I created this VCP7-CMA (2V0-731) study guide in order to help myself and anyone else studying towards VMware Certified Professional 7 – Cloud Management and Automation Exam (currently – Beta).
This exam is focus on VMware vRealize® 7.x environment (Automation, Orchenstrator, Business) but you should have a good understanding of vSphere (VCP level) and some minimal knowldge of NSX and vCloud Air (as vRA Endpoints).
I will link to external blogs for most of the stuff for simplicity and speed, if you are the original writer and don’t want me to link to your blog – just write me (gilad.brown at gmail).
Official study tools (as suggested in the blueprint) –
- Foundations and Concepts
- VMware vRealize Suite Getting Started Guide
- vRealize Suite Solution Brochure
- VMware vRealize Suite Datasheet
- Reference Architecture
- Installing vRealize Automation 7.0
- Configuring vRealize Automation
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Installing and Configuring vRealize Automation for the Rainpole Scenario
- Upgrading from vRealize Automation 6.2 to 7.0.1
- vRealize Business for Cloud Installation and Administration Guide
- vRealize Business for Cloud User Guide
- Life Cycle Extensibility
- Using the vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for vRealize Automation 7.0
Content:
| Section 1 | Create and Modify vRealize Automation Blueprints |
| Objective 1.1 | Create, Modify and Publish Blueprints Based on a Given Design |
| Objective 1.2 | Create and Manage XaaS Blueprints with Custom Resource Mappings |
| Section 2 | Configure and Manage Tenants and Business Groups |
| Objective 2.1 | Create and Manage Tenants |
| Objective 2.2 | Create and Manage Directories |
| Objective 2.3 | Create and Manage Business Groups |
| Objective 2.4 | Manage User and Group Role Assignments |
| Section 3 | Install and Configure vRealize Automation and Related Components |
| Objective 3.1 | Install a Minimal Deployment |
| Objective 3.2 | Install an Enterprise Deployment |
| Objective 3.3 | Install and Configure vRealize Business Standard for use with vRealize Automation |
| Objective 3.4 | Troubleshoot Common vRealize Automation Installation and Configuration Errors |
| Section 4 | Configure and Manage the vRealize Automation Catalog |
| Objective 4.1 | Manage the vRealize Automation Catalog |
| Objective 4.2 | Create and Manage Approval Policies |
| Objective 4.3 | Provision Resources from a vRealize Automation Catalog |
| Objective 4.4 | Locate and Reclaim Resources Based on Provided Criteria |
| Objective 4.5 | Manage Provisioned Resources |
| Section 5 | Configure and Administer Fabric Groups and Endpoints |
| Objective 5.1 | Create and Manage VMware Endpoints |
| Objective 5.2 | Create and Manage Fabric Groups, Reservations and Network Profiles |
| Section 6 | Extend a vRealize Automation Implementation |
| Objective 6.1 | Configure vRealize Orchestrator for use with vRealize Automation |
| Objective 6.2 | Create and Manage Event Broker Subscriptions |
| Objective 6.3 | Configure Virtual Machine Lifecycle Automation |
| Objective 6.4 | Install and Configure Plugins in vRealize Orchestrator |
| Objective 6.5 | Modify and Run Basic vRealize Orchestrator Workflows |
Additional materials –
- The IT Hollow – Eric Shanks amazing blog, I have learned much of what I know about vRealize Automation from this blog.
- VirtualJad – Another amazing blog by Jad El-Zein, lots of technical info about vRA, NSX and Automation.
- Grant Orchard blog – blog focus on vRealize Automation.
- VM to Cloud – Ryan Kelly blog, Automation and DevOps stuff.
- VCP7-CMA (2V0-731) Practice Exam
- HOL – VMware Hands On Labs
- HOL-1721-USE-1 – vRealize Automation 7 Basics
- HOL-1721-USE-2 – vRealize Automation 7 Advanced
- HOL-1721-USE-3 – vRealize Automation Advanced Extensibility
- HOL-1790-CHG-1 – vRealize Automation: Challenge Lab
- HOL-1783-HBD-1 – VMware vCloud Air – Manage Your Cloud
- HOL-1706-SDC-1 – Cloud Management Platform: Integrating the Parts
- HOL-1706-SDC-6 – Guide to SDDC: VMware Validated Designs
I will try to update this page with more resources in the future so keep checking this page from time to time. Please comment or email me if you think I missed something.
Good luck with the exam!
Gilad
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