VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator Preparation Details
The VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator (3V0-11.26) exam validates advanced skills in managing, scaling, and optimizing a multi-region VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud. Candidates are tested on vSAN, NSX, VCF Automation, VCF Operations, and vSphere Supervisor administration across a single, comprehensive install and operate domain. This guide maps every testable objective in the exam blueprint to official VMware documentation so you can study each topic in depth. You can also explore more VMware certification study guides on the VMware Certification category to keep building your skills.
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator Materials
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Section 4 – Install, Configure, Administrate the VMware Solution
Objective 4.1 – Given a scenario, deploy a vSAN Cluster within a VCF Workload Domain
Creating a Single Site vSAN Cluster
Requirements for Enabling vSAN
Designing and Sizing a vSAN Cluster
Objective 4.2 – Given a scenario, deploy a vSAN Stretched Cluster within a VCF Workload Domain
Creating a vSAN Stretched Cluster or Two-Node vSAN Cluster
Stretching vSAN Clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation
Creating a Stretched Compute Cluster
Objective 4.3 – Given a scenario, deploy a VCF Workload Domain cluster with supported (non-vSAN) Storage
Managing VCF Domains in VMware Cloud Foundation
Objective 4.4 – Given a scenario, configure vSAN Cross-Cluster Capacity Sharing and vSAN Storage Clusters
Expanding and Managing a vSAN Cluster
Objective 4.5 – Given a scenario, configure vSAN Encryption
Using Encryption in a vSAN Cluster
Objective 4.6 – Given a scenario, configure vSAN Data Protection
Monitoring and Troubleshooting vSAN
Objective 4.7 – Given a scenario, complete Day 2 administration tasks on a vSAN Cluster
Expanding and Managing a vSAN Cluster
Device Management in a vSAN Cluster
Increasing Space Efficiency in a vSAN Cluster
Objective 4.8 – Given a scenario, complete Day 2 administration tasks on a vSAN Stretched Cluster
Creating a vSAN Stretched Cluster or Two-Node vSAN Cluster
Configure a Stretched Compute Cluster
Objective 4.9 – Given a scenario, create/configure a vSAN Storage policy
Objective 4.10 – Given a scenario, configure vSphere advanced settings within a VCF Workload Domain.
Managing VCF Domains in VMware Cloud Foundation
Objective 4.11 – Given a scenario, manage Virtual Machines within a VCF Workload Domain
Managing Resource Pools with vSphere
Objective 4.12 – Given a scenario, configure Advance Network Operations within a VCF Workload Domain
Advanced Network Management with NSX
Managing Network Connectivity in vCenter
Managing Virtual Private Clouds in vCenter
Objective 4.13 – Given a scenario, optimize CPU performance in a VCF Workload Domain
Managing Resource Pools with vSphere
Objective 4.14 – Given a scenario, optimize Memory performance in a VCF Workload Domain
Managing Resource Pools with vSphere
Objective 4.15 – Given a scenario, optimize the performance of vCenter Server
Hardware Requirements for the vCenter Appliance
Objective 4.16 – Given a scenario, monitor vSphere components within a VCF Workload Domain
vSphere Monitoring and Performance
Objective 4.17 – Given a scenario, configure vSphere Security and Access Control in VCF
Monitoring Security Operations
Viewing and Configuring Audit Events
Objective 4.18 – Given a scenario, configure VM Encryption and vSphere Trusted Environments
Configuring vSphere Trust Authority
Objective 4.19 – Given a scenario, configure the Identity Provider for the Provider Management portal
Managing Identity Providers in VCF Automation
Getting Started with the VCF Automation Provider Management Portal
Objective 4.20 – Given a scenario, create and manage Provider Content Libraries within the Provider Management portal.
Objective 4.21 – Given a scenario, configure access control settings within the Provider Management Portal
Configuring the VCF Automation Access Control
Objective 4.22 – Given a scenario, create a new Organization within the Provider Management portal
Managing VCF Automation Organizations
Managing Regions in Your VCF Automation
Objective 4.23 – Given a scenario, enable and configure the Provider Consumption Organization (PCO)
Create a Provider Consumption Organization
Objective 4.24 – Given a scenario, configure Identity Providers within a VCF All Apps Organization.
Managing Identity Providers in VCF Automation Organizations
Objective 4.25 – Given a scenario, configure Access Control within a VCF All Apps Organization.
Managing Predefined User Roles in VCF Automation
Objective 4.26 – Given a scenario, create and manage Projects within a VCF All Apps Organization.
Managing Projects in VCF Automation
Objective 4.27 – Given a scenario, create and manage Governance Policies within a VCF All Apps Organization.
