VMware Certified Professional - Digital Workspace 2018 Exam Guide
The VMware Certified Professional–Digital Workspace 2018 exam, identified as 2V0-761, was designed for candidates working with Workspace ONE and digital workspace solutions. Its preparation focus was practical: endpoint activation and registration, authentication, enterprise integrations, endpoint lifecycle management, mobility, unified endpoint management, and identity management. This guide first helps you make the most important decision: whether you are researching a historical certification or preparing for an exam that is still available. VMware announced that both the exam and VCP-DW 2018 certification retired on August 30, 2019, so current candidates should not treat this as an active scheduling target.
Is 2V0-761 still available?
No. VMware announced that the 2V0-761 VCP Digital Workspace 2018 Exam and the VMware Certified Professional–Digital Workspace 2018 certification would retire on August 30, 2019. That makes this page useful for historical research, legacy certification records, or understanding the skills associated with the 2018 path—not for booking a current exam appointment.
Do not use archived preparation material to infer a current VMware or Broadcom certification requirement. Exam registration, replacement credentials, current product versions, and active certification paths may differ. Before spending time or money on a study plan, locate the current certification information from the issuing organization and confirm that the credential you want is active.
What did the certification represent?
VCP-DW 2018 represented professional-level knowledge of VMware’s digital workspace approach, with Workspace ONE at its center. The 2018 certification-path document described the intended candidate as someone with experience using Workspace ONE and digital workspace solutions, while the associated preparation material emphasized implementation-oriented skills rather than product-name memorization.
The source material places Workspace ONE in a broader end-user-computing context. VMware described its digital workspace offering around Workspace ONE, powered by AirWatch, and Horizon, alongside unified endpoint management, security, user experience, and Windows delivery. This suggests that preparation needed to connect administration tasks to the wider workspace architecture rather than treating endpoint management as an isolated console exercise.
For a historical candidate profile, the credential was most relevant to administrators, consultants, implementation specialists, and support professionals responsible for mobile endpoints, identity, enterprise integration, or user access. The supplied sources do not define a formal job-role list, so these are practical audience categories inferred from the documented skill areas, not official eligibility labels.
What knowledge areas should preparation cover?
The supplied official sources do not provide a complete exam blueprint or domain-weight table. They do, however, identify a coherent set of skills: configuring and securing unified endpoint activation, registration, and authentication; integrating enterprise technologies with Workspace ONE; managing the endpoint lifecycle; and applying principles of enterprise mobility, unified endpoint management, and identity management.
Because no official percentages are supplied, do not assign weights to these areas or compare bare percentages. Treat the topics as a connected study scope. A candidate who can describe each term but cannot explain how the controls interact would have a weak implementation foundation.
A useful way to organize the historical scope is by operational sequence: first establish how a device and user enter the environment, then secure and authenticate that interaction, next connect Workspace ONE to enterprise systems, and finally manage the device throughout its lifecycle. That sequence mirrors real administrative decisions and reduces the temptation to study isolated vocabulary.
Activation, registration, and authentication
Start with the boundary between endpoint activation, registration, and authentication. Activation concerns bringing a device into the service; registration concerns associating the device with the management environment; authentication concerns proving the user or device identity before access is granted. Study the purpose of each stage and the security problem it addresses.
Build a written flow for a new device. Identify the initiating user action, the identity check, the management enrollment point, the policy decision, and the result when a check fails. Then create a second flow for a device that is already registered but whose user cannot authenticate. This comparison exposes whether you understand process relationships or are simply recalling labels.
Security should be part of the flow, not a separate afterthought. Ask what information is trusted at each stage, which service makes the decision, and what the administrator must verify when the expected result does not occur. The official workshop specifically highlighted configuring and securing unified endpoint activation, registration, and authentication.
Enterprise integration
Study Workspace ONE as part of an enterprise system, not as a standalone endpoint console. The official workshop addressed integrating industry-recognized enterprise technologies with Workspace ONE. Preparation should therefore focus on integration purpose, data or identity flow, administrative dependencies, and the effect of a failed connection.
For each integration you study, record five items: the business requirement, the systems involved, the information exchanged, the trust or authentication relationship, and the operational symptom of failure. This framework works better than collecting disconnected product features because it forces you to explain why the integration exists and how it affects user or device administration.
