VCP5v9.6_201-297 Flashcards
(97 cards)
1
Q
- What are two prerequisites for installing the vCenter Server application? (Choose two.)
A. The system vCenter Server is installed on must be a physical machine.
B. A valid vSphere vCenter license must be obtained before installation.
C. vCenter must be in the same network as the hosts if supporting vSphere Storage Appliance Cluster.
D. The system vCenter Server is installed on cannot be a domain controller.
A
Answer: CD
2
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- What are two valid use cases for vCenter Server Linked Mode? (Choose two.)
A. An administrator wants to migrate running virtual machines between vCenter Server instances.
B. An administrator wants to increase the vRAM entitlement pool.
C. An administrator wants to manage a virtual server environment and a View environment from the same pane of glass.
D. An administrator wants to search all inventory objects across multiple vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) instances from one vSphere Client
A
Answer: BC
3
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- An administrator is deploying several ESXi 5.x hosts. Centralized logging with accurate timestamps is a requirement for the deployment.
Which two operations ensure these requirements are met? (Choose two.)
A. Ensure TCP port 123 is not blocked
B. Configure a syslog server on each host
C. Configure ensure the hosts have the proper timezone configured
D. Configure a syslog server on the vSphere Management Appliance
A
Answer: AD
4
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- An administrator is setting up vSphere Auto Deploy to deploy 25 ESXi 5.x hosts using the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA).
What would be considered best practices for Auto Deploy? (Choose three.)
A. Enable vSphere HA on the cluster.
B. Protect the vCenter server with Fault Tolerance.
C. Install the Auto Deploy service on the VCSA.
D. Include the vmware-fdm VIB in the image profile.
E. Use PowerCLI to write a rule that assigns a custom image profile to the target hosts.
A
Answer: ADE
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- Which tool defines the Image Profiles used with Auto Deploy?
A. The vSphere PowerCLI add-deployrule cmdlet
B. The vSphere PowerCLI new-deployrule cmdlet
C. The vSphere CLI add-deployrule command
D. The vSphere CLI new-deployrule command
A
Answer: B
6
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- An administrator plans to deploy ESXi 5.x on a blade server containing no local disks.
What boot options are supported for use in place of local disks? (Choose three.)
A. An SD card
B. A NIC with iBFT
C. Auto Deploy
D. A server with IPMI or iLO
E. A dedicated NFS share
A
Answer: ABC
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- An administrator plans to use an upgrade script to upgrade a number of ESXi 5.x hosts.
What options are available for the kickstart file? (Choose two.)
A. dryrun - Parse and check script but does not install
B. overwritevmfs - permits overwriting of existing VMFS volumes
C. vcenter - specifies vCenter Server
D. autodeploy - defines autodeploy options
A
Answer: AB
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- An administrator has deployed a vCenter Server to manage a virtual environment. The administrator has been asked to develop a plan for handling major upgrades to the application.
What should be included in the upgrade plan?
A. Utilize vCenter Configuration Manager to upgrade the vCenter Server in place
B. Install a new vCenter Server and import the information from the existing vCenter Server
C. Install a new vCenter Server over the existing vCenter Server as an in-place upgrade
D. Utilize Update Manager to upgrade the vCenter Server in place
A
Answer: B
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- Which three configuration settings will be migrated when upgrading a host from ESX 4.x Classic to ESXi 5.x? (Choose three.)
A. The SSH configuration in /etc/ssh
B. The host configuration in /etc/vmware/esx.conf
C. The NFS configuration in /etc/fstab
D. The services information in /etc/services
E. The licensing information in /etc/licenses/license.conf
A
Answer: BCD
10
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- An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to 4.0 using Update Manager. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS datastore on a private, SAN-attached LUN.
What might cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful?
A. The ESXi host has 4GB RAM.
B. The ESXi host has one processor.
C. ESXi 3.5 is not supported for upgrade.
D. Update Manager cannot upgrade a previously upgraded host.
A
Answer: B
11
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- An administrator is performing an upgrade on an ESXi host.
Which step can be used to back up the host before the upgrade is performed?
A. Using the vSphere Client connected to vCenter, right-click the host and choose Host Backup.
B. Log into a vMA appliance and run vicfg-cfgbackup to save the ESXi host configuration.
C. Using the vSphere Client connected directly to the host, right-click the host and choose Host Backup.
D. Use PowerCLI to run the host-backup cmdlet to save the ESXi host configuration.
A
Answer: B
12
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- Click the Exhibit button.
