VCP5v9.6_101-200 Flashcards

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  1. What is a valid example of a vSphere Update Manager upgrade?
    A. A VMware Tools upgrade on a Fault Tolerant machine with automatic snapshots.
    B. Upgrading and patching multiple ESXi hosts simultaneously in a selected cluster.
    C. Upgrading an ESX 4.1 host to ESXi 5.x with a sufficent boot partition.
    D. An ESXi 5.x host update with automatically deleted snapshots
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Answer: C

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  1. Which is an important benefit provided by VLANs?
    A. Reduced hardware requirements
    B. Increased broadcast traffic
    C. Fault tolerance
    D. Increased security on a network segment
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Answer: A

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  1. Before upgrading an ESXi host to vSphere 5.x from vSphere 4.x, which three actions should be taken? (Choose three.)
    A. Update vCenter from 4.x to 5.x
    B. Convert any Service Console port to Management.
    C. Add an updated license to the host
    D. Update vSphere 4.x licenses using the VMware License Portal
    E. Verify the intended host is compatible with vSphere 5.x
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Answer: ADE

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  1. Recently, a storage interface card in an ESXi 5.x host has been experiencing inconsistent connectivity states.
    Which two methods can be used to quickly identify the issue and immediately notify an administrator so that the issue can be resolved? (Choose two.)
    A. Set up an alarm with the Lost Storage Path trigger to send an email for notification when the connection is lost.
    B. Set up an alarm with the Lost Storage Connectivity trigger to send an email for notification when the connection is lost.
    C. Set up an alarm with the Storage Redundancy Degraded trigger and configure an SNMP trap for
    notification when the connection is lost.
    D. Set up an alarm with the Lost Storage Connectivity trigger and configure an SNMP trap for notification when the connection is lost.
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Answer: BD

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  1. The VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) offers many features of the Windows application version.
    Which of the following features is only available on the Windows application version of vCenter?
    A. Host Profiles
    B. Template and clone customization
    C. Active Directory authentication
    D. IPv6
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Answer: D

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  1. An administrator is configuring a vSphere HA cluster for three ESXi 5.x hosts and their resident virtual machines. The cluster will be configured to support a single host failure. Resource reservations must be enforced during a failover event.
    Assuming default settings, how does HA determine the current failover capacity?
    A. Calculating the largest possible CPU and Memory guarantee for any running virtual machine in the cluster, then calculating how many virtual machines of that size can be started on the largest host and reserving space in the cluster accordingly.
    B. Averaging the largest possible CPU and Memory guarantee for any running virtual machine in the cluster, then calculating how many virtual machines of that size can be started on the largest host and reserving space in the cluster accordingly.
    C. Calculating the largest possible CPU and Memory guarantee for any virtual machine in the cluster, then calculating how many virtual machines of that size can be started on the largest host and reserving space in the cluster accordingly.
    D. Averaging the largest possible CPU and Memory guarantee for any virtual machine in the cluster, then calculating how many virtual machines of that size can be started on the largest host and reserving space in the cluster accordingly.
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Answer: A

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107. What are three valid subprofile configurations that can be edited with the Host Profile editor? (Choose three.)
A. Cluster
B. Date and Time
C. Networking
D. Security
E. Licensing
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Answer: BCD

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  1. An administrator finds that an ESXi 5.x host cannot be managed by vCenter Server.
    Which three logs can be reviewed using the DCUI? (Choose three.)
    A. Syslog
    B. Config log
    C. Virtual Center Agent
    D. ESXi shell logs
    E. VMware HA log
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Answer: ABC

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  1. Which two steps are required before VMware Data Recovery can be used? (Choose two.)
    A. The Data Recovery Appliance Module must be installed on vCenter Server.
    B. A private network must be created for the backup appliance.
    C. The vSphere Client plug-in must be installed on any machine VDR will be managed from.
    D. The Data Recovery backup appliance must have additional storage added to it.
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Answer: CD

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  1. Which three tasks can be selected from the home page of an ESXi 5.x host? (Choose three.)
    A. Browse objects managed by the host
    B. Browse NFS mounts for this host
    C. Download VMware vCenter or the vSphere client from vmware.com
    D. Shutdown or restart the host
    E. Download the PowerCLI installer
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Answer: ABC

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111. When deploying an OVF template, the resulting virtual disk is created in what file format?
A. OVF
B. VMDK
C. VMX
D. VSWP
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Answer: B

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  1. A new LUN has been provisioned to all hosts in a vSphere 5.x cluster. On one host a new VMFS datastore has been created.
    How will the new datastore be discovered by the other ESXi 5.x hosts?
    A. A rescan of all host bus adapters is periodically performed by ESXi hosts to detect new VMFS datastores.
    B. New VMFS volumes are automatically added to members of a cluster by vCenter 5.
    C. A manual refresh is required on each ESXi 5.x hosts to discover new VMFS datastores.
    D. A refresh of all host bus adapters is periodically performed by ESXi hosts to detect new VMFS datastores.
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Answer: C