Use architecture sketches with arrows and short annotations. Mark which component owns identity, which component applies device policy, and which component supplies an application, directory, certificate, or other enterprise service. Keep the labels tied to the historical platform context; current product documentation may use different names or workflows.
Endpoint lifecycle management
Endpoint lifecycle management covers more than initial enrollment. The official workshop identified configuring and managing the endpoint lifecycle as a core learning outcome. Study the administrative decisions around bringing a device under management, maintaining its compliance and configuration, changing its ownership or status, and removing it safely when it is retired or no longer trusted.
Create a lifecycle checklist that begins before enrollment and ends after decommissioning. Include user identity, device ownership, policy assignment, application or resource access, compliance response, support handoff, and removal of organizational access. For every step, note what could create security exposure or unnecessary disruption.
A common mistake is to learn only the successful path. Add exception cases to your notes: a user changes devices, a device stops checking in, a registration attempt uses the wrong identity, or an endpoint must be removed while access to enterprise resources is still active. The point is not to predict a live question; it is to practice the reasoning expected of an administrator.
Mobility, UEM, and identity management
The workshop addressed principles of enterprise mobility, unified endpoint management, and identity management throughout the course. Prepare these as related operating concerns: mobility defines the user and device context, UEM provides a management model across endpoints, and identity management determines who or what receives access under stated conditions.
Avoid treating UEM as merely a longer list of device commands. Explain what a unified policy model is intended to simplify, which endpoint differences still matter, and how identity affects the assignment of configuration or resources. Then connect those explanations to the activation, authentication, integration, and lifecycle flows in your notes.
For identity scenarios, distinguish authentication from authorization in your own words. Authentication establishes identity; authorization determines what that identity may use. The supplied sources do not publish a detailed objective list, so keep this conceptual boundary grounded in the documented focus on authentication and identity management rather than inventing undocumented subdomains.
What did the required training path involve?
The 2018 certification-path document listed VMware Workspace ONE: Deploy and Manage as the required training course before the VCP-DW 2018 elective exam. It also described experience with Workspace ONE and digital workspace solutions as part of the path. These are historical requirements from the supplied document, not instructions that can be assumed to apply to a current credential.
This distinction matters because candidates often confuse a course recommendation with a formal requirement. For the 2018 path, the document explicitly showed required training. The separate VMware workshop article described an instructor-led preparation option, but that event should not be presented as the same thing as the required VMware Workspace ONE: Deploy and Manage course.
The document also stated that candidates had 90 days to complete the VCP after beginning the timeline shown. Treat that as a rule in the historical certification-path document. It should not be reused as a current deadline or as a general scheduling rule for another VMware or Broadcom certification.
How to use the course material
If you are studying the retired credential for historical or skills-development purposes, use Deploy and Manage material as a framework for understanding implementation tasks, then verify every product behavior against documentation from the relevant historical release. Do not assume that a current Workspace ONE interface or feature has the same terminology or workflow as the 2018 environment.
Read each lesson with three questions in mind: what problem does this configuration solve, what prerequisite must already exist, and how would an administrator verify the result? Write the answers in operational language. A short explanation of purpose and verification is more useful than a copied sequence of console clicks.
Where lab access is unavailable, replace it with design exercises. Draw the service relationships, write the expected enrollment or authentication sequence, and list the evidence you would collect during troubleshooting. This builds transferable reasoning without claiming that a simulation reproduces the retired exam.
How the workshop evidence can guide practice
VMware described a Workspace ONE Workshop using hands-on labs, simulations, and interactive lectures. The workshop covered unified endpoint activation, registration, authentication, enterprise integration, endpoint lifecycle management, mobility, UEM, and identity management. Those activities provide a sensible practice model for the historical objectives, even though the event itself was not the exam.
Use the workshop structure as a learning loop: hear the principle, configure or diagram the service, test the expected behavior, and explain the result. If you can only watch a demonstration, pause before the stated outcome and predict what should happen. Then record the difference between your prediction and the documented behavior.
Do not interpret workshop attendance as proof of exam readiness. Training can expose the right concepts, but readiness depends on whether you can apply them across unfamiliar scenarios. Measure yourself by explanations, diagrams, and troubleshooting decisions rather than by how quickly you can repeat a demonstration.
What is a practical study sequence?
