VMware Certified Professional 6 – Cloud Management and Automation Exam
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This exam tests your skills and abilities installing, configuring and administering a VMware vRealize® environment.
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+ Section 1: Install, Configure and Upgrade vRealize Suite Components
+ Objective 1.1: Explain vRealize Suite Editions and Features
Knowledge
- Determine available features and third party integrations for different vRealize Suite editions
- Differentiate vCloud Air solutions
- Describe vRealize Automation/vCloud Air integration options
- Explain vRealize Business Standard key capabilities
- Describe available vRealize Suite editions
- Explain vRealize Application Services functionality
- Explain vRealize Orchestrator functionality
- Determine the appropriate vRealize Suite edition based on customer requirements
+ Objective 1.2: Install and Upgrade vRealize Suite Components
Knowledge
- Deploy and configure appliances for distributed vRealize deployment (e.g. SSO, automation, DB)
- Install or upgrade IaaS components
- Configure default tenant and any additional tenants
- Appoint administrators and configure load balancer(s)
- Integrate vRealize with external systems
- Manage SSL certificates
- Resolve deployment and configuration issues
- Perform upgrade of vCAC 6.1 to vRealize Automation
- Download and install updates to vRealize component appliances
+ Objective 1.3: Configure and Administer vCloud Connector
Knowledge
- Explain the components and configure vCloud Connector
- Explain vApp copy process
- Determine virtual machine state
- Describe necessary configuration for Data Center Extension
- Differentiate between functionality of components of vCloud Connector
- Implement required network and security settings
- Determine storage requirements and add storage for vCloud Connector node
- Register vCloud Connector UI with vCenter Server
- Register vCloud Networking and Security Manager with the vCloud Connector server
- Troubleshoot common vCloud Connector installation and operations issues
- Create a vCloud Connector Content Library
- Publish vSphere folders and vCloud catalogs to a vCloud Connector Content Library
- Subscribe/unsubscribe to a published folder or catalog
- Stretch deploy a virtual machine or vApp using Data Center Extension
- Installing and Configuring vCloud Connector
- Using vCloud Connector
- vRealize Automation Installation and Configuration Guide
- vSphere Client and Web Client
- vCloud Connector vSphere Client Plug-In
- vCloud Connector Web UI
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Objective 1.4: Configure vRealize Automation Settings
Knowledge
- Configure vRealize system settings to handle system notifications and appearance
- Enable connections and set concurrency limits on IaaS server
- Configure datacenter locations
+ Objective 1.5: Integrate vRealize Automation with vCloud Air
Knowledge
- Provision with vCloud Air or vCloud Director vApps
- Configure IaaS for vApps
- Create vApp and vApp component blueprints
- Configure advanced blueprint settings
- Monitor workflows and logs
- Manage machine life cycle and workflow states
- Configure an endpoint in vRealize Automation
- Configure vCloud Air OnDemand and Subscription endpoints
- Synchronize environment data from vCloud Air
- Deploy virtual machines
+ Section 2: Administer vRealize Automation Users, Roles and Privileges
+ Objective 2.1: Create Roles and Apply Privileges to Roles
Knowledge
- Configure system-wide roles and responsibilities
- Assign user roles within tenants
- Configure tenant roles and responsibilities
- Add identity stores
- Appoint tenant administrators
+ Objective 2.2: Configure AD/LDAP Integration
Knowledge
- Configure identity stores
- Associate an identity store with a tenant
- Configure a native Active Directory identity store
+ Section 3: Create and Administer Cloud Networking
+ Objective 3.1: Explain NSX Integration with vRealize Automation
Knowledge
- Manage network services with vRealize Automation
- Configure NSX integration
- Configure IaaS for network integration
- IaaS Integration for Multi-Machine Services
- NSX Administration Guide
- vCloud Automation Center Web Console
- vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 3.2: Configure and Manage vRealize Automation Networking
Knowledge
- Describe the available NSX for vSphere Edge network services
- Configure DHCP/NAT/VPN/Load balancer
- Sub-allocate IP pools
- Add static IP addresses
- Configure syslog
- Configure multi-machine blueprints for network virtualization
- Identify the NSX Distributed Firewall components
- Use logs to troubleshoot common network service issues
- NSX Administration Guide
- IaaS Integration for Multi-Machine Services
