Term
An administrator is installing a Platform Services Controller instance.
Which two options are available during the installation process? (Choose two.)
A. choose deployment size
B. specify vSphere administrator credentials
C. enable Enhanced Linked Mode
D. create a vCenter Single sign-on domain
E. join an existing domain |
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Definition
Correct Answer: DE
D. create a vCenter Single sign-on domain
E. join an existing domain |
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Term
A vSphere Administrator has multiple virtual machines running on a VMFS datastore.
Which option prioritizes the disk access for the virtual machines?
A. Disk Shares
B. Disk Mode
C. Disk Type
D. Hard Disk |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. Disk Shares |
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Term
What should be installed on a VM to assist with VM-to-host time synchronization?
A. VMware Tools
B. vRA guest agent
C. vROps agent
D. Guest Operations Manager |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. VMware Tools |
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Term
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?
A. Enable Storage I/O Control on the flash datastores.
B. Install VMware Tools on the database VMs to ensure the hypervisor can receive I/O metrics.
C. Use a VM-to-Host affinity rule to ensure database VMs are prioritized.
D. Edit the cluster settings to place the virtual machine swap file on a different storage tier. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Edit the cluster settings to place the virtual machine swap file on a different storage tier. |
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Term
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?
A. Adjust NIOC or SIOC as appropriate to give the QA department a higher compute priority within the cluster.
B. Create a resource pool for each department and use the Shares attribute to prioritize the allocation of resources.
C. Assign affinity or anti-affinity rules to the appropriate VMs for each department.
D. Set the VM priority to high for QA department VMs and normal for Marketing department VMs. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. Create a resource pool for each department and use the Shares attribute to prioritize the allocation of resources. |
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Term
What is a benefit of using resource pools?
A. Increased visibility of user activity
B. Increased vMotion efficiency for a set of VMs
C. Increased accuracy for proactive resources for a set of VMs
D. Increased ease of reserving resources for a set of VMs |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Increased ease of reserving resources for a set of VMs |
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Term
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. Check if the virtual machine is already running on snapshots.
B. Check if the virtual machine is in suspended state.
C. Check if VMware Tools is installed on virtual machine.
D. Check if the virtual machine has an ISO mounted. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Check if VMware Tools is installed on virtual machine. |
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Term
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?
A. vTPM
B. UEFI Secure Boot
C. KMS server
D. encrypted vSphere vMotion |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. encrypted vSphere vMotion |
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Term
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?
A. VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service
B. vSphere Authentication Proxy
C. VMware content library
D. vCenter Server Appliance |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service |
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Term
Which two tasks are allowed in the X-Lence data center? (Choose two.)
A. User C can convert AX-850 to VM.
B. User B can delete from disk XRK-01.
C. User A can take a snapshot on XRK-01.
D. User A can take a snapshot on AX-1000.
E. User C can view configuration of AX-1000. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: BD
B. User B can delete from disk XRK-01.
D. User A can take a snapshot on AX-1000. |
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Term
What are two components of a VM-Host affinity rule? (Choose two.)
A. Host Group
B. Cluster settings
C. VM restart priority
D. VM restart action
E. VM Group |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AE
A. Host Group
E. VM Group |
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Term
What does ESXi Autoconfiguration do?
A. sets up host profiles
B. configures system network and storage devices
C. determines the number of hosts to be deployed
D. configures Auto Deploy |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. configures system network and storage devices |
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Term
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. Specify remote IP subnet range in IP List.
B. Use Allow connection from any IP address.
C. Enable lockdown mode.
D. Disable the firewall. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. Specify remote IP subnet range in IP List. |
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Term
In a single cluster VM encryption scenario, which two VMs should be excluded from encryption? (Choose two.)
A. Platform Services Controller
B. vSphere Replication Appliance
C. vRealize Operations Manager
D. VMware vCenter Server
E. vRealize Log Insight |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AD
A. Platform Services Controller
D. VMware vCenter Server |
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Term
Which vSphere feature is designed to distribute space usage and I/O load across multiple datastores?
A. Storage Policies
B. vStorage API for Array Integration
C. Storage I/O Control
D. vSphere Storage DRS |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. vSphere Storage DRS |
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Term
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?
A. 1GB
B. 2GB
C. 3GB
D. 4GB |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. 1GB
.vswp = Swap File is calculated using the below formula:
Allocated Memory to VM - Reserve Memory to VM = Size of Swap file (.vswp) |
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Term
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?
A. The host has too many worlds running.
B. The host is ballooning.
C. The host has adequate memory.
D. The host is under CPU pressure. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. The host has adequate memory.
it's load average not CPU ready ;) and 0.36 is really low for this CPU. |
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Term
Which teaming and failover policy offers the lowest latency when a failover or a migration with vSphere vMotion occurs?
A. Network failure detection
B. Fallback
C. Notify switches
D. Load balancing |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Notify switches |
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Term
Which two features should an administrator use to protect a VMware vCenter Server Appliance from host and hardware failures? (Choose two.)
A. VMware Distributed Power Management
B. vCenter High Availability
C. vSphere High Availability
D. vSphere Fault Tolerance
E. VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler |
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Definition
Correct Answer: BC
B. vCenter High Availability
C. vSphere High Availability |
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Term
Which DCUI option determines the time frame an administrator has to log in to the ESXI Shell after enabling the service?
A. Idle Timeout
B. Availability Timeout
C. Enable SSH
D. Enable ESXi Shell |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. Availability Timeout |
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Term
Which two VMware solutions track and analyze the operation of multiple data sources? (Choose two.)
A. vRealize Log Insight
B. vRealize Operations Manager
C. vRealize Life Cycle Manager
D. vRealize Automation
E. vRealize Orchestrator |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AB
A. vRealize Log Insight
B. vRealize Operations Manager |
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Term
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?
A. Large
B. Tiny
C. Medium
D. Small |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Small |
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Term
What is used by a VM for direct access to a LUN?
A. vSAN
B. RDM
C. NVMe
D. ext3 |
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Definition
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Term
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. vSphere HA restarts VMs in another cluster.
B. vSphere HA suspends the VMs until a host is available.
C. vSphere HA powers down the VMs.
D. vSphere HA attempts to restart the VMs on other hosts in the cluster. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. vSphere HA attempts to restart the VMs on other hosts in the cluster. |
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Term
Which migration technique could be used to move a VM between vCenters while the VM is powered on?
A. Suspended
B. Shared-nothing vSphere vMotion
C. Cold
D. Storage vMotion |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. Shared-nothing vSphere vMotion |
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Term
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.)
A. A VM with a single MAC address is limited to the speed of the uplink associated with the relevant port ID.
B. Higher resource consumption compared to other load balancing algorithms will occur.
C. The virtual switch is unaware of uplink load and uplinks might become overloaded.
D. The NIC with less load is more likely to be chosen if port IDs match.
E. ESXi will use NIOC to attempt to mitigate network congestion when an uplink becomes saturated. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AC
A. A VM with a single MAC address is limited to the speed of the uplink associated with the relevant port ID.
C. The virtual switch is unaware of uplink load and uplinks might become overloaded. |
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Term
Which permission should be granted to a user with Administrator permission and with no access to the encrypted VM console?
A. New role with no Cryptographic Operations
B. Administrator role and Read Only Role
C. Administrator role
D. No Cryptography Administrator role |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. No Cryptography Administrator role |
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Term
Which feature allows a vSphere administrator to reduce power consumption on a cluster?
A. WOL
B. BMC
C. DPM
D. DNS |
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Definition
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Term
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.)
A. Migrate the VSS port groups to VDS port groups.
B. Install a second virtual NIC in the Production VMs.
C. Move the Production VMs to a resource pool with a memory reservation.
D. Enable the Test VMs to a dedicated folder with CPU shares set to low. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AB
A. Migrate the VSS port groups to VDS port groups.
B. Install a second virtual NIC in the Production VMs. |
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Term
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. Change the service level capability.
B. Assign a new storage policy.
C. Reapply the storage policy.
D. Migrate VM to another host. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Reapply the storage policy. |
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Term
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. Export the template as an OVF.
B. Clone the template to a new template.
C. A subscribed content library needs to be created.
D. Deploy VM from the template. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. A subscribed content library needs to be created. |
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Term
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?
A. Remove the No Access role on the vCenter object.
B. Restart the Content Library Service.
C. Assign the privilege to the global root object.
D. Reboot the vCenter Server Appliance. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Assign the privilege to the global root object. |
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Term
What should the administrator do to monitor the size of the VM snapshot?
A. Use native Guest OS monitoring tools.
B. Install VMware Tools.
C. Create a condition-based alarm.
D. Run esxtop. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Create a condition-based alarm. |
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Term
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. KMS server
B. two-factor authentication
C. encrypted vSphere vMotion
D. vSAN encryption |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. KMS server |
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Term
How is vCenter HA different from vSphere HA?
A. vCenter HA requires only an active and passive node.
B. vCenter HA requires an external Platform Services Controller.
C. vCenter HA requires Fault Tolerance.
D. vCenter HA requires an active, passive, and witness node. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. vCenter HA requires an active, passive, and witness node. |
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Term
Which file extension can export host customization for host profiles?
A. .xls
B. .xml
C. .csv
D. .json |
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Definition
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Term
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.)
A. Verify if all hosts are in a connected state.
B. Use esxtop to identify which process are using high CPU.
C. Use vimtop to identify which processes are using high CPU.
D. Check the vCenter HA configuration.
E. Check if vCenter Server is swapping. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: CE
C. Use vimtop to identify which processes are using high CPU.
E. Check if vCenter Server is swapping. |
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Term
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?
A. VM snapshots
B. VMFS version
C. Resource Pool share value
D. Configured CPU shares |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. VM snapshots |
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Term
What could cause a high %RDY value?
A. Incompatible network driver
B. memory fully allocated
C. too many vCPUs configured
D. disk latency greater than 2ms |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. too many vCPUs configured |
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Term
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?
A. domain-repoint
B. reconfigure
C. unregister
D. repoint |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. domain-repoint |
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Term
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?
A. There are insufficient cluster resources.
B. Performance degradation VMs tolerate threshold is at default.
C. VMware Tools is not installed.
D. Proactive HA is disabled. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. There are insufficient cluster resources.
A, its a host failure not a degradation
D would be for degradation |
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Term
An administrator wants to ensure the VMs for two different departments are separated on a single broadcast domain.
Which configuration fulfills this requirement?
A. PVLAN on Uplink Port
B. PVLAN on VMkernel Interface
C. PVLAN on VSS
D. PVLAN on VDS |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. PVLAN on VDS |
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Term
A vSphere administrator wants to enable Proactive HA in a vSphere cluster.
What is required to use this feature?
A. vROps must be installed.
B. DRS must be enabled.
C. DCUI must be enabled.
D. VCHA must be configured. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. DRS must be enabled. |
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Term
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?
A. DRS
B. Storage DRS
C. EVC
D. HA |
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Definition
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Term
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?
A. Deploy a vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) appliance.
B. Create and use a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS).
C. Enable and configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC).
D. Enable and configure vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC). |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. Create and use a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS). |
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Term
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.)
A. Increase the number of vCPUs on the database VMs.
B. Enable VMware vRealize Operations Manager Integration with VMware vCenter.
C. Enable Proactive HA on the cluster.
D. Enable Predictive DRS on the cluster.
E. Increase the RAM allocated to the database VMs. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: BD
B. Enable VMware vRealize Operations Manager Integration with VMware vCenter.
D. Enable Predictive DRS on the cluster. |
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Term
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?
A. vmkeventd.log
B. vmkernel.log
C. vpxa.log
D. loadESX.log |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. loadESX.log |
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Term
Refer to the exhibit.
What is required to fix the PSOD?
[image]
A. Skip unused VIBs during boot up.
B. Reboot the host.
C. Remove unsigned VIBs.
D. Reboot and enable secure boot from the UEFI Firmware interface. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Remove unsigned VIBs. |
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Term
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?
A. static
B. port
C. ephemeral
D. dynamic |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. ephemeral |
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Term
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?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4 |
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Definition
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Term
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?
A. Long Distance vMotion
B. Storage vMotion
C. Cold migration
D. Cross vCenter vMotion |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. Long Distance vMotion |
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Term
Which vSphere APIs support storage hardware acceleration?
A. vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
B. vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering (VAIO)
C. VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
D. VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI) |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI) |
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Term
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?
A. All VM memory is reserved.
B. Memory reservation is not set.
C. VM is running on a snapshot.
D. VM is in a suspended state. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. All VM memory is reserved. |
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Term
Which action should be taken to secure ISCSI devices in a vSphere environment?
A. Require Secure Remote Protocol.
B. Require ESXi hosts to use ISCSI port binding.
C. Require vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode.
D. Require ESXi hosts to authentication to the target. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Require ESXi hosts to authentication to the target. |
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Term
What are two advantages of deploying a VDS as compared to a VSS? (Choose two.)
A. Data center setup and administration are simplified by centralizing network configuration.
B. There is IPv6 support for a VDS.
C. 802.1Q tagging support is available.
D. Uplinks are allowed to be configured in an Active/Standby configuration.
E. Ports migrate with their clients. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AE
A. Data center setup and administration are simplified by centralizing network configuration.
E. Ports migrate with their clients. |
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Term
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?
A. Take a virtual machine snapshot.
B. Unregister and register the virtual machine in vCenter Server.
C. Migrate the machine to another host with vSphere vMotion.
D. Migrate the machine to another datastore with Storage vMotion. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Migrate the machine to another datastore with Storage vMotion. |
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Term
An administrator needs to identify where the VM encryption settings are stored.
Which file stores the encryption setting?
A. .vmdk
B. .vmsd
C. .nvram
D. .vmx |
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Definition
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Term
In a vSphere HA enabled cluster, what happens if the master host is unable to communicate with a slave host over the management network?
A. The host is dropped from the cluster.
B. The master host uses datastore heartbeating.
C. A new master host is elected.
D. VM are rebooted by vSphere HA. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. The master host uses datastore heartbeating. |
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Term
Where is vCenter SSO configured?
A. In the service console
B. In the DCUI
C. In the vSphere client
D. In the host client |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. In the vSphere client |
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Term
Which VM storage policy rule category ensures all VMs for a department are on the same datastore?
A. Capability
B. Data Service
C. Host
D. Tag |
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Definition
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Term
After installing vCenter, which two identity sources and users are available by default? (Choose two.)
A. vsphere.vclass
B. Active Directory
C. vsphere.local
D. vIDM
E. localos |
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Definition
Correct Answer: CE
C. vsphere.local
E. localos |
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Term
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?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 16 |
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Definition
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Term
A vSphere administrator is required to join all strategies ESXi hosts to an Active Directory domain for enhanced security.
Which utility would accomplish this?
A. Unified Access Gateway
B. vSphere Update Manager
C. vSphere Authentication Proxy
D. vSphere Auto Deploy |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. vSphere Authentication Proxy |
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Term
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.)
A. VM
B. resource pool
C. datacenter
D. cluster
E. folder |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AD
A. VM
D. cluster |
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Term
Which rule should be used in an SDRS environment to create a VM requiring virtual disks be kept on different datastores?
A. VM Anti-Affinity Rule
B. Intra-VM VMDK Affinity Rule
C. VM-Host Affinity Rule
D. Intra-VM VMDK Anti-Affinity Rule |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Intra-VM VMDK Anti-Affinity Rule |
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Term
What should be installed on a VM to enhance performance and enable additional features?
A. RAMmap
B. PsInfo
C. Process Monitor
D. VMware Tools |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. VMware Tools |
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Term
Which two availability features require a VM restart for recovery? (Choose two.)
A. vSphere DPM
B. vSphere vMotion
C. vSphere Replication
D. vSphere Fault Tolerance
E. vSphere HA |
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Definition
Correct Answer: CE
C. vSphere Replication
E. vSphere HA |
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Term
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?
A. VMware vCenter Converter
B. CloudClient Utility
C. Convergence Utility
D. Cmsso-util Utility |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Convergence Utility |
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Term
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?
A. vCenter object
B. each cluster
C. each data center
D. each folder |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. each cluster |
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Term
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.)
A. packet size
B. data receive rate
C. IPv6 support
D. CPU contention |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AB
A. packet size
B. data receive rate |
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Term
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?
A. Read Only
B. No Cryptography Administrator
C. Administrator
D. No Access |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. No Access |
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Term
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.)
A. HTTPS
B. SSL
C. DTLS
D. UDP
E. TLS |
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Definition
Correct Answer: DE
D. UDP
E. TLS |
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Term
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?
A. The virtual hardware version is incompatible with 6.5
B. VMware Tools version is upgraded
C. EVC mode is disabled
D. DPM is configured incorrectly |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. The virtual hardware version is incompatible with 6.5 |
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Term
Which optional module of vSphere Update Manager supports patch recalls and notifications?
A. VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service
B. vCenter Server Lifecycle Manager Service
C. vSphere Auto Deploy
D. VMware vSphere Update Manager Extension |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service |
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Term
What is the outcome when two affinity rules conflict?
A. VMs will continue to migrate
B. Rules are applied based on priority
C. Only one rule can be enabled
D. Random rule enablement occurs |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Only one rule can be enabled |
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Term
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?
A. vSphere Storage vMotion
B. vSphere encrypted vMotion
C. vSphere vMotion
D. Cold Migration |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Cold Migration |
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Term
A VM is created with a thin provisioned disk.
Which two requirements are needed to inflate the disk? (Choose two.)
A. Right click .vmx and select Inflate
B. Right click .vmdk and select Inflate
C. Reboot the VM
D. Power off the VM
E. Edit the .vmdk file |
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Definition
Correct Answer: BD
B. Right click .vmdk and select Inflate
D. Power off the VM |
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Term
What would cause an administrator to encounter a remote device backing error while running vMotion?
A. VM running on too many snapshots
B. Host CD-ROM attached to VM
C. Virtual mode RDM attached to VM
D. Host USB device attached to VM |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. Host CD-ROM attached to VM |
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Term
Which host profile operation can be scheduled?
A. Check Host Profile Compliance
B. Apply Host Profile
C. Remediate a Profile
D. Detach Host Profile |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. Check Host Profile Compliance |
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Term
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?
A. Access the host using the vCenter Server
B. Access the host using an SSH session
C. Access the host using the Host Client
D. Access the host using the ESXi Shell |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. Access the host using the vCenter Server |
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Term
What could a vSphere administrator use to move a group of VMs to another port group?
A. Network I/O Control
B. IP hash
C. Network Port Binding
D. vSphere vMotion |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. vSphere vMotion |
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Term
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.)
A. %SWPWT
B. %USED
C. %MLMTD
D. %SYS
E. %RDY |
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Definition
Correct Answer: BE
B. %USED
E. %RDY |
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Term
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?
A. vCenter Servers must be time-synchronized
B. vCenter Servers should be appliances
C. vCenter Servers should be in different vCenter Single Sign-on domains
D. vCenter Servers should be on the same version |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. vCenter Servers must be time-synchronized |
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Term
Which command should be used to monitor free disk space on a vCenter Server Appliance?
A. df
B. esxtop
C. cloudvm-ram-size
D. vimtop |
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Definition
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Term
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?
A. 4
B. 6
C. 8
D. 10 |
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Definition
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Term
A vSphere administrator has disabled Fault Tolerance on a powered-off VM.
What could cause the VM to fail to power back on?
A. insufficient CPU resources
B. VM shares
C. VM limits
D. insufficient memory resources |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. insufficient memory resources |
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Term
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?
A. Route Based on IP Hash
B. Route Based on Originating Virtual Port
C. Route Based on Physical NIC Load
D. Route Based on Source MAC |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Route Based on Physical NIC Load |
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Term
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?
A. take VM snapshots
B. use the New Virtual Machine wizard
C. deploy from a VM template
D. restore from a VM backup |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. deploy from a VM template |
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Term
An administrator enables DRS and sets the automation level to Fully Automated. DRS is only making initial placement recommendations.
What is causing this?
A. DRS is set to aggressive
B. HA is disabled on the cluster
C. The VMs have virtual flash reservations
D. vMotion network is misconfigured |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. vMotion network is misconfigured |
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Term
When enabled, what ensures only signed drivers can load into a virtual machine?
A. Secure Boot
B. lockdown mode
C. micro-segmentation
D. TPM |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. Secure Boot |
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Term
An administrator configures vSphere Replication for a DR site.
Which two items should be deployed at the second site? (Choose two.)
A. array-based storage
B. vSphere Replication appliance
C. vCenter Server
D. vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)
E. vSphere Data Protection (VDP) |
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Definition
Correct Answer: BC
B. vSphere Replication appliance
C. vCenter Server |
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Term
Refer to the exhibit.
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Each ESXi host has three NICs assigned to a virtual switch.
Which Network Failure Detection Policy will prevents network failover?
A. Notify Switches Policy
B. Link status only
C. Failback Policy
D. Beacon probing |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Beacon probing |
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Term
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?
A. MAC Address Change
B. Promiscuous Mode
C. Discovery Protocol
D. Forged Transmits |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. Promiscuous Mode |
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Term
A vSphere administrator attempts to create a VM-VM affinity rule but is unable to locate the option in the vSphere Client.
What would cause this to happen?
