What are two pre-requisites for enabling ESXi secure boot? (Choose two.)

A. External Key Management Service

B. vCenter Server 7.0 or greater

C. Trusted Platform Module version 2.0

D. ESXi 6.5 or greater

E. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

Which two components are core to vSphere? (Choose two.)

A. ESXi

B. vSAN

C. vCenter Server

D. vRealize Network Insight

E. vRealize Operations Manager

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?

A. vCenter Single Sign-On Administrator

B. vCenter Administrator

C. vCenter Server Appliance Root

D. vCenter Power User

Refer to the exhibit.
 
What is the effective role the test1 account has on the Finance01 virtual machine?

A. No access

B. Administrator

C. Read-only

D. Virtual machine user

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

An administrator sees a virtual machine message that reads, `Consolidation is required` in the vSphere Client.
Which action does ESXi take when the administrator completes snapshot consolidation?

A. Collapses all snapshots in the current snapshot tree

B. Commits redundant delta disks to the base disk

C. Collapses all snapshots into a single snapshot

D. Deletes all snapshots without committing to the base disk

Which feature can an administrator use for site availability with minimal effort and a low recovery point objective (RPO)?

A. vSphere vMotion

B. vSphere High Availability

C. vSphere Replication

D. vSphere Fault Tolerance

Which vSphere feature provides for continuous local data center availability?

A. vSphere Fault Tolerance

B. Cross vCenter Migration

C. vSphere Storage vMotion

D. vSphere Replication

Which solution can be used to automatically deploy a fully configured VMware software-defined data center (SDDC)?

A. vCenter Server

B. vRealize Suite

C. vSphere Lifecycle Manager

D. VMware Cloud Foundation

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing VMware vSphere 6.5 environment to version 7.0.
There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment.
Which two statements are true regarding this upgrade? (Choose two.)

A. VMFS5 is no longer supported with ESXi 7.0.

B. VMFS3 is no longer supported with ESXi 7.0.

C. An ESXi 7.0 host can automatically upgrade a VMFS5 datastore.

D. An ESXi 7.0 host will automatically upgrade a VMFS3 datastore when discovered.

E. A VMFS3 datastore cannot be upgraded; a new VMFS6 datastore is required.

An administrator wants to enable bandwidth allocation for workloads by using Network I/O Control.
What should the administrator configure to accomplish this?

A. Management traffic

B. Virtual machine traffic

C. Load-balancing

D. NIC teaming policy

How many vSphere Trust Authority Clusters can a Trusted Cluster reference?

A. 1

B. 4

C. 8

D. 2

Refer to the exhibit.
 
Which trusted infrastructure component is missing and represented by the area labeled `A`?

A. Key Management Server

B. vSphere Virtual Machine Encryption

C. Key Provider Service

D. Attestation Service

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.

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)?

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.

Which action is supported over a VMkernel vMotion TCP/IP stack?

A. Hot migrations

B. Fault tolerance protection

C. Virtual machine cloning

D. Snapshot creation

What determines the default bandwidth share allocation for system traffic, such as vSphere Fault Tolerance and vSphere vMotion?

A. Physical network adapter

B. Network I/O Control version

C. Virtual machine hardware version

D. Load-balancing

An administrator wants to implement virtual machine encryption.
Which component encrypts the virtual machine files?

A. Certificate

B. Data encryption key (DEK)

C. Key encryption key (KEK)

D. Key management server (KMS)

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.

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

Which resource pool setting is used to specify the relative priority or importance as high, normal or low?

A. Limits

B. Reservation type

C. Shares

D. Reservations

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?

A. Cross vCenter Migration

B. vSphere High Availability

C. vSphere vMotion

D. vSphere Replication

Each logical port on a vSphere standard switch can be a member of how many port groups?

A. 4

B. 3

C. 1

D. 2

An administrator is tasked with planning an upgrade of a VMware vSphere environment to version 7.0. The platform consists of 80 ESXi hosts, logically divided into 10 clusters. The tasks will be completed by another operations team within the company.
The hardware is consistent and a single embedded vCenter Server 6.7 appliance is managing the environment.
Which statement is true regarding a suitable upgrade approach?

A. The vCenter Server can be upgraded using a pre-configured customized JSON template.

B. The ESXi hosts can only be upgraded using the Graphical User Interface Installer.

C. Auto-deploy must be used to upgrade the large scale environment.

D. A new Platform Services Controller must be deployed first.

A host profile is updated with a new password that urgently needs to be changed on all hosts attached to the host profile.
Which option would an administrator select to complete the password change?

A. Copy Settings from Host

B. Remediate

C. Check Host Profile Compliance

D. Edit Host Customizations

In a vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster, which condition can be detected by datastore heartbeating?

A. Fault tolerance virtual machine (VM) failover

B. Network isolation

C. Virtual machine (VM) disk failure

D. Datastore All Paths Down (APD) event

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?

A. Host profiles

B. Content libraries

C. Storage policies

D. Resource pools

An administrator is utilizing Network I/O Control (NIOC) to allocate bandwidth utilization on a physical 10 Gbps adapter.
What is the maximum amount of bandwidth that can be reserved?

A. 2.5 Gbps

B. 10 Gbps

C. 5.0 Gbps

D. 7.5 Gbps

An administrator is troubleshooting a recent failure and finds the following error messages:
 
Which action has failed, thus resulting in these errors?

