VMware VCP-NV 2024 Certification Exam Syllabus

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It is recommended for all the candidates to refer the 2V0-41.23 objectives and sample questions provided in this preparation guide. The VMware Network Virtualization 2024 certification is mainly targeted to the candidates who want to build their career in Network Virtualization domain and demonstrate their expertise. We suggest you to use practice exam listed in this cert guide to get used to with exam environment and identify the knowledge areas where you need more work prior to taking the actual VMware NSX 4.x Professional exam.

VMware 2V0-41.23 Exam Summary:

Exam Name VMware NSX 4.x Professional (VCP-NV 2024)
Exam Code 2V0-41.23
Exam Price $250 USD
Duration 135 minutes
Number of Questions 70
Passing Score 300 / 500
Recommended Training / Books VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [4.0]
Schedule Exam PEARSON VUE
Sample Questions VMware 2V0-41.23 Sample Questions
Recommended Practice VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization 2024 (VCP-NV 2024) Practice Test

VMware VCP-NV 2024 Syllabus:

Section Objectives
IT Architectures, Technologies, Standards  
VMware Solution - Demonstrate knowledge of VMware Virtual Cloud Network and NSX
  • Describe the purpose of VMware Virtual Cloud Network and its framework
  • Identify the benefits and recognize the use cases for NSX
  • Describe how NSX fits into the NSX product portfolio
  • Recognize features and the main elements in the NSX Data Center architecture
  • Describe NSX policy and centralized policy management
  • Describe the NSX management cluster and the management plane
  • Identify the functions of control plane components, data plane components, and communication channels

- Demonstrate knowledge of NSX Management Cluster

  • Explain the deployment workflows for the NSX infrastructure

- Demonstrate knowledge of the NSX UI

  • Distinguish between the Policy and the Manager UI

- Demonstrate knowledge of the data plane

  • Describe the functions of transport zones, transport nodes, VDS, and N-VDS
  • Explain the relationships among transport nodes, transport zones, VDS, and N-VDS
  • Describe NSX Data Center on VDS
  • Describe uplink profiles

- Demonstrate knowledge of logical switching

  • Describe the functions of NSX Data Center segments
  • Recognize different types of segments
  • Explain tunneling and the Geneve encapsulation protocol
  • Describe the interaction between components in logical switching
  • Describe the function of kernel modules and NSX agents installed on ESXi
  • Describe the function of the management plane in logical switching
  • Describe the function of the control plane in logical switching

- Demonstrate knowledge of logical switching packet forwarding

  • Describe the functions of each table used in packet forwarding
  • Describe how BUM traffic is managed in switching
  • Explain how ARP suppression is achieved

- Demonstrate knowledge of segments and segment profiles

  • Define what a segment is
  • Describe the purpose of segment profiles
  • Identify the functions of the segment profiles in NSX

- Demonstrate knowledge of logical routing

  • Explain the function and features of logical routing
  • Describe the architecture of NSX two-tier routing
  • Differentiate between north-south and east-west routing
  • Describe the gateway components
  • Recognize the various types of gateway interfaces

- Demonstrate knowledge of NSX Edge and Edge Clusters

  • Explain the main functions and features of the NSX Edge node
  • Describe the functions of the NSX Edge cluster
  • Identify the NSX Edge node form factors and sizing options
  • Describe the different NSX Edge node deployment methods

- Demonstrate knowledge of Tier-0 and Tier-1 Gateways

  • Describe how to configure a Tier-1 gateway
  • Explain how to configure a Tier-0 gateway
  • Explain Active/Active Tier-0 and Tier-1 configurations
  • Explain multi-tenancy use in a Tier-0 gateway

- Demonstrate knowledge of static and dynamic routing

  • Distinguish between static and dynamic routing

- Demonstrate knowledge of ECMP and high availability

  • Explain the purpose of ECMP routing
  • Identify the active-active and active-standby modes for high availability
  • Recognize failure conditions and explain the failover process

- Demonstrate knowledge of logical routing packet walk

  • Describe the datapath of single-tier routing
  • Explain the datapath of multitier routing

