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

Resetting identity management in VCF requires removal of existing identity configurations, including external identity providers and the Identity Broker configuration. The VCF documentation states that to reset identity services, administrators must remove the SSO configuration, including broker settings, and then reconfigure SSO.

Option B ensures complete cleanup of identity integrations.

Option C re-establishes identity management with the correct configuration.

Disabling (D) or reverting (E) is not a supported reset method. Leaving provisioned users/groups (A) would not fully reset identity management.

In VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, the VCF Fleet Disaster Recovery Design Model explicitly requires deployment of VMware Live Recovery (VLR) to provide:

Cross-instance disaster recovery

Site pairing between regions

Protection of management and workload domains

Orchestrated failover and failback

From the VCF 9.0 Fleet Architecture documentation:

“To implement a Fleet-level disaster recovery model across multiple VCF instances in different regions, deploy VMware Live Recovery to provide orchestration, replication, and recovery operations between paired VCF instances.”

The Fleet DR design requires:

A primary VCF instance (Region A)

A secondary VCF instance (Region B)

VMware Live Recovery to manage DR workflows across instances

Other options are incorrect:

DSM – Provides database-as-a-service capabilities, not DR orchestration.

VCF Operations HCX – Used for workload mobility, not DR orchestration.

VCF Operations – Provides monitoring and observability, not DR functionality.

Document reference (VCF 9.0):

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 → VCF Fleet Architecture → Disaster Recovery Design Model

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 → VMware Live Recovery Integration with VCF

VCF 9.0 describes the VKS architecture and explicitly notes: “ The Cluster API provides declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs for cluster creation, configuration, and management. ” Inputs include resources describing the cluster, VMs, and add-ons. Provisioning flows also present ClusterClass/Cluster API as the supported “cluster type” when creating a Kubernetes cluster via self-service. These extracts confirm that Cluster API is the foundational component used by VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) on vSphere Supervisor to bootstrap and manage Kubernetes workload clusters in VCF 9.0.

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The VCF Operations 9.0 Monitoring Guide specifies: “For any alert definition to be active in the environment, it must be associated with and enabled in an Active Policy.” . Creating symptom and alert definitions only defines conditions; they do not generate alerts until policies include them. REST notification plugins or payload templates are used for outbound integrations, not for enabling alerts. A super metric is only needed for custom composite KPIs, not for native read latency which is a standard metric already available. Therefore, the required step is to enable the alert in an Active Policy so that when the symptom triggers (latency > 1 ms), the alert activates.

The VCF 9.0 Installation Guide describes the VCF Download Tool for dark sites:

“ For environments without Internet access, use the VCF Download Tool on a connected machine to download required bundles and transfer them to the air-gapped VCF environment. ”

Broadcom Downloads (B) is the source but not the workflow for dark sites. The VCF Installer (C) consumes binaries but does not fetch them. SDDC Manager (D) manages bundles in connected mode but cannot download in disconnected environments.

Thus, the correct method for dark sites is A. Use the VCF Download Tool .

The requirement is to ensure DNS records are created only when a domain name is provided.

Since the blueprint includes a custom property for domainName, the correct conditional logic in the event subscription must validate that this property is not null.

Adding the condition:

event.data.customProperties[ ' domainName ' ] != null

ensures the workflow executes only when the domain name is provided.

Option B validates hostname instead of domain name.

Option A controls workflow blocking, not conditional execution.

Option C relates to cleanup, not creation condition validation.

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.

For dark site (air-gapped) deployments , VMware Cloud Foundation requires the use of the VCF Download Tool to retrieve the required software bundles from a connected system before transferring them into the isolated environment.

The VCF 9.0 Installation Guide specifies:

“For deployments in disconnected or air-gapped environments, use the VCF Download Tool on a connected system to download required bundles and then transfer them to the target environment.”

The VCF Installer (A) consumes bundles but does not download them.

SDDC Manager (B) can download bundles only in connected mode.

Broadcom Downloads (D) is the source portal, but not the supported workflow tool for preparing offline repositories.

Therefore, the correct method for dark site deployments is to use the VCF Download Tool .

The VCF 9.0 Operations Documentation identifies Operations for Networks as the key enabler for the Network Operations feature:

“ VCF Operations for Networks (formerly vRNI) provides visibility into network traffic flows, NSX fabric health, application dependency mapping, and micro-segmentation planning. It integrates directly into VCF Operations dashboards under Network Operations. ”

The vDefend firewall is unrelated, as it provides workload-level security. The VCF Operations Collector is required for telemetry ingestion but does not provide full Network Operations. NSX itself provides the underlying virtual networking, but it must be monitored through VCF Operations for Networks . Therefore, the correct answer is VCF Operations for Networks .

When converging an existing vSphere environment into VCF, certain architectural requirements must be satisfied.

The VCF 9.0 Convergence Guide states that:

The vCenter Server must be running on a cluster it manages (self-managed cluster) to allow SDDC Manager to take ownership during convergence.

Incorrect options:

Baselines (A) are not required; in fact, VCF requires image-based lifecycle management after convergence.

VDS version 7.0 (C) is not a documented prerequisite.

NSX (D) is not required prior to convergence; NSX can be deployed during workload domain bring-up.

Therefore, the required prerequisite is:

vCenter Server VM must be hosted on a cluster it manages.