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

An administrator wants to explain which VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) component is responsible for orchestrating bring-up, lifecycle management, and configuration drift remediation across the SDDC. Which component is it?

A network team requires strict separation of overlay networking used by management components from overlay networking used by tenant workloads. In VCF, where should tenant workloads be placed to best align with this requirement?

During initial VCF bring-up, the administrator must meet a prerequisite related to DNS for the management components. Which prerequisite is required to avoid deployment failures?

An administrator is preparing to add additional ESXi hosts to an existing VCF workload domain cluster. What is the recommended approach to ensure hosts are added in a supported, consistent manner?

A company needs to deploy a new VI workload domain. The security team requires that the NSX-T overlay segment for workloads be isolated from the management overlay and that separate NSX Edge resources be used for north-south traffic. Which design best meets this requirement in VCF?

After a lifecycle upgrade, an administrator notices that several VCF-managed components show as "drifted" in SDDC Manager. Which action is the best next step to return to a supported state while minimizing manual changes?

A workload domain cluster is experiencing intermittent VM connectivity issues. The NSX overlay is in use. The administrator suspects an MTU mismatch on the physical network path. Which symptom most strongly supports an MTU mismatch as the root cause?

An administrator needs to allocate additional compute capacity to a specific application team without giving them visibility into the entire SDDC. Which approach aligns best with VCF operations and vSphere best practices?

A VCF administrator must apply security patches across multiple workload domains while ensuring compatibility across vSphere, vSAN, and NSX. The goal is to maintain a supported, validated software stack. Which method should be used?

A company plans to enable stretched cluster functionality for a critical workload domain and wants to ensure the design can tolerate a full site failure while maintaining data availability. Which additional component is required to provide quorum in a two-site stretched vSAN design?

An administrator is asked to explain the primary purpose of the NSX Edge Cluster within a VMware Cloud Foundation workload domain. What is the most accurate description?

A team wants to add additional compute capacity for tenant workloads without impacting the management domain. Which VMware Cloud Foundation construct should they expand?

During the bring-up of a new VMware Cloud Foundation instance, the validation fails due to a DNS issue. Which DNS configuration is the most critical prerequisite to verify to prevent repeated failures?

A new workload domain must meet strict separation requirements so that its networking and lifecycle operations are isolated from other workload domains. Which design choice best supports this requirement in VMware Cloud Foundation?

An administrator needs to apply a vendor firmware update across multiple hosts in a workload domain and wants it tracked as part of a standardized lifecycle process. Which approach aligns best with VMware Cloud Foundation operations?

A VI workload domain must be deployed on a set of hosts that are already in the SDDC inventory but should not be shared with other domains. What should the administrator do before starting the workload domain creation wizard?

After a scheduled maintenance window, several virtual machines in a workload domain show intermittent connectivity to external networks. East-west traffic within the same segment is stable. Which NSX component is the most likely starting point to investigate for north-south connectivity issues?

An operations team wants to minimize the risk of configuration drift when managing workload domain clusters and ensure changes remain compatible with VCF lifecycle automation. Which practice is most appropriate?

A workload domain expansion fails while adding new hosts. SDDC Manager reports that the hosts cannot be commissioned due to certificate/thumbprint validation mismatch. The hardware and network are confirmed healthy. What is the most likely corrective action?

A security audit requires that administrative access to workload domain vCenter Servers be controlled centrally with role-based access and consistent identity policies across domains. Which approach best meets this requirement in VMware Cloud Foundation?

An administrator is asked to explain what VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) uses as the authoritative inventory of ESXi hosts, clusters, and workloads after the management domain is deployed. Which component is responsible for that inventory and the associated operations (for example, clusters and resource pools)?

During VI workload domain commissioning, the wizard prompts for information to create the vSAN datastore. Which input is required to ensure vSAN can be enabled and claimed correctly for the new cluster?

A helpdesk engineer needs to confirm whether a workload domain is healthy and compliant with its current desired state. Which VCF interface is the most appropriate first place to check overall domain status?

After adding additional ESXi hosts to a VCF workload domain, an administrator wants the hosts to be configured consistently with the cluster configuration (NTP, syslog, and other host settings) and continuously remediated for drift. Which vSphere feature best supports this operational goal in a VCF environment?

A VCF administrator needs to temporarily suspend VCF lifecycle operations on one ESXi host to investigate a hardware issue, while keeping the host in the workload domain. Which action best meets the requirement without removing the host from inventory?

