VCP5v9.6_1-100 Flashcards

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  1. Windows task manager with high cpu%(image)
    An administrator has deployed a new virtual machine on an ESXi 5.x host. Users are complaining of poor performance on the application running on the virtual machine. Performance tools display the results shown in the exhibit.Which two tasks might improve the user experience? (Choose two.)
    A. Add a vCPU to the virtual machine
    B. Remove CPU affinity on the advanced CPU setting of the virtual machine
    C. Migrate the virtual machine to another ESXi host
    D. Remove the limit on the CPU settings of the virtual machine
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Answer: AD

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  1. An administrator notices that when a virtual machine is placed into a resource pool, a warning indicates that the virtual machine will receive a very large percentage of the total shares for memory.Which action can be taken to resolve this problem?
    A. Increase the memory resource allocation to the resource pool.
    B. Increase the share value for the resource pool.
    C. Change the shares setting from custom to high, medium, or low for the virtual machine.
    D. Decrease the memory allocation for the virtual machine.
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Answer: C

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  1. An administrator views the Fault Tolerance pane of the Summary tab of a virtual machine and finds that the current status is Not Protected.What are two vSphere Fault Tolerance states that would cause the virtual machine to not be protected? (Choose two.)
    A. Stopped - Fault Tolerance has been stopped on the secondary virtual machine.
    B. Need Secondary VM - The primary virtual machine is running without a secondary virtual machine and is not protected
    C. Need Primary VM - The secondary virtual machine is running, and a new primary virtual machine cannot be generated.
    D. Disabled - Fault Tolerance is disabled.
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Answer: BD

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  1. Which two conditions prevent the application of a host profile to an ESXi 5.x host? (Choose two.)
    A. The host has multiple profiles attached.
    B. The host has not been placed into maintenance mode.
    C. The host is running virtual machines.
    D. The host is an ESXi host.
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Answer: BC

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5. An administrator is editing the IP allocation policy for a vApp.Which three options are available? (Choose three.)
A. Automatic
B. Roaming
C. Transient
D. DHCP
E. Fixed
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Answer: CDE

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  1. ACME Junkmail Incorporated has been utilizing templates in their environment. They are running a 10-node ESXi 5.x Cluster and DRS has not been configured. Several virtual machines have been deployed from this template and successfully powered on, but a newly deployed virtual machine will not power on. There appear to be adequate CPU and Memory resources available on the host.Which three things can be done to allow more virtual machines to be deployed into the cluster from this template? (Choose three.)
    A. Select a different datastore for the virtual machine
    B. Move the swap file to a different location
    C. Deploy the virtual machine to a different host using the same datastore
    D. Enable DRS on the cluster to balance the virtual machine load out across hosts
    E. Increase the virtual machine memory reservation
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Answer: ABE

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7. What are three valid objects to place in a vApp? (Choose three.)
A. Folders
B. Hosts
C. Resource pools
D. vApps
E. Virtual machines
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Answer: CDE

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  1. Which three Storage I/O Control conditions might trigger the Non-VI workload detected on the datastore alarm? (Choose three.)
    A. The datastore is connected to an ESX/ESXi 4.0 host that does not support Storage I/O Control.
    B. The datastore is on an array that is performing system tasks such as replication.
    C. The datastore is utilizing active/passive multipathing or NMP (Native Multi-Pathing).
    D. The datastore is storing virtual machines with one or more snapshots.
    E. The datastore is connected to an ESX/ESXi 4.0 host that is not managed by vCenter.
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Answer: ABE

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9. An administrator has just finished deploying a vApp for a web service.What three options are available to the administrator for IP allocation within the vApp? (Choose three.)
A. Transient
B. Fixed
C. DHCP
D. Bridged
E. NAT
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Answer: ABC

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  1. An administrator is working to implement Storage Profiles in their environment.Which two ways can storage capabilities be generated? (Choose two.)
    A. They are generated by Datastore Clusters as LUNs are added to the cluster.
    B. They are automatically determined by the Storage Profile when it is created.
    C. They can be retrieved from the array through the VMware APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA).
    D. They can be manually generated by the administrator.
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Answer: CD

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11. Which VMware solution uses the security of a vSphere implementation and provides linked-clone technology to virtual desktops?
A. VMware ACE
B. VMware View
C. VMware Workstation
D. VMware ThinApp
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Answer: B

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  1. Which two conditions will prevent a virtual machine from being successfully migrated using Storage vMotion? (Choose two.)
    A. The virtual machine has an RDM.
    B. The virtual machine has Fault Tolerance enabled.
    C. The virtual machine is running on a vSphere 5.x Standard host.
    D. The virtual machine has a disk stored on an NFS datastore.
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Answer: BC

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  1. Under which two conditions can vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) provide a performance benefit? (Choose two.)
    A. When a virtual disk has VMDK files stored on an NFS datastore.
    B. When a virtual disk is created using the New Virtual Machine wizard.
    C. When cloning a virtual machine with snapshots.
    D. When a virtual disk is deleted.
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Answer: AD

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  1. An administrator is enabling Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) in a DRS cluster. The administrator wants only hosts with the newest Intel processors added to the cluster.Which setting satisfies this requirement?
    A. The baseline with the most CPUs listed
    B. The baseline with the fewest CPUs listed
    C. Any baseline that contains Future Intel processors
    D. Create a new baseline and add only the latest processor family
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Answer: D

