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Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)

Standardize your team on Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) with a structured VMware training path — team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
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Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (VMware)
$250
Courses on path
1
Official source
VMware’s official exam page
Exam code
  • 2V0-41.24

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
No formal prerequisites
Recommended experience
6-12 months of experience with VMware NSX
Recertification
Indefinite
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$250

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) path takes 2V0-41.24.

  1. 2V0-41.24Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)
    Exam fee
    $250
    Exam length
    135 minutes
    Questions
    55
    Passing score
    300

    Exam blueprint: 2V0-41.24

Skills your team builds

Network virtualizationVMware NSXNetwork securityTroubleshootingNetwork design

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    VCP-NV 2025

    This VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization 2025 (VCP-NV 2025) training covers how to configure, deploy, and manage VMware NSX environments. Master VMware network virtualization and you open doors to jobs that will have you revolutionizing network infrastructure and enhancing operational efficiency. Businesses are increasingly relying on virtualization, and VMware is reliably at the heart of most of those ventures.

    Keith Barker
    284 videos34h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Per-team completion reporting

VMware career ladder

Where Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) sits in your team's VMware progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Professional level

    4 certs

    Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

    2V0-21.23

    Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)

    2V0-41.24

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    VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator (VCP-VVF Admin)

    2V0-16.25

    VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support)

    2V0-18.25

Customer outcome

Build VCP-NV capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see VMware skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make VCP-NV a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on VCP-NV gives leadership a clear picture of VMware skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)

Exam
  • 2V0-41.24

Frequently asked questions about Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) training for their team.

How does Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

IT leaders often cite VCP-NV when documenting that the engineers who manage NSX segmentation, distributed firewall rules and gateway policy hold a vendor-validated credential. CBT Nuggets team reporting adds per-learner progress, completion and completion exports for audit evidence, while your auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential maps to your framework.

Who on the team should hold Network Virtualization (VCP-NV), and what can a certified team own?

VCP-NV fits the network and virtualization engineers who run the VMware NSX layer of the data center. The linked course covers deploying the NSX management cluster, host transport nodes, overlay segments and Edge node VMs, building Tier-0 and Tier-1 routing with OSPF and BGP for external connectivity, and configuring NAT, DHCP, the distributed firewall with context profiles and the gateway firewall. A certified team can own NSX deployment, routing and east-west security policy instead of escalating those changes.

What does CBT Nuggets Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to VMware's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)?

The linked live courses add up to about 34 hours of video per engineer. Actual time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point with NSX and routing, so IT leaders typically assign the course with a target date and track completion in team reporting before engineers schedule the 2V0-41.24 exam.

What if VMware updates the Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates VMware course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When VMware restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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