S2112500 IBM Cloud for VMware v1 Specialty Certification Exam Crack

The IBM Cloud for VMware Specialty prepares a cloud professional to deploy and migrate VMware workloads to IBM Cloud from on-premises environments using existing tools, technologies, and skills. They can implement secure connections to and from VMware Solutions Dedicated clusters with other IBM Cloud services, and they understand architecture design, storage, compute, security and compliance, networking, resiliency, and PaaS requirements for each IBM Cloud for VMware offering.

Preparing for an IBM Cloud Specialty Exam

Candidates interested in pursuing this exam are recommended to have already earned either the Professional Architect, Professional Developer, or Professional SRE certification.

Knowledge of:

• Cloud concepts, Cloud Native, and IBM Cloud
• IBM Cloud Reference Architecture
• IT architectures and using Cloud solution patterns and Cloud Native architecture
• Cloud infrastructure technologies: systems, storage, security, networking, virtualization technologies (functional and non-functional requirements)
• IBM Cloud Observability offerings (including Sysdig and LogDNA)
• RedHat OpenShift platform capabilities
• Software for IBM Cloud
• Back-up and recovery services
• Clustering concepts
• Migration strategies

Working knowledge of:

• Comprehensive IBM Cloud solution design
• IBM Cloud Compute capabilities
• IBM Cloud Network capabilities
• IBM Cloud Storage capabilities
• IBM Cloud Security capabilities
• IBM Cloud Platform capabilities
• RedHat Open Shift platform on IBM Cloud
• IBM Cloud databases
• Bare metal servers

Exam Objectives

• Section 1: Offerings

  16%
  • Contrast VMware Solutions Dedicated (IaaS) with VMware Solutions Shared (PaaS)
  • Distinguish VMware for Regulated Workloads
  • Consider Billing Options (Dedicated, Regulated, Shared)
• Section 2: Architecture (Design) Options

  26%
  • Design Network Strategy for VMware on IBM Cloud (Overlay/Underlay, Connectivity, Integrated Services)
  • Appraise Architectural Compliance
  • Design Security on IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
  • Consider Third Party IBM Cloud Integrated Offerings with VMware (Veeam, Zerto, OpenShift)
  • Consider support for IBM Cloud DNS with Microsoft Active Directory DNS Service
  • Design a Migration Strategy
  • Design for Resiliency
• Section 3: Compute Options

  7%
  • Requirements for the IBM Cloud account
  • Differentiate Server Host Requirements
• Section 4: Storage Options

  9%
  • Consider vSAN Storage Requirements for VMware on IBM Cloud
  • Consider File Storage for VMware on IBM Cloud
  • Consider Object Storage Use Case for VMware on IBM Cloud (only for Veeam)
• Section 5: Network Options

  13%
  • Overview Networking Strategies for VMware on IBM Cloud
  • Consider Direct Link use cases for use with VMware
  • Consider Private Network End Points use cases for cross connecting VMware Solutions Shared
  • Consider Network Gateways
• Section 6: Security and Compliance

  18%
  • Outline VMware Security Compliance Features
  • Recall Caveonix RiskForesight
  • Recall HyTrust CloudControl
  • Recall HyperProtect Crypto Services and KMIP
  • IBM Security and Compliance Center (SCC) and Activity Tracker
• Section 7: Resiliency

  11%
  • Appraise Veeam for use in a VMware environment
  • Appraise Zerto for use in a VMware environment