60 ITEMS 135 MINUTES 300 PASSING SCORE $250 EXAM FEE 30 OBJECTIVES Prepared by VMExam • www.vmexam.com VMware • VCAP-VCF Support • 3V0-13.26 C E R T I F I C A T I O N G U I D E Find It, Read It, Fix It Inside the Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support exam (3V0-13.26) All thirty objectives in Broadcom’s own wording, grouped by subject and with the duplicate flagged - plus the exam fact sheet, how the three advanced Cloud Foundation exams split one blueprint between them, what support engineering pays against the design and administration tracks, a five-step route from hands-on troubleshooting to booked seat, and ten sample questions with a full answer key. www.vmexam.com VMware 3V0-13.26 Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support (3V0-13.26) 1 SECTION 01 Exam Overview The Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support exam is the troubleshooting paper of the VCAP-VCF family: monitoring, diagnosis and recovery on an estate that is already running. The facts below come from Broadcom’s own 3V0-13.26 exam guide, which Broadcom last updated on 18 August 2026, cross-checked against VMExam’s VCAP-VCF Support syllabus page. Exam code 3V0-13.26 Exam name Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support Credential earned VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Support (VCAP-VCF Support) Product version VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Questions 60 items Duration 135 minutes of appointment time Passing score 300, on a scaled method Exam fee USD 250 Delivery Proctored, through Pearson VUE Item types Multiple choice, multiple-selection multiple choice, build-list, matching, drag-and-drop, point-and-click and hot-area Prerequisite None stated in the exam guide Exam guide Broadcom’s 3V0-13.26 exam guide, last updated 18 August 2026 Before anything else, be sure this is the right paper. Broadcom splits one Cloud Foundation blueprint across three advanced exams with identical formats and no shared objectives : 3V0-12.26 Architect covers Sections 1 to 3 (20 objectives), 3V0-11.26 Administrator covers Section 4 (60 objectives), and this exam covers Section 5, Troubleshoot and Optimize (30 objectives). Preparing for one does nothing for the others. The pass mark of 300 is scaled, not a percentage, so it does not tell you how many of the 60 items you need right. Registration is through Pearson VUE; Broadcom’s certification page carries the current listing. SECTION 02 Who This Exam Is Built For Every objective on this blueprint starts from something already being wrong, which tells you exactly who it is written for: www.vmexam.com VMware 3V0-13.26 Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support (3V0-13.26) 2 Support and Escalation Engineers VCF Operations Teams Senior VMware Administrators Broadcom states no prerequisite in the exam guide, but the exam assumes real operational exposure - you are expected to know which tool answers which question before you are asked to interpret what it shows. If your Cloud Foundation time has been greenfield builds rather than running estates, the Administrator paper is the better first target. SECTION 03 The Thirty Objectives, Grouped Broadcom lists all thirty objectives in a single flat sequence under Section 5 and publishes no weightings . Grouping them by subject, as below, is this guide’s doing - but it is the fastest way to see where the exam actually lives: VCF Operations, vSphere infrastructure and NSX account for sixteen of the thirty VCF Operations Troubleshooting 6 Storage and vSAN 5 vSphere Infrastructure Troubleshooting 5 NSX Troubleshooting 5 vSphere Kubernetes Service and Supervisor 4 VCF Automation Monitoring 3 Performance Optimization 2 Objectives per subject group. The grouping is this guide’s; Broadcom publishes the thirty as one list with no weightings. One defect to know about before you read the list: objective 5.30 repeats 5.1 word for word in Broadcom’s exam guide, so thirty objectives are published but only twenty-nine are distinct. Both are reproduced below exactly as Broadcom publishes them, with the repeat marked. Two further objectives, 5.28 and 5.29, carry the word "Simulations" in Broadcom’s own wording - read alongside the item types, that is a strong hint about how they will be asked. 01. VCF Operations Troubleshooting (6 objectives) • 5.19 Given a scenario, troubleshoot VCF Operations infrastructure configuration issues (CloudProxy, Clusters, HA, adapters). • 5.20 Given a scenario, troubleshoot VCF configuration issues using VCF Operations. • 5.21 Given a scenario, troubleshoot VCF networks with VCF Operations for Networks. • 5.22 Given a scenario, troubleshoot Workloads issues with VCF Operations. • 5.23 Given a scenario, use VCF Operations for logs to troubleshoot issues. • 5.24 Given a scenario, troubleshoot VCF Operations Alerts. www.vmexam.com VMware 3V0-13.26 Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support (3V0-13.26) 3 02. Storage and vSAN (5 objectives) • 5.1 Given a scenario, monitor VMware vSAN using tools in VCF. • 5.2 Given a scenario, monitor supported (non-vSAN) Storage using tools in VCF. • 5.3 Given a scenario, troubleshoot and resolve issues with VMware vSAN Storage. • 5.4 Given a scenario, troubleshoot and resolve issues with supported (non-vSAN) Storage. • 5.30 Given a scenario, monitor VMware vSAN using tools in VCF. (Repeats 5.1 word for word in Broadcom’s exam guide.) 