VMware Certified Technical Associate or VCTA certification is an entry-level certification offered by VMware.
VMware Certified Technical Associate or VCTA certification is an entry-level certification offered by VMware. It is gaining popularity quickly as the most common initial point for future virtualization administrators. VMware training deals with digital solutions for all the IT-related issues in the tech world that further helps in managing, installing, connecting, and running private and public cloud infrastructures.
The VMware course comprises the study and in-depth understanding of virtualization and vSphere concepts, along with knowledge of Data Center technology & basic troubleshooting concepts.
Eligibility
Graduation
2-3 years of experience in Information Technology
Basic understanding of managing, installing, updating, and configuring the applications
Fundamental knowledge of Business Requirements
Curriculum designed for VMware Course
Architecture and Technologies
Identify how physical resources are presented to multiple virtual machines.
Identify how virtual resources can be shared across multiple virtual machines.
Identify examples of type 1 and type 2 hypervisors.
Identify business challenges addressed by vSphere.
Identify the components of a vSphere enviroment.
Identify vSphere virtual networking components and types.
Idenify the characteristics of storage access protoclols for vSphere.
Identify the characteristics of vSphere storage tecnologies.
Identify the purposes of different virtual machine files.
Identify the types of OS that can run on virtual machines.
Identify use cases for virtual machine snapshots, cloning and templates.
Identify the functionality of the vSphere vMotion and storage vMotion technology.
Identify the use cases of vSphere vMotion and storage vMotion technology.
Identify the characteristics of vSphere High Availability and Fault Tolerance.
Identify use cases of High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
Identify the functionality of VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
Given a DRS score, identify the meaning.
Identify the use cases for Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC).
Products and Solutions
Describe the role of vSphere in the software-defined data center (SDDC)
Identify use cases for vCloud Foundation
Identify migration options
Identify DR use cases
Describe vSphere integration with VMware Skyline
Planning and Designing
There are no testable objectives for this section.
Installing, Configuring ,and Setup
Describe single sign-on (SSO) deployment topology.
Configure VSS advanced virtual networking options
Set up identity sources
Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
Create and configure VMware High Availability and advanced options (Admission Control, Proactive High Availability,
etc.)Deploy and configure vCenter Server High Availability
Set up content library
Configure vCenter Server file-based backup
Analyze basic log output from vSphere products
Configure vSphere Trust Authority
Configure vSphere certificates
Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager/VMware Update Manager (VUM)
Securely Boot ESXi hosts
Configure different network stacks
Configure Host Profiles
Identify boot options
Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
Identify resource pools use cases
Monitor resources of vCenter Server Appliance and vSphere environment
Identify and use tools for performance monitoring
Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC)
Configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
Explain the performance impact of maintaining virtual machine snapshots
Plan for upgrading various vSphere components
Troubleshooting and Repairing
There are no testable objectives for this section.
Administrative and Operational Task
Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
Create virtual machines using different methods (Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) templates, content library,
etc.)Manage virtual machines
Manage storage (datastores, storage policies, etc.)
Create Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity and anti-affinity rules for common use cases
Configure and perform different types of migrations
Configure role-based user management
Configure and manage the options for securing a vSphere environment (certificates, virtual machine encryption,
virtual Trusted Platform Module, lock-down mode, virtualization-based security, etc.)Configure and manage host profiles
Utilize baselines to perform updates and upgrades
Utilize vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Configure alarms
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