Question 1
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An administrator is installing a Platform Services Controller instance.
Which two options are available during the installation process? (Choose two.)
Answer
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choose deployment size
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specify vSphere administrator credentials
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enable Enhanced Linked Mode
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create a vCenter Single sign-on domain
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join an existing domain
Question 2
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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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Disk Shares
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Disk Mode
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Disk Type
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Hard Disk
Question 3
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What should be installed on a VM to assist with VM-to-host time synchronization?
Answer
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VMware Tools
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vRA guest agent
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vROps agent
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Guest Operations Manager
Question 4
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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?
Answer
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Enable Storage I/O Control on the flash datastores.
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. Install VMware Tools on the database VMs to ensure the hypervisor can receive I/O metrics.
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Use a VM-to-Host affinity rule to ensure database VMs are prioritized.
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Edit the cluster settings to place the virtual machine swap file on a different storage tier.
Question 5
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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?.
Answer
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Create a resource pool for each department and use the Shares attribute to prioritize the allocation of resources..
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Assign affinity or anti-affinity rules to the appropriate VMs for each department..
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Set the VM priority to high for QA department VMs and normal for Marketing department VMs..
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Adjust NIOC or SIOC as appropriate to give the QA department a higher compute priority within the cluster.
Question 6
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What is a benefit of using resource pools?
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Increased visibility of user activity.
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Increased vMotion efficiency for a set of VMs.
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Increased accuracy for proactive resources for a set of VMs.
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Increased ease of reserving resources for a set of VMs.
Question 7
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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?
Answer
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Check if the virtual machine is already running on snapshots.
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Check if the virtual machine is in suspended state.
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Check if VMware Tools is installed on virtual machine.
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Check if the virtual machine has an ISO mounted.
Question 8
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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?
Question 9
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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?
Question 10
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Which two tasks are allowed in the X-Lence data center? (Choose two.)
Answer
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User C can convert AX-850 to VM
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User B can delete from disk XRK-01.
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User A can take a snapshot on XRK-01
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User A can take a snapshot on AX-1000
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User C can view configuration of AX-1000
Question 11
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What are two components of a VM-Host affinity rule? (Choose two.)
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Host Group
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Cluster settings
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VM restart priority
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VM restart action
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VM Group
Question 12
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What does ESXi Autoconfiguration do?
Question 13
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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?
Question 14
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In a single cluster VM encryption scenario, which two VMs should be excluded from encryption? (Choose two.)
Answer
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Platform Services Controller
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vSphere Replication Appliance
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vRealize Operations Manager
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VMware vCenter Server
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vRealize Log Insight
Question 15
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Which vSphere feature is designed to distribute space usage and I/O load across multiple datastores?
Question 16
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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?
Question 17
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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?
Answer
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The host has too many worlds running
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The host is ballooning
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The host has adequate memory.
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The host is under CPU pressure.
Question 18
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Which teaming and failover policy offers the lowest latency when a failover or a migration with vSphere vMotion occurs?
Question 19
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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.)
Answer
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VMware Distributed Power Management
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vCenter High Availability
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vSphere High Availability
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vSphere Fault Tolerance
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VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
Question 20
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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?
Answer
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Idle Timeout
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Availability Timeout
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Enable SSH
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Enable ESXi Shell
Question 21
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Which two VMware solutions track and analyze the operation of multiple data sources? (Choose two.)
Question 22
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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?
Question 23
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What is used by a VM for direct access to a LUN?
Question 24
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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?
Answer
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vSphere HA restarts VMs in another cluster.
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. vSphere HA suspends the VMs until a host is available.
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. vSphere HA powers down the VMs.
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vSphere HA attempts to restart the VMs on other hosts in the cluster.
Question 25
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Which migration technique could be used to move a VM between vCenters while the VM is powered on?
Question 26
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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.)
Answer
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A VM with a single MAC address is limited to the speed of the uplink associated with the relevant port ID.
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Higher resource consumption compared to other load balancing algorithms will occur.
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The NIC with less load is more likely to be chosen if port IDs match.
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ESXi will use NIOC to attempt to mitigate network congestion when an uplink becomes saturated.
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The virtual switch is unaware of uplink load and uplinks might become overloaded.
Question 27
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Which permission should be granted to a user with Administrator permission and with no access to the encrypted VM console?
Answer
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New role with no Cryptographic Operations
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Administrator role and Read Only Role
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Administrator role
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No Cryptography Administrator role
Question 28
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Which feature allows a vSphere administrator to reduce power consumption on a cluster?
