VCP New Questions 1-35

Question 1 of 35

1

A user is given the “Virtual machine user (sample)” role in a vSphere 6.x environment. Which three permissions would the user be able to perform? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Reset a virtual machine.
Power on a virtual machine.
Move a host into a cluster.
Configure CD media.
Migrate a virtual machine with Storage vMotion.

Explanation

Question 2 of 35

1

Which two statements are true for Predictive DRS? (Choose two )

Select one or more of the following:

It balances resource utilization for virtual machines with unpredictable utilization patterns.
It integrates DRS with vRealize Operations Manager to balance workloads for virtual machines before resource utilization spikes occur.
It balances resource utilization based on a threshold’s algorithm that runs each night.
It determines the best placement and balance of virtual machines based on a threshold’s algorithm that runs each night in vCenter Server 6.5 Database.

Explanation

Question 3 of 35

1

Which Host Profile Subprofile configuration is used to configure firewall settings for ESXi hosts?

Select one or more of the following:

Advanced Configuration Settings
General System Settings
Security
Networking

Explanation

Question 4 of 35

1

An administrator wants to create and use a vApp. Which pre-requisite must be met before the administrator can create a vApp?

Select one or more of the following:

The vApp can only be deployed in an EVC enabled cluster.
The vApp must be created within a StorageDRS cluster.
None. vSphere 6.5 does not support vApp deployments.
The vApp can only be created in a DRS enabled cluster.

Explanation

Question 5 of 35

1

When enabling Storage DRS on a datastore cluster, which three components are enabled as a result? (Choose three)

Select one or more of the following:

Space load balancing among datastore within the datastore cluster.
Initial placement for virtual disks based on space and I/O workload.
I/O load balancing among datastores within the datastore cluster.
Queue Depth alerting on disks within the datastore cluster.
Data deduplication within the datastore cluster.

Explanation

Question 6 of 35

1

Examine the LUN properties that are shown in the exhibit. Which action should be taken to utilize all active paths?

Select one or more of the following:

Change PSP to Most Recently Used
No action required. All paths are already utilized.
Change PSP to Fixed.
Change PSP to Round Robin.

Explanation

Question 7 of 35

1

A domain user is able to successfully log into the vSphere Web Client, but notices that the vCenter Server system does not appear in the inventory. Which is the cause of this situation?

Select one or more of the following:

The Service Control Agent service is not running.
The vCenter Server does not have anyhosts added to inventory yet.
The domain user has read-only permissions on vCenter Server.
The domain user does not have vCenter Server permissions.

Explanation

Question 8 of 35

1

Which three are supported upgrade processes for ESXi host? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

using vSphere Auto Deploy
using a TFTP server
using Update Manager
using an ESXCLI command
installing from CIFS share

Explanation

Question 9 of 35

1

Which is the maximum number of block devices (LUNs) that are supported by ESXi hosts that are running version 6.5?

Select one or more of the following:

1024
512
2048
256

Explanation

Question 10 of 35

1

Which is required by vCenter Converter Standalone to convert a physical Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 machine to a virtual machine?

Select one or more of the following:

The Linux machine must be powered off.
The Linux machine must have the SSH daemon started.
The Linux machine must use a static IP address.
The Linux machine must have a fully-qualified domain name.

Explanation

Question 11 of 35

1

An administrator sees the following error in the log files:

Select one or more of the following:

vCenter Server failure
VXLAN failure
Disk array failure
Network failure
ESXi host failure

Explanation

Question 12 of 35

1

An administrator is investigating virtual machine performance issues using ESXTOP. The ESXi host does not have hyperthreading enabled. Which statistics would be relevant for troubleshooting VM performance issues?

Select one or more of the following:

%RDY
%IDLE
%RUN
CORE UTIL(%)

Explanation

Question 13 of 35

1

Which action can the Hybrid Cloud Manager perform?