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  1. Assuming that the appropriate HA configuration options have been selected, in which two situations would vSphere HA be unable to restart virtual machines? (Choose two.)
    A. A storage error has occured on the fiber channel storage array.
    B. An ESXi host in the cluster becomes isolated from the network
    C. An ESXi host was automatically put into Standby Mode
    D. Licensing was not updated after an upgrade from vSphere 4.x
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Answer: AD

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114. What do changes made to resources reserved by a resource pool affect in the resource hierarchy?
A. Child pools
B. Host pools
C. Sibling and parent pools
D. Root resource pools
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Answer: C

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115. How can virtual machines be moved between datacenters?
A. High-Availability failover
B. Cold migration
C. vMotion migration
D. Storage vMotion migration
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Answer: B

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  1. An administrator decides to use Data Recovery to back up some key virtual machines. What is the process to install Data Recovery?
    A. Download the executable from VMware.com and run from a machine with the vSphere Client installed.
    B. Use the vCenter Installer from the original vCenter media and select VMware Data Recovery
    C. Download the current OVF package from VMware.com onto a machine with the vSphere Client installed and use the Deploy OVF from Template option.
    D. Download the vmdk and vmx files from VMware.com and copy to a datastore. Right-click the vmx file and select Add to Inventory.
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Answer: C

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  1. Which two statements are true about the share value for a virtual machine after it has been added to a resource pool? (Choose two.)
    A. If a previously defined custom share value exists, the totals shares in the pool should be evaluated to maintain the expected performance.
    B. If a previously defined custom share value exists, the %Shares value will automatically be adjusted relative to the total number of shares in the pool.
    C. If a previously defined share level (high, medium, low) exists, the %Shares value is changed to Custom and the previous value is retained.
    D. If there are no other objects in the pool the share value is irrelevant.
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Answer: AD

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  1. The storage administrator has recommended testing the performance benefits of jumbo frames and enabled jumbo frames on the storage array. The VMware administrator has enabled jumbo frames on the VMkernel port used for the software iSCSI initiator.
    What other two components must be modified to enable jumbo frames support for the software iSCSI initiator? (Choose two.)
    A. The physical switch
    B. The port group
    C. The software initiator
    D. The virtual switch
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Answer: AD

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119. If you create a custom role and do not assign privileges what system-defined privileges are added? (Choose two.)
A. System.Anonymous
B. System.Read
C. System.Write
D. System.Administrator
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Answer: AB

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  1. Assuming that VLANs are not configured, what is true about traffic from a virtual machine connected to a port group on a vSphere Standard Switch with no uplinks?
    A. The virtual switch will drop the packets if no uplink is present.
    B. Virtual machines on any vSphere Standard Switch on the same ESXi host can receive the traffic.
    C. Virtual machines in any port group on the virtual switch can monitor all of the traffic.
    D. vMotion will not migrate any Virtual machines connected to a port group on the virtual switch.
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Answer: D

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  1. What function does Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) provide?
    A. The ability to enable Fault Tolerance on virtual machines that are not members of a cluster.
    B. The ability to use vMotion to migrate virtual machines between ESXi hosts with different CPU vendors.
    C. The ability to replace manual CPU identification masks with an automated process managed by the cluster.
    D. The ability to use vMotion to migrate virtual machines between hosts with identical CPUs but different vSphere versions.
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Answer: C

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122. What is the default VFAT scratch partition size for ESXi 5.x when installed on a USB drive?
A. 600MB
B. 544MB
C. 4GB
D. none
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Answer: D

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  1. What is one requirement when adding an extent to a VMFS datastore?
    A. A new unused NFS mount
    B. An RDM with sufficient space available
    C. An unused iSCSI or FCP LUN
    D. Free space on the LUN holding the VMFS datastore
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Answer: C

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  1. What is an accurate statement about the secondary virtual machine of a VM that has VMware Fault Tolerance enabled?
    A. The secondary virtual machine cannot be stored on an NFS datastore.
    B. The secondary virtual machine is created on the same host as the primary.
    C. The secondary virtual machine can prevent other virtual machines from powering up.
    D. The secondary virtual machine can be used for load balancing.
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Answer: C

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  1. What is true about the HA agent on ESXi 5.x hosts?
    A. HA agent logs and entries use the prefix aam
    B. HA agents are set to start by default
    C. HA agents can store configuration information locally
    D. vSphere client cannot determine which HA agent is master
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Answer: C

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  1. An administrator is enabling Network I/O Control (NIOC) on a vSphere Distributed Switch.
    Which types of network traffic can be prioritized with NIOC by default? (Choose three.)
    A. FCP Traffic
    B. NFS Traffic
    C. Virtual Machine Traffic By Virtual Machine
    D. iSCSI Traffic
    E. vSphere Replication (VR) Traffic
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Answer: BDE

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  1. How can you verify that vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) functionality is enabled for a storage array in a vSphere 5.x implementation?
    A. VAAI will be reported on the Hard Disk properties page for any VMDK stored on a compliant array
    B. Hardware Acceleration will be reported on the Hard Disk properties page for any VMDK stored on a compliant array
    C. Supported will be listed in the VAAI column for any datastore created on a compliant array
    D. Supported will be listed in the Hardware Acceleration column for any datastore created on a compliant array
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Answer: D

