VCP 101-150

Which minor badge items make up the Efficiency badge score for an ESXi host in vCenter Operations Manager?

An administrator subscribes to the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery service. Which replicated objects can be directly monitored and managed?

Which three statements are true when restoring a Resource Pool Tree? (Choose three.)

An administrator has created a resource pool named Marketing HTTP with a Memory Limit of 24 GB and a CPU Limit of 10,000 MHz. The Marketing HTTP resource pool contains three virtual machines:

Mktg-SQL has amemory reservation of 16 GB.
Mktg-App has a memory reservation of 6 GB.
Mktg-Web has a memory reservation of 4 GB.

What would happen if all three virtual machines are powered on?

Vmware vSphere Replication protects virtual machines from partial or complete site failures by replicating the virtual machines between which three sites? (Choose three.)

Which two capabilities does the vSphere Replication Client Plug-in provide? (Choose two.)

A vSphere Replication user needs to connect a source site to a target site. What privilege is needed at both sites?

Which three parameters should be considered when calculating the bandwidth for vSphere Replication? (Choose three.)

When importing an existing SSL certificate into vSphere Replication Server, which file format is required?

Which keystore would a vSphere Replication administrator use to manually add an additional Certificate Authority certificate?

What is the maximum number of snapshot instances in vSphere Replication that can be configured to recover a virtual machine at a specific point in time?

What is the compression algorithm used by vSphere Replication to compress data at the source?

A user notifies an administrator that Content Libraries are not visible. What is a possible solution?

When a Content Library is deleted, what happens to the files contained on the backing storage?

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 5.5 host to ESXi 6.x and gets the following error:
MEMORY_SIZE
What does this indicate?

An administrator is unable to start the vCenter Server service. The vpxd.log file shows this service failure:

[13308 error ‘Default’ opID=622892-371bf717] CoreDump: Unable to write minidump [13308 error
‘Default’ opID=622892-371bf717] error -2147024784 : There is not enough space on the disk.

What is preventing the start of the service?

After deploying a vSphere Platform Services Controller (PSC), an administrator is unable to install vCenter Server. The error displayed is:

Could not contact Lookup Service. Please check VM_ssoreg.log.

Which two actions can be taken to correct this problem? (Choose two.)

Which condition would cause a vCenter Server installation to fail when installing on a Windows virtual machine?

An administrator is unable to see performance statistics for only the Past Week performance data.
The vCenter Server is using a Microsoft SQL Server Database.
What are three likely causes contributing to this issue? (Choose three.)

An ESXi 6.x host in the vCenter Server inventory has disconnected due to an All Paths Down (APD) situation. An administrator has corrected the APD issue on the host, but it still remains disconnected.
What action should the administrator take next?

An administrator notices that the time on an ESXi 6.x host is incorrect.
Which two actions should the administrator take to correct this issue? (Choose two.)

After successfully adding a new ESXi 6.x host to vCenter Server, an administrator sees it as Not Responding in the vSphere Web Client interface a few minutes later. If the issue is caused by a network firewall blocking traffic, which port must be opened to correct this specific problem?

An administrator is troubleshooting network communications between the vCenter Server and the ESXi 6.x host.
Which log shows the interaction events between these components?

An administrator is observing slow performance of the vCenter Inventory Service and observes the entries from the wrapper.log file:

Exception in thread “tomcat-exec-2” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap spaceException in
thread “http-bio-0.0.0.0-10443-Acceptor-0” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

What should the administrator do to resolve the problem?

An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine that has unexpectedly powered off.
Which two logs should be used to troubleshoot the issue? (Choose two.)

An administrator notices that one virtual machine is in an orphaned state.
What are two reasons that a virtual machine can appear as orphaned? (Choose two.)

What are three reasons why a virtual machine might fail to power on? (Choose three.)

What is the name of the command line utility that checks for VMFS5 metadata corruption?

What are two reasons why a local flash device would be unavailable for use with Virtual SAN? (Choose two.)

Which three troubleshooting actions should an administrator take to address slow performance when deploying a virtual machine template? (Choose three.)

