2V0-21.20: Professional VMware vSphere 7.x

An administrator receives an escalation to investigate a low disk space alarm on a datastore. The administrator discovers that a snapshot has been accidentally taken on a production, write-intensive database server. The snapshot has grown to nearly 1 TB in size in less than an hour and continues growing every second.
Which behavior should the administrator expect while deleting the snapshot?

An administrator runs a two-node vSphere cluster, which contains two domain controller virtual machines (VMs). The administrator wants to ensure that VMs run on separate hosts without interfering with normal maintenance operations.
How should the administrator configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)?

Which TCP/IP stack can support management traffic, vSphere vMotion, IP storage and vSphere Fault Tolerance?

A single host is manually configured to company standards.
Which option would an administrator select to capture this configuration for future use?

What is the minimum CPU core requirement for successful installation, or upgrade, or ESXi on a host?

What is the server virtualization product that combines the ESXi hypervisor and the vCenter Server?

An IT department is experiencing random hardware failures that are costing the company money. The CIO is looking for technical support beyond traditional break/fix with enhanced visibility and proactive insights into the environment at no additional cost.
Which VMware service meets the needs of the CIO?

An administrator wants to be able to log in to the vSphere Client and view the inventories of two vCenter Server instances.
What must the administrator do to meet this requirement?

Which step is required when adding an existing hard disk that is configured as a boot disk during virtual machine creation?

An administrator needs to configure Proactive High Availability (HA) in a vSphere environment so that virtual machines (VMs) do not run on any partially degraded hosts. The administrator would also like to see the recommendations before VMs are migrated.
Which automation and remediation level should the administrator select?

A new vSphere 7.0 environment is deployed with the following:
✑ A single vCenter Server
✑ Two vSAN clusters
✑ A vSAN default storage policy
Which statement is true regarding virtual disk availability in this environment?

An administrator wants to implement virtual machine encryption.
Which component encrypts the virtual machine files?

An administrator wants to ensure that when virtual machines (VMs) are powered on, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) places them on the best-suited host.
When the cluster becomes imbalanced, the administrator wants DRS to display recommendations for manual VM migration.
Which DRS automation level should the administrator select?

Which feature is a pre-requisite for configuring admission control on a cluster?

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment.
Which statement is true regarding this upgrade?

How many vSphere Trust Authority Clusters can a Trusted Cluster reference?

Which virtual disk option allows a virtual machine to consume the minimum storage capacity?

In a vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster, which condition can be detected by datastore heartbeating?

Which solution can be used to automatically deploy a fully configured VMware software-defined data center (SDDC)?

vCenter Server experiences a catastrophic failure and the administrator must restore from a vCenter Server backup stored on an FTP server.
What must the administrator do to restore vCenter Server?

ESXi provides VLAN support by assigning a VLAN ID to which component?

An administrator adds an additional host to a cluster and is attempting to remediate the configuration with a host profile.
Which option would the administrator select on the host before it can be remediated with an existing host profile?

An administrator would like to make virtual machine templates and ISO images available to all vCenter Server instances in the data center.
Which feature should the administrator use to achieve this goal?

An administrator runs third-party software in a virtual machine (VM). The third-party licensing agreement requires payment of a license fee for each host to which the VM migrates.
How can the administrator configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to minimize licensing costs?

There are two vSphere clusters in a company environment. One cluster is hosting development workloads and another is hosting production workloads. Both vSphere clusters are managed by the same vCenter Server. The application team would like to move a new virtual machine from the development to production cluster with no downtime.
Which feature would allow non-disruptive movement between these two clusters?

An administrator is trying to configure vCenter Single Sign-On from the vSphere Client but does NOT have permission.
Which role is required in order to configure vCenter Single Sign-On?

An administrator is unable to manage certificates with the vSphere Client.
What is another supported option that can be used to manage certificates?

What is a minimum disk controller requirement for VMware vSAN?

A virtual machine with a single 100 GB virtual machine disk file has a single 20 GB snapshot. The virtual machine is powered off.
How much additional free space on the datastore is required to delete the snapshot, committing the snapshot delta disk to the base disk?

An administrator wants to configure vCenter Server High Availability so that each node is located in a different data center.
Which requirement must be met?

What is a pre-requisite for increasing datastore capacity?

Which privilege is required to run the esxtop utility?

An administrator is asked to take a snapshot of a virtual machine prior to an application upgrade. The virtual machine has one standard virtual machine disk
(VMDK) and one physical mode raw device mapping (RDM) attached.
Which statement is true with regard to taking this snapshot?

Which local only host utility is used for primary, real-time performance monitoring in vSphere?

What is a requirement of Storage I/O Control? (Choose the best answer.)

Which feature can an administrator use for site availability with minimal effort and a low recovery point objective (RPO)? (Choose the best answer.)

Which resource pool setting is used to specify the relative priority or importance as high, normal or low? (Choose the best answer.)

An IT department is decommissioning a storage array and tasks an administrator with removing a datastore from ESXi hosts.

What is a prerequisite for unmounting the datastore? (Choose the best answer.)

vCenter High Availability (HA) protects vCenter Server against host and hardware failures.

