VMware by Broadcom 2V0-16.25: VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Administrator (VCP-VVF Administrator)

Last checked November 10, 2026 against the official VMware by Broadcom exam page.

1. Question 1Virtualization principles and use cases

   A company needs to retire an aging physical database server. The team wants the same operating system and application to run on new hardware without a rebuild. Which virtualization use case fits best?

   1. ARebuilding the database as a containerized service on the new hardware
   2. BInstalling a second operating system alongside the current one
   3. CConverting the existing physical server into a virtual machine
   4. DCopying only the database files to a new standalone server
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   Correct answer: C

   Physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion captures the existing operating system, application and data as a virtual machine that can run on new hosts without a rebuild. The containerized option requires rebuilding the application, dual-boot does not virtualize anything, and copying only data files leaves out the operating system and application configuration.

2. Question 2vCenter and ESX compute: clusters, VMs, content libraries, encryption

   A cluster contains hosts from two processor generations. An administrator wants to vMotion virtual machines between all of the hosts without replacing any processors. Which cluster setting should be enabled?

   1. ADistributed Power Management with a more aggressive power-saving policy
   2. BEnhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) at a common baseline
   3. CvSphere High Availability admission control with a host failover limit
   4. DStorage I/O Control with per-VM shares enabled on the datastores
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   Correct answer: B

   EVC masks CPU features down to a common baseline so that hosts with different processor generations present compatible CPUs for vMotion. Distributed Power Management saves energy, HA admission control reserves failover capacity, and Storage I/O Control arbitrates datastore I/O, so none of them solves CPU compatibility.

3. Question 3vSphere storage and vSAN ESA/OSA, storage policies, resilience, space efficiency

   An administrator sets a VM storage policy to tolerate one failure in a vSAN cluster. After a host goes down, the VM remains accessible. Which policy setting explains this behavior?

   1. AForce provisioning enabled so the object is created even when non-compliant
   2. BA stripe width of two, which spreads each object across two disks
   3. CObject space reservation set to 100 percent on the VM disks
   4. DFailures to tolerate set to one, so each object survives a single failure
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   Correct answer: D

   The failures to tolerate setting determines how many failures an object can survive while staying accessible, so a value of one protects against a single failure. Stripe width affects how data is spread, space reservation affects capacity commitment, and force provisioning only allows creation without meeting the policy, so none of them explains the tolerance.

4. Question 4VVF networking components

   An administrator needs identical port group settings and Network I/O Control applied consistently to every host in a cluster, managed from one place. Which switch type should be used?

   1. AA vSphere Distributed Switch managed centrally through vCenter Server
   2. BA standard virtual switch configured separately on each ESXi host in the cluster
   3. CAn internal-only virtual switch with no physical uplinks attached
   4. DA standard switch whose port groups are inherited from the cluster object
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   Correct answer: A

   A vSphere Distributed Switch is a single switch object managed through vCenter Server across all attached hosts, and it supports Network I/O Control. Standard switches are configured per host, internal-only switches have no uplinks, and standard switches do not inherit settings from a cluster.

5. Question 5vSphere Supervisor and VKS concepts, networking, services

   A platform team wants developers to request Kubernetes clusters through a self-service workflow managed from vSphere. Which component should the administrator enable?

   1. AThe vSphere Supervisor with the VKS service for Kubernetes clusters
   2. BvSphere Replication for protecting persistent container volumes across two sites
   3. CA standalone container engine installed on each ESXi host
   4. DvSphere Fault Tolerance enabled for all Kubernetes node VMs
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   Correct answer: A

   The vSphere Supervisor runs a Kubernetes control plane inside vSphere, and the VKS service uses it to provision guest Kubernetes clusters on request. Replication, a container engine on each host, and Fault Tolerance do not provide self-service cluster provisioning.