VCP 201-243

An administrator has configured Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) groups and Affinity Rules as shown in the Exhibit. Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

An administrator wants to prevent a priority virtual machine that resides in a vSphere DRS cluster from migrating to other hosts in the cluster. What configuration step will accomplish this without affecting other virtual machines?

The Prod-DB virtual machine has a VM Override as shown in the Exhibit. What step, it taken, would require all virtual machines in the cluster to migrate automatically?

An administrator manages a High Availability (HA)/Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)-enabled cluster and has configured the affinity rule shown in the Exhibit. Which two statements best describe the configuration shown in the exhibit? (Choose two.)

An administrator has configured a firewall rule as shown in the Exhibit. Which statement best describes the ESXi 6.x firewall rule?

An administrator is planning a vSphere infrastructure with the following specific networking requirements: • The ability to shape inbound (RX) traffic • Support for Private VLANs (PVLANs) • Support for LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) What is the minimum vSphere Edition that will support these requirements?

What two IT infrastructure components are virtualized by vSphere Essentials? (Choose two.)

An administrator is performing a silent automatic update of VMware Tools on a Windows virtual machine. What syntax needs to be entered into the Advanced Options box?

An administrator wants to reduce the memory overhead for a 3D graphics enabled virtual machine (VM). What advanced feature can be added to the VM configuration file to reduce memory overhead?

Which three ports are used by the vSphere Web Client when connecting directly to an ESXi 6.x host? (Choose three.)

When attempting to connect to a vCenter Server, an administrator observes the following at the top of the vSphere Web Client: Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server Systems: https://vCenter.corp.com:443/sdk What three reasons could be preventing the vSphere Web Client from communicating with this vCenter Server? (Choose three.)

An administrator wants to allow users to login to the vSphere Web Client using the Use Windows session authentication check box for faster authentication. Which three requirements must be met for this feature to be available and functional? (Choose three.)

An administrator wants to power on a virtual machine (VM) while connected to an ESXi host using SSH. The VM has the following Name and ID: VM Name = SQL001 VMID = 12345 Which command would successfully power on the virtual machine?

What will occur if the .nvram file is deleted from a powered off virtual machine?

An administrator tries to connect the vSphere 5.5 Client to an ESXi 6.x host. What will happen when this takes place?

An administrator observes the following symptoms for a virtual machine: CPU usage is consistently above 90% CPU ready value is consistently above 20%. Application performance is impacted. Which two actions should the administrator take to improve the performance of this virtual machine? (Choose two.)

An administrator plans to use VMware Converter Standalone to convert a virtual machine to a vSphere environment. The source virtual machine has these properties: Running Windows 2008 R2 Contains one NTFS formatted volume During conversion, how many virtual disks can the administrator add to the destination virtual machine?

An administrator needs to migrate a legacy physical application server to a virtual machine within a vSphere 6 cluster. As part of the conversion, the administrator must reduce the size of the virtual disks. What action should the administrator take to create a virtual machine with smaller virtual disks than the original physical server?

An administrator is creating a new Platform Service Controller Password Policy with the following requirements: • Minimum length: Minimum of 8 characters. • Restrict use: 6 • Character requirements: At least one upper-case letter, one number, and one special character. • Identical adjacent characters: 0 When trying to assign the password "P@$$w0rd", the administrator receives an error that the password does not meet the Password Policy requirements. Which part of the Password Policy does this password violate?

Which VMware Single Sign-On component handles STS authentication requests?

An administrator is configuring an identity source for Single Sign-On. The administrator will use the machine that Single Sign-On is running on, but does not want all users on the machine to be visibile to SSO. Which Identity Source meets this requirement?

An administrator is building a large virtual machine that will require as many vCPUs as the host can support. An ESXi 6.x host has these specifications: • Four 24-core Intel Xeon Processors • 256 GB of Memory • 512 GB Local disk space using VMFS5 What is the maximum number of virtual CPUs that the virtual machine can be allocated?

An administrator has a virtual machine (VM) that uses a shared USB device. Which option will allow the VM to utilize vMotion while retaining the maximum possible functionality?

An administrator is creating a new Content Library. It will subscribe to another remote Content Library without authentication enabled. Optimal performance is desired for the configuration. What two steps should be taken to set up the library? (Choose two.)

An administrator has configured Network I/O Control to support bandwidth allocation to a group of virtual machines running on a vSphere 6.x HA/DRS Cluster. Which two conditions would cause DRS to migrate one of these virtual machines to another host in the cluster? (Choose two.)

An administrator wants to ensure that all datastores defined on an ALUA-based storage array have load balancing enabled by default. The storage configuration is: • Storage Array Type = VMW_SATP_DEFAULT_AA • Path Selection Policy = VMW_PSP_FIXED Which configuration would support the stated requirements?

An administrator needs to configure a storage solution for a vSphere 6.x implementation with these characteristics: • Snapshot support • vMotion Capability • Clustering across multiple ESXi hosts • Database application with high transaction count • vFlash Read Cache Which solution meets all of the stated requirements?

An administrator observes that virtual machine storage activity on an ESXi 6.x host is negatively affecting virtual machine storage activity on another host that is accessing the same VMFS Datastore.

An administrator is configuring Storage I/O Control. After enabling, the administrator notices high device latency and poor storage performance. Which two actions would likely reduce latency and improve functionality? (Choose two.)

Which two statements are true regarding upgrading ESXi 6.x hosts using a USB flash drive? (Choose two.)

Which two conditions would prevent an administrator from upgrading an existing vCenter Appliance to vSphere 6.x? (Choose two.)

Which two statements are true regarding upgrading from a Distributed vCenter Server 5.x to vCenter Server 6.x? (Choose two.)

An administrator has noticed that virtual machine VM2 in the vApp shown in the Exhibit is demonstrating poor performance.

An administrator is configuring resource pools for a vSphere 6.x cluster. The cluster has these characteristics: • Five ESXi 6.x hosts • Six cores per host • 70 virtual machines with 1 vCPU each The administrator configures three resource pools and places the virtual machines into the pools, as follows: • Production pool - High Share value with 40 virtual machines • Infrastructure pool - Medium Share value with 20 virtual machines • Development pool - Low Share value with 10 virtual machines Given this configuration, what is the expected performance for each group of virtual machines during contention?

An administrator has decided to create 10 ESXi 6.x hosts via Auto Deploy for a new Test/Dev cluster. The hosts are configured to obtain their networking configuration via DHCP. Which condition would explain why none of the hosts are able to receive a valid DHCP address?

An administrator wants to clone the configuration of an existing ESXi 6.x host to a new group of hosts, but does not want to clone storage specific settings. Which action would accomplish this?

When operating with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM), what two statements explain the impact of disabling vSphere High Availability admission control? (Choose two.)

An administrator has configured a cluster with the Host Failures Cluster Tolerates admission control policy, as shown in the Exhibit: Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

What are two sample roles that are provided with vCenter Server by default? (Choose two.)

An administrator wants to configure an ESXi 6.x host to use Active Directory (AD) to manage users and groups. The AD domain group ESX Admins was previously created. Which two conditions should be considered when planning this configuration? (Choose two.)

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 is changing the settings on a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). During this process, the ESXi Management IP address is set to an address which can no longer communicate with the vCenter Server. What is the most likely outcome of this action?