Question 29
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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.)
Answer
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Migrate the VSS port groups to VDS port groups.
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Install a second virtual NIC in the Production VMs.
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Move the Production VMs to a resource pool with a memory reservation.
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Enable the Test VMs to a dedicated folder with CPU shares set to low.
Question 30
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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?
Answer
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Change the service level capability.
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Assign a new storage policy.
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Reapply the storage policy.
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Migrate VM to another host.
Question 31
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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?
Answer
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Export the template as an OVF.
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Clone the template to a new template.
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A subscribed content library needs to be created.
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Deploy VM from the template.
Question 32
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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?
Answer
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Remove the No Access role on the vCenter object
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Restart the Content Library Service.
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Assign the privilege to the global root object.
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Reboot the vCenter Server Appliance.
Question 33
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What should the administrator do to monitor the size of the VM snapshot?
Question 34
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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?
Question 35
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How is vCenter HA different from vSphere HA?
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vCenter HA requires only an active and passive node.
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vCenter HA requires an external Platform Services Controller.
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vCenter HA requires Fault Tolerance.
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vCenter HA requires an active, passive, and witness node.
Question 36
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Which file extension can export host customization for host profiles?
Question 37
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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.)
Answer
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Verify if all hosts are in a connected state.
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Use esxtop to identify which process are using high CPU.
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Use vimtop to identify which processes are using high CPU.
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Check the vCenter HA configuration.
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Check if vCenter Server is swapping.
Question 38
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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?
Question 39
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What could cause a high %RDY value?
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Incompatible network driver
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memory fully allocated
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too many vCPUs configured
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disk latency greater than 2ms
Question 40
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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?
Answer
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domain-repoint
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reconfigure
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unregister
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repoint
Question 41
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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?
Answer
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There are insufficient cluster resources.
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Performance degradation VMs tolerate threshold is at default.
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VMware Tools is not installed.
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Proactive HA is disabled.
Question 42
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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?
Question 43
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A vSphere administrator wants to enable Proactive HA in a vSphere cluster.
What is required to use this feature?
Answer
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vROps must be installed.
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DRS must be enabled.
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DCUI must be enabled.
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VCHA must be configured.
Question 44
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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?
Question 45
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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?
Answer
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Deploy a vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) appliance.
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Create and use a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS).
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Enable and configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC).
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Enable and configure vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC).
Question 46
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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.)
Answer
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Increase the number of vCPUs on the database VMs.
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Enable VMware vRealize Operations Manager Integration with VMware vCenter.
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Enable Predictive DRS on the cluster.
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Enable Proactive HA on the cluster.
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Increase the RAM allocated to the database VMs.
Question 47
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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?]
Answer
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vmkeventd.log
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vmkernel.log
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vpxa.log
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loadESX.log
Question 48
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Refer to the exhibit.
What is required to fix the PSOD?
Question 49
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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?
Answer
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static
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port
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ephemeral
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dynamic
Question 50
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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?
Question 51
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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?
Answer
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Long Distance vMotion
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Storage vMotion
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Cold migration
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Cross vCenter vMotion
Question 52
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Which vSphere APIs support storage hardware acceleration?
Answer
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vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
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vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering (VAIO)
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VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
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VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI)
Question 53
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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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All VM memory is reserved.
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Memory reservation is not set.
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VM is running on a snapshot.
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VM is in a suspended state.
Question 54
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Which action should be taken to secure ISCSI devices in a vSphere environment?
Answer
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Require Secure Remote Protocol.
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Require ESXi hosts to use ISCSI port binding.
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Require vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode.
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Require ESXi hosts to authentication to the target.
Question 55
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What are two advantages of deploying a VDS as compared to a VSS? (Choose two.)
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Data center setup and administration are simplified by centralizing network configuration.
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There is IPv6 support for a VDS.
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802.1Q tagging support is available.
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Uplinks are allowed to be configured in an Active/Standby configuration.
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Ports migrate with their clients.
Question 56
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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?
Answer
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. Take a virtual machine snapshot.
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Unregister and register the virtual machine in vCenter Server.
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Migrate the machine to another host with vSphere vMotion.
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Migrate the machine to another datastore with Storage vMotion.
Question 57
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An administrator needs to identify where the VM encryption settings are stored.
Which file stores the encryption setting?
Question 58
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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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The host is dropped from the cluster.
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The master host uses datastore heartbeating.
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A new master host is elected.
