Practice Exam Overview
This practice exam is structured to thoroughly assess your knowledge across all the topics included in the certification exam.

• Section 1: IT Architectures, Technologies, and Standards

• Section 2: VMware by Broadcom Solution

• Section 3: Planning and Designing the VMware by Broadcom Solution

• Section 4: Installation, Configuration, and Administration of the VMware by Broadcom Solution

• Section 5: Troubleshooting and Optimizing the VMware by Broadcom Solution

The exam is divided into six sections, each containing 250 questions. These sections will help you evaluate your understanding of the key areas and ensure you are fully prepared for the certification exam.

Understanding the Exam Blueprint

This exam is built to validate your practical knowledge and hands-on experience with VMware’s core infrastructure technologies. It's divided into 5 sections, but only 3 of them contain testable objectives. Here's what each section focuses on:

Section 1 – IT Architectures, Technologies, Standards

This section is not testable in this exam version. Typically, this would cover general IT principles like virtualization basics, networking, and storage standards—but you won’t be directly tested on them here.

Section 2 – VMware by Broadcom Solution

This is where the foundational knowledge begins.

You’ll need to identify and describe key components of the vSphere Foundation stack, including:

• ESXi (the hypervisor layer)

• vSphere Standard (management and compute resources)

• vSphere with Tanzu (for Kubernetes integration)

• vSAN (software-defined storage)

• VMware Aria tools (Operations, Logs, Suite Lifecycle)

You’re also expected to know what’s needed to deploy them—in terms of hardware, configuration, and compatibility—and when and why you'd use them (i.e., use cases).

Section 3 – Plan and Design the Solution

No testable objectives here either in this version of the exam, but VMware often includes this in more advanced certifications. It would usually cover sizing, scaling, and architecture planning.

Section 4 – Install, Configure, Administrate

This is the heart of the exam. You're expected to have hands-on knowledge of installing and configuring the entire VMware stack.

That includes:

• Deploying ESXi hosts, setting up vCenter, enabling vSAN, and integrating Aria Operations

• Managing virtual machines—creating from templates, managing snapshots, performing Day 2 operations

• Setting up networking (Distributed Switches, Network I/O Control)

• Working with Content Libraries for images/VMs

• Securing workloads through encryption

• Managing host lifecycles and updates using Lifecycle Manager

In short, this section tests whether you can run a vSphere Foundation environment day-to-day.

Section 5 – Troubleshoot and Optimize

This section checks your problem-solving skills. It dives into identifying and fixing:

• Connectivity and configuration issues (especially in vSAN and ESXi)

• VM problems like stuck snapshots or failed migrations

• Certificate issues or vSphere HA (High Availability) issues

• Analyzing Aria dashboards, performance reports, and using Skyline Health

This is where you're expected to act like a real admin—something breaks, and you need to know how to fix it or where to look.

Final Thoughts

To succeed in this exam, VMware wants to see that:

• You can install and configure vSphere Foundation tools

• You understand their architecture and use cases

• You know how to manage VMs and resources effectively

• And crucially—you can troubleshoot and optimize when things go wrong

This isn’t just about memorization—it's about experience and understanding. If you’ve worked with vSphere, this blueprint will feel like a checklist of your daily tasks.