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.

An administrator is planning a new cluster deployment supporting groups of 4 fault tolerant VMs. The fault tolerant systems require 8 vCPUs each.
What is the minimum number of hosts required to achieve this?

A. 4

B. 8

C. 16

D. 32

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.

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.

Where is vCenter SSO configured?

A. In the service console

B. In the DCUI

C. In the vSphere client

D. In the host client

A vSphere administrator wants to ensure provisioned virtual machine storage objects are allocated to guarantee a service level agreement.
Which feature would accomplish this?

A. Storage policy

B. VAIO Filtering

C. Storage I/O Control

D. Storage DRS

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.

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 vSphere feature is designed to distribute space usage and I/O load across multiple datastores?

A. Storage Policies

B. vStorage API for Array Integration

C. Storage I/O Control

D. vSphere Storage DRS

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 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.

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

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 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

What is the outcome when two affinity rules conflict?

A. VMs will continue to migrate

B. Rules are applied based on priority

C. Only one rule can be enabled

D. Random rule enablement occurs

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

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.

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.

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 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 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 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

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

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

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

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

A. vSAN

B. RDM

C. NVMe

D. ext3

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

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

An application owner complains about poor performance on a VM named APPVM01. Troubleshooting indicates that another VM named DBVM01 on the same datastore is saturating the volume with I/O requests.
Which two actions can be taken to reduce DBVM01 impact on APPVM01, while still prioritizing DBVM01 disk I/O? (Choose two.)

A. Configure APPVM01 with a shares limit of Low, and DBVM01 with a shares limit of Normal

B. Enable Network I/O Control on the cluster containing APPM01 and DBVM01

C. Enable Storage I/O Control on the cluster containing APPVM01 and DBVM01

D. Enable Storage I/O Control on the datastore containing APPM01 and DBVM01

E. Configure APPVM01 with a shares limit of High, and DBVM01 with a shares limit of Normal

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

What of RAM required by ESXi 6.7?

A. 512MB

B. 2GB

C. 4GB

D. 8GB

For security reasons the VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM) has no Internet access.
What can be used to provide a central shared repository in a DMZ?

A. VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service

B. vSphere Authentication Proxy

C. VMware content library

D. vCenter Server Appliance

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 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

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 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

A vSphere administrator configures log forwarding for remote syslog server in a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) through the vCenter Server Appliance
Management Interface (VAMI).
What is the maximum number of remote syslog servers that can be configured?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

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

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).

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.

The VM storage policy compliance status is out of date.
Which step should the administrator take to maintain compliance with the existing storage policy?

A. Change the service level capability.

B. Assign a new storage policy.

C. Reapply the storage policy.

D. Migrate VM to another host.

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.

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 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.

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.