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VM are rebooted by vSphere HA.
Question 59
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Where is vCenter SSO configured?
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In the service console
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In the DCUI
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In the vSphere client
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In the host client
Question 60
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Which VM storage policy rule category ensures all VMs for a department are on the same datastore?
Answer
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Capability
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Data Service
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Host
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Tag
Question 61
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After installing vCenter, which two identity sources and users are available by default? (Choose two.)
Answer
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vsphere.vclass
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Active Directory
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vsphere.local
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vIDM
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localos
Question 62
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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?
Question 63
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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?
Question 64
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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.)
Answer
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VM
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resource pool
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datacenter
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cluster
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folder
Question 65
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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?
Question 66
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What should be installed on a VM to enhance performance and enable additional features?
Answer
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VMware Tools
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Process Monitor
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PsInfo
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RAMmap
Question 67
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Which two availability features require a VM restart for recovery? (Choose two.)
Answer
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vSphere HA
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vSphere Fault Tolerance
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vSphere Replication
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vSphere vMotion
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vSphere DPM
Question 68
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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?
Answer
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VMware vCenter Converter
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CloudClient Utility
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Convergence Utility
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Cmsso-util Utility
Question 69
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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?
Answer
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each folder
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each data center
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each cluster
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vCenter object
Question 70
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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.)
Answer
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packet size
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data receive rate
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IPv6 support
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CPU contention
Question 71
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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?
Question 72
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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.)
Question 73
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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?
Answer
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The virtual hardware version is incompatible with 6.5
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VMware Tools version is upgraded
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EVC mode is disabled
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DPM is configured incorrectly
Question 74
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Which optional module of vSphere Update Manager supports patch recalls and notifications?
Answer
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VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service
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vSphere Auto Deploy
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vCenter Server Lifecycle Manager Service
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VMware vSphere Update Manager Extension
Question 75
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What is the outcome when two affinity rules conflict?
Answer
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. VMs will continue to migrate
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Rules are applied based on priority
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Only one rule can be enabled
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Random rule enablement occurs
Question 76
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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?
Question 77
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A VM is created with a thin provisioned disk.
Which two requirements are needed to inflate the disk? (Choose two.)
Question 78
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What would cause an administrator to encounter a remote device backing error while running vMotion?
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VM running on too many snapshots
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Host CD-ROM attached to VM
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Virtual mode RDM attached to VM
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Host USB device attached to VM
Question 79
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Which host profile operation can be scheduled?
Question 80
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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?
Answer
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Access the host using the vCenter Server
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Access the host using an SSH session
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Access the host using the Host Client
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Access the host using the ESXi Shell
Question 81
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What could a vSphere administrator use to move a group of VMs to another port group?
Answer
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Network I/O Control
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IP hash
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Network Port Binding
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vSphere vMotion
Question 82
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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.)
Question 83
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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?
Answer
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vCenter Servers must be time-synchronized
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vCenter Servers should be appliances
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vCenter Servers should be in different vCenter Single Sign-on domains
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vCenter Servers should be on the same version
Question 84
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Which command should be used to monitor free disk space on a vCenter Server Appliance?
Answer
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df
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esxtop
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cloudvm-ram-size
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vimtop
Question 85
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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?
Question 86
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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?
Question 87
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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?
Answer
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Route Based on IP Hash
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Route Based on Originating Virtual Port
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Route Based on Physical NIC Load
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Route Based on Source MAC
Question 88
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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?
Question 89
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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?
Answer
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DRS is set to aggressive
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HA is disabled on the cluster
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The VMs have virtual flash reservations
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vMotion network is misconfigured
Question 90
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When enabled, what ensures only signed drivers can load into a virtual machine?
Answer
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Secure Boot
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lockdown mode
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micro-segmentation
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TPM
Question 91
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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.)
Answer
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array-based storage
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vSphere Replication appliance
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vCenter Server
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vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)
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vSphere Data Protection (VDP)
Question 92
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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?
Answer
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Notify Switches Policy
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Link status only
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Failback Policy
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Beacon probing
Question 93
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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?
Answer
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MAC Address Change
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Promiscuous Mode
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Discovery Protocol
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Forged Transmits
Question 94
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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?
Answer
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vSphere DRS is disabled
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vSphere DRS is set to manual
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Admission control is not enabled
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Affinity rules are only managed using the Host Client
Question 95
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Which policy is used for intelligent optimization of network interface traffic on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)?