Select one or more of the following:

It can migrate virtual machines with vMotion between vCenter Servers with distinct Single Sign-on domains.
It can manage vCloud Air and Amazon Web Services (EC2) from a single interface.
It can migrate the virtual machines with vMotion between AWS, Azure, and vCloud Air.
It can move a virtual machine from vCloud Air to on premises vSphere.

Explanation

Question 14 of 35

1

Which setting will allow a virtual machine to have direct secure access to an RDM?

Select one or more of the following:

NIOC
NPV
NPIV
CPUID Mask

Explanation

Question 15 of 35

1

Which are three supported storage requirements for vCenter Server HA? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

NFS
RDM
vSAN
VMFS
JBOD

Explanation

Question 16 of 35

1

The administrator wants to power on VM-K2, which has a 2GHz CPU reservation. VM-M1, VM-M2, and VM-K1 are all powered on. VM-K2 is not powered on.

The exhibit shows the parent and child resource reservations.

If Resource Pool RP-KID is configured with an expandable reservation, which statement is true?

Select one or more of the following:

VM-K2 will be unable to power on because there are insufficient resources.
VM-K2 will be able to power on since resource pool RP-KID has 2GHz available.
VM-K2 will be unable to power on because only 2GHz are reserved for RP-KID.
VM-K2 will receive resource priority and will be able to power on this scenario.

Explanation

Question 17 of 35

1

An administrator wants to upgrade ESXi 5.5 hosts to ESXi 6.5 using Update Manager. When performing a scan for baseline compliance, the host’s status is marked Compliant. Which has happened?

Select one or more of the following:

Host must be version 6.0 in order to upgrade to 6.5.
Host has some third-party software installed.
Host has no upgrade baseline attached.
Host hardware is not supported for upgrade.

Explanation

Question 18 of 35

1

Where would a vSphere administrator find general vCenter Server logs on a vCenter Server Appliance?

Select one or more of the following:

/var/log/vmware/vpxd/
/var/log/messages
/etc/vmware-vpx/
/var/log/vmware/vsan-health/

Explanation

Question 19 of 35

1

An administrator is trying to vMotion a VM from his datacenter to a recovery site. Which is the maximum allowed RTT (Round-Trip Time) latency between source and destination host?

Select one or more of the following:

100 milliseconds
150 milliseconds
15 milliseconds
10 milliseconds

Explanation

Question 20 of 35

1

An administrator has multiple vCenter Server 6.5 systems but cannot enable Storage I/O Control (SIOC) on a datastore shared by ESXi hosts managed by the vCenter Server systems. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the issue?

Select one or more of the following:

Unmount the datastore and then enable SIOC on the vCenter Server system.
Configure the datastore to be managed by a single vCenter Server system.
Configure Storage DRS and then enable SIOC on the vCenter Server system.
Enable Raw Device Mapping (RDM) on the ESXi hosts.

Explanation

Question 21 of 35

1

Which three prerequisites must be in place prior to enabling secure boot for a virtual machine? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

VirtualMachine.Config.Settings privileges
an encrypted USB drive
Virtual Hardware version 13 or later
Virtual Hardware version 12 or later
EFI firmware

Explanation

Question 22 of 35

1

An administrator is creating VMkernel adapters on an ESXi 6.5 host and wants to create separate VMkernel adapters for every type of traffic in the default TCP/IP stack. Which three types of traffic can be explicitly enabled on a separate VMkernel adapter? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Virtual SAN traffic
NFS traffic
vMotion traffic
vSphere HA traffic
Fault Tolerance logging traffic

Explanation

Question 23 of 35

1

An administrator is attempting to access an ESXi host via the DCUI but is unable to do so. Which could be two possible causes? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

The host in question has no out-of-band management capability (i.e. iLO/iDRAC).
The SSH service is disabled on the host.
Strict lockdown mode is enabled on the host.
Normal lockdown mode is enabled and the administrator is a member of the Exception User list.
The DCUI service is disabled on the host.

