VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Architect Practice Exam: Test Your Knowledge 2025

An organization is planning to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation and needs to understand the foundational infrastructure requirements. Which component is responsible for the automated deployment and lifecycle management of the entire VMware Cloud Foundation stack?

A VMware Cloud Foundation architect is designing a solution for a customer who requires workload isolation for different business units while maximizing resource efficiency. What is the PRIMARY purpose of creating multiple workload domains in VCF?

During a VMware Cloud Foundation design review, the architect must determine the minimum number of hosts required for the management domain. Assuming a standard deployment with vSAN storage, what is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required for the management domain?

A company is experiencing performance issues with their VMware Cloud Foundation environment. The operations team wants to use SDDC Manager to update the ESXi hosts in a workload domain. What is the CORRECT order of operations that SDDC Manager follows during a host upgrade?

An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation solution for a financial services company with strict compliance requirements. The customer needs to ensure complete isolation between production and development environments. Which design approach BEST meets this requirement?

A VMware Cloud Foundation administrator notices that a workload domain deployment has failed. Upon investigation, the network team confirms that the required VLANs have not been configured on the physical switches. Which VCF component validates network readiness BEFORE workload domain deployment?

An organization wants to implement a stretched cluster configuration across two sites for their VMware Cloud Foundation workload domain. What is a CRITICAL architectural consideration for this design?

A customer has deployed VMware Cloud Foundation and wants to add capacity to an existing VI workload domain. What is the MINIMUM number of hosts that can be added to a workload domain in a single expansion operation?

An architect is designing the network architecture for a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. The customer requires that management traffic, vMotion traffic, vSAN traffic, and VM traffic be properly segmented. What is the VMware-recommended approach for network segmentation in VCF?

A VMware Cloud Foundation environment is experiencing certificate expiration warnings in SDDC Manager. The security team wants to implement automated certificate management. Which feature should the architect recommend?

During a VMware Cloud Foundation design session, a customer asks about the role of the Cloud Builder appliance. What is the PRIMARY function of Cloud Builder in the VCF deployment process?

A multinational corporation is deploying VMware Cloud Foundation across multiple geographical regions. Each region will have its own management and workload domains. What is the RECOMMENDED approach for SDDC Manager deployment in this scenario?

An administrator is preparing to perform a major upgrade of VMware Cloud Foundation components. Which tool provides the comprehensive health check and pre-upgrade validation to ensure the environment is ready for the upgrade?

A customer wants to deploy a new workload domain for a high-performance database application that requires deterministic storage performance. Which vSAN configuration should the architect recommend?

A VMware Cloud Foundation environment is being designed for a healthcare provider that must comply with data sovereignty requirements. How should the architect address the requirement that all patient data must remain within specific geographic boundaries?

An organization has deployed VMware Cloud Foundation and wants to understand how NSX is integrated. What is the relationship between NSX Manager and workload domains in VCF?

A customer is planning disaster recovery for their VMware Cloud Foundation environment. They want to understand backup requirements for SDDC Manager. What is the VMware-recommended approach for protecting SDDC Manager?

An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation solution where the customer needs to support multiple tenants with complete administrative isolation. Each tenant requires full control over their environment including vCenter access. What is the MOST appropriate design?

A VMware Cloud Foundation administrator needs to perform password rotation for service accounts across the entire infrastructure. Which capability does SDDC Manager provide to simplify this security operation?

An architect is determining the appropriate principal storage option for a new VMware Cloud Foundation workload domain that will host a large number of virtual desktops with moderate I/O requirements. The customer wants to minimize costs while meeting performance requirements. What storage consideration is MOST important for this use case?