[IMAGE] #440
10 ESXi 5.x hosts will be installed as part of a vSphere 5.x deployment. Security hardening is required as part of the installation. The current security profile is displayed in the exhibit.
Which three services shown in the exhibit are configured to run by default in a completed vSphere installation? (Choose three.)
A. Network Login Server (Active Directory Service)
B. SSH
C. ESXi Shell
D. Direct Console UI
E. vpxa
A
Answer: ADE
13
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- For security reasons, an administrator removes a user from the Active Directory domain used by all ESXi hosts for authentication. At the time the user is removed they are actively logged into an ESXi 5.x host through the vSphere Client.
What is true regarding this scenario?
A. The user immediately loses connectivity to and permissions on the host.
B. The user retains permissions and connectivity to the host for up to 24 hours.
C. The user retains permissions on the host until the host is rebooted.
D. The user retains permissions on the object until the next time the user logs in to vCenter Server.
A
Answer: B
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- Acme Disposal Services is a large company which has many administrators. For auditing purposes, each administrator must use a unique account to access ESXi Standard hosts.
Which two actions satisfy this requirement and require the least amount of administrative effort? (Choose two.)
A. Configure Authentication Services for Active Directory based authentication to the ESXi hosts
B. Configure a unique root level account for each administrator using the vSphere Client
C. Configure user accounts in a host profile, then apply the host profile to the ESXi hosts
D. Configure Active Directory group ESX Admins with each administrator’s AD account
A
Answer: AD
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215. Which two features secure the VMkernel? (Choose two.) A. Memory Encryption B. Hardware assist virtualization C. Kernel module integrity D. Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
A
Answer: CD
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216. What Windows security object is granted the vCenter Server administrator role during installation? A. Domain Admins B. Administrator C. Administrators D. ESX Admins
A
Answer: C
17
Q
- An administrator attempts to increase the number of vCPUs in a virtual machine to 8. The configuration cannot be successfully completed.
What are two likely causes of this issue? (Choose two.)
A. MS-DOS was selected as guest OS.
B. The host has 4 processor threads.
C. Virtual machine hardware version 7 was chosen.
D. The vSphere 5.x implementation is using a Standard license.
A
Answer: AB
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218. Which component is the metering tool for vCloud administration? A. VMware vCenter Chargeback B. VMware vCloud Service Manager C. VMware vCloud Request Manager D. VMware vCloud Director
A
Answer: A
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- An existing vSphere 4 environment will be upgraded to vSphere 5.x. The current implementation utilizes ESXi 4.1 and the new implementation will use ESXi 5.x.
In which two ways will the new ESXi 5.x implementation differ from the ESXi 4.1 implementation? (Choose two.)
A. VMware ESXi 5.x provides a host-based firewall.
B. VMware ESXi 5.x can boot from additional local sources such as a USB drive.
C. VMware ESXi 5.x can be managed from a web browser.
D. VMware ESXi 5.x can support virtual machines with larger hard drive configurations
A
Answer: BD
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- Which VMware solution allows for the automated discovery and mapping of applications running over the VM infrastructure?
A. VMware vCloud Director
B. VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
C. VMware Service Manager
D. VMware vSphere 5
A
Answer: B
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- Which two statements are true about VLANs and port groups defined on a vSphere Standard Switch? (Choose two.)
A. A VLAN can be accessed by the entire virtual switch or individual port groups.
B. Multiple port groups are restricted from accessing the same VLAN.
C. VLANs can be configured only on individual port groups.
D. Multiple VLANs can be accessed by virtual machines connected to one port group.
A
Answer: AD
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- A vSphere Standard Switch has been configured for IP-based load balancing using two uplinks.
A new uplink is added to the vSwitch.
What is the status of the uplink by default?
A. The uplink is placed in standby mode until it is added to the active NIC team.
B. The uplink is marked as active but does not participate in the active NIC team until assigned to a port group.
C. The uplink is marked as active, but cannot be used by the active NIC team until it is added to the existing 802.3ad group on the physical switch.
D. The uplink is marked as unused until it is added to the active NIC team.
A
Answer: C
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- Which two statements are true regarding vSphere virtual switch uplinks? (Choose two.)
A. vSphere virtual switches do not need to be configured with an uplink.
B. Multiple vSphere virtual switches can be configured to use the same uplink.
C. vSphere virtual switches must be configured with at least one uplink.
D. Multiple vSphere virtual switches cannot be configured to use the same uplink.
A
Answer: AD
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- A virtual machine, VM21, will be migrated between two ESXi 5.x hosts, labeled ESXi01 and ESXi02. Each host has two vSphere Standard Switches (vSS), configured as follows.