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  1. Which two conditions must exist on all hosts in the cluster if Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) is used? (Choose two.)
    A. The cluster must be enabled for DRS.
    B. All hosts in the cluster must be running ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 or later.
    C. All hosts in the cluster must have hardware virtualization support enabled.
    D. The cluster must be enabled for HA.
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Answer: BC

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  1. Users are experiencing performance issues when updating their database hosted on a virtual machine. The administrator determines that disk I/O is high across one of the HBAs on the ESXi host containing the virtual machine.What is the action will most likely correct the issue without significantly impacting other users or datastores?
    A. Manually configure the disk multipathing policy to Round Robin for the datastore
    B. Migrate the virtual machine to an NFS datastore using Storage vMotion
    C. Use Storage vMotion to migrate the virtual machine to a new VMFS5 datastore
    D. Map additional LUNs to the ESXi host and extend the datastores
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Answer: A

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  1. An administrator takes a vSphere snapshot of a virtual machine and applies an OS update. After confirming the update the administrator cannot enable Fault Tolerance on the virtual machine and suspects there are snapshots that have not been consolidated.Which two operations can the administrator perform to verify consolidation is needed? (Choose two.)
    A. Expose the Needs Consolidation column in the virtual machines tab of the host.
    B. Browse the datastore containing the vmdk files and look for files with the “-delta.vmdk” extension.
    C. Expose the Needs Consolidation column in the virtual machine summary tab.
    D. Select and run the vSphere Cluster HealthCheck from the right-click menu of the cluster object.
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Answer: AB

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  1. An administrator has created a virtual machine that will be accessed from a public kiosk. Management has requested that the virtual machine be reset to a known state once a week or on demand if requested.Which method is the simplest way to meet this requirement?
    A. Configure the storage array to be vSphere aware and script routine array snapshot restores of the datastore.
    B. Implement a 3rd party imaging server and PXE boot the virtual machine off a static image.
    C. Set the VMDKs of the virtual machine to be Independent-Nonpersistent and schedule restarts of the virtual machine.
    D. Create Nonpersistent disks for the virtual machine and set the guest OS to reboot once a week.
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Answer: C

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  1. What are three true statements about quiescing virtual machine snapshots? (Choose three.)
    A. vSphere snapshot quiescing only occurs on Windows guest OSes.
    B. The quiescing operation is automatic with any snapshot.
    C. The quiescing operation varies by guest OS.
    D. Quiescing should occur before array-based snapshots to ensure consistency.
    E. VMware Tools is required for quiescing to be successful.
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Answer: CDE

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  1. An administrator has deployed vCenter Data Recovery and wants the largest possible de- duplication store. Which three storage options can be used? (Choose three.)
    A. Two CIFS shares
    B. Two RDMs on a FCP array
    C. One NFS mount on the ESXi host and one RDMs on an iSCSI array
    D. One CIFS share and one FCP RDME. Two NFS mounts on the ESXi host
    E. Two NFS mounts on the ESXi host
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Answer: BCE

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21. An administrator has recently upgraded their Update Manager infrastructure to vSphere 5.x. Several hosts and virtual machines have not been upgraded yet.Which vSphere component when upgraded will have the least impact to the existing environment?
A. Virtual Machine Hardware
B. ESX Hosts
C. VMFS datastores
D. VMware Tools
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Answer: D

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  1. An administrator is using Update Manager 5.x to update virtual appliances in a vSphere environment. The environment is using the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA).What would cause the remediation to fail?
    A. Updating of the appliance can only be done if the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) has been put into Maintenance Mode.
    B. Remediation must be configured on the Appliance Administration page before use.
    C. Remediation of the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) with Update Manager is not supported.
    D. Remediation requires the hosts to be connected to vCenter using an IPv4 address.
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Answer: D

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  1. An administrator is working to update the hosts and virtual machines in a vSphere 5.x deployment using Update Manager Baselines.Other than host patches, which three items require a separate procedure or process to update? (Choose three.)
    A. Operating system patches
    B. Virtual Appliance updates
    C. Virtual Machine Virtual Hardware upgrades
    D. VMware Tools on machines without VMware Tools already installed
    E. Application patches within the virtual machine
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Answer: ADE

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24. An administrator selects the Profile Compliance tab of an vSphere cluster, then selects Check Compliance Now.Which features requirements are not checked by this?
A. vMotion
B. Fault Tolerance
C. DRS
D. Host Profiles
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Answer: D

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  1. An administrator is troubleshooting an ESXi 5.x host and needs to export diagnostic information. The host is currently managed by a vCenter Server instance.Which two ways can the information be gathered using the vSphere Client? (Choose two.)
    A. Select Home. Under Administration, click System Logs and click the Export System Logs button. Select the affected ESXi host. Select Select All. Select a location and click Finish.
    B. In the vSphere Client, select the affected ESXi host. Right-click the host and select Export Diagnostic Data. Select a location and click OK.
    C. Log in to the ESXi host locally, Select Export System Logs.
    D. In the vSphere Client, select the affected ESXi host. Select File, Export and Export System Logs. Select Select All. Select a location and click Finish.
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Answer: AD

