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.

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

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

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 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 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

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 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 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)

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

A. vimtop

B. esxtop

C. esxcli

D. vmstat

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

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

A. 6

B. 3

C. 2

D. 4

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

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

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

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.

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)

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 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

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 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

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

Refer to the exhibit.
 
Which element is missing from this vCenter High Availability (HA) cluster?

A. A secondary witness node

B. The management interface on the passive node

C. The connection between the active and passive nodes

D. The management interface and connection on the witness node

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

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

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 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 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

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.

What can an administrator use to partition limited CPU and memory resources between two departments?

A. vSphere distributed switch

B. vSphere High Availability

C. vCenter folders

D. Resource pools

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

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

A. ESXi

B. vSAN

C. vCenter Server

D. vRealize Network Insight

E. vRealize Operations Manager

Which privilege is required to run the esxtop utility?

A. Root user

B. vStatsUser

C. vStatsAdmin

D. Administrator

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

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

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

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

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.

What is the minimum CPU core requirement for successful installation, or upgrade, or ESXi on a host?

A. 8

B. 1

C. 32

D. 2

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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