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An administrator is installing a Platform Services Controller instance.
Which two options are available during the installation process? (Choose two.)

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A vSphere Administrator has multiple virtual machines running on a VMFS datastore.
Which option prioritizes the disk access for the virtual machines?

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What should be installed on a VM to assist with VM-to-host time synchronization?

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An administrator runs a vSphere cluster containing database VMs with extremely heavy disk I/O. Database VMs are placed on a costly all-flash array. The workloads are not memory intensive.
How can the administrator ensure the most cost-effective utilization of the all-flash storage array?

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An administrator has an environment with these conditions and requirements:
- The host provides 6GHz of CPU and 32GB of memory
- The host is shared between the Marketing and QA departments
- The QA department needs a higher compute resource priority
How can the administrator meet the conditions and requirements?.

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What is a benefit of using resource pools?

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This error is generated when a vSphere administrator takes a VM snapshot:
An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine
What should the administrator investigate to determine the cause of the failure?

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A vSphere administrator is working in a high security environment. The administrator wants to ensure unencrypted VMs can be migrated securely.
What should the vSphere administrator use to meet this requirement?

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For security reasons the VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM) has no Internet access.
What can be used to provide a central shared repository in a DMZ?

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Which two tasks are allowed in the X-Lence data center? (Choose two.)

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What are two components of a VM-Host affinity rule? (Choose two.)

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What does ESXi Autoconfiguration do?

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An administrator is using vSphere Web Client to configure the firewall to allow specific third-party application SSH access to an ESXi Host.
What is the most secure way to configure the firewall rule?

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In a single cluster VM encryption scenario, which two VMs should be excluded from encryption? (Choose two.)

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Which vSphere feature is designed to distribute space usage and I/O load across multiple datastores?

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A vSphere administrator creates a VM with 2 vCPUs and 4GB memory. A 3GB memory reservation is applied to the VM. What size is .vswp file when the VM is powered on?

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An administrator suspects poor VM performance. The administrator runs esxtop and sees the following output from the CPU and memory screens:
✑ 6:48:19pm up 4:22, 528 worlds, 8 VMs, 16 vCPUs, CPU load average: 0.26, 0.36, 0.16
✑ VMKMEM/MB: 8151 managed: 407 minfree, 3055 rsvd, 5095 ursvd, high state
What can the administrator conclude from this output?

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Which teaming and failover policy offers the lowest latency when a failover or a migration with vSphere vMotion occurs?

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Which two features should an administrator use to protect a VMware vCenter Server Appliance from host and hardware failures? (Choose two.)

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Which DCUI option determines the time frame an administrator has to log in to the ESXI Shell after enabling the service?

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Which two VMware solutions track and analyze the operation of multiple data sources? (Choose two.)

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A vSphere administrator is performing a greenfield vSphere deployment with these requirements:
✑ vCenter Server sized for 100 ESXi hosts and 1000 virtual machines
✑ Each ESXi Host with 512 LUNs and 2048 paths mapped from Dell EMC XtremIO Storage Array
Which vCenter Server Appliance deployment size meets requirements?

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What is used by a VM for direct access to a LUN?

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A vSphere administrator uses a Dedicated Failover Hosts Admission Control Policy in a cluster. An ESXi host fails and vSphere HA attempts to restart the VMs onto the dedicated failover hosts. The hosts have insufficient resources.
What happens to the VMs?

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Which migration technique could be used to move a VM between vCenters while the VM is powered on?

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A VSS is configured with two uplinks and assigned a load balancing policy route based on a virtual port ID.
What are two potential disadvantages of this configuration? (Choose two.)

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Which permission should be granted to a user with Administrator permission and with no access to the encrypted VM console?

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Which feature allows a vSphere administrator to reduce power consumption on a cluster?

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An administrator manages a cluster containing Production and Test VMs. Production VMs run on a VSS port group and a storage array separate from the Test
VMs. The administrator wants to prevent large (>500GB) file transfers in Test from impacting Production.
Which two configuration changes should the administrator make to achieve this? (Choose two.)

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The VM storage policy compliance status is out of date.
Which step should the administrator take to maintain compliance with the existing storage policy?

