An administrator is informed that a digital certificate used by vSphere has been revoked by the issuing Certificate Authority (CA) before the scheduled expiration date. The administrator checks the…

Question

Options

• ASelect the External Event Based Active Symptoms under Global Settings.
• BSelect the Activate Standard Certificate Validation under Global Settings.
• CSet the Threshold For Adapters Certificate Expiration Alert to 6 under Global Settings.
• DThe CRL tab is not available when VCF Operations is licensed under vSphere Foundation.

• A
  7% (2)
• B
  86% (25)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Activating Standard Certificate Validation in Global Settings is required because CRL checking is a certificate validation feature that must be explicitly enabled - VMware does not activate it by default, and the CRL tab only appears in the UI once this validation mode is turned on. Option A is wrong because "External Event Based Active Symptoms" relates to triggering alerts from external events, not certificate validation infrastructure. Option C is wrong because the certificate expiration threshold controls when alerts fire about upcoming expirations, not whether revocation checking is enabled at all. Option D is wrong because CRL functionality is a feature of VCF Operations itself and is not license-gated by vSphere Foundation.

Memory tip: Think of it as a two-step unlock - you can't check revocation (CRL tab) until you activate validation (Standard Certificate Validation). "Validate first, then view" - the tab only appears after the feature switch is flipped in Global Settings.

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