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