2V0-17.25 Exam Dumps - VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Administrator

TheVCF 9.0 Operations Access Control Guidedescribes how dashboard sharing and user access is managed:

Identity Broker Authentication (D):All external users must authenticate via theVCF Identity Broker, which integrates with Active Directory, LDAP, or other identity providers. Documentation states:“Identity Broker provides single sign-on and federation, ensuring users are authenticated consistently across VCF Operations and Automation services.”

Grant Access to Dashboard (E):After authentication, the administrator must explicitlygrant accessto the dashboard for the specified group. This ensures that only the intended users can view or interact with the dashboard.

Set Time-Bound Access (C):VCF Operations supports time-bound access policies. The documentation specifies:“Access can be granted with an expiration period, ensuring access is automatically revoked after the configured interval (for example, 90 days).”This aligns with the 3-month requirement.

Other options are not suitable:

Reports (A)only send static data, not interactive dashboard access.

Embedded code (B, F)bypasses access control and does not provide authentication or time-limited sharing, which violates the security requirement.

Thus, the correct three steps are:Use Identity Broker (D), Grant access to dashboard (E), and Configure 3-month access expiration (C).

Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation:

The Istio integration in VCF 9.0 defines two main logical groupings for organizing workloads within a service mesh: Cluster groups and Service groups. The documentation notes: “Cluster groups allow you to organize and manage objects across different Kubernetes clusters. Service groups let you aggregate and manage services that share common policies, routing rules, or observability requirements.” .

These groups enable administrators to apply consistent service mesh policies across multiple deployments and clusters. They also simplify administration by centralizing traffic management, routing, and observability of workloads. Security, API, and Node are not Istio-specific grouping constructs but instead are other concepts used elsewhere (e.g., security policies, API endpoints, node objects in Kubernetes). Therefore, the correct group types used in Istio Service Mesh are Cluster and Service groups.

The VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 networking design documentation specifies that container workloads running on VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) with NSX networking require external connectivity via a Centralized Connectivity model. This is implemented using an NSX Tier-0 (T0) Gateway which provides north-south routing to the corporate physical network.

The guide states:“In VKS deployments backed by NSX networking, workloads achieve external reachability through a centralized Tier-0 Gateway, ensuring integration with corporate networking and enterprise services.”This model ensures traffic consolidation, policy enforcement, and simplified routing for Kubernetes workloads.

Round-robin Connectivity is not a supported NSX gateway connectivity model.

Distributed Connectivity refers to east-west NSX overlay communication, not north-south connectivity.

Physical Connectivity is not precise, as workloads do not connect directly to the physical network; instead, they use logical routing.

Centralized Connectivity is the correct model, where the T0 Gateway centralizes external routing for container workloads.

In NSX 4.x integrated with VCF 9.0,default segment security profiles block DHCP servers by default. TheNSX Admin Guidestates: “To allow DHCP servers on a segment, edit the applied segment security profile and set the DHCP Server Block option to NO.”

Cloning profiles (B, C) is an optional best practice but not required for functionality. The DHCP server block resides in thesecurity profile, not the IP discovery profile, making C and D incorrect. Therefore, the required step is toedit the default segment security profile, set DHCP Server Block = NO, and apply it.

TheVCF 9.0 Service Mesh Integration Guidedefines Istio as: “Istio Service Mesh provides an infrastructure layer that transparently handles service-to-service communication, securing, observing, and controlling traffic between microservices.” The key purpose is enabling structured and observable communication between applications. While Istio includes discovery and load balancing, those are features, not the overarching purpose. A centralized routing table (Option D) is not the core definition. VMware documentation highlights Istio’s role inservice-to-service communication, observability, and policy enforcementwithin the service mesh. Therefore, the correct answer isB.