Use a dependency-first sequence: establish the platform and identity model, learn activation and registration, add authentication and security decisions, study enterprise integrations, and finish with lifecycle operations and troubleshooting. This ordering prevents a frequent preparation error—memorizing administrative actions before understanding which service, identity, or policy makes the action meaningful.
Stage one: establish the architecture
Begin by writing a one-page map of the historical Workspace ONE environment you are studying. Include the endpoint, the user, the management service, identity components, enterprise systems, and the resources the user needs. Label each connection with its purpose instead of filling the page with product names.
Next, define the administrative boundaries. Which service manages the endpoint? Which service verifies identity? Which system provides a business application or directory record? What event causes a policy or access decision? If you cannot answer these questions, delay detailed configuration study until the architecture is clearer.
Keep a terminology sheet, but give every term a function and a relationship. For example, do not record only “registration”; record what registration establishes, what information it associates, and what later operation depends on it. This turns revision into retrieval practice rather than passive rereading.
Stage two: practice the enrollment and access flow
Work through a clean device-and-user scenario from activation to access. State the expected sequence before consulting notes. Then introduce one variable at a time: an unrecognized user, an unsuitable device state, a failed identity check, or a missing enterprise dependency. Explain which stage should stop the process and what an administrator should inspect.
Security decisions should be explicit. Note where authentication occurs, what is being protected, and how a policy result changes the outcome. Do not write vague statements such as “security is applied.” Name the checkpoint and the administrative evidence that would show whether it worked.
At the end of this stage, produce a troubleshooting table with columns for symptom, likely stage, evidence to inspect, and corrective direction. Keep it technology-specific where the documentation supports that detail, but do not fill gaps with guesses about undocumented exam behavior.
Stage three: connect enterprise services
Choose representative integration scenarios from the course or official historical documentation. For each one, explain the business purpose first and the configuration second. A useful answer should make clear why the integration is needed, what dependency it introduces, and what users or devices experience when it is unavailable.
Practice distinguishing configuration error from identity error and endpoint error. The same failed sign-in can originate in different parts of a digital workspace flow. Your notes should therefore describe the evidence that separates these possibilities, such as whether the device registered, whether the identity was accepted, and whether the required resource was assigned.
Finish by explaining the integration to someone who knows endpoint administration but not the particular enterprise service. If your explanation requires unexplained acronyms or a sequence of clicks with no reason, return to the architecture diagram and rewrite it in terms of roles and data flow.
Stage four: manage change and retirement
Use lifecycle scenarios to practice decisions after initial enrollment. Consider a device that changes hands, a user who loses access, a device that is no longer compliant, and an endpoint that must be retired. For each scenario, identify the access consequences, the management action, and the verification step.
Do not reduce lifecycle management to a wipe command. A complete answer considers organizational data, user continuity, policy state, application access, records, and the possibility that the endpoint is unavailable. The exact action depends on the historical configuration and business policy, so use the relevant course and product documentation for the supported procedure.
Review your lifecycle notes in reverse order as well as forward. Starting from decommissioning and asking what must have happened earlier often reveals missing dependencies, such as ownership, identity, or resource assignment. This reverse review is a practical way to test whether your model is complete.
How should you test your readiness?
Test readiness with closed-book scenario explanations, not recalled question sets. Choose an unfamiliar endpoint or access problem, draw the relevant flow, identify the likely control point, and state how you would verify the result. If your answer depends on memorizing an exact screen or undocumented answer, it is not a reliable measure of understanding.
Use explanation-based checks
For each major topic, write a short answer to four prompts: what is the objective, what is the normal sequence, what can fail, and what evidence confirms the diagnosis? Apply the prompts to activation, registration, authentication, enterprise integration, lifecycle management, mobility, UEM, and identity management.
Have a study partner challenge the order of your explanation. Ask them to remove one dependency or change one condition, then explain the new outcome. The Broadcom community thread shows that candidates sought study-group support for this exam, but the thread itself does not provide an exam blueprint or verified preparation material.
Score yourself on clarity and completeness rather than speed. A strong response identifies the component, the dependency, the security or management purpose, and the verification method. A weak response lists features without explaining when an administrator would use them.
Use labs without overclaiming exam similarity
Hands-on practice is valuable because the official workshop used labs and simulations, but no supplied source says that those activities reproduce the retired exam. Build or use a safe practice environment where you can observe enrollment, identity, policy, integration, and lifecycle behavior without affecting production systems.
