VMware Certified Associate 6 - Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals : 1V0-621 Exam Questions

Knowledge:
-Explain Data Center Virtualization.
-Differentiate Physical and Virtual Data Center Components.
-Identify Data Center Virtualization Benefits.

Tools:
-Virtualization Basics
-VMwarevSphere6.0 Overview
-The Business Value of Virtualization
-Business and Financial Benefits of Virtualization

Knowledge:
-Identify VMware vSphere Editions.
-Identify common management challenges.
-Identify common scalability challenges.
-Identify common optimization challenges.

Tools:
-Compare vSphere Editions
-VMware vSphere Essentials Kit and Essentials Plus Kit Datasheet
-The Business Value of Virtualization
-Business and Financial Benefits of Virtualization

Knowledge:
-Explain the concept and capabilities of virtual machines and vApps.
-Explain the concept and capabilities of a virtual machine.
-Identify purpose of ESXi and vCenter Server.
-Differentiate VMware migration technologies.
-Differentiate VMware availability technologies.
-Explain the concepts of clusters and resource pools.
-Identify and explain common VMware data center products.

Tools:
-Virtualization Basics
-VMware vSphere 6.0 Datasheet
-Explore vSphere Availability Features
-Explore vSphere Migration Features
-Explore Resource Management Features
-vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
-Differentiate physical and virtual storage.
-Explain the use of shared storage in a vSphere implementation.
-Differentiate VMFS and NFS datastores.
-Differentiate virtual disk provisioning methods.
-Explain Virtual SAN capabilities.
-Explain Virtual Volume capabilities.
-Identify capabilities of Storage I/O Control.
-Identify capabilities of Storage DRS.
-Explain VMware virtual storage technologies.

Tools:
-What’s New in in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform
-Explore vSphere Storage Features
-What’s New: VMware Virtual SAN 6.0
-What’s New: VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
-Explore Storage I/O Control (SIOC) Features
-vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
-Differentiate physical and virtual networking.
-Differentiate VMware virtual switch technologies.
-Identify VMware virtual switch components.
-Identify common virtual switch policies.
-Identify capabilities of Network I/O Control.
-Differentiate traffic control mechanisms.

Tools:
-What’s New in in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform
-Explore vSphere Networking Features
-Network I/O Control (NIOC) Feature Summary
-vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
-Differentiate vSphere resource management features.
-Remediate resource management challenges.
-Identify all vMotion technologies (Storage, Resource, Long distance, etc.).
-Explain Distributed Resource Management, Distributed Power Management and High Availability.

Tools:
-What’s New in in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform
-Explore Resource Management Features
-Explore vSphere Migration Features
-vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
-Differentiate vSphere high availability features.
-Remediate high availability challenges.
-Identify vSphere Disaster Recovery solutions.
-Differentiate VMware disaster recovery/disaster tolerance technologies.
-Explain vSphere Fault Tolerance.
-Identify vSphere Replication requirements.

Tools:
-Introduction to VMware vSphere Data Protection
-Introduction to vSphere Replication
-Explore vSphere Availability Features
-Introduction to Data Protection
-vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
-Explain features of VMware NSX.
-Explain features of vRealize Operations.
-Explain features of vRealize Automation.
-Explain features of Site Recovery Manager.

Tools:
-What’s New in in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform
-VMware NSX Datasheet
-NSX Feature Walk Through
-vRealize Operations Datasheet
-vRealize Operations Feature Walk Through
-vRealize Automation Datasheet
-vRealize Automation Feature Walk Through
-VMware vRealize Air Homepage
-VMware vRealize Suite Datasheet
-vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
-Identify different virtual infrastructure objects within the vSphere Web Client.
-Differentiate visual status indicators for various object states and conditions.
-Describe actions that can be taken on objects given a specific state of condition.

Tools:
-Using the vSphere Web Client
-vCenter Server and Host Management
-vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
-vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
-Differentiate the functions of the vSphere Web Client panes.
-Describe vSphere Web Client Navigation, Filter and Search options.
-Describe the Access Control system.
-Understand how roles and/or permissions are assigned.
-Understand virtual machine file and inventory structure and mechanisms.
-Understand the benefit of tags assigned to inventory objects.

Tools:
-Using the vSphere Web Client
-vCenter Server and Host Management
-vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
-vSphere Permissions and User Management Tasks
-vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
-Install the Client Integration Plug-in.
-Install the VMware Remote Console.
-Install and/or Upgrade VMware Tools.
-Understand and differentiate virtual machine performance charts.
-Monitor Virtual Machine CPU/Memory/Disk utilization.
-Monitor ESXi Host health status.
-Monitor ESXi Host and virtual machine tasks.
-Monitor ESXi Host and virtual machine events.
-Monitor ESXi Host and virtual machine alarms.

Tools:
-Using the vSphere Web Client
-vCenter Server and Host Management
-vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
-vSphere Monitoring and Performance
-vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
-Differentiate the power states of a virtual machine.
-Configure startup options for virtual machines running on a host.
-Manage the power operations of a virtual machine.
-Manage the power operations of a vApp.
-Install a guest OS to an existing virtual machine.
-Manage removable media.

Tools:
-Using the vSphere Web Client
-vCenter Server and Host Management
-vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
-vSphere Web Client

Knowledge:
-Apply VMware virtualization technologies to resolve common data center availability challenges.
-Apply VMware virtualization technologies to resolve common data center management challenges.
-Apply VMware virtualization technologies to resolve common data center optimization challenges.
-Apply VMware virtualization technologies to resolve common data center scalability challenges.
-Differentiate SMB and Enterprise data center challenges and solutions that can be met with vSphere.

Tools:
-eBook: Delivering IT Outcomes
-VMware Solutions for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
-Server Consolidation
-Software-Defined Data Center
-Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery