Free VMware 2V0-17.25 Practice Exam with Questions & Answers

The VCF 9.0 Logging and Auditing Guide explains that audit information—including user logins, configuration changes, and API requests—is collected and made searchable through VCF Operations for Logs. The extract states:

“VCF Operations for Logs provides centralized log aggregation and auditing for all VCF services, including audit trails of logins and configuration changes.”

Option A (audit logs per instance) is unnecessary because auditing is centralized. Option C (Enable Audit Events) is not a standalone step; it is a capability surfaced through Logs. Option D (Event logs in vCenter) covers only vCenter, not fleet-wide audit trails. Therefore, the correct step is to integrate VCF Operations for Logs.

When creating a Region in VCF Automation, multiple workload domains can be aggregated to provide capacity to Organizations. For consistent provisioning across domains, resource constructs must be uniform.

The VCF 9.0 Automation documentation specifies:

VM Classes must exist with identical names across integrated vCenters to ensure consistent deployment behavior.

Storage Classes must also be consistently defined across Supervisors to allow Kubernetes and VM workloads to consume storage predictably.

Region quotas (A) are applied after region creation.

Reserved VM Classes (C) are not a prerequisite unless specifically required for policy enforcement.

An Organization for VM Applications (D) is not required prior to region creation.

Thus, the administrator must validate:

Consistent VM Classes (B)

Consistent Storage Classes (E)

The VCF 9.0 Automation Guide – Content Sharing Policies describes how to control catalog item visibility. Administrators create Content Sharing Policies to restrict which groups can see specific catalog items.

Steps required for this scenario:

Create a new Content Sharing Policy (D): This policy governs catalog item access.

Add the catalog item to the new policy (B): The Mobile Application Backend blueprint must be explicitly added.

Configure the scope as Project → FitnessTrackerApp (C): This ensures the catalog restriction applies only within the FitnessTrackerApp project.

Add the FTA_LeadDevelopers Group (F): Grants visibility only to this group, fulfilling the requirement that only Lead Developers initially see the item.

Incorrect options:

Deployment Limit Policy (A) controls resource limits, not catalog visibility.

FTA_Developers (E) should not be included, as the requirement is Lead Developers only.

Organization scope (G) would expose the item to all projects, which violates the requirement.

Thus, the administrator must configure a Content Sharing Policy, add the catalog item, scope it to the FitnessTrackerApp project, and restrict it to the Lead Developers group.

In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, the licensing architecture has undergone a fundamental shift to simplify the management of large-scale deployments. The legacy method of managing individual 25-character license keys for every component (ESXi, vCenter, NSX, etc.) has been replaced by a unified, subscription-based License File model managed through VCF Operations.

According to the VCF 9.0 Licensing and Administration Guide:

Register the VCF Operations instance with the VCF Business Services console (B): This is the mandatory first step. VCF Operations must be linked to the cloud-based VCF Business Services console (vcf.broadcom.com). This registration allows the environment to sync entitlements and report usage.

Add the license file from the VCF Business Services console to VCF Operations (A): Unlike previous versions that used keys, VCF 9.0 utilizes a "Secure License File" (or an activation code that retrieves it). For environments without direct internet access (Disconnected Mode), the administrator must manually download this file from the Business Services console and upload it to the VCF Operations interface.

Assign licenses to vCenter instances from VCF Operations (F): Once the license file is added to VCF Operations, the "pool" of capacity (measured in Cores or TiBs) becomes available. The administrator then assigns the license specifically to the vCenter Server instances. Documentation states: "License your vCenter, ESX hosts, NSX, VCF Operations, and other components by assigning the license to the vCenter instance." The vCenter then automatically handles the downstream entitlement for the hosts and integrated services.

Why other options are incorrect:

C: While NSX is licensed as part of the fleet, the administrative action in VCF 9.0 is to assign the license to the vCenter instance, which then licenses the "connected assets."

D & E: VCF 9.0 specifically "eliminates the need to manage multiple license keys" (except for certain legacy add-ons). The core fleet licensing uses a single License File rather than individual keys for every component.

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 VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Deployment Guide and the vSphere 9.0 Installation and Setup documentation describe the standard manual ESXi installation workflow. The steps are as follows:

Boot from installation media: The host is started from the ESXi ISO image, either via physical media, virtual media through iLO/iDRAC, or PXE boot.

Select target disk: During setup, administrators select the disk or device where ESXi will be installed.

Configure management network: After installation, the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) is used to set up basic network parameters for the management interface (IP address, DNS, gateway).

Set root password: A secure root password is set to complete the initial setup of the host.

The documentation makes it clear that these steps form the foundation before the host can be discovered and commissioned by SDDC Manager in VMware Cloud Foundation.

Option A is incorrect because the VCF Installer is not used for installing ESXi; it is used for deploying management domains and workload domains.

Option B includes “Join vCenter,” which happens after commissioning, not during installation.

Option D is incorrect since vCenter Server is installed later, not during the ESXi manual setup.

Therefore, the correct stages of manual ESXi installation are: Boot media → Select disk → Configure management network → Set root password.

According to the VCF 9.0 Operations and vSAN Integration Guide, performance metrics in the vSAN Cluster Performance widget are only available when the vSAN Performance Service is enabled. The documentation states:

“The vSAN Performance Service must be enabled in vCenter Server for each vSAN cluster to collect and visualize performance statistics in VCF Operations. Without this service, performance dashboards and widgets will not display data.”

Option A (Support Insight) relates to telemetry with VMware, not performance widgets.

Option B (Cloud proxy as Collector) is required for general collection but not specific to vSAN widget visibility.

Option C (SMART data collection) provides disk health analytics, not cluster-level performance stats.

Option D is correct, because enabling the vSAN Performance Service ensures that VCF Operations receives and displays data in the vSAN Performance dashboards.

Therefore, the administrator must enable the vSAN Performance Service for all vSAN clusters in vCenter.

Document reference (VCF 9.0):

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 → Observability and Monitoring Architecture

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 → VCF Operations and VCF Operations for Logs

The VCF 9.0 Resource Policy Guide describes IaaS Resource Policies as mechanisms to enforce deployment rules for Supervisor-based Kubernetes clusters.

For the production project, only Kubernetes resources are allowed, so administrators must disallow VM deployments (A).

To tolerate a single control plane node failure, production clusters should use multi-control-plane node templates, ensuring availability (B).

In the development project, resources should be minimized, so a single-control-plane node policy is enforced (D), which reduces overhead.

Incorrect options:

Organization-wide policies (C and F) would apply to both projects, which is not desired since dev and prod have different requirements.

Enforcing single-control-plane nodes in production (E) contradicts the requirement for failure tolerance.

Thus, the correct approach is: Disallow VMs in production, enforce multi-control-plane clusters in production, and enforce single-control-plane clusters in development.

The VCF 9.0 Operations Policies Guide explains how to extend and scope monitoring policies:

Create a child policy under the existing Organization Policy (C): Policies can inherit settings from parent policies. By creating a child policy under Organization Policy, administrators can apply additional metrics without overriding global policies.

Create a Custom Group (F): Custom Groups allow dynamic membership based on naming conventions or criteria. In this case, business-critical VMs can be grouped automatically by naming schema.

Assign the Custom Group to the new child policy (B): This ensures that the additional metrics only apply to the business-critical VMs in the Custom Group.

Incorrect options:

Custom Datacenters (A, D) are not required; the grouping requirement can be met with Custom Groups.

Creating the policy under Base Settings (E) would apply globally rather than inheriting from the Organization Policy.