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Key Facts: VCP-VCF Exam

60

Exam Questions

Broadcom

300

Passing Score

Broadcom scaled score

135 min

Exam Duration

Broadcom

$250

Exam Fee

Broadcom

6+ months

VCF Experience

Exam guide recommendation

2026-04-23

Guide Updated

Broadcom exam guide

English / Japanese

Broadcom offers the VCP-VCF Administrator exam in English and Japanese

Broadcom VCP-VCF Administrator page

7 days

Broadcom requires a seven-day wait after each failed proctored VCP exam attempt

Broadcom exam retake policy

The VCP-VCF Administrator exam is a 60-question, 135-minute Broadcom certification exam with a scaled passing score of 300. Broadcom's current guide, last updated on April 23, 2026, lists 8 testable objective groups and explicitly marks sections 1 and 3 as having no testable objectives. The heaviest emphasis is on VCF Operations, Consume and Automate, and core deployment workflows.

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1Broadcom's VCF 9.0 documentation describes VMware Cloud Foundation as what kind of platform?
A.A full-stack IaaS platform with software-defined compute, storage, networking, security, and management
B.A hyperconverged hardware appliance line that bundles servers, top-of-rack switches, and a proprietary hypervisor
C.A SaaS observability service that monitors workloads running in hyperscaler public clouds
D.A data-protection suite that replicates vCenter and ESX configuration to an off-site vault
Explanation: Broadcom's VCF 9.0 overview calls VMware Cloud Foundation a full-stack Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform that delivers software-defined compute, storage, networking, security, and management. Its components are vSphere, vSAN, NSX, VCF Operations, and VCF Automation.
2Which requirement is the strongest indicator that an organization should evaluate VMware Cloud Foundation instead of continuing to manage separate point products?
A.Running a handful of test VMs on a single workstation hypervisor for one developer
B.Self-service infrastructure with standardized lifecycle and operations across a private cloud
C.Replacing an aging file server with a NAS appliance that serves SMB shares to a single branch office
D.Consolidating physical firewalls into a single perimeter appliance at the internet edge
Explanation: VCF targets organizations that want cloud-like, self-service consumption on premises with integrated deployment, lifecycle, and operations across compute, storage, networking, and management. That platform-level requirement is what separates it from buying individual point products.
3VCF documentation says the platform provides automation and orchestration to simplify Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 tasks. What do those phases refer to?
A.Planning, procurement, and decommissioning milestones in the hardware refresh cycle
B.Three fixed maintenance windows per quarter that are reserved for patching each VCF component
C.Initial deployment, service provisioning and configuration, and ongoing operations and lifecycle
D.Security tiers that separate management, workload, and edge network traffic into distinct trust zones
Explanation: Day 0 is initial platform deployment and setup, Day 1 is provisioning and configuring services, and Day 2 is ongoing management such as monitoring, patching, and lifecycle work. VCF's value proposition is that these phases are automated across the full stack rather than handled as disconnected workflows.
4Which pairing correctly matches the roles of vCenter and ESX in a VCF environment?
A.vCenter provides centralized management, and ESX is the hypervisor running on each host
B.vCenter is the hypervisor on each host, and ESX provides centralized inventory management
C.vCenter runs tenant workloads directly, and ESX stores content library items for vCenter
D.vCenter provides overlay networking, and ESX provides software-defined storage policies
Explanation: vCenter is the central management plane for hosts, clusters, virtual machines, and policy-driven administration. ESX is the hypervisor installed on each physical host that runs virtual machines and other workloads.
5Why are ESX hosts typically placed into a vSphere cluster inside a VCF workload domain?
A.To convert running virtual machines into templates on a nightly schedule
B.To pool host resources and enable cluster services such as vSphere HA and DRS
C.To give every host its own vCenter instance for independent lifecycle management
D.To let each host keep a separate image that vSphere Lifecycle Manager ignores
Explanation: A vSphere cluster groups hosts into a shared resource boundary and enables cluster services such as vSphere High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler. In VCF, clusters are the unit through which compute capacity is presented and lifecycle-managed with a single vSphere Lifecycle Manager image.
6An administrator wants the same approved templates and ISO images available in several vCenter instances, kept in sync from one source. Which vSphere feature fits?
A.A host profile exported from one host and imported into every vCenter
B.A published content library with subscribed libraries in the other vCenter instances
C.A datastore cluster stretched across all of the vCenter instances so each one sees the same files
D.Enhanced Linked Mode, which copies templates between linked vCenter instances
Explanation: Content libraries store VM templates, OVF templates, and ISO images. A published library can be subscribed to from other vCenter instances, which synchronize their content from the publisher, so every site gets the same approved items.
7A latency-sensitive VM must always keep a guaranteed amount of physical memory during host contention. Which setting is most appropriate?
A.Memory reservation
B.High CPU shares value
C.Memory hot-add
D.Memory limit
Explanation: A memory reservation guarantees that the specified amount of physical memory is always backed for the VM, even under contention. Shares only set relative priority, and limits cap usage.
8When auto-policy management is enabled on a vSAN ESA cluster, what does vSAN do?
A.It disables user-defined policies and forces RAID 1 for every virtual machine object
B.It generates an optimal default datastore policy based on cluster type and host count
C.It copies the management domain's default policy unchanged to every workload domain cluster
D.It converts the cluster to vSAN OSA when the host count drops below six
Explanation: vSAN ESA auto-policy management generates an optimal default storage policy, named ClusterName - Optimal Default Datastore Policy, based on whether the cluster is standard or stretched and how many hosts it has. That policy becomes the datastore default, and VCF workload domains with vSAN ESA use auto-policy management.
9An administrator wants RAID 5 erasure coding on a vSAN OSA cluster. Which requirement applies?
A.The OSA disk groups must be all-flash rather than hybrid
B.The cluster must be stretched across two availability zones
C.Deduplication must be turned off on every disk group first
D.Every host must use a single magnetic disk as its cache tier
Explanation: Broadcom's RAID 5 or RAID 6 design considerations state that erasure coding is available only on all-flash disk groups and requires a valid license. Deduplication and compression can be enabled alongside it for additional savings.
10A team wants disaggregated vSAN storage that compute-only clusters mount remotely. Which statement about the VCF 9.0 vSAN storage cluster (formerly vSAN Max) is correct?
A.It is supported on vSAN OSA hybrid disk groups
B.It is the recommended place to run VM workloads
C.It requires vSAN ESA and NVMe storage devices
D.It must be the default cluster of the management domain
Explanation: VCF 9.0 storage models describe the vSAN storage cluster as disaggregated storage built from NVMe-only storage pools that requires vSAN ESA. Running VM workloads directly on it is not recommended, and it is not supported as the management domain default cluster.