Explanation

Question 24 of 35

1

A vSphere administrator wants to upgrade NFS3 datastores to NFS4.1 on ESXi 6.5 hosts with running production virtual machines. Which option is valid?

Select one or more of the following:

Run ESXi command to upgrade the datastore.
Unmount the datastore from a single host, then mount it as NFS 4.1 datastore, and repeat this one host at a time until the mount has been upgraded on all hosts.
Create a new NFS 4.1 datastore, and then use Storage vMotion to migrate virtual machines from the old datastore to the new one.
Right click the datastore and upgrade it as a NFS 4.1 datastore.

Explanation

Question 25 of 35

1

A company has requested that a plan for Auto Deploy be built using VMware- recommended best practices for networking. Which two considerations adhere to VMware-recommended networking best practices for Auto Deploy? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Using IPv4 as Auto Deploy will be able to boot hosts with a legacy BIOS.
Using DHCP reservations for address allocations because providing fixed IP addresses through host customization is not supported.
Using VLANs on the management network as it offers increased performance while hosts are booting.
Using IPv6 as Auto Deploy will be able to boot hosts with a legacy BIOS and UEFI.
Using DHCP reservations for address allocations because providing fixed IP addresses through host customization is not recommended.

Explanation

Question 26 of 35

1

It is determined that the Migration Assistant will be used to migrate from vCenter Server 5.5 on Windows with an external instance of Update Manager to a vCenter Server Appliance 6.5. Which option is correct in regard to migrating Update Manager?

Select one or more of the following:

The Migration Assistant must be run on vCenter Server first and then on the Update Manager server.
The Migration Assistant must be run on the Update Manager server first and then on vCenter Server.
Migrating Update Manager from legacy versions of vCenter Server to a vCenter Server Appliance 6.5is not supported.
The Migration Assistant can only migrate local instances of Update Manager to the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.

Explanation

Question 27 of 35

1

In a vSphere 6.5 cluster, the administrator notices that it is possible to set a percentage in the DRS option, “Control CPU over-commitment in the cluster.” Which is the purpose of this setting?

Select one or more of the following:

It sets and enforces a maximum percentage of virtual machine CPU usage in GHz in comparison to physical CPU availability in GHz.
It sets and enforces a maximum ratio in percentage between powered on virtual machine CPUs and available physical CPUs on hosts.
It prevents the creation of any additional virtual machines in the cluster.
It calculates the total shares assigned to all virtual machines in comparison to GHz of available physical CPU.

Explanation

Question 28 of 35

1

Which three requirements are needed to apply RAID 5 or RAID 6 erasure coding on a vSAN 6.2 or 6.5 object? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

on Disk Format 3.0
Hybrid vSAN
All Flash vSAN
vSAN Advanced License
Stretched Cluster Configurations

Explanation

Question 29 of 35

1

Which are two vCenter Server two-factor authentication methods? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

RSA SecurID
Smart Card
SAML
Symantec VIP

Explanation

Question 30 of 35

1

An administrator is attempting to power on a virtual machine with 32GB of memory. The operation fails with the following error:

Could not power on VM : No space left on device

Checking the space on the virtual machine’s datastore, there is 30GB free.

Which action would allow the VM to power on?

Select one or more of the following:

Set a 2GB memory reservation on the VM.
Mount the virtual disk from the affected VM on to another virtual machine and free up space from within the OS.
Enable vSphere HD admission control on the cluster in which the VM resides.
Set a 2GB memory limit on the VM.

Explanation

Question 31 of 35

1

An administrator cannot enable multi-processor Fault Tolerance (SMP-FT) for a virtual machine. Which are two possible causes for this? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

The virtual machine is running on a vSAN datastore.
The Fault Tolerance network is using a 10Gbit uplink.
The virtual machine has 6 vCPUs assigned.
The virtual machine has a 1TB VMDK attached.
The virtual machine has snapshots present.

