2V0-17.25 Study Plan: 4- and 8-Week Schedules for VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator

3 weeks of reading, about 8–9 hours a week with the book, then a review week.

Week 1chapters 1–4 · about 8 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 1. Private cloud and the VCF 9.0 architecture
- 2. Deploying VCF: the VCF Installer, convergence and import
- 3. vSphere compute: ESX, vCenter, clusters and virtual machines
- 4. Storage: 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: Components renamed or replaced in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, vSAN ESA vs vSAN OSA in VCF 9.0, vSAN space efficiency: deduplication, compression and erasure coding.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-17.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.1 Private Cloud VisionObjective 2.2 VMware Compute FundamentalsObjective 2.3 VMware Storage FundamentalsObjective 4.1 VCF: Deploy and ConfigureObjective 4.2 VCF: Manage

Week 2chapters 5–8 · about 9 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 5. Networking with NSX in VCF
- 6. Workload domains, Supervisor and Supervisor services
- 7. Fleet management, identity, licensing, certificates and passwords
- 8. Lifecycle 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: NSX VPCs: centralized vs distributed connectivity.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-17.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.4 VMware Network FundamentalsObjective 4.1 VCF: Deploy and ConfigureObjective 4.2 VCF: ManageObjective 4.4 VCF: Consume and Automate

Week 3chapters 9–12 · about 9 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 9. VCF Operations: architecture, data, policies and alerting
- 10. VCF Operations: views, reports, dashboards and day-two monitoring
- 11. VCF Operations for logs and VCF Operations for networks
- 12. VCF Automation: providers, organizations and self-service
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 metrics, properties and super metrics, VCF Operations policies: priority, inheritance and what they control, Moving from Aria Operations for Logs 8.x to VCF Operations for logs, VCF Automation multi-organization tenancy.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-17.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 4.3 VCF: OperationsObjective 4.4 VCF: 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 2V0-17.25 exam guide once more and tick off every objective.

7 weeks of reading, about 2–4 hours a week with the book, then a review week.

Week 1chapters 1–2 · about 4 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 1. Private cloud and the VCF 9.0 architecture
- 2. Deploying VCF: the VCF Installer, convergence and import
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: Components renamed or replaced in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-17.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.1 Private Cloud VisionObjective 2.2 VMware Compute FundamentalsObjective 4.1 VCF: Deploy and ConfigureObjective 4.2 VCF: Manage

Week 2chapters 3–4 · about 4 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 3. vSphere compute: ESX, vCenter, clusters and virtual machines
- 4. Storage: 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: vSAN ESA vs vSAN OSA in VCF 9.0, vSAN space efficiency: deduplication, compression and erasure coding.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-17.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.2 VMware Compute FundamentalsObjective 2.3 VMware Storage FundamentalsObjective 4.1 VCF: Deploy and Configure

Week 3chapters 5–6 · about 4 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 5. Networking with NSX in VCF
- 6. Workload domains, Supervisor and Supervisor services
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: NSX VPCs: centralized vs distributed connectivity.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-17.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 2.4 VMware Network FundamentalsObjective 4.1 VCF: Deploy and ConfigureObjective 4.4 VCF: Consume and Automate

Week 4chapter 7 · about 2 hours Done

Read chapter:
- 7. Fleet management, identity, licensing, certificates and passwords
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 2V0-17.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 4.2 VCF: Manage

Week 5chapters 8–9 · about 4 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 8. Lifecycle management
- 9. 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 metrics, properties and super metrics, VCF Operations policies: priority, inheritance and what they control.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-17.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 4.2 VCF: ManageObjective 4.3 VCF: Operations

Week 6chapters 10–11 · about 4 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 10. VCF Operations: views, reports, dashboards and day-two monitoring
- 11. VCF Operations for logs and VCF Operations for networks
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: Moving from Aria Operations for Logs 8.x to VCF Operations for logs.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-17.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 4.3 VCF: Operations

Week 7chapter 12 · about 2 hours Done

Read chapter:
- 12. VCF Automation: providers, organizations and self-service
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 Automation multi-organization tenancy.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the 2V0-17.25 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Objective 4.4 VCF: 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 2V0-17.25 exam guide once more and tick off every objective.

The hours are a rough guide to reading time with the book. Add hands-on practice as you go: some hands-on time in a VMware Cloud Foundation lab makes every chapter stick.

2V0-17.25 study plan