Before each lab, write the expected result and the failure evidence you would look for. Afterward, record what actually happened, which assumption was wrong, and whether the result depended on a product version or configuration choice. This habit is more durable than copying a lab guide.
If you lack a lab, use configuration diagrams and troubleshooting runbooks as substitutes. Mark every statement as documented, observed in your environment, or an assumption to verify. That evidence discipline prevents outdated material from becoming false certainty.
Which preparation mistakes should you avoid?
The largest risk is preparing as if 2V0-761 were an active exam. The next is studying a product interface without understanding identity, integration, and lifecycle dependencies. Avoid both by checking status first, anchoring study to the historical course scope, and practicing complete operational flows instead of isolated commands.
Mistake: relying on dumps or recalled questions
Exam dumps, leaked questions, and memorized answer lists are not a substitute for official objectives or product understanding. They can be inaccurate, outdated, or unauthorized, and memorization does not guarantee passing. For a retired exam, the risk is even greater because old material may describe a version or policy that no longer exists.
Replace recall-based preparation with scenario work. Ask what an administrator is trying to achieve, which service participates, what security boundary matters, and how success is verified. This approach also avoids claiming access to live exam questions or suggesting that any question bank mirrors the former test.
Mistake: treating all requirements as current
The historical path required VMware Workspace ONE: Deploy and Manage before the elective exam and described a 90-day completion window in its timeline. Those details belong to the 2018 path document. Do not transfer them to a current credential, assume that the same course remains available, or schedule based on an archived rule.
Similarly, the retirement announcement is historical but decisive for this exam. Confirm the status of any replacement certification directly with the issuing organization before selecting resources. A current product course may be useful for skills, but usefulness does not make it a route to the retired credential.
Mistake: memorizing labels without relationships
A candidate may recognize activation, registration, authentication, UEM, and identity management as separate terms yet fail to explain their order or dependencies. Correct this by drawing the user-and-device journey and annotating every transition. Then add an exception path and state which evidence would distinguish one failure from another.
Another weak pattern is studying only successful enrollment. Lifecycle work includes ongoing management and removal, while enterprise integration introduces dependencies beyond the endpoint console. Include those areas in every review cycle so that your preparation reflects the documented implementation emphasis.
What should you do next?
First, decide whether your goal is historical research or a current certification. If it is current certification, stop using 2V0-761 as a booking target and verify the active replacement path. If it is historical or skills-based study, assemble the 2018 path document, the Workspace ONE: Deploy and Manage material, and product documentation matching the version you are examining.
A focused action checklist
Confirm the retired status and record the exam code, 2V0-761, only as a historical identifier. Then create an objective map using the documented themes: activation and registration, authentication and security, enterprise integration, endpoint lifecycle, mobility, UEM, and identity management. Do not add unsupported domain percentages.
Build one architecture diagram and four scenario exercises: new-device onboarding, failed authentication, enterprise integration failure, and endpoint retirement. For each, include the expected sequence, the control point, the evidence to inspect, and the corrective direction. Review the exercises without notes and revise any answer that relies on unexplained terminology.
Finally, check whether your sources describe the historical product release accurately. Keep current platform features separate from 2018 exam research, and label any practical recommendation as a recommendation rather than an official requirement. That separation will make your study notes more trustworthy and prevent a retired credential from driving the wrong career or scheduling decision.
How to use this page on Dumpsarena.co
Use this guide as a decision and study-planning aid, not as a source of purported exam questions. Its most important conclusion is status-related: VMware announced retirement of the exam and certification on August 30, 2019. The remaining preparation advice is intended to organize the official historical skill themes into practical learning and troubleshooting exercises.
When you compare other preparation pages, look for the same evidence standard. A credible resource should identify the exam code accurately, distinguish historical requirements from current ones, avoid unsupported question claims, and explain how Workspace ONE concepts connect across identity, endpoint management, integrations, and lifecycle operations.
Conclusion
VCP-DW 2018 and 2V0-761 are historical credentials, not current exam targets, because VMware announced their retirement on August 30, 2019. For research or legacy skills, the strongest preparation model is operational: understand the Workspace ONE architecture, trace activation through registration and authentication, explain enterprise integrations, and manage the endpoint lifecycle with security and identity in view. Before taking any next step, verify the active certification path from the issuing organization and keep archived 2018 requirements separate from present-day training or scheduling information.
