Personal Test

An administrator is planning a vSphere infrastructure with the following specific networking requirements:
• The ability to shape inbound (RX) traffic

• Support for Private VLANs (PVLANs)
• Support for LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
What is the minimum vSphere Edition that will support these requirements?

• Essentials Plus

• Standard

• Enterprise

• Enterprise Plus

What two IT infrastructure components are virtualized by vSphere Essentials? (Choose two)

• Networks

• Applications

• Storage

• Management

An administrator attempts to install vCenter Single Sign-On Server. The installer returns an error message indicating that the installation failed. Prior to the installation, all setup prerequisites were met. The administrator has generated a vCenter Server Single Sign-On support bundle.
Which two files should the administrator analyze to determine the cause of the failure? (Choose two)

• Server\utils\logs\imsTrace.log

• Server\utils\logs\install.txt

• %TEMP%\utils\logs\vminst.log

• %TEMP%\vminst.log

Which Single Sign-On deployment mode should an administrator use for two 5.x vCenter Servers configured with linked mode?

• Basic Single Sign-On with vCenter Server Heartbeat

• Multisite Single Sign-On

• Basic Single Sign-On

• Single Sign-On with Linked Mode

An administrator is upgrading a vSphere Distributed Switch. The existing switch is version 5.0 and the administrator wants to upgrade to the latest version possible. The environment contains several ESXi 5.1 hosts.
Which two options are available to ensure that the upgraded switch will be compatible with these hosts? (Choose two)

• Upgrade the vSphere Distributed Switch to 5.5

• Upgrade the ESXi 5.1 hosts to version 5.5, then upgrade the vSphere Distributed Switch to 5.5

• Upgrade the vSphere Distributed Switch to 5.1

• Upgrade the ESXi host switches to 5.5, then upgrade the vSphere Distributed Switch to 5.5

Which two Identity Sources are available to add for vCenter Single Sign-On authentication? (Choose two)

• LocalOS

• OpenLDAP

• NIS as an LDAP Server

• VCMSDS

A small company wants to use VMware products for its production systems. The system administrator needs to recommend a solution that will deliver High Availability to the company's production applications.
What is the minimum vSphere offering that will support this requirement?

• vSphere Essentials

• vSphere Essentials Plus

• vSphere Hypervisor

• vSphere Standard

A developer needs to create a multi-tier development stack for a home lab.
Which vSphere product will support the architecture required for the least software cost?

• vSphere Hypervisor

• vSphere Essentials

• VMware Player


• VMware Workstation

An administrator is unable to login to vCenter Server when using the vSphere web client. The administrator successfully accessed vCenter Server using the client earlier the same day.
What is the most appropriate first step the administrator should take to resolve this issue?

• Verify the web browser being used has Adobe Flash plugin version 11.5 or later

• Verify the vCenter Single Sign-On service is running on the vCenter Server

• Verify the vSphere Web Server service is running on the vCenter Server

• Verify the administrator has permissions configured in vCenter Server

What is a valid plug-in status for a plug-in that has been added to a vSphere client?

• Disabled

• Unknown

• Stopped

• Installed

An administrator is evaluating whether to deploy vCenter Server on a Windows server or on a vCenter Server appliance. The administrator has the following requirements:
• A web browser will be utilized to manage the vSphere environment.

• 16 ESXi hosts will be deployed.
• Licenses must be shared with a vCenter Server at another site.

• An external Oracle 10g database server will be used to host the vCenter Server database.
Why will the administrator need to deploy vCenter Server on a Windows server?

• Linked Mode is a requirement for the solution

• Oracle 10g is a requirement for the solution

• The vSphere web client is a requirement for the solution

• Management of more than 5 hosts is a requirement for the solution

Immediately after installing ESXi, an administrator observes that the Configure Lockdown Mode option is grayed out in the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI).
What is the most likely explanation?

• The host has not yet been added to a vCenter Server

• The BIOS on the host does not have NX/XD enabled

• The ESXi host is running in evaluation mode

• The host requires a reboot before this feature is available

During the installation of ESXi 5.5, the following error message is reported:
Hardware Virtualization is not a feature of the CPU, or is not enabled in the BIOS.
Which condition would generate this message?

• LAHF/SAHF is not enabled in the BIOS

• NX/XD is not enabled in the BIOS.
C. SSE3 is not enabled in the BIOS

• Hyperthreading is not enabled in the BIOS

• SSE3 is not enabled in the BIOS

During an upgrade, the ESXi 5.x installer finds an existing version of ESXi and a VMFS3 volume. No virtual machines exist on the host or VMFS3 volume. The requirement is to upgrade to VMFS5.
Which option should be chosen to meet this requirement?

• Upgrade ESXi and preserve the VMFS datastore

• Install ESXi and preserve the VMFS datastore

• Install ESXi and overwrite the VMFS datastore

• Upgrade ESXi and overwrite the VMFS datastore

What happens to the status of users already logged into ESXi Shell when a vSphere administrator enables lockdown mode?

• Users remain logged in and can run commands, except to disable lockdown mode

• Users remain logged in and can run commands, including disabling lockdown mode

• Users are immediately logged out of ESXi Shell

• Users are logged out after a timeout specified by the vSphere administrator

An administrator creates an ESXi cluster using vSphere Auto Deploy. The ESXi hosts are configured to get a management IP address from a DHCP server. The administrator needs to troubleshoot the management network on one of the hosts. Which DCUI option should the administrator use to renew the DHCP lease?

• Restart Management Network

• Restore Network Settings

• Test Management Network

• Configure Management Network

An administrator creates an ESXi cluster using vSphere Auto Deploy. The ESXi hosts are configured to get a management IP address from a DHCP server. The administrator needs to troubleshoot the management network on one of the hosts. Which DCUI option should the administrator use to renew the DHCP lease?

• Restart Management Network

• Restore Network Settings

• Test Management Network

• Configure Management Network

To comply with security requirements, an administrator with a vCenter Server Appliance needs to force logoff of the vSphere web client after 10 minutes of inactivity.
What should the administrator do to meet the requirement?

• Edit: /var/lib/vmware/vsphere-client/webclient.properties, modify session.timeout=10

• Edit: /opt/vmware/vsphere-client/webclient.properties, modify session.timeout=600

• Edit: /var/lib/vmware/vsphere-client/webclient.properties modify session.timeout=600

• Edit: /opt/vmware/vsphere-client/webclient.properties, modify session.timeout=10

As part of a multisite Single Sign-On (SSO) deployment what two steps are required to ensure that a change to one Single Sign-On instance is propagated to the other instances? (Choose two)

• Schedule a Replication Task on the primary instance

• Select the first instance during the installation of subsequent instances

• During the installation of each instance choose Linked-Mode

• Enable Synchronize to Active Directory on each instance

Which statement is true regarding the licensing of vCenter Server?

• The license for vCenter Server must be provided at the time of installation

• Changing the license assigned to vCenter Server requires a restart of the vCenter Server service

• Virtual machines can still be powered on if the vCenter Server license expire

• Licensing for a single vCenter Server installation is determined by the number of managed virtual machines

A vSphere administrator has been using vSphere in evaluation mode and now wants to deploy an environment that provides the same features.
Which edition of vSphere provides similar functionality to evaluation mode?

• Enterprise Plus

• Enterprise

• Standard

• Essentials

An administrator is re-provisioning an ESXi host and moving it to another datacenter.
Which DCUI option should the administrator use to revert the system configuration to the default settings?

