VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Support Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An administrator notices that the SDDC Manager UI is showing a warning that one of the NSX Manager nodes in the management domain is unreachable. The administrator can still access the NSX Manager cluster VIP and perform operations. What is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

A VMware Cloud Foundation administrator is planning to perform a rolling upgrade of ESXi hosts in a VI workload domain. During the planning phase, they need to ensure minimal disruption. Which combination of prerequisites should be verified before initiating the upgrade?

An administrator is investigating slow storage performance in a vSAN cluster within a VMware Cloud Foundation workload domain. The vSAN performance graphs show high read latency. Which two components should the administrator investigate FIRST to identify the root cause?

A company's VMware Cloud Foundation deployment uses a converged architecture for the management domain. The vCenter Server is experiencing performance issues during peak hours. What is the PRIMARY benefit of separating the management domain into a dedicated architecture?

During a routine health check, SDDC Manager reports that password rotation for the ESXi hosts has failed in a workload domain. The administrator needs to remediate this issue. What should be the FIRST troubleshooting step?

An organization needs to apply a critical security patch to the NSX Edge nodes in a workload domain. The environment supports production workloads with strict uptime requirements. What is the recommended approach to minimize service disruption?

A VMware Cloud Foundation administrator notices that vSAN resync operations are consuming significant network bandwidth and impacting application performance. Which configuration change would help prioritize application traffic while still allowing vSAN resync to complete?

An administrator is designing a new VI workload domain in an existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment. The workload domain will host applications requiring consistent low-latency storage. Which storage consideration is MOST important when planning this workload domain?

SDDC Manager reports a validation error preventing the commissioning of a new ESXi host. The error indicates that the host's network configuration does not meet requirements. What should the administrator verify to resolve this issue?

An administrator is monitoring a VMware Cloud Foundation environment and notices that CPU ready time for several VMs in a workload domain is consistently above 10%. vSphere resource pools are configured with shares set to 'Normal' for all pools. What is the MOST effective approach to address this performance issue?