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

What could a vSphere administrator use to move a group of VMs to another port group?

A. Network I/O Control

B. IP hash

C. Network Port Binding

D. vSphere vMotion

An administrator is planning maintenance for a cluster with the following configuration:
✑  DRS is fully automated
✑  Dedicated 10GbE vMotion network
✑  iSCSI storage with CHAP
When a host is placed into maintenance mode, what is the maximum number of supported concurrent vMotion operations?

A. 4

B. 6

C. 8

D. 10

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 host profile is created from a reference host in Cluster A and applied to all hosts in the same cluster.
What effect is expected when the administrator updates the DNS settings on the reference host?

A. DNS settings are updated for all hosts in the cluster

B. The reference host becomes non-compliant

C. The reference host enters maintenance mode

D. The host profile is updated automatically

A customer is experiencing a network performance problem and is using the esxtop utility to determine the cause. Esxtop reveals no dropped packets.
Which two conditions should the customer check? (Choose two.)

A. packet size

B. data receive rate

C. IPv6 support

D. CPU contention

Which two actions should an administrator take to ensure a VM has the highest networking bandwidth? (Choose two.)

A. Configure traffic shaping

B. Configure LACP

C. Configure resource pools

D. Configure shares, reservations, and limits

E. Configure marking and filtering

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

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

A vSphere administrator uses a Dedicated Failover Hosts Admission Control Policy in a cluster. An ESXi host fails and vSphere HA attempts to restart the VMs onto the dedicated failover hosts. The hosts have insufficient resources.
What happens to the VMs?

A. vSphere HA restarts VMs in another cluster.

B. vSphere HA suspends the VMs until a host is available.

C. vSphere HA powers down the VMs.

D. vSphere HA attempts to restart the VMs on other hosts in the cluster.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

A vSphere administrator needs to migrate VMs in the same vCenter from New York to California due to impending severe weather.
Which migration should the administrator perform without causing VM downtime?

A. Long Distance vMotion

B. Storage vMotion

C. Cold migration

D. Cross vCenter vMotion

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 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

Which policy is used for intelligent optimization of network interface traffic on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)?

A. Route Based on IP Hash

B. Route Based on Source MAC Hash

C. Route Based on Physical NIC Load

D. Route Based on Originating Virtual Port

A vSphere administrator is trying to create a resource pool but the option is grayed out.
What must be enabled before creating a resource pool?

A. DRS

B. Storage DRS

C. EVC

D. 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

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

Refer to the exhibit.
What is required to fix the PSOD?
 

A. Skip unused VIBs during boot up.

B. Reboot the host.

C. Remove unsigned VIBs.

D. Reboot and enable secure boot from the UEFI firmware interface.

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 command should be used to monitor free disk space on a vCenter Server Appliance?

A. df

B. esxtop

C. cloudvm-ram-size

D. vimtop

An application requires a high network transmission rate and multiple simultaneous TCP streams.
What is the maximum number of threads that can be created per vNIC?

A. 4

B. 6

C. 8

D. 10

An administrator manages a vSphere environment with the following configuration:
✑ HA enabled
✑ Admission Control enabled based on fixed slot size
✑ 1 VM with a memory reservation significantly larger than the fixed slot size
The administrator notices that occasionally the VM with the memory reservation fails to restart during an HA host failure event.
What could cause this to happen?

A. Failover capacity is exceeded due to the memory reservation

B. vMotion network needs more bandwidth to restart the reserved VM

C. VMs with reservations must be in their own dedicated cluster

D. DRS must be enabled when admission control is enabled

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

What are two features of the CPU scheduler? (Choose two.)

A. allocates CPU and memory resource usage

B. determines which worlds are entitled to CPU time

C. schedules vCPUs on physical CPUs

D. creates a world for each virtual machine to run it

E. checks CPU uptime

An administrator decides to implement vSphere networking using the VDS.
Which binding option should the administrator use to manage the VMs if vCenter becomes unavailable?

A. static

B. port

C. ephemeral

D. dynamic

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.

Which vSphere APIs support storage hardware acceleration?

A. vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)

B. vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering (VAIO)

C. VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)

D. VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI)

Where is vCenter SSO configured?

A. In the service console

B. In the DCUI

C. In the vSphere client

D. In the host client

Which condition would be prevent a vSphere Administrator from increasing the vCPU on a virtual machine to 128 vCPUs?

A. CPU Affinity is enabled on the virtual machine.

B. The host is running on the Enterprise license.

C. Hyper-threading is enabled on the host.

D. There are too few logical cores on the host.

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

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

What should be installed on a VM to assist with VM-to-host time synchronization?

A. VMware Tools

B. vRA guest agent

C. vROps agent

D. Guest Operations Manager

In a single cluster VM encryption scenario, which two VMs should be excluded from encryption? (Choose two.)

A. Platform Services Controller

B. vSphere Replication Appliance

C. vRealize Operations Manager

D. VMware vCenter Server

E. vRealize Log Insight

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 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

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.

Where is vSphere Client Service health viewed?

A. VAMI

B. ESXi DCUI

C. Performance Charts

D. Host Client

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

An administrator enables DRS and sets the automation level to Fully Automated. DRS is only making initial placement recommendations.
What is causing this?

A. DRS is set to aggressive

B. HA is disabled on the cluster

C. The VMs have virtual flash reservations

D. vMotion network is misconfigured

A vSphere administrator has a requirement to move virtual machines between vCenter Servers using vSphere Client.
Which condition should be met for the Cross vCenter Server vMotion to succeed?

A. vCenter Servers must be time-synchronized

B. vCenter Servers should be appliances

C. vCenter Servers should be in different vCenter Single Sign-on domains

D. vCenter Servers should be on the same version

A user logs in to vCenter Server as an administrator and is unable to view Single Sign On Configuration. Which vCenter Single Sign On group should the administrator belong to, to view Single Sign On Configuration?

A. ComponentManager.Administrators

B. Administrators

C. SystemConfiguration.Administrators

D. SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdministrators

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.

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

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 resources.

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.

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