VMware VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Administrator 2V0-17.25 Exam Dumps: Updated Questions & Answers (April 2026)

The VCF 9.0 Architecture Guide outlines valid principal storage options for the management domain. It states: “ The management domain must be deployed using vSAN, NFS, or Fibre Channel (FC). Supported protocols include NFSv3 and VMFS on FC. ” vSAN (including OSA) is the default recommended option, but NFSv3 and VMFS on FC are also supported for environments where external storage arrays are required.

NVMe/TCP and vVols are not supported for the initial management domain’s principal storage. vVols may be used in workload domains after deployment, but they are not a supported foundation for the management domain. Therefore, the three correct storage solutions for the first management workload domain are: VMFS on FC, NFSv3, and vSAN OSA .

The VCF 9.0 Automation and Orchestration Guide explains how Orchestrator integrates with VCF Automation to provide workflow-driven services such as Active Directory management.

Orchestrator Integration (B): The tenant must be connected to the dedicated Orchestrator instance rather than the embedded one. Documentation notes: “Each tenant can integrate with its own Orchestrator endpoint for workflow execution.”

AD Plugin Configuration (E): The Orchestrator Active Directory plugin must be configured against the development AD only, ensuring that the development team does not impact the production directory.

Publish Workflow (C): The AD user creation workflow must be published to the VCF Automation catalog using the Content Hub. Actions alone are insufficient; workflows are the full automation logic exposed to end users.

Custom Resource Object (F): To enable developers to create and destroy AD accounts, a Custom Resource object must be created in VCF Automation and mapped to the Orchestrator workflows. This provides lifecycle capabilities (create/destroy) in the self-service catalog.

Options A and D are incorrect because publishing only the “action” is not sufficient (workflows are required), and the plugin must not point to production AD. Option G is incorrect because the dedicated Orchestrator has already been deployed, so the embedded Orchestrator is not used.

When creating a Region in VCF Automation , multiple workload domains can be aggregated to provide capacity to Organizations. For consistent provisioning across domains, resource constructs must be uniform.

The VCF 9.0 Automation documentation specifies:

VM Classes must exist with identical names across integrated vCenters to ensure consistent deployment behavior.

Storage Classes must also be consistently defined across Supervisors to allow Kubernetes and VM workloads to consume storage predictably.

Region quotas (A) are applied after region creation.

Reserved VM Classes (C) are not a prerequisite unless specifically required for policy enforcement.

An Organization for VM Applications (D) is not required prior to region creation.

Thus, the administrator must validate:

Consistent VM Classes (B)

Consistent Storage Classes (E)

In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, the VCF Service Broker is the component responsible for providing a self-service catalog of available services, blueprints, and content to end users in the VM Apps tenant. The documentation explains:

“Service Broker acts as the catalog service for VM-based and cloud-native applications, allowing organizations to expose curated content to end users while applying policies, constraints, and governance.”

VCF Operations Orchestrator (A) provides workflow automation but does not expose services directly in a self-service catalog.

VCF Assembler (B) is used for designing blueprints and application templates but not for publishing them to end users.

VCF Config (D) is responsible for infrastructure configuration management and desired state compliance, not catalog services.

Thus, the correct component for the catalog is the VCF Service Broker.

The Network Operations feature within VMware Cloud Foundation is powered by VCF Operations for Networks (formerly Aria Operations for Networks).

The VCF 9.0 documentation explains:

“VCF Operations for Networks provides application dependency mapping, network flow visibility, micro-segmentation validation, and network troubleshooting capabilities.”

Without this component, advanced network analytics and topology visualization are not available.

vDefend firewall (B) provides security enforcement but does not deliver analytics and visibility features.

NSX networking (C) provides networking services but does not itself deliver network operations insights and analytics.

VCF Operations collector (D) collects data but does not provide the network operations feature set.

Thus, to enable full Network Operations capability, the administrator must install and configure VCF Operations for Networks .

The requirement is to ensure DNS records are created only when a domain name is provided.

Since the blueprint includes a custom property for domainName, the correct conditional logic in the event subscription must validate that this property is not null.

Adding the condition:

event.data.customProperties[ ' domainName ' ] != null

ensures the workflow executes only when the domain name is provided.

Option B validates hostname instead of domain name.

Option A controls workflow blocking, not conditional execution.

Option C relates to cleanup, not creation condition validation.

Resetting identity management in VCF requires removal of existing identity configurations, including external identity providers and the Identity Broker configuration. The VCF documentation states that to reset identity services, administrators must remove the SSO configuration, including broker settings, and then reconfigure SSO.

Option B ensures complete cleanup of identity integrations.

Option C re-establishes identity management with the correct configuration.

Disabling (D) or reverting (E) is not a supported reset method. Leaving provisioned users/groups (A) would not fully reset identity management.

The VCF 9.0 Upgrade Documentation clearly outlines a staged upgrade sequence: “ The upgrade to VCF 9.0 begins with the SDDC Manager upgrade. Only after SDDC Manager is upgraded to 9.0 are the other component bundles (vCenter, ESXi, NSX, Operations) made available for download and application. ”

This design ensures SDDC Manager is compatible with the lifecycle operations required for the rest of the environment. If SDDC Manager is not upgraded first, it cannot process or display other bundles. Offline repositories (A), proxy servers (B), or ASYNC tools (C) do not affect the bundle visibility order. Therefore, the correct answer is D. SDDC Manager must be upgraded first.

In Kubernetes RBAC, ClusterRoleBinding is the mechanism for granting permissions to resources that are not namespace-scoped. The documentation integrated into VCF 9.0 explains: “ ClusterRoleBinding binds a user, group, or service account to a ClusterRole, granting cluster-wide permissions to non-namespaced resources such as nodes, storage classes, or persistent volumes. ”

A RoleBinding grants access to namespace-scoped resources. RoleReference is a field within a RoleBinding/ClusterRoleBinding object, not a standalone object. ClusterRoleAccess is not a valid Kubernetes construct.

Thus, to assign permissions at a cluster-wide level, the correct object is ClusterRoleBinding .

The VCF 9.0 Installation Guide describes the VCF Download Tool for dark sites:

“ For environments without Internet access, use the VCF Download Tool on a connected machine to download required bundles and transfer them to the air-gapped VCF environment. ”

Broadcom Downloads (B) is the source but not the workflow for dark sites. The VCF Installer (C) consumes binaries but does not fetch them. SDDC Manager (D) manages bundles in connected mode but cannot download in disconnected environments.

Thus, the correct method for dark sites is A. Use the VCF Download Tool .