Which tool is used to monitor the vCenter Server Appliance resources?

A. vimtop

B. esxtop

C. esxcli

D. vmstat

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)

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

Refer to the exhibit.
 
Which two migration methods can an administrator use to move virtual machines from the SA-Dev cluster to the SA-Compute cluster? (Choose two.)

A. Cold migration of compute resource only

B. Cold migration of storage only

C. Hot migration of compute resource and storage resource

D. Hot migration of compute resource only

E. Cold migration of compute resource and storage resource

What is the basic packaging for vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) and metadata in vSphere Lifecycle Manager?

A. Vendor add-on

B. Base image

C. Component

D. Baseline

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?

A. VMware Global Support Services

B. VMware Premier Support

C. VMware Skyline

D. vRealize Operations Manager

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.

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?

A. Automation Level ג€” Manual Remediation Level ג€” Quarantine mode

B. Automation Level ג€” Automated Remediation Level ג€” Maintenance mode

C. Automation Level ג€” Manual Remediation Level ג€” Maintenance mode

D. Automation Level ג€” Automated Remediation Level ג€” Mixed mode

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

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.

E. Configure storage limits per virtual machine.

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.

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

An administrator wants to be able to send vCenter Server log files to a remote syslog server and analyze logs using vRealize Log Insight.
Which step must the administrator take to meet this requirement?

A. Configure the vCenter Server logging options using the vSphere Client.

B. Specify the remote syslog server name at deployment using the vCenter Server GUI Installer.

C. Specify the vRealize Log Insight system name using the vSphere Client.

D. Configure log file forwarding using the vCenter Server Management Interface.

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

A. NFS

B. iSCSI

C. vSAN

D. SAN

E. vSphere Virtual Volumes

Refer to the exhibit.
 
An administrator enables email notifications as shown in the attached alarm. However, notifications are NOT being sent.
Where must the mail server settings be configured to resolve this issue?

A. In vCenter Server General settings in the vSphere Client.

B. In the alarm rule definitions

C. In the ESXi host system config for the cluster node hosting the vCenter Server Appliance

D. In Administration settings in the vCenter Server Management Interface

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

ESXi provides VLAN support by assigning a VLAN ID to which component?

A. Virtual standard switch

B. Physical network interface card (NIC)

C. Virtual distributed switch

D. Port group

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

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

Which type of network adapter is designed to provide connectivity to hosts and handle the standard system traffic of vSphere vMotion?

A. VMkernel port

B. VXLAN virtual tunnel end point (VXLAN VTEP)

C. Virtual machine network interface card (VMNIC)

D. VM network

Which privilege is required to run the esxtop utility?

A. Root user

B. vStatsUser

C. vStatsAdmin

D. Administrator

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 is investigating the reason for a virtual machine restarting. In the vmware.log file, the administrator finds the following error:
 
What is a likely cause of this virtual machine restart?

A. Guest operating system fault

B. User or API request to shut down guest operating system

C. High Availability

D. User or API request to restart guest operating system

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

What is a requirement of Storage I/O Control?

A. Storage connected through Fibre Channel

B. Management by a single vCenter Server

C. Datastores with multiple extents

D. Automated storage tiering capabilities

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 feature can an administrator configure to have a copy of critical virtual machines in another cluster?

A. vSphere Storage vMotion

B. vSphere Fault Tolerance

C. vSphere Replication

D. Instant Clone

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 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.

An IT department is decommissioning a storage array and tasks an administrator with removing a datastore from ESXi hosts.
What is a prerequisite for unmounting the datastore?

A. The datastore is NOT managed by Storage DRS.

B. The datastore is NOT being used by vSphere High Availability heartbeating.

C. The datastore is NOT referenced by a host profile.

D. The datastore does NOT contain powered-off virtual machines.

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?

A. Manual

B. Partially automated

C. Fully automated

D. Disabled

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?

A. Export Host Customizations

B. Export Host Profile

C. Attach Host Profile

D. Copy Settings from Host

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)

An administrator is investigating the reason for a powered on virtual machine failing to migrate with the following error log message:
 
Which step should the administrator complete to resolve this error?

A. Configure High Availability on the cluster.

B. Configure vSAN on the cluster.

C. Configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) on the cluster.

D. Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility on the cluster.

A company has one corporate datacenter (C1) and one regional datacenter (R1). There is a vCenter Server in each location. An administrator wants a central library available to C1 and R1 for all templates and ISO images.
Which two steps must the administrator take to configure the content library feature to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

A. Create a published content library on C1.

B. Create a local content library on R1.

C. Create a local content library on C1.

D. Create a subscribed content library on C1.

E. Create a subscribed content library on R1.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

An administrator wants to configure vCenter Server High Availability so that each node is located in a different data center.
Which requirement must be met?

A. Each node must be configured with at least three network adapters.

B. Network latency between the nodes must be less than 10 milliseconds.

C. All nodes must be located on a vSAN datastore in each data center.

D. A vCenter Server license must be assigned to each node.

Which local only host utility is used for primary, real-time performance monitoring in vSphere?

A. resxtop

B. top

C. esxtop

D. vSphere Command-Line Interface (CLI)

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.

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

A virtual machine with a single 100 GB virtual machine disk file has a single 20 GB snapshot. The virtual machine is powered off.
How much additional free space on the datastore is required to delete the snapshot, committing the snapshot delta disk to the base disk?

A. 0 GB

B. 100 GB

C. 20 GB

D. 120 GB

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?

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.

What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required to support vCenter High Availability?

A. 6

B. 3

C. 2

D. 4

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

A. 1

B. 4

C. 8

D. 2

A development team has a recurring need to rapidly replicate hundreds of virtual machines (VMs) for load testing.
Which method should the team use to deploy the VMs?

A. Linked clones from a content library

B. Instant clones using the vSphere API

C. Full clones using vSphere Auto Deploy

D. Full clones from a template