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  1. The RDP performance for a virtual machine on an ESXi 5.x host appears to be degraded.
    What are two possible causes of the problem? (Choose two.)
    A. The virtual machine has a high Ready value.
    B. The virtual machine’s network adaptor is not configured to Connect at power on.
    C. The virtual machine’s network adaptor is not configured as connected.
    D. The virtual machine is on a physical network that has become saturated.
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Answer: AD

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129. An administrator wants to configure a DRS Migration Threshold that allows automated migration only when a host is placed into maintenance or to satisfy cluster constraints.
What setting should be utilized?
A. Priority 2
B. Priority 4
C. The most conservative setting
D. The default setting
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Answer: C

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  1. Which conditions are true regarding an ESXi 5.x host placed into maintenance mode while a member of a DRS cluster? (Choose two.)
    A. If the DRS cluster is in partially automated mode and vMotion is configured, its virtual machines will be moved automatically to other hosts in the cluster.
    B. If the DRS cluster is in fully automated mode and vMotion is configured, its virtual machines will be moved automatically to other hosts in the cluster.
    C. If the DRS cluster is in partially automated mode and vMotion is configured, its virtual machines that have a high restart priority will be migrated to other hosts in the cluster.
    D. All the virtual machines on the host must be migrated or powered off before the ESXi host will complete entering maintenance mode.
A

Answer: BD

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  1. When designing a storage infrastructure to support ESXi 5.x hosts what limit will be reached first?
    A. Maximum number of NFS datastores
    B. Maximum number of iSCSI LUNs
    C. Maximum number of paths to an iSCSI RDM
    D. Maximum number of iSCSI paths on a host
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Answer: C

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  1. An administrator is performing upgrades to ESXi 5.x from ESX 3.x and ESX 4.x hosts.
    What is true about this procedure?
    A. A direct, in-place upgrade can be performed only on ESX 4.1 and later hosts.
    B. ESX 3.x hosts can be upgraded, but require an upgrade to 4.x before 5.x.
    C. A direct, in-place upgrade can be performed only on ESX 4.5 and later hosts.
    D. A direct, in-place upgrade can be performed only on ESX 3.5 and later hosts.
A

Answer: B

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  1. Click the Exhibit button.
    [IMAGE] slide #429
    An administrator is seeing a warning on one of their hosts. The warning in the Triggered Alarms panel appears to come from a custom configured host alarm. The administrator has not seen any actions taken for this alarm even though the actions are configured in the alarm definition. The configured actions are shown in the exhibit.
    What change can the administrator make to correct the problem?
    A. Configure the Alarm Frequency to repeat more often.
    B. Add an action for when the alarm changes from yellow to red.
    C. Add an action for when the alarm changes from green to yellow.
    D. Configure the alarm yellow to red action to repeat for all three actions configured.
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Answer: C

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  1. What differentiates a private cloud from a vSphere Infrastructure?
    A. A private cloud requires pooled resources including storage and networking.
    B. vSphere Infrastructure assumes a secure location for the workloads.
    C. vSphere Infrastructure allows consumption of resources over open standards.
    D. A private cloud assumes the consumer will maintain their portion of the infrastructure.
A

Answer: A

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135. Which is the most secure method of connecting to an iSCSI storage array using an independent hardware iSCSI adapter?
A. One-way CHAP
B. Mutual CHAP
C. Per-target CHAP
D. Per-subnet CHAP
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Answer: A

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  1. When an explicit failover order has been configured on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks, what determines which uplink is used when a failover event occurs?
    A. The first available uplink that reports a positive link state
    B. The reported uptime for the surviving uplinks
    C. The next available uplink on the list
    D. The uplink with the shortest route
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Answer: B

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  1. Click the Exhibit button.
    [IMAGE] #434
    Users are having difficulty accessing a Web server since a new Web application was configured in a virtual machine running on sc-titanium03.vmeduc.com. The web server has been assigned 1 vCPU. The vSphere Client reports the error shown in the exhibit. DRS is set to fully automated mode, but the problem has not resolved.
    Which action can resolve the issue?
    A. Set a CPU reservation for the web server VM.
    B. Manually move the Virtual Machine using high priority vMotion.
    C. Configure the DRS Migration Threshold to Aggressive.
    D. Set CPU affinity for the virtual machine.
A

Answer: A

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  1. Users are complaining that they cannot access their files on a file server virtual machine. The vSphere Client shows that a triggered alarm stating disk latency is beyond the default threshold for the datastore where the file server virtual machine is located. The path selection policy has been set by the ESXi host to Fixed with default path settings.
    Which two options could be used to increase performance of the file server virtual machine? (Choose two.)
    A. Use disk shares to increase the priority for the datastore housing the file server virtual machine.
    B. Use vMotion to reloacte the VM to an ESXi host with lessor HBA saturation.
    C. Change the path selection policy to Round Robin.
    D. Change the path selection policy to Most Recently Used (MRU).
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Answer: BC

