3 New Advanced Certifications from VMware/Broadcom Released

VMware has just released 3 new VCAPs. Yes, those VMware Certified Advanced Professional. If you’re not certified at all, or planning to, you should first chose one of the five base certifications for VCF and VVF. We have detailed all this in our blog post – 5 New VMware Certifications for VVF and VCF.

Those new 3 certifications are all for VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) product and all are advanced – VCAPs (VMware Certified Advanced Professional). All 3 certificaitions are same price.  Duration: 135 Minutes with 60 questions. Format: Multiple Choice, Multiple Choice Multiple Selection, Drag and Drop, Matching, Proctored, Build-List, Sequencing
Passing Score: 300 (Scaled) with pricing: $250 USD. If you haven’t been looking lately, make sure to read the certification FAQ pdf (direct link) as many things changed over the past couple of years.

Those 3 tracks make sense, so the administrators can specialize and get certified within their specialities.

For example, the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VCAP Administrator Automation certification validates the expertise required to support and troubleshoot private cloud environments built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

And the VCAP – VCF VKS (vSphere Kubernetes Service) validates professionals to deploy, operate, and secure vSphere Kubernetes Service environments within VMware Cloud Foundation

The VCAP Administrator Operations certification validates the expertise required to monitor, manage, and optimize VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments for performance, capacity, and cost efficiency.

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 vSphere Kubernetes Service (3V0-24.25) – reg. availability starts after Dec 12, 2025.
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Automation (3V0-21.25) – reg. availability starts after Nov 9, 2025.
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Operations (3V0-22.25) – reg. availability starts after Nov 9, 2025.

The certification paths

If you’re chasing new certs for VMware technology, this chart should be yours. Here is the direct link to the VMware certification path PDF.

Unfortunately, the VCAPs aren’t listed in the document just yet.

Final Words

For those of you who need/want to pass new VMware certification, things are definitely getting more difficult with VCAPs as those are much more advanced than VCP exams. Back in a day when I had to pass my VCAPs (deployment and design), the preparations took me several months (while working) and then only my second attempts were successfull! But motivation, preparation and preseverence paid off. Those VCAPs under my belt I was proud during long, long time -:).

Anyways, virtualization landscape is changing. The pressure of costs will make many smaller shops to think what to do after vSphere 8.x support expiry date. Most likely, they’ll switch to something else for their datacenter virtualization and if they don’t need a private cloud such as VCF with all the bells and whistles, but only a old good virtualization platform, then there is plenty of choice already. We have Proxmox, XCP-NG or HPE VM Essentials (all 3 shall be supported by Veeam which is a major backup player within the industry).

All other platforms might be as good but it only depends which backup vendor will support them. This is really crucial and we all know that Veeam will only support those platforms that make a signifficant impact (with large community footprint) within the industry. They won’t developp support (which is costly) for something that only couple of clients will use, right. It all makes sense.