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  1. An ESXi 5.x host displays a warning icon in the vSphere console and its summary page lists a configuration issue “SSH for the host has been enabled.” What are two ways to clear this warning? (Choose two.)
    A. Using the Security Profile pane of the Configuration tab in the vSphere Client
    B. Using the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
    C. Using the Advanced Settings pane of the Configuration tab in the vSphere Client
    D. Using the Networking pane of the Configuration tab in the vSphere Client
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Answer: AB

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  1. vCenter reports a connectivity problem with a ESXi 5.x host that is not a member of a cluster. An administrator attempts to connect directly to the host using the vSphere Client but fails with the message “An unknown connection error occurred.” Virtual machines running on the host appear to be running and report no problem.What two methods would likely resolve the issue without affecting the virtual machines? (Choose two.)
    A. Enter the service mgmt-vmware restart command from either SSH or local CLI
    B. Select Restart Management Agents in the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
    C. Select Reboot Host in the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
    D. Enter the services.sh restart command from either SSH or the local CLI
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Answer: BD

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28. Click the Exhibit button.
[IMAGE]
ACME Catering Services is using esxtop to troubleshoot a performance problem with one of their ESXi 5.x hosts. Host disconnections from vCenter Server as well as sluggish performance when performing tasks on the host have been observed.Based on the output in the exhibit, how many vCPU's have been assigned to FileServer01?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8
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Answer: D

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  1. An administrator notices that log files kept on an ESXi 5.x host are being rotated very quickly, inhibiting the troubleshooting of an issue.Which two configuration changes will resolve the issue? (Choose two.)
    A. Configure syslog to send the logs a syslog server
    B. Increase the number of logs kept
    C. Increase the logging level
    D. Increase the size of the partition where log files are stored
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Answer: AB

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  1. A series of Auto Deploy ESXi 5.x hosts which utilize vSphere Standard Switches are unable to boot. In prior testing, all of the hosts were able to boot successfully.Which two conditions might cause this issue? (Choose two.)
    A. The Hosts are unable to connect to the SAN.
    B. The TFTP server is down.
    C. The DNS server is down.
    D. The DHCP server is down.
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Answer: BD

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  1. An administrator wants to monitor the health status of an ESXi 5.x host. However, when the administrator clicks the Hardware Status tab the following error is displayed.This program cannot display the webpageWhat might cause this problem?
    A. The VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices Service is not started.
    B. The required plug-in is not enabled.
    C. The VMware ESXi Management Webservices Service is not started
    D. The name of the vCenter Server system could not be resolved.
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Answer: A

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  1. An iSCSI array is being added to a vSphere 5.x implementation. An administrator wants to verify that all IP storage VMkernel interfaces are configured for jumbo frames.What are two methods to verify this configuration? (Choose two.)
    A. Run the esxcli network ip interface list command
    B. Run the esxcfg-vswif -l command
    C. Ensure that the Enable Jumbo Frames box is checked in the VMkernel interface properties in the vSphere client
    D. Ensure that the MTU size is set correctly in the VMkernel interface properties in the vSphere client
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Answer: AD

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  1. An administrator has configured a vSphere Distributed Switch to send all network traffic to a collector virtual machine for analysis. However, after checking the collector virtual machine several hours later the administrator finds that no data has been collected. vSphere 5.x has been deployed in the datacenter.Which two items below could be causing this issue? (Choose two.)
    A. The source virtual machine does not have Promiscuous Mode enabled.
    B. The source and target virtual machines are not both be on the same vSphere Distributed Switch.
    C. The port group or distributed does not have Promiscuous Mode enabled.
    D. The port group or distributed port does not have NetFlow enabled.
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Answer: BD

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  1. A user attempts a remote SSH connection to a newly-installed ESXi 5.x host to execute some commands. The SSH connection attempt fails, though the user is able to receive a ICMP ping back from the host.What must the administrator do to enable SSH? (Choose two.)
    A. Enable root logon on the ESXi server.
    B. Open the SSH port on the ESXi firewall.
    C. Start the SSH service on the ESXi server.
    D. Create a local user on the ESXi server.
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Answer: BC

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  1. An administrator is setting up vMotion in a vSphere environment. A migration is run to test the configuration, but fails.What could the administrator do to resolve the issue?
    A. Ensure the VMkernel port group is configured for Management Traffic.
    B. Enable VMkernel port group for the vSphere cluster.
    C. Ensure the vMotion enabled adaptors configured for the same subnet.
    D. Use a vDS instead of a standard switch.
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Answer: C

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  1. An administrator is unable to connect a vSphere Client to an ESXi 5.x host.Which option can be selected from the direct console to restore connectivity without disrupting running virtual machines?
    A. Restore the Standard Switch from the ESXi host.
    B. Restart the Management Agents from the vSphere client.
    C. Restart the Management Agent from the ESXi host
    D. Disable the Management Network from the vSphere client.
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Answer: C

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  1. An administrator receives a complaint that a virtual machine is performing poorly. The user attributes the issue to poor storage performance.If the storage array is the bottleneck, which two counters would be higher than normal? (Choose two.)
    A. Average ESXi VMKernel latency per command, in milliseconds
    B. Average ESXi highest latency, in milliseconds
    C. Average virtual machine operating system latency per command, in milliseconds
    D. Number of SCSI reservation conflicts per second
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Answer: BC

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  1. An administrator must decommission a datastore.Before unmounting the datastore, which three requirements must be fullfilled? (Choose three.)
    A. No virtual machines reside on the datastore.
    B. The datastore is not used for vSphere HA heartbeat.
    C. No registered virtual machines reside on the datastore.
    D. The datastore must not have any extents.
    E. The datastore must not be part of a datastore cluster.
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Answer: ABE

