Which TCP/IP stack can support management traffic, vSphere vMotion, IP storage and vSphere Fault Tolerance?

A. VXLAN TCP/IP stack

B. Provisioning TCP/IP stack

C. Default TCP/IP stack

D. vSphere vMotion TCP/IP stack

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment.
Which statement is true regarding this upgrade?

A. An ESXi 7.0 host will NOT recognize a VMFS3 datastore.

B. VMFS3 is supported with ESXi 7.0 to store boot configurations only.

C. A VMFS5 datastore CANNOT be upgraded; a new VMFS6 datastore is required.

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

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

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

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 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 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)

Refer to the exhibit.
 
An administrator repeatedly encounters this error message while attempting to connect to vCenter Server.
What should the administrator do to address this error message?

A. Use a different browser.

B. Trust the VMware certificate authority (CA) root certificate.

C. Restart the vCenter Server Appliance.

D. Reissue a new, unexpired certificate.

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

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

An administrator is asked to deploy a virtual machine (VM) that can sniff packets for the Security team.
Which setting must be set to `accept` on the VM's port group?

A. Promiscuous mode

B. Forged transmits

C. MAC address changes

D. Traffic shaping

Which privilege is required to run the esxtop utility?

A. Root user

B. vStatsUser

C. vStatsAdmin

D. Administrator

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

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 receives an escalation to investigate a low disk space alarm on a datastore. The administrator discovers that a snapshot has been accidentally taken on a production, write-intensive database server. The snapshot has grown to nearly 1 TB in size in less than an hour and continues growing every second.
Which behavior should the administrator expect while deleting the snapshot?

A. ESXi will create a virtual RAM disk to cache ongoing database write activity; performance impact will be limited.

B. ESXi will commit the snapshot delta disk into the base disk; ongoing database write activity could result in long stun times.

C. ESXi will merge the snapshot delta disk into the base disk; the virtual machine will be briefly stunned.

D. ESXi will instantly switch from the base disk to the snapshot delta disk with no performance impact.

What is a minimum disk controller requirement for VMware vSAN?

A. A disk controller in JBOD mode

B. A disk controller in pass-through or RAID 1 mode

C. A disk controller in pass-through or RAID 5 mode

D. A disk controller in pass-through or RAID 0 mode

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

When deploying a vCenter Server Appliance, which two single sign-on (SSO)-related options are presented to an administrator? (Choose two.)

A. Create a vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode group

B. Create a vCenter Single Sign-On domain

C. Join an existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain

D. Repoint to another domain

E. Reset Single Sign-On password

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)

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

Which feature can be used to specify data services for virtual disks, such as caching or replication?

A. Host profiles

B. Virtual machine storage policies

C. VM Customization Specification

D. Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

vCenter Server experiences a catastrophic failure and the administrator must restore from a vCenter Server backup stored on an FTP server.
What must the administrator do to restore vCenter Server?

A. Use the vSphere Client to deploy the appliance onto an ESXi host and restore the vCenter Server data from the backup.

B. Use the vCenter Server Management Interface to restore the vCenter Server data, and power on the appliance.

C. Use the vCenter Server GUI installer to deploy a vCenter Server instance and use the vSphere Client to restore vCenter Server data from the backup.

D. Use the vCenter Server GUI installer to deploy a vCenter Server instance and restore the vCenter Server data from the backup.

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

A single host is manually configured to company standards.
Which option would an administrator select to capture this configuration for future use?

A. Extract Host Profile

B. Reset Host Customizations

C. Attach Host Profile

D. Import Host Profile

What is the server virtualization product that combines the ESXi hypervisor and the vCenter Server?

A. NSX

B. vRealize Operations Manager

C. vSphere

D. vSAN

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

An administrator is asked to take a snapshot of a virtual machine prior to an application upgrade. The virtual machine has one standard virtual machine disk
(VMDK) and one physical mode raw device mapping (RDM) attached.
Which statement is true with regard to taking this snapshot?

A. The administrator will be unable to snapshot the RDM.

B. The administrator will be able to snapshot the standard VMDK in independent persistent mode.

C. The administrator will be able to snapshot the RDM in independent persistent mode.

D. The administrator will be able to snapshot both disks.

Refer to the exhibit.
 
An administrator is consistently receiving an alarm regarding a CPU performance issue; however, there is NO CPU issue identified.
What can the administrator do to make sure the alarm is triggered when there is an actual CPU performance issue?

A. Change ‘VM CPU Ready Time’ to ‘VM Memory Usage.’

B. Change ‘Show as Critical’ to ‘Show as Warning.’

C. Change ‘VM CPU Ready Time’ to ‘VM CPU Usage.’

D. Change ‘is below’ to ‘is above.’

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.

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 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.

What is a pre-requisite for configuring virtualization-based security (VBS)?

A. Change the firmware type from UEFI to Legacy BIOS

B. Change the firmware type from Legacy BIOS to UEFI

C. Use Windows Server 2012

D. Use Windows Server 2008 R2

Which tool is used to monitor the free space in the vCenter Server database?

A. esxtop

B. df

C. vimtop

D. vmstat

Which two storage technologies can an administrator use to deploy the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)? (Choose two.)

A. Fibre Channel storage

B. vSAN storage

C. Virtual Volumes storage

D. NFS storage

E. iSCSI storage

What is the foundation of a software-defined data center (SDDC)?

A. vRealize Operations Manager

B. vSphere

C. vSAN

D. NSX

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 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 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 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

An administrator is NOT able to enable ESXi secure boot.
What is a possible cause of this issue?

A. The vCenter Server version is 7.0.

B. ESXi is using Trusted Platform Module version 1.2.

C. The ESXi version is 7.0

D. ESXi is using Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

An administrator wants to be able to log in to the vSphere Client and view the inventories of two vCenter Server instances.
What must the administrator do to meet this requirement?

A. Configure Enhanced Linked Mode on each vCenter Server instance after deployment is complete.

B. Connect each vCenter Server instance to the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain during deployment.

C. Connect each vCenter Server instance to the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain using the vSphere Client.

D. Configure the vCenter Server Management Interface to view both vCenter Server instances.

An administrator is deploying a vCenter Server Appliance and wants to join an existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain.
The administrator gathers the following information:
✑ FQDN of the vCenter Single Sign-On server to join
✑ Domain name of the vCenter Single Sign-On server being joined
✑ Password of the vCenter Single Sign-On server administrator account.
What other information is needed to join the existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain?

A. vSphere Client port

B. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) port

C. Single Sign-On (SSO) port

D. HTTPS port

An administrator places a 300 GB virtual machine named `Finance1` on a 2 TB datastore containing other virtual machines. After virtual machine placement, the datastore has 200 GB of free space. The accounting department takes a nightly snapshot of Finance1, then deletes the previous snapshot. The administrator is concerned about snapshots filling the datastore.
Which statement is true regarding snapshots?

A. The snapshots on Finance1 cannot outgrow the datastore in less than 24 hours.

B. Any snapshot on Finance1 has the potential to fill the datastore to capacity.

C. vCenter Server will not allow snapshots to fill the datastore beyond 95%.

D. The snapshots on Finance1 will be automatically committed if SEsparse format is used.

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 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

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 can attach a baseline to which two inventory objects? (Choose two.)

A. Resource pools

B. Data centers

C. Datastores

D. Templates

E. ESXi hosts