In August 2018 I’ve passed the VCAP6-DCV Deployment exam. After a busy first half of 2019 it’s time to start preparing the VMware Certified Advanced Professional — Data Center Virtualization Design 2019 exam. But I lost focus and in 2020 I had a lot to do – but not VMW related and so I also missed my goal to take the VCAP-DCV Design exam.

I have to push myself, so I decided to re-cap my half finished blog series to get myself back on track.

There are many great study guides out there, but in most cases I need “my own study guide” to feel well prepared. I hope this blog series will keep me on track, and I stay focused. This is my third try to prepare for this exam… :/

In opposite to the Deploy exam, the Design exam is a MC exam. 130 Minutes for 60 questions. Sounds easy, but it’s told that it’s one of the hardest exams available by VMware.

The exam consists of three sections:

• Section 1 – Create a vSphere 6.5 Conceptual Design
• Section 2 – Create a vSphere 6.x Logical Design from an Existing Conceptual Design
• Section 3 – Create a vSphere 6.x Physical Design from an Existing Logical Design

Each section contains several objects.

• Objective 1.1 – Gather and analyze business requirements
• Objective 1.2 – Gather and analyze application requirements
• Objective 1.3 – Determine risks, requirements, constraints, and assumptions

• Objective 2.1 – Map business requirements to a vSphere 6.x logical design
• Objective 2.2 – Map service dependencies
• Objective 2.3 – Build availability requirements into a vSphere 6.x logical design
• Objective 2.4 – Build manageability requirements into a vSphere 6.x logical design
• Objective 2.5 – Build performance requirements into a vSphere 6.x logical design
• Objective 2.6 – Build recoverability requirements into a vSphere 6.x logical design
• Objective 2.7 – Build security requirements into a vSphere 6.x logical design

• Objective 3.1 – Transition from a logical design to a vSphere 6.x physical design
• Objective 3.2 – Create a vSphere 6.x physical network design from an existing logical design
• Objective 3.3 – Create a vSphere 6.x physical storage design from an existing logical design
• Objective 3.4 – Determine appropriate computer resources for a vSphere 6.x physical design
• Objective 3.5 – Determine virtual machine configuration for a vSphere 6.x physical design
• Objective 3.6 – Determine data center management options for a vSphere 6.x physical design

I will try to cover each objective in a blog post and add a link here. Feel free to add comments, corrections and questions. :) The already added links link to already written blog posts, but I will revise the alreay posted blog posts.

Leave a comment if you have questsions. :)

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