- vCloud Automation Center Web Console
- vSphere Web Client
+ Section 4: Configure and Administer Tenants and Business Groups
+ Objective 4.1: Create and Manage Business Groups
Knowledge
- Describe specific privilege levels for different business group roles
- Manage user roles (e.g. business group manager and support)
- Assign Active Directory users and groups to business group roles
- Create and manage machine prefixes
- Identify and configure custom properties
- vRealize Automation Foundations and Concepts
- vRealize Automation Tenant Administration
- Cloud Properties Reference
- vCloud Automation Center Web Console
+ Objective 4.2: Create and Manage Tenants
Knowledge
- Configure branding for the vRealize Automation console
- Add and configure tenant-specific inbound and outbound email notifications
- Override/revert to system default email servers
- Identify and add identity stores in vRealize Automation
- Create and assign user roles to an identity store group
- vRealize Automation Tenant Administration
- vRealize Automation Web Console
- vSphere Client and Web Client
+ Section 5: Allocate and Manage vRealize Automation Resources
+ Objective 5.1: Create and Manage Fabric Groups
Knowledge
- Add and configure endpoints for vSphere and vRealize Automation
- Map compute resources to endpoints
- Assign correct permissions to manage fabric groups
- Collect compute resource data
- Monitor resources
- vRealize Automation Foundations and Concepts
- IaaS Configuration for Virtual Platforms
- vRealize Automation Web Console
- vSphere Client and Web Client
+ Objective 5.2: Create and Manage Reservations
Knowledge
- Create and manage reservations
- Specify reservation information
- Select a reservation for a cloud based virtual machine
- Create an endpoint to reserve physical machine resources
- Determine where reservations have been over allocated
- Troubleshoot reservation over-allocation
- System Administration
- IaaS Configuration for Virtual Platforms
- IaaS Configuration for Cloud Platforms
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Objective 5.3: Create and Manage Reservation Policies
Knowledge
- Create, configure, and assign one or more reservations to a reservation policy
- Create, configure, and assign a reservation policy to one or more blueprints
- Create and assign a storage reservation policy
- vRealize Automation System Administration
- IaaS Configuration for Virtual Platforms
- IaaS Configuration for Cloud Platforms
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Section 6: Create and Administer vRealize Automation Components
+ Objective 6.1: Create and Manage Machine/Multi-Machine Blueprints
Knowledge
- Explain different blueprint machine types
- Explain different blueprint provisioning types
- Explain different blueprint actions
- Explain run time property precedents
- Create single and/or multi-machine blueprints
- Create a build profile
- Configure appropriate blueprint security
- Configure approvals for a blueprint
- Given a scenario, determine the appropriate custom properties for the blueprint or build profile
- System Administration
- IaaS Configuration for Virtual Platforms
- IaaS Configuration for Cloud Platforms
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Objective 6.2: Create and Manage Service Catalog Items
Knowledge
- Create services, actions, entitlements and approval policies
- Configure catalog items and actions
- Understand the implications of activating and inactivating entitlements
- vRealize Automation Foundations and Concepts
- vRealize Automation Tenant Administration
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Objective 6.3: Create and Manage Service Catalog Blueprints
Knowledge
- Create and edit service blueprints
- Add new service blueprint forms and define appearance of catalog item details
- Determine roles required to create and manage service blueprints
- Publish a service blueprint as a catalog item
- vRealize Automation Advanced Service Design
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Objective 6.4: Create and Manage a Property Dictionary
Knowledge
- Describe functions of property definitions
- Create and manage property definitions and layouts
- Determine rights required to use property definitions and layouts
- Cloud Properties Reference
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Objective 6.5: Create and Manage Build Profiles
Knowledge
- Create and modify a build profile
- Create and modify a property set
- Add property sets to a build profile
- IaaS Configuration for Virtual Platforms
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Objective 6.6: Create Custom Services using Advanced Service Designer
Knowledge
- Describe vRealize Automation API extensibility options