- vSwitch0 has a portgroup labeled Management and a portgroup labeled vMotion.
- The Management portgroup contains a vmkernel port tagged for management traffic.
- The vMotion portgroup contains a vmkernel port tagged for vMotion traffic.
- vSwitch0 on ESXi01 has a single uplink attached to the 10.1.20.0/24 network.
- vSwitch0 on ESXi02 has a single uplink attached to the 10.1.20.0/24 network.
- Each host has a vSwitch1 with a Production portgroup used by virtual machine traffic.
- Each vSwitch1 has an uplink attached to the 10.1.40.0/24 network.
What is true about migrating VM21 to the new host?
A. vMotion would be supported in this configuration.
B. Storage vMotion would not be supported in this configuration.
C. vMotion would not be supported in this configuration.
D. Storage vMotion would be supported if the storage device supports VAAI.
A
Answer: A
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225. Click the Exhibit button.
[IMAGE] #441
An administrator has been tasked with adding a newly installed uplink to vSwitch1.
Based on the exhibit, what is a true statement about this environment?
A. The server does not have available vSwitches to be assigned to this uplink.
B. The available uplinks are not compatible with a standard vSwitch.
C. The host needs a driver installed for the newly installed uplink.
D. The current uplinks cannot be attached because they are in use by other port groups.
Answer: C
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226. Which settings are required for virtual machine guest tagging for VLAN 100 in a vSphere 5.x environment?
A. Port Group configured for VLAN 100, physical switch configured as a VLAN trunk
B. Port Group configured for VLAN 4095, physical switch configured as a VLAN trunk
C. Port Group configured for VLAN 100, physical switch configured for VLAN 100
D. Port Group configured for VLAN 4095, physical switch configured for VLAN 100
Answer: B
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227. When you are configuring the NIC teaming policy for a vSwitch, what happens when the Failback option is set to Yes?
A. A failed uplink will be left inactive upon recovery until another uplink fails.
B. The physical switches are notified when a failover event occurs.
C. The physical switches are notified when a failback event occurs.
D. A failed uplink is returned to active duty immediately upon recovery.
Answer: D
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228. Which three features are only available in the vSphere Client when using a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose three.)
A. Port Mirroring
B. PVLAN tagging
C. Storage I/O Control
D. Ingress Traffic Shaping
E. 802.1q VLAN Tagging
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Answer: ABD
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229. What are three methods of adding virtual machine networking to a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose three.)
A. A portgroup can be created using the vSphere client and virtual machines can be added using their Properties tab.
B. A portgroup can be created as part of the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking wizard before virtual machines are moved to the vDS.
C. A portgroup can be cloned from a vSphere Standard Switch, inheriting the virtual machines that were attached to the cloned portgroup.
D. A portgroup can be created using the vSphere client and virtual machines can be migrated using the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking wizard.
E. A portgroup can be created during the creation of the vDS and virtual machines can be migrated using the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking wizard.
Answer: ADE
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230. What are two network load-balancing policies for a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose two.)
A. Route based on source MAC hash
B. Route using physical NIC load
C. Route based on the destination virtual port ID
D. Route based on port ID hash
Answer: AB
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231. Which type of port on a seconday private VLAN can communicate with promiscuous ports and other ports that share its VLAN tag?
A. Isolated
B. Promiscuous
C. Community
D. Trunked
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Answer: C
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232. Which methods can be used to migrate a VMkernel port from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose two.)
A. Use the Add Virtual Adapter wizard from the Manage Virtual Adapters window.
B. Use the Manage Hosts wizard from the Configuration tab of the vDS .
C. Use the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking option to select the port from a list.
D. Edit the Network Adapter settings for the port and select a dvPort group from the list.
Answer: AB
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233. Which statement describes the functionality of traffic shaping on a vSphere Standard Switch?
A. vSphere Standard Switches support only egress traffic shaping.
B. vSphere Standard Switches support both ingress and egress traffic shaping.
C. vSphere Standard Switches support best-effort traffic shaping based on quality of service (QoS).
D. vSphere Standard Switches support only ingress traffic shaping.
Answer: A
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234. Which vSwitch or vSwitch port group policy setting allows packets to be received by a virtual machine with different destination MAC addresses than the configured MAC address?
A. Promiscuous mode
B. Traffic shaping
C. Forged transmits
D. MAC address changes
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Answer: D
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235. What failure will beacon probing identify in vSphere networking?
A. An improper VLAN configuration on a physical switch port
B. A disconnected network cable
C. A VMkernel IP mismatch affecting vMotion or HA traffic
D. Jumbo frames improperly configured on an iSCSI target
Answer: A
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236. An administrator is creating a vSphere Standard Switch with virtual machine and VMkernel networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch and wants to make sure multiple sessions for a virtual machine can utilize both uplinks.
Which load-balancing policy will guarantee this requirement is met, even if additional management or virtual machine traffic is added to the switch in the future?
A. Route based on IP hash
B. Route based on source MAC hash
C. Route based on the originating port ID
D. Use explicit failover.
Answer: A
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237. An administrator wants to determine the current network adapter configuration for an uplink on an ESXi 5.x host.
Which three items can be viewed from the Network Adapters section of the Configuration tab, using the vSphere Client? (Choose three.)
A. VLAN configuration
B. Adapter Driver
C. Actual speed and duplex
D. Adapter Name
E. vSwitch configuration
Answer: BCD
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238. Which two storage adapters require no VMkernel ports? (Choose two.)
A. Independent Hardware iSCSI Adapter
B. iSCSI Software Adapter
C. Dependent iSCSI Adapter
D. Fibre Channel HBA
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Answer: AD
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239. When a virtual machine interacts with persistent thick virtual disks stored on a traditional Fibre Channel storage array, which two actions are always taken by the VMkernel? (Choose two.)
A. The file corresponding to the virtual machine is located on the VMFS datastore using NPIV.
B. Correlate the blocks requested by the virtual machine with the actual blocks on the array.
C. Send the I/O request through the device driver to the physical HBA or software FCoE adapter.
D. Place an atomic lock on the metadata database for the VMFS volume.
Answer: BC
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240. Which options would reduce the load on the VMkernel when connecting to an iSCSI array? (Choose two.)
A. Use an independent hardware iSCSI adapter
B. Use a Converged Network Adapter
C. Enable the software iSCSI adapter
D. Use a dependent hardware iSCSI adapter
Answer: AD
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241. ACME Tools has a vSphere 5.x deployment with an older iSCSI storage array. The administrator is considering adding an additional array which will include support for the vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI).
Which two tasks would would be completed in a reduced period of time if the new array was added? (Choose two.)
A. creating VMFS datastores on the new array
B. creating fault tolerant virtual machines on the new array
C. migrating virtual machines using Storage vMotion between the arrays
D. writes to thin provisioned virtual disks on the new array
Answer: BD
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242. A vSphere 5.x environment has an ESXi 5.x host configured to boot from a hardware independent iSCSI adapter.
What is the expected outcome if the administrator attempts to disable the iSCSI HBA in the vSphere client?
A. The adapter will be disabled, but is re-enabled the next time the host boots up.
B. The adapter will be disabled and the host will not boot the next time the host boots up.
C. A hardware independent iSCSI adapter cannot be disabled from the vSphere Client.
D. The adapter will be enabled, but the host will boot into troubleshooting mode the next time the host boots up.
Answer: C
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243. How does a hardware FCoE Adapter appear to an ESXi host?
A. As an uplink adapter attached to a vSphere Distributed Switch.
B. As a hardware FCoE Adapter.
C. As an enabled FCoE software initiator.
D. As a Fibre Channel Adapter.
Answer: D
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244. What two statements are true about Fibre Channel zoning? (Choose two.)
A. Zones define paths to a Fibre Channel array
B. Zones control access to LUNs on a Fibre Channel storage array
C. Zones can be soft or hard
D. Zones can be configured on an array or ESXi host
Answer: AC
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245. What are two requirements when configuring a Fibre Channel SAN with an ESXi 5.x cluster? (Choose two.)
A. RDMs must be zoned and masked to each ESXi 5 host in the cluster
B. A FCP HBA or hardware supporting FCoE must be installed in the hosts
C. Each LUN should contain only one NFS datastore.
D. Each LUN must present a unique LUN ID to each ESXi hosts.
Answer: AB
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246. Where must the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance Manager (VSA Manager) be installed?
A. On a Windows virtual machine created on the first VSA host
B. The VSA Manager is deployed as a separate virtual appliance
C. On a vCenter Server outside of the VSA environment
D. It is pre-installed on the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
Answer: C
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247. Using the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Manager to view the Appliances Status column, what are three valid states? (Choose three.)
A. Degraded
B. Connected
C. Maintenance
D. Online
E. Offline
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Answer: ADE
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248. A virtual machine requires a 4TB disk for application data. The storage administrator has already created and presented a 4TB LUN to an ESXi 5.x host. The host is currently configured with a single 500GB VMFS5 datastore.
What is the next step the vSphere administrator must use to provision the data disk?
A. Create a virtual compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 4TB LUN.
B. Create a physical compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 4TB LUN.
C. Expand the existing VMFS volume to 4TB. Create a physical compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 4TB LUN.
D. Expand the existing VMFS volume to 4TB. Create a virtual compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 4TB LUN.
Answer: B
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249. Which two statements are true about shared storage capabilities on NFS datastores supported by ESXi 5.x? (Choose two.)
A. You can create Fault Tolerant virtual machines
B. You can mount up to 256 NFS datastores
C. You can use VMware Storage APIs with all NFS datastores
D. You can use Storage vMotion from a virtual-mode RDM
Answer: AB
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250. A VMFS3 datastore has just been upgraded to VMFS5.
In what two ways does this affect the datastore? (Choose two.)
A. The existing VMFS3 block size is retained.
B. The block size will be changed to 8MB.
C. Any existing VMDK can be expanded up to 2TB.
D. VMDKs retain their size limit from the VMFS3 block size.
Answer: AC
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251. When planning for an upgrade from vSphere4 to vSphere5 what will be the effect of upgrading a 1TB VMFS3 datastore with a 2MB block size to VMFS5?
A. Thick virtual disks can be expanded to a maximum of 2TB.
B. Thick virtual disks can be expanded to a maximum of 512GB.
C. Thin virtual disks can be expanded to a maximum of 512GB.
D. Thin virtual disks can be expanded to a maximum of 2TB.
Answer: D
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252. Click the Exhibit button.
[IMAGE] #442
Based on the exhibit, what is the appropriate action to set a preferred path?
A. Paths cannot be set to preferred on this array.
B. Right-click the path you want to prefer and then select Preferred.
C. Right-click the path you want to prefer then select Active.
D. Double-click the new path you wish to prefer. The other existing paths will be set to Standby.
Answer: A
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253. Click the Exhibit button.
[IMAGE] #443
Based on the exhibit, what is the reason that two of the paths are marked as Stand by?
A. The other two paths were set to Active.
B. The path configuration is required by the attached storage array.
C. The active paths were set to Preferred.
D. The storage adapters need to be rescanned before the paths will be set to Active.
Answer: B
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254. What are two consequences of deleting a VMFS datastore from an ESXi 5.x host? (Choose two.)
A. The datastore is unaccessible from all connected ESXi hosts.
B. The datastore and all virtual machines are removed from the storage device.
C. The datastore and all virtual machines remain on the storage device.
D. The datastore is only removed from that specific ESXi host.
Answer: AB
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255. What are two reasons to upgrade a virtual machine's hardware version? (Choose two.)
A. Migrate a virtual machine from a VMFS3 datastore to a VMFS5 datastore.
B. Add more than 4 NICs to a virtual machine.
C. Add more than 8 vCPUs to a virtual machine.
D. Increase the vRAM of the virtual machine to 512GB.
Answer: CD
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256. The Typical option is selected while running the New Virtual Machine Wizard in the vSphere Client.
Which three specific configuration options are included during virtual machine creation? (Choose three.)
A. Datastore location
B. Virtual machine version
C. Number of vCPUs
D. Storage DRS
E. Virtual disk size
Answer: ADE
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257. An administrator is creating a virtual machine that will be running Windows 2008 Enterprise (64- bit). The application to be installed in the virtual machine requires eight vCPUs to run effectively. During installation, the only available options are one, two, three, or four vCPUs.
What condition explains the available vCPU selections?
A. The virtual machine hardware version is 8.
B. The guest operating system for the virtual machine is 64-bit.
C. The ESXi host has two non hyperthreaded dual-core CPUs.
D. The ESXi host has two hyperthreaded dual-core CPUs.
Answer: C
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258. Windows virtual machines use a page file and Linux virtual machines use a swap partition for virtual memory.
When you are determining the appropriate size for these, which file is affected?
A. The .vmx file
B. The .vswp file
C. The service console swap partition
D. The virtual disk size
Answer: D
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259. The page file for a Windows guest operating system or the swap partition for a Linux guest operating system is created by.
A. the ESXi host
B. the guest operating system
C. vCenter server
D. the VMFS datastore
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Answer: B
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260. What is the size of a virtual machine .vswp file?
A. The virtual machine .vswp file is equal to twice the amount of available memory configured for the virtual machine when it was created.
B. The virtual machine .vswp file is equal to the amount of virtual memory (virtual machine available memory, plus virtual machine overhead) configured for the virtual machine when it was created.
C. The virtual machine .vswp file is set to the amount of memory allocated minus any memory reservation.
D. The virtual machine .vswp file is equal to the amount of available memory in the ESXi server.
Answer: C
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261. An administrator is installing a Windows Server 2008 operating system into a virtual machine on an ESXi 5.x host.
What are two valid SCSI adaptors for this installation? (Choose two.)
A. Paravirtual SCSI
B. LSI Logic SAS
C. BusLogic SAS
D. Broadcom SAS
Answer: AB
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262. The Power and Suspend buttons for a virtual machine can be configured from the Options tab of the virtual machine.
What are the two default actions that are configured for these buttons? (Choose two.)
A. The Suspend button suspends the VM though the guest OS.
B. The Power button does a graceful shutdown.
C. The Power button does a hard shutdown.
D. The Suspend button suspends the VM though ESXi.
Answer: BD
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263. Which network driver is not supported with virtual machine hardware version 8?
A. vmxnet 3
B. Enhanced vmxnet
C. vmxnet 2
D. E1000
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Answer: C
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264. Which virtual disk types are supported on an network attached storage appliance using NFS with hardware acceleration disabled?
A. Flat disk
B. Raw Device Mappings
C. Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed
D. Thin Provision
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Answer: D
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265. A database administrator has requested a disk for a virtual machine that will run an I/O intensive database application on an ESXi 5.x host.
Which two disk types will best fit the needs of the application? (Choose two.)
A. Raw Device Mapped Disk
B. Thin Provisioned Disk
C. Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed Disk
D. Thick Provision Eager Zeroed Disk
Answer: AD
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266. A database administrator has requested that a virtual disk attached to a virtual machine running an I/O intensive database application be fully provisioned. The virtual disk was initially thin provisioned.
Which two methods would accomplish this task? (Choose two.)
A. Use Storage vMotion and change the disk type to Flat.
B. Use the Inflate option in the Datastore Properties.
C. Use Storage vMotion and change the disk type to Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed.
D. Use Storage vMotion and change the disk type to Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed.
Answer: CD
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267. Which two configuration settings can be modified when using the Typical option in the Create New Virtual Machine wizard? (Choose two.)
A. Network Adapter type
B. Datastore on which to place the virtual machine disks
C. Number of Virtual CPUs
D. Guest Operating System
Answer: BD
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268. A virtual machine is using a Fibre Channel attached RDM LUN.
Which three use cases would necissatate a RDM? (Choose three.)
A. VMware snapshots
B. NPIV
C. Physical server-to-virtual machine clustering
D. Distributed file locking
E. SAN management agents
Answer: BCE
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269. What are two benefits of physical compatibility mode for RDMs, as compared to virtual compatibility mode? (Choose two.)
A. Allows the use of SAN-aware applications
B. Allows for cloning
C. Allows the VM to access SAN hardware directly
D. Allows for template creation of the related virtual machine
Answer: AC
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270. What is the recommended maximum memory value that is displayed when configuring a virtual machine based upon?
A. The amount of memory in the ESXi host
B. The threshold needed for the ESXi host to satisfy a reservation value
C. The maximum value the guest operating system supports
D. The maximum recommended by the OS manufacturer.
Answer: A
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271. Click the Exhibit button.
[IMAGE] #444
ACME Logging Inc. has been using the vSphere Web Client to deploy templates to a five-node vSphere 5.x cluster. After deploying a new template, the resulting virtual machine is not able to connect to the Development network to which it was assigned. When deploying another template, the message in the exhibit is shown.
Based on this information, what is the likely problem?
A. The interface on esxi2 that is assigned to the virtual switch is down.
B. The interface on esxi2 that is assigned to the virtual switch is configured incorrectly.
C. The Production virtual switch is internal only.
D. The Production virtual switch is a vDS.
Answer: C
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272. What reasons would prevent an administrator from deploying a virtual machine from a template? (Choose two.)
A. The template is missing the .vmx configuration file.
B. The vSphere Client is connected to an ESXi host.
C. The template is listed as Orphaned.
D. The administrator is using the vSphere Web Client.
Answer: BC
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273. Why is converting a virtual machine to a template significantly faster than creating a clone of the virtual machine?