03. vSphere Infrastructure Troubleshooting (5 objectives) • 5.5 Given a scenario, identify the tools to troubleshoot an issue within a VCF Workload Domain. • 5.6 Given a scenario, troubleshoot an issue with an ESX host within a VCF Workload Domain. • 5.7 Given a scenario, troubleshoot an issue with a VCF Workload Domain vCenter. • 5.8 Given a scenario, troubleshoot an issue with a VCF Workload Domain Cluster. • 5.9 Given a scenario, troubleshoot an issue with a Virtual Machine. 04. NSX Troubleshooting (5 objectives) • 5.25 Given a scenario, identify the appropriate VCF tool/product to troubleshoot an issue in NSX. • 5.26 Given a scenario, troubleshoot common NSX infrastructure Issues. • 5.27 Given a scenario, troubleshoot common connectivity and routing issues. • 5.28 Given a scenario, describe the purpose of Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) and high availability - Simulations. • 5.29 Given a scenario, describe logical routing packet walk - Simulations. 05. vSphere Kubernetes Service and Supervisor (4 objectives) • 5.15 Diagnose and resolve Supervisor and VKS cluster provisioning, connectivity, or namespace errors. • 5.16 Troubleshoot container deployment, registry, and trusted CA errors. • 5.17 Restart or recover failed VKS upgrades. • 5.18 Optimize cluster performance using monitoring and scaling features. 06. VCF Automation Monitoring (3 objectives) • 5.12 Given a scenario, monitor VCF Automation using VCF Operations. • 5.13 Given a scenario, monitor VCF Automation Provider Management. • 5.14 Given a scenario, monitor VCF Automation All Apps Organizations. 07. Performance Optimization (2 objectives) • 5.10 Given a scenario, optimize the performance of a VCF Workload Domain. www.vmexam.com VMware 3V0-13.26 Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support (3V0-13.26) 4 • 5.11 Given a scenario, optimize the performance of a Virtual Machine within a VCF Workload Domain. SECTION 04 What the Credential Is Worth The nearest reported baseline for this work is the systems engineering band rather than a help-desk one: PayScale puts the average base salary for a systems engineer working in computer networking and IT in the United States at $86,075 for 2026, on 1,079 salary profiles last updated 26 June 2026, with the tenth to ninetieth percentile running from $61,000 to $121,000. Why this exam, specifically • It is the only advanced Cloud Foundation exam that tests diagnosis rather than design or build, which is what most VCF work actually is. • Sixteen of the thirty objectives sit in VCF Operations, vSphere infrastructure and NSX - the three places production incidents start. • Four objectives cover vSphere Kubernetes Service, so it certifies container troubleshooting that most VMware credentials do not touch. • VCAP level sits above VCP and is the entry requirement mindset for the design track above it. Read the title carefully when you compare figures. A generic "technical support engineer" reports well below this band, and that is the wrong comparison: the word "support" in VCAP-VCF Support means production escalation on a hyperconverged platform, not first line. The work this certifies is the same work the systems engineering and infrastructure bands are paid for, and the ceiling is set by how quickly you can tell a storage-array problem from a host problem at two in the morning. SECTION 05 Getting Certified, Step by Step www.vmexam.com VMware 3V0-13.26 Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support (3V0-13.26) 5 1 Be sure you want the support paper, not one of its two siblings Three advanced Cloud Foundation exams, identical formats, no shared objectives. This one is Section 5: monitoring, diagnosis and recovery on a running estate. 3V0-11.26 is building and configuring; 3V0-12.26 is design. 