2V0-17.25 Exam Dumps - VMware VCP-VCF Administrator Questions and Answers

VCF 9.0 states for the Simple Automation model: “Single node… Applies to Small… Can be scaled out to the high availability model by resizing the node to Medium or Large, which also forces the scale out to 3 nodes.” In addition, the Day-N procedure confirms the action is a Scale (scale-out) operation: “Scale VCF Automation… choose a larger target deployment type such as Medium or Large…” and provide “Additional VIPs” and a “Cluster Node IP Pool” (Medium requires a minimum of four IPs), then submit the scale out request. Therefore, moving from Small (Simple) to Medium necessarily transitions to the High Availability (3-node) model rather than remaining a single medium node. This aligns the form factor with the documented model behavior and the fleet management workflow.

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In VCF 9.x, air-gapped bring-up requires staging the required binaries in the VCF Installer. The documented list explicitly includes NSX and VCF Operations among the components to upload. The product guide states: “VMware Cloud Foundation required binaries include… NSX … VMware Cloud Foundation Operations … vCenter … SDDC Manager…” (exact list excerpt). This list does not call for ESX images or the legacy “Lifecycle Manager.”

Therefore, from the given options the two binaries that must be uploaded are NSX and VCF Operations. ESX is pre-imaged on hosts per preparation guidance and is not a required VCF Installer binary; “Lifecycle Manager” is not used in VCF 9.0 bring-up.

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In VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, network security and segment integrity are maintained through Segment Security Profiles. These profiles are applied to NSX segments to define what type of traffic is permitted to originate from or be received by the virtual machines attached to that segment.

According to the VCF 9.0 (NSX) Networking and Security Guide:

The Default Segment Security Profile is designed with a "Zero Trust" approach for foundational services. One of its key default settings is DHCP Server Block, which is set to Yes. This is a security measure to prevent "rogue" DHCP servers from being accidentally or maliciously connected to a segment and disrupting the network by handing out unauthorized IP addresses.

When an administrator intentionally places a legitimate DHCP server on a segment:

Segment Security Profile: The "DHCP Server Block" feature resides specifically within the Segment Security Profile, not the IP Discovery profile (which handles how NSX learns IP addresses via ARP/DHCP snooping).

Cloning vs. Editing: In VCF 9.0, the "Default" profiles are system-defined. While some default settings can be edited in certain versions, the architectural best practice and documented procedure for production environments is to Clone the default profile. This creates a custom profile where the DHCP Server Block can be set to No, allowing the DHCP server's "Offer" and "ACK" packets to pass through the segment.

Application: Once the cloned profile is modified, it must be manually applied to the specific segment where the virtual desktops and the DHCP server reside.

The VCF 9.0 Automation Guide details the use of Property Groups to standardize blueprint inputs and constants across projects. Property Groups allow administrators to define sets of inputs (like size, os, location) and constants (like salt master id) centrally, ensuring consistency across deployments.

The correct actions are:

Create a new Property Group for input properties (C) to capture the standard inputs (size, os, location).

Create a new Property Group for constant properties (E) to include items like the salt master id.

Update all existing blueprints in the production project with the new Property Groups (F) to enforce standardization across new and existing workloads.

Options A and B are incorrect because changes are not required in the appdev project or across the entire organization—only the production project. Option D is redundant since inputs and constants should be separated into distinct groups.

According to the VCF 9.0 Operations and vSAN Integration Guide, performance metrics in the vSAN Cluster Performance widget are only available when the vSAN Performance Service is enabled. The documentation states:

“The vSAN Performance Service must be enabled in vCenter Server for each vSAN cluster to collect and visualize performance statistics in VCF Operations. Without this service, performance dashboards and widgets will not display data.”

Option A (Support Insight) relates to telemetry with VMware, not performance widgets.

Option B (Cloud proxy as Collector) is required for general collection but not specific to vSAN widget visibility.

Option C (SMART data collection) provides disk health analytics, not cluster-level performance stats.

Option D is correct, because enabling the vSAN Performance Service ensures that VCF Operations receives and displays data in the vSAN Performance dashboards.

Therefore, the administrator must enable the vSAN Performance Service for all vSAN clusters in vCenter.

Deleting an Organization in VCF Automation requires using the Provider Management Portal, not Fleet Management. Before deletion, dependent resources must be removed.

According to the VCF 9.0 Automation documentation:

Administrators must log into the VCF Automation Provider Management Portal (G).

The Organization must first be disabled (C) to prevent active usage.

All associated region quotas must be deleted (D), since Organizations cannot be removed while resource allocations exist.

Finally, the administrator can delete the Organization (A).

Deleting SSL certificates (B) and the embedded Orchestrator (F) are not required for Organization removal. Fleet Management (E) is unrelated to Organization lifecycle operations.

In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, the VCF Service Broker is the component responsible for providing a self-service catalog of available services, blueprints, and content to end users in the VM Apps tenant. The documentation explains:

“Service Broker acts as the catalog service for VM-based and cloud-native applications, allowing organizations to expose curated content to end users while applying policies, constraints, and governance.”

VCF Operations Orchestrator (A) provides workflow automation but does not expose services directly in a self-service catalog.

VCF Assembler (B) is used for designing blueprints and application templates but not for publishing them to end users.

VCF Config (D) is responsible for infrastructure configuration management and desired state compliance, not catalog services.

Thus, the correct component for the catalog is the VCF Service Broker.

Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation:

The Istio integration in VCF 9.0 defines two main logical groupings for organizing workloads within a service mesh: Cluster groups and Service groups. The documentation notes: “Cluster groups allow you to organize and manage objects across different Kubernetes clusters. Service groups let you aggregate and manage services that share common policies, routing rules, or observability requirements.” .

These groups enable administrators to apply consistent service mesh policies across multiple deployments and clusters. They also simplify administration by centralizing traffic management, routing, and observability of workloads. Security, API, and Node are not Istio-specific grouping constructs but instead are other concepts used elsewhere (e.g., security policies, API endpoints, node objects in Kubernetes). Therefore, the correct group types used in Istio Service Mesh are Cluster and Service groups.

Istio Service Mesh provides built-in capabilities for managing service-to-service communication within Kubernetes environments.

The Istio documentation highlights default capabilities including:

Service discovery (C): Automatic detection and routing between services.

Mutual TLS (mTLS) encryption (E): Secure communication between services by default.

Istio does not provide:

Multi-cluster backup/restore (A) — handled by tools such as Velero.

Cluster conformance validation (B).

Advanced container runtime (D) — container runtime is handled by container engines such as containerd.

Thus, the correct answers are Service discovery and Connection encryption.

Velero is an open-source Kubernetes backup and restore solution integrated into VMware Cloud Foundation for Kubernetes management. The VCF 9.0 Kubernetes Services Documentation describes it as:

“Velero provides backup, recovery, and migration of Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.”

Key functionality includes:

Backup and restore of Kubernetes objects such as deployments, services, and namespaces.

Data protection for persistent volumes via storage snapshots.

Migration capabilities across clusters.

Analysis of incorrect options:

Publishing DNS records (A) is handled by CoreDNS or external DNS integrations, not Velero.

Monitoring cluster services (B) is the role of Kubernetes health checks and observability tools like Prometheus, not Velero.

Collecting logs and data (C) is done by logging stacks such as Fluent Bit or VCF Operations for Logs.

Therefore, Velero’s primary role is backup and restore of Kubernetes clusters.