Data Center Virtualization Certification: VCP6.5-DCV Exam Guide

Everything you need to achieve 2V0-622 certification – with exam tips and exercises

Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781789340471
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789342901
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Intelligence
• Index: Business

Deploy and configure vSphere infrastructure and learn to effectively create and administer vSphere virtual machines

Key Features

• Implement advanced network virtualization techniques
• Configure and administer vSphere high availability
• Enhance your data center virtualization skills with practice questions and mock tests

Book Description

This exam guide enables you to install, configure, and manage the vSphere 6.5 infrastructure in all its components: vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines, while helping you to prepare for the industry standard certification.

This data center book will assist you in automating administration tasks and enhancing your environment's capabilities. You will begin with an introduction to all aspects related to security, networking, and storage in vSphere 6.5. Next, you will learn about resource management and understand how to back up and restore the vSphere 6.5 infrastructure. As you advance, you will also cover troubleshooting, deployment, availability, and virtual machine management. This is followed by two mock tests that will test your knowledge and challenge your understanding of all the topics included in the exam.

By the end of this book, you will not only have learned about virtualization and its techniques, but you'll also be prepared to pass the VCP6.5-DCV (2V0-622) exam.

What you will learn

• Deploy and configure vSphere infrastructure
• Create and administer vSphere virtual machines
• Optimize, secure, and troubleshoot all vSphere components
• Implement vSphere HA on a vSAN cluster
• Understand how to back up and restore your vSphere 6.5 infrastructure
• Test your understanding of key concepts required through sample questions

Who this book is for

If you are interested in achieving Data Center Virtualization certification, this is the book is for you. You will also benefit from this book if you are a system administrator or network engineer. Some prior knowledge of virtualization can assist you in understanding key concepts covered in the book.

Mock Exam 1

This chapter contains one mock exam, to test your knowledge of the content in all of the previous chapters.

The mock test exam will contain 70 questions (like the real 2V0-622 exam), and readers should try to complete it in 105 minutes, simulating the real exam's duration.

Note that the questions can also be used in preparation for the VCP6.5-DCV delta exam (the 2V0-622D exam), which also has 70 questions and a 105-minute duration.

The vSphere 6.5 Foundations exam (the 2V0-602 exam) is a little more general (and less deep, technically), but covers several other products from VMware, including vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Automation, and NSX.

The appendix of this book will provide more details on the different VCP65-DCV exams.

VMware no longer provides free mock exams. Instead, they redirect users to Measure Up for online exam simulations; the price of each exam is US $109 (as of July 2018).

The following activities will be covered in this chapter:

• Testing your knowledge in preparation for the VCP65-DCV exam
• Simulating the VCP-DCV exam

Mock exam 1

This mock exam is structured in the same order as the book's chapters, in order to group questions on the same topic together; however, remember that in the real exam, the questions will be sorted randomly.

Also, in the real exam, the number of questions will not necessarily be equally distributed across the topics and contents of the different chapters.

Note that some questions may have multiple answers. In this case, it will be indicated with a "Select all correct answers" sentence. In the real exam, the number of answers (in the case of a multiple-choice question) is usually specified.

The correct answers will be included at the end of each section.

Configure and administer vSphere 6.x security

1. What is the purpose of vCenter roles?
   • A: Roles help administrators to see which users are logged into virtual machines.
   • B: Roles are predefined sets of privileges.
   • C: Roles are used to ensure that a VM gets the correct amount of computing resources.
   • D: Roles are not used within vSphere.
2. To assign permissions in a vSphere environment, what attributes are mandatory? (Select two)
   • A: A firewall setting
   • B: A resource pool
   • C: A user or a group
   • D: A role
   • E: A share
3. What is the purpose of the PSC?
   • A: The PSC is not required for vCenter Server 6.5.
   • B: The PSC provides the cryptographic keys needed for VM encryption.
   • C: The PSC provides common infrastructure services to the vSphere environment.
   • D: The PSC provides an additional security level.

4. Which of the following are deployment options for the Platform Services Controller? (Select all correct answers)
   • A: vCenter Server appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller
   • B: Platform Services Controller .VIB file deployed to each ESXi host in the vSphere environment
   • C: Standalone Platform Services Controller appliance
   • D: Standalone Platform Services Controller installed on a Windows server
   • E: Platform Services Controller deployed directly from the OVA file
5. Which of the following methods can be used to help improve the security of an ESXi host? (Select all correct answers)
   • A: Disabling SSH access
   • B: Disabling the ESXi firewall
   • C: Changing the password of the default administrator account
   • D: Enabling lockdown mode
6. What types of files are encrypted if VM encryption is enabled? (Select all correct answers)
   • A: Virtual machine configuration files (.vmx)
   • B: Virtual disk files (.vmdk)
   • C: VM log files...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Packt Upsell
• Contributors
• Preface
• Configuring and Administering vSphere 6.x Security
• Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Networking
• Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Storage
• Upgrade a vSphere Deployment to 6.x
• Administer and Manage vSphere 6.x Resources
• Backup and Recover a vSphere Deployment
• Troubleshoot a vSphere Deployment
• Deploy and Customize ESXi Hosts
• Configure and Administer vSphere and vCenter Availability Solutions
• Administer and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines
• Mock Exam 1
• Mock Exam 2
• Understanding VMware Certification Paths
• VCP6.5-DCV Certification
• Before, During, and After the Exam
• Other Books You May Enjoy