Explanation

Question 32 of 35

1

An administrator is using virtual machine encryption in their vSphere 6.5 environment. The Key Management Server (KMS) has experienced a critical failure. Which two statements are true about VM encryption when the KMS is not available? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

VMs will shut down gracefully in the event of a KMS outage as a proactive measure to prevent data theft.
VMs which were running at the time of the KMS failure will continue to run.
If an ESXi host is rebooted, it will be unable to power on encrypted VMs until KMS connectivity is restored.
vCenter Server will continue to distribute encryption keys as long as it is not rebooted while the KMS is unreachable.
ESXi hosts within the same cluster will share key switch one another while the KMS is unreachable.

Explanation

Question 33 of 35

1

Which two statements are true about Permanent Device Loss (PDL)? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

All paths are shown as Dead for the affected device.
The datastore cluster is incorrectly configured.
The datastore on the affected device shown a yellow warning sign.
The datastore on the affected device shows a red error sign.
The operational state of the affected device changes to Lost Communication.

Explanation

Question 34 of 35

1

An administrator notices that a host is evacuating all virtual machines and entering maintenance mode even though the host appears to be up and running. Which new feature in vSphere 6.5 would cause this?

Select one or more of the following:

Predictive DRS
EVC Mode
vCenter HA
Proactive HA

Explanation

Question 35 of 35

1

Which are the two network requirements for a VMware vSAN 6.5 cluster? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Multicast must be enabled on the physical switches and routers that handle vSAN traffic.
vSAN requires IPv6 only.
All hosts must have a dedicated 40GbE NIC.
The vSAN network supported IPv4 or IPv6.
vSAN requires IPv4 only.

	Created by Jakub Sabacinski about 9 years ago

Quiz on VCP New Questions 1-35, created by Jakub Sabacinski on 29/07/2017.

VCP New Questions 1-35

Question 1 of 35

A user is given the “Virtual machine user (sample)” role in a vSphere 6.x environment. Which three permissions would the user be able to perform? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 35

Which two statements are true for Predictive DRS? (Choose two )

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 35

Which Host Profile Subprofile configuration is used to configure firewall settings for ESXi hosts?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 4 of 35

An administrator wants to create and use a vApp. Which pre-requisite must be met before the administrator can create a vApp?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 35

When enabling Storage DRS on a datastore cluster, which three components are enabled as a result? (Choose three)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 6 of 35

Examine the LUN properties that are shown in the exhibit. Which action should be taken to utilize all active paths?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 7 of 35

A domain user is able to successfully log into the vSphere Web Client, but notices that the vCenter Server system does not appear in the inventory. Which is the cause of this situation?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 35

Which three are supported upgrade processes for ESXi host? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 9 of 35

Which is the maximum number of block devices (LUNs) that are supported by ESXi hosts that are running version 6.5?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 35

Which is required by vCenter Converter Standalone to convert a physical Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 machine to a virtual machine?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 35

An administrator sees the following error in the log files:

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 35

An administrator is investigating virtual machine performance issues using ESXTOP. The ESXi host does not have hyperthreading enabled. Which statistics would be relevant for troubleshooting VM performance issues?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 13 of 35

Which action can the Hybrid Cloud Manager perform?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 14 of 35

Which setting will allow a virtual machine to have direct secure access to an RDM?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 15 of 35

Which are three supported storage requirements for vCenter Server HA? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 16 of 35

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 17 of 35

An administrator wants to upgrade ESXi 5.5 hosts to ESXi 6.5 using Update Manager. When performing a scan for baseline compliance, the host’s status is marked Compliant. Which has happened?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 18 of 35

Where would a vSphere administrator find general vCenter Server logs on a vCenter Server Appliance?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 19 of 35

An administrator is trying to vMotion a VM from his datacenter to a recovery site. Which is the maximum allowed RTT (Round-Trip Time) latency between source and destination host?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 20 of 35

An administrator has multiple vCenter Server 6.5 systems but cannot enable Storage I/O Control (SIOC) on a datastore shared by ESXi hosts managed by the vCenter Server systems. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the issue?

Select one or more of the following: