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Exam Objectives
The following information provides general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.
Section 1 - Explain Data Center Virtualization Concepts and How They Solve Typical Business Challenges
Objective 1.1 - Identify and Explain the Concept of Data Center Virtualization
- Explain Data Center Virtualization
- Differentiate Physical and Virtual Data Center Components
- Identify Data Center Virtualization Benefits
Objective 1.2 - Identify Common Business Challenges Addressed By VMware Solutions
- Identify common availability challenges
- Identify common management challenges
- Identify common scalability challenges
- Identify common optimization challenges
Section 2 - Identify, Explain and Differentiate vSphere Technologies
Objective 2.1 - Identify vSphere Core Components
- Explain the concept and capabilities of a virtual machine
- Identify purpose of ESXi and vCenter Server
- Differentiate VMware migration technologies
- Differentiate VMware availability technologies
- Explain the concepts of clusters and resource pools
- Identify and explain common VMware data center products
Objective 2.2 - Differentiate vSphere Storage Technologies
- Differentiate physical and virtual storage
- Explain the use of shared storage in a vSphere implementation
- Differentiate VMFS and NFS datastores
- Explain Thin Provisioning
- Differentiate VMware disaster recovery/disaster tolerance technologies
- Identify capabilities of Storage I/O Control
- Identify capabilities of Storage DRS
- Explain VMware virtual storage technologies
Objective 2.3 - Differentiate vSphere Networking Technologies
- Differentiate physical and virtual networking
- Differentiate VMware virtual switch technologies
- Identify VMware virtual switch components
- Identify common virtual switch policies
- Identify capabilities of Network I/O Control
Section 3 - Correlate VMware Data Center Virtualization Solutions with Specific Business Challenges
Objective 3.1 - Apply VMware Data Center Virtualization Solutions to Common Business Challenges
- Apply VMware data center virtualization technologies to resolve common availability challenges
- Apply VMware data center virtualization technologies to resolve common management challenges
- Apply VMware data center virtualization technologies to resolve common optimization challenges
- Apply VMware data center virtualization technologies to resolve common scalability challenges
- Differentiate SMB and Enterprise challenges and solutions
Where to Go from Here
The VCA-DCV is in entry level exam meant to demonstrate basic understanding of VMware vSphere. It demonstrates your ability to differentiate vSphere components and identify their proper use cases. This exam is a foot in the door and will give you the confidence to move forward and begin the path to further VMware certifications and career opportunities.
There are numerous resources for VMware certification on the Internet; and a good place to start is vmware.com/certification.