A. vSphere DRS is disabled
B. vSphere DRS is set to manual
C. Admission control is not enabled
D. Affinity rules are only managed using the Host Client |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. vSphere DRS is disabled |
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Term
Which policy is used for intelligent optimization of network interface traffic on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)?
A. Route Based on IP Hash
B. Route Based on Source MAC Hash
C. Route Based on Physical NIC Load
D. Route Based on Originating Virtual Port |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Route Based on Physical NIC Load |
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Term
A vSphere administrator wants to ensure provisioned virtual machine storage objects are allocated to guarantee a service level agreement.
Which feature would accomplish this?
A. Storage policy
B. VAIO Filtering
C. Storage I/O Control
D. Storage DRS |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. Storage policy |
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Term
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?
A. DNS settings are updated for all hosts in the cluster
B. The reference host becomes non-compliant
C. The reference host enters maintenance mode
D. The host profile is updated automatically |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. The reference host becomes non-compliant |
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Term
An administrator is unable to use the vSphere Client shutdown option on a Windows VM.
What should be installed to correct this?
A. Autologon
B. Windows Updates
C. PortMon
D. VMware Tools |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. VMware Tools |
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Term
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?
A. Failover capacity is exceeded due to the memory reservation
B. vMotion network needs more bandwidth to restart the reserved VM
C. VMs with reservations must be in their own dedicated cluster
D. DRS must be enabled when admission control is enabled |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. Failover capacity is exceeded due to the memory reservation |
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Term
A vSphere Administrator wants to group virtual machines by guest operating system type in vCenter Server.
Which feature would accomplish this?
A. Custom Attributes
B. vSphere Tags
C. Enhanced Linked Mode
D. vFRC |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. vSphere Tags |
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Term
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.)
A. Configure APPVM01 with a shares limit of Low, and DBVM01 with a shares limit of Normal
B. Enable Network I/O Control on the cluster containing APPM01 and DBVM01
C. Enable Storage I/O Control on the cluster containing APPVM01 and DBVM01
D. Enable Storage I/O Control on the datastore containing APPM01 and DBVM01
E. Configure APPVM01 with a shares limit of High, and DBVM01 with a shares limit of Normal |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AD
A. Configure APPVM01 with a shares limit of Low, and DBVM01 with a shares limit of Normal
D. Enable Storage I/O Control on the datastore containing APPM01 and DBVM01 |
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Term
Which two options are available for a vSphere administrator to install ESXi on a host? (Choose two.)
A. vSphere Replication
B. VMware Workspace ONE
C. vSphere Update Manager
D. Interactive Mode
E. vSphere Auto Deploy |
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Definition
Correct Answer: DE
D. Interactive Mode
E. vSphere Auto Deploy |
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Term
What are two features of the CPU scheduler? (Choose two.)
A. allocates CPU and memory resource usage
B. determines which worlds are entitled to CPU time
C. schedules vCPUs on physical CPUs
D. creates a world for each virtual machine to run it
E. checks CPU uptime |
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Definition
Correct Answer: BC
B. determines which worlds are entitled to CPU time
C. schedules vCPUs on physical CPUs |
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Term
Which condition would prevent a vSphere Administrator from increasing the vCPU on a virtual machine to 128 vCPUs?
A. CPU Affinity is enabled on the virtual machine
B. The host is running on the Enterprise license
C. There are too few logical cores on the host
D. Hyper-threading is enabled on the host |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. There are too few logical cores on the host |
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Term
Which vSphere Update Manager baseline type is used for scanning and remediating objects third-party device drivers?
A. upgrade
B. extension baseline
C. patch
D. predefined |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. extension baseline |
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Term
How should an administrator assign a user the Administrator permission without encryption-related rights?
A. Grant the user the Virtual Machine Power User role
B. Grant the user the No Cryptography Administrator role
C. Grant the user the Administrator role
D. Grant the user No Access role on encrypted VMs |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. Grant the user the No Cryptography Administrator role |
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Term
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?
A. Manually create scratch partition on the SD card
B. By default the log files will be stored on the SD card
C. Ensure vCenter Dump Collector service is running
D. Configure the scratch partition to use an available datastore |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Configure the scratch partition to use an available datastore |
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Term
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?
A. Use Network Health Check to verify the VLAN trunks on VSS
B. Use vSphere Health Check to verify on MTU settings on VDS
C. Use Network Health Check to verify the VLAN trunks on VDS
D. Use Network Health Check to verify MTU settings on VSS |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Use Network Health Check to verify the VLAN trunks on VDS |
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Term
What provides certificate and license management services?
A. Auto Deploy
B. Unified Access Gateway
C. vCenter Service
D. Platform Services Controller |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Platform Services Controller |
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Term
Which two actions should an administrator take to ensure a VM has the highest networking bandwidth? (Choose two.)
A. Configure traffic shaping
B. Configure LACP
C. Configure resource pools
D. Configure shares, reservations, and limits
E. Configure marking and filtering |
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Definition
Correct Answer: CD
C. Configure resource pools
D. Configure shares, reservations, and limits |
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Term
Which two infrastructure services are provided by the Platform Services Controller? (Choose two.)
A. Auto Deploy
B. License Service
C. vCenter Single Sign-On
D. vSphere Syslog Collector
E. vSphere Web Client |
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Definition
Correct Answer: BC
B. License Service
C. vCenter Single Sign-On |
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Term
Which setting should be used to exclude one hard disk from VM snapshots?
A. Thin Provision disk type
B. Dependent disk mode
C. Independent disk mode
D. Passthrough device mode |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Independent disk mode |
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Term
Which native feature could be used to protect virtual machine files and disks containing confidential customer data?
A. VMware Tools
B. vCenter HA
C. VM encryption
D. VDP |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. VM encryption |
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Term
What is the default vCenter Server role for a new user?
A. No Access
B. No Cryptography Administrator
C. Read-Only
D. Administrator |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. No Access |
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Term
Which condition would be prevent a vSphere Administrator from increasing the vCPU on a virtual machine to 128 vCPUs?
A. CPU Affinity is enabled on the virtual machine.
B. The host is running on the Enterprise license.
C. Hyper-threading is enabled on the host.
D. There are too few logical cores on the host. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. There are too few logical cores on the host |
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Term
What is required to convert a VM to a template?
A. Power off the virtual machine.
B. Choose a thin-provisioned format.
C. Reregister the template.
D. Select a storage policy. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: A
A. Power off the virtual machine. |
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Term
A vCenter High Availability cluster consists of how many vCenter Server Appliance instances?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5 |
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Definition
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Term
What happens within the network when a customer uses a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) and vCenter is offline?
A. An isolation event occurs.
B. Network is lost.
C. Packets continue to be forwarded.
D. Network runs with intermittent failures. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: C
C. Packets continue to be forwarded. |
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Term
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?
A. 4
B. 6
C. 8
D. 10 |
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Definition
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Term
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.)
A. Review VM Overrides tab.
B. Review systems logs.
C. Review if violated rules are in vCenter VAMI.
D. Review Faults tab in DRS.
E. Review VM OS logs. |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AD
A. Review VM Overrides tab.
D. Review Faults tab in DRS. |
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Term
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Refer 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.)
A. Read Only role on AX-1000
B. Administrator role on X-Lence Datacenter
C. No Access role on AX-1000
D. Read Only role on X-Lence Datacenter
E. VM Power User role on X-Lence Datacenter |
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Definition
Correct Answer: BC
B. Administrator role on X-Lence Datacenter
C. No Access role on AX-1000 |
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Term
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?
A. Use cluster settings
B. Partially Automated
C. Fully Automated
D. Disabled |
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Definition
Correct Answer: D
D. Disabled |
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Term
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?
A. ComponentManager.Administrators
B. Administrators
C. SystemConfiguration.Administrators
D. SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdministrators |
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Definition
Correct Answer: B
B. Administrators |
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Term
vCenter Single Sign-On installation displays an error referring to the vCenter Server or the vSphere Web Client.
error: "Could not contact Lookup Service. Please check VM_ssoreg.log..." what could cause such a thing to occur?
(Choose Two)
A. Bad Time Synch
B. Certificates are invalid
C. SSO credentials are incorrect.
D. Firewall ports are blocked
E. VPXA service stopped |
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Definition
Correct Answer: AB
A. Bad Time Synch
B. Certificates are invalid |
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Term
Installing vCenter Server 6.7 with Platform Service Provider what could be the cause for the following Error
"Something with "Lookup service not reachable" (choose two)
A. vpxd service stopped
B. Firewall ports blocked
C. certificate invalid
D. esxi hosts out of sync |
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Definition
Correct Answer: BD
B. Firewall ports blocked
D. esxi hosts out of sync |
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