• Reset System Configuration


• Rebuild Default System Configuration

• Revert System Configuration

• Renew Default System Configuration

An administrator is preparing to install an additional Single Sign-On node on a stand-alone server. What information is required during the installation routine?

• Active Directory domain name and credentials

• System DSN


• Lookup Service URL

• Partner Host Name

Which Web service is installed during the vCenter Server installation?

• Internet Information Service (IIS)

• WEBrick

• Tomcat Web server

• LiteSpeed Web server

A large aerospace company utilizes a mission critical application requiring a large database server with 16 vCPUs and 500GB of RAM. Because of the critical nature of the application, the company also wants to leverage Reliable Memory Technology.
What is the minimum edition of vSphere that will support this scenario?

• vSphere Standard Edition

• vSphere with Operations Management Standard Edition

• vSphere Enterprise Edition

• vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Edition

A large medical institution needs to centralize malware and anti-virus scanning in its environment. Which vSphere component will satisfy this requirement?

• vShield Endpoint


• vCloud Network and Security

• vSphere Data Protection Advanced

• vCenter Operations Manager

An administrator is setting up a new vSphere environment for application development with health monitoring and capacity management. The administrator has purchased three servers for the initial install. The administrator is NOT planning to grow the environment and needs to keep costs as low as possible.
Which vSphere kit should the administrator use to meet these requirements?

• vSphere Essentials Kit

• vSphere Essentials Plus Kit

• vSphere with Operations Management Standard Acceleration Kit

• vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Acceleration Kit

What is the correct order to install vCenter Server 5.x components?

• vCenter Single Sign-On, Inventory Service, vCenter Server

• vCenter Server, vCenter Single Sign-On, Inventory Service

• vCenter Server, Inventory Service, vCenter Single Sign-On

• vCenter Single Sign-On, vCenter Server, Inventory Service

An administrator needs to continue using ESXi after the 60-day evaluation period expires. The administrator has obtained a valid license from VMware.
Which step must the administrator take to deploy the license?

• Add the license to the ESXi host

• Perform an in-place upgrade of the free vSphere Hypervisor to the paid version

• Add the ESXi host to a licensed vCenter Server

• Re-install the host with standard ESXi and the obtained license

How should a vSphere administrator disable memory compression?

• Attach a vSphere Client to an ESXi host and edit the Mem.MemZipEnable advanced setting

• Connect to vCenter Server using the vSphere Client and edit the virtual machine. Insert the Mem.MemZipDisable option and set the value to True

• Connect a vSphere Client to vCenter Server and configure the Memory Compression setting from the Administration menu

• Reboot the ESXi host and disable memory compression in the BIOS under Advanced Settings

Which installation method is not available for a new deployment of ESXi 5.x?

• Update Manager installation

• Text-based interactive installation

• Scripted installation

• Auto Deploy installation

The oncall system administrator has made a change on the ESXi host requiring a restart of the management network. Lockdown mode is enabled.
Which action should the administrator take to restart the management network?

• Use the vSphere client to enable local authentication services, then logon directly to the ESXi Shell and run services mgmt-vmware restart

• Use an SSH client to logon to the command line and run services mgmt-vmware restart

• Use the vSphere client to enable the DCUI and then logon to the ESXi Shell and use the menu to restart the management network

• Logon directly to the DCUI and use the menu to restart the management network

An administrator is attempting to use Update Manager to patch a cluster of ESXi 5.x hosts.
The administrator needs to stage the patches for a scheduled update after hours. When verifying the hosts after the scheduled upgrade, the administrator determines that one of the hosts was not remediated and patches are not staged. The host is using PXE as its boot method.
What condition would cause this behavior?

• The host was rebooted prior to the scheduled remediation

• Remediating PXE-booted hosts using Update Manager is unsupported

• The user account used does NOT have the Remediate Hosts privilege

• The RAMdisk on the host has insufficient capacity

Which VLAN configuration requires switch connectivity defined as an access port?

• Private VLAN

• External Switch Tagging

• Virtual Guest Tagging

• Virtual Switch Tagging

A vSphere Standard Switch is configured with two uplinks.
When adjusting the failover order of the uplinks, what are two valid states in which an administrator can place the uplinks? (Choose two)

• Active

• Unused

• Passive

• Disabled

An administrator determines that a vSphere Standard Switch is dropping all inbound frames to a specific virtual machine. The behavior appeared in the last two days. Which configuration setting, if changed during this timeframe, would result in this behavior?

• MAC address changes

• Forged Transmit

• Traffic Shaping

• Jumbo Frames

Which two network settings are available on a vSphere Standard Switch? (Choose two)

• Ingress traffic shaping

• Egress traffic shaping

• Private Virtual Local Area Networks (PVLAN)

• Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN)

A security team is validating policy settings in a vSphere environment.
By default, which security policy is set to reject on a vSphere Standard Switch?

• Promiscuous mode

• MAC address changes

• Forged transmit

• Use explicit failover

A vSphere administrator upgrades a version 5.1.0 vSphere Distributed Switch to version 5.5.0. Another vSphere administrator, unaware of this change, tries to add an ESXi version 5.1.0 host to the switch and fails.
What is causing this addition of the ESXi host to fail?

• The upgraded switch supports version 5.5 ESXi hosts only

• The upgraded switch must be set up for backwards compatibility

• The switch failed to upgrade properly

• A version 5.5 ESXi host must be added to the switch before the 5.1 host.

A vSphere administrator creates a new vSphere Distributed Switch. The administrator receives notice from the service desk that a cluster of vSphere hosts has disconnected from vCenter Server. This disconnect occurred immediately after the new switch was created.
• This vSphere Distributed Switch is the only distributed switch managed by vCenter.

• The virtual machines are still functional and the applications are still accessible by end users.
On the ESXi hosts, which step must the vSphere administrator take to allow vCenter Server to reconnect?

• Use the Direct Console User Interface to reattach the management vmnic to the appropriate switch

• Use the Direct Console User Interface to disable lockdown mode on each affected host

• Use the ESXi Shell to restart the mgmt-vmware service on each affected host

• Use the ESXi Shell to restart the vSphere Web Client service on each affected host

A vSphere administrator is administering a vSphere Distributed Switch port group using the vSphere Web Client. The port group was configured using Static binding, but the number of ports must increase as virtual machines are added to the port group.
Which port allocation setting should the administrator use to achieve this goal?

• Elastic

• Dynamic

• Fixed

• Manual

An administrator is deploying vSphere 5.5. The administrator creates a vSphere Distributed Switch, then uses Auto Deploy to deploy several ESXi hosts. After the hosts are deployed, the administrator notices that LACP packets are not being sent between them.
Which condition would cause this issue to occur?

• The LACP support settings do not exist in the Host Profile

• The LACP installation bundle is not included in the Image Profile

• The LACP setting is not enabled on vCenter Server

• LACP has not been configured on the Auto Deploy server

A virtual machine is receiving a large number of network packets, which is affecting the performance of other virtual machines connected to the same virtual network.
What should the vSphere administrator do to resolve the issue?

• Migrate the virtual machine to a standard switch that has been configured for ingress traffic shaping

• Configure the distributed switch to which the virtual machine is connected for ingress traffic shaping

• Migrate the virtual machine to a different port group on the same distributed switch

• Enable Network I/O Control on the standard switch to which the virtual machine is connected

A system administrator has an application installed on a physical machine that is licensed to the MAC address of the physical NIC. This system needs to be virtualized.
What two methods could an administrator use to ensure the license will function in the virtual machine? (Choose two)

• Manually set the MAC address for the vNIC in the guest OS


• Install the NIC from the physical server into the ESXi host

• Manually set the MAC address for the vNIC using the Web Client

• Configure the physical server's MAC address in the virtual switch

Why would an administrator be unable to locate an IP address for a vSphere vmnic uplink?

• IP addresses are defined at the virtual nic level, not the vmnic level

• ESXi host vmnics communicate with physical switches on layer

• ESXi hosts use NAT translation to mask the actual vmnic IP address

• The IP address of the vmnic is not shown in the vSphere Client

A network auditing team has observed activity from a virtual machine that may be an organization policy security breach. The vSphere administrator needs to stop network traffic from the virtual machine.
Which step should the administrator take?

• Enable Port Blocking on the vSphere Standard Switches in the organization and block the port on which the virtual machine is connected

• Enable Port Blocking on each vSphere Standard Switch portgroup in the organization, then block the port on which the virtual machine is connected

• Enable Port Blocking on each vSphere Distributed Switch portgroup in the organization, then block the port on which the virtual machine is connected

• Enable Port Blocking on the vSphere Distributed Switches in the organization and block the port on which the virtual machine is connected

An application administrator reports application slowness when loading the application's web portal. The virtual machine is currently connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch. The application owner requests information about the virtual machine's network traffic.
Which feature of a vSphere Distributed Switch should the administrator use to gather the needed information?

• NetFlow

• Port Mirroring

• Network I/O Control

• Promiscuous Mode

A vSphere administrator has created a vSphere Standard Switch with one virtual machine port group and one physical uplink. The administrator needs to ensure that the virtual machines on this port group can communicate only with each other.
What should the administrator do?

• Remove the physical uplink from the vSphere Standard Switch

• Create a Private VLAN and apply it to the virtual machine port group on the vSphere Standard Switch

• Enable Port Security on the vSphere Standard Switch

• Enable the Fenced setting on the virtual machine port group

A vSphere administrator needs to add redundancy to an ESXi 5.x management network on a vSphere Standard Switch.
Which method should the administrator use to create redundant management networks?

• Configure the management network vSwitch with two active uplinks

• Configure an additional management portgroup on the same vSwitch

• Create a second management network on a second vSwitch in the same subnet

• Create a second management network on the same vSwitch in the same subnet

An administrator is building a new vSphere Standard Switch with two active uplinks. The physical switch ports for these uplinks are placed in an etherchannel.
Which load balancing policy should the administrator use to support the etherchannel configuration?

• Route based on IP hash

• Route based on the originating virtual port

• Route based on source MAC hash

• Route based on physical NIC load

Which two traffic types can be enabled on the VMkernel adapters of an ESXi 5.5 host using the vSphere Web Client? (Choose two)

• Fault Tolerance Traffic

• Virtual SAN Traffic

• iSCSI Traffic


• Virtual Machine Traffic

An organization is designing a new vSphere cluster to support a new product implementation.
The following challenges have been identified by the vSphere administration team:
• The organization has the vSphere Enterprise License.
• The network team needs to gather virtual machine network statistics over a long period of time.
• The network team needs the ability to quickly assess virtual machine traffic in the event of an attack.
• The network team has previously had problems implementing manual etherchannel configurations on their physical switches, resulting in production outages.
• The new cluster's initial size is 15 hosts.
The organization is willing to upgrade to vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing if it addresses these challenges.
Which three features of a version 5.5 vSphere Distributed Switch would address these challenges? (Choose three)

• LACP in Dynamic Mode

• Port Mirroring

• Network vMotion

• Private VLANs

• Network I/O Control

An administrator needs to deploy a vSphere solution containing a number of hosts and a vSphere Distributed Switch.
Which steps should the administrator take to accomplish this?

• Create the vSphere Distributed Switch, deploy the ESXi hosts, and then add each host to the switch

• Deploy the ESXi hosts, create an HA/DRS cluster containing the hosts, create the vSphere Distributed Switch, and then add the cluster to the switch

• Create the vSphere Distributed Switch and as each ESXi host is deployed it will be automatically added to the switch

• Deploy the ESXi hosts and then create the vSphere Distributed Switch on the hosts

An administrator is migrating 135 virtual machines from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed switch. The migration reports an error and only some of the virtual machines are transferred.
What is causing the error to occur?

• The vSphere Distributed Switch was created with a single, default port group.


• The switch has become disconnected from an ESXi host

• The port group on the vSphere Distributed Switch was not configured with an Elastic port binding.


• The virtual machine that failed to transfer did not have a network adapter

An administrator needs to deploy several virtual machines. Storage contention between the virtual machines should be managed by the VMkernel. Some of the virtual machines will use MSCS and should be highly available across the ESXi 5.5 hosts.
Which two storage options meet these requirements? (Choose two)

• iSCSI

• NFS

• Fibre Channel

• vSAN

Which two precautions should a vSphere administrator take before increasing the size of a VMFS datastore? (Choose two)

• Unmount the datastore

• Perform a rescan to ensure that all hosts see the most current storage

• Quiesce I/O on all disks involved

• Shut down all virtual machines stored in the datastore

An administrator is installing ESXi on several hosts attached to iSCSI storage.
Why would the administrator detach the host from the IP storage network prior to installation?

• It decreases the time the installer needs to search for available disk drives

• It allows the installation of a generic VAAI component for IP storage

• It prevents ESXi from installing vSphere Flash Cache to the IP storage

• It is required when installing ESXi onto a physical server that utilizes IP storage

Which two statements are true regarding a new vSphere deployment that is using software FCoE boot from SAN? (Choose two)

• Multi-pathing options must be configured by the vmkernel after boot

• The adapter must support iBFT or UEFI

• The adapter must support FBFT or FBPT

• Multi-pathing options must be configured in the Boot ROM

What should an administrator do to configure multi-pathing using software iSCSI?

• Bind the VMkernel ports to the software iSCSI initiator

• Configure Zoning between the hosts and SAN switches

• Configure NIC teaming on the associated uplinks

• Ensure jumbo frames are enabled end-to-end

The current block size of a datastore in VMFS3 is 4MB. An administrator needs to upgrade the datastore to VMFS5 and wants to change it to 1MB block size.
Which action should the administrator take?

• Upgrade the datastore to VMFS 5. Select the 1MB block size option during the upgrade

• Create a new VMFS5 datastore with a 1MB block size. Migrate all virtual machines from the existing datastore to the new datastore, then delete the VMFS3 datastore

• Upgrade the datastore to VMFS5. Use vmkfstools to change the block size on the upgraded datastore

• Create a new VMFS5 datastore with a 1MB block size. Migrate all virtual machines from the existing datastore to the new datastore. Upgrade the virtual machine hardware on the migrated VMs, then delete the VMFS3 datastore

An administrator is creating a new VMFS volume and needs to make it available to all hosts within a datacenter using the Web Client.
What should the administrator scan for in order to meet this requirement?

• New Storage Devices and LUNs

• New Storage Devices and VMFS Volumes

• New VMFS Volumes and Datastores


• New VMFS Volumes and LUNs

An administrator attempts to delete a Storage Policy and receives an error.
Which two object types, if assigned a Storage Policy, would prevent the Storage Policy from being deleted? (Choose two)

• A virtual machine

• A virtual disk

• A datastore

• A datastore cluster

An administrator has configured hardware acceleration for a Fibre Channel storage array. After a recent maintenance event, the administrator finds that cloning and migration operations are taking excessively long to complete.
Which two settings could cause hardware acceleration to become disabled? (Choose two)

• VAAI Plugin Name = VMW_VAAIP_SYM

• VAAI Plugin Name = VMW_VAAIP_NETAPP

• VMFS3.HardwareAcceleratedLocking = 0

• Datamover.HardwareAcceleratedInit = 0

A VMFS5 datastore shows several errors, which suggests file system corruption. Which tool could a vSphere administrator use to check the VMFS file system?

• vSphere On-disk Metadata Analyzer (VOMA)

• VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant (VIMA)

• vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)

• VMware vSphere Health Check Analyzer (VHCA)

A Windows Server 2008 virtual machine with the following configuration receives an Out of Space condition indicator:
• The virtual machine uses thin provisioned virtual disks.

• The VMFS5 datastore on which the virtual machine's files reside is on a thin provisioned LUN.
• 30% of the VMFS datastore content is no longer needed.

• The storage array supports VASA and VAAI.
Which action should the vSphere administrator take to resolve the Out of Space problem without requesting additional space on the storage array?

• Delete unneeded files on the VMFS datastore and then use vmkfstools to reclaim deleted blocks

• Delete unneeded files on the VMFS datastore, right-click the datastore in vSphere Web Client, and then select the Reclaim Deleted Blocks option

• Delete some files from the guest OS and defrag its file system

• Delete some files from the guest OS and use vmkfstools to reclaim the deleted blocks

What are two features provided by VMFS5? (Choose two)

• Support for greater than 2TB storage devices for only VMFS and Physical RDMs

• Support for up to 32 extents

• Support for greater than 2TB storage devices for VMFS, Physical and Virtual RDMs

• Support for up to 64 extents

During the installation of ESXi, a vmkernel interface can be configured with what capabilities?

• Management traffic


• Management traffic and vMotion

• Management traffic, vMotion and Fault Tolerance logging

• Management traffic, vMotion, Fault Tolerance logging and IP storage

A server administrator reports that a virtual machine has displayed the following message twice in the past 12 months:
No boot device found
Which virtual machine boot option should the administrator configure to resolve this issue?

• Failed Boot Recovery

• Force BIOS Setup

• Boot Delay

• Network Boot Retry

An administrator is using vSphere Replication to replicate a number of virtual machines to a recovery site. The administrator plans on enabling Storage DRS on the production site, which is running vSphere 5.5. What changes must be made in order to support this configuration?

• Storage DRS can be added to the existing configuration without any configuration changes

• Disable Storage DRS on the virtual machines utilizing vSphere Replication

• Change the Recovery Point Objective for the replicated virtual machines to support the additional synchronization time

• Storage DRS cannot be used in conjunction with vSphere Replication

Which condition would prevent an administrator from unmounting a VMFS datastore?

• The datastore is being managed by Storage DRS.

• The datastore contains vCenter Server templates

• The datastore is mounted by multiple hosts

• The storage backing the datastore is detached

A system administrator needs to control the allocation of memory and CPU resources to an organization's Finance team. The vSphere environment is built on a single cluster of ESXi hosts.
Which feature can be used to accomplish this task?

• Resource Pool Reservations

• DRS set to Fully Automated

• Virtual Machine Shares

• DRS Virtual Machine Groups

An administrator is planning a new vSphere deployment using shared storage. The solution must support:
• vMotion

• Storage vMotion

• Fault Tolerant virtual machines
• VAAI primitives
• RDM disks
Which storage type will meet these requirements?

• CIFS

• iSCSI

• NFS

• vSAN

Which information can the administrator use to identify iSCSI nodes?

• MAC address

• IQN

• WWN

• LUN ID

Which action should an administrator take to increase the size of a VMFS5 datastore from 2TB to 32TB?

• Dynamically expand the original LUN and add a second share for the NFS datastore

• Dynamically expand the original LUN and increase the size of the VMFS datastore

• Dynamically expand the original LUN and add extents to the VMFS datastore

• Dynamically expand the original LUN and add extents to the NFS datastore

A user has submitted a trouble ticket complaining that the email server VM has become very sluggish. After looking at the logs, the vSphere administrator suspects the iSCSI network is experiencing congestion.
What esxtop statistic should the administrator examine in order to validate that the guest OS is experiencing performance degradation?

• GAVG/wr

• %ACTV

• PATH

• PKTRXMUL/s

A new LUN has been created on an iSCSI array and assigned to an ESXi 5.x server . However, when the administrator logs in to the vSphere Web Client the LUN is not visible. Other LUNs on the iSCSI array are visible.
What should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

• Rescan for the new storage device


• Ensure the LUN is zoned correctly

• Add the new LUN to the Static Discovery list

• Ensure the CHAP settings are correctly configured

A new LUN from an existing storage array is presented to a vSphere cluster. A vSphere administrator determines that the LUN is visible on all but one ESXi host in the cluster. The affected host is able to see existing LUNs presented from the same storage array.
What is the most likely cause?

• LUN Masking is improperly configured on the storage array

• The SAN fabric is improperly zoned.

• The ESXi host has NOT been rebooted

• The HBA in the host is incompatible with ESXi

An administrator has configured multi-pathing using an Fiber Channel array in an active-active configuration.
What is the expected behavior of an ESXi host when a failed preferred path becomes available using the Fixed path selection policy for this array type?

• It automatically reverts to the preferred path

• It continues using the current path until it is manually reverted

• It resumes load balancing across all available paths

• It reverts to the preferred path after the host has been restored and rebooted

An administrator is deploying vSphere using a NAS device as the shared storage system. The administrator has already created a VMkernel port, enabled the NFS client, and configured a mount point accessible to the hosts.
Which additional configuration is required before the datastore can be used to create virtual machines?

• The ESXi hosts must have root access to the datastore

• The NAS must support NFS version 4

• Port binding must be configured on the VMkernel port

• The MTU on the VMkernel port must be set to 9000

An administrator is considering using NPIV to assign WWNs to virtual machines. Virtual machine portability is a major concern.
Why would NPIV be inappropriate for this deployment?

• Virtual machines using NPIV must use DirectPath I/O

• Storage vMotion is not supported using NPIV

• vMotion is not supported using NPIV

• Enabling NPIV requires SR-IOV supported hardware

An administrator of a secure environment needs to add an iSCSI target to a new ESXi host using the vSphere client. The administrator has configured discovery and performed a rescan operation, but the iSCSI target does NOT appear.
Which action should the administrator take for the target to appear in the vSphere client?

• Configure appropriate CHAP authentication settings

• Bind a VMkernel port to the iSCSI initiator

• Configure Jumbo Frames prior to adding iSCSI targets

• Enable iSCSI in a vSphere Distributed Switch configuration

An administrator has created a Virtual SAN Cluster using Automatic Mode Disk Groups. There is very little storage space left in the cluster. The administrator has access to an iSCSI storage array.
Which approach should the administrator take to expand the Virtual SAN Cluster?

• Add new hosts to the cluster with available local disks then click the Claim Disks icon in the Disk Management section under the Virtual SAN tab

• Add new disks to the hosts in the cluster then click the Claim Disks icon in the Disk Management section under the Virtual SAN tab.