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40. An administrator is informed that there will be a storage maintenance window and that failovers may occur.What is the expected length of time that a Windows 2008 virtual machine storage I/O will pause during a path failover?
A. 0 to 30 seconds
B. 90 to 120 seconds
C. 60 to 90 seconds
D. 30 to 60 seconds
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Answer: D

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41. A company wants to increase disk capacity for their vSphere environment.Management mandates that.1. vMotion must work in this environment.2. The existing LAN infrastructure must be used.Which storage option best meets the company objectives?
A. iSCSI
B. Fibre Channel
C. SATA
D. NFS
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Answer: D

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  1. Which resource management technique can be used to relieve a network bottleneck caused by a virtual machine with occasional high outbound network activity?
    A. Convert the switch from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch.
    B. Create a new portgroup for the virtual machine and enable traffic shaping.
    C. Apply traffic shaping to the other virtual machines in the same port group.
    D. Apply traffic shaping to the virtual machine with high activity.
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Answer: B

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  1. A vSphere 5 implementation consists of a fully automated DRS cluster with two ESXi 5.x hosts with the following vSphere Standard Switch configuration.1. Switch
    A. three vmnics, one port group named sFTP-PG2. Switch B. two vmnic, one port group namedWeb-PG3. All vmnics are trunked to the same physical switch.DRS has been configured with an anti-affinity rule for all virtual machines in the Web-PG so that no more than half of the virtual machines run on any given host. The virtual machines on WebPG are experiencing significant network latency. The network team has determined that a performance bottleneck is occurring at the ESXi host level.Which solution will require the least amount of administrative work and the least amount of service interruption?
    A. Migrate Web-PG to Switch A and sFTP-PG to Switch B on each host
    B. Move a vmnic from Switch A to Switch B on each host
    C. Convert the three Switch Bs to a single vSphere Distributed Switch
    D. Use vMotion to redistribute some of the VMs in Web-PG to a different ESXi host
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Answer: B

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  1. An administrator has determined that storage performance to a group of virtual machines is reduced during peak activity. The virtual machines are located in a VMFS datastore called Production1 on an active-active storage array. The ESXi 5.x host running the virtual machines is configured with an MRU multipathing policy.Which two actions can be taken to improve the storage performance of these virtual machines? (Choose two.)
    A. Add virtual storage, create a VMFS datastore called Production2 on the new storage, and then migrate some of the virtual machines from Production1 to Production2.
    B. Change the storage multipathing policy to Round Robin.
    C. Add physical storage, create a VMFS datastore called Production2 on the new storage, and then migrate some of the virtual machines from Production1 to Production2.
    D. Change the storage multipathing policy to Fixed with default settings.
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Answer: BC

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  1. Which of these factors indicates a high likelihood that the performance of a virtual machine disk is being constrained by disk I/O?
    A. A large number of commands issued
    B. A high device latency value
    C. A high disk used value
    D. A large number of kilobytes read and written
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Answer: B

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  1. Click the Exhibit button.[IMAGE]An administrator is configuring vMotion in their environment. As part of the implementation, an administrator is examining resource mapping for virtual machines.What is a likely cause of the error shown in the exhibit?
    A. vMotion has been disabled because the are no other hosts in the cluster with vMotion enabled.
    B. vMotion has not been enabled on the Production port group.
    C. The administrator has not created a Managent network.
    D. vMotion has not been enabled on a VMkernel port group.
A

Answer: D

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  1. Which two circumstances might cause a DRS cluster to become invalid? (Choose two.)
    A. DRS has been disabled on one or more ESXi hosts.
    B. An ESXi host has been removed from the cluster.
    C. A migration on a virtual machine is attempted while the virtual machine is failing over.
    D. Virtual machines have been powered on from a vSphere Client connected directly to an ESXi host.
A

Answer: BD

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  1. Click the Exhibit button.[IMAGE]An administrator has a DRS/HA cluster with five ESXi 5.x hosts. When the administrator tries to start a new Web server virtual machine, an error is displayed saying insufficient resources exist for HA.Based on the HA configuration in the exhibit, which two changes can resolve the issue? (Choose two.)
    A. Shut down one or more virtual machines on the cluster.
    B. Set VM Restart Priority to Disabled for the Web server.
    C. Set Host Isolation response to Shut down.
    D. Suspend one or more virtual machines in the cluster.
A

Answer: AD

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  1. Click the Exhibit button.
    [IMAGE]
    An administrator is applying patches to a batch of ESXi 5.x hosts in an under-allocated HA/DRS cluster. An attempt is made to place the host into maintenance mode, but the progress has stalled at 2%. DRS is configured as shown in the exhibit. Of the four choices below, two would effectively resolve this issue.Which two steps could be taken to correct the problem? (Choose two.)
    A. Enable VMware EVC.
    B. Set the virtual machines on the host to Fully Automated.
    C. Shut down the virtual machines on the host.
    D. Move the virtual machine swap file off the local datastore.
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Answer: BC