What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required to enable this capability? (Choose the best answer.)

Which step can an administrator take so that vSphere can access patch information if vCenter Server does NOT have Internet access? (Choose the best answer.)

Which tool is used to monitor the vCenter Server Appliance resources? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator places a 300 GB virtual machine named "Finance1" on a 2 TB datastore containing other virtual machines.

After virtual machine placement, the datastore has 200 GB of free space.

The accounting department takes a nightly snapshot of Finance1, then deletes the previous snapshot.

The administrator is concerned about snapshots filling the datastore.

Which statement is true regarding snapshots? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator wants to enable bandwidth allocation for workloads by using Network I/O Control.
What should the administrator configure to accomplish this? (Choose the best answer.)

Which type of network adapter is designed to provide connectivity to hosts and handle the standard system traffic of vSphere vMotion? (Choose the best answer.)

What can an administrator use to partition limited CPU and memory resources between two departments? (Choose the best answer.)

How does vSphere handle memory allocation during the instant clone process? (Choose the best answer.)

Which profile must be attached to the ESXi cluster to prepare the host for NSX-T Data Center?

An administrator is utilizing Network I/O Control (NIOC) to allocate bandwidth utilization on a physical 10 Gbps adapter.
What is the maximum amount of bandwidth that can be reserved? (Choose the best answer.)

Which vSphere feature provides for continuous local data center availability? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator is NOT able to enable ESXi secure boot.
What is a possible cause of this issue? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator is configuring ESXi host behavior before and during the remediation process.
Which remediation setting is supported only on select hardware platforms? (Choose the best answer.)

Which feature can be used to specify data services for virtual disks, such as caching or replication? (Choose the best answer.

Each logical port on a vSphere standard switch can be a member of how many port groups? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator is asked to deploy a virtual machine (VM) that can sniff packets for the Security team.
Which setting must be set to "accept" on the VM's port group? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. The environment consists of mounted NFS v3 datastores. The new design requires configuration of NFS v4.1 datastores.
Which statement is true regarding this upgrade? (Choose the best answer.)

What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required to support vCenter High Availability? (Choose the best answer.)

What determines the default bandwidth share allocation for system traffic, such as vSphere Fault Tolerance and vSphere vMotion? (Choose the best answer.)

What is a pre-requisite for configuring virtualization-based security (VBS)? (Choose the best answer.)

Which action is supported over a VMkernel vMotion TCP/IP stack? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator is tasked with planning an upgrade of a VMware vSphere environment to version 7.0. The platform consists of 80 ESXi hosts, logically divided into 10 clusters. The tasks will be completed by another operations team within the company.
The hardware is consistent and a single embedded vCenter Server 6.7 appliance is managing the environment.
Which statement is true regarding a suitable upgrade approach? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator has been tasked with mitigating datastore capacity issues without datastore expansion.
Which vSphere Storage vMotion migration option would achieve this mitigation? (Choose the best answer.)

In a vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster, which action does vSphere HA take when the VM Monitoring service does NOT receive heartbeats from a virtual machine (VM) in the cluster? (Choose the best answer.)

What is the foundation of a software-defined data center (SDDC)? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator is deploying a vCenter Server Appliance and wants to join an existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain.
The administrator gathers the following information:
✑ FQDN of the vCenter Single Sign-On server to join
✑ Domain name of the vCenter Single Sign-On server being joined
✑ Password of the vCenter Single Sign-On server administrator account.
What other information is needed to join the existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator wants to leverage the processor-specific technology that uses a security extension for securing virtual machines (VMs). This will allow user-level code to define private regions of memory called enclaves that are protected from external access.
What does the administrator need to configure to enable VMs to use this technology? (Choose the best answer.)

Which VMware feature should an administrator configure to help manage and delegate CPU and memory resources? (Choose the best answer.)

A development team has a recurring need to rapidly replicate hundreds of virtual machines (VMs) for load testing.
Which method should the team use to deploy the VMs? (Choose the best answer.)

What is the basic packaging for vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) and metadata in vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator wants to create a master copy of an existing virtual machine (VM) named "TestApp" and deploy VMs from this master copy whenever a user requests one.
Which method can the administrator use to create a master copy of TestApp? (Choose the best answer.)

Which feature is a prerequisite for Proactive High Availability (HA)? (Choose the best answer.)

A host profile is updated with a new password that urgently needs to be changed on all hosts attached to the host profile.
Which option would an administrator select to complete the password change? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator identifies a snapshot file named "Win10-000001-sesparse.vmdk" on a datastore.
Which type of information can be determined about this datastore? (Choose the best answer.)

Which tool is used to monitor the free space in the vCenter Server database? (Choose the best answer.)

What is the default shutdown order of virtual machines (VMs) on a host? (Choose the best answer.)

Which feature can an administrator configure to have a copy of critical virtual machines in another cluster? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator sees a virtual machine message that reads, "Consolidation is required" in the vSphere Client.
Which action does ESXi take when the administrator completes snapshot consolidation? (Choose the best answer.)

Which setting should be used to exclude one hard disk from VM snapshots?