VCP New Questions 36-71

Question 1 of 36

1

An administrator wishes to enable network port mirroring based on source port. Which feature should be enabled?

Select one or more of the following:

vSphere standard switch port
ERSPAN
NSX Virtual Wire
VLAN

Explanation

Question 2 of 36

1

An administrator has enabled vSphere Distributed Switch Health Check. The hosts connected to that Distributed Switch all display an alert:

vSphere Distributed Switch MTU supported status

The administrator has all of the VMkernel ports MTU sizes set to 1600.

Which action will remedy this problem?

Select one or more of the following:

Configure the Distributed Switch to MTU 9100.
Disconnect and reconnect the physical network cable.
Configure the physical switch to MTU 1600.
Disable the Distributed Switch MTU.

Explanation

Question 3 of 36

1

Which two partitions are used for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance embedded vPostgres database? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

/storage/seat/
/storage/netdump/
/storage/db/
/storage/core/

Explanation

Question 4 of 36

1

Which two encryption keys does the host use when encrypting virtual machine files? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Public Key Infrastructure Encryption Key (PKI)
Master Encryption Key (MEK)
Data Encryption Key (DEK)
Key Encryption Key (KEK)

Explanation

Question 5 of 36

1

An ESXi host’s VMCA-Signed certificate has expired. How can the certificate be renewed?

Select one or more of the following:

In the vSphere Web Client, browse to the host in question. Click the Manage tab and select settings. Select System and click Certificate, then click the Renew button.
In the vSphere Web Client, browse to the host in question. Click the Manage tab and select settings. Select System and click Certificate, then click the Refresh CA Certificates button.
Run the command /sbin/generate-certificates on the affected host.
Disconnect the host from vCenter Server and reconnect it.

Explanation

Question 6 of 36

1

When using “Cluster resource percentage” for host failover capacity in vSphere HA Admission Control, the total resource requirements are calculated from which two values? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Total vCPUs assigned to each VM.
Average CPU usage on each VM over time.
Memory reservations on each VM.
Total memory assigned to each VM.
Average active memory on each VM over time.
CPU reservations on each VM.

Explanation

Question 7 of 36

1

Which iSCSI initiator type can be used with any network interface card?

Select one or more of the following:

Software iSCSI initiator
Software FCoE adapter
Hardware Independent iSCSI initiator
Hardware Dependent iSCSI initiator

Explanation

Question 8 of 36

1

Which two situations could cause a virtual machine to appear with (orphaned) appended to its name? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

if a host failover is unsuccessful
if a virtual machine was removed from vCenter Server’s inventory
if a virtual machine was deployed from template, and the template has been deleted
if a virtual machine is unregistered directly on the host

Explanation

Question 9 of 36

1

Which happens if the swap file of a virtual machine is inaccessible to the destination host during a vMotion?

Select one or more of the following:

The swap file is stored with the virtual machine configuration file.
The swap file is copied to the destination host.
The vMotion will fail.
The swap file is replicated to a datastore accessible by both hosts.

Explanation

Question 10 of 36

1

An administrator has upgraded to vSphere 6.5 and also wants to use Kerberos authentication for NFS. Which can be done to the existing NFSv3 volumes to enable this feature?

Select one or more of the following:

Perform a storage rescan on VMFS volumes.
Unmount the NFSv3 datastore, and then mount as NFSv4.1 datastore.
Nothing. All NFSv3 mounted datastores are upgraded automatically during vSphere upgrades.
Perform a scan of new storage devices.

Explanation

Question 11 of 36

1

An administrator notices that a virtual machine running SQL Server is not performing as expected.

vmware.log> vmx| W110: NUMA and VCPU hot add are incompatible. Forcing UMA

How can the administrator resolve this issue?

Select one or more of the following:

Power off the virtual machine and disable vCPU hot plug.
Reinstall VMware Tools.
Modify the .vmx file to force NUMA and vCPU hot add to function.
Installation third party plug-in to enable NUMA and vCPU hot add to function.

Explanation

Question 12 of 36

1

Which two permissions are required to migrate a virtual machine with Storage vMotion? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Network > Move Network
VirtualMachine > Inventory > Move
Resource > Migrate powered on virtual machine
Datastore > Allocate Space

Explanation

Question 13 of 36

1

In vSphere Data Protection 6.1, which is the function of a Backup Verification job?