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A vSphere administrator has a VM that needs to be deployed from a template located in an optimized content library.
What needs to be done before the VM can be deployed?

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A vSphere administrator has the privilege Content library > Add library item on the vCenter object, but is unable to add items to a local content library.
How would the vSphere administrator correct this?

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What should the administrator do to monitor the size of the VM snapshot?

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An administrator is elevating the security posture of a vSphere environment after a recent data breach. All VMs will be encrypted as part of this plan.
Which additional component is required for the encryption?

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How is vCenter HA different from vSphere HA?

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Which file extension can export host customization for host profiles?

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A vSphere administrator notices performance issues with the vCenter Server Appliance. The CPU usage is over 70%.
Which two actions should the administrator take to investigate the performance issues? (Choose two.)

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A vSphere Administrator is receiving complaints a database VM is experiencing performance issues. The VM is a member of the high priority resource pool and the cluster has not experienced contention.
Which condition should be checked to address immediate performance concerns?

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What could cause a high %RDY value?

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A vSphere Administrator wants to move a vCenter Server with an external Platform Services Controller from one SSO domain to another SSO domain.
Which option in cmsso-util will achieve this?

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Using vSphere HA Orchestrated Restart an administrator places the most mission critical VM in the highest priority. After a host failure, the highest priority VM fails to restart while VMs in high priority restart.
What would cause this to occur?

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An administrator wants to ensure the VMs for two different departments are separated on a single broadcast domain.
Which configuration fulfills this requirement?

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A vSphere administrator wants to enable Proactive HA in a vSphere cluster.
What is required to use this feature?

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A vSphere administrator is trying to create a resource pool but the option is grayed out.
What must be enabled before creating a resource pool?

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An administrator is concerned about the amount of time the IT team takes to create multiple VLANs in a very dynamic vSphere environment. The environment has these parameters:
✑ All virtual networking utilizes vSphere Standard Switches with uplinks to a Cisco Infrastructure
✑ Activities require 5-10 VLANs being created or removed every couple of days
✑ The IT team has three members
How can the administrator centralize the virtual networking configuration so the IT team utilizes time more efficiently?

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A cluster contains database VMs which have low utilization, except during a weekly data load that causes extremely high utilization.
As DRS balances the VM load, there is an extended period of slow performance.
Which two actions could be taken to reduce the impact of the recurring data load? (Choose two.)

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A vSphere Administrator configures Quick Boot to restart an ESXi host without rebooting the physical hardware.
In order to troubleshoot any ESXi Quick Boot issues which log file needs to be reviewed?]

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Refer to the exhibit.
What is required to fix the PSOD?

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An administrator decides to implement vSphere networking using the VDS.
Which binding option should the administrator use to manage the VMs if vCenter becomes unavailable?

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A vSphere administrator configures log forwarding for remote syslog server in a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) through the vCenter Server Appliance
Management Interface (VAMI).
What is the maximum number of remote syslog servers that can be configured?

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A vSphere administrator needs to migrate VMs in the same vCenter from New York to California due to impending severe weather.
Which migration should the administrator perform without causing VM downtime?

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Which vSphere APIs support storage hardware acceleration?

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A vSphere administrator discovers the size of the .vswp file for a VM with 2 vCPUs and 4GB of memory is zero.
What could be the cause?

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Which action should be taken to secure ISCSI devices in a vSphere environment?

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What are two advantages of deploying a VDS as compared to a VSS? (Choose two.)

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A vSphere administrator has renamed the inventory name of a virtual machine.
Which task should the administrator perform to ensure the virtual machine files are also renamed to match the new virtual machine name?

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An administrator needs to identify where the VM encryption settings are stored.
Which file stores the encryption setting?

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In a vSphere HA enabled cluster, what happens if the master host is unable to communicate with a slave host over the management network?

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Where is vCenter SSO configured?

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Which VM storage policy rule category ensures all VMs for a department are on the same datastore?

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After installing vCenter, which two identity sources and users are available by default? (Choose two.)

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A vSphere administrator has configured software iSCSI port binding in the environment with two VMkernel ports and four target portals.
How many iSCSI sessions would be created from bound ports to targets?

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A vSphere administrator is required to join all strategies ESXi hosts to an Active Directory domain for enhanced security.
Which utility would accomplish this?

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An administrator runs multiple clusters spread across multiple vCenters. The administrator needs to be able to migrate any VM to any cluster.
On which two vCenter Server objects could the administrator configure EVC mode to fulfill this requirement? (Choose two.)

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Which rule should be used in an SDRS environment to create a VM requiring virtual disks be kept on different datastores?

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What should be installed on a VM to enhance performance and enable additional features?

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Which two availability features require a VM restart for recovery? (Choose two.)

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A vSphere Administrator wants to convert a vCenter Server instance with an external Platform Services Controller to an embedded Platform Services Controller instance.
Which tool should be used to accomplish this?

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An administrator runs vSphere Infrastructure in the following configuration:
✑ Single vCenter
✑ Multiple data centers
✑ Multiple clusters under each data center, all with identical hardware
The administrator wants to use host profiles to manage the hosts.
Where should the administrator attach the host profile?

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A customer is experiencing a network performance problem and is using the esxtop utility to determine the cause. Esxtop reveals no dropped packets.
Which two conditions should the customer check? (Choose two.)

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A new AD domain has just been added to vSphere as an identity source. This new domain has a user group called administrators group.
Which role do the administrators group users have by default, when authenticated to vCenter Server?

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A vSphere administrator has to forward vCenter Server logs to a syslog server to be retained for security audits.
Which two protocols are available in vCenter Server Appliance VAMI for syslog forwarding? (Choose two.)

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A cluster of vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 hosts all have identical hardware. VMs are created on the 6.7 hosts with virtual hardware version 14. During routine maintenance on the 6.7 hosts, the VMs are unable to migrate to the 6.5 hosts.
Why are the VMs unable to migrate to the 6.5 hosts?

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Which optional module of vSphere Update Manager supports patch recalls and notifications?

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What is the outcome when two affinity rules conflict?

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A vSphere administrator needs to quickly move a critical VM from an AMD-cluster to an Intel-cluster.
How can the vSphere administrator move the VM?

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A VM is created with a thin provisioned disk.
Which two requirements are needed to inflate the disk? (Choose two.)

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What would cause an administrator to encounter a remote device backing error while running vMotion?

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Which host profile operation can be scheduled?

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An ESXi host with default settings is currently in normal lockdown mode.
Which action is granted to users with Administrator privileges on the host without adding them to the Exception User list?

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What could a vSphere administrator use to move a group of VMs to another port group?

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Per a customer request, a vSphere administrator increases the number of vCPUs in several VMs within a cluster. After the vCPU increase, the upgraded VMs exhibit slower performance. The vSphere administrator uses esxtop to check ESXi host performance.
Which two counters should be checked to detect CPU overcommitment? (Choose two.)

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A vSphere administrator has a requirement to move virtual machines between vCenter Servers using vSphere Client.
Which condition should be met for the Cross vCenter Server vMotion to succeed?

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Which command should be used to monitor free disk space on a vCenter Server Appliance?

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An application requires a high network transmission rate and multiple simultaneous TCP streams.
What is the maximum number of threads that can be created per vNIC?

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A vSphere administrator has disabled Fault Tolerance on a powered-off VM.
What could cause the VM to fail to power back on?

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An ESXi host is limited to two 1GbE physical NICs to support VM traffic.
Which VDS teaming policy should be chosen to ensure maximum availability across both uplinks?

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An administrator manages a team that regularly deploys many similar Windows VMs in the environment.
Which action should be taken to improve efficiency of this process?

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An administrator enables DRS and sets the automation level to Fully Automated. DRS is only making initial placement recommendations.
What is causing this?

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When enabled, what ensures only signed drivers can load into a virtual machine?

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An administrator configures vSphere Replication for a DR site.
Which two items should be deployed at the second site? (Choose two.)

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Rwefer to exhibit.
Each ESXi host has three NICs assigned to a virtual switch.
Which Network Failure Detection Policy will prevent network failover?

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A customer suspects someone or something is changing the MAC address of a virtual machine.
Which security policy should the customer modify to obtain more information?

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A vSphere administrator attempts to create a VM-VM affinity rule but is unable to locate the option in the vSpehre Client.
What would cause this to happen?

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Which policy is used for intelligent optimization of network interface traffic on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)?

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A vSphere administrator wants to ensure provisioned virtual machine storage objects are allocated to guarantee a service level agreement.
Which feature would accomplish this?

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A host profile is created from a reference host in Cluster A and applied to all hosts in the same cluster.
What effect is expected when the administrator updates the DNS settings on the reference host?

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An administrator is unable to use the vSphere Client shutdown option on a Windows VM.
What should be installed to correct this?

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An administrator manages a vSphere environment with the following configuration:
✑ HA enabled
✑ Admission Control enabled based on fixed slot size
✑ 1 VM with a memory reservation significantly larger than the fixed slot size
The administrator notices that occasionally the VM with the memory reservation fails to restart during an HA host failure event.
What could cause this to happen?

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A vSphere Administrator wants to group virtual machines by guest operating system type in vCenter Server.
Which feature would accomplish this?

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An application owner complains about poor performance on a VM named APPVM01. Troubleshooting indicates that another VM named DBVM01 on the same datastore is saturating the volume with I/O requests.
Which two actions can be taken to reduce DBVM01 impact on APPVM01, while still prioritizing DBVM01 disk I/O? (Choose two.)

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Which two options are available for a vSphere administrator to install ESXi on a host? (Choose two.)

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What are two features of the CPU scheduler? (Choose two.)

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Which condition would prevent a vSphere Administrator from increasing the vCPU on a virtual machine to 128 vCPUs?

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Which vSphere Update Manager baseline type is used for scanning and remediating objects third-party device drivers?

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How should an administrator assign a user the Administrator permission without encryption-related rights?

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A vSphere administrator is installing ESXi 6.7 on a diskless host booting from an onboard 8GB SD card.
What should be done to ensure log files are persisted through a host reboot?

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A VM is experiencing inconsistent network connectivity between two ESXi hosts connecting to the same physical switches. The effect of the inconsistency is this:
✑ vMotion from host 1 to host 2, network connection is down
✑ vMotion from host 2 to host 1, network connection is up
✑ vMotion from host 1 to host 2, network connection is up
The vSphere administrator wants to ensure the physical switches connecting to the ESXi are configured correctly.
How can this be accomplished?

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What provides certificate and license management services?

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Which two actions should an administrator take to ensure a VM has the highest networking bandwidth? (Choose two.)

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Which two infrastructure services are provided by the Platform Services Controller? (Choose two.)

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Which setting should be used to exclude one hard disk from VM snapshots?

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Which native feature could be used to protect virtual machine files and disks containing confidential customer data?

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Which condition would be prevent a vSphere Administrator from increasing the vCPU on a virtual machine to 128 vCPUs?

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What is required to convert a VM to a template?

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vCenter High Availability cluster consists of how many vCenter Server Appliance instances?

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What happens within the network when a customer uses a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) and vCenter is offline?

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An administrator is planning maintenance for a cluster with the following configuration:
✑ DRS is fully automated
✑ Dedicated 10GbE vMotion network
✑ iSCSI storage with CHAP
When a host is placed into maintenance mode, what is the maximum number of supported concurrent vMotion operations?

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VMs are violating affinity rules and DRS is unable to correct the rules violations.
Which two actions should an administrator take to identify why DRS is unable to satisfy the affinity rules? (Choose two.)

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R%efer to the exhibit.
A user requires full privileges on all VMs and templates in the X-Lence Datacenter except AX-1000. This user must not be able to view or change the AX-1000
VM.
Which two permissions for this user should the vSphere administrator define to achieve this? (Choose two.)

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A user asks for a VM to be deployed that must remain on the same host at all times.
How should DRS be configured for the VM?

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A user logs in to vCenter Server as an administrator and is unable to view Single Sign On Configuration. Which vCenter Single Sign On group should the administrator belong to, to view Single Sign On Configuration?

