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

An encrypted VM needs to be migrated from New York to London. This particular VM houses sensitive information that needs to be encrypted during transit.
What must be done to ensure Long Distance vMotion traffic is encrypted in flight?

A. Encryption must be handled at the physical network layer.

B. vSphere vMotion uses encryption when migrating encrypted virtual machines.

C. Long-Distance vSphere vMotion does not support encryption.

D. Select encryption in the transit option.

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

A. vSAN

B. RDM

C. NVMe

D. ext3

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 is required for host attestation to secure the hypervisor?

A. VM encryption

B. CHAP

C. TPM 2.0 chip

D. KMS server

Which file extension can export host customization for host profiles?

A. .xls

B. .xml

C. .csv

D. .json

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

Where is vSphere Client Service health viewed?

A. VAMI

B. ESXi DCUI

C. Performance Charts

D. Host Client

How is vCenter HA different from vSphere HA?

A. vCenter HA requires only an active and passive node.

B. vCenter HA requires an external Platform Services Controller.

C. vCenter HA requires Fault Tolerance.

D. vCenter HA requires an active, passive, and witness node.

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

What are two requirements to deploy VMware Site Recovery Manager? (Choose two.)

A. vCenter Server installed at the protected site and at the recovery site

B. Identical storage at the protected site and at the recovery site

C. host-based replication through vSphere Replication or preconfigured array-based replication

D. identical vCenter Server versions installed at the protected site and at the recovery site

E. identical ESXi versions installed at the protected site and at the recovery site

An administrator runs multiple clusters spread across multiple vCenters. The administrator needs to be able to migrate any VM to any cluster.
On which two vCenter Server objects could the administrator configure EVC mode to fulfill this requirement? (Choose two.)

A. VM

B. resource pool

C. datacenter

D. cluster

E. folder

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 DCUI option determines the time frame an administrator has to log in to the ESXI Shell after enabling the service?

A. Idle Timeout

B. Availability Timeout

C. Enable SSH

D. Enable ESXi Shell

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 configures Quick Boot to restart an ESXi host without rebooting the physical hardware.
In order to troubleshoot any ESXi Quick Boot issues which log file needs to be reviewed?]

A. vmkeventd.log

B. vmkernel.log

C. vpxa.log

D. loadESX.log

What does ESXi Autoconfiguration do?

A. sets up host profiles

B. configures system network and storage devices

C. determines the number of hosts to be deployed

D. configures Auto Deploy

What should the administrator do to monitor the size of the VM snapshot?

A. Use native Guest OS monitoring tools.

B. Install VMware Tools.

C. Create a condition-based alarm.

D. Run esxtop.

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

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.

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

A vSphere administrator has renamed the inventory name of a virtual machine.
Which task should the administrator perform to ensure the virtual machine files are also renamed to match the new virtual machine name?

A. Take a virtual machine snapshot.

B. Unregister and register the virtual machine in vCenter Server.

C. Migrate the machine to another host with vSphere vMotion.

D. Migrate the machine to another datastore with Storage vMotion.

A vSphere Administrator wants to convert a vCenter Server instance with an external Platform Services Controller to an embedded Platform Services Controller instance.
Which tool should be used to accomplish this?

A. VMware vCenter Converter

B. Cloud Client Utility

C. Convergence Utility

D. Cmsso-util Utility

An administrator needs to identify where the VM encryption settings are stored.
Which file stores the encryption setting?

A. .vmdk

B. vmsd

C. .nvram

D. .vmx

Which teaming and failover policy offers the lowest latency when a failover or a migration with vSphere vMotion occurs?

A. Network failure detection

B. Fallback

C. Notify switches

D. Load balancing

What is a requirement when installing ESXi 6.7?

A. NX/XD bit enabled for the CPU in the BIOS

B. minimum of 8GB of physical RAM

C. datastore for scratch partition

D. minimum of four CPU cores

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

A. WOL

B. BMC

C. DPM

D. DNS

An administrator has an environment with these conditions and requirements:
✑ The host provides 6GHz of CPU and 32GB of memory
✑ The host is shared between the Marketing and QA departments
✑ The QA department needs a higher compute resource priority
How can the administrator meet the conditions and requirements?

A. Adjust NIOC or SIOC as appropriate to give the QA department a higher compute priority within the cluster.

B. Create a resource pool for each department and use the Shares attribute to prioritize the allocation of resource.

C. Assign affinity or anti-affinity rules to the appropriate VMs for each department.

D. Set the VM priority to high for QA department VMs and normal for Marketing department VMs.

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

Which rule should be used in an SDRS environment to create a VM requiring virtual disks be kept on different datastores?

