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5V0-23-20 Exam Topics and Domains
5V0-23-20 is organized into 7 weighted domains. Expect to work with Supervisor Cluster, vCenter Server, Control Plane VMs, kubectl vsphere plugin, and more.
1
Introduction
2
Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes
3
Introduction to vSphere with Tanzu
20%
Supervisor Cluster Architecture
Supervisor Cluster Components
- Identify the purpose and role of a Supervisor Cluster
- Identify the characteristics of the Control Plane VMs
vSphere with Tanzu Networking
Network Types and Topology
- Given a scenario about a network, identify the workload, management, and front end
- Identify the purposes and differences between workload, management, and front end networks
Spherelet Component
Spherelet Functionality
Identify the purpose and role of a Spherelet
Workload Management Prerequisites and Setup
Enabling Workload Management
Identify the prerequisites and requirements to enable workload management
kubectl CLI Usage
kubectl with vSphere Integration
- Identify the characteristics and uses of kubectl CLI
- Identify how to authenticate to vSphere with Tanzu using kubectl
- Identify how to navigate namespaces using kubectl
Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster Management
TKC Management Solutions
Given a scenario, identify the VMware solution for managing TKC
4
vSphere with Tanzu Core Services
60%
vSphere Namespaces
Namespace Configuration and Management
- Identify the characteristics of vSphere namespaces
- Identify the process to create a namespace
- Identify the prerequisites to create a namespace
- Given a scenario, identify the resources that can be limited in a namespace
- Given a scenario, identify the resources that can be limited for a Kubernetes object within a namespace
- Given a scenario, identify the roles that can be applied to user of a vSphere namespace
- Identify the process to allocate storage to a namespace
- Identify how to view how much of the quota is being used in a given vSphere namespace
vSphere Pods
vSphere Pod Lifecycle
- Identify the characteristics of vSphere pods and CRX
- Identify the process to create a vSphere pod
- Identify the methods to scale out a vSphere pod
Cloud Native Storage
Persistent Storage in vSphere with Tanzu
- Identify the characteristics of Cloud Native Storage
- Identify the relationship between a storage policy and storage class
- Given a scenario, identify the method that should be used to create a storage policy
- Identify characteristics of persistent volumes in vSphere
- Identify use cases for persistent volumes
- Identify the process to manage a persistent volume claim
- Identify the method to view all the Persistent Volume claims in a vSphere environment
NSX Container Plugin (NCP) Networking
NSX-T Integration
- Identify the characteristics of the NSX container plugin
- Identify the relationship between vSphere namespaces and NSX segments
- Identify the supervisor network topology when using NSX-T
- Identify the characteristics of Kubernetes services
- Identify the characteristics of Kubernetes network policies
vSphere Distributed Switch Networking
vDS Configuration for Tanzu
- Identify the characteristics and components of vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere distributed Switch
- Identify the purpose of external load balancer in vSphere with Tanzu
- Identify the characteristics of workload load balancers
- Identify the characteristics of workload networks
- Identify the relationship between workload networks and vSphere Namespaces
- Identify the supervisor network topology when using vSphere Distributed Switch
- Identify the vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere Distributed Switch Network Requirements
- Identify the vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere Distributed Switch Prerequisites
- Identify the process to enable vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere Distributed Switch
Harbor Image Registry
Container Image Management with Harbor
- Identify the characteristics of Harbor
- Identify the use cases for an image registry
- Identify the process to enable the Harbor image registry
- Identify the integration between Harbor and vSphere with Tanzu
- Identify the process to push images to Harbor
- Identify the process to deploy images from Harbor
5
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service
18%
Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster Fundamentals
TKG Service Architecture
- Identify the characteristics of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service
- Identify the differences and similarities of vSphere pods and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters
- Identify the relationship between supervisor clusters and TKC
TKC Deployment and Configuration
TKC Cluster Provisioning
- Identify the process to enable TKC versions
- Identify the characteristics of virtual machine class types for TKC
- Identify the process to deploy the TKC
- Identify the process to authenticate to a TKC
TKC Lifecycle Management
TKC Operations
- Identify the process to Scale out a TKC
- Identify the process to Scale in a TKC
- Identify the process to upgrade a TKC
- Given a scenario with requirements, identify the kubectl command that should be used
6
Monitoring and Troubleshooting
7
vSphere with Tanzu Life Cycle
2%
Supervisor Cluster Lifecycle
Supervisor Cluster Maintenance
- Identify the process to upgrade the vSphere with Tanzu supervisor cluster
- Identify the process to perform certificate management for vSphere with Tanzu supervisor cluster