VMware test Flashcards
What are two supported ESXi boot options? (Choose two.) A. NFS B. iSCSI C. vSAN D. SAN E. vSphere Virtual Volumes
B and D
An administrator receives an escalation to investigate a low disk space alarm on a datastore. The
administrator discovers that a snapshot has been accidentally taken on a production, write-intensive database
server. The snapshot has grown to nearly 1 TB in size in less than an hour and continues growing every
second.
Which behavior should the administrator expect while deleting the snapshot? (Choose the best answer.)
A. ESXi will create a virtual RAM disk to cache ongoing database write activity; performance impact will be
limited.
B. ESXi will commit the snapshot delta disk into the base disk; ongoing database write activity could result in
long stun times.
C. ESXi will merge the snapshot delta disk into the base disk; the virtual machine will be briefly stunned.
D. ESXi will instantly switch from the base disk to the snapshot delta disk with no performance impact
B
Which two storage technologies can an administrator use to deploy the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)? (Choose two.) A. Fibre Channel storage B. vSAN storage C. Virtual Volumes storage D. NFS storage E. iSCSI storage
A and E
An administrator runs a two-node vSphere cluster, which contains two domain controller virtual machines
(VMs). The administrator wants to ensure that VMs run on separate hosts without interfering with normal
maintenance operations.
How should the administrator configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Create a ‘Must run Virtual Machines to Hosts’ anti-affinity rule.
B. Create a ‘Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines’ anti-affinity rule.
C. Create a ‘Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines’ dependency rule.
D. Create a ‘Should run Virtual Machines to Hosts’ anti-affinity rule.
B
Which TCP/IP stack can support management traffic, vSphere vMotion, IP storage and vSphere Fault Tolerance? (Choose the best answer.) A. VXLAN TCP/IP stack B. Provisioning TCP/IP stack C. Default TCP/IP stack D. vSphere vMotion TCP/IP stack
C
A recently deployed set of test virtual machines are impacting the performance of a company development
team project datastore. The shared cache server appears to be suffering from storage congestion.
Storage I/O Control is already enabled on all company datastores.
Which two steps should the administrator take to improve the performance of the cache server? (Choose two.)
A. Update the storage provider for the existing array.
B. Create a claim rule to control the storage path.
C. Configure the path selection policy.
D. Configure storage shares per virtual machine
A and D
single host is manually configured to company standards.
Which option would an administrator select to capture this configuration for future use? (Choose the best
answer.)
A. Extract Host Profile
B. Reset Host Customizations
C. Attach Host Profile
D. Import Host Profile
A
What is the minimum CPU core requirement for successful installation, or upgrade, or ESXi on a host? (Choose the best answer.) A. 8 B. 1 C. 32 D. 2
D
What is the server virtualization product that combines the ESXi hypervisor and the vCenter Server? (Choose the best answer.) A. NSX B. vRealize Operations Manager C. vSphere D. vSAN
C
An IT department is experiencing random hardware failures that are costing the company money. The CIO is
looking for technical support beyond traditional break/fix with enhanced visibility and proactive insights into the
environment at no additional cost.
Which VMware service meets the needs of the CIO? (Choose the best answer.)
A. VMware Global Support Services
B. VMware Premier Support
C. VMware Skyline
D. vRealize Operations Manager
C
Which two vSphere features enable remote site availability? (Choose two.) A. Proactive High Availability B. vSphere Fault Tolerance C. Cross vCenter Migration D. vSphere vMotion E. vSphere Replication
A and E
An administrator wants to be able to log in to the vSphere Client and view the inventories of two vCenter
Server instances.
What must the administrator do to meet this requirement? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Configure Enhanced Linked Mode on each vCenter Server instance after deployment is complete.
B. Connect each vCenter Server instance to the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain during deployment.
C. Connect each vCenter Server instance to the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain using the vSphere
Client.
D. Configure the vCenter Server Management Interface to view both vCenter Server instances.
B
When deploying a vCenter Server Appliance, which two single sign-on (SSO)-related options are presented to
an administrator? (Choose two.)
A. Create a vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode group
B. Create a vCenter Single Sign-On domain
C. Join an existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain
D. Repoint to another domain
E. Reset Single Sign-On password
B and C
Which two statements are true regarding the use of firmware update packages in vSphere Lifecycle Manager?