A. Virtual machine power off

B. Virtual machine snapshot

C. Virtual machine migration

D. Virtual machine reconfiguration

Refer to the exhibit.
 
Which two statements are true regarding the state of the virtual machine (VM) if an administrator clicks the `Delete All` option? (Choose two.)

A. The VM state will match Snap-C.

B. No snapshots will remain on the VM.

C. Snap-A will be intact on the VM.

D. The VM state will match Snap-B.

E. The VM state will match Snap-A.

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. The environment consists of mounted NFS v3 datastores. The new design requires configuration of NFS v4.1 datastores.
Which statement is true regarding this upgrade?

A. The NFS v3 datastores can be unmounted and remounted using NFS v4.1.

B. A new VMkernel port for NFS v4.1 needs to be created before the upgrade.

C. Following first boot, NFS v3 datastores are automatically converted to NFS v4.1 by ESXi 7.0

D. ESXi 7.0 does NOT support NFS v4.1.

An administrator is unable to manage certificates with the vSphere Client.
What is another supported option that can be used to manage certificates?

A. vCenter Server Management Interface

B. Command Line Interface

C. vRealize Operations Manager

D. Cloud Builder

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. The current configuration is using an external Platform Services
Controller.
Which two statements are true regarding this upgrade? (Choose two.)

A. The external Platform Services Controller needs to be converged into an embedded vCenter Server Appliance.

B. The external Platform Services Controller needs to be decommissioned following the deployment of the new vCenter Server Appliance.

C. The external Platform Services Controller backup can be restored to a new embedded vCenter Server Appliance.

D. The external Platform Services Controller needs to be upgraded after the vCenter Server Appliance.

E. The external Platform Services Controller needs to be powered down while a new vCenter Server Appliance is deployed.

What is the default shutdown order of virtual machines (VMs) on a host?

A. Alphabetical based on VM names

B. Highest utilization to lowest utilization

C. Largest VM to smallest VM

D. Reverse of the startup order

What are two supported ESXi boot options? (Choose two.)

A. NFS

B. iSCSI

C. vSAN

D. SAN

E. vSphere Virtual Volumes

What are two minimum disk requirements for a vSAN hybrid disk group configuration? (Choose two.)

A. At least one magnetic data disk

B. At least one SATADOM device

C. At least two magnetic data disks

D. At least one flash device

E. At least two flash devices

Which two features are only supported by VMFS6 datastores? (Choose two.)

A. Concurrent access to shared storage

B. On-disk locking

C. Dynamic expansion

D. 4K native storage devices

E. Automatic space reclamation

Which feature is a pre-requisite for configuring admission control on a cluster?

A. vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)

B. vSphere High Availability (HA)

C. vSphere Fault Tolerance

D. vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

An administrator identifies a snapshot file named `Win10-000001-sesparse.vmdk` on a datastore.
Which type of information can be determined about this datastore?

A. The datastore is formatted as VMFS3.

B. The datastore is formatted as VMFS6.

C. The datastore is a raw device mapping.

D. The datastore is a vSAN datastore.

In a vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster, which action does vSphere HA take when the VM Monitoring service does NOT receive heartbeats from a virtual machine (VM) in the cluster?

A. The VM is restarted on a different host in the cluster.

B. The VM is suspended on the same host in the cluster.

C. The VM is migrated to a different host in the cluster.

D. The VM is restarted on the same host in the cluster.

Which two configuration tasks must be performed from the vCenter Server Management Interface? (Choose two.)

A. Add administrator accounts.

B. Add a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server.

C. Add a vCenter Server license.

D. Enable SSH login.

E. Change the logging level.

Refer to the exhibit.
 
What does the %RDY for the Win1 virtual machine indicate?

A. High CPU wait time

B. Low CPU usage

C. High CPU contention

D. Low CPU contention

Which feature is a prerequisite for Proactive High Availability (HA)?

A. vCenter High Availability

B. vSAN Cluster

C. Predictive Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)

D. vSphere Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)

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

What is a pre-requisite for increasing datastore capacity?

A. The backing device for the datastore has enough free space.

B. The datastore is managed by Storage DRS (SDRS).

C. The datastore is 100% full.

D. There are NO powered-on virtual machines on the datastore.

Which two performance tools can be used to monitor virtual machines outside the guest operating system? (Choose two.)

A. vCenter Server performance charts

B. Task Manager

C. top

D. esxtop

E. Perfmon

How does vSphere handle memory allocation during the instant clone process?

A. The first child virtual machine serves as a memory snapshot for any subsequent child virtual machines.

B. An identical clone of the parent virtual machine’s memory is created for each child virtual machine

C. Memory is shared among all child virtual machines using a delta disk.

D. A unique memory pool is created per child virtual machine using copy-on-write.

Which step can an administrator take so that vSphere can access patch information if vCenter Server does NOT have Internet access?

A. Use a Web server on the vCenter Server machine to automate the transfer of files.

B. Install VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service on a Windows server.

C. Use an offline ISO file to import patches to the vSphere Lifecycle Manager depot manually.

D. Install VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service on a Linux server.

An administrator is configuring ESXi host behavior before and during the remediation process.
Which remediation setting is supported only on select hardware platforms?

A. VM migration

B. HA admission control

C. Maintenance mode failures

D. Quick Boot

Which virtual disk option allows a virtual machine to consume the minimum storage capacity?

A. Independent persistent

B. Lazy-zeroed thick-provisioned

C. Eager-zeroed thick-provisioned

D. Thin-provisioned