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  1. An administrator is configuring Storage DRS in their environment. The Datastore cluster is composed of 4 VMFS3 volumes and 9 VMFS5 volumes. Storage DRS has been enabled, but is showing as disabled on several virtual machine disks in the datastore cluster. Which two conditions would cause this error to occur? (Choose two.)
    A. The virtual machine is stored on a VMFS 3 volume.
    B. One or more virtual machines have Persistent disks.
    C. The virtual machine is stored on a NFS datastore.
    D. The virtual machine is stored on a datastore with a 2mb block size.
A

Answer: AB

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  1. An administrator finds that vMotion and Storage vMotion operations do not succeed on a virtual machine. The virtual machine has been configured with N_Port ID Virtualization. The virtual machine has two data RDMs, one using a RAID5 LUN and one using a RAID0+1 LUN. The mapping file for the RAID5 LUN was created on the same datastore as the virtual machine, and the mapping file for the RAID0+1 LUN was placed in a datastore used for production data virtual disks.Which two statements are true about this configuration? (Choose two.)
    A. Storage vMotion cannot be used unless both mapping files are placed on the same datastore.
    B. vMotion cannot be used unless both mapping files are placed on the same datastore.
    C. vMotion cannot be used with RDMs.
    D. Storage vMotion cannot be used with NPIV.
A

Answer: BD

51
Q
51. A company has converted several physical machines to virtual machines but are seeing significant performance issues on the converted machines. The host is configured with sufficient memory and storage does not appear to be a bottleneck.Which metric can be checked to determine if CPU contention exists on an ESXi 5.x host?
A. %RUN
B. %WAIT
C. %USED
D. %RDY
A

Answer: D

52
Q
  1. Which three statements regarding Network I/O Control (NIOC) are accurate? (Choose three.)
    A. NIOC enforces traffic bandwidth limits on the overall vDS set of dvUplinks.
    B. NIOC limits maximum throughput control on connected virtual machines.
    C. Load based teaming efficiently uses a vDS set of dvUplinks for network capacity.
    D. Isolation provides priority to any one traffic flow.
    E. Relative shares fairly allocates available bandwidth among multiple flows.
A

Answer: ACE

53
Q
  1. Which three requirements must be met in order to use Storage I/O Control? (Choose three.)
    A. The datastore must contain multiple VMFS extents.
    B. The datastore must contain a single NFS volume.
    C. The datastore must not include virtual machines with snapshots.
    D. The datastore must be managed by a single vCenter Server.
    E. Array-based automated storage tiering must be explicitly certified.
A

Answer: BDE

54
Q
54. What number of IOPS should be used with Storage I/O Control to limit disk throughput to roughly 10 MBps if the guest application writes 64KB blocks?
A. 320
B. 160
C. 240
D. 64
A

Answer: B

55
Q
  1. It appears that a single vCPU virtual machine in a resource pool called Production is having performance problems because it does not have enough CPU resources available.Which two methods can be used to improve performance and reduce CPU contention of this virtual machine while maintaining compatibility with DRS? (Choose two.)
    A. Configure a CPU reservation for this virtual machine.
    B. Increase the CPU shares for the resource pool.
    C. Increase the CPU shares for the virtual machine.
    D. Increase the share priority setting for the Production resource pool.
A

Answer: AC

56
Q
  1. Click the Exhibit button.
    [IMAGE] #447
    ACME Party Supplies Corporation has a requirement to monitor all virtual machines in a vSphere 5 environment for CPU and Memory usage. An administrator configures an alarm in vCenter Server to send an alert when any VM exceeds 65% memory utilization and 75% CPU utilization. The alarm should warn administrators if the virtual machine is within 20% of the defined thresholds. The alarm has been created with the default options as shown in the exhibit.Which three modifications must be made to the default settings in the alarm definition to satisfy the stated requirements? (Choose three.)
    A. Set the VM CPU Usage (%) Alert trigger to 75% and the VM Memory Usage(%) Alert trigger to 55%
    B. Set the VM CPU Usage (%) Alert trigger to 75% and the VM Memory Usage(%) Warning trigger to 55%
    C. Set the VM CPU Usage (%) Warning trigger to 65% and the VM Memory Usage (%) Warning trigger to 45%
    D. Set the Trigger if all of the conditions are satisfied radio button
    E. Set the Trigger if any of the conditions are satisfied radio button
A

Answer: ACE

57
Q
  1. An administrator is performing maintenance on a storage array used by an ESXi 5.x host. The administrator wants to disable alarm actions for the host while the maintenance is taking place.What procedure will accomplish this task?
    A. Go to the Alarms tab for each ESXi host in the DRS cluster. Locate storage-related alarms.Right-click and disable each alarm.
    B. Right-click the DRS cluster and select Alarm and Disable Alarm Actions.
    C. Right-click the ESXi host and select Alarm and Disable Alarm Actions.
    D. Go to the Alarms tab for the Datacenter containing the DRS cluster. Locate the storage-related alarms. Right-click and disable each alarm.
A

Answer: C

58
Q
58. An administrator would like to have vCenter take action any time a virtual machine is using over 90% of its available resources for five minutes or longer.Which three actions can be taken by vCenter Server in response to the trigger without running a script? (Choose three.)
A. Power on a VM
B. Reboot Guest on VM
C. Increase Virtual Machine Memory
D. Migrate a VM
E. Increase Virtual Machine CPU Shares
A

Answer: ABD

59
Q
59. A group of virtual machines has been deployed using thin disks because of limited storage space availability. The storage team has expressed concern about extensive use of this type of provisioning. At which level can the administrator set an alarm to notify the storage team?
A. Datastore
B. Virtual Machine
C. Host
D. Resource Pool
A