A. Making a clone creates a linked-mode virtual disk.
B. Making a clone creates a full copy of the VMDK file.
C. Making a clone only creates a copy of the .vmx file.
D. The template conversion has low priority on the system CPU.
Answer: B
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274. When memory is overcommitted, which two values can an administrator vary to increase the amount of physical memory granted to a given virtual machine? (Choose two.)
A. Idle Memory Tax
B. Shares
C. VMMEMCTL
D. Memory Reservation
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Answer: BD
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275. In the vSphere Client, the Resource Allocation tab for virtual machines displays host memory and guest memory.
Which two statements best describe these terms? (Choose two.)
A. Guest memory is the amount of physical memory that has been allocated to a virtual machine.
B. Host memory is the amount of physical memory that has been allocated to a virtual machine.
C. Guest memory is the memory usage of a virtual machine.
D. Host memory includes VM overhead..
Answer: CD
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276. An administrator wants to reduce the amount of memory overhead required by a virtual machine. What two options below could be used to accomplish that task? (Choose two.)
A. Reduce the amount of memory configured for the VM.
B. Reduce the memory reservation for the VM.
C. Reduce the memory shares for the VM.
D. Reduce the number of vCPUs VM.
Answer: AD
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277. An administrator has configured a virtual machine using the Emulate IDE mode for the DVD drive. Using the vSphere Client from a remote PC, an administrator wants to connect to a virtual machine and burn a DVD, but is getting error messages in the disk burning application.
What must the administrator do to fix this issue?
A. The administrator must use the host DVD drive.
B. A DVD cannot be burned from within a virtual machine.
C. The administrator must change the DVD mode to Passthrough IDE.
D. The administrator must click the Writer checkbox in the DVD settings.
Answer: C
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278. What two statements regarding the VSWP file are true? (Choose two.)
A. The VSWP file is equal to the memory allocation.
B. The VSWP file size is equal to the memory reservation.
C. The VSWP file size is equal to the difference between the memory assigned and reservation.
D. No VSWP file is created if reserved memory to the same value as allocated memory.
Answer: CD
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279. What type of failure is VMware Fault Tolerance designed to protect against?
A. A failure on the ESXi host running the primary virtual machine
B. A failure on an application within the primary virtual machine
C. Loss of storage connectivity to the primary virtual machine
D. An operating system failure on the primary virtual machine
Answer: A
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280. An administrator has discovered a failure that has affected network connectivity on the management network of a vSphere HA cluster. As a result, half of the hosts in the cluster are able to communicate with each other but not the other half. The cluster was configured with default settings.
What happens as a result of the failure?
A. The VMs will be powered off on slave hosts in the cluster.
B. All VMs and hosts in the cluster are unaffected.
C. The VMs are unaffected, a second master will be elected.
D. The VMs will be powered down on all hosts in the cluster.
Answer: C
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281. Under which two conditions is a master elected by vSphere HA? (Choose two.)
A. When any cluster is created
B. When a host is placed into maintenance mode
C. When the datastore configuration changes
D. When "Reconfigure for vSphere HA" is executed
Answer: BD
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282. A virtual machine failure occurs in a vSphere HA cluster, but the VM is not restarted. No error messages are given.
Which two conditions would explain this behavior? (Choose two.)
A. Monitoring sensitivity was set to Low.
B. Application Monitoring Only was selected.
C. The virtual machine has failed three times.
D. The HA cluster was set up with all defaults.
Answer: CD
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283. An administrator is configuring a stretched HA cluster. The administrator wishes to restrict the failover of VMs to certain hosts within a given site.
Which additional vSphere feature satisfies this requirement?
A. vSphere Distribited Switch
B. Distributed Resource Scheduler
C. Datastore Clusters
D. Host Folders
Answer: B
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284. What are three use cases for vSphere Fault Tolerance? (Choose three.)
A. Provide guaranteed up-time for a RDM enabled virtual machine
B. Provide efficient scheduled reliability for a payroll virtual machine
C. Provide guaranteed reliabilty for a development virtual machine with scheduled snapshots
D. Provide guaranteed reliabilty for a legacy Windows NT virtual machine
E. Ensure up-time for a Linux virtual machine without making any changes to the OS
Answer: BDE
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285. Which two vSphere features can be used with virtual machines that are enabled for VMware Fault
Tolerance? (Choose two.)