Managing Policies in VCF Automation
Objective 4.28 – Given a scenario, create and manage a Namespace Class within a VCF All Apps Organization.
Getting Started with Organizations in VCF Automation
Provisioning Resources in VCF Automation
Objective 4.29 – Given a scenario, create and manage VPCs and VPC connectivity profiles within a VCF All Apps Organization.
Managing Networking in VCF Automation
Managing Virtual Private Clouds in vCenter
Objective 4.30 – Create Supervisor clusters with NSX VPC, NSX Segment, vDS, and Avi load balancer options.
Configuring and Managing a Supervisor
Deploying vSphere Supervisor with NSX and Avi Load Balancer
Deploying vSphere Supervisor with vDS and Avi Load Balancer
Deploying Supervisor with VCF Networking with VPC
Objective 4.31 – Install, uninstall, and manage Supervisor add-on services (e.g., Harbor, external-dns).
Links for Downloading VKS Packages and Components
Install Harbor Registry 2.14.2
Objective 4.32 – Update VKS clusters through rolling updates and configuration changes.
VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.6 Release Notes
Links for Downloading VKS Packages and Components
Objective 4.33 – Manage package repositories, standard packages, registry secrets, and private registries.
Links for Downloading VKS Packages and Components
Install Harbor Registry 2.14.2
Objective 4.34 – Upgrade the Supervisor Service within a given situation.
Objective 4.35 – Given a scenario, complete VCF Operations Day 2 Operational Tasks.
Configuring Alerts and Using Actions
Objective 4.36 – Given a scenario, identify the process to reclaim resources.
How to Optimize Capacity and Improve Performance in VCF Operations
Objective 4.37 – Given a scenario, identify the process to rightsize a workload.
How to Optimize Capacity and Improve Performance in VCF Operations
Objective 4.38 – Given a scenario, complete Capacity Forecasting using What-If Scenarios.
How to Plan for Capacity Changes
Objective 4.39 – Given a scenario, complete VCF Operations cost management configuration.
Objective 4.40 – Given a scenario, create/update and apply a VCF Operations policy.
Configuring and Managing Policies
Objective 4.41 – Given a scenario, differentiate between the process for configuring Business Intent and Operational Intent.
Capacity Optimization Concepts
Objective 4.42 – Given a scenario, create Business Applications.
Configuring Business Applications
Objective 4.43 – Given a scenario, configure an Alert.
Configuring Alerts and Using Actions
Objective 4.44 – Given a scenario, identify the process steps for scaling a VCF Fleet Management – Lifecycle.
Scaling Up and Scaling Out Management Nodes in VCF
Objective 4.45 – Given a scenario, upgrade the components of a VCF Fleet.
Add, Remove, or Move VCF Instances across VCF Fleets
Objective 4.46 – Given a scenario, configure VCF SSO using Identity and Access Management.
Configuring VCF Single Sign-On
Objective 4.47 – Given a scenario, monitor VCF configuration using VCF Operations Config Drift.
Managing your Environment Configurations
Manage VCF Domain Configuration Drift
Objective 4.48 – Given a scenario, identify the process steps for deploying VMware NSX Federation in VCF.
Configuring NSX Federation for the Fleet Level Management Network in VCF
Objective 4.49 – Given a scenario, configure NSX components.
About Administering VMware NSX
Objective 4.50 – Given a scenario, identify the process for deploying an NSX Edge Cluster.
Setting up Network Connectivity
Objective 4.51 – Given a scenario, identify the process for creating an NSX Tier-0 gateway.
Objective 4.52 – Given a scenario, identify the process for configuring NSX VRF.
Objective 4.53 – Given a scenario, identify the process steps to create an NSX Logical Segment.
Objective 4.54 – Given a scenario, identify the process for creating an NSX Tier-1 gateway.
Objective 4.55 – Given a scenario, deploy and manage Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Objective 4.56 – Configure Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)
Objective 4.57 – Identify the use case for NAT.
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Objective 4.58 – Given a scenario, configure Projects and Tenancy in NSX.
Objective 4.59 – Given a scenario, configure advanced NSX integrations.
Integration of Kubernetes Clusters with Antrea CNI
Objective 4.60 – Perform operational tasks in a VMware NSX environment (syslog, backup/restore etc.).
Backing Up and Restoring NSX Manager or Global Manager
Wrapping Up VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator
That covers every testable objective in the 3V0-11.26 VCAP-VCF Admin blueprint, from vSAN and NSX to VCF Automation, VCF Operations, and vSphere Supervisor. Work through the official documentation links for each objective, practice the Day 2 operations tasks, and you will be well prepared for exam day. You can also explore more VMware certification study guides on the VMware Certification category to keep building your skills. Have a question or tip? Leave a comment below.
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