Managing and integrating diverse systems is becoming increasingly challenging due to the increasing complexity of IT environments and distributed workloads across multiple locations. The fragmentation of the information can result in decreased productivity due to inefficient workflows, increased costs associated with maintaining multiple platforms, and increased security risks due to the difficulty of maintaining consistent security measures across disparate platforms. To optimize operations, you need an experienced staff and a platform designed to enable the best performance, availability and efficiency from your infrastructure while providing comprehensive visibility and analytics.
As a result, VMware by Broadcom has introduced a new certification that caters specifically to this growing market need: the VMware Certified Professional: VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator 2024 certification.
The VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator certification focuses on the critical skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF). Additionally, it validates the ability of a person to troubleshoot and optimize. This certification is beneficial to any individual who works with the VMware vSphere Foundation solution as it demonstrates their expertise and knowledge in this area.
The importance of VMware vSphere Foundation
VMware vSphere, a cornerstone of modern data centers, has consistently evolved to meet the ever-increasing demands of businesses. VMware vSphere Foundation is the latest addition to the vSphere family, designed to optimize data centers. Optimizing the overall data center requires a modern solution that transforms the current infrastructure.
For organizations of all sizes, VMware vSphere Foundation is the enterprise workload engine that enhances operational efficiency, accelerates workload performance, and enhances innovation. Designed to enable the best performance, availability, and efficiency from your infrastructure and applications, it offers predictive and proactive operations management. With intelligent operations from apps to storage, it can improve performance and reduce disruptions across the IT environment, providing simplified availability and comprehensive visibility in one place.
Breaking down silos and enhance visibility
Through predictive and proactive operations management, vSphere Foundation helps enterprises improve the performance, availability, and efficiency of their infrastructure and applications. VVF provides enterprise-ready, self-service Kubernetes runtimes and management planes along with full-stack infrastructure visibility across compute, storage, and networks. Additionally, it simplifies Kubernetes cluster operations so that development and operations teams can collaborate on building, running, managing, protecting, and securing traditional and next-generation applications. An IT professional who understands the complexities of this solution can optimize performance, reduce downtime, and improve overall efficiency.
In addition to proving competency, the VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator exam equips IT professionals and cloud professionals with the necessary skills seeking to demonstrate their expertise in transforming existing infrastructure and optimizing the data center.
Who should take this exam?
The VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator 2024 exam builds on current VMware vSphere skill sets while combining enhanced virtualization principles into the overall management of the solution. The new VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator 2024 exam will evaluate the candidate’s ability to install, configure, and manage the VMware vSphere Foundation solution. The target audience for certification is vSphere administrators and similar roles looking to expand and migrate their skills to the VVF platform and cloud operating model. Cloud administrators, cloud infrastructure engineers, cloud architects, virtual infrastructure administrators, and system administrators would also benefit from earning certification.
During this exam, candidates will demonstrate their expertise in identifying components and use cases, as well as their ability to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues related to VMware vSphere Foundation.
What is on the exam?
VMware exam blueprint sections are now standardized to the five sections below, some of which may NOT be included in the final exam blueprint depending on the exam objectives. The VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator certification challenges candidates by validating their knowledge in sections 2, 4, and 5.
| Section | Section Title |
| 1 | IT Architectures, Technologies, Standards |
| 2 | VMware by Broadcom Solution |
| 3 | Plan and Design the VMware by Broadcom Solution |
| 4 | Install, Configure, Administrative the VMware by Broadcom Solution |
| 5 | Troubleshoot and Optimize the VMware by Broadcom Solution |
Recommended courses
To prepare for the exam, it is recommended that you enroll in the VMware Cloud Foundation: Deploy, Manage, Configure course. The course will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of VMware vSphere Foundation architecture and features. It will also provide you with the fundamentals of vSAN.
If you are a VCF customer or Broadcom Advantage Partner, please log into Learning@Broadcom via the Broadcom Support Portal. Non-VCF Customers and Partners, please contact one of our VCF Authorized Learning Partners if you are interested in taking VCF training.
Start today!
By enrolling in the recommended course, you will be on the right path to becoming a VMware Certified Professional: VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator in no time at all. You will be able to immerse yourself in the vast ocean of knowledge offered by VCF Learning. You will also gain the skills necessary to configure, manage, and troubleshoot VMware vSphere Foundation.
With VMware vSphere Foundation, you can unleash your potential and redefine the boundaries of modernizing the Data Center.
