VMware certification 5.0 Syllabus

• Course Introduction
•   Recognize VMware vCloud Director Essentials/Fundamentals course elements
•   VMware vCloud Director Architecture and Components
•   Describe how VMware products use the cloud computing approach
•   Review vCloud Director components and explain their functions
•   Examine how to charge for resources
•   Determine the licensing needs
•   Installing VMware vCloud Director
•   Describe the required prerequisites for a vCloud Director installation
•   Install vCloud Director
•   VMware vCloud Director Networking
•   Describe the network types available in vCloud Director
•   Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
•   Describe the function of network pools
•   Explain how to share content between organizations and vApps
•   Share content in private, public, and hybrid clouds
•   VMware vCloud Director Providers
•   Identify storage resources for vCloud Director
•   Configure and manage storage for providers
•   Examine provider space allocation to an organization
•   Recognize Storage vMotion issues
•   Manage storage requirements for linked clones and shadow virtual machines
•   VMware vCloud Director Organizations
•   Create and manage organizations
•   Recognize resource allocations for an organization
•   Create and manage catalogs
•   Monitoring VMware vCloud Components
•   Monitor usage information at provider and organization virtual datacenters
•   Analyze vCloud Director logs to monitor vCloud Director cells
•   Cloud Connectivity
•   Configure Basic Firewalls in vCloud Director
•   Describe a Network Troubleshooting Methodology
•   Configure VPN Tunnels in vCloud Director
•   Configure Static Routes in vCloud Director
•   Describe VMware vCloud® Connector
•   VMware vCloud Security
•   Identify authentication and authorization tasks
•   Describe and configure LDAP integration
•   Describe single sign-on
•   Cost Analysis and Reporting with VMware vCenter Chargeback
•   Recognize which elements vCenter Chargeback meters for vCloud Director
•   Describe how cost models are used to generate reports
•   Summarize the function of each of the vCenter Chargeback architecture components
•   Identify how to generate reports
•   Generate different reports based on business needs
•   Managing Cloud Resources
•   Understand and identify how vSphere fulfills vCloud Director requests
•   Manage provider and organization virtual datacenters
•   Managing vSphere Resources
•  Manage VMware vCenter Server™ instances
•   Manage VMware ESXi™ hosts
•   Manage vSphere datastores
•   Manage stranded items
•   Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level