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.

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.

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

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 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

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.

Which VMware solution provides integrated cloud infrastructure and cloud management services for VMware Cloud on AWS?

A. VMware vCloud Director

B. VMware Cloud Foundation

C. VMware Cloud Automation Center

D. VMware vCloud Connector

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

A. WOL

B. BMC

C. DPM

D. DNS

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.

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

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

Where is vCenter SSO configured?

A. In the service console

B. In the DCUI

C. In the vSphere client

D. In the host client

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Which configuration could prevent an administrator from performing a vSphere vMotion migration?

A. CPU affinity is enabled on the VM.

B. The ESXi hosts use IPv6 addresses.

C. The VM has an RDM in virtual compatibility mode.

D. 1GbE adapters are in use for the vMotion network.

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).

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

What is required for host attestation to secure the hypervisor?

A. VM encryption

B. CHAP

C. TPM 2.0 chip

D. KMS server

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

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

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 configures log forwarding for remote syslog server in a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) through the vCenter Server Appliance
Management Interface (VAMI).
What is the maximum number of remote syslog servers that can be configured?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

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.

An administrator wants to enable vCenter High Availability (vCenter HA) for a VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). The environment consists of the following:
✑ 50ms of latency between sites
✑ vCSA deployment size is small
✑ 3 hosts in the cluster hosting vCenter
What must the administrator do to enable vCenter HA?

A. Add one host to reach the minimum requirement of 4 hosts.

B. Deploy Windows vCenter because vCenter HA is not supported on vCSA.

C. Deploy a vCSA of size medium or larger.

D. Decrease network latency to 10ms or lower.

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.

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

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

Where is vSphere Client Service health viewed?

A. VAMI

B. ESXi DCUI

C. Performance Charts

D. Host Client

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

This error is generated when a vSphere administrator takes a VM snapshot:
An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine
What should the administrator investigate to determine the cause of the failure?

A. Check if the virtual machine is already running on snapshots.

B. Check if the virtual machine is in suspended state.

C. Check if VMware Tools is installed on virtual machine.

D. Check if the virtual machine has an ISO mounted.

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

Which two tasks are allowed in the X-Lence data center? (Choose two.)
 

A. User C can convert AX-850 to VM.

B. User B can delete from disk XRK-01.

C. User A can take a snapshot on XRK-01.

D. User A can take a snapshot on AX-1000.

E. User C can view configuration of AX-1000.

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.

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.

Which action should be taken to ensure vSphere Update Manager (VUM) is available?

A. Download VUM from myVMware.

B. Consider Windows based vCenter for compatibility.

C. Enable VUM in the vSphere Client.

D. Install VCSA.

Which permission should be granted to a user with Administrator permission and with no access to the encrypted VM console?

A. New role with no Cryptographic Operations

B. Administrator role and Read Only Role

C. Administrator role

D. No Cryptography Administrator role

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 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.

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.

Which two options ensure all ESXi servers are protected from unsigned code? (Choose two.)

A. VM Encryption

B. vTPM

C. UEFI Secure Boot

D. TPM

E. vSAN Encryption

What of RAM required by ESXi 6.7?

A. 512MB

B. 2GB

C. 4GB

D. 8GB

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

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

A vSphere administrator is working in a high security environment. The administrator wants to ensure unencrypted VMs can be migrated securely.
What should the vSphere administrator use to meet this requirement?

A. vTPM

B. UEFI Secure Boot

C. KMS Server

D. encrypted vSphere vMotion