1.1 Purpose of Exam

• The VMware Certified Professional 6 – Network Virtualization Exam (2V0-642) tests candidates on their skills and abilities installing, configuring and administering a VMware NSX 6.2 environment. Successful candidates demonstrate mastery of these skills and abilities.

1.2 Intended Audience

• A candidate for the VCP6-NV certification has approximately six months’ experience working with NSX implementations.
• They are typically infrastructure personnel for networking, datacenter and cloud Administrators, as well as virtualization specialists who have a strong understanding of the relationship between physical and virtual network infrastructures and is capable of installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting VMware NSX.
• The successful candidate will most likely have one or more industry recognized networking certifications or equivalent experience (typically 2-3 years) and a familiarity with datacenter virtualization.

2. Objectives covered in the VCP6-NV Exam (2V0-642):
2.1 Introduction

• It is recommended that candidates have the knowledge and skills necessary to install, configure and administer an NSX environment before taking the VCP6-NV Exam.
• It is also recommended that the candidate complete the course requirement prior to attempting the exam.
• It is not required that the course is completed prior to the exam, but the course requirement must be completed in order to obtain the VCP-NV certification.

2.2 Objectives

• Prior to taking this exam, candidates should understand each of the following objectives.
• Each objective is listed below; along with related tools the candidate should have experience with, and related documentation that contains information relevant to the objective.
• All objectives may also be referenced in other product documentation not specifically highlighted below.
• The candidate should be familiar with all relevant product documentation or have an equivalent skillset.

Understand VMware NSX Technology and Architecture
Compare and Contrast the Benefits of a VMware NSX Implementation

• Determine challenges with physical network implementations
• Understand common VMware NSX
• Differentiate NSX network and security functions and services
• Differentiate common use cases for VMware NSX

Understand VMware NSX Architecture

• Differentiate component functionality of NSX stack infrastructure components
• Compare and contrast with advantages/disadvantages of topologies (star, ring, etc.) as well
• as scaling limitations
• Compare and contrast VMware NSX data center deployment models
• Prepare a vSphere implementation for NSX

Differentiate Physical and Virtual Network Technologies

• Differentiate logical and physical topologies, components and services
• Differentiate logical and physical security constructs
• Endpoint Security
• Data Security
• Flow Monitoring
• Activity Monitoring
• Distributed Firewall
• Perimeter Firewall

Understand VMware NSX Integration with Third-Party Products and Services

• Understand integration with third-party partner tools and systems using NSX REST APIs
• Determine integration with third-party services
• Network services
• Security services
• Load Balancing
• Anti-malware
• IDS/IPS
• Determine integration with third-party hardware
• Network Interface Cards (NICs)
• Terminating overlay networks
• HW VTEP
• VXLAN offload
• RSS
• Install/register a third-party service with NSX

Understand VMware NSX Integration with vRealize Automation (vRA)

• Understand integration with vRealize Automation
• Demonstrate NSX deployment capabilities built into vRealize Automation
• Compare and contrast Network Profiles av