Select one or more of the following:

None. Backup Verification job is not a feature of vSphere Data Protection
It is a manual task- Power it on-Verify the guest OS- Check started applications
It is an automatic process- Restore a virtual machine- Power it on- Verify that the guest OS is booted by communicating with the Backup Verification agent
It is an automatic process- Restore a virtual machine- Power it on- Verify that the guest OC is booted by detecting the VMware ToolsTM “heartbeats”

Explanation

Question 14 of 36

1

An administrator has decided to use Auto Deploy in the environment. Which two considerations must be taken into account before configuring Auto Deploy? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Hosts in a cluster must be connected to a Distributed Switch.
Host profiles are not supported when using Auto Deploy.
DHCP must be configured to support PXE boot.
Storage DRS must be enabled.
A TFTP server must be setup and running.

Explanation

Question 15 of 36

1

When migrating a Windows vCenter Server 6.0 to the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, which two will be migrated by default? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Local Windows OS users and groups
Configuration
Custom ports
FQDN
Historical and Performance data

Explanation

Question 16 of 36

1

Which are two Storage DRS requirements? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Datastore clusters must have datastores of the same size and I/O capacities.
NFS and VMFS datastores cannot be combined in the same datastore cluster.
Datastores shared across multiple datacenters cannot be included in a datastore cluster.
NFS and vSAN datastores can be combined in the same datastore clusters.
A dedicated TCP/IP stack is required for datastore clusters.

Explanation

Question 17 of 36

1

Which is the correct order for upgrading vSphere components?

Select one or more of the following:

vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, VMware Tools, Virtual Machine hardware
VMware Tools, Virtual Machine hardware, ESXi hosts, vCenter Server
vCenter Server, Virtual Machine hardware, VMware tools, ESXi hosts
ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, Virtual Machine hardware, VMware Tools

Explanation

Question 18 of 36

1

Which are four attributes of the Active vCenter HA node? (Choose four.)

Select one or more of the following:

It uses the vCenter HA network to communicate with the Witness node.
It constantly replicates vPostgres data with the Witness node.
It uses a public IP address for the management interface.
It runs the active vCenter Server Appliance instance.
It uses the vCenter HA network for replication of data.
It provides a quorum to protect against split-brain situations.

Explanation

Question 19 of 36

1

Which two datastore types are supported by Storage I/O Control v2? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

vSAN
RDM
NFS
Virtual Volumes
VMFS

Explanation

Question 20 of 36

1

An administrator attempts to manually reclaim space on thin-provisioned VMFS6 volumes but finds that no additional space is being recovered. Which could be causing this?

Select one or more of the following:

vSphere 6.5 does not support manual UN MAP
The manual UN MAP operation has been moved to the vSphere web client.
The VASA version is use is incompatible.
UN MAP is automated for VMFS6.

Explanation

Question 21 of 36

1

An administrator wants to restore the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 from backup. Where can this be accomplished?

Select one or more of the following:

from the ESXi Host Client
from the VMware vSphere Appliance Management Interface
from within the VMware vSphere Web
from the vCenter Server Appliance Installer

Explanation

Question 22 of 36

1

Which three types of Content Libraries exist within vSphere 6.5? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

Remote Content Library
Published Content Library
Local Content Library
Shared Content Library
Subscribed Content Library

Explanation

Question 23 of 36

1

Which is the block size on the VMFS6 datastore?

Select one or more of the following:

All small and large file blocks are 8MB.
All small and large file blocks are 1MB.
Small file blocks are 512KB. large file blocks are 64MB
Small file blocks are 1MB, large file blocks are 512MB.

Explanation

Question 24 of 36

1

When installing vCenter Converter Standalone, why must an administrator perform a client-server installation instead of a local installation?

Select one or more of the following:

to manage conversion tasks remotely
to convert virtual machines as well as physical machines
to allow installation of the Converter agent on remote source machines
to hot clone physical or virtual machines

Explanation

Question 25 of 36

1

An administrator is troubleshooting network communications between a vCenter Server and an ESXi 6.5 host. Which log shows the related events between these components?

