50 VMware Certified Specialist - VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

In a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment, which component is primarily responsible for orchestrating the bring-up, expansion, and lifecycle management of workload domains and their components?

A design requirement states that vSAN storage should tolerate a single host failure in a cluster while maintaining availability. Which vSAN policy setting best meets this requirement?

During the VCF bring-up process, you need to provide a network that allows ESXi hosts and management components to resolve hostnames reliably. Which service is required to meet this need?

An administrator wants a single interface to view VCF inventory (workload domains, clusters) and initiate day-2 operations such as adding hosts to a workload domain. Where should they perform these tasks?

A customer plans to deploy VCF and wants to reduce risk during initial bring-up. Which approach is the recommended best practice regarding the management domain?

After adding new ESXi hosts to a VI workload domain, an administrator notices they do not appear as usable capacity in the cluster even though they were discovered successfully. Which step is most likely missing in an orchestrated VCF expansion workflow?

A VCF environment experiences intermittent failures when deploying or upgrading management components. Multiple systems show authentication issues that correlate with time drift. Which configuration should be verified first to address the most likely root cause?

A customer wants to create a new VI workload domain for a specific application team while maintaining consistent configuration and lifecycle control across the VCF stack. What is the primary reason to deploy the VI workload domain through SDDC Manager instead of building it manually in vCenter?

A deployment engineer is troubleshooting VCF bring-up failures where prechecks indicate network connectivity is present, but services fail when using hostnames. Forward lookups work, but reverse lookups intermittently fail. What is the most appropriate corrective action?

A company must meet a strict security requirement: management plane traffic (for VCF core components) must be isolated from tenant workload traffic, and administrative access must be tightly controlled. Which design choice best aligns with this requirement?

An administrator is reviewing the key software components deployed by SDDC Manager in a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment. Which component is primarily responsible for provisioning and maintaining the NSX overlay networking for workload domains?

During planning for a new VCF deployment, the network team asks what type of traffic must be routable between the management domain and a VI workload domain to support SDDC Manager lifecycle operations. Which traffic requirement is most accurate?

An administrator wants to confirm which system in VCF serves as the "single pane of glass" for deploying workload domains and orchestrating upgrades. Which component fulfills this role?

A company is designing its first VCF environment and wants to minimize risk during initial deployment while keeping a clear separation between infrastructure management and tenant workloads. Which design best aligns with VCF best practices?

While validating prerequisites for bringing up VCF, an administrator notices that some ESXi hosts have inconsistent time settings compared to others. The deployment team wants to avoid authentication and certificate-related issues during bring-up. What should be done before attempting deployment?

An administrator is commissioning new ESXi hosts into an existing VCF environment to expand a VI workload domain cluster. The task fails because SDDC Manager cannot communicate with the hosts over the management network. Which is the most likely prerequisite issue to check first?

A VI workload domain has been created with NSX. The security team requires micro-segmentation policies to be applied at the VM level for east-west traffic control. Which NSX feature should be used to meet this requirement?

After a patch cycle, an operator wants to confirm that the VCF environment remains in a supported state and that there are no configuration drifts impacting lifecycle management. Which operational practice best supports this goal?

A company plans to deploy VCF and has strict security requirements: the management domain must be isolated from general user networks, but still allow administrators to access vCenter, NSX Manager, and SDDC Manager. Which approach best meets this requirement?

During VI workload domain creation, the workflow fails when configuring NSX Edge services. The log indicates that the Edge nodes cannot establish required connectivity to the upstream network. Which design issue is the most likely root cause?

During VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up, an administrator is asked to provide DNS and NTP information. Which best practice most directly reduces the risk of certificate and authentication issues across SDDC Manager, vCenter, and NSX?

A design requirement states that VCF management workloads must be isolated from tenant workloads and protected from configuration drift. Which VCF construct most directly satisfies this requirement?

An administrator is preparing to commission hosts for a new workload domain. Which host configuration item is most critical to validate before commissioning to avoid image/driver compliance failures later?

A customer wants to use external identity sources for vCenter authentication after VCF deployment. Which approach aligns best with VCF operations and minimizes ongoing administrative overhead?

After deploying a new workload domain, virtual machines cannot reach networks in another workload domain. Both domains use NSX and have their own segments. What is the most likely missing configuration to enable east-west connectivity between the domains?