- Create and manage custom services and service blueprints
- Describe tools and features for vRealize Automation extensions
- vRealize Automation Advanced Service Design
- vRealize Automation Machine Extensibility
- vRealize Automation Web Console
- CloudUtil
+ Section 7: Monitor and Troubleshoot a vRealize Automation Implementation
+ Objective 7.1: Perform Basic vRealize Automation Troubleshooting
Knowledge
- Troubleshoot login issues
- Troubleshoot installation and upgrade issues
- Identify log file locations
- vRealize Automation Installation and Configuration
- vRealize Automation Web Console
- vSphere Web Client
+ Objective 7.2: Audit vRealize Automation Resources and Events
Knowledge
- Provide status details of managed virtual machines
- Determine status and history of workflows
- Identify event attributes
- Show display status
- vRealize Automation Suite Log Locations
- vRealize Automation System Administration
- IaaS Configuration for Virtual Platforms
- IaaS Configuration for Cloud Platforms
- IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director
- IaaS Integration for Multi-Machine Services
- IaaS Configuration for Physical Machines
+ Objective 7.3: Map vRealize Automation Resources to vSphere Resources
Knowledge
- Create resource mappings
- Create and publish a resource action
- Associate icons to actions
+ Section 8: Configure and Administer vRealize Orchestrator
+ Objective 8.1: Create and Modify Basic Orchestrator Workflows
Knowledge
- Describe Orchestrator workflows for converting virtual machines between Orchestrator and IaaS
- Describe different Orchestrator workflow types
- Create and manage Orchestrator endpoints to run workflows
- Use an Orchestrator workflow from an IaaS workflow
- Import Orchestrator workflows into vRealize Automation
- Configure the default workflow folder for a tenant
- Create and publish Orchestrator workflows as catalog items in a service blueprint
- vRealize Automation Machine Extensibility
- Using the VMware vRealize Orchestrator Client
- vRealize Automation Advanced Service Design
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Objective 8.2: Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with vRealize Automation Center
Knowledge
- Provision and modify custom resources
- Configure vRealize Automation to use external vRealize Orchestrator server
- Configure service endpoints
+ Section 9: Configure and Administer vRealize Business Standard
+ Objective 9.1: Install and Configure vRealize Business Standard Appliance
Knowledge
- Describe system requirements
- Configure and access vRealize Business Standard with vRealize Automation
- Deploy vRealize Busness Standard in vCloud Director and/or vSphere
+ Objective 9.2: Perform Basic Configuration of vRealize Business Standard Environment
Knowledge
- Manage connections from other VMware technologies such as vCenter Server, vCloud and SRM
- Manage connections and public cloud user accounts
- Update the reference database
- Calculate hardware cost depreciation
+ Section 10: Configure and Administer vRealize Application Services
+ Objective 10.1: Install and Configure vRealize Application Services Appliance
Knowledge
- Enable Application Services to use a proxy
- Register Application Services to vRealize Automation
- Setup application provisioning
- Manage the Application Services library
- Create, deploy and update applications
- Troubleshoot connection issues to Application Services
- Using Application Services
- Using Application Services Library Services
- Application Services Troubleshooting
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Objective 10.2: Create Basic Application Blueprints
Knowledge
- Describe Application Services privilege prerequisites for creating application blueprints
- Create and modify applications and application versions
- Determine application and application version requirements for creating application blueprints
- Model and create application blueprints
- Modify and manage existing application blueprints
- Using Application Services
- vRealize Automation Web Console
+ Exam Contributors
Bill Sitchler
Joshua Andrews
Philip Cohen
George Kobar
Bill Call
Dwayne Neri
John Krueger
Frank Buechsel
Akeem Jenkins
Josh Gray
Simon Long
Andrew Ellwood
Scott Schaefer
Neal Elinski
Harold Simon
Joseph Desmond
Adam Kniffin
Mike Brown
Andrew Sturniolo
Simon Hamilton-Wilkes
Jordan Roth
Ken Thacker
Mandy Botsko-Wilson
Matt Vandenbeld
Joshua Andrews
Philip Cohen
George Kobar
Bill Call
Dwayne Neri
John Krueger
Frank Buechsel
Akeem Jenkins
Josh Gray
Simon Long
Andrew Ellwood
Scott Schaefer
Neal Elinski
Harold Simon
Joseph Desmond
Adam Kniffin
Mike Brown
Andrew Sturniolo
Simon Hamilton-Wilkes
Jordan Roth
Ken Thacker
Mandy Botsko-Wilson
Matt Vandenbeld
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