I am very excited that I passed VCAP-CIA, I would like to share the complete study material for VCAP-CIA aspirants.
Before prepartion, I strongly recommend to go through all vCloud Director Free Courses:
Section 1 – Configure and Maintain vCloud Director
Objective 1.1 – Configure centralized logging
Skills and Abilities
• Determine use cases for and configure local and syslog options for vCloud Director
• Configure Log4j options for vCloud Director
• Configure and administer logging options for VMware vShield™ Manager
Tools
• vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
• vShield Administration Guide
• Apache Log4j Documentation
• vShield Manager Web Console
• vCloud Director Web Console
• vCloud Director command shell
Objective 1.2 – Configure vCloud Director for scalability
Knowledge
• Identify vCloud Director installation methods
• Identify vCloud Director installation options
Skills and Abilities
• Generate vCloud Director response files
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(This is given for vCD 1.5 ad it is applicable for 5.1 as well)
• Add vCloud cells to an existing installation using response files
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• Set up vCloud Director transfer storage space
• Configure vCloud Director load balancing
Tools
• vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Objective 1.3 – Maintain vCloud using command line tools
Skills and Abilities
• Manage and maintain vCloud Director cells using the cell management tool
• Install and manage a vCloud Director installation using the configure script
• Manage vCloud services using Red Hat command line tools including service, chkconfig and netstat
• Collect logs for troubleshooting using the support script
Tools
• vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Deployment Guide
• vCloud Director command shell
• vCloud Director command line tools
o cell-management-tool
o configure
o vmware-vcd-multi-cell-log-collector
o vmware-vcd-support
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux command line
o service
o chkconfig
o netstat
Objective 1.4 – Configure Alarms and Notifications
Skills and Abilities
• Configure SMTP and notification settings
• Configure warning alerts
• Create System maintenance message
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Objective 1.5 – Manage vCenter Chargeback reports
Skills and Abilities
• Generate and archive basic reports
Tools
• vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Section 2 – Manage vSphere Resources
Objective 2.1 – Add vSphere compute resources to vCloud Director
Skills and Abilities:
• Add new vCenter servers to vCloud Director
• Prepare/unprepared hosts in vCloud Director
• Add ESXi hosts to vCenter
• Manage ESXi hosts and DRS resource pools in vCenter
Tools
• vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCenter Server and Host Management guide
• vSphere Availability guide
• vSphere Resource Management guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
• vSphere Client / Web Client
Objective 2.2 – Manage vSphere storage resources
Knowledge
• Identify components, characteristics and features of vSphere storage
Skills and Abilities
• Decommission storage
• Create and manage storage profiles
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCenter Server and Host Management guide
• vSphere Storage Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
• vSphere Client / Web Client
Objective 2.3 – Manage vSphere network resources
Knowledge
• Identify vSphere networking components
Skills and Abilities
• Create and manage vSphere port groups
• Configure vSphere network options including MTU and VLAN
• Prepare vSphere cluster for VXLAN
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCenter Server and Host Management guide
• vSphere Network Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
• vSphere Client / Web Client
• vSphere Client / Web Client
Section 3 – Manage vCloud Director Resources
Objective 3.1 – Manage Provider VDCs
Knowledge
• Identify Provider VDC options
Skills and Abilities
• Create and Provider VDCs
• Merge or Expand Provider VDCs
• Manage Provider VDC options
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Objective 3.2 – Manage vCloud Director network resources
Knowledge
• Identify vCloud Director network pool types
Skills and Abilities
• Create and manage network pools
• Create Provider external networks
• Manage and remove network resources
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Objective 3.3 – Manage Organization VDCs
Knowledge
• Identify org VDC types
• Identify org VDC options
• Identify org VDC network options
Skills and Abilities
• Configure storage tiers
• Create, manage and delete org VDCs
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Objective 3.4 – Manage an Organization
Knowledge
• Identify Organization options and their uses
Skills and Abilities
• Create and manage Organizations
• Manage Organization policies and settings
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Section 4 – Manage Complex vCloud Director Networks
Objective 4.1 – Configure Organization and vApp network services
Skills and Abilities
• Configure DHCP and DNS relay
• Configure and maintain Virtual Private Networks
• Configure and maintain firewall rules including source and destination NAT
• Configure and maintain static routes
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Objective 4.2 – Create and maintain cloud networks
Skills and Abilities
• Configure and maintain direct and routed internal, external and vApp networks
External Direct
External Routed
Internal Only
• Configure Edge Gateways for availability and scalability
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Section 5 – Manage Security
Objective 5.1 – Manage vCloud Director SSL Certificates
Skills and Abilities
• Create and process certificate requests
• Replace default certificates
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
• vCloud Director command shell
Objective 5.2 – Configure and manage vCD access control
Skills and Abilities
• Configure LDAP (Active Directory and Open LDAP)
•Import users and groups from a LDAP source
• Create and assign roles
• Configure Organization LDAP using a unique DN
• Configure and maintain VMware Single Sign-On for vCloud Suite products
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
• vShield Manager Web Console
Section 6 – Manage catalogs and vApps
Objective 6.1 – Share vApps and catalogs
Skills and Abilities
• Manage catalog sharing and access levels
• Manage vApp sharing and access levels
• Manage Catalog and vApp ownership
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Objective 6.2 – Create and deploy vApps
Skills and Abilities
• Customize vApps
• Manage guest customization including SYSPREP utilities
• Create and deploy vApps
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Objective 6.3 – Create and configure catalogs
Skills and Abilities
• Create and share catalogs
• Import vSphere virtual machines and templates in to a catalog
• Import media into a catalog
• Manage vApps and media in a catalog
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Objective 6.4 – Manage vApp storage settings
Knowledge
• Create and share catalogs
Skills and Abilities
Tools
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
• vCloud Director Web Console
Test
This post first appeared on the Virtualization Express blog at virtualizationexpress.com, by Karthic Kumar +.
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Thanks for creating a great resource for those of us that are studying for this exam. This is by far the best that I have seen so far.
Thank you Steve.
Karthic,This is awesome! Thank you for putting the time into creating this. Andrew
Excellent stuff
Now that VMware is moving away from vCD towards vCAC is it ok to wait for newer advance certification based on vCAC?
Hi Selva,
You are right, vCAC will be included in the upcoming exams