Which two actions should an administrator take to ensure a VM has the highest networking bandwidth? (Choose two.)

A. Configure traffic shaping

B. Configure LACP

C. Configure resource pools

D. Configure shares, reservations, and limits

E. Configure marking and filtering

What is used by a VM for direct access to a LUN?

A. vSAN

B. RDM

C. NVMe

D. ext3

What is required to convert a VM to a template?

A. Power off the virtual machine.

B. Choose a thin-provisioned format.

C. Reregister the template.

D. Select a storage policy.

Which migration technique could be used to move a VM between vCenters while the VM is powered on?

A. Suspended

B. Shared-nothing vSphere vMotion

C. Cold

D. Storage vMotion

Which vSphere Update Manager baseline type is used for scanning and remediating objects third-party device drivers?

A. upgrade

B. extension

C. patch

D. predefined

A vSphere administrator has configured software iSCSI port binding in the environment with two VMkernel ports and four target portals.
How many iSCSI sessions would be created from bound ports to targets?

A. 2

B. 4

C. 8

D. 16

Which setting should be used to exclude one hard disk from VM snapshots?

A. Thin Provision disk type

B. Dependent disk mode

C. Independent disk mode

D. Passthrough device mode

A vSphere administrator is required to join all strategies ESXi hosts to an Active Directory domain for enhanced security.
Which utility would accomplish this?

A. Unified Access Gateway

B. vSphere Update Manager

C. vSphere Authentication Proxy

D. vSphere Auto Deploy

What is required for host attestation to secure the hypervisor?

A. VM encryption

B. CHAP

C. TPM 2.0 chip

D. KMS server

What are two advantages of deploying a VDS as compared to a VSS? (Choose two.)

A. Data center setup and administration are simplified by centralizing network configuration.

B. There is IPv6 support for a VDS.

C. 802.1Q tagging support is available.

D. Uplinks are allowed to be configured in an Active/Standby configuration.

E. Ports migrate with their clients.

An administrator is unable to use the vSphere Client shutdown option on a Windows VM.
What should be installed to correct this?

A. Autologon

B. Windows Updates

C. PortMon

D. VMware Tools

Which two infrastructure services are provided by the Platform Services Controller? (Choose two.)

A. Auto Deploy

B. License Service

C. vCenter Single Sign-On

D. vSphere Syslog Collector

E. vSphere Web Client

A vSphere administrator needs to migrate VMs in the same vCenter from New York to California due to impending severe weather.
Which migration should the administrator perform without causing VM downtime?

A. Long Distance vMotion

B. Storage vMotion

C. Cold migration

D. Cross vCenter vMotion

Which two software packages are included in vCenter Server Appliance? (Choose two.)

A. vSphere Update Manager extension

B. PostgreSQL database

C. vSphere Data Protection extension

D. vSphere Replication extension

E. AppDefense extension

A customer suspects someone or something is changing the MAC address of a virtual machine.
Which security policy should the customer modify to obtain more information?

A. MAC Address Change

B. Promiscuous Mode

C. Discovery Protocol

D. Forged Transmits

An administrator is elevating the security posture of a vSphere environment after a recent data breach. All VMs will be encrypted as part of this plan.
Which additional component is required for the encryption?

A. KMS server

B. two-factor authentication

C. encrypted vSphere vMotion

D. vSAN encryption

For security reasons the VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM) has no Internet access.
What can be used to provide a central shared repository in a DMZ?

A. VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service

B. vSphere Authentication Proxy

C. VMware content library

D. vCenter Server Appliance

A vSphere administrator attempts to create a VM-VM affinity rule but is unable to locate the option in the vSpehre Client.
What would cause this to happen?

A. vSphere DRS is disabled

B. vSphere DRS is set to manual

C. Admission control is not enabled

D. Affinity rules are only managed using the Host Client

How should a vSphere administrator deploy VMs with virtual hardware version 13 on an ESXi 6.7 host?

