VMware and Amazon Web Services are making a significant investment in providing a vSphere experience in a hyperscaler environment and we continue to see adoption for Cloud Service Providers utilizing VMware Cloud on AWS as an offering for managed services.
In this post, I will review my approach, what to expect on the exam, and my raw study notes.
I decided to prepare for the VMware Cloud on AWS Management Exam 2019 (Exam 5v0-31.19) and sit for it. While there’s a lot of great material that I will review below, I wanted to provide my approach for others.
Exam
It’s 30 questions and is done via the Pearson Vue site online. I thought it was very fair as a skill/badge exam and goes over many of the fundamental requirements. As expected, it’s true to the blueprint.
My Raw Notes
For me, I always prepare a final checklist of things I review before I take any examination. Below is my list of raw notes I used before I took the exam. As they are my raw notes, expect some abbreviations.
Anyway, enjoy the exam and I look forward to the expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS!
VMC on AWS Study Notes:
- Use Cases:
- Extension of onprem DC to the public cloud to expand resource capacity, increase disaster avoidance and recovery options, or localize application instances.
- Consolidation
- Peering the private and public cloud that allows for application mobility
- Global compliance – ISO, SOC1-3, GDPR, and HIPAA
- Many different AWS regions available plus GovCloud
- SDDC
- Minimum of 3 hosts and maximum of 32 hosts
- Up to 10 clusters can be added to a SDDC
- Stretched Cluster – between two AZ’s (min of 6 hosts and max of 28)
- Host Configuration
- 2 18 core sockets – Broadwell
- 512 gibibytes of memory (550GB)
- 14.3TB of NVMe SSD’s – 3.6TB for flash, 10.7TB for capacity
- 1 AWS ENA – 25Gbps