When attempting to remove a host from a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS), an administrator observes the error message:
The resource ‘16’ is in use
What are two reasons why this error would be displayed? (Choose two.)

An administrator suspects that the MTU value for a vSphere Standard Switch is misconfigured.
Which two commands can determine the value? (Choose two.)

Deletion of an NFS datastore generates the following error:

Sysinfo error on operation returned the following status: Busy

Which step can be performed that will allow the deletion to complete successfully?

An administrator uses the df –h command and notices that an NFS datastore is reporting a capacity of 0 Bytes.
What condition would cause this to occur?

The command esxcli network vm list displays four virtual machines connected to the Production vSwitch. Within the vSphere Web Client, five virtual machines are seen. What explains this behaviour?

An administrator is experiencing network connectivity issues between virtual machines. The virtual machines and hosts are configured as follows:

VM1 is running on Host1
VM2 is running on Host2
Both Host1 and Host2 are attached to the vSphere Distributed Switch dvSwitch1
Both Host1 and Host2 are using vmnic0 and vmnic1 on dvSwitch1
Both virtual machines are using the default portgroup for network traffic

What are three settings the administrator should investigate while troubleshooting the connectivity issue? (Choose three.)

A task fails while creating a VMFS5 datastore on a disk with these characteristics:

Was previously used by a Linux server
Was not erased
Is visible with the vSphere Web Client

Which action can be performed to resolve the issue?

A vSphere Web Client task fails while creating a VMFS datastore on a disk with these characteristics:

The disk was formatted with a Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table
The disk was not erased
The disk is visible in the vSphere Web Client

What action needs to be performed to resolve the issue?

Which two reasons would prevent Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) from operating on a datastore?
(Choose two.)

An administrator is unable to upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.1 Update 2 to version 6.0.
What is a likely reason for this?

An administrator has migrated a vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.5 to version 6.x. During the migration, the administrator selected DHCP for the appliance and obtained a hostname from the DHCP server. The administrator adjusts the hostname after the migration and uses a static IP and hostname.
What should the administrator do immediately after this change to prevent service failures?

An administrator is unable to patch an ESXi 6.x host using VMware Update Manager.
What is an alternative option for patching a host?

Which three logs can be reviewed to troubleshoot a vCenter Server upgrade failure? (Choose three.)

Attempting to update an ESXi 6.x host using the following command: esxcli software vib update –d update.zip
Generates the following error:

Could not download from depot at /tmp/index.xml, skipping ((‘/tmp/index.xml’, ‘’, “[Errno 4] IOError:
<urlopen error [Error 2] No such file or directory: ‘/tmp/index.xml’>”)) url = /tmp/index.xml

What action should be taken to correct the problem?

A failed upgrade from vCenter Server version 5.x to version 6.0 produces the following error:

[00800 error ‘Default’] Database version id ‘600’ is incompatible with this release of VirtualCenter.

What is the cause of the upgrade failure?

An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU performance issue for a virtual machine.
Which three esxtop counters may demonstrate CPU contention? (Choose three.)

Users are reporting CPU related performance problems on the virtual machine Email-Prod throughout the day.
The resource settings for the VM and the ESXi host the VM is running on are shown below:

VM:
Email-Prod
vCPUs: 4
Memory: 96GB
ESXi host:
CPU: 2 x 8 Core Processors
Memory: 128GB
NUMA1rchitecture. 2 Nodes

Which two options would alleviate the observed performance problem for Email-Prod? (Choose two.)

An administrator is troubleshooting a performance problem with a virtual machine (VM). The VM and ESXi host configuration is as follows:

The application which runs within the virtual machine is highly sensitive to memory latency, but has low processor utilization.
The virtual machine has 6 vCPUs.
The ESXi host CPU topology has 2 Physical CPU Sockets, each with 8 Logical CPUs.
The ESXi host CPU has Hyper Threading enabled.

The administrator would like to improve CPU performance for this VM. Other VMs on the host have no performance issues. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the issue?

An administrator has a virtual machine configured with the following settings:

ESXi version: 5.1
CPU: vCPUs 6
Memory: 48GB
Hardware version: 7
VMware Tools: Installed

Which two actions must the administrator take in order to utilize vNUMA? (Choose two.)