This exam was retired by the vendor on December 15, 2025.
VCP-DCV can no longer be scheduled. The practice material below remains available for reference and for learners studying the underlying skills. See the VCP-VVF Administrator certification, VCP-DCV's direct successor under Broadcom's restructured program
Free VCP-DCV practice test — 281+ VCP-DCV practice questions with detailed explanations across all 6 official VCP-DCV exam domains. Every set is scored and drawn from the live question bank — so you practise exactly what the exam tests, not outdated dumps.
Courseiva includes 281+ VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization VCP-DCV practice questions across the official exam domains.
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This free VCP-DCV practice test mirrors the structure and difficulty of the real VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization VCP-DCV exam. Every question is written against the official 2026 exam blueprint published by VMware, ensuring you practise exactly what the exam tests — not last year's objectives.
The VCP-DCV blueprint is divided into 6weighted domains. Questions on this page are distributed proportionally across each domain, so the mix you see here reflects the same weighting you'll face on exam day. High-weight domains like vSphere Lifecycle Management and Configure and Manage vSphere Networking contribute the most questions, meaning focused practice on these areas gives you the highest return on study time.
VCP-DCV Exam Blueprint — 6 Domains
vSphere Lifecycle Management
Configure and Manage vSphere Networking
Configure and Manage vSphere Storage
vSphere Architecture, Products and Solutions
vSphere Security
vSphere Performance and Scaling
22 numbered sets, 6 domain question banks, and targeted sessions — every page is a unique set of questions.
Choose all correct answers
Each chapter page covers one topic in depth — theory, key concepts, and focused practice questions. Use these to close knowledge gaps before returning to full practice tests.
Getting the most from practice questions requires more than just clicking through answers. Here is the study method used by candidates who pass VCP-DCV on their first attempt:
Answer before revealing
Read each VCP-DCV question fully, eliminate obviously wrong choices, then commit to an answer before clicking to reveal. This active recall process is what builds lasting knowledge.
Read every explanation
Even when you answer correctly, read the full explanation. Knowing WHY the right answer is correct — and why the distractors are wrong — is what separates a 750 score from a 900 score.
Track weak domains
Note which VCP-DCV domains you get wrong most often. Then do a targeted 20-30 question session focused only on that domain until your accuracy improves.
Simulate exam pacing
The real VCP-DCV gives you roughly 1.9 minutes per question. Use the 60 or 120-question sessions to practise hitting that pace comfortably.
Most candidates who pass VCP-DCV on their first attempt report doing between 400 and 800 practice questions over 4–8 weeks of preparation. With 281+ questions in the Courseiva bank, you have more than enough material to build that repetition without seeing the same question twice.
Answer each question to reveal the full explanation and correct answer. This starter set is drawn from all 6 exam domains in blueprint proportion. Use the session selector to start a longer focused practice run.
A vSphere administrator is planning to upgrade a vSphere 7.0 U2 cluster to vSphere 8.0 U1. The cluster is managed by a vCenter Server 7.0 U2. The administrator wants to use vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) to manage the upgrade. What must the administrator do first?
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What is the purpose of the 'Export System Logs' option in vSphere Lifecycle Manager?
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An administrator wants to use vLCM to manage firmware for a cluster of Dell PowerEdge servers. What is required?
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A vSphere administrator is designing a network for a cluster of ESXi hosts. Each host has four 10GbE uplinks. The cluster will host mission-critical VMs that require maximum throughput and redundancy. The administrator plans to use Network I/O Control (NIOC) and a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). Which configuration best ensures consistent network performance for all VMs?
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The administrator configured this LAG on a distributed switch and corresponding LACP settings on the physical switch. But the LAG is not coming up. What is a likely issue?
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Refer to the exhibit. An administrator cannot resolve the hostname of a DNS server using the ESXi host. What is the most likely cause?
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An administrator needs to create a datastore cluster for a set of VMs that require high availability. The VMs should be automatically balanced across datastores based on I/O latency. Which feature must be enabled on the datastore cluster?
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A company has a vSphere 7.0 cluster with 6 ESXi hosts connected to a Dell EMC PowerStore array using iSCSI. They are using VMFS6 datastores. After a recent firmware upgrade on the array, they notice that performance on one datastore has degraded significantly. The datastore is used by several high-I/O VMs. The administrator runs 'esxcli storage core path list' and sees that all paths to that datastore are active but with varying latency. The PSP is set to Round Robin with IOPS limit of 1000. The SATP is VMW_SATP_ALUA. The storage administrator confirms that the array is in active-active mode. What should the administrator do to improve performance?
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An administrator is configuring multipathing for a Fibre Channel storage array. The administrator wants to maximize throughput by using all available paths. Which path selection policy should be chosen?
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An administrator configures DRS on a cluster with two hosts. The administrator wants to ensure that two critical VMs (VM1 and VM2) always run on separate hosts. Which rule type should the administrator create?
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A company experiences frequent host failures. The cluster has 5 hosts with 128 GB RAM each. The VMs have vCPU and memory reservations ranging from 1 GHz/512 MB to 4 GHz/8 GB. The administrator needs to ensure that if one host fails, the remaining hosts can accommodate all VMs. Which admission control policy is recommended?