A. Disable CPU Hot-Add feature.

B. Change the EVC settings on the cluster.

C. Change the default VM Compatibility settings.

D. Disable snapshot operation for virtual machines.

When enabled, what ensures only signed drivers can load into a virtual machine?

A. Secure Boot

B. lockdown mode

C. micro-segmentation

D. TPM

A cluster contains database VMs which have low utilization, except during a weekly data load that causes extremely high utilization.
As DRS balances the VM load, there is an extended period of slow performance.
Which two actions could be taken to reduce the impact of the recurring data load? (Choose two.)

A. Increase the number of vCPUs on the database VMs.

B. Enable VMware vRealize Operations Manager Integration with VMware vCenter.

C. Enable Proactive HA on the cluster.

D. Enable Predictive DRS on the cluster.

E. Increase the RAM allocated to the database VMs.

An administrator manages a cluster containing Production and Test VMs. Production VMs run on a VSS port group and a storage array separate from the Test
VMs. The administrator wants to prevent large (>500GB) file transfers in Test from impacting Production.
Which two configuration changes should the administrator make to achieve this? (Choose two.)

A. Migrate the VSS port groups to VDS port groups.

B. Install a second virtual NIC in the Production VMs.

C. Move the Production VMs to a resource pool with a memory reservation.

D. Enable the Test VMs to a dedicated folder with CPU shares set to low.

A vSphere Administrator has multiple virtual machines running on a VMFS datastore.
Which option prioritizes the disk access for the virtual machines?

A. Disk Shares

B. Disk Mode

C. Disk Type

D. Hard Disk

An administrator suspects poor VM performance. The administrator runs esxtop and sees the following output from the CPU and memory screens:
✑ 6:48:19pm up 4:22, 528 worlds, 8 VMs, 16 vCPUs, CPU load average: 0.26, 0.36, 0.16
✑ VMKMEM/MB: 8151 managed: 407 minfree, 3055 rsvd, 5095 ursvd, high state
What can the administrator conclude from this output?

A. The host has too many worlds running.

B. The host is ballooning.

C. The host has adequate memory.

D. The host is under CPU pressure.

A vSphere administrator wants to ensure provisioned virtual machine storage objects are allocated to guarantee a service level agreement.
Which feature would accomplish this?

A. Storage policy

B. VAIO Filtering

C. Storage I/O Control

D. Storage DRS

Which command should be used to monitor free disk space on a vCenter Server Appliance?

A. df

B. esxtop

C. cloudvm-ram-size

D. vimtop

A vSphere administrator is trying to create a resource pool but the option is grayed out.
What must be enabled before creating a resource pool?

A. DRS

B. Storage DRS

C. EVC

D. HA

Which vSphere APIs support storage hardware acceleration?

A. vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)

B. vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering (VAIO)

C. VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)

D. VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI)

After installing vCenter, which two identity sources and users are available by default? (Choose two.)

A. vsphere.vclass

B. Active Directory

C. vsphere.local

D. vIDM

E. localos

Which optional module of vSphere Update Manager supports patch recalls and notifications?

A. VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service

B. vCenter Server Lifecycle Manager Service

C. vSphere Auto Deploy

D. VMware vSphere Update Manager Extension

Which two availability features require a VM restart for recovery? (Choose two.)

A. vSphere DPM

B. vSphere vMotion

C. vSphere Replication

D. vSphere Fault Tolerance

E. vSphere HA

An administrator wants to ensure the VMs for two different departments are separated on a single broadcast domain.
Which configuration fulfills this requirement?

A. PVLAN on Uplink Port

B. PVLAN on VMkernel Interface

C. PVLAN on VSS

D. PVLAN on VDS

Which two features should an administrator use to protect a VMware vCenter Server Appliance from host and hardware failures? (Choose two.)

