
Meet Your Certification — VCP-VCF Administrator. Exam format: 60 items, 135 minutes, passing score 300 (scaled). VMware's evolution from a virtualization pioneer to the private cloud standard. Broadcom's 2023 acquisition of VMware and the resulting reorganization of products, licensing, and go-to-market
This module supports comprehension of Sections 2 & 4 but will not itself be directly tested. Discussions include: Core virtualization basics (compute, storage, and network layers), NTP and DNS requirements for VCF deployment.
Exam-focused content covering the following topics: Private Cloud Vision, Use Cases for Private Cloud, vSAN ESA vs. vSAN OSA, Configuring vSAN Storage Policies, Differentiating VCF Networking Components, Configuring Virtual Networking Fabrics, Configuring Virtual Networking Connectivity and Routing,
Create a basic overlay segment that exists entirely in software, built on top of physical network, giving you the ability to create many isolated logical networks.
Focusing heavily on VCF topics relating to deploy, configure, and operate. Bulk of exam is weighted in this area, topics include: End-to-end deployment paths, managing VCF components, and operating VCF Operations and VCF Automation.
Offline deployments are built for air-gapped or restricted environments — data centers with no direct internet access. Instead of connecting straight to Broadcom, you pre-stage your own local depot ahead of time.
Learn about Broadcom's official Hands-on Labs catalog as well as other VMware resources. Prepare for your exam day by taking the practice test attached to this course.
Broadcom's shift from à la carte VMware licensing to the unified VMware Cloud Foundation platform has fundamentally changed how organizations build and manage private clouds — and it's reshaped what it means to be a VMware administrator. This comprehensive, 3-hour course is designed to take you from foundational virtualization concepts all the way through the official 2V0-17.25 exam objectives, giving you both the theoretical knowledge and practical context you need to earn your VCP-VCF Administrator certification with confidence. We dive deep into every tested exam objective including vSphere, vSAN, and NSX; deploying and configuring a full VCF instance from the ground up; managing licensing, certificates, and identity at fleet scale; monitoring and troubleshooting with VCF Operations; and enabling self-service, multi-tenant automation through VCF Automation and Supervisor. Every section is grounded in real-world scenarios you'll actually encounter as an administrator — not just exam trivia — so the knowledge you walk away with is immediately useful on the job, not just on test day. The course also includes builtin labs you can follow along with, as well as a robust 100 question practice exam with explanations that uses similar formatting as you will see on standard VMware-based exams. If I haven't said it yet, a big thank you to everyone checking out my course!