IBM Cloud for VMware v1 Specialty

Certification Overview

The IBM Cloud for VMware Specialty prepares a cloud professional to deploy and migrate VMware workloads to IBM Cloud from on-premises environments using existing tools, technologies, and skills. They can implement secure connections to and from VMware Solutions Dedicated clusters with other IBM Cloud services, and they understand architecture design, storage, compute, security and compliance, networking, resiliency, and PaaS requirements for each IBM Cloud for VMWare offering.

Recommended Skills

Knowledge of:

• Cloud concepts, Cloud Native, and IBM Cloud
• IBM Cloud Reference Architecture
• IT architectures and using Cloud solution patterns and Cloud Native architecture
• Cloud infrastructure technologies: systems, storage, security, networking, virtualization technologies (functional and non-functional requirements)
• IBM Cloud Observability offerings (including Sysdig and LogDNA)
• RedHat Open Shift platform capabilities
• Software for IBM Cloud
• Back-up and recovery services
• Clustering concepts
• Migration strategies

Working knowledge of:

• Comprehensive IBM Cloud solution design
• IBM Cloud Compute capabilities
• IBM Cloud Network capabilities
• IBM Cloud Storage capabilities
• IBM Cloud Security capabilities
• IBM Cloud Platform capabilities
• RedHat Open Shift platform on IBM Cloud
• IBM Cloud databases
• Bare metal server

Ability to:

• Make system components serviceable
• Interpret data and statistics to determine actions
• Build and maintain VMWare systems

Requirements

• Exam S2000-018 : IBM Cloud for VMware v1 Specialty

Exam Objectives

• During exam development, the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) define all of the tasks, knowledge and experience that an individual would need in order to successfully fulfill their role with the product or solution. These are represented by the objectives below and the questions on the exam are based upon these objective.

Number of questions : 45

Number of questions to pass : 29

Time allowed : 75 minutes

Status : Live