A company wants to provide a consistent method for operators to run repeatable infrastructure tasks (for example, collecting logs and running health checks) across VCF components without granting full administrative access. Which approach best aligns with VCF operational best practices?

A VCF lifecycle workflow fails while attempting to apply an update. The error indicates it cannot upload bundles to the repository due to insufficient space. What is the most appropriate corrective action to restore the ability to perform lifecycle operations?

A workload domain cluster shows intermittent vSAN network partition warnings. The administrator discovers that the vSAN vmkernel interfaces are configured on a VLAN that is not consistently trunked across all top-of-rack switches. Which remediation is most appropriate to stabilize vSAN communication?

An administrator plans to expand a VCF environment by adding a new workload domain intended for a regulated application. The security team requires strict separation so that the application teams cannot see or modify networking for other domains. Which design approach best satisfies this requirement within VCF?

After a certificate change in the environment, SDDC Manager reports it cannot authenticate to vCenter Server during inventory sync. The vCenter UI is accessible, but SDDC Manager workflows fail. What is the most likely cause and the best next step?

During initial planning, an architect asks which VCF component is responsible for orchestrating deployment, lifecycle management, and patching of the full SDDC stack (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and related components) across workload domains. Which component should you identify?

A VCF administrator needs to provide a dedicated, isolated environment for a new application team with separate compute and storage policies while still using the centrally managed VCF stack. Which VCF construct best matches this requirement?

You are preparing to run a VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up. Which prerequisite is most critical to ensure VCF can successfully establish trusted communications among management components from the start?

An administrator wants to scale out an existing VI workload domain by adding capacity. Which action is the supported VCF approach to add hosts while keeping lifecycle and configuration consistent?

A team reports intermittent connectivity to VMs in a workload domain after recent network changes. You suspect an MTU mismatch on the overlay network. Which initial check is most appropriate to validate this suspicion in a VCF environment using NSX?

An administrator needs to apply security patches across the VCF stack while minimizing the risk of component incompatibility. What is the recommended approach?

A workload domain cluster is experiencing memory contention and frequent ballooning. The application team requests a guarantee of minimum memory for a critical VM without fully pinning resources across the cluster. Which vSphere feature should the administrator use?

A vSAN-backed VI workload domain is nearing capacity. The admin must increase storage while maintaining resilience and avoiding an immediate redesign. Which action best aligns with vSAN scaling practices in VCF?

After running a VCF lifecycle update, SDDC Manager reports the workload domain is "Non-Compliant" even though the ESXi host versions appear correct in vCenter. What is the most likely cause to investigate first?

A customer plans to host workloads with strict separation requirements: different network security controls, independent lifecycle timing, and limited administrative access between teams. In VCF, which design choice best satisfies these requirements while maintaining standardized operations?

Which VMware Cloud Foundation component is responsible for lifecycle management and patch orchestration of the VCF software stack across a workload domain?

An administrator needs to add additional ESXi capacity to an existing VCF workload domain using the supported workflow. What is the recommended approach?

A VI workload domain shows high VM latency during peak hours. Storage is vSAN. Which vSAN feature is most appropriate to prioritize latency-sensitive workloads without moving them to a different datastore?

A new application requires strict separation from existing tenants, including independent vCenter boundaries and isolated NSX networking while still using the same physical infrastructure. Which VCF construct best meets this requirement?

During a planned maintenance window, an administrator wants to update the VCF software stack while minimizing the risk of configuration drift. What is the best practice method to apply updates?

After deploying a new workload domain, some ESXi hosts appear as NSX transport nodes, but overlay segments cannot pass traffic between VMs on different hosts. Underlay network connectivity is confirmed. Which misconfiguration is the most likely cause?

An organization wants to delegate day-2 operations for a specific workload domain to a tenant admin team while preventing them from making global VCF changes (for example, adding/removing workload domains or changing global networking settings). Which approach best aligns with least-privilege in VCF?

A workload domain expansion fails during the host validation step in SDDC Manager. The error indicates the host cannot be placed into the required vSphere Distributed Switch configuration. The host is reachable and ESXi is installed. What should the administrator check first?

A security team requires that administrative access to NSX and vCenter in the management domain be available even if the VI workload domain vCenters are offline. Which architectural practice in VCF best supports this requirement?

After an update attempt, SDDC Manager reports the environment is in a partially-upgraded state. Some components are updated, but a subset of ESXi hosts remain pending due to a failed remediation step. What is the safest next action to return to a consistent, supported state?