A. VM Anti-Affinity Rule

B. Intra-VM VMDK Affinity Rule

C. VM-Host Affinity Rule

D. Intra-VM VMDK Anti-Affinity Rule

A vSphere Administrator is receiving complaints a database VM is experiencing performance issues. The VM is a member of the high priority resource pool and the cluster has not experienced contention.
Which condition should be checked to address immediate performance concerns?

A. VM snapshots

B. VMFS version

C. Resource Pool share value

D. Configured CPU shares

An administrator is installing a Platform Services Controller Instance.
Which two options are available during the installation process? (Choose two.)

A. choose deployment size

B. specify vSphere administrator credentials

C. enable Enhanced Linked Mode

D. create a vCenter Single sign-on domain

E. join an existing domain

A vSphere administrator has a VM that needs to be deployed from a template located in an optimized content library.
What needs to be done before the VM can be deployed?

A. Export the template as an OVF.

B. Clone the template to a new template.

C. A subscribed content library needs to be created.

D. Deploy VM from the template.

In a vSphere HA enabled cluster, what happens if the master host is unable to communicate with a slave host over the management network?

A. The host is dropped from the cluster.

B. The master host uses datastore heartbeating.

C. A new master host is elected.

D. VM are rebooted by vSphere HA.

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

Which VM storage policy rule category ensures all VMs for a department are on the same datastore?

A. Capability

B. Data Service

C. Host

D. Tag

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 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

A vSphere administrator notices performance issues with the vCenter Server Appliance. The CPU usage is over 70%.
Which two actions should the administrator take to investigate the performance issues? (Choose two.)

A. Verify if all hosts are in a connected state.

B. Use esxtop to identify which process are using high CPU.

C. Use vimtop to identify which processes are using high CPU.

D. Check the vCenter HA configuration.

E. Check if vCenter Server is swapping.

A vSphere administrator has a requirement to add the identity source with the Integrated Windows Authentication option on vCenter Server with External Platform
Services Controller.
Which two conditions should be met to complete the task? (Choose two.)

A. Platform Services Controller must be able to reach the AD domain.

B. vCenter Server should be joined to AD Domain.

C. External Platform Services Controller should be an appliance.

D. External Platform Services Controller should be joined to AD Domain.

E. vCenter Server must be in Enhanced Linked Mode configuration.

What are two components of a VM-Host affinity rule? (Choose two.)

A. Host Group

B. Cluster settings

C. VM restart priority

D. VM restart action

E. VM Group

A VSS is configured with two uplinks and assigned a load balancing policy route based on a virtual port ID.
What are two potential disadvantages of this configuration? (Choose two.)

A. A VM with a single MAC address is limited to the speed of the uplink associated with the relevant port ID.

B. Higher resource consumption compared to other load balancing algorithms will occur.

C. The virtual switch is unaware of uplink load and uplinks might become overloaded.

D. The NIC with less load is more likely to be chosen if port IDs match.

E. ESXi will use NIOC to attempt to mitigate network congestion when an uplink becomes saturated.

Which action should be taken to secure ISCSI devices in a vSphere environment?

A. Require Secure Remote Protocol.

B. Require ESXi hosts to use ISCSI port binding.

C. Require vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode.

D. Require ESXi hosts to authentication to the target.

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

An administrator is concerned about the amount of time the IT team takes to create multiple VLANs in a very dynamic vSphere environment. The environment has these parameters:
✑ All virtual networking utilizes vSphere Standard Switches with uplinks to a Cisco Infrastructure
✑ Activities require 5-10 VLANs being created or removed every couple of days
✑ The IT team has three members
How can the administrator centralize the virtual networking configuration so the IT team utilizes time more efficiently?

A. Deploy a vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) appliance.

B. Create and use a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS).

C. Enable and configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC).

D. Enable and configure vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC).

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

What could cause a high %RDY value?

A. Incompatible network driver

B. memory fully allocated

C. too many vCPUs configured

D. disk latency greater than 2ms

A vSphere administrator is performing a greenfield vSphere deployment with these requirements:
✑ vCenter Server sized for 100 ESXi hosts and 1000 virtual machines
✑ Each ESXi Host with 512 LUNs and 2048 paths mapped from Dell EMC XtremIO Storage Array
Which vCenter Server Appliance deployment size meets requirements?

A. Large

B. Tiny

C. Medium

D. Small

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 is trying to publish a content library.
How is the Publish this content library externally option made visible in the settings?

A. Enable automatic synchronization.

B. Use a library that is not already published.

C. Select the authentication check box.

D. Choose a library that is not subscribed.