2V0-16.25 study plan

Week 1chapters 1–5 · about 11 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 1. Virtualization and the VVF 9.0 architecture
  • 2. Deploying a VVF 9.0 environment
  • 3. ESX hosts and vCenter
  • 4. vSphere clusters: HA, DRS and resource management
  • 5. Virtual machines, Content Libraries and encryption
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: VMware vSphere Foundation vs VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, vSphere HA admission control policies, vSphere Content Libraries: local, published and subscribed, vSAN data-at-rest vs data-in-transit encryption.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-16.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.1 Virtualization FundamentalsObjective 2.2 VMware Compute FundamentalsObjective 4.1 VVF: Deploy and ConfigureObjective 4.2 VVF: ManageObjective 4.3 VVF: OperateObjective 4.4 VVF: Consume and Automate

Week 2chapters 6–9 · about 10 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 6. vSphere storage and vSAN
  • 7. vSphere networking in VVF
  • 8. Identity, RBAC, licensing and certificates
  • 9. Lifecycle management of VVF
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: vSAN ESA vs vSAN OSA in vSphere Foundation 9.0, vSAN storage policies: failures to tolerate, RAID choices and rules, vSphere Standard Switch vs vSphere Distributed Switch.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-16.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.3 VMware Storage FundamentalsObjective 2.4 VMware Network FundamentalsObjective 4.2 VVF: Manage

Week 3chapters 10–13 · about 9 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 10. vSphere Supervisor, the VM Service and vSphere Kubernetes Service
  • 11. VCF Operations: architecture, data, policies and alerting
  • 12. VCF Operations: views, reports, dashboards, cost and day-two monitoring
  • 13. VCF Operations for logs and VCF Operations Orchestrator
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: VCF Operations deployment options: Simple, High Availability and Continuous Availability.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-16.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 4.1 VVF: Deploy and ConfigureObjective 4.3 VVF: OperateObjective 4.4 VVF: Consume and Automate

Week 4review Done

• Go back through every chapter’s key takeaways. Anything you can’t explain without looking, re-read that section.
• Re-read the common-trap callouts: they mark the answers that look right but aren’t.
• Check the exam coverage map against Broadcom’s own outline, in case it has changed since the book was checked.
• Read the official 2V0-16.25 exam guide once more and tick off every objective.

Week 1chapters 1–2 · about 4 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 1. Virtualization and the VVF 9.0 architecture
  • 2. Deploying a VVF 9.0 environment
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: VMware vSphere Foundation vs VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-16.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.1 Virtualization FundamentalsObjective 2.2 VMware Compute FundamentalsObjective 4.1 VVF: Deploy and ConfigureObjective 4.2 VVF: ManageObjective 4.3 VVF: OperateObjective 4.4 VVF: Consume and Automate

Week 2chapters 3–4 · about 5 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 3. ESX hosts and vCenter
  • 4. vSphere clusters: HA, DRS and resource management
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: vSphere HA admission control policies.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-16.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.2 VMware Compute Fundamentals

Week 3chapters 5–6 · about 5 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 5. Virtual machines, Content Libraries and encryption
  • 6. vSphere storage and vSAN
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: vSphere Content Libraries: local, published and subscribed, vSAN data-at-rest vs data-in-transit encryption, vSAN ESA vs vSAN OSA in vSphere Foundation 9.0, vSAN storage policies: failures to tolerate, RAID choices and rules.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-16.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.2 VMware Compute FundamentalsObjective 2.3 VMware Storage Fundamentals

Week 4chapter 7 · about 3 hours Done

• Read chapter:
  • 7. vSphere networking in VVF
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: vSphere Standard Switch vs vSphere Distributed Switch.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-16.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.4 VMware Network Fundamentals

Week 5chapters 8–9 · about 5 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 8. Identity, RBAC, licensing and certificates
  • 9. Lifecycle management of VVF
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-16.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 4.2 VVF: Manage

Week 6chapters 10–11 · about 5 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 10. vSphere Supervisor, the VM Service and vSphere Kubernetes Service
  • 11. VCF Operations: architecture, data, policies and alerting
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: VCF Operations deployment options: Simple, High Availability and Continuous Availability.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-16.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 4.1 VVF: Deploy and ConfigureObjective 4.3 VVF: OperateObjective 4.4 VVF: Consume and Automate

Week 7chapters 12–13 · about 5 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 12. VCF Operations: views, reports, dashboards, cost and day-two monitoring
  • 13. VCF Operations for logs and VCF Operations Orchestrator
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-16.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 4.3 VVF: OperateObjective 4.4 VVF: Consume and Automate

Week 8review Done

• Go back through every chapter’s key takeaways. Anything you can’t explain without looking, re-read that section.
• Re-read the common-trap callouts: they mark the answers that look right but aren’t.
• Check the exam coverage map against Broadcom’s own outline, in case it has changed since the book was checked.
• Read the official 2V0-16.25 exam guide once more and tick off every objective.