About the VCP-VCF Exam

The VMware VCP-VCF Administrator exam (2V0-17.25) validates the skills needed to deploy, manage, and support private cloud environments built on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0. It focuses on VCF fundamentals, workload domains, lifecycle and identity management, VCF Operations, and VCF Automation rather than older vSphere-only administration workflows.

Exam sponsor: VMware by Broadcom / Pearson VUE. The requirements and fees below concern the certification or admission exam, separate from our free practice resources.

Assessment

60 multiple-choice and multiple-choice multiple-selection items (English form). Broadcom's guide lists testable objectives only in Section 2 (private cloud vision; compute, storage and network fundamentals) and Section 4 (deploy and configure, manage, operations, consume and automate); Sections 1 and 3 have no testable objectives.

Time Limit

135-minute appointment, including adequate time for non-native English speakers

Passing Score

300 (scaled)

Exam / Certification Fees

$250 USD

Exam sponsor website

Reported exam pass rate: Not publicly disclosed. Broadcom does not publish official pass-rate data for VCP-VCF. Exam sponsor website

Fees, eligibility, and exam policies can change. Confirm them with the exam sponsor before applying or paying.

Our practice resources: topics covered

We aim to reflect publicly available exam outlines and topic information in our study resources. Coverage, format, and difficulty may differ from the actual exam, and we cannot guarantee that every detail is accurate or current. Confirm exam requirements, fees, and policies with the official exam sponsor.

Objective 2.1

Private Cloud Vision

Private cloud principles, use cases, and value proposition for VMware Cloud Foundation as a modern private cloud platform.

Objective 2.2

VMware Compute Fundamentals

Deploying and configuring vCenter and ESX, building vSphere clusters, and deploying and managing virtual machines.

Objective 2.3

VMware Storage Fundamentals

vSphere storage, vSAN ESA versus OSA, vSAN cluster deployment, storage policies, resilience, and space-efficiency features.