- Demonstrate knowledge of VRF Lite

  • Describe VRF Lite
  • Explain the benefits of VRF Lite

- Demonstrate knowledge of logical bridging

  • Describe the purpose and function of logical bridging
  • Distinguish between routing and bridging

- Demonstrate knowledge of NSX segmentation

  • Define NSX segmentation
  • Recognize use cases for NSX segmentation
  • Identify steps to enforce Zero-Trust with NSX segmentation

- Demonstrate knowledge of distributed firewall

  • Identify types of firewalls in NSX
  • Describe features of distributed firewalls
  • Describe the distributed firewall architecture

- Demonstrate knowledge of security in distributed firewall on VDS

  • List the distributed firewall on VDS requirements

- Demonstrate knowledge of NSX Gateway Firewall

  • Describe the functions of the gateway firewall
  • Explain the purpose of a gateway policy
  • Describe the gateway firewall architecture

- Demonstrate knowledge of Intrusion Detection and Prevention

  • Explain NSX IDS/IPS and its use cases
  • Define the NSX IDS/IPS Detection terminology
  • Describe the NSX IDS/IPS architecture

- Demonstrate knowledge of NSX Application Platform

  • Describe NSX Application Platform and its use cases
  • Explain the NSX Application Platform architecture and services

- Demonstrate knowledge of malware prevention

  • Identify use cases for malware prevention
  • Identify the components in the malware prevention architecture
  • Describe the malware prevention packet flows for known and unknown files

- Demonstrate knowledge of NSX Intelligence

  • Describe NSX Intelligence and its use cases
  • Explain NSX Intelligence system requirements
  • Explain NSX Intelligence visualization, recommendation, and network traffic analysis capabilities

- Demonstrate NSX Network Detection and Response

  • Describe NSX Network Detection and Response and its use cases
  • Explain the architecture of NSX Network Detection and Response in NSX
  • Describe the visualization capabilities of NSX Network Detection and Response

- Demonstrate knowledge of NAT and how it is used with NSX

  • Explain the role of network address translation (NAT)
  • Distinguish between source and destination NAT
  • Describe how Reflexive NAT works
  • Explain how NAT64 facilitates communication between IPv6 and IPv4 networks
  • Describe stateful active-active NAT operation

- Demonstrate knowledge of DHCP and DNS

  • Explain how DHCP and DHCP Relay are used for IP address allocation
  • Configure DHCP services in NSX
  • Describe how to use a DNS forwarder service

- Demonstrate knowledge of NSX Advanced Load Balancer

  • Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer and its use cases
  • Explain the NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture
  • Explain the NSX Advanced Load Balancer components and how they manage traffic

- Demonstrate knowledge of IPSec VPN

  • Explain how IPSec-based technologies are used to establish VPNs
  • Compare policy-based and route-based IPSec VPN
  • Describe IPSec VPN requirements in NSX

- Demonstrate knowledge of L2 VPN

  • Describe L2 VPN technologies in an NSX
  • Identify various supported L2 VPN endpoints

- Demonstrate knowledge of integrating NSX with VMware Identity Manager

  • Describe the purpose of VMware Identity Manager
  • Identify the benefits of integrating NSX with VMware Identity Manager

- Demonstrate knowledge of integrating NSX with LDAP

  • Identify the benefits of integrating NSX with LDAP
  • Describe the LDAP authentication architecture

- Demonstrate knowledge of managing users and configuring RBAC

  • Identify the different types of users in NSX
  • Recognize permissions and roles available in NSX

- Demonstrate knowledge of Federation Architecture, needed prerequisites, Federation Networking, and Federation Security

  • Describe Federation and its use cases
  • Describe the requirements and limitations of Federation
  • Describe the Federation configuration workflow
  • Describe the prerequisites for Federation
  • Describe the onboarding of Local Manager configurations and workloads
  • Describe the stretched networking concepts in Federation
  • Explain the supported Tier-0 and Tier-1 stretched topologies
  • Explain Layer 2 concepts related to NSX Federation
  • Explain the Federation security use cases
  • Describe the Federation security components
  • Explain the security configuration workflows

