Useful breakdown, especially the note that this replaces 2V0-11.25. A few people in my team were still studying against the old blueprint and didn't realise until late.
Passed this one in July so I'll add what actually mattered for me rather than repeat the objectives.
The domain weightings undersell how much of the exam sits in the deploy and operate section. It reads like one bucket of four, but in practice a large share of the questions are scenario style: here's the current state, what's the correct next action. Knowing what a component does isn't enough, you need to know the order things happen in.
Lifecycle sequencing was my weak point. Which component updates first, what depends on what, when a bundle targets the management domain versus a workload domain. I understood every piece individually and still got these wrong repeatedly, because four plausible orderings look identical when you're rushing. Writing the dependency chain out from memory every few days is what finally fixed it.
Second thing that caught me was NSX in the VCF context specifically. Edge cluster placement and what gets deployed automatically during workload domain creation. Different from knowing NSX standalone.
Also agree with the prerequisite list in the post, particularly DNS, NTP and certificates. Those look like trivia until you hit a bringup failure scenario question and realise the whole answer hinges on one of them.
On preparation, the official exam guide and Hands-on Labs are the right foundation, no argument. My problem was the same one a lot of people have: finishing the course made me feel ready when I was only familiar. Reading tells you what you've seen, questions tell you what you actually know.
What closed that gap for me was mock tests. A colleague pointed me at Validexamdumps and doing timed sets did two useful things. It exposed lifecycle and NSX placement as genuine weak spots I'd have sworn were fine, and it got my pace up, since early on I was burning far too long just parsing the scenario wording. On the day I finished with time left to review flagged questions instead of scrambling through the last ten.
The one point in the post I'd emphasise harder is starting question practice early. Week one, not week five. I left it too late and spent weeks in passive study feeling productive without testing anything.
Good luck to anyone booked in.