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This advanced-level Broadcom exam, based on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, leads to the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VKS credential. It targets administrators with 6–12 months of hands-on VKS experience. It covers Supervisor networking and storage, identity and access, VKS cluster lifecycle and autoscaling, private registries, Velero backup and troubleshooting. Passing demonstrates the ability to design, operate and repair VKS environments.

Exam Topics

  • Section 1 - IT Architectures, Technologies, Standards8–10%
  • Section 2 - VMware Products and Solutions17–21%
  • Section 3 - Plan and Design the VMware Solution13–17%
  • Section 4 - Install, Configure, Administrate the VMware Solution39–45%
  • Section 5 - Troubleshoot and optimize the VMware Solution13–17%

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QuestionQ1

VerifiedSection 3 - Plan and Design the VMware Solution

An organization has standardized on these configurations:

  • vSphere Kubernetes Services upgrades are separate from vCenter upgrades.
  • A private registry will be used.

Which solution is recommended to meet these standards?

Explanation

Uploading the service definition as Asynchronous Private supports an independently managed vSphere Kubernetes Services lifecycle and the use of a private registry. This satisfies both the separate-upgrade and private-registry requirements.

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QuestionQ2

VerifiedSection 5 - Troubleshoot and optimize the VMware Solution

An administrator enabled cluster scaling by running the following command:

kubectl edit deployment <deployment-name>

The administrator changed spec.replicas from 5 to 10. After the cluster was redeployed, the deployment was running 5 replicas.

What accounts for this behavior?

Explanation

Editing spec.replicas with kubectl edit updates the live Deployment, but a redeployment that reapplies an unchanged declarative YAML configuration restores the replica count defined in that configuration. The configuration used to deploy the cluster therefore still specified five pods.

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QuestionQ3

VerifiedSection 1 - IT Architectures, Technologies, Standards

Which Kubernetes object is used to configure permissions for namespaces?

Explanation

A Kubernetes RBAC Role defines a set of permission rules within a particular namespace. ClusterRole is cluster-scoped, NetworkPolicy controls network traffic, and User represents an identity rather than a permissions object.

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QuestionQ4

VerifiedSection 2 - VMware Products and Solutions

An administrator is designing a secure, multi-tenant container-registry strategy for a vSphere Kubernetes Services deployment running on VMware Cloud Foundation. Each workload domain contains a Supervisor Cluster, and multiple development teams need private repositories to store and distribute container images for Kubernetes Clusters.

The organization enforces a strict image-security posture because of government compliance requirements (NCA and ISO 27001). To satisfy these requirements:

  • The operations team deploys Harbor as an add-on service through the Supervisor control plane.
  • Developers now push and pull images from Harbor using Kubernetes manifests.

Which requirement describes Harbor’s role and purpose?

Explanation

Harbor is an open-source artifact registry that supports multi-tenancy through projects, role-based access control, security policies, vulnerability scanning, and content signing or verification. These capabilities provide controlled private image distribution and supply-chain security for Kubernetes workloads.

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QuestionQ5

VerifiedSection 4 - Install, Configure, Administrate the VMware Solution

Which two configurations must be configured on a vSphere cluster to support a Supervisor deployment?

Choose two
Explanation

A vSphere Supervisor deployment requires ESX hosts to be connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch. It also requires vSphere HA to be enabled and vSphere DRS to run in Fully Automated mode; partially automated or disabled DRS does not satisfy the Supervisor prerequisite.

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Section 1 - IT Architectures, Technologies, StandardsSection 2 - VMware Products and SolutionsSection 3 - Plan and Design the VMware SolutionSection 4 - Install, Configure, Administrate the VMware SolutionSection 5 - Troubleshoot and optimize the VMware Solution
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