- Demonstrate knowledge of DPU-based acceleration for NSX

Plan and Design the VMware Solution  
Install, Configure, Administrate the VMware Solution - Prepare an NSX infrastructure for deployment
  • Create Transport Zones
  • Create IP Pools
  • Prepare ESXi Hosts

- Configure segments

  • Create segments
  • Attach VMs to segments
  • Use network topology to validate the logical switching configuration

- Deploy and configure NSX Edge Nodes

  • Deploy NSX Edge Nodes
  • Configure an Edge Cluster

- Configure the Tier-1 gateway

  • Create a Tier-1 gateway
  • Connect segments to the Tier-1 gateway
  • Use network topology to validate the Tier-1 gateway configuration

- Create and configure a Tier-0 gateway with OSPF

  • Create uplink segments
  • Create a Tier-0 gateway
  • Connect the Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways
  • Use network topology to validate the Tier-0 gateway configuration

- Configure the Tier-0 gateway with BGP

  • Create uplink segments
  • Create a Tier-0 gateway
  • Connect the Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways
  • Use network topology to validate the Tier-0 gateway configuration

- Configure VRF Lite

  • Create the uplink trunk segment
  • Deploy and configure the VRF gateways
  • Deploy and connect the Tier-1 gateways to the VRF gateways
  • Create and connect segments to the Tier-1 gateways
  • Attach VMs to segments on each VRF
  • Review the routing tables in each VRF

- Configure the NSX Distributed Firewall

  • Create security group
  • Create Distributed Firewall rules

- Configure the NSX Gateway Firewall

  • Configure a gateway firewall rule to block external SSH requests

- Configure Intrusion Detection

  • Enable Distributed Intrusion Detection and Prevention
  • Download the Intrusion Detection and Prevention signatures
  • Create an Intrusion Detection and Prevention profile
  • Configure Intrusion Detection rules
  • Configure North-South IDS/IPS
  • Create a segment and attach a VM
  • Analyze Intrusion Detection events
  • Modify the IDS/IPS settings to prevent malicious traffic
  • Analyze Intrusion Prevention events

- Deploy NSX Application Platform
- Configure malware prevention for East-West and North-South Traffic
- Use NSX Network Detection and Response to detect threats
- Configure Network Address Translation

  • Create a Tier-1 gateway for Network Address Translation
  • Create a segment
  • Attach a VM to NAT segment
  • Configure NAT
  • Configure NAT route redistribution

- Configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer

  • Create segments for the NSX Advanced Load Balancer
  • Deploy the NSX Advanced Load Balancer controller
  • Access the NSX Advanced Load Balancer UI
  • Create a Cloud Connector for NSX
  • Configure Service Engine Networks and Routing
  • Create a virtual service
  • Configure route advertisement and route redistribution for a virtual IP

- Deploy Virtual Private Networks

  • Deploy a new NSX Edge Node to support a VPN deployment
  • Configure a new Edge Cluster
  • Deploy and configure a new Tier-0 gateway and segments for VPN support
  • Create an IPSec VPN service
  • Create an L2 VPN server and session
  • Configure a pre-deployed autonomous Edge as an L2 VPN client

- Manage users and roles

  • Add an Active Directory Domain as an identity source
  • Assign NSX roles to domain users and validate permissions
  • Modify an existing role and validate the role permissions

- Perform operations tasks in a VMware NSX environment (syslog, backup/restore etc.)
- Monitor a VMware NSX implementation

Troubleshoot and Optimize the VMware Solution - Use log files to troubleshoot issues
  • Identify the default log file locations of NSX components
  • Generate Log Bundles
  • Use log files to help identify NSX issues

- Identify Tools Available for Troubleshooting Issues
- Troubleshoot Common NSX Issues

  • Troubleshoot Common NSX Installation/Configuration Issues
  • Troubleshoot Common NSX Component Issues
  • Troubleshoot Common Connectivity Issues
  • Troubleshoot Common physical infrastructure Issues
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