Objective 2.4

VMware Network Fundamentals

VCF networking components, virtual networking fabrics, routing, connectivity, and network services.

Objective 4.1

VCF Deploy and Configure

VCF deployment models, required components, network gateway and networking deployment, workload domains, storage configuration, and Supervisor enablement.

Objective 4.2

VCF Manage

Fleet management, identity and RBAC, licenses, certificates, passwords, existing vCenter import, and VCF lifecycle management.

Objective 4.3

VCF Operations

VCF Operations and Logs, metrics versus properties, views, reports, dashboards, alerting, health diagnostics, monitoring, compliance, and configuration drift.

Objective 4.4

VCF Consume and Automate

VCF Automation use cases and components, regions, multi-org tenancy, provider networking, content libraries, org administration, extensibility, governance policies, and Supervisor-based services.

Preparing for the VCP-VCF Exam

What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: 300 (scaled)
  • Assessment: 60 multiple-choice and multiple-choice multiple-selection items (English form). Broadcom's guide lists testable objectives only in Section 2 (private cloud vision; compute, storage and network fundamentals) and Section 4 (deploy and configure, manage, operations, consume and automate); Sections 1 and 3 have no testable objectives.
  • Time limit: 135-minute appointment, including adequate time for non-native English speakers
  • Exam / certification fees: $250 USD Official sources

Using Our Practice Resources

  • Work through all 291 available questions
  • Review every answer and explanation
  • Track weak areas and revisit them
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VCP-VCF: Suggested Study Strategy

1Prioritize VCF Operations and VCF Automation because those objective groups carry the most blueprint coverage.
2Study from the official exam guide last updated April 23, 2026 instead of older VCF 5.x community outlines.
3Practice workload-domain deployment flow, storage attachment, and Supervisor enablement until you can explain the sequence without notes.
4Be comfortable with identity, RBAC, certificates, passwords, and lifecycle workflows inside VMware Cloud Foundation.
5Know how VCF Operations dashboards, reports, alerts, health diagnostics, and configuration-drift controls fit together.
6Understand the difference between VCF Automation provider-level tasks and org-admin consumption tasks.
7Review vSAN resilience and storage-policy scenarios, not just terminology like ESA and OSA.
8Use timed 60-question practice sets so your pacing matches the real 135-minute exam.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the VCP-VCF passing score?

Broadcom lists the VCP-VCF Administrator passing score as 300 using a scaled scoring method. The live exam is 2V0-17.25 and includes 60 questions to be completed in 135 minutes.

How many questions are on the VCP-VCF Administrator exam?

The English VCP-VCF Administrator exam currently has 60 questions according to Broadcom's certification page and exam guide. The question formats are multiple choice and multiple-choice multiple selection.

Do I still need official training to earn VCP-VCF?

No. Broadcom's May 6, 2024 certification-program update removed the mandatory training and prior-certification prerequisite for VCP exams. Broadcom still recommends VMware Cloud Foundation: Build, Manage, and Secure and VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate for exam preparation.

What does Broadcom recommend for VCP-VCF experience?

The current exam guide says candidates should have a minimum of one year of general IT experience plus at least six months working with either VMware Cloud Foundation or its individual components. The guide also expects foundational knowledge of Kubernetes, hardware, storage, networking, DNS, NTP, and certificates.

Are official domain percentages published for VCP-VCF?

No. Broadcom publishes objective sections and bullets, but not numeric percentage weights for this exam. For study planning, this practice bank weights coverage by the number of testable objectives in the current blueprint, which places the most emphasis on VCF Operations, Consume and Automate, and Deploy and Configure.

What languages is the VCP-VCF Administrator exam available in?

Broadcom's certification page lists the exam in English and Japanese. Availability and scheduling are handled through Pearson VUE.

What is the retake policy for VCP-VCF?

Broadcom's April 2024 retake policy states that proctored VMware certification exams have a seven-calendar-day waiting period after each failed attempt. Once you pass a proctored exam, you cannot take that same exam again until a new major revision is released.

What changed in VCF 9.0 compared with VCF 5.2 administration?

In VCF 9.0, certificate management, password management and lifecycle management run in VCF Operations fleet management instead of the SDDC Manager UI, and the VCF Installer replaces the Cloud Builder appliance for new deployments. The 2V0-17.25 exam is based on VCF 9.0.