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  1. When PSA is coordinating the VMware NMP and any installed third-party MPPs, the MPPs perform which task?
    A. Implement logical device bandwidth sharing
    B. Handle I/O queueing to the logical devices
    C. Provide logical device and physical path I/O statistics
    D. Manage physical path claiming and unclaiming
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Answer: D

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140. When creating a dvPort group, which port binding option assigns a port to a virtual machine when the virtual machine is first powered on?
A. Static binding
B. Flexible
C. Ephemeral
D. Dynamic binding
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Answer: D

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  1. A new ESXi 5.x host is set up with two virtual machines. A memory limit is applied so that users will have predictable performance as virtual machines are added to the host.
    What is the effect of applying a memory limit to these virtual machines?
    A. No physical memory will be granted above the limit, but VSWP can be used.
    B. No physical memory will be granted above the limit, unless expandableVM shares are set to high.
    C. Physical memory will be granted above the limit under normal conditions. Disk pages will be used if contention occurs.
    D. Physical memory will be granted above the limit under normal conditions, unless physical memory runs out.
A

Answer: A

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  1. Which are the correct parameters to specify when adding an iSCSI target to an ESXi 5.x host using the Static Discovery tab?
    A. iSCSI server ip address, port 902
    B. iSCSI server ip address, port 3260
    C. iSCSI server ip address, port 902, iSCSI target name
    D. iSCSI server ip address, port 3260, iSCSI target name
A

Answer: D

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143. Which two options cannot be edited if vApp Options is disabled in the Options tab of a virtual machine that is part of a vApp? (Choose two.)
A. Transient IP Addresses
B. Configure OVF properties
C. IPv6 Protocol
D. IPv4 Protocol
A

Answer: AB

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  1. An administrator decides to implement a Fixed multipathing policy for an ESXi 5.x host with four available paths to one VMFS datastore.
    After the policy has been enabled for the datastore, how many paths will have an active status by default?
    A. 4
    B. 3
    C. 1
    D. 2
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Answer: A

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  1. An administrator is updating a program running on a virtual machine. The update file has been downloaded as an .iso file and placed on a shared NFS datastore. An attempt to mount the .iso file to the virtual machine fails, but subsequent testing shows that the .iso file can be mounted to a virtual machine running on another ESXi 5.x host.
    Which step can be taken to enable access to the .iso file for the affected virtual machine?
    A. Reboot all ESXi hosts in the cluster where the affected virtual machine is running.
    B. Refresh all datastores on the ESXi host running the affected VM.
    C. Rescan all datastores on the ESXi host running the affected VM.
    D. Unmount the volume from the ESXi host running the affected VM, and then add as a new datastore
A

Answer: B

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  1. Which two conditions could prevent HA from powering on a virtual machine? (Choose two.)
    A. There is not enough free memory to meet the guests memory reservation.
    B. The virtual machine has been assigned a required affinity rule.
    C. Strict admission control is disabled for the HA cluster.
    D. The vCenter is hosted on the ESXi host that failed.
A

Answer: AB

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147. Which two migration techniques can be used together to move a running virtual machine to a local datastore on a different server? (Choose two.)
A. Cold migration
B. Storage vMotion
C. vMotion
D. vSphere Clone
A

Answer: BC

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  1. Click the Exhibit button.
    [IMAGE] #435
    What does the graph in the exhibit indicate?
    A. The average amount of read and write latency from the ESXi host to the SAN.
    B. The average amount of read and write latency from the guest operating system to the virtual machine virtual disk file.
    C. The average amount of read and write latency from the ESXi host to the datastore.
    D. The average amount of read and write latency from the cluster to the datastore.
A

Answer: C

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  1. In vSphere, a bound physical NIC can be configured to transmit and receive jumbo frames.
    What is the default maximum transmission unit (MTU) in vSphere?
    A. 1500
    B. 5500
    C. 9000
    D. 9500
A

Answer: A

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  1. On which two vSphere elements can traffic shaping be configured? (Choose two.)
    A. On a vSphere Distributed Switch dvPort for inbound and/or outbound traffic
    B. On a vSphere Distributed Switch for inbound and/or outbound traffic
    C. On a vSphere Standard Switch port group or the entire vSwitch for inbound traffic
    D. On a vSphere Standard Switch port group or the entire vSwitch for inbound and outbound traffic
A

Answer: AB

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151. In a vSphere HA cluster, what is the maximum number of point-to-point communication links to the slaves does each master maintain?
A. 32
B. 64
C. 512
D. 1024
A

Answer: A

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  1. During peak operating hours, an administrator finds that a business-critical application running in a virtual machine is not performing as well as during normal hours.
    Which memory management method can be used to guarantee that the application performs well at all times?
    A. Set a reservation equal to the average memory utilization of the virtual machine running the application.
    B. Set the share level to high for the virtual machine running the application and set the share level for all other virtual machines to low.
    C. Check the Reserve all guest memory checkbox.
    D. Set a reservation equal to the installed memory of the ESXi host running the application.
A