• Add new hosts to the cluster with available local disk. No further action is required to claim the added storage

• Provision new LUNs on the iSCSI storage and present one LUN to each host in the cluster. No further action is required to claim the added storage

A vSphere administrator needs to place an ESXi host in maintenance mode to replace a hardware component. This host is a member of a Virtual SAN cluster that uses Automatic Mode Disk Groups. Availability of virtual machines running on this host is critical. HA and DRS are enabled on the Virtual SAN Cluster. Otherwise, the Virtual SAN cluster uses default values.
Which action should the administrator take to automatically guarantee availability of virtual machines with the fastest migration time?

• Select Enter Maintenance Mode and accept the default values

• Select Enter Maintenance Mode and select Full Data Migration option

• Select Enter Maintenance Mode and select No Data Migration option

• Migrate the virtual machines to another host and datastore then select Enter Maintenance Mode

What is a characteristic of Virtual SAN?

• It supports Virtual Machine Storage Policies

• It supports multiple Virtual SAN clusters for each host

• It supports native snapshots and SE Sparse disks

• It supports storage attached through USB, Fibre Channel, or iSCSI

Which two steps can an administrator take to upgrade an existing VMFS2 datastore to VMFS5? (Choose two)

• Attach the VMFS2 datastore to an ESX 3.x host and upgrade it to VMFS3

• Attach the VMFS2 datastore to the vSphere 5 host and upgrade it to VMFS3

• Upgrade the datastore from VMFS3 to VMFS5 on a vSphere 5 host


• Upgrade the ESX host attached to the storage to vSphere 5

A customer needs to select an appropriate Path Selection Policy (PSP) for their storage array. There is no requirement for a preferred path. The policy should not select a new path unless the current one fails.
Which PSP meets the requirement?

• Fixed

• Round Robin

• Most Recently Used

• Asymmetric Logical Unit Access

Which controller is recommended for high disk I/O workloads?

• BusLogic Parallel

• LSI Logic Parallel

• LSI Logic SAS

• VMware Paravirtual

An administrator needs to migrate a company's physical servers to virtual servers and deploy into the ESXi 5.x cluster. During the process of converting to a virtual machine, the administrator needs to reduce the size of the disks.
Which method should the administrator use to meet this requirement?

• Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level

• Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-based cloning at the block level

• Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the block level


• Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level

Which steps should an administrator take to migrate existing ESXi 5.x virtual machines to a storage over-subscription model?

• Right-click the .vmdk file, and click Deflate

• Right-click the .vmdk file, and click Compress

• Right-click the virtual machine, click Migrate, select the same datastore, and select Thin Provision

• Right-click the virtual machine, click Migrate, select a different datastore, and select Thin Provision

An administrator needs to create and provision new virtual machines from a master image that can not be edited or powered on.
Which type of resource is most appropriate for the administrator to perform the task?

• Full Clone

• Linked Clone

• Template

• Snapshot

What is the minimum virtual machine compatibility setting required for a virtual machine to run on a vSphere 5.5 host?

• ESXi 5.1 and later

• ESXi 3.0 and later

• ESXi 4.1 and later

• ESXi 3.5 and later

To avoid unnecessary planned downtime, what is the minimum version of VMware Tools that, if installed, will decrease the need for virtual machine reboots following VMware Tools upgrades?

• 5.5

• 5.1

• 5.0

• 4.1

Which feature requires an administrator to configure an RDM with Virtual Compatibility Mode?

• vMotion

• Virtual Machine Snapshots

• High Availability

• N-port ID Virtualization

A virtual machine has the following configuration:
• Thin provisioned virtual disks
• The VMFS datastore on which it resides is on a thin provisioned LUN. • The storage array is VAAI-enabled.
What is the behavior of the virtual machine when it encounters an out-of-space condition?

• It is suspended

• It is gracefully shut down

• It is powered off

• It is converted to space-efficient sparse

An administrator needs to use guest OS clustering in a vSphere environment that uses a Fibre Channel SAN. The clustering software does NOT have a SCSI target or a SCSI command pass- through requirement.
Which VMware storage type should the administrator use?

• Physical RDM

• VMFS

• Virtual RDM

• NFS

Which two CPU features enable the use of 64-bit virtual machines? (Choose two)

• Intel VT


• NX/XD Bit

• Hyper-threading

• AMD RVI

An administrator is deploying a virtual machine from a template.
Assuming all of the inventory objects below exist in the implementation, what is the highest level in the vCenter Server hierarchy to which a virtual machine can be deployed?

• Datacenter

• Cluster

• Resource Pool

• Host

Which statement is accurate when choosing the storage controller for a virtual machine using the Create New Virtual Machine wizard in custom mode?

• There is a predetermined controller based on the guest OS, which cannot be changed

• A controller is recommended based on the guest OS type. The administrator can choose this controller or select any other

• There is a predetermined controller based on the guest OS, which can only be changed after the virtual machine is deployed

• The controller options presented will be based on the guest OS type. The administrator must choose one of these options

A VMware administrator needs to simplify the placement of virtual machines. The administrator also needs to balance I/O load and space utilization automatically.
Which combination of features should the administrator use to achieve this?

• Create a Datastore Cluster and enable Storage DRS on the cluster

• Create a Datastore Cluster and enable Storage I/O Control on each datastore

• Enable Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control on each datastore

• Enable Storage I/O Control on each datastore and configure Storage vMotion

An administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tiered application and needs to configure custom startup actions for each virtual machine.
What should the administrator do to enable this functionality?

• Verify that VMware Tools is installed on each virtual machine in the vApp

• Ensure all virtual machines in the vApp are running hardware version 8 or later

• Configure custom startup actions on the virtual machines, then add them to the vApp

• Deploy a vSphere Management Assistant in the cluster and enable the vApp plug-in

A vSphere administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tier application. Every time the vApp is started, the virtual machines perform a file system check.
Which action should the administrator take to resolve this issue?

• Change the shutdown action in the vApp to Guest Shutdown

• Change the shutdown action in the vApp to Graceful Shutdown

• Change the shutdown action in the vApp to Graceful Power Off

• Change the shutdown action in the vApp to Guest Power Off

An administrator needs to configure a Linux virtual machine template to support guest customization. The administrator has installed VMware Tools.
Which additional component is necessary to enable Linux guest OS customization?

• Perl


• bash

• Python

• Sysprep

A VMware administrator needs to export a vApp and create a self-contained package that has a single file.
Which format should the administrator use?

• Export as OVF

• Export as OVA

• Export as ZIP

• Export as ISO

A vSphere administrator needs the ability to adjust the amount of guaranteed physical CPU and Memory resources to a virtual machine without incurring application downtime.
Which actions must the administrator perform?

• Enable CPU hotplug and Memory hotplug on the virtual machine

• Adjust the number of CPUs and the Memory Configuration for the virtual machine

• Adjust the CPU reservation slider and click the Reserve all Guest Memory checkbox

• Adjust the CPU and Memory reservation sliders on the virtual machine

Which database platform is embedded within the vApp architecture of vCenter Operations Manager?

• MySQL

• IBM DB2 Express

• Oracle 11g Express

• vPostgres

Why would a vSphere administrator configure resource shares for a virtual machine?

• To prioritize access to a resource during contention

• To guarantee access to a resource during contention

• To prioritize access to a resource at all times

• To guarantee access to a resource at all times

A vSphere administrator needs to add a CPU to a virtual machine, but upon editing the VM settings the option is grayed out.
What would explain this behavior?