Answer: A

60
Q
  1. An administrator has purchased a new 10GB Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for installation in a system that is running ESXi 5.x. The administrator has downloaded the latest driver from the hardware vendor and wants to include the driver in an image. The image profile acceptance level is set to VMwareSupported. The acceptance level of the driver is VMwareSupported.Which two statements are true about the inclusion of this driver in the image? (Choose two.)
    A. Support calls for the driver will be directed to the partner.
    B. The image can be built, but the driver will not be included in the image.
    C. The image can be built and the driver will be included.
    D. Support calls for the driver will be handled by VMware.
A

Answer: AC

61
Q
61. What are the three service offerings provided by a VMware-powered public cloud? (Choose three.)
A. Committed
B. Transient
C. Dedicated
D. Highly Elastic
E. Basic
A

Answer: ACE

62
Q
  1. An administrator has been tasked with upgrading an exsiting host from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.x. The existing host has only vSwitch0 with all the default settings.The upgraded host will have the following new requirements.1. 116 virtual machines will be connected.2. four uplinks configured for port-based load balancing.3. The switch will include a secondary heartbeat network for HA.Which two statements are true about this configuration? (Choose two.)
    A. The Service Console Port will be removed during the upgrade
    B. The configuration requires only one VMkernel Port
    C. The default vSwitch0 is sufficient for this configuration
    D. A change to vSwitch0 Properties is required
A

Answer: AD

63
Q
  1. Virtual machine VM1 is unable to communicate with virtual machine VM2. Both virtual machines are connected to a portgroup named Production on vSwitch1 on host ESXi01. Which statement could explain why?
    A. The only vmnic connected to vSwitch1 on ESXi01 is set to unused
    B. The only vmnic connected
    to vSwitch1 on ESXi01 is set to standby
    C. Load balancing settings on Production do not match vSwitch1
    D. VM1 is configured for VGT, VM2 is configured for VST
A

Answer: D

64
Q
  1. An administrator is creating a new virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine wizard in custom mode on an ESXi 5.x host with two quad-core CPUs. What would limit the maximum number of virtual sockets for the virtual machine to 8? (Choose three.)
    A. Windows 2008 32-bit is configured as the guest operating system.
    B. Virtual machine hardware version 8 is configured for the VM.
    C. Hyperthreading is disabled on the ESXi host.
    D. The ESXi host is configured with a Standard license.
    E. The number of cores per virtual socket is set to 4.
A

Answer: CDE

65
Q
  1. What are two methods of maximizing VMFS performance for virtual machines across all the hosts in a cluster? (Choose two.)
    A. Use disk shares to prioritize virtual machine disk I/O
    B. Enable Storage I/O control
    C. Enable Storage DRS with I/O load balancing
    D. Enable Host Cache using local SSD drives
A

Answer: BC

66
Q
66. Click the Exhibit button.
[IMAGE] #448
For the selected item, what two properties could the storage administrator use to create a zone? (Choose two.)
A. 20.00.00.1b.32.13.14.a7
B. vmhba1.C0.T0.L1
C.fc.2000001b321314a7.2100001b321314a7
D. 50.06.01.60.c1.e0.65.22
A

Answer: AD

67
Q
  1. Which two statements are true regarding vSphere standard switches? (Choose two.)
    A. Beaconing requires at least three uplinks to be considered useful.
    B. Virtual machines on different vSwitches require the vSwitches to share an uplink to communicate.
    C. vSphere virtual switches require at least one uplink adapter.
    D. Setting the number of ports to the maximum on a vSwitch will exhaust the total ports on a host.
A

Answer: AD

68
Q
68. Which types of traffic can a VMkernel port be enabled to carry on a ESXi 5.x host? (Choose three.)
A. NFS
B. Fault Tolerant
C. Management
D. iSCSIE. vMotion
A

Answer: BCE

69
Q
69. Networking policies for a vSphere Standard Switch, such as traffic shaping and security, can be overridden on which vSphere elements?
A. On the virtual machine
B. On the physical switch
C. On the physical network interface
D. On the port group
A

Answer: D

70
Q
  1. When would a license server be configured for vCenter Server 5.x?
    A. When managing ESX 3.x servers
    B. When the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) is used
    C. Within the first 60 days
    D. A standalone license server is installed by default
A

Answer: A

71
Q
71. What two Advanced IP Allocation Schemes are available? (Choose two.)
A. Fixed
B. DHCP
C. OVF Environment
D. Transient
A

Answer: BC

72
Q
72. What are two valid Resource settings that can be set at the vApp level? (Chose two.)
A. Network
B. CPU
C. Memory
D. Disk
A

Answer: BC

73
Q
  1. An administrator is investigating a report of slow disk performance. Where is the most efficient place for the administrator to check?
    A. The performance tab of the vApp.
    B. The performance tab of the virtual machine.
    C. The performance tab of the vApp resource pool.
    D. The performance tab of the cluster.
A