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An administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue where a VM is not receiving the expected CPU resources. The VM is a member of a resource pool with a CPU Shares value of 2000. The host has two other resource pools: one with 1000 shares and another with 500 shares. All resource pools are competing for CPU. The VM's reservation is set to 2 GHz, and the host has 8 GHz available. What is the minimum CPU allocation the VM is guaranteed?
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A company requires all vMotion traffic to be encrypted. The vSphere administrator enables vMotion encryption at the cluster level. What else must be configured to ensure vMotion operations are encrypted?
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A security administrator notices that a virtual machine (VM) running a legacy application is experiencing network connectivity issues after enabling Network I/O Control (NIOC) on the distributed switch. The VM is in a high-priority traffic class for management traffic. What is the most likely cause of the issue?
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A company runs a critical e-commerce platform on a vSphere 7 cluster with ESXi hosts connected to a vSAN datastore. The environment uses vSphere Trust Authority (vTA) and VM encryption with an external KMS. Recently, after a successful vTA attestation, one of the VMs (WebServer-01) failed to power on with the error: 'Unable to decrypt the encrypted virtual machine upon re-registration. Reason: The KMS server is unreachable.' The administrator verifies that other encrypted VMs on the same host power on successfully. The KMS cluster consists of two servers: KMS-01 and KMS-02, both accessible from the management network. The administrator checks the VM's configuration and finds that it uses a custom storage policy with encryption. What is the most likely cause of this specific VM's failure?
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A VM configured with 4 vCPUs shows high co-stop time in performance metrics. What does co-stop time indicate and which action should be taken to improve performance?
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Refer to the exhibit. A distributed virtual switch port shows dropped Rx packets and CRC errors. What is the most likely cause?
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An administrator is troubleshooting a VM that is running slowly. The VM has 4 vCPUs and 16 GB of memory. The host has 2 physical CPUs with 10 cores each, hyper-threading enabled. The administrator runs esxtop and sees that %RDY for the VM is consistently above 15%. Which action would most likely reduce the ready time?
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A company runs a critical SQL Server VM on vSphere 7.0. The VM has a single 300 GB virtual disk on a VMFS6 datastore backed by a SAN with 8 Gbps Fibre Channel. The VM is configured with 16 vCPUs and 64 GB RAM. Recently, users have reported slow query performance. The administrator checks the datastore performance and sees average latency of 15 ms with peaks of 50 ms during business hours. The storage array has multiple paths to the ESXi host, and the current path policy is Fixed with a single active path. The administrator wants to improve storage performance with minimal cost. Which action should the administrator take first?
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A company uses an external Platform Services Controller (PSC) in a vSphere 6.7 environment. They plan to upgrade to vSphere 7.0. Which security-related consideration is most important?
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Answer all 20 questions to see your domain score breakdown
A structured study plan dramatically increases your chances of passing VCP-DCV on the first attempt. The most effective approach combines reading the official VMware documentation or a study guide, watching video explanations for difficult concepts, and then reinforcing everything with daily practice questions.
We recommend the following weekly structure for VCP-DCV preparation:
Cover each VCP-DCV domain systematically. Read the exam objectives, watch explanatory content, and do 10–20 practice questions per domain to test understanding as you go.
Run full 50–60 question mixed sessions daily. Review every wrong answer in detail. Identify which domains are consistently scoring below 70% and revisit those study materials.
Do 100–120 question timed sessions to simulate real exam conditions. Aim for consistent scores above 80% before booking your exam date. A score above 80% in practice typically translates to a passing VCP-DCV score.
On exam day, the VCP-DCV tests your ability to apply knowledge to realistic scenarios — not just recall definitions. This is why reading explanations and understanding the reasoning behind every answer matters more than simply grinding question volume. Use the high-count sessions (100, 120) in the final weeks as your confidence benchmark.
Questions
70
On the real exam
Time limit
135 min
1.9 min per question
Passing score
300/1000
Scaled scoring
The VCP-DCV exam uses a scaled scoring system — your raw score of correct answers is converted to a score out of 1000. A passing score of 300/1000 does not mean you need 30% of questions correct; the conversion accounts for question difficulty. Consistently scoring above 75–80% on practice tests puts you in a strong position to achieve 300/1000 on the real exam.
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Most candidates who pass VCP-DCV on their first attempt do 30–60 questions per day. Use the Quick 10 session for daily warm-ups when you are short on time. On study days, run a 50 or 60-question session to build stamina. Reserve 100 and 120-question sessions for the final two weeks when you want to simulate real exam conditions and benchmark your readiness.
The VCP-DCV covers 6 domains: vSphere Lifecycle Management (17%), Configure and Manage vSphere Networking (17%), Configure and Manage vSphere Storage (17%), vSphere Architecture, Products and Solutions (17%), vSphere Security (16%), vSphere Performance and Scaling (16%). Each domain carries a different weight, so allocate your study time accordingly. The highest-weighted domains — vSphere Lifecycle Management and Configure and Manage vSphere Networking — should receive the most attention.
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