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 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

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.

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. Cloud Client Utility

C. Convergence Utility

D. Cmsso-util Utility

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.

An encrypted VM needs to be migrated from New York to London. This particular VM houses sensitive information that needs to be encrypted during transit.
What must be done to ensure Long Distance vMotion traffic is encrypted in flight?

A. Encryption must be handled at the physical network layer.

B. vSphere vMotion uses encryption when migrating encrypted virtual machines.

C. Long-Distance vSphere vMotion does not support encryption.

D. Select encryption in the transit option.

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

A vSphere administrator creates a VM with 2 vCPUs and 4GB memory. A 3GB memory reservation is applied to the VM. What size is .vswp file when the VM is powered on?

A. 1GB

B. 2GB

C. 3GB

D. 4GB

What is a requirement when installing ESXi 6.7?

A. NX/XD bit enabled for the CPU in the BIOS

B. minimum of 8GB of physical RAM

C. datastore for scratch partition

D. minimum of four CPU cores

What is a benefit of using resource pools?

A. Increased visibility of user activity

B. Increased vMotion efficiency for a set of VMs

C. Increased accuracy for proactive resources for a set of VMs

D. Increased ease of reserving resources for a set of VMs

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).

Which VMware solution provides integrated cloud infrastructure and cloud management services for VMware Cloud on AWS?

A. VMware vCloud Director

B. VMware Cloud Foundation

C. VMware Cloud Automation Center

D. VMware vCloud Connector

What of RAM required by ESXi 6.7?

A. 512MB

B. 2GB

C. 4GB

D. 8GB

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

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

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

A vSphere administrator wants to enable Proactive HA in a vSphere cluster.
What is required to use this feature?

A. vROps must be installed.

B. DRS must be enabled.

C. DCUI must be enabled.

D. VCHA must be configured.

What are two requirements to deploy VMware Site Recovery Manager? (Choose two.)

A. vCenter Server installed at the protected site and at the recovery site

B. Identical storage at the protected site and at the recovery site

C. host-based replication through vSphere Replication or preconfigured array-based replication

D. identical vCenter Server versions installed at the protected site and at the recovery site

E. identical ESXi versions installed at the protected site and at the recovery site

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

Which configuration could prevent an administrator from performing a vSphere vMotion migration?

A. CPU affinity is enabled on the VM.

B. The ESXi hosts use IPv6 addresses.

C. The VM has an RDM in virtual compatibility mode.

D. 1GbE adapters are in use for the vMotion network.

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 two features should an administrator use to protect a VMware vCenter Server Appliance from host and hardware failures? (Choose two.)

A. VMware Distributed Power Management

B. vCenter High Availability

C. vSphere High Availability

D. vSphere Fault Tolerance

E. VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

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.

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

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.

What is used by a VM for direct access to a LUN?

A. vSAN

B. RDM

C. NVMe

D. ext3

Where is vSphere Client Service health viewed?

A. VAMI

B. ESXi DCUI

C. Performance Charts

D. Host Client

A vSphere administrator is trying to publish a content library.
How is the Publish this content library externally option made visible in the settings?

A. Enable automatic synchronization.

B. Use a library that is not already published.

C. Select the authentication check box.

D. Choose a library that is not subscribed.

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 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 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 suspects poor VM performance. The administrator runs esxtop and sees the following output from the CPU and memory screens:
6:48:19pm up 4:22, 528 worlds, 8 VMs, 16 vCPUs, CPU load average: 0.26, 0.36, 0.16
VMKMEM/MB: 8151 managed: 407 minfree, 3055 rsvd, 5095 ursvd, high state
What can the administrator conclude from this output?

A. The host has too many worlds running.

B. The host is ballooning.

C. The host has adequate memory.

D. The host is under CPU pressure.

What should the administrator do to monitor the size of the VM snapshot?

A. Use native Guest OS monitoring tools.

B. Install VMware Tools.

C. Create a condition-based alarm.

D. Run esxtop.

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

A vSphere administrator has renamed the inventory name of a virtual machine.
Which task should the administrator perform to ensure the virtual machine files are also renamed to match the new virtual machine name?

A. Take a virtual machine snapshot.

B. Unregister and register the virtual machine in vCenter Server.

C. Migrate the machine to another host with vSphere vMotion.

D. Migrate the machine to another datastore with Storage vMotion.

A vSphere Administrator is receiving complaints a database VM is experiencing performance issues. The VM is a member of the high priority resource pool and the cluster has not experienced contention.
Which condition should be checked to address immediate performance concerns?

A. VM snapshots

B. VMFS version

C. Resource Pool share value

D. Configured CPU shares

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

What could cause a high %RDY value?

A. Incompatible network driver

B. memory fully allocated

C. too many vCPUs configured

D. disk latency greater than 2ms

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.

Which snapshot file is created on VMFS6?

A. # # # # # #.vmdk

B. # # # # # # – delta.vmdk

C. # # # # # # – sesparse.vmdk

D. Snapshot#.vmem

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

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

An administrator wants to enable vCenter High Availability (vCenter HA) for a VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). The environment consists of the following:
✑ 50ms of latency between sites
✑ vCSA deployment size is small
✑ 3 hosts in the cluster hosting vCenter
What must the administrator do to enable vCenter HA?

A. Add one host to reach the minimum requirement of 4 hosts.

B. Deploy Windows vCenter because vCenter HA is not supported on vCSA.

C. Deploy a vCSA of size medium or larger.

D. Decrease network latency to 10ms or lower.

A vSphere administrator is performing a greenfield vSphere deployment with these requirements:
✑ vCenter Server sized for 100 ESXi hosts and 1000 virtual machines
✑ Each ESXi Host with 512 LUNs and 2048 paths mapped from Dell EMC XtremIO Storage Array
Which vCenter Server Appliance deployment size meets requirements?

A. Large

B. Tiny

C. Medium

D. Small

Which two options could the administrator use to start the vSphere Authentication Proxy Service (Choose two.)

A. vIDM

B. vSphere Client

C. ESXi Command Line

D. VAMI

E. PSC

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

A vSphere Administrator needs to configure a file-based backup and restore for a vCenter Server Appliance.
Which two options are available to perform a successful backup and restore? (Choose two.)

A. Schedule a file-based restore task.

B. Backup using the GUI Installer of the appliance.

C. Restore from files on the local machine.

D. Restore using the GUI installer of the appliance.

E. Schedule a file-based backup task.

What does ESXi Autoconfiguration do?

A. sets up host profiles

B. configures system network and storage devices

C. determines the number of hosts to be deployed

D. configures Auto Deploy

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.

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)