Answer: B

74
Q
  1. An administrator creates a new Role of “Virtual Machine Creator” for members of the helpdesk and server teams. Privileges include.Datastore - Allocate spaceNetwork - Assign networkResource - Assign virtual machine to resource poolVirtual machine > Configuration - allVirtual machine > Interaction - allThe new role is granted to the teams at the appropriate VMs and Templates folder, Cluster and Datastore objects. After applying the role, users report they are unable to create new Virtual Machines. What should be changed to allow new virtual machines to be created?
    A. Add a privilege to the role Virtual machine > Inventory - Create new
    B. Grant the teams the role at the Datacenter level
    C. Ensure Propagate to Child Objects is selected on the objects.
    D. Grant the teams the role on the Production network object.
A

Answer: A

75
Q
  1. A mid-size company with a vSphere 5 cluster wants to enable their helpdesk staff to be able to acknowledge alarms on the hosts. Currently the group “HelpDesk” has the Read-only role assigned to the Cluster object.Which action should the administrator perform?
    A. Enable Propagate to Child Objects on the current permission.
    B. Move the current permission to the Datacenter object.
    C. Add the Alarms - Acknowledge Alarm privilege to the current role and enable “Propagate to Child Objects”
    D. Clone the role, add the Alarms - Acknowledge Alarm privilege, replace the current role.
A

Answer: D

76
Q
  1. A company is planning an upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5. They currently have three dual CPU servers licensed for ESXi 4.1 AdvancedEach server has 256GB of RAM installed.Their virtual machines are sized three ways.Light. 1v CPU, 4GB RAMMedium. 2v CPU, 8GB RAMHeavy. 4 vCPU, 12GB RAMThe Production workload consists of.20 Light servers20 Medium servers2 Heavy serversThe Development workload consists of.10 Light servers10 Medium serversHow will vSphere 5 licensing impact their upgrade? (Choose two.)
    A. They will need to purchase additional ESXi licenses.
    B. They will be able to reduce their power consumption.
    C. They will be restricted from powering on additional virtual machines.
    D. A license upgrade will be needed to add vCPUs to the Heavy servers.
A

Answer: BC

77
Q
  1. What is a benefit of vCenter Linked-Mode?
    A. Allows the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) to manage multiple sites
    B. Pools vRAM entitlement
    C. Increases vCenter security
    D. Increases vCenter reliability
A

Answer: B

78
Q
78. What virtual machine action listed below can be performed on a template?
A. Power on
B. Clone
C. Edit Settings
D. Migrate
A

Answer: B

79
Q
79. An administrator is attempting to clone a running virtual machine, but receives an error that prevents that the virtual machine is using a device that prevents the operation. What two device types listed below could be causing this error? (Choose two.)
A. An independent mode virtual disk
B. A physical compatibility mode RDM
C. An LSI logic SAS adapter
D. A BusLogic Parallel adapter
A

Answer: AB

80
Q
80. When cloning a virtual machine to a template, what two attributes from the list below can be changed for the destination virtual disk? (Choose two.)
A. Virtual disk format
B. Number of network adaptors
C. IP Address
D. Location for virtual machine files
A

Answer: AD

81
Q
81. What tool can an administrator use to determine if an existing environment is ready for Fault Tolerance?
A. Fault Tolerance Map
B. VMware SiteSurvey Tool
C. VMware Cluster Analyzer
D. VMware Capacity Planner
A

Answer: B

82
Q
  1. What two methods can be used to reduce the vMotion migration time of a virtual machine? (Choose two.)
    A. Enable High priority on the virtual machine before starting the Migrate wizard.
    B. Select High priority during the Migrate wizard.
    C. Lower the memory reservation for the virtual machine.
    D. Ensure the cluster has the default Swapfile policy set.
A

Answer: BD

83
Q
  1. Which types of devices can be connected to a virtual machine during a vMotion migration? (Choose two.)
    A. SCSI pass-through devices connected to the ESXi 5 host.
    B. NFS mounts inside of the guest.
    C. USB pass-through devices connected to the ESXi 5 host.
    D. ISO images connected using the vSphere 5 client.
A

Answer: BC

84
Q
  1. An administrator notices that the database virtual machines fail to backup within the backup window. Each database virtual machine has 4 vCPUs, 16GB RAM and 12 virtual disks. There are 16 database virtual machines to backup using 8 backup jobs.Which is the simplest way to improve the backup performance for these virtual machines?
    A. Add a backup job for each virtual machine.
    B. Set a 16GB reservation for each virtual machine.
    C. Add 1MB VMDK drives at 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 on the VDR appliance.
    D. Upgrade the array to 8GB FCP and ensure multipathing is configured properly.
A

Answer: C

85
Q
  1. What are three of the steps recalled patches automatically go through in vSphere Update Manager? (Choose three.)
    A. Hosts with recalled patches are placed maintenance mode.
    B. Hosts with recalled patches are remediated.
    C. The recalled patch binary is deleted from the respository.
    D. The recalled patch is flagged in the database.
    E. A notification is generated in the notification tab.
A

Answer: CDE

86
Q
  1. Which configuration requires an additional database server when adding vSphere Update Manager 5.x to an environment?
    A. vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) with an external Oracle database
    B. vCenter Application with the default database
    C. vCenter Application with an external SQL 2008 Enterprise database
    D. vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) with an external DB2 database
A

Answer: D

87
Q
  1. Select three of the steps for configuring iSCSI Software Initiator multipathing when load balancing with a single vSphere standard switch. (Choose three.)
    A. Change the Path Selection Policy to Round Robin (VMware)
    B. Enable Override switch failover order
    C. Enable Route based on IP Hash
    D. Enable iSCSI port binding on the VMkernel object or objects
    E. Add VMkernel adapters to the iSCSI Network Configuration
A