Answer: C

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  1. A vSphere environment is created with two virtual machines, VM23 and VM43. Each virtual machine has an instance of the front-end web application for the company’s manufacturing management database. A physical load-balancer is configured for the application.
    Which type of DRS rule should be implemented for VM23 and VM43?
    A. Separate Virtual Machines
    B. Virtual Machines to Hosts
    C. Host DRS Groups
    D. Keep Virtual Machines Together
A

Answer: A

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154. Which three services will continue to function when vCenter Server is unavailable? (Choose three.)
A. Storage DRS
B. Fault Tolerance (FT)
C. vMotion
D. Thin Provisioning
E. High Availability
A

Answer: BDE

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  1. A request has been made to the SAN administrator to provision a new LUN. A LUN (LUN 6) is created, and the SAN administrator presents the LUN to an ESXi 5.x host, using the storage array SAN management software. The administrator looks at the Storage configuration for the ESXi host, and does not see the new LUN. Other LUNs from the same storage array are visible.
    Which two conditions are most likely to cause the error described? (Choose two.)
    A. The administrator has not performed a Rescan All on the ESXi host.
    B. The multipathing policy has been set to Fixed for the LUN.
    C. Zoning on the Fibre Channel switches is not configured correctly.
    D. The LUN was not presented to the correct ESXi host.
A

Answer: AD

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  1. A database administrator has reported periodic poor performance on a particular virtual machine. The virtual machine administrator has noticed a significant drop in performance when utilized memory exceeds 1GB.
    What does this indicate and what could be checked next?
    A. The application problems are definitely due to a non-memory-related problem. CPU affinity settings should be checked for this virtual machine.
    B. The application problems are definitely due to a non-memory-related problem. CPU utilization should be checked next, using Windows Task Manager.
    C. The virtual machine might not have physical memory available. Compression and swap activity on the ESXi host should be checked next.
    D. The virtual machine might not have physical memory available. Ensure the memory limit on the VM is set to 0 MB.
A

Answer: C

57
Q
  1. What would be a valid reason to enable traffic shaping?
    A. Limiting the bandwidth of a FTP server
    B. Restricting the load on a IDS server
    C. Limiting the bandwidth used by an independent hardware iSCSI adapter
    D. Improving the performance of a CPU-intensive application server
A

Answer: A

58
Q
158. Users have reported performance issues with an application running on a Windows VM. Performance analysis shows high CPU activity on the ESXi host but low CPU activity on the Windows VM. A high value in which overview graph and counter on the virtual machine's Performance tab would confirm the results of the performance analysis?
A. CPU (%) / Wait
B. CPU Usage (Mhz) / Wait
C. CPU Usage (Mhz) / Ready
D. CPU (%) / Ready
A

Answer: D

59
Q
  1. Which option could be used for vSphere HA heartbeats?
    A. An iSCSI LUN used for booting the master ESXi host.
    B. An iSCSI LUN backing an RDM connected over 10GB Ethernet
    C. An NFS datastore shared with the all hosts, sync, no_root_squash and read only options
    D. A Fibre Channel LUN on an 8GB active/active array backing a VMFS5 datastore
A

Answer: D

60
Q
  1. The performance graph for a virtual machine with 1GB of RAM shows the Swap In rate to be 150 MBps and the Balloon value to be at 0 MB. Users of the virtual machine are complaining that performance is slow.
    Which two actions could increase performance of the virtual machine? (Choose two.)
    A. Install the VMMEMCTL driver on the ESXi host.
    B. Increase the memory share value for this virtual machine.
    C. Install VMware Tools into this virtual machine.
    D. Disable swapping in the virtual machine operating system.
A

Answer: BC

61
Q
  1. Click the Exhibit button.
    [IMAGE] #436
    An administrator has received reports of poor network performance with a virtual machine.
    Which task will improve the network performance of this virtual machine?
    A. Adjust shares for the virtual NIC on the virtual machine.
    B. Traffic-shape this virtual machine.
    C. Move the virtual machine to another virtual switch.
    D. Add a CPU to the virtual machine.
A

Answer: C

62
Q
  1. Which two components can be installed in monitored virtual machines to trigger vSphere HA Application Monitoring? (Choose two.)
    A. A custom script utilizing the appmonitor executable
    B. Tne vSphere Fault Tolerant agent
    C. Third-party utilities such as Neverfail or ApplicationHA
    D. The vSphere HA application agent
A

Answer: AC

63
Q
  1. What are two considerations when using resource pools in a vSphere cluster? (Choose two.)
    A. Default shares are equal for all sibling resource pools, regardless of virtual machines or child pools
    B. By default, Reservations can be exceeded
    C. vMotion must be setup prior to creating Resource Pools
    D. DRS rules cannot violate Resource Pool membership
A

