Last year I decided to focus on my NSX-T design VCAP since I was involved with a lot of designs and workshops and I though it is going to be very beneficial to get that certification. While it was hard, I have to say I really enjoyed the time and effort I put behind the exam. I spent a couple of months and then could pass the exam on my first attempt.
Now almost 9 months later, I've decided to focus on the NSX-T VCAP Deploy exam to get myself one step closer to the ultimate goal ( THE ONE AND ONLY VCDX).
Unfortunately, there is not a lot of information around the exam so I try to go through the Exam Blueprint and share the results here. eventually, when I write the exam I'll review it here to help others that are on the same path.
The Blueprint covers a massive number of topics and VMware recommends doing these courses before going for the exam:
So basically what this means is that you are supposed to be very comfortable around the topics covered in those courses.
Officially, you should follow this blueprint and expect the questions to come from these:
I'm going to share my study path with you when going through the objectives. I'll change these to links to point them to their own post.
Sections Included in this Exam
Objective 4.1 - Prepare VMware NSX-T Data Center Infrastructure
Objective 4.1.1 - Deploy VMware NSX-T Data Center Infrastructure components
Objective 4.1.2 - Configure Management, Control and Data plane components for NSX-T Data Center Objective 4.1.3 - Configure and Manage Transport Zones, IP Pools, Transport Nodes etc.
Objective 4.1.4 - Confirm the NSX-T Data Center configuration meets design requirements
Objective 4.1.5 - Deploy VMware NSX-T Data Center Infrastructure components in a multi-site configuration
Objective 4.2 - Create and Manage VMware NSX-T Data Center Virtual Networks
Objective 4.2.1 - Create and Manage Layer 2 services
Objective 4.2.2 - Configure and Manage Layer 2 Bridging
Objective 4.2.3 - Configure and Manage Routing including BGP, static routes, VRF Lite and EVPN
Objective 4.3 - Deploy and Manage VMware NSX-T Data Center Network Services
Objective 4.3.1 - Configure and Manage Logical Load Balancing
Objective 4.3.2 - Configure and Manage Logical Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Objective 4.3.3 - Configure and Manage NSX-T Data Center Edge and NSX-T Data Center Edge Clusters Objective 4.3.4 - Configure and Manage NSX-T Data Center Network Address Translation
Objective 4.3.5 - Configure and Manage DHCP and DNS
Objective 4.4 - Secure a virtual data center with VMware NSX-T Data Center
Objective 4.4.1 - Configure and Manage Distributed Firewall and Grouping Objects Objective 4.4.2 - Configure and Manage Gateway Firewall
Objective 4.4.3 - Configure and Manage Identity Firewall
Objective 4.4.4 - Configure and Manage Distributed IDS
Objective 4.4.5 - Configure and Manage URL Analysis Objective 4.4.6 - Deploy and Manage NSX Intelligence
Objective 4.5 - Configure and Manage Service Insertion
Objective 4.6 - Deploy and Manage Central Authentication (Workspace ONE access) Section 5 - Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades
Objective 5.1 - Configure and Manage Enhanced Data Path (N-VDSe)
Objective 5.2 - Configure and Manage Quality of Service (QoS) settings Section 6 – Troubleshooting and Repairing
Objective 6.1 - Perform Advanced VMware NSX-T Data Center Troubleshooting
Objective 6.1.1 - Troubleshoot Common VMware NSX-T Data Center Installation/Configuration Issues Objective 6.1.2 - Troubleshoot VMware NSX-T Data Center Connectivity Issues
Objective 6.1.3 - Troubleshoot VMware NSX-T Data Center Edge Issues
Objective 6.1.4 - Troubleshoot VMware NSX-T Data Center L2 and L3 services
Objective 6.1.5 - Troubleshoot VMware NSX-T Data Center Security services
Objective 6.1.6 - Utilize VMware NSX-T Data Center native tools to identify and troubleshoot issues.
Section 7 – Administrative and Operational Tasks
Objective 7.1 - Perform Operational Management of a VMware NSX-T Data Center Implementation
Objective 7.1.1 - Backup and Restore Network Configurations
Objective 7.1.2 - Monitor a VMware NSX-T Data Center Implementation Objective 7.1.3 - Manage Role Based Access Control
Objective 7.1.4 - Restrict management network access using VIDM access policies Objective 7.1.5 - Manage syslog settings
Objective 7.2 - Utilize API and CLI to manage a VMware NSX-T Data Center Deployment
Objective 7.2.1 - Administer and Execute calls using the VMware NSX-T Data Center vSphere API
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