacity is reduced. What is the BEST next step to restore the cluster to the expected state while following VCF operational practices?

A lifecycle remediation in VCF fails partway through with a message indicating one or more components are not in the expected state due to configuration drift. The administrator suspects changes were made directly in a component UI instead of through VCF workflows. What is the MOST appropriate action to take FIRST?

An administrator is reviewing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) documentation and wants to confirm the role of SDDC Manager. Which statement best describes SDDC Manager in a VCF environment?

A VCF support engineer needs to confirm whether an NSX issue is affecting only one workload domain or the entire SDDC. Which VCF design characteristic most directly determines the scope of NSX impact?

During a maintenance window, an administrator runs a VCF upgrade using SDDC Manager. The precheck reports host health warnings and blocks the upgrade. What is the best next action?

Users report intermittent packet loss between two application tiers hosted on different ESXi hosts within the same workload domain. vCenter shows no host alarms and VM CPU usage is normal. Which is the most appropriate next troubleshooting step in VCF with NSX networking?

A support case reports that SDDC Manager shows a workload domain in a degraded state after a failed task. The engineer needs the most direct way to determine which step failed and what API call or operation caused it. Where should they look first?

An operations team notices higher than expected latency on a vSAN-backed workload domain. They want to identify whether the latency is driven by disk group congestion or network retransmissions. Which monitoring approach is most appropriate?

A VCF environment shows frequent vSphere HA failover events in a management domain cluster, but no hardware failures are reported. Which metric or symptom most strongly indicates a likely network-related HA trigger?

A certificate used by a core VCF service is nearing expiration. The team wants to minimize operational risk and maintain supportability. What is the recommended approach?

A VCF operator is planning to remediate hosts in a cluster. Some VMs are not migrating during the automated workflow, causing the host remediation to fail. Which condition is the MOST likely cause that must be resolved first?

After a partial network change, several ESXi hosts in a workload domain show as disconnected in vCenter, and NSX transport nodes are down. However, the hosts are reachable via out-of-band management and respond to ping on a different VLAN. What should be the PRIMARY focus to restore services while preserving VCF supportability?