VCAP6.5-DCV Design Prep-Guide
VCAP6.5-DCV Design Prep-Guide
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VCAP6.5-DCV设计准备指南
我在4月底参加了VCAP6.5-DCV设计，并通过了考试。考试并不容易。首先，我要想成功的最佳实践，白皮书，书籍和其他文档非常重要。虽然，我在日常工作中以一种或另一种方式使用了其中许多内容，但如果没有阅读它们，准备时间会更长。因此，请提前计划并确保您有足够的时间准备，尤其是如果您完全没有建筑经验的话。就个人而言，我准备的时间比我预期的要多。
考试界面
考试界面和格式已完全完成，并且没有任何类似Visio的问题。我的感觉是我正在参加VCP6.5考试，而不是VCAP6.5-DCV。此外，还有一个选项可以标记问题以供您查看，以最终对其进行修改。
问题
问题定义得更好，而不是那么模糊，这意味着您一定会得到所问的内容和正确的答案。考试中使用的格式为“多项选择题”和“拖放题”，但绝大多数是多项选择题。
与旧版DCV-Design考试的比较
到目前为止，VCAP6.5-DCV是我所坐过的所有先前设计版本中最精致，最易懂的考试。我认为，即使您将其中一些标记为以后进行审核，也有很多时间来讨论这些问题。
制备
重要的是要区别拥有建筑师的经验，只是想验证自己的知识，否则您就决定是时候迈出职业生涯了。这背后的原因很简单；作为工程师，您可能会发现自己缺乏某些技能，或者发现很难使用考试中使用的设计方法。但是，在下面，我将尝试总结为考试准备的内容，即使是我已经知道但决定重新记起的内容。
注意：有些资源可能很旧，但是设计方法是相同的，并且大多数都是相关的。
必读
- 考试准备指南
- vBrownBag VCAP-DCV系列
- VCAP-DCD 5.5认证指南
- 设计VMware基础架构
- VMware vSphere设计
- vSphere 6.5新增功能
- VMware验证的设计4.x
网络
- 网络虚拟化设计指南
- 了解网络I / O控制版本2中的共享如何工作
- vSphere 6.5网络最佳实践
存储
- 虚拟卷技术专区
- vSAN存储中心
- vSphere存储
- vSphere 6.5存储最佳实践
- 虚拟机加密性能
- VMware vSphere Metro存储群集
绩效最佳实践
- 在vSphere VM中优化延迟敏感工作负载的性能的最佳实践
- VMware vSphere 6.5的性能最佳实践
- Microsoft SQL Server的VMware Virtual SAN性能
- 虚拟机vCPU和vNUMA调整大小
可用性指南
- vSphere可用性
- VMware vSphere 6容错
- VMware vSphere 6.x上的Microsoft Windows Server故障转移群集
可恢复性指南
- 站点恢复管理器
- Site Recovery Manager产品页面
关键业务应用
- vSphere上的关键业务应用程序
- 虚拟化关键业务应用程序
- vSAN参考架构上的Oracle和MSSQL
- SAP Solutions on VMware最佳实践指南
- VMware vSAN SAP应用程序
- SAP和VMware虚拟化
- VMware vSphere上的Microsoft Exchange Server最佳做法指南
练习考试
- VMusketeers VCAP6-DCV设计测验
- 虚拟层级实践
- 保罗·麦克沙里（Paul McSharry）练习题
附加阅读
- 最大配置
- vSAN用例
- VMware TCO比较计算器
- 有效同步，导入和导出VMware vSphere Content Library中的内容
- v Sphere内容库：轻松分发您的内容
- 了解应用程序的上游和下游依赖性
- 了解VMware vSphere中的资源池
- 虚拟机vCPU和vNUMA调整大小–经验法则
- NUMA深潜
Posted on June 5, 2018 by Zlatko Mitev
I’ve been on VCAP6.5-DCV Design in end of April and I passed. The exam wasn’t easy. First of all, the best practices, white papers, books and other documents that I’d to go thru to be successful is tremendous. While, I’ve used many of those in my daily job, one way or another, it would take far longer to prepare If haven’t read any of them. Therefore, plan ahead and make sure you would have enough time to prepare, especially if you have no experience in architecture at all. Personally, the time took me to prepare was more than I anticipated.
Exam Interface
Exam interface and format has been completely re-done, and there aren’t any Visio-like questions. The feeling I’ve got was that I’m on VCP6.5 exam rather then VCAP6.5-DCV. Also, there is an option to mark questions for review of you would like to revise them in the end.
Questions
Questions are better defined and not that vague, which mean that you will definitely get what has been asked and what is the right answer. The format used in the exam is “multiple choice” and “drag and drop questions”, but a vast majority is multiple choice questions.
Comparison to the old versions of the DCV-Design exam
By far, VCAP6.5-DCV is the most refined and understandable exam of all previous design version I’ve sat on. In my opinion, there is plenty of time go over the questions, even if you mark some of them for later review.
Preparation
It’s important to differentiate having experience as an Architect and just want to validate your knowledge, or you decide it’s time to do next step in your career. The reason behind this is simple; Being an engineer you might find yourself lacking certain skills or rather find it difficult working with design methodology used in the exam. However, bellow I’d try to summarize what I have read to prepare for the exam, even those I already knew but decided to refresh my memory.
Note: Some of the resources can be quite old, nevertheless design methodology is same and mostly relevant.
Must Read
- Exam Preparation Guide
- vBrownBag VCAP-DCV Series
- VCAP-DCD 5.5 Certification Guide
- Designing VMware Infrastructure
- VMware vSphere Design
- vSphere 6.5 What’s New
- VMware Validated Design 4.x
Network
- Network Virtualization Design Guide
- Understand how shares in Network I/O Control version 2 work
- vSphere 6.5 Network best practices
Storage
- Virtual Volumes Technical Deep Dive
- vSAN storage hub
- vSphere Storage
- vSphere 6.5 Storage Best Practices
- Virtual Machine Encryption Performance
- VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster
Performance Best Practices
- Best Practices for Performance Tuning of Latency-Sensitive Workloads in vSphere VMs
- Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.5
- VMware Virtual SAN Performance with Microsoft SQL Server
- Virtual Machine vCPU and vNUMA Rightsizing
Availability Guides
- vSphere Availability
- VMware vSphere 6 Fault Tolerance
- Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering on VMware vSphere 6.x
Recoverability Guides
- Site Recovery Manager
- Site Recovery Manager Product Page
Business Critical Applications
- Business Critical Applications on vSphere
- Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
- Oracle and MSSQL on vSAN Reference Architecture
- SAP Solutions on VMware Best Practices Guide
- VMware vSAN SAP Applications
- SAP and VMware Virtualization
- Microsoft Exchange Server on VMware vSphere Best Practices Guide
Practice Exams
- VMusketeers VCAP6-DCV Design Quiz
- Virtual Tiers practice
- Paul McSharry practice questions
Additional Reading
- Configuration Maximums
- vSAN Use Cases
- VMware TCO Comparison Calculator
- Efficiently Synchronize, Import and Export Content in VMware vSphere Content Library
- vSphere Content Library: distribute your content effortlessly
- Understand Application upstream and downstream dependencies
- Understanding Resource Pools in VMware vSphere
- Virtual Machine vCPU and vNUMA rightsizing – Rules of Thumb
- NUMA Deep Dive