Answer: AB

64
Q
  1. A vSphere 5.x implementation contains two ESXi hosts, ESXi01and ESXi02. There is a virtual machine “VM21” connected to the Production port group on ESXi01.
    ESXi01 has the following switch configuration.
    vSwitch0, single uplink to 10.1.20.0/24
    Production port group
    VMkernel port for vMotion
    VMKernel port for management
    vSwitch1, single uplink to 10.1.40.0/24
    Engineering port group
    VMKernel port for NFS storage
    ESXi02 has the following switch configuration.
    vSwitch0, single uplink to 10.1.20.0/24
    Engineering port group
    VMkernel port for vMotion
    VMKernel port for management
    vSwitch1, single uplink to 10.1.40.0/24
    Production port group
    VMKernel port for NFS storage
    Which two statements are true about this configuration? (Choose two.)
    A. vMotion is not available between the two hosts
    B. If VM21 is migrated to ESXi02 it will not be available on the network
    C. The virtual machine can be vMotion migrated to the target host.
    D. Broadcasts from the Production port group will not reach the Engineering port group.
A

Answer: BD

65
Q
  1. When comparing software iSCSI initiators with independent hardware initiators, what are the additional CHAP security levels available for a software implementation? (Choose two.)
    A. Do not use CHAP unless required by target.
    B. Use CHAP.
    C. Use CHAP unless prohibited by target.
    D. Do not use CHAP.
A

Answer: AB

66
Q
  1. The storage administrator is preparing an action plan to upgrade a Fibre Channel storage array. The current plan will result in extended downtime for a VMFS LUN that is part of a SDRS cluster. What steps can be taken in a vSphere 5.x environment to minimize the impact of the downtime? (Choose two.)
    A. Ensure there are multiple active paths to the LUN
    B. Ensure DRS is configured properly
    C. Use Storage vMotion to migrate the affected VMDKs
    D. Place the datastore into maintenance mode
A

Answer: CD

67
Q
  1. Which two types of information can be obtained about a VMFS datastore using the Summary tab for a connected host in the vSphere Client? (Choose two.)
    A. Multipathing status for the datastore
    B. Hardware Acceleration status
    C. Alarm Actions status for the datastore
    D. Runtime name of the datastore
A

Answer: BC

68
Q
  1. What are three reasons for deploying vCenter Server in a physical machine? (Choose three.)
    A. vCenter Server can be deployed as physical machine to support a VSA configuration.
    B. vCenter Server can be deployed as a physical machine to ensure it is not susceptible to vSphere outages.
    C. vCenter Server can be deployed as a physical machine to improve VMware Data Recovery performance.
    D. vCenter Server can be deployed as a physical machine to improve vMotion performance.
    E. vCenter Server can be deployed as a physical machine to ensure it does not contend for resources.
A

Answer: ABE

69
Q
  1. Click the Exhibit button.
    [IMAGE] #437
    An administrator has deployed a two-node cluster with HA and DRS enabled. DRS has been configured for fully automated mode. The management and vMotion interfaces have been configured on separate physical networks. Initial DRS testing on this cluster reveals that virtual machines are not being migrated despite great disparity in resource use between the ESX hosts in the cluster. The exhibit shows the error and the network configuration for one of the hosts.
    Which task would successfully resolve this problem?
    A. Add a vmnic to the VMkernel port
    B. Configure the DRS Migration Threshold to Aggressive
    C. Connect the network cable to the correct physical network
    D. Migrate vitual machines manually using vMotion
A

Answer: C

70
Q
  1. What are possible valid uses for the default No Access role in vCenter? (Choose two.)
    A. Restrict usage on a object for a member of a group assigned full permissions to the object
    B. Restrict access to sensitive VMs for helpdesk staff
    C. Restrict ESX Admins from managing specific hosts directly
    D. Restrict administrators from managing hosts via vCenter
A

Answer: BD

71
Q
  1. Two child resource pools exist for a DRS cluster.
    The Production resource pool has been configured with a CPU reservation of 20GHz and a memory reservation of 20GB. The pool has 16 single-processor virtual machines and 4 dual- processor virtual machines. Each of these virtual machines has a CPU reservation of 1GHz and a memory reservation of 1GB.
    The Development resource pool and it’s virtual machines have been configured with no reservations. The pool has 1 single-processor virtual machine and 1 dual-processor virtual machine. CPU Shares are set to 4000 and Memory Shares are set to 163840.
    The Production team members occasionally complain about the performance of their servers.
    Which two options could be part of the plan to to resolve the issue while minimizing the amount of resources reserved by the pool? (Choose two.)
    A. Increase the amount of CPU resources for the Production virtual machines to the processor speed of the host
    B. Set the CPU Shares of Production to 40000
    C. Double the CPU reservation on the Production virtual machines and pool
    D. Set the Memory Shares of Production to 20480
A

Answer: BC

72
Q
  1. A user wants to receive an email notification when the virtual machine CPU usage enters a warning state and again when the condition enters a alarm state.
    Which two state changes must be selected to receive the appropriate notifications? (Choose two.)
    A. Yellow-red state change
    B. Red-green state change
    C. Yellow-green state change
    D. Green-yellow state change
A