Practice test for vMware VCP 6.7 exam

An administrator is installing a Platform Services Controller instance. Which two options are available during the installation process? (Choose two.)

A vSphere Administrator has multiple virtual machines running on a VMFS datastore. Which option prioritizes the disk access for the virtual machines?

What should be installed on a VM to assist with VM-to-host time synchronization?

An administrator runs a vSphere cluster containing database VMs with extremely heavy disk I/O. Database VMs are placed on a costly all-flash array. The workloads are not memory intensive. How can the administrator ensure the most cost-effective utilization of the all-flash storage array?

What is a benefit of using resource pools?

This error is generated when a vSphere administrator takes a VM snapshot: An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine What should the administrator investigate to determine the cause of the failure?

A vSphere administrator is working in a high security environment. The administrator wants to ensure unencrypted VMs can be migrated securely. What should the vSphere administrator use to meet this requirement?

For security reasons the VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM) has no Internet access. What can be used to provide a central shared repository in a DMZ?

Which two tasks are allowed in the X-Lence data center? (Choose two.)

What are two components of a VM-Host affinity rule? (Choose two.)

What does ESXi Autoconfiguration do?

An administrator is using vSphere Web Client to configure the firewall to allow specific third-party application SSH access to an ESXi Host. What is the most secure way to configure the firewall rule?

In a single cluster VM encryption scenario, which two VMs should be excluded from encryption? (Choose two.)

Which vSphere feature is designed to distribute space usage and I/O load across multiple datastores?

A vSphere administrator creates a VM with 2 vCPUs and 4GB memory. A 3GB memory reservation is applied to the VM. What size is .vswp file when the VM is powered on?

Which teaming and failover policy offers the lowest latency when a failover or a migration with vSphere vMotion occurs?

Which two features should an administrator use to protect a VMware vCenter Server Appliance from host and hardware failures? (Choose two.)

Which DCUI option determines the time frame an administrator has to log in to the ESXI Shell after enabling the service?

An administrator is installing a Platform Services Controller instance.
Which two options are available during the installation process? (Choose two.)

A vSphere Administrator has multiple virtual machines running on a VMFS datastore.
Which option prioritizes the disk access for the virtual machines?

An administrator runs a vSphere cluster containing database VMs with extremely heavy disk I/O. Database VMs are placed on a costly all-flash array. The workloads are not memory intensive.
How can the administrator ensure the most cost-effective utilization of the all-flash storage array?

This error is generated when a vSphere administrator takes a VM snapshot:
An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine
What should the administrator investigate to determine the cause of the failure?

A vSphere administrator is working in a high security environment. The administrator wants to ensure unencrypted VMs can be migrated securely.
What should the vSphere administrator use to meet this requirement?

For security reasons the VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM) has no Internet access.
What can be used to provide a central shared repository in a DMZ?

An administrator is using vSphere Web Client to configure the firewall to allow specific third-party application SSH access to an ESXi Host.
What is the most secure way to configure the firewall rule?

A vSphere administrator uses a Dedicated Failover Hosts Admission Control Policy in a cluster. An ESXi host fails and vSphere HA attempts to restart the VMs onto the dedicated failover hosts. The hosts have insufficient resources.
What happens to the VMs?

A VSS is configured with two uplinks and assigned a load balancing policy route based on a virtual port ID.
What are two potential disadvantages of this configuration? (Choose two.)

The VM storage policy compliance status is out of date.
Which step should the administrator take to maintain compliance with the existing storage policy?

A vSphere administrator has a VM that needs to be deployed from a template located in an optimized content library.
What needs to be done before the VM can be deployed?

A vSphere administrator has the privilege Content library > Add library item on the vCenter object, but is unable to add items to a local content library.
How would the vSphere administrator correct this?

An administrator is elevating the security posture of a vSphere environment after a recent data breach. All VMs will be encrypted as part of this plan.
Which additional component is required for the encryption?

A vSphere administrator notices performance issues with the vCenter Server Appliance. The CPU usage is over 70%.
Which two actions should the administrator take to investigate the performance issues? (Choose two.)