• The virtual machine is running

• The virtual machine has been configured with a CPU limit

• CPU Hot-add has not been enabled on the virtual machine

• The virtual machine is in a resource pool with no available CPU resources

An administrator needs to provide a report that will help managers better understand how all of their virtual machines are sized.
Which report within vCenter Operations Manager should the administrator provide?

• Undersized Virtual Machines Report

• Configured Host or Cluster Capacity Report

• Virtual Machine Capacity Overview Report

• Virtual Machine Optimization Report

An administrator needs to provide a report that shows how many virtual machines can be added to an existing vSphere environment.
Which report within vCenter Operations Manager meets this requirement?

• Cluster or Host Capacity Inventory Report

• Configured Host Capacity Report

• Virtual Machine Capacity Overview Report

• Virtual Machine Optimization Report

An administrator needs to create an IP allocation policy for a multi-tiered application running in a vApp.
The IP addresses should be allocated automatically by vCenter Server, but should not be released even if a virtual machine is powered off.
Which IP allocation model should the administrator use for the vApp?

• Static - Manual

• Transient - IP Pool

• DHCP

• Static - IP Pool

Which information does the CPU Ready counter provide to a vSphere administrator?

• The virtual machine has requested CPU time, but the VMkernel cannot schedule the virtual CPU on a physical CPU

• The virtual machine is idle, and the VMkernel has idle physical CPU cycles

• The virtual machine has requested CPU time, and the VMkernel has idle physical CPU cycles

• The virtual machine is idle, but the VMkernel cannot schedule the virtual CPU on a physical CPU

Which VMware Tools upgrade method minimizes the need for scheduled downtime?

• Use vCenter Server to select and upgrade virtual machines

• Use vSphere PowerCLI and create a script to upgrade the virtual machines

• Use Update Manager to perform an orchestrated upgrade of virtual machines

• Configure the virtual machines to check for and install updates at each reboot cycle

Before upgrading from vCenter 4.x to 5.x, an administrator runs the vCenter Host Agent Pre- Upgrade Checker. The Checker reports an issue.
What would cause the vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker to report an issue?

• The .NET framework 3.5 is installed

• The host network card is only 1 Gbps

• The file system is not intact

• The VMFS file system is version 4.0.

An organization has a cluster of 6 ESXi hosts. Security policy requires that all administrative activity occurs through vCenter Server and not directly on the hosts.
Which action should a system administrator take to enforce this policy?

• Use the vSphere client to right-click on the cluster and select Enable lockdown mode on the ESXi hosts in the cluster

• Use the vSphere client to navigate to the Security Profile of each ESXi host and enable lockdown mode

• Connect to the DCUI of each ESXi host and navigate the menus to the Troubleshooting Options and enable lockdown mode.

• Connect to the ESXi shell on each host and type the command service lockdown start

An administrator needs to join several ESXi hosts in the environment to the corporate Active Directory instance. The container and path for the OU is Servers\VMware. The FQDN of the local Active Directory is CORP.AD.
Which option accurately shows the information an administrator would enter when configuring an ESXi host to join the domain and ensures the host is placed in the appropriate OU?

• ldap://CORP.AD:389/Servers/VMware

• CORP.AD/Servers/VMware


• cn=VMware, ou=Servers, dc=CORP, dc=AD

• ou=VMware, ou=Servers, dc=CORP, dc=AD

An administrator needs to implement trusted SSL certificates for all vCenter 5.5 components.
Which component needs an SSL certificate?

• Update Manager

• Auto Deploy

• ESXi Dump Collector


• Network Syslog Collector

A vSphere administrator needs to perform packet tracing from a Linux virtual machine. The virtual machine is attached to a vSphere Standard Switch configured with several VLANs.
Which approach could the administrator use to configure the network to capture all traffic from the Linux virtual machine?

• Configure the virtual switch with VLAN Trunking and specify each VLANs on the port group containing the virtual machine.

• Configure a vSphere Distributed Switch with VLAN Trunking. Create a port group and configure it with Promiscuous Mode. Connect the virtual machine to that port group

• Configure the port group containing the virtual machine for Promiscuous Mode. Set the port group to use VLAN 1.

• Configure a vSphere Distributed Switch with VLAN Trunking. Connect the virtual machine to the switch and enable Port Mirroring on the port group containing the virtual machine.

Which configuration will block communication between two virtual machines on the same DMZ network?

• An isolated Private VLAN configured on a distributed switch and the two DMZ server virtual machines connected to the same port group

• Two different port groups created on a distributed switch and 1 DMZ server virtual machine connected to each port group

• Two different port groups created on a standard switch and 1 DMZ server virtual machine connected to each port group


• The security policy exception set to Reject for the switch to which the two DMZ server virtual machines will be connected

A vApp is performing poorly and an administrator determines that the memory resources are low. How should the administrator resolve this issue?

• Configure a memory reservation for the vApp

• Configure a memory reservation for each VM in the vApp

• Rebuild the vApp using the wizard and assign memory reservations to the vApp

• Rebuild the vApp using the wizard and assign memory reservations to each VM

An administrator needs to manage a virtual machine that cannot be accessed directly from an external network.
Which solution should the administrator choose?

• Power off the virtual machine and use the vSphere Web Client to open a console to the virtual machine

• Install the Client Integration Plug-in in the Web browser and open a console to the running virtual machine

• Install the DCUI plug-in in the Web browser and open a console to the running virtual machine

• Power off the virtual machine, install the Client Integration plug-in, and open a console to the virtual machine

A vSphere administrator deleted a vApp from disk. A second administrator needs the virtual machines that were contained in the vApp.
What should the first administrator do to make the virtual machines available?

• Recover the virtual machines from backup

• Add the virtual machines back into inventory

• Undelete the vApp

• Recover the virtual machines from Stranded Items

A vSphere Administrator has a multi-tier application deployed in a vApp. The administrator needs to rapidly deploy copies of the multi-tier application to various departmental infrastructures throughout the company.
Which step should the administrator take using the vSphere Web Client to allow this?

• Export the vApp as an OVF Template

• Convert the vApp to a Template


• Clone the vApp to a OVF Template

• Add the vApp to the Catalog

The bandwidth between two sites is too slow to transfer large virtual machine files. The administrator needs to export a virtual machine to OVF to reduce the size of the transfer. When the administrator attempts to initiate the Export OVF Template feature, the selection is grayed out.
What is the likely reason that the administrator is unable to select this option?

• The virtual machine is in a powered on state

• There is not enough disk space on the destination for the OVF

• The administrator's account does not have the correct privileges

• The virtual machine is not compatible with the OVF format

A system administrator is deploying a Windows virtual machine from a template and needs the IP address to be customized automatically.
How should the administrator configure the IP address?

• Use the Microsoft Sysprep Tool.

• Specify IP addresses using the Deploy Virtual Machine Wizard

• Use the VMware Quickprep Tool.

• Manually configure IP addresses after the deployment has completed

An administrator needs to establish that a database server is entitled to twice the CPU resources than a web server during CPU resource contention.
Which settings should the administrator change to accomplish this?

• Set the database server's CPU Shares to High and leave the web server's CPU Shares at Normal

• Set the database server's CPU Shares to High and change the web server's CPU Shares to Low

• Set the database server's Shares to High and change the web server's CPU Shares value to a custom value of 500

• Set the database server's Shares to a Custom value of 500 and leave the web server's CPU Shares at Normal

What should an administrator do to identify compliance for virtual machine storage performance?

• Create a Storage Policy and apply it to the virtual machine

• Create Storage Capabilities and apply one or more capabilities to the virtual machine

• Create a Storage Policy and apply it to the datastore containing the virtual machine

• Create Storage Capabilities and apply one or more capabilities to the datastore containing the virtual machine

A vSphere administrator determines that more metrics are available for viewing in the realtime view than are available in the daily view for a virtual machine
What is the reason for this discrepancy in the number of available metrics?

• The daily view does not contain all of the metrics that the realtime view does

• The default vCenter statistics level is being used

• A vCenter statistics level of 4 is being used

• The daily view presents a different selection of metrics by default than presented by the realtime view

A vSphere administrator enables Fault Tolerance on a powered off virtual machine that has the following configuration:
• The virtual machine's single thin provisioned virtual disk is sized at 100GB.
• The datastore that houses the virtual machine has 120GB of free space.
After Fault Tolerance has been configured, another administrator attempts to use Enhanced vMotion to move a 30GB virtual machine file into the same datastore and receives an error.
What condition could cause this behavior?

• Fault Tolerance inflated the virtual machine's virtual disk file

• Fault Tolerance created a temporary logging file on the same datastore

• Fault Tolerance created a secondary copy of the virtual machine's virtual disk file.

• The Fault Tolerance logging file ran out of disk space.

While testing a Fault Tolerance setup on a virtual machine, a system administrator notices that the DRS automation level of the virtual machine has been automatically set to Disabled.
The administrator needs to enable DRS to migrate the Fault Tolerance virtual machine to balance the cluster's CPU and memory loads. What should the administrator do?

• Enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) in the vSphere cluster

• Move the virtual machine to a VMFS 5 datastore built on shared storage

• Manually change the DRS automation level of the virtual machine to Enabled

• Move the secondary virtual machine to a host with a Fault Tolerance VMkernel port

A system administrator detects that a VDP Appliance that has been operational for 6 months has become inconsistent or unstable.
Which action should the administrator take to recover the VDP appliance and what will be the impact on the vSphere environment?

• Perform a VDP rollback to the most recent validated checkpoint. All backup and configuration changes made after the checkpoint will be lost

• Perform a VDP rollback to the most recent validated checkpoint. Configuration changes after the checkpoint will be lost, but backup data will remain intact

• Restore a copy of the latest backup of the VDP appliance. All backup data and configuration changes after the backup was made will be lost

• Restore a copy of the latest backup of the VDP appliance. All configuration changes after the backup was made will be lost, but backup data will remain intact.

Which two features are different between VDP and VDPA? (Choose two)

• Support for guest level backups of SQL and Exchange

• Ability to perform file level recovery

• Virtual machines supported per appliance

• Support for image level backups

An administrator must determine which Update Manager procedures can be performed using the vSphere Web Client, and which must be completed using the Windows vSphere client.
Which two tasks require the use of the Windows vSphere client? (Choose two)

• Attach and detach baselines to inventory objects

• Scan inventory objects for compliance

• Create a baseline for an inventory object

• Stage a baseline for remediation

A vSphere administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager to perform orchestrated upgrades of virtual machines.
Which two options are available for virtual machine remediation? (Choose two)

• Upgrade virtual machine hardware

• Upgrade VMware tools


• Upgrade virtual machine appliances

• Upgrade virtual machine guest OS

Which two are supported object types for Update Manager? (Choose two)

• virtual appliances

• templates

• vApps

• hosts

Which is the simplest baseline group combination an administrator could create to upgrade hosts, VMware tools, and virtual machine hardware to the latest versions using Update Manager?

• One baseline group that contains the host upgrade baselines and one baseline group that contains the VM Hardware and VMware Tools upgrade baselines

• One baseline group that contains the host upgrade and vCenter upgrade baselines

• One baseline group that contains the host, VMware tools, and VM Hardware upgrade baselines

• One baseline group that contains the Data Center upgrade baseline and one baseline group that contains the VM upgrade baseline

Which statement is true about the hardware configuration for ESXi hosts participating in a virtual SAN?

• The hosts must have identical hardware

• Each host must have at least one Solid State Drive (SSD)

• The hosts must have network attached storage

• Each host must have a RAID Controller

An administrator has configured a vSphere 5.5 test environment to evaluate the Virtual SAN feature using Automatic Mode Disk Groups. The administrator needs to disable the Virtual SAN cluster while preserving the virtual machines running on that cluster.
The administrator has already installed a vSphere 5.5 Client on a Windows 7 desktop and also has access to the vSphere 5.5 Web Client.
What should the administrator do to disable the Virtual SAN?

• Use Storage vMotion to migrate the virtual machines to another datastore then use the vSphere 5.5 Client to disable the Virtual SAN

• Use Storage vMotion to migrate the virtual machines to another datastore then use the vSphere 5.5 Web Client to disable the Virtual SAN

• Use the vSphere 5.5 Client to disable the Virtual SAN, which will automatically migrate the virtual machines via the Storage DRS feature

• Use the vSphere 5.5 Web Client to disable the Virtual SAN, which will automatically migrate the virtual machines via the Storage DRS feature

A vSphere administrator has created a Virtual SAN Cluster with Automatic Mode Disk Groups. The cluster includes three ESXi hosts contributing one SSD and six SAS disks each. The administrator has four new ESXi hosts that boot from a fiber channel array and have no local disks attached. These four new hosts need additional shared storage but there is insufficient space on the fiber channel array. The hardware budget is limited.
What can the administrator do to provide the needed storage for the lowest cost?

• Add the four new hosts to the Virtual SAN Cluster and use the existing storage in the cluster

• Add an SAS RAID controller to each of the new hosts. Attach one SSD and six SAS disks to each RAID controller and then add the four hosts to the Virtual SAN cluster

• Add the four new hosts to the Virtual SAN Cluster and contribute the fiber channel disks to the Virtual SAN

• Add the four new hosts to the Virtual SAN Cluster and change to Manual Mode Disk Groups

A customer needs a datastore to be seen across multiple vSphere clusters with applications inside of the virtual machines that must detect the physical characteristics of the storage device.
Which type of virtual disk meets this requirement?

• A virtual disk on a VMFS datastore

• A raw device mapped disk in virtual compatibility mode

• A raw device mapped disk in physical compatibility mode

• A virtual disk on an NFS datastore

An administrator needs to prevent two virtual machines from running on the same host at any time.
Which DRS rule should the administrator apply?

• vm-to-vm affinity

• vm-to-host affinity

• vm-to-vm anti-affinity

• vm-to-host anti-affinity

A vSphere administrator needs to enable Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) in an existing vSphere environment:
• The environment contains a High Availability (HA) cluster with eight ESXi hosts.
• Six ESXi hosts are not in a cluster.
• DRS should be used on as many hosts as possible.

• Initial placement of virtual machines should be automatically performed.
• Migration recommendations should be provided, but not performed without approval.
Which procedure should the administrator perform to accomplish this task?

• Select the datacenter and create a DRS cluster. Add the six remaining hosts to this cluster, then enable DRS. Edit the DRS settings and change the automation level to Partial

• Select the existing HA cluster. Add the six remaining hosts to the cluster. Enable DRS, then edit the settings and change the automation level to Manual

• Select the datacenter and create a DRS cluster. Add the six remaining hosts to this cluster, then enable DRS. Edit the DRS settings and change the automation level to Manual

• Select the existing HA cluster. Add the six remaining hosts to the cluster. Enable DRS, then edit the settings and change the automation level to Partial.

An organization's wants to ensure that if a host in a High Availability (HA) cluster fails, critical virtual machines resume operation even if there are insufficient resources to continue to run all virtual machines in the cluster.
Which HA setting should be configured to ensure the cluster operates as expected?

• VM restart priority

• Admission Control policy

• VM monitoring sensitivity

• das.checkVmStateDelay

A vSphere administrator needs to reconfigure the Distributed Power Management (DPM) threshold to be more aggressive.
Where should the administrator edit the settings of DPM in the vSphere Web Client?

• DPM plug-in settings

• Cluster settings

• ESXi host power settings

• vCenter Service Status

An administrator has created a Virtual Flash Read Cache and needs to add a total 2TB of capacity to the cache. The administrator has a total of six SSD disks to add, but is unable to add one of the disks.
What is a likely cause of the problem?

• The SSD device size is less than 256GB

• The SSD device size is greater than 4TB

• The SSD device is a local disk

• The SSD device contains existing data

A DRS cluster has been created with the following specifications:
• All mission critical virtual machines are in the root resource pool.
• All other virtual machines are placed into two child pools based on medium or low priority.
• The two child pools contain adequate resources needed by the medium and low priority virtual machines.
• The two child pools are reserving 35% of the total available resources of the cluster.
What is the advantage of leaving the mission critical virtual machines in the root resource pool?

• The root resource pool has immediate access to new physical resources added to the cluster

• Virtual machines placed in the root resource pool have a higher vMotion priority in DRS

• Transparent Memory Page Sharing in the root resource pool has a higher weight than in child pools

• Virtual machines placed in the root resource pool have higher default share values

A vSphere administrator needs to temporarily disable DRS on a cluster containing a resource pool hierarchy.
Which procedure should the administrator follow to preserve the resource pool hierarchy while DRS is disabled?

• Move the resource pool hierarchy out of the cluster prior to disabling DRS

• Save the resource pool hierarchy to the administrator's local machine prior to disabling DRS

• Backup the vCenter Server database and restore the database after re-enabling DRS.

• Create a new cluster and move the resource pool hierarchy to the new cluster prior to disabling DRS

A vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine to another datastore and host without disrupting virtual machine users.
Which technique should the vSphere administrator use?

• Enhanced vMotion

• High Priority vMotion

• Low Priority vMotion

• Storage vMotion

A vSphere administrator needs to enable Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine.
When performing a Storage vMotion migration, which setting should the vSphere administrator change in the virtual machine's disk format to ensure it meets Fault Tolerance requirements?

• Thick Provision Eager Zeroed

• Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed

• Thin Provisioned

• Thin Provision Eager Zeroed

The vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one host to another. The virtual machine .vswp file resides in local storage.
Which two techniques can the administrator use to migrate the virtual machine? (Choose two)

• vMotion migration

• Cold migration

• Storage vMotion migration

• Enhanced vMotion migration

A customer needs to size a single backup appliance for backing up 3TB of data. There is no requirement for guest level backups of SQL and Exchange.
What is the minimum VMware Data Protection solution and sizing that would fulfill the stated requirements?

• VMware Data Protection Advanced with a 4TB backup appliance

• VMware Data Protection with a 4TB backup appliance

• VMware Data Protection Advanced with a 3TB backup appliance

• VMware Data Protection with a 3TB backup appliance

Which tool should an administrator use to modify vSphere Data Protection (VDP) backup jobs?

• vSphere Web Client

• vSphere Client using the VDP plugin

• VAMI on the VDP Appliance

• vSphere Management Appliance

An administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager to perform orchestrated upgrades of ESXi hosts and virtual machines. The vSphere management components reside in a secure environment that does not have direct access to the Internet.
How would Update Manager be configured in this environment while maintaining the organization's security requirements?

• Install Update Manager Download Service on a machine with Internet access and configure an export policy to the Update Manager server

• Install Update Manager Secure Gateway on a machine in the DMZ and configure an IPsec tunnel to the internal Update Manager server

• Create a TFTP server as an HTTP proxy and configure an export policy to the Update Manager server

• Enable gateway services on the Update Manager server and provide Internet access to the gateway address

An administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager for the initial deployment of VMware Tools on a group of newly created virtual machines.
When the administrator scans the objects for compliance, a compliance state of Incompatible is returned.
How should the administrator resolve the issue?

• Install VMware Tools manually on the new virtual machines

• Ensure the latest version of VMware Tools has been downloaded to the Update Manager repository

• Enable the Upgrade VMware Tools on Power Cycle option

• Create a separate baseline object for each guest OS type

An administrator needs to configure vFlash Read Cache to improve performance.
What would benefit the most from enabling vFlash Read Cache?

• Virtual machines replicated with vSphere Replication

• Web Server virtual machines

• Database virtual machines


• Virtual machines migrated using Storage vMotion

A vSphere administrator manages a three host cluster with 20 VMs. The HA cluster is configured with the Host Failures the Cluster Tolerates admission control policy and all other settings are set to default values. The administrator determines that one of the VMs is not able to power on. After further inspection, it is determined that this VM cannot power on because of a very large CPU reservation.
Which cluster advanced HA setting can the administrator modify to enable the virtual machine to power on?

• Lower das.vmcpumaxmhz attribute value

• Higher das.vmcpuminmhz attribute value

• Lower das.slotcpuoutmhz attribute value

• Higher das.slotcpuinmhz attribute value

What two requirements must be met to create a fully automated Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster? (Choose two)

• Shared storage

• Hosts with identical processor features

• Storage vMotion

• vMotion

An administrator is planning a vSphere Fault Tolerance implementation for 6 virtual machines. Which two virtual disk types are supported with FT? (Choose two)

• Raw Device Mapped LUN configured for Virtual Compatibility Mode

• Raw Device Mapped LUN configured for Physical Compatibility Mode

• Virtual disk thick provisioned, eager zeroed

• Virtual disk thick provisioned, lazy zeroed

What is the purpose of configuring a VMkernel port for Fault Tolerance logging?

• The selected vmkernel port is used to send external inputs from a primary virtual machine to its secondary counterpart

• The selected vmkernel port is able to log Fault Tolerance events to a syslog server

• The selected vmkernel port is used to trigger a failover from the primary machine if a hardware crash occurs

• The selected vmkernel port is able to maintain a log of changes to the secondary virtual machine

A vSphere administrator is attempting to upgrade an ESXi host using vSphere Update Manager.
The administrator has attached the baseline and remediated the host. Update Manager reports the remediation process has completed successfully. However, upon inspection the host is not upgraded.
What is the most likely reason for this issue?

• The ESXi host has less than 10MB free in its /tmp directory

• The user performing the upgrade has insufficient privileges

• The Update Manager service has not been configured with root level access to the host

• The baseline has been configured using an invalid ISO image

The vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one ESXi 5.5 host to another ESXi 5.5 host. The virtual machine has a virtual disk that is stored in local storage.
Assuming only the vSphere Essentials licensing is in place, which technique should the administrator use to accomplish the migration?

• vMotion migration

• Cold migration

• Enhanced vMotion migration

• Storage vMotion migration

A host in a 4-node HA\DRS cluster has failed. HA initiates restart tasks for the virtual machines on the remaining hosts in the cluster but half of them fail to restart.
What is the likely reason virtual machines fail to restart?