What is missing

The official VCP65-DCV Exam Preparation Guide covers a lot of security topics, but the vSphere 6.5 Networking guide is definitely more rich, with more contents.

For example, the following aspects are not considered in the preparation guide:

• Setting Up Networking with vSphere Standard Switches (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-E198C88A-F82C-4FF3-96C9-E3DF0056AD0C.html)
• Upgrade a vSphere Distributed Switch to a Later Version (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-330A0689-574A-4589-9462-14CA03F3F2F4.html)
• Upgrade Network I/O Control to Version 3 on a vSphere Distributed Switch (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-4F40390D-E5F4-4139-AC50-FDB2C4F36B42.html)
• Backing Up and Restoring Networking Configurations (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-140C6A52-F4C1-4B13-B2A3-9FFCF6000991.html)
• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-CC021803-30EA-444D-BCBE-618E0D836B9F.html)
• Remote Direct Memory Access for Virtual Machines (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-9AADBB49-876E-4E44-8149-D0523D8ADA6A.html)
• Large Receive Offload (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-514BC149-CDE7-4E07-A922-E3DFB663DC13.html)
• NetQueue and Networking Performance (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-6B708D13-145F-4DDA-BFB1-39BCC7CD0897.html)
• MAC Address Management (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-1C9C9FA5-2D2D-48DA-9AD5-110171E8FD36.html)
• Configuring vSphere for IPv6 (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-A01FC824-6C68-4E11-A5CD-7652A023D9BE.html)
• Multicast Filtering (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-9C4D2D07-74EC-46D3-99A5-D7C01B5AE811.html)
• Capturing and Tracing Network Packets by Using the pktcap-uw Utility (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-5CE50870-81A9-457E-BE56-C3FCEEF3D0D5.html)
• vSphere Distributed Switch Health Check (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-4A6C1E1C-8577-4AE6-8459-EEB942779A82.html)
• DVS backup and restore (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2034602)
• Switch Discovery Protocol CDP and LLDP (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-A1B145E9-6454-45C0-8E7E-71E04A3BC9FF.html)
• Networking Best Practices (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-B57FBE96-21EA-401C-BAA6-BDE88108E4BB.html)
• MAC Address Management (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-1C9C9FA5-2D2D-48DA-9AD5-110171E8FD36.html)