VMWARE · 2V0-17.25

VMware 2V0-17.25 Exam Practice Questions

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Question 1

Which VMWare Cloud Foundation (VCF) Automation component provides a self-service catalog in the VM Apps tenant?

  1. VCF Service Broker
  2. VCF Config
  3. VCF Assembler
  4. VCF Operations Orchestrator
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Correct answer: A. VCF Service Broker

VCF Service Broker is the component that provides a self-service catalog in the VM Apps tenant, enabling users to request and consume services through a portal interface. Service Broker integrates with other VCF Automation components to deliver the self-service experience.

Why the other options are wrong

  • B. VCF Config is used for infrastructure configuration management, not self-service catalog delivery.
  • C. VCF Assembler is used for application-centric deployment and lifecycle management, not for tenant-level service catalogs.
  • D. VCF Operations Orchestrator provides workflow automation and orchestration capabilities, not the self-service catalog interface itself.

Question 2

A security team informed an administrator that a VMware vCenter root password was compromised. As a precaution, the password was changed directly in vCenter. What should an administrator do to regain management capability of this vCenter by VMWare Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations?

  1. Use the Rotate password function in VCF Operations.
  2. Enter the new root password using the Reset password function in VCF Operations.
  3. Enter the new root password using the Remediate password function in VCF Operations.
  4. Enter the new root password using the Update password function in VCF Operations.
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Correct answer: C. Enter the new root password using the Remediate password function in VCF Operations.

password function in VCF Operations. When a vCenter password is changed outside of VCF Operations management, the Remediate password function in VCF Operations is used to re-synchronize VCF's knowledge of the credential. This restores management capability by updating the stored password in VCF Operations to match the new value.

Why the other options are wrong

  • A. Rotate password is used for scheduled password changes managed by VCF, not for remediation after external changes.
  • B. Reset password is not the correct function for this scenario; remediate is the proper choice for out-of-band password changes.
  • D. Update password is not a standard VCF Operations function for managing compromised credentials.

Question 3

An administrator is responsible for managing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Automation organization within a VCF instance. The administrator has been tasked with updating an VMware NSX VPC by editing the NSX Connectivity profile for an NSX Project. The current profile was generated automatically when the NSX VPC was created. What is the impact of the administrator making this change to the NSX VPC?

  1. All NSX VPCs associated with the VCF Automation organization will be updated with the new VPC connectivity profile.
  2. All NSX VPCs that use the default VPC connectivity profile will be updated with the new VPC connectivity profile.
  3. Only the selected NSX VPC will be updated with the new VPC connectivity profile.
  4. Only the NSX VPCs within the corresponding NSX Project will be updated with the new VPC connectivity profile.
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Correct answer: C. Only the selected NSX VPC will be updated with the new VPC connectivity profile.

new VPC connectivity profile. The NSX VPC connectivity profile referenced here was generated automatically for that specific VPC at creation time, so it is bound to that single VPC. Editing it therefore changes the connectivity settings of only the selected NSX VPC. Other VPCs, whether in the same NSX Project or elsewhere in the VCF Automation organization, keep the profiles already associated with them and are untouched.

Why the other options are wrong

  • A. A connectivity profile edit is never propagated organization wide across every NSX VPC in the VCF instance.
  • B. The profile being edited belongs to the selected VPC, so VPCs that reference their own profiles are not re-configured by this change.
  • D. Membership in the same NSX Project does not cause other VPCs to inherit the edit, since each VPC retains the profile bound to it.

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What makes the 2V0-17.25 hard

Anyone who has been studying 2V0-11.25 should know this is the exam that replaced it. 2V0-11.25 is built on VCF 5.2 and the Aria Suite. 2V0-17.25 is built on VCF 9.0, and the product names on the blueprint changed with it: VCF Automation, VCF Operations, VCF Operations for Logs, VCF Operations for Networks, VCF Fleet Management, VCF Identity Broker, VCF Operations HCX. It is the same job on a renamed and rearchitected estate, and studying the old names is the most common way to lose marks on this one.

The blueprint is unusually lopsided, and it is worth planning around. Sections 1 and 3 carry no testable objectives at all. Everything sits in Section 2, VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals, and Section 4, Deploy, Configure, and Operate VCF, and Section 4 is by far the larger of the two. Objective 4.3 alone runs to fourteen operations tasks, from custom views and reports through alerting, policies, configuration drift and compliance monitoring in VCF Operations.

The other shift is automation. Objective 4.4, Consume and Automate, expects candidates to configure a Region, multi-organizational tenancy, provider networking, a provider content library and organizational governance policies in VCF Automation. That surface barely existed on the 5.2 exam. Nearly every objective is phrased “Given a scenario”, so the questions are situational rather than definitional.

About the exam

VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator (2V0-17.25) leads to VMware Certified Professional, VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator (VCP-VCF Administrator). It covers installing, configuring, managing and basic troubleshooting of a VCF solution and its components, including vCenter, ESX, vSphere Supervisor, vSAN, NSX, VCF Identity Broker, VCF Automation, VCF Operations, VCF Fleet Management and VCF Operations HCX. Content is based on VCF 9.0. Broadcom recommends one year in IT and six months or more with VCF or its components.

Exam sections

  • Section 1, IT Architectures, Technologies, Standards: no testable objectives
  • Section 2, VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals
  • Section 3, Plan and Design the VMware by Broadcom Solution: no testable objectives
  • Section 4, Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware Cloud Foundation

Broadcom publishes the section and objective list for this exam but does not publish a percentage weight per section. 60 items, 135-minute appointment, passing score 300 on a scaled method, US$250 per attempt at the VCP voucher price, proctored through Pearson VUE, offered in English.

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