An organization requires that all changes to VCF infrastructure be traceable and standardized. Which operational practice best supports this requirement when performing updates and configuration changes?

A VCF deployment uses a network design where management traffic must be strictly separated from host overlay/transport traffic. Which planning artifact is most important to validate with the network team before deployment to avoid rework?

During NSX bring-up as part of VCF deployment, host transport node configuration fails with an MTU mismatch error. The physical network is configured for standard MTU. What is the best corrective action that aligns with VCF/NSX best practices?

A security team requires that administrative access to VCF management components be restricted and that credentials be rotated without breaking automated lifecycle operations. Which approach best meets the requirement?

A company plans multiple workload domains and wants to minimize operational risk during upgrades by limiting the blast radius of lifecycle changes. Which design decision most directly helps achieve this in VCF?

During initial planning, an architect wants to clearly describe what a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain is responsible for. Which description best matches a Workload Domain?

A deployment team is designing the VCF network. Which network traffic type is most commonly required for ESXi host management and is relied on during bring-up and ongoing operations?

An administrator needs to add additional ESXi hosts to an existing VI Workload Domain cluster using VMware Cloud Foundation. Which approach is recommended?

A platform operator wants to perform upgrades in a VCF environment while minimizing the risk of component incompatibility. What is the primary value of SDDC Manager's lifecycle management in this context?

During bring-up, SDDC Manager fails to validate a set of hosts that were recently racked. The error indicates a mismatch between the discovered NIC layout and the expected design. What is the most likely cause?

A customer wants to isolate lifecycle operations and administrative boundaries between infrastructure services and tenant workloads. Which VCF design best supports this requirement?

After deploying a VI Workload Domain, an administrator notices that manual changes made to NSX configuration are later overwritten during a VCF remediation task. What is the best practice to avoid this outcome?

A company plans to add a new workload domain intended for production workloads with strict change control. They want to reduce unplanned outages during maintenance. Which design choice most directly supports this goal?

A VCF administrator is preparing to deploy a new VI Workload Domain with NSX. The environment uses a strict security policy requiring separate north-south connectivity paths for tenant workloads. Which component is primarily responsible for providing centralized services such as north-south routing for NSX segments in a typical VCF design?

A bring-up attempt fails late in the process with errors indicating certificate or trust problems when integrating components. The team confirms IP connectivity and DNS resolution are correct. Which prerequisite, if misconfigured, most commonly leads to certificate validation and trust issues across VCF components?

In VMware Cloud Foundation, which component is responsible for orchestrating the end-to-end deployment of the VCF management domain (including bringing up vCenter, NSX, and vSAN) from a validated workflow?

A customer wants to ensure that VCF component updates (ESXi, vCenter, NSX, and firmware) are applied in a supported order with compatibility checks and a standardized precheck. Which VCF capability best addresses this requirement?

During VCF planning, which design choice is the best practice for the management domain networking to ensure reliable access to core services (vCenter, NSX Manager, SDDC Manager) during failures?

A VCF bring-up fails during host validation. The error indicates the ESXi host FQDN does not resolve from the SDDC Manager appliance. What is the most likely root cause?

A network team requires that VCF use separate routed networks for different traffic types (e.g., management, vMotion, vSAN). What planning artifact in VCF most directly captures these network pools and their intended use so they can be consumed during deployments?

A workload domain expansion fails when adding new hosts. SDDC Manager reports that the hosts are not in a "clean" state. Which action is most appropriate before retrying the expansion?

A customer wants to delegate day-2 operations so that a network administrator can manage NSX objects but cannot modify VCF lifecycle operations or create workload domains. Which approach best aligns with VCF operational best practices?

A design requires isolating tenant workloads into separate workload domains while keeping a single centralized management plane. Which VCF concept most directly enables this separation while maintaining centralized lifecycle management?

During planning, a customer intends to use NSX for overlay networking but wants to minimize operational risk by keeping the management domain on a simple, predictable network design. Which approach is most aligned with common VCF best practices?

After an upgrade attempt, SDDC Manager reports a failed lifecycle operation and indicates it cannot proceed because the bundle is not compliant with the current environment state. What is the best next step to safely recover and complete the lifecycle task?