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
What is used by a VM for direct access to a LUN?
- A . vSAN
- B . RDM
- C . NVMe
- D . ext3
B
Explanation:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc%2FGUID-D06EC5D3-FCE6-4E07-8967-0D146A12FEA0.html
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.
D
Explanation:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc_50%2FGUID-C4F5F9EE-4235-4151-BEBE-FCB2A752407B.html
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
D
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-FE2B516E-7366-4978-B75C-64BF0AC676EB.html
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?
- 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.
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
D
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-17568345-E59E-43A8-A811-92F8BE9C7719.html#GUID-17568345-E59E-43A8-A811-92F8BE9C7719
Which feature allows a vSphere administrator to reduce power consumption on a cluster?
- A . WOL
- B . BMC
- C . DPM
- D . DNS
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.
D
Explanation:
https://nolabnoparty.com/en/vmware-vcenter-high-availability-setup-pt-1/
Which file extension can export host customization for host profiles?
- A . .xls
- B . .xml
- C . .csv
- D . .json
C
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.hostprofiles.doc/GUID-2E7398E2-1CF2-4448-96A3-1371B10936B1.html
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.
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
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
Refer to the exhibit.
What is required to fix the PSOD?
- 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.
D
Explanation:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147606
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
C
Explanation:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1022312
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
C
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vcsa.doc/GUID-9633A961-A5C3-4658-B099-B81E0512DC21.html
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
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)
D
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-F0FA0117-D48F-4F6F-BE3F-A06BF26F742C.html
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.
A
Explanation:
swap file = configured memory? memory reservation
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.
D
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-DFC745FB-CDD6-4828-8948-4D0E0561EEF8.html
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.
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.
D
Explanation:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1029513
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
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.
D
Explanation:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc_50%2FGUID-B9ACCE9B-A14D-4B2F-87EF-4B0A67ABDF58.html
Where is vCenter SSO configured?
- A . In the service console
- B . In the DCUI
- C . In the vSphere client
- D . In the host client
C
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.psc.doc/GUID-A2A90265-4A6B-4E23-9681-97B867E55457.html
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
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
CE
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.psc.doc/GUID-B23B1360-8838-4FF2-B074-71643C4CB040.html
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
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
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
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
D
Explanation:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc%2FGUID-FC84ECD9-C7DA-4D27-B5EC-0C8E396A6800.html
What should be installed on a VM to enhance performance and enable additional features?
- A . RAMmap
- B . PsInfo
- C . Process Monitor
- D . VMware Tools
D
Explanation:
https://pubs.vmware.com/fusion-4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.fusion.help.doc%2FGUID-82AEC35C-D3DC-42F4-A84B-542B1D501D2B.html
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
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 . Cloud Client Utility
- C . Convergence Utility
- D . Cmsso-util Utility
C
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vcenter.install.doc/GUID-A4E3C370-5F20-4A8D-9E66-FB45DD5CDD02.html
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
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
When using VMware Converter to import a Windows server and improve the consistency of the destination virtual machine, which optional step can be performed immediately prior to powering down the source server?
- A . Perform a final synchronization task.
- B . Remove the server from the network.
- C . Uninstall production applications.
- D . Remove the server from the Active Directory domain.
Restoration of the vCenter Server Appliance is accomplished using which interface?
- A . vSphere Web Client
- B . vSphere Client
- C . vCenter Server ApplianceManagement Interface
- D . vCenter Server ApplianceGUI Installer
When will vSphere Data Protection delete the expired backup image of a Platform Service Controller?
- A . Immediately after the retention period has expired.
- B . After the expired backup image is restored.
- C . During the next backup window following expiry.
- D . During the next maintenance window following expiry.
Which two storage technologies are supported for MSCS? (Choose two.)
- A . NFS
- B . VAAI
- C . iSCSI
- D . FC
The administrator must back up a vCenter HA deployment.
Which component must be backed up?
- A . Passive node
- B . Witness node
- C . External database
- D . Active node
vSphere Availability considers which two factors for virtual machine restarts? (Choose two.)
- A . Host Isolation Response
- B . file accessibility
- C . NUMA node size
- D . resource reservations
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
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
A
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-C0D8326A-B6E7-4E61-8470-6C173FDDF656.html
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.
D
Explanation:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc%2FGUID-2D749168-6BEE-4218-B956-88980CE6AA9E.html
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 resource.
- 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.
B
Explanation:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc%2FGUID-3BD591CC-F685-4843-A46E-836B33E91B3E.html
Which port is used for communication between ESXi and vSphere Data protection?
- A . 80
- B . 443
- C . 902
- D . 22
Which two choices are applicable to vSphere Availability? (Choose two.)
- A . Heartbeat Datastores
- B . VM Startup/Shutdoown
- C . Power Management
- D . Admission Control
Which two options can optimize conversion with VMware Converter? (Choose two.)
- A . Disable real-time antivirus scanners.
- B . Remove the source from Active Directory.
- C . Remove third-party device drivers.
- D . Exclude diagnostic partitions from conversion.
- E . Disable Volume Shadow Copy (VSS).
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
A
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vcenter.install.doc/GUID-6994BBFF-D774-4D83-B694-6595E06569AC.html
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.
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
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.
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
A
Explanation:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1004098
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).
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.
BD
Explanation:
https://vspherecentral.vmware.com/t/resource-management-and-availability/vsphere-resources-and-availability/predictive-drs/
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
Which two logs should be examined to troubleshoot a Windows vCenter Server upgrade failure? (Choose two.)
- A . vminst.log
- B . vim-um-msi.log
- C . firstboot.log
- D . pkgmgr.log
When working with VM-VM DRS rules (affinity/anti-affinity), which statement is correct?
- A . DRS gives higher priority to preventing violations of affinity rules than violations of anti-affinity rules.
- B . DRS gives the same priority to preventing violations of anti-affinity rules as affinity rules.
- C . DRS does not allow both affinity and anti-affinity rules to be enabled at the same time within a cluster.
- D . DRS gives higher priority to preventing violations of anti-affinity rules than violations of affinity rules.
Which statement is true regarding Network-Aware DRS?
- A . Network-Aware DRS will perform load-balancing based on the communication of virtual machines with one another.
- B . Network-Aware DRS is enabled through DRS advanced options.
- C . Network-Aware DRS only generated suggested moves; administrators must go in and accept each Network-Aware DRS suggestion manually.
- D . Network-Aware DRS will perform a final check during regular DRS load-balancing to ensure that the destination host is not network saturated.
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
DE
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.install.doc/GUID-AD3C6884-C1CC-4A2A-A373-1BA240C44C38.html
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
A
Explanation:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1004455
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.
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
AE
Explanation:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc%2FGUID-2FB90EF5-7733-4095-8B66-F10D6C57B820.html
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
B
Explanation:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc%2FGUID-3A409297-517E-4E7D-99D0-DE41386911B3.html
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.
In a single cluster VM encryption scenario, which two VMs should be executed from encryption? (Choose two.)
- A . Platform Services Controller
- B . vSphere Replication Appliance
- C . vRealize Operations Manager
- D . VMware vCenter Server
- E . vRealize Log Insight
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
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
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.
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