Answer: ABE

88
Q
88. An administrator wants to adjust disk resource allocation to ensure proper storage performance.Which two mechanisms are available? (Choose two.)
A. Shares
B. Guarantee IOPs
C. Limit IOPs
D. Reservation
A

Answer: AC

89
Q
  1. Assuming that ballooning is possible, under which three circumstances might the VMkernel use a swap file for a running virtual machine? (Choose three.)
    A. The Mem.CtlMaxPercent value is between 10 and 25 percent.
    B. Memory cannot be reclaimed quickly enough.
    C. The virtual machine is starting up.
    D. VMware Tools is not installed.E. 50% of the configured memory has already been ballooned.
A

Answer: ABE

90
Q
90. Which functions can be performed with the Plug-in Manager? (Choose two.)
A. Enable an installed plug-in
B. Remove permissions for a plug-in
C. View the status of installed plug-ins
D. Uninstall a plug-in
A

Answer: AC

91
Q
  1. What are two requirements for successful vMotion migration? (Choose two.)
    A. CPUs with matching SpeedStep settings must exist on both the source and destination hosts.
    B. Virtul machines must not utilize hardware local to the host such as SCSI pass-through.
    C. Virtual machines must not have a CDROM connected via the vSphere client.
    D. Dedicated Gigabit Ethernet Networking must exist between the source and destination hosts.
A

Answer: BC

92
Q
92. Which two options will be presented during the Migrate wizard for a powered on virtual machine? (Choose two.)
A. Change Host
B. Change Host and Datastore
C. Change Network
D. Change Datastore
A

Answer: AD

93
Q
  1. What are two requirements for a fully functional vSphere HA cluster? (Choose two.)
    A. vCenter installed or a vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) deployed .
    B. Access to local storage for each host in the cluster.
    C. Static IP addresses entered in each hosts file in the cluster.
    D. A minimum of one VMkernel port per host.
A

Answer: AD

94
Q
94. An administrator plans to deploy ESXi 5.x, but does not want to use CD or DVD media.What are two alternate ways to provide the ESXi 5.x installation script to the host? (Choose two.)
A. PXE
B. FTP
C. HTTP
D. IPMI
A

Answer: BC

95
Q
  1. Click the Exhibit button.[IMAGE]An administrator has implemented a new vSphere 5 environment and is deploying their first Windows 2008 R2 template. When running the Deploy Template wizard, the error shown in the exhibit appears.What can be done to correct the problem?
    A. Select the correct guest OS setting for the virtual machine.
    B. Windows 2003 x64 cannot be customized.
    C. Download and install the Microsoft Sysprep tool into the virtual machine to be customized.
    D. Download the Microsoft Sysprep tool to the appropriate vCenter Server directory.
A

Answer: A

96
Q
  1. An administrator uses VMware Data Recovery to make backups of virtual machines. Checking on the backup jobs that were run the previous evening, the administrator notices that some jobs completed but that other jobs did not.What are two possible causes for the failure? (Choose two.)
    A. The deduplication store had 400GB of available space before the start of the affected jobs.
    B. Eight backup jobs were running simultaneously, causing new jobs to fail to start.
    C. The backup window was not open long enough to retrieve all of the changed blocks.
    D. CPU utilization on the VDR appliance exceeded 90% before one or more jobs executed.
A

Answer: BC

97
Q
  1. An administrator is responsible for enabling file access for desktop users. Many users have complained that they cannot access their files. An alert in the vSphere Client states that the storage connectivity alarm for all hosts has been triggered. The storage screen indicates that everything is connected, but the triggered alert has not been acknowledged.Which action will correct the user access problem?
    A. Rescan the storage on the file-sharing virtual machine on which the users are seeing the problem.
    B. Reconnect the storage containing the user files to all hosts in the cluster, then Refresh datastores on all hosts in the cluster.
    C. Tell each user to reboot their computer.
    D. Reconnect the storage containing the user files to all hosts in the cluster, then Rescan datastores on all hosts in the cluster.
A

Answer: D

98
Q
  1. While performing a security check the vSphere administrator finds unassigned AD accounts with vSphere permissions. If the accounts are removed from Active Directory what will happen to any user logged into vCenter with those account?
    A. The vSphere client warns the user they will be logged out in 1 hour.
    B. The user can remain logged in indefinitely.
    C. The user is immediately disconnected from vCenter Server and cannot log back in.
    D. The user can remain logged into vCenter for up to 24 hours.
A

Answer: D

99
Q
  1. Where are IP addresses for a vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) cluster managed?
    A. On each VSA appliance using a web-based portal
    B. On the VSA Manger tab for the cluster hosting VSA
    C. On the VSA Manager appliance using a web-based portal
    D. On the vCenter server installed on a VSA host
A

Answer: B

100
Q
  1. An administrator is configuring a stretched HA configuration and has HA errors on all of the hosts at the remote site.What can be done to ensure virtual machines at one site can be restarted at the remote site?
    A. Ensure any firewalls between the hosts are allowing port 8182
    B. Create separate HA clusters at each site and enable Stretch Cluster on each
    C. Ensure the latency between the sites is less than 5 milliseconds
    D. Ensure each site has no more than 4 primary hosts
A

Answer: A