Passing VCP-VCF Admin Exam
I recently passed the VCP-VCF Admin exam, specifically the 2V0-11.25 version, and I want to share my experience with the VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator exam.
I typically don’t get certifications as I don’t really see the point, and it’s often not a very good benchmark of actual skills and understanding. However, with the recent changes to VMware home lab licensing, to gain access to the home lab licenses, you need to have a VMUG Advantage membership and pass a VCF exam. Due to this, I took the VCF Admin exam and passed.
This post will share my experience studying and taking the VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Administrator 2V0-11.25 exam.
Exam Details
There are two exam codes for the VCF Admin exam. Exam code 2V0-11.24 is the older 2024 version. Exam code 2V0-11.25 is the updated 2025 version. I’ve only taken the updated 2025 version of the VCF Admin exam.
The VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Administrator 2V0-11.25 exam contains 60 multiple-choice questions, and you have 135 minutes to complete the exam. You need a score of 300 points or higher to pass the exam. The exam may contain unscored questions, but you won’t know which questions are unscored.
During the exam, you can flag questions to review at the end before finishing the exam. You can also strikethrough invalid answers by right-clicking them to help narrow down the possible answers.
The questions are pulled from a pool of questions, meaning if two people take the exam, they may not have the same questions. When I took the exam, I only got multiple choice questions however, some of the questions in the pool may be matching or sequencing-type questions.
Studying
To prepare for the VCF Admin exam, I attended six weekly 1-hour weekly study sessions. The study sessions were organized by Franky Barragan and were hosted by James Tiffany, Stephan McTighe, and Gareth Edwards. The sessions followed the official VMware VCP – VCF Administrator exam guide. The official exam guide can be found here.
All of the study sessions were recorded and have been posted to YouTube. Here is a YouTube playlist of those videos. I highly recommend those videos as they were pivotal to helping me study.
During the study sessions, Broadcom released the updated 2025 version of the exam (exam code 2V0-11.25). The major change is the number of questions was lowered to 60.
If you want to read more about what changed in the exam guide, Bart Peeters has published his findings on his blog. You can find that here.
Franky also created a valuable resource called the VMware {code} Community Exam Guide for VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Administrator (VCP-VCF 2V0-11.24), the Google Doc can be found here.
The VMware {code} Community Exam Guide is a copy of the VMware exam details, but it has notes and details about each tested section to help you study. I read the entire document to help prepare myself for the exam.
In addition to reading the whole document, I took a PDF copy of the VMware {code} Community Exam Guide and put it in NotebookLM. NotebookLM is an AI-powered note-taking tool created by Google.
In NotebookLM, I used the Audio Overview Deep Dive conversation feature to turn the entire PDF into a 70-minute podcast hosted by two AI hosts, and it was an excellent tool to reinforce what I had read.
While studying for the VCF exam, I had no access to any setups running VCF, and for me to fully learn something, I need to play with it. Fortunately, the VMware Hands-on Labs allows you to play with VCF for free.
The lab I did was Getting Started with VMware Cloud Foundation [HOL-2532-01-VCF-L] which helped me understand the fundamentals of VCF.
Nate Hudson also put together a study guide that contains 215 questions that are similar to questions that could be on the exam. Nate’s test prep sample questions were very helpful in giving me an idea of the types of questions that might be on the exam. You can find Nate Hudson’s study guide here.
My Thoughts
I don’t think I could’ve passed the exam walking in blind. I am very happy that I studied before taking the exam, as my experience has mostly revolved around vSphere. I’ve never touched NSX or Aria, and there were many questions about it. I only briefly played with Tanzu once at a local VMUG meetup, but I do have experience with Docker, which helped me with the Tanzu questions I got.
The ability to cross out answers that aren’t valid was very useful for me as it helped me not second-guess answers even more.
In addition to the resources I used, I would recommend the following hands-on labs.
- VCF Operations – Getting More Out of It! – [HOL-2501-02-VCF-L] to understand more about Aria Operations in VCF. (with VCF 9, Aria Operations seems like it will be renamed to just VCF Operations)
- vSphere Supervisor (Kubernetes on vSphere) [HOL-2533-01-VCF-L] to understand more about Tanzu.
For anyone planning to take the exam, I highly recommend trying the studying resources I used, as they were the key to my success. There is also a Broadcom Community Programs Discord server with a VCP-VCF study group channel where you can ask questions.
You can join the Broadcom Community Programs Discord server with this link https://discord.gg/cAgPKfAPnd
To learn more about the VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator exam, here is the official exam page.
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