Answer: AD

73
Q
  1. An administrator has just completed an update of an ESXi 5.x host. Prior to the upgrade, a backup of the host configuration was performed. After the upgrade, the backup was restored to the upgraded host. Shortly after the upgrade was completed, the administrator receives complaints that users are unable to power on virtual machines.
    What are the two most likely reasons that VMs cannot power up on this host? (Choose two.)
    A. The update reset the virtual machine reservations.
    B. It has been more than 60 days since the host was originally installed.
    C. Backup and restore does not include licensing.
    D. The backup was performed prior to a license key being applied.
A

Answer: BD

74
Q
174. Which memory conservation technique collaborates with the server to reclaim pages that are redundant in a virtual machine or virtual machines?
A. Memory Balloon Driver
B. Transparent Page Sharing
C. Redundant Memory Driver
D. VMkernel Swap
A

Answer: B

75
Q
  1. What are two reasons creating a host profile could fail? (Choose two.)
    A. Selecting a VMware Infrastructure 3.5 host
    B. The host selected is currently in maintenance mode
    C. Special characters were used when naming vSphere objects
    D. Evaluation Licenses are being used
A

Answer: AC

76
Q
  1. Click the Exhibit button.
    [IMAGE] #438
    Which statement is true about the network performance of the virtual machine in the exhibit?
    A. The virtual machine can send at the maximum of 10Mbps.
    B. The virtual machine can send traffic as fast as the underlying virtual switch allows.
    C. Virtual switch autonegotiation settings must to be adjusted to improve performance.
    D. The underlying physical NIC is configured for 10Mbps.
A

Answer: B

77
Q
  1. Click the Exhibit button.
    [IMAGE] #439
    Which change will eliminate the symptom in the performance chart shown in the exhibit?
    A. Set CPU shares to High
    B. Set CPU affinity for the virtual machine
    C. Migrate the VM to a host that is less utilized
    D. Add a CPU to the virtual machine
A

Answer: D

78
Q
  1. vCenter Server is running in a virtual machine that is part of a vSphere DRS cluster. The vCenter Server virtual machine has been tested and can successfully migrate with vMotion between all ESXi hosts in the cluster. DRS is configured for partial automation.
    What happens if an ESXi 5.x host that is running the vCenter Server virtual machine experiences a power outage?
    A. All DRS cluster operations will be unavailable until the failed ESXi host is brought back online.
    B. vCenter Server will remain offline, but all virtual machines on the remaining hosts will continue without interruption.
    C. This situation cannot occur, because vCenter Server cannot be installed on a virtual machine in a vSphere DRS cluster.
    D. vSphere will restart the vCenter Server virtual machine on another host.
A

Answer: B

79
Q
179. How can vCenter maps be used outside of the vSphere client? (Choose two.)
A. Saved to a Visio .vsd file
B. Sent to a printer
C. Exported as a jpg
D. Saved as a PDF
A

Answer: BC

80
Q
180. Which two VMware software components can be updated by Update Manager? (Choose two.)
A. ESX 3.5
B. Virtual Appliances
C. vCenter Server
D. Guest OS
A

Answer: AB

81
Q
181. Which network settings are only available with vSphere Distributed Switches?
A. Jumbo Frames
B. PVLAN
C. Load Balancing
D. Promiscuous Mode
A

Answer: B

82
Q
  1. An administrator is configuring an ESXi 5.x host with two dual-port Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs. The FC storage array has four active storage processor ports. Zoning is configured on both fabrics, with ESXi HBA ports and the array ports in the same zone. There are two LUNs with VMFS datastores configured.
    Using Round Robin multipathing, what is the maximum number of paths that can be used to send data to the VMFS datastores at any given time?
    A. 2
    B. 3
    C. 1
    D. 4
A

Answer: A

83
Q
  1. Which two statements are true regarding a mixed DRS cluster with Intel-based and AMD-based ESXi 5.x hosts? (Choose two.)
    A. DRS can load-balance running virtual machines, assuming multiple hosts per CPU family.
    B. HA can only failover virtual machines to hosts within the same CPU family.
    C. Cold Migration may be needed to balance the performance load on the cluster
    D. Storage vMotion will not be available for this cluster
A

Answer: AC

84
Q
  1. Which two vCenter plug-ins are installed with a default vSphere Client installation? (Choose two.)
    A. vCenter Hardware Status
    B. VMware ESXi Service Status
    C. VMware vSphere Update Manager
    D. VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service
A

Answer: AD

85
Q
  1. An administrator has two ESXi 5.x hosts. Each host has two resource pools, Production and Test and a vApp named TestvApp01.
    What is true when these hosts are added to a DRS cluster?
    A. An option is given during the process to graft the pools under the cluster’s root pool, the vApp will be removed.
    B. An option is given during the process to graft the pools and vApp under the cluster’s root pool.
    C. The resource pools and vApp are automatically grafted into the cluster under the root pool.
    D. The resource pools and vApp are automatically removed when the host is added.
A

Answer: A

86
Q
  1. A user has permissions to create and manage alarms and tasks for a group of virtual machines.
    What happens if an administrator modifies permissions for the user so that they can no longer manage alarms?
    A. The user can no longer create alarms, but can modify or delete the existing alarms.
    B. The user can create alarms but can no longer modify or delete alarms.
    C. The user can no longer create, modify or delete alarms.
    D. The Alarms tab is dimmed in the vSphere Client and no alarm-related actions may be taken by the user.
A

