Certified Distinguished Expert - VMware Cloud Foundation Practice Test

• Develop and document a complete VCF solution through architectural design
• Defend design decisions and provide alternative options with relative merits and drawbacks
• Articulate solutions to stakeholders demonstrating excellent communication skills

• Design for considerations and analysis of single points of failure, redundancy options, and accessibility in VCF
• Map availability requirements to VCF infrastructure design and document risks and assumptions

• Design for considerations and analysis of monitoring, administration ease, maintenance, updates, scalability, and capacity planning
• Map manageability requirements to VCF infrastructure design

Design for considerations and analysis of demand patterns, potential bottlenecks, resource management, capacity planning, and workload balancing

Design for considerations and analysis of potential data and component loss, acceptable downtime, and methods for restoring VCF components and services

Design for considerations and analysis of permissions, user roles, component access, network security, and monitoring in VCF

• Specify features and functions for managing and maintaining normal VCF operations
• Detail SDDC Manager deployment and configuration specifications

• Specify sizing and configurations for ESXi hosts taking into account workload policies
• Specify sizing and configurations for vCenter Server in VCF environments
• Specify sizing and configurations for vSphere clusters in management and workload domains

• Specify features and functions for NSX management plane, control plane, and data plane components
• Specify relevant Layer 2-7 services, components, and detailed configurations for VCF

• Specify sizing and configurations for storage resources in VCF
• Design storage architecture for both management and workload domains

• Design workload domain architecture including sizing and networking
• Select and justify appropriate VCF topology design patterns

Design Kubernetes-based workload architectures within VCF environments

Supply a workable plan for implementing the VCF solution as designed, validating correctness, and operating it going forward

Document installation procedures to implement the VCF design as architected, detailed enough for a VCP to implement

Document standard operational procedures for VCP-level personnel to operate and maintain the VCF environment

Define and perform a test/validation plan that confirms the VCF design functions as intended and meets customer requirements

• Determine and identify inhibitors to successful implementation, operation, and functionality of the VCF design
• Explain identified risks to business and technical audiences with avoidance or mitigation options

• Document plans to address, mitigate, and/or eliminate risks in the VCF design
• Provide thoughtful solutions to mitigate risk

Validate that procedures for mitigating identified risks were successful

• Succinctly and clearly explain design rationale via written, verbal, and visual communication
• Show how selections were made among reasonable alternatives
• If improper design decisions were made, explain why and how they could have been improved
• If typical best practices were contravened, justify the decisions to do so
• Receive and act upon constructive criticism and adapt to change

• Respond interactively to a presentation of requirements and constraints
• Show the ability to produce a VCF design which satisfies a customer's needs in real-time
• Construct appropriate and relevant questions that garner information put into action