(Choose two.)
A. A hardware support manager must be registered as a vCenter Server extension.
B. The firmware and drivers add-on are distributed through the official VMware online depot.
C. The firmware and drivers add-on can be used on clusters that are managed with baselines.
D. The firmware and drivers add-on can add or remove components from the ESXi base image.
E. The firmware and drivers add-on is provided by a third-party vendor
C and E
Which step is required when adding an existing hard disk that is configured as a boot disk during virtual
machine creation? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Enable Secure Boot.
B. Select ‘RDM Disk’ from the ‘Add New Device’ drop-down menu.
C. Remove the existing disk before adding the boot disk.
D. Set the boot delay to at least 5,000 milliseconds.
C
An administrator needs to configure Proactive High Availability (HA) in a vSphere environment so that virtual machines (VMs) do not run on any partially degraded hosts. The administrator would also like to see the recommendations before VMs are migrated. Which automation and remediation level should the administrator select? (Choose the best answer.) A. Automation Level – Manual Remediation Level – Quarantine mode B. Automation Level – Automated Remediation Level – Maintenance mode C. Automation Level – Manual Remediation Level – Maintenance mode D. Automation Level – Automated Remediation Level – Mixed mode
A
A new vSphere 7.0 environment is deployed with the following:
A single vCenter Server
Two vSAN clusters
A vSAN default storage policy
Which statement is true regarding virtual disk availability in this environment? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Replicas will be placed on different disk groups but can be placed on the same host.
B. All stripes will be placed on different disk groups and cannot be placed on the same host.
C. Each virtual disk will have four replicas of data.
D. Each virtual disk will have two replicas of data.
C
An administrator is running a variety of vSphere 6.5 cluster configurations and is tasked with upgrading to
vSphere 7.0.
Which two conditions could cause potential conflicts or outages to the virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)
A. The use of a Windows vCenter Server system
B. Datastores attached to the hosts based on VMFS3
C. The upgrade of a vSphere Distributed Switch with VMs attached
D. The upgrade of an external platform services controller
E. The use of third-party custom vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) installed on the ESXi hosts
C and E
An administrator wants to implement virtual machine encryption.
Which component encrypts the virtual machine files? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Certificate
B. Data encryption key (DEK)
C. Key encryption key (KEK)
D. Key management server (KMS)
B and C
An administrator wants to ensure that when virtual machines (VMs) are powered on, Distributed Resource
Scheduler (DRS) places them on the best-suited host. When the cluster becomes imbalanced, the
administrator wants DRS to display recommendations for manual VM migration.
Which DRS automation level should the administrator select? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Manual
B. Partially automated
C. Fully automated
D. Disabled
B
Which two VMware features are supported in a virtual machine using Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) technology? (Choose two.) A. Fault tolerance B. vSphere vMotion C. VM encryption D. Virtual machine suspend and resume E. Storage I/O Control
C and E
Which feature is a pre-requisite for configuring admission control on a cluster? (Choose the best answer.)
A. vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
B. vSphere High Availability (HA)
C. vSphere Fault Tolerance
D. vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
B
An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. There are existing
VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment.
Which statement is true regarding this upgrade? (Choose the best answer.)
A. An ESXi 7.0 host will NOT recognize a VMFS3 datastore.
B. VMFS3 is supported with ESXi 7.0 to store boot configurations only.
C. A VMFS5 datastore CANNOT be upgraded; a new VMFS6 datastore is required.
D. An ESXi 7.0 host can automatically upgrade a VMFS5 datastore
C
An administrator can attach a baseline to which two inventory objects? (Choose two.) A. Resource pools B. Data centers C. Datastores D. Templates E. ESXi hosts
B and E
How many vSphere Trust Authority Clusters can a Trusted Cluster reference? (Choose the best answer.) A. 1 B. 4 C. 8 D. 2
A
A company has a vSphere environment consisting of the following characteristics:
A content library named ‘CORP’ is published at corporate headquarters on a vCenter Server named
‘vcenterCorp’.
A regional data center contains a set of hosts managed by a vCenter Server named vcenterR1.
vcenterR1 subscribes to the CORP content library.
The administrator wants to create a new virtual machine image to use on vcenterR1.
What are two possible ways the administrator can accomplish this task? (Choose two.)
A. Configure vcenterR1 to download all library content immediately.
B. Upload the new image to the CORP library on vcenterR1.
C. Publish the CORP content library on vcenterR1.
D. Upload the new image to the CORP library on vcenterCorp.
E. Upload the new image to a local content library on vcenterR1.
B and D
A vSphere environment is configured with 1 Gigabit Ethernet for vSphere vMotion. The application team is
complaining that when they try to migrate a powered-on virtual machine, the progress is slow and
unsuccessful the majority of the time.
Which two recommendations should the administrator make to improve vSphere vMotion performance?
(Choose two.)
A. Use at least two port groups.
B. Use vSphere Storage I/O Control (SIOC).
C. Use 10 Gigabit Ethernet or above.
D. Use Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on the port group.
E. Disable vSphere Fault Tolerance.
C and E
Which virtual disk option allows a virtual machine to consume the minimum storage capacity? (Choose the best answer.) A. Independent persistent B. Lazy-zeroed thick-provisioned C. Eager-zeroed thick-provisioned D. Thin-provisioned
D
In a vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster, which condition can be detected by datastore
heartbeating? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Fault tolerance virtual machine (VM) failover
B. Network isolation
C. Virtual machine (VM) disk failure
D. Datastore All Paths Down (APD) event
B
Which solution can be used to automatically deploy a fully configured VMware software-defined data center (SDDC)? (Choose the best answer.) A. vCenter Server B. vRealize Suite C. vSphere Lifecycle Manager D. VMware Cloud Foundation
D
vCenter Server experiences a catastrophic failure and the administrator must restore from a vCenter Server
backup stored on an FTP server.
What must the administrator do to restore vCenter Server? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Use the vSphere Client to deploy the appliance onto an ESXi host and restore the vCenter Server data
from the backup.
B. Use the vCenter Server Management Interface to restore the vCenter Server data, and power on the
appliance.
C. Use the vCenter Server GUI installer to deploy a vCenter Server instance and use the vSphere Client to
restore vCenter Server data from the backup.
D. Use the vCenter Server GUI installer to deploy a vCenter Server instance and restore the vCenter Server
data from the backup.
D
ESXi provides VLAN support by assigning a VLAN ID to which component? (Choose the best answer.) A. Virtual standard switch B. Physical network interface card (NIC) C. Virtual distributed switch D. Port group Correct Answer:
D
An administrator adds an additional host to a cluster and is attempting to remediate the configuration with a host profile. Which option would the administrator select on the host before it can be remediated with an existing host profile? (Choose the best answer.) A. Export Host Customizations B. Export Host Profile C. Attach Host Profile D. Copy Settings from Host
C
An administrator would like to make virtual machine templates and ISO images available to all vCenter Server
instances in the data center.
Which feature should the administrator use to achieve this goal? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Host profiles
B. Content libraries
C. Storage policies
D. Resource pools
B
What are two functions of vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose two.)
A. Update ESXi hosts in a cluster using baselines
B. Upgrade VMware Tools and virtual machine hardware
C. Run vCenter Server interoperability reports
D. Run vCenter Server upgrade pre-checks
E. Update standalone ESXi hosts using images
B and E
An administrator runs third-party software in a virtual machine (VM). The third-party licensing agreement
requires payment of a license fee for each host to which the VM migrates.
How can the administrator configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to minimize licensing costs?
(Choose the best answer.)
A. Create a ‘Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines’ dependency rule.
B. Create a ‘Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines’ affinity rule.
C. Create a ‘Should run Virtual Machines to Hosts’ anti-affinity rule
D. Create a ‘Must run Virtual Machines to Hosts’ affinity rule
D
There are two vSphere clusters in a company environment. One cluster is hosting development workloads and
another is hosting production workloads. Both vSphere clusters are managed by the same vCenter Server.
The application team would like to move a new virtual machine from the development to production cluster with
no downtime.
Which feature would allow non-disruptive movement between these two clusters? (Choose the best answer.)
A. Cross vCenter Migration
B. vSphere High Availability
C. vSphere vMotion
D. vSphere Replication
C
An administrator is trying to configure vCenter Single Sign-On from the vSphere Client but does NOT have
permission.
Which role is required in order to configure vCenter Single Sign-On? (Choose the best answer.)
A. vCenter Single Sign-On Administrator
B. vCenter Administrator
C. vCenter Server Appliance Root
D. vCenter Power User
A