Select one or more of the following:

/var/log/fdm.log
/var /log/vpxa.log
/var /log/hostd.log
/var /log/auth.log

Explanation

Question 26 of 36

1

An administrator has recently upgraded from vSphere 6.0 to 6.5, and can no longer see the software iSCSI named vmhba33. Which could be the reason for this?

Select one or more of the following:

The upgrade has changed the vmhba name.
vSphere 6.5 automates iSCSI configurations.
vSphere 6.5 no longer supports software iSCSI.
The upgrade has deleted the vmhba.

Explanation

Question 27 of 36

1

Which is required for configuring iSCSI Software Adapter network port binding?

Select one or more of the following:

VMkernel of the iSCSI traffic must be load balanced using Route based on IP Hash algorithm.
VMkernel of the iSCSI traffic must be load balanced using Route based on Source Virtual Port ID algorithm.
VMkernel of the iSCSI traffic must be load balanced using Route based on Source MAC Hash algorithm.
VMkernel of the iSCSI traffic must be bound to only one active network adapter.

Explanation

Question 28 of 36

1

In vSphere Data Protection 6.1, which is the function of a Backup Verification job?

Select one or more of the following:

None. Backup Verification job is not a feature of vSphere Data Protection
It is a manual task
– Power it on
– Verify the guest OS
– Check started applications
It is an automatic process
– Restore a virtual machine
– Power it on
– Verify that the guest OS is booted by communicating with the Backup Verification agent
It is an automatic process
– Restore a virtual machine
– Power it on
– Verify that the guest OC is booted by detecting the VMware ToolsTM “heartbeats”

Explanation

Question 29 of 36

1

When performing a vCenter Server 5.5 for Windows with Microsoft SQL Server Express database migration to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, which will be the target database?

Select one or more of the following:

Microsoft SQL Server Express 2012R2
Microsoft SQL Server Standard 2012R2
PostgreSQL
Oracle DB 11g

Explanation

Question 30 of 36

1

A VM-Host affinity rule states that VM group 'X' must run on hosts in group 'Y'. If all ESXi hosts in group 'Y' fail, which is the resulting behavior with vSphere HA enabled?

Select one or more of the following:

The virtual machines in group 'X' will failover to hosts that do not belong to group 'Y', but will vMotion back to hosts in group 'Y' when they become available.
The virtual machines in group 'X' will not failover to hosts that do not belong to group 'Y'.
This scenario is not possible because vSphere HA and DRS cannot work together.
The virtual machines in group 'X' will only fail over to hosts that do not belong to group 'Y' if they are marked as "High" VM Restart Priority within vSphere HA.

Explanation

Question 31 of 36

1

An administrator wants to ensure that any virtual machine added to a certain port group always has sufficient network resources. Network I/O Control version 3 has been enabled on the Distributed switch.
Which three steps will achieve this objectives? (Choose three)

Select one or more of the following:

Reserve bandwidth for virtual machine system traffic on the Distributed Switch Port Group.
Edit the virtual machine's Resource settings and set a reservation for virtual machine system traffic.
Create a Network Resource Pool on the Distributed Switch and se a reservation quota.
Reserve bandwidth for virtual machine system traffic on the Distributed Switch.
Add the Network Resource Pool on the Distributed Switch Port Group.

Explanation

Question 32 of 36

1

An administrator would like to configure vSphere HA to use two isolation addresses. How would this affect the behavior of HA?

Select one or more of the following:

If both isolation addresses are not reachable, the host will be restarted by the HA agent.
If both isolation addresses are not reachable, the host will use the vCenter Server IP address as a final isolation address before being marked isolated.
If only one of the isolation addresses is reachable, the host will not be marked isolated by HA.
If only one of the isolation addresses is reachable, the host will be considered in an isolated by HA.

Explanation

Question 33 of 36

1

ESXi hosts with 10Gbps network cards are attached to a distributed switch. The administrator has upgraded to NIOC3 and wants to allow vMotion traffic to use as much bandwidth as possible but must ensure that other services always have sufficient bandwidth. How can this be done?