Answer
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Route Based on IP Hash
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Route Based on Source MAC Hash
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Route Based on Physical NIC Load
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Route Based on Originating Virtual Port
Question 96
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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?
Answer
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Storage policy
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VAIO Filtering
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Storage I/O Control
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Storage DRS
Question 97
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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?
Answer
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DNS settings are updated for all hosts in the cluster
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The reference host becomes non-compliant
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The reference host enters maintenance mode
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The host profile is updated automatically
Question 98
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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?
Answer
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Autologon
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Windows Updates
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PortMon
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VMware Tools
Question 99
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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?
Answer
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Failover capacity is exceeded due to the memory reservation
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vMotion network needs more bandwidth to restart the reserved VM
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VMs with reservations must be in their own dedicated cluster
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DRS must be enabled when admission control is enabled
Question 100
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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?
Answer
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Custom Attributes
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vSphere Tags
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Enhanced Linked Mode
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vFRC
Question 101
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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.)
Answer
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Configure APPVM01 with a shares limit of Low, and DBVM01 with a shares limit of Normal
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Enable Network I/O Control on the cluster containing APPM01 and DBVM01
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Enable Storage I/O Control on the cluster containing APPVM01 and DBVM01
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Enable Storage I/O Control on the datastore containing APPM01 and DBVM01
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Configure APPVM01 with a shares limit of High, and DBVM01 with a shares limit of Normal
Question 102
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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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vSphere Replication
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VMware Workspace ONE
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vSphere Update Manager
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Interactive Mode
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vSphere Auto Deploy
Question 103
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What are two features of the CPU scheduler? (Choose two.)
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allocates CPU and memory resource usage
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determines which worlds are entitled to CPU time
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schedules vCPUs on physical CPUs
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creates a world for each virtual machine to run it
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checks CPU uptime
Question 104
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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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CPU Affinity is enabled on the virtual machine
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The host is running on the Enterprise license
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There are too few logical cores on the host
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Hyper-threading is enabled on the host
Question 105
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Which vSphere Update Manager baseline type is used for scanning and remediating objects third-party device drivers?
Answer
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upgrade
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extension
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patch
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predefined
Question 106
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How should an administrator assign a user the Administrator permission without encryption-related rights?
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Grant the user the Virtual Machine Power User role
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Grant the user the No Cryptography Administrator role
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Grant the user the Administrator role
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Grant the user No Access role on encrypted VMs
Question 107
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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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Manually create scratch partition on the SD card
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By default the log files will be stored on the SD card
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Ensure vCenter Dump Collector service is running
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Configure the scratch partition to use an available datastore
Question 108
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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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Use Network Health Check to verify the VLAN trunks on VSS
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Use vSphere Health Check to verify on MTU settings on VDS
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Use Network Health Check to verify the VLAN trunks on VDS
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Use Network Health Check to verify MTU settings on VSS
Question 109
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What provides certificate and license management services?
Question 110
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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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Configure traffic shaping
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Configure LACP
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Configure resource pools
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Configure shares, reservations, and limits
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Configure marking and filtering
Question 111
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Which two infrastructure services are provided by the Platform Services Controller? (Choose two.)
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Auto Deploy
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License Service
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vCenter Single Sign-On
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vSphere Syslog Collector
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vSphere Web Client
Question 112
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Which setting should be used to exclude one hard disk from VM snapshots?
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Thin Provision disk type
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Dependent disk mode
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Independent disk mode
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Passthrough device mode
Question 113
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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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VMware Tools
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vCenter HA
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VM encryption
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VDP
Question 114
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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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CPU Affinity is enabled on the virtual machine
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The host is running on the Enterprise license
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Hyper-threading is enabled on the host
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There are too few logical cores on the host
Question 115
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What is required to convert a VM to a template?
Question 116
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vCenter High Availability cluster consists of how many vCenter Server Appliance instances?
Question 117
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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 isolation event occurs
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Network is lost
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Packets continue to be forwarded
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Network runs with intermittent failures
Question 118
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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?
Question 119
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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.)
Question 120
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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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Read Only role on AX-1000
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Administrator role on X-Lence Datacenter
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No Access role on AX-1000
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Read Only role on X-Lence Datacenter
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. VM Power User role on X-Lence Datacenter
Question 121
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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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Use cluster settings
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Partially Automated
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Fully Automated
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Disabled
Question 122
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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?
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ComponentManager.Administrators
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Administrators
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SystemConfiguration.Administrators
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SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdministrators
Question 123
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What is the default vCenter Server for a new user?