Answer: B

87
Q
  1. When would an administrator configure the Explicit Failover option for a portgroup created on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks?
    A. To manually configure load balancing for the portgroup
    B. To share uplinks between vSwitches
    C. When configuring iSCSI Software Initiator multipathing
    D. If the physical switch does not support etherchannel or 802.3ad
A

Answer: C

88
Q
  1. Which two actions can be scheduled through the Scheduled Task wizard in the vSphere Client? (Choose two.)
    A. Remove a host.
    B. Change the VM power state.
    C. Create a virtual machine.
    D. Revert to a snapshot of a virtual machine.
A

Answer: BC

89
Q
189. Which three features can be used in combination with network-attached storage (NAS)? (Choose three.)
A. Datastores up to 64TB
B. virtual-mode RDMs
C. N-Port ID Virtualization
D. Storage I/O control
E. VMware Storage DRS
A

Answer: ADE

90
Q
  1. What are two reasons why a company would choose to use ESXi 5.x instead of using VMware Workstation 8? (Choose two.)
    A. The company needs to be able to assign existing physical disks to virtual machines.
    B. The company needs remote management of virtual machines
    C. The company needs support for virtual machines with up to sixteen vCPUs
    D. The company wants the lowest overhead possible for the virtual infrastructure.
A

Answer: CD

91
Q
191. Which three files are valid virtual machine files that might be identified when examining a folder that contains a virtual machine template on a VMFS datastore? (Choose three.)
A. RDM map file (-rdm.vmdk)
B. BIOS settings file (.bios)
C. Template file (.vmtx)
D. Lock file (.lck)
E. Suspended state file (.vmsn)
A

Answer: ACE

92
Q
  1. While building a VMware View environment one of the design requirements is keeping vCenter and View Composer always available.
    Which solution can be utilized to achieve this?
    A. vCenter Server Heartbeat
    B. vSphere HA
    C. vSphere FT
    D. Host Based Replication
A

Answer: A

93
Q
  1. What happens to the total number of shares available to the children of a resource pool if a virtual machine is powered off inside the resource pool?
    A. It remains the same
    B. It decreases
    C. It increases
    D. It remains the same only if a custom share value was configured
A

Answer: B

94
Q
  1. An administrator is configuring admission control settings for a vSphere HA cluster. The administrator selects the option Allow VMs to Be Powered On Even if They Violate Availability Constraints.
    Which two events occur during an ESXi host failure? (Choose two.)
    A. Virtual machines with a High restart priority are restarted first.
    B. Virtual machines with a Low restart priority are not restarted.
    C. HA will not restart virtual machines configured for FT.
    D. Virtual machines with VM Monitoring set to Enabled are restarted.
A

Answer: AC

95
Q
  1. What are three true statements about an integrity check in vCenter Data Recovery? (Choose three.)
    A. The operation is prevented from overlaping with the backup operations.
    B. The operation is scheduled separately form the backup schedule.
    C. An incremental operation can be manually started.
    D. The operation automatically pauses when the end of the maintenance widow is reached
    E. By default the operation does not run during normal business hours.
A

Answer: BDE

96
Q
  1. A DRS cluster with two ESXi 5.x hosts is set to fully automated mode. One host in the cluster is running at 98% CPU utilization. The other host is running at 52% utilization. Upon analysis, it appears that none of the virtual machines are being migrated from the CPU-constrained host, and no recommendations are being generated.
    What are the two most likely causes of the problem? (Choose two.)
    A. The VMkernel port is assigned an incorrect IP adderss.
    B. vMotion is not enabled on the VMkernel port.
    C. The DRS Migration Threshold is too aggressive.
    D. VMware DRS is not set to Fully Automated.
A

Answer: AB

97
Q
  1. An administrator is migrating a virtual machine in a DRS cluster. The migration fails the validation check because of a CPU incompatibility issue.
    Which items below could be causing this issue? (Choose two.)
    A. Inconsistent CPU manufacturers.
    B. Inconsistent CPU steppings.
    C. Inconsistent CPU generations.
    D. Inconsistent CPU GHZ.
A

Answer: AC

98
Q
198. Which two settings are required by the deployment wizard when installing the VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA)? (Choose two.)
A. Number of CPUs
B. Datastore to install on
C. Linked-mode
D. Name of the vCenter server
A

Answer: BD

99
Q
199. What options must be configured in the vCenter Server settings before email alerts can be sent? (Choose two.)
A. Sender email address
B. SNMP address information
C. SMTP server information
D. Email authentication information
A

Answer: AC

100
Q
200. Which three modules are optional components that can be added from the vCenter Server installer? (Choose three.)
A. VMware vCenter Syslog Collector
B. VMware vCenter License Server
C. VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy
D. VMware vCenter Host Update Utility
E. VMware vSphere Auto Deploy
A

Answer: ACE