2 Build the tool map before the symptom list Objective 5.5 asks you to identify the tools to troubleshoot an issue, and 5.25 asks the same for NSX. The rest assume you already know which tool answers which question: Skyline Health for vSAN findings, esxtop for host-level latency and contention, VCF Operations dashboards for cluster contention and datastore latency, VCF Operations for Logs, VCF Operations for Networks, kubectl for VKS. 3 Learn to read the numbers, not just find them Two of the sample questions below turn on interpreting a measurement rather than collecting it: one separates sustained latency from a single spike by comparing a worst-case figure against a 95th percentile, another reads an esxtop storage panel where DAVG is high while KAVG and QAVG are near zero, which points outside the host. 4 Spend the most time on VCF Operations and the platform band VCF Operations troubleshooting is six objectives, vSphere infrastructure five and NSX five. Add storage and vSAN and you have two thirds of the blueprint. The smaller groups still earn time: VKS is four objectives, and two of the ten sample questions are Kubernetes ones. 5 Book it, and expect simulations Sixty items in 135 minutes of appointment time, pass mark 300 on a scaled method. The item list includes point-and-click, hot-area, drag-and-drop and build-list, and two objectives say "Simulations" outright - expect to work in a representation of the interface rather than pick a sentence. For the rehearsal, VMExam’s 3V0-13.26 practice exam mirrors the real format, including the multi-answer items, so you can find the gaps before the exam does. SECTION 06 VMware 3V0-13.26 Sample Questions These ten questions come from VMExam’s 3V0-13.26 sample questions page, presented here in shuffled order. They are a fair sample of the real thing in one specific way: almost every one gives you a scenario with real values in it and asks what you do NEXT or FIRST, rather than asking what something is. One asks for two answers and offers five options. The answer key is at the end of the section. Q1. VMs on a VMFS datastore backed by a Fibre Channel LUN report slow disk response. On one ESX host the engineer runs esxtop and opens the storage device panel for the LUN: DAVG/cmd 38 ms, KAVG/cmd 0.1 ms, QAVG/cmd 0 ms, GAVG/cmd 38 ms. Where should the engineer focus the investigation NEXT? a) On the device queue depth and adapter queue settings of the host b) On the storage array and SAN fabric that serve the LUN c) On VMkernel CPU contention on the ESX host d) On the guest operating system inside the affected VMs www.vmexam.com VMware 3V0-13.26 Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support (3V0-13.26) 6 Q2. An engineer edits a VKS cluster to a newer compatible VKr, but the rolling update never starts. The cluster shows SystemChecksSucceeded = False, reason NotSucceeded, and the message MisconfiguredSoftwareChecks failed. A third-party admission webhook was installed in the cluster last month. What should the engineer do FIRST? a) Fix or remove the blocking webhook b) Upgrade the Supervisor to trigger a fresh rolling update of the cluster c) Annotate the cluster with kubernetes.vmware.com/dangerous-skip-misconfigured-software-check-for-update and retry the edit d) Revert the cluster to its previous VKr and reapply the new one with kubectl apply Q3. A VCF Operations administrator created a custom alert definition for ESX hosts in a management domain. The definition has two symptom sets: one for sustained CPU contention and one for a host property value. The alert-definition wait and cancel cycles are 1, and the definition is active in the default policy. The CPU contention symptom shows as triggered on esx-mgmt-03. The property symptom is not triggered on any host. No alert for this definition appears in the Alerts list for esx-mgmt-03. What is the most likely reason no alert was generated? a) The definition has no notification rule or running outbound plug-in for esx-mgmt-03 and its parent domain b) The alert impact is set to Efficiency instead of Health c) The definition requires all symptom sets to be true, and only one set is true d) The alert-definition wait cycle must be raised above 1 first Q4. A Tier-1 gateway providing NAT runs active-standby on edge-01 (preferred) and edge-02. Edge-01 was rebooted for maintenance, and the Tier-1 SR on edge-02 became active. Edge-01 has returned with node status Up and all BFD sessions up. The Tier-1 SR on edge-01 is still standby an hour later. The Tier-1 failover mode was never changed from its default. Why has the active role not returned to edge-01? a) Standby relocation moved the standby SR to a third edge node b) The failover mode is non-preemptive c) The Tier-1 must be switched to active-active before edge-01 can resume d) Edge-01 still has BFD sessions down and has taken itself out of service Q5. Application owners report intermittent slowness on VMs in a VCF workload domain cluster. In VCF Operations, the engineer sees that several hosts in that cluster show sustained memory ballooning and compression, and a colleague proposes ordering two more hosts. Following the performance-management approach documented for VCF Operations, what should the engineer do FIRST? a) Check the Cluster Utilization dashboard for the ballooning hosts b) Check the Cluster Contention dashboard for KPI breaches c) Add the two hosts and let DRS rebalance the VMs across the cluster d) Raise memory reservations on the ballooning VMs to their configured size www.vmexam.com VMware 3V0-13.26 Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support (3V0-13.26) 7 Q6. In an All Apps organization, a project