VMware Certified Specialist - VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An administrator is planning a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment and needs to ensure proper separation of management and workload traffic. The company requires that NSX management traffic be isolated from vMotion traffic while maintaining optimal performance. Which approach should the administrator implement during the network planning phase?

During a VCF deployment, the bring-up process fails at the NSX Manager cluster deployment stage. The administrator reviews the logs and finds connectivity issues between the NSX Manager nodes. The management domain hosts can communicate with each other, and DNS resolution is working correctly. What is the most likely cause of this failure?

A company has deployed a VCF management domain and now needs to deploy its first workload domain for production applications. The workload domain requires dedicated compute resources and must use a separate vCenter Server instance. Which component is responsible for orchestrating this workload domain deployment?

An administrator needs to perform a password rotation for all VCF infrastructure components due to company security policy requirements. The rotation must include vCenter Server, NSX Manager, ESXi hosts, and SDDC Manager accounts. What is the recommended approach to perform this task while minimizing the risk of service disruption?

During VCF deployment preparation, an administrator is sizing the environment for a management domain. The company plans to deploy three workload domains within the next year. What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required for the initial management domain deployment, considering high availability and VCF requirements?

After successfully deploying VCF, an administrator notices that the health check in SDDC Manager reports a warning for one of the NSX Edge nodes. The warning indicates that the Edge node is not synchronized with the NSX Manager cluster. All other components show healthy status. What should be the first troubleshooting step?

A company is designing a VCF deployment that must support 200 virtual machines in the initial workload domain, with plans to scale to 1000 VMs within two years. The workload requires low-latency storage and high availability. Which storage option should the architect recommend for this scenario?

An administrator is preparing to deploy VCF and needs to configure the Cloud Builder appliance. The deployment JSON file has been customized with site-specific information. During the validation process, Cloud Builder reports errors related to IP address conflicts. What is the most appropriate action to resolve this issue?

In a VCF environment, which component maintains the overall inventory of all physical and virtual resources across both management and workload domains, and serves as the single source of truth for the infrastructure state?

An administrator needs to commission additional ESXi hosts into an existing workload domain to support business growth. The new hosts have been physically installed, cabled, and have ESXi installed. What is the correct workflow to add these hosts to the workload domain using SDDC Manager?