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 has multiple virtual machines running on a VMFS datastore.
Which option prioritizes the disk access for the virtual machines?

A. Disk Shares

B. Disk Mode

C. Disk Type

D. Hard Disk

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 vCenter High Availability cluster consists of how many vCenter Server Appliance instances?

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 5

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

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

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.

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

A vSphere Administrator wants to convert a vCenter Server instance with an external Platform Services Controller to an embedded Platform Services Controller instance.
Which tool should be used to accomplish this?

A. VMware vCenter Converter

B. CloudClient Utility

C. Convergence Utility

D. Cmsso-util Utility

Which two VMware solutions track and analyze the operation of multiple data sources? (Choose two.)

A. vRealize Log Insight

B. vRealize Operations Manager

C. vRealize Life Cycle Manager

D. vRealize Automation

E. vRealize Orchestrator

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

A vSphere administrator attempts to create a VM-VM affinity rule but is unable to locate the option in the vSpehre Client.
What would cause this to happen?

A. vSphere DRS is disabled

B. vSphere DRS is set to manual

C. Admission control is not enabled

D. Affinity rules are only managed using the Host Client

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.

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

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

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

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

A vSphere administrator wants to deploy a VM directly from a VM template that is stored in a content library?
How can the administrator accomplish this?

A. Publish the content library first.

B. Convert the VM template to OVA.

C. Use the vSphere Client.

D. Copy the VM template to a local drive.

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

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 VM is experiencing inconsistent network connectivity between two ESXi hosts connecting to the same physical switches. The effect of the inconsistency is this:
✑ vMotion from host 1 to host 2, network connection is down
✑ vMotion from host 2 to host 1, network connection is up
✑ vMotion from host 1 to host 2, network connection is up
The vSphere administrator wants to ensure the physical switches connecting to the ESXi are configured correctly.
How can this be accomplished?

A. Use Network Health Check to verify the VLAN trunks on VSS

B. Use vSphere Health Check to verify on MTU settings on VDS

C. Use Network Health Check to verify the VLAN trunks on VDS

D. Use Network Health Check to verify MTU settings on VSS

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

A vSphere administrator has the privilege Content library > Add library item on the vCenter object, but is unable to add items to a local content library.
How would the vSphere administrator correct this?

A. Remove the No Access role on the vCenter object.

B. Restart the Content Library Service.

C. Assign the privilege to the global root object.

D. Reboot the vCenter Server Appliance.

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 wants to ensure the VMs for two different departments are separated on a single broadcast domain.
Which configuration fulfills this requirement?

A. PVLAN on Uplink Port

B. PVLAN on VMkernel Interface

C. PVLAN on VSS

D. PVLAN on VDS

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 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

Which snapshot file is created on VMFS6?

A. # # # # # #.vmdk

B. # # # # # # – delta.vmdk

C. # # # # # # – sesparse.vmdk

D. Snapshot#.vmem

What is required to convert a VM to a template?

A. Power off the virtual machine.

B. Choose a thin-provisioned format.

C. Reregister the template.

D. Select a storage policy.

An administrator is using vSphere Web Client to configure the firewall to allow specific third-party application SSH access to an ESXi Host.
What is the most secure way to configure the firewall rule?

A. Specify remote IP subnet range in IP List.

B. Use Allow connection from any IP address.

C. Enable lockdown mode.

D. Disable the firewall.

A cluster contains database VMs which have low utilization, except during a weekly data load that causes extremely high utilization.
As DRS balances the VM load, there is an extended period of slow performance.
Which two actions could be taken to reduce the impact of the recurring data load? (Choose two.)

A. Increase the number of vCPUs on the database VMs.

B. Enable VMware vRealize Operations Manager Integration with VMware vCenter.

C. Enable Proactive HA on the cluster.

D. Enable Predictive DRS on the cluster.

E. Increase the RAM allocated to the database VMs.

When enabled, what ensures only signed drivers can load into a virtual machine?

A. Secure Boot

B. lockdown mode

C. micro-segmentation

D. TPM

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.

Which DCUI option determines the time frame an administrator has to log in to the ESXI Shell after enabling the service?

A. Idle Timeout

B. Availability Timeout

C. Enable SSH

D. Enable ESXi Shell

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 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 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

A vSphere administrator needs to quickly move a critical VM from an AMD-cluster to an Intel-cluster.
How can the vSphere administrator move the VM?

A. vSphere Storage vMotion

B. vSphere encrypted vMotion

C. vSphere vMotion

D. Cold Migration

Using vSphere HA Orchestrated Restart an administrator places the most mission critical VM in the highest priority. After a host failure, the highest priority VM fails to restart while VMs in high priority restart.
What would cause this to occur?

A. There are insufficient cluster resources.

B. Performance degradation VMs tolerate threshold is at default.

C. VMware Tools is not installed.

D. Proactive HA is disabled.

Which setting should be used to exclude one hard disk from VM snapshots?

A. Thin Provision disk type

B. Dependent disk mode

C. Independent disk mode

D. Passthrough device mode

What are two components of a VM-Host affinity rule? (Choose two.)

A. Host Group

B. Cluster settings

C. VM restart priority

D. VM restart action

E. VM Group

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 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.

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

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.

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).

An ESXi host with default settings is currently in normal lockdown mode.
Which action is granted to users with Administrator privileges on the host without adding them to the Exception User list?

A. Access the host using the vCenter Server

B. Access the host using an SSH session

C. Access the host using the Host Client

D. Access the host using the ESXi Shell

What are two components of a VM-Host affinity rule? (Choose two.)

A. Host Group

B. Cluster settings

C. VM restart priority

D. VM restart action

E. VM Group

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 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).