A. EVC
B. Storage vMotion
C. RDMs in virtual compatibility mode
D. VMware Virtual SMP
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Answer: AC
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286. ACME Anvil Incorporated has several departments which each have unique resource requirements in their environment.
1. The Manufacturing department has ten production virtual machines.
2. The Development department has two test/dev virtual machines.
3. The Manufacturing virtual machines have only CPU reservations.
4. No Development virtual machine should be able to use more resources than any Manufacturing virtual machine requests.
5. Manufacturing department virtual machines must always be able to power on.
Resource Pools will be used to address these requirements.
When creating the "Manufacturing" and "Development" pools, which settings should be part of the configuration to meet the stated requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Enable Expandable Reservation on Memory Resources on the Manufacturing pool
B. Set a reservation for CPU Resources on the Manufacturing resource pool
C. Create a required Group Rule to ensure Development virtual machines always run on the Development host
D. Ensure the shares set on the Manufacturing pool are at least five times the shares set on the Development pool
Answer: BD
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287. Click the Exhibit button.
[IMAGE] #449
An administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tiered web application. The vApp has been configured as shown in the exhibit. Testing of the vApp indicates that attempts to communicate with the web server on Dev_Web_01 fail. The developer wants to be sure the database server OS is completely started before the other servers power on. The developer also wants to minimize recovery time.
What changes to the vApp configuration will correct the issues?
A. Move the Dev_Web_01 virtual machine to Group 3 and increase the time value
B. Move the Dev_App_01 virtual machine to Group 1 and increase the time value
C. Move the Dev_Web_01 virtual machine to Group 3, decrease the time value and check VMware Tools are ready
D. Move the Dev_Web_01 virtual machine to Group 3, increase the time value and check VMware Tools are ready
Answer: D
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288. Click the Exhibit button.
[IMAGE] #446
Several virtual machines residing in the Production pool are exhibiting poor performance, and a critical virtual machine in the pool appears hung. What step can be taken to increase the performance of the critical virtual machine?
A. Increase the CPU limit on the critical virtual machine.
B. Increase the CPU shares on the critical virtual machine.
C. Increase the CPU reservations on the resource pool.
D. Increase the CPU limit on the resource pool.
Answer: D
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289. The VMware vCenter Server Appliance has been deployed using default settings.
What user name and password are used to log in to the administration interface to configure the appliance?
A. The initial user name and password must be supplied on the first login attempt.
B. The initial user name and password must be supplied during deployment.
C. The initial user name is root and the password is blank.
D. The initial user name is root and the password is vmware.
Answer: D
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290. How can you verify vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) is enabled?
A. "VAAI" listed on the Hard Disk properties page for any VMDK stored on a compliant array
B. "Hardware Acceleration" listed on the Hard Disk properties page for any VMDK stored on a compliant
C. "VAAI" column for any datastore created on a compliant array
D. "Hardware Acceleration" column for any datastore created on a compliant array
Answer: C
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291. What are two consequences of deleting an VMFS datastore from an ESXi host? (Choose two.)
A. The datastore is unaccessible from all connected ESX/ESXi hosts.
B. The datastore and all virtual machines are removed from the storage device.
C. The datastore and all virtual machines remain on the storage device.
D. The datastore is only removed from that specific ESX/ESXi host.
Answer: AB
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292. How is the page file for a Windows guest operating system or the swap partition for a Linux guest operating system created?
A. By the ESXi host
B. By the guest operating system
C. By the vCenter server
D. By the vCenter cluster
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Answer: B
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293. When deploying an OVF template, what file format will the resulting virtual disk be?
A. OVF
B. VMDK
C. VMX
D. VSWP
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Answer: B
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294. What is an accurate statement about vSphere Fault Tolerant secondary virtual machines?
A. Cannot be stored on an NFS datastore
B. Created on the same host as the primary
C. Can prevent other virtual machines from powering up.
D. Can be used for load balancing
Answer: C
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295. An administrator finds that an ESXi host cannot be managed by vCenter Server.
Which 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
Answer: ABC
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296. Which two solutions require Raw Device Mapping using virtual compatibility mode? (Choose two.)
A. Array-based snapshots
B. virtual machine snapshots
C. Move the data using Storage vMotion
D. SAN management agents
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Answer: BC
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297. Which scenario requires an additional database server when adding vSphere Update Manager 5 to an environment?
A. vCenter Appliance with an external Oracle database
B. vCenter Application with the default database
C. vCenter Application with an external SQL 2008 Enterprise database
D. vCenter Appliance with an external DB2 database
Answer: D