A. VMware Distributed Power Management

B. vCenter High Availability

C. vSphere High Availability

D. vSphere Fault Tolerance

E. VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

Which two options could the administrator use to start the vSphere Authentication Proxy Service (Choose two.)

A. vIDM

B. vSphere Client

C. ESXi Command Line

D. VAMI

E. PSC

Which migration technique could be used to move a VM between vCenters while the VM is powered on?

A. Suspended

B. Shared-nothing vSphere vMotion

C. Cold

D. Storage vMotion

A vSphere administrator has a requirement to move virtual machines between vCenter Servers using vSphere Client.
Which condition should be met for the Cross vCenter Server vMotion to succeed?

A. vCenter Servers must be time-synchronized

B. vCenter Servers should be appliances

C. vCenter Servers should be in different vCenter Single Sign-on domains

D. vCenter Servers should be on the same version

Which policy is used for intelligent optimization of network interface traffic on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)?

A. Route Based on IP Hash

B. Route Based on Source MAC Hash

C. Route Based on Physical NIC Load

D. Route Based on Originating Virtual Port

What is the maximum number of vCenter Server Appliances that can be linked together using Enhanced Linked Mode and displayed in a single inventory view?

A. 5

B. 10

C. 15

D. 20

What is the benefit of using Allow Quick Boot during host updates on supported hardware?

A. reduces host remediation time

B. enhances VM migration time

C. creates a restart priority sequence

D. enables host PXE boot

An administrator runs vSphere Infrastructure in the following configuration:
✑ Single vCenter
✑ Multiple data centers
✑ Multiple clusters under each data center, all with identical hardware
The administrator wants to use host profiles to manage the hosts.
Where should the administrator attach the host profile?

A. vCenter object

B. each cluster

C. each data center

D. each folder

A vSphere Administrator wants to move a vCenter Server with an external Platform Services Controller from one SSO domain to another SSO domain.
Which option in cmsso-util will achieve this?

A. domain-repoint

B. reconfigure

C. unregister

D. repoint

A vSphere administrator discovers the size of the .vswp file for a VM with 2 vCPUs and 4GB of memory is zero.
What could be the cause?

A. All VM memory is reserved.

B. Memory reservation is not set.

C. VM is running on a snapshot.

D. VM is in a suspended state.

What is a benefit of using resource pools?

A. Increased visibility of user activity

B. Increased vMotion efficiency for a set of VMs

C. Increased accuracy for proactive resources for a set of VMs

D. Increased ease of reserving resources for a set of VMs

A vSphere administrator wants to enable Proactive HA in a vSphere cluster.
What is required to use this feature?

A. vROps must be installed.

B. DRS must be enabled.

C. DCUI must be enabled.

D. VCHA must be configured.

In a single cluster VM encryption scenario, which two VMs should be executed from encryption? (Choose two.)

A. Platform Services Controller

B. vSphere Replication Appliance

C. vRealize Operations Manager

D. VMware vCenter Server

E. vRealize Log Insight

What should be installed on a VM to enhance performance and enable additional features?

A. RAMmap

B. PsInfo

C. Process Monitor

D. VMware Tools

Refer to the exhibit.
What is required to fix the PSOD?
 

A. Skip unused VIBs during boot up.

B. Reboot the host.

C. Remove unsigned VIBs.

D. Reboot and enable secure boot from the UEFI firmware interface.

An administrator is planning maintenance for a cluster with the following configuration:
✑  DRS is fully automated
✑  Dedicated 10GbE vMotion network
✑  iSCSI storage with CHAP
When a host is placed into maintenance mode, what is the maximum number of supported concurrent vMotion operations?

A. 4

B. 6

C. 8

D. 10

Which feature allows a vSphere administrator to reduce power consumption on a cluster?

A. WOL

B. BMC

C. DPM

D. DNS

An administrator decides to implement vSphere networking using the VDS.
Which binding option should the administrator use to manage the VMs if vCenter becomes unavailable?

A. static

B. port

C. ephemeral

D. dynamic