administrator opens Kubernetes Management > Policies > Insights and sees a single Threshold insight against the payments-dev namespace. No Violation, Sync or Health insights are listed. A developer asks which Gatekeeper constraint their pods broke. What does the insight indicate? a) The quota policy failed to synchronize from VKS cluster management to the cluster b) Resources in the namespace are non-compliant with a Gatekeeper-based policy c) Gatekeeper on the VKS cluster is not managed by VKS cluster management d) Namespace usage exceeds 80% of a quota policy Q7. After a top-of-rack switch upgrade, vSAN Skyline Health for a VCF Workload Domain cluster shows several Unhealthy findings across the network, data and performance categories. The network team reports that the uplink misconfiguration introduced by the upgrade has now been corrected. Which two actions should the engineer take in Skyline Health NEXT? (Choose two.) a) Retest the health findings instead of waiting for the next periodic run b) Silence the Unhealthy findings that were raised during the switch upgrade c) Sort the findings by root cause and resolve the remaining primary findings first d) Run the proactive VM creation test on each production host e) Turn off the Historical Health Service to clear the health data recorded during the upgrade Q8. After a maintenance window, the Summary tab of a VCF workload domain cluster shows Cluster Services health as Unhealthy, and DRS has stopped generating recommendations. An engineer browsing the Hosts and Clusters view reports that the cluster contains no vCLS VMs at all. What should the engineer do NEXT? a) Change the DRS automation level to fully automated and run DRS again for the cluster b) Deactivate vSphere HA admission control and re-enable DRS on the cluster c) Restart the vpxd service with vmon-cli on the vCenter appliance d) Open the VMs and Templates view and check the vCLS folder for the vCLS VMs and their power state Q9. An engineer reviews the Datastore Performance dashboard in VCF Operations for two shared VMFS datastores on a Fibre Channel array over the last seven days: DS-SQL-01 worst VM disk latency 41 ms, 95th percentile 38 ms; DS-WEB-02 worst VM disk latency 55 ms, 95th percentile 4 ms. Which conclusion do these values support? a) DS-SQL-01 has a sustained latency problem to investigate b) Both datastores show a sustained latency problem at the same severity c) Neither datastore has a latency problem d) DS-WEB-02 has the more serious problem, with the highest worst-case latency www.vmexam.com VMware 3V0-13.26 Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support (3V0-13.26) 8 Q10. A developer deploys a workload to a VKS cluster whose VKr runs Kubernetes 1.30. The pods do not start and report "Error: container has runAsNonRoot and image will run as root". The images pull from the registry successfully. Which change resolves the error? a) Add the registry CA to the cluster’s trusted CAs b) Create a PodSecurityPolicy and bind it to the authenticated users group in the cluster c) Configure Pod Security Admission for authenticated users on the cluster d) Recreate the image pull secret for the registry Answer key Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 b a c b b d a, c d a c SECTION 07 Where to Go Next Troubleshooting knowledge ages fast, and the place it surfaces first is the VMware Cloud Foundation community, where the people running Cloud Foundation at scale post the failure modes before they reach a knowledge-base article. Quick reference • Official exam guide PDF — docs.broadcom.com • Certification page — broadcom.com/education • Exam syllabus + practice test — vmexam.com/vmware • Registration — pearsonvue.com/broadcom Before you book — the guide in one card Exam code 3V0-13.26 Passing score 300 (scaled) Items 60 Duration 135 minutes Exam fee USD 250 Delivery Pearson VUE, proctored Blueprint Section 5 only Objectives 30 listed, 29 distinct Largest group VCF Operations (6) Smallest Performance (2) Weightings None published Sibling exams 3V0-11.26, 3V0-12.26 www.vmexam.com VMware 3V0-13.26 Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Support (3V0-13.26) 9 Good luck - and keep the blueprint’s own verb in mind while you study. Almost every objective begins "Given a scenario". The exam is not asking what VCF Operations is. It is asking what you would do with it when something has already broken. Guide prepared by VMExam. Exam facts and all thirty objectives are taken from Broadcom’s 3V0-13.26 exam guide (last updated 18 August 2026) and cross-checked against VMExam’s syllabus page; objective wording is reproduced as published, including the repeat at 5.30. Broadcom publishes no weightings, so the chart counts objectives in this guide’s own subject grouping and says so. The pay figure is PayScale’s and is cited inline; sample questions are reproduced from VMExam’s sample set. Verify the current exam details and fee with Broadcom before you book.