Select one or more of the following:

Configure shares on the distributed switch for the vMotion traffic type.
Configure limits on the distributed switch on the on vMotion traffic type.
Associate vMotion traffic with a network resource pool and use CoS tagging.
Set shares on user-defined network resource pool and associate it with vMotion traffic.

Explanation

Question 34 of 36

1

Which is the purpose of VM Component Protection (VMCP)?

Select one or more of the following:

Reconnect virtual NICs that become disconnected
Respond when a datastore encounters a PDL or APD failure.
Restart applications when they are no longer running.
Respond when viruses are detected inside a virtual machine.

Explanation

Question 35 of 36

1

Which is the predefined user name when publishing a Content Library?

Select one or more of the following:

admin
root
administrator
vcsp

Explanation

Question 36 of 36

1

A domain user is able to successfully log into the vSphere Web Client, but notices that the vCenter Server system does not appear in the inventory. Which is the cause of this situation?

Select one or more of the following:

The Service Control Agent service is not running.
The vCenter Server does not have any hosts added to inventory yet.
The domain user has read-only permissions on vCenter Server.
The domain user does not have vCenter Server permissions.

	Created by Jakub Sabacinski over 7 years ago

Quiz on VCP New Questions 36-71, created by Jakub Sabacinski on 30/07/2017.

VCP New Questions 36-71

Question 1 of 36

An administrator wishes to enable network port mirroring based on source port. Which feature should be enabled?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 36

An administrator has enabled vSphere Distributed Switch Health Check. The hosts connected to that Distributed Switch all display an alert: vSphere Distributed Switch MTU supported status The administrator has all of the VMkernel ports MTU sizes set to 1600. Which action will remedy this problem?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 36

Which two partitions are used for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance embedded vPostgres database? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 4 of 36

Which two encryption keys does the host use when encrypting virtual machine files? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 36

An ESXi host’s VMCA-Signed certificate has expired. How can the certificate be renewed?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 6 of 36

When using “Cluster resource percentage” for host failover capacity in vSphere HA Admission Control, the total resource requirements are calculated from which two values? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 7 of 36

Which iSCSI initiator type can be used with any network interface card?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 36

Which two situations could cause a virtual machine to appear with (orphaned) appended to its name? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 9 of 36

Which happens if the swap file of a virtual machine is inaccessible to the destination host during a vMotion?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 36

An administrator has upgraded to vSphere 6.5 and also wants to use Kerberos authentication for NFS. Which can be done to the existing NFSv3 volumes to enable this feature?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 36

An administrator notices that a virtual machine running SQL Server is not performing as expected. vmware.log> vmx| W110: NUMA and VCPU hot add are incompatible. Forcing UMA How can the administrator resolve this issue?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 36

Which two permissions are required to migrate a virtual machine with Storage vMotion? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 13 of 36

In vSphere Data Protection 6.1, which is the function of a Backup Verification job?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 14 of 36

An administrator has decided to use Auto Deploy in the environment. Which two considerations must be taken into account before configuring Auto Deploy? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 15 of 36

When migrating a Windows vCenter Server 6.0 to the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, which two will be migrated by default? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 16 of 36

Which are two Storage DRS requirements? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 17 of 36

Which is the correct order for upgrading vSphere components?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 18 of 36

Which are four attributes of the Active vCenter HA node? (Choose four.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 19 of 36

Which two datastore types are supported by Storage I/O Control v2? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 20 of 36

An administrator attempts to manually reclaim space on thin-provisioned VMFS6 volumes but finds that no additional space is being recovered. Which could be causing this?

An administrator has enabled vSphere Distributed Switch Health Check. The hosts connected to that Distributed Switch all display an alert:

vSphere Distributed Switch MTU supported status

The administrator has all of the VMkernel ports MTU sizes set to 1600.

Which action will remedy this problem?

An administrator notices that a virtual machine running SQL Server is not performing as expected.

vmware.log> vmx| W110: NUMA and VCPU hot add are incompatible. Forcing UMA

How can the administrator resolve this issue?

An administrator wants to ensure that any virtual machine added to a certain port group always has sufficient network resources. Network I/O Control version 3 has been enabled on the Distributed switch.
Which three steps will achieve this objectives? (Choose three)