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.

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

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

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 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)

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 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 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.

Which migration technique could be used to move a VM between vCenters while the VM is powered on?

A. Suspended

B. Shared-nothing vSphere vMotion

C. Cold

D. Storage vMotion

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

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).

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.

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 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

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 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

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

A. vSAN

B. RDM

C. NVMe

D. ext3

An administrator needs to identify where the VM encryption settings are stored.
Which file stores the encryption setting?

A. .vmdk

B. vmsd

C. .nvram

D. .vmx

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.

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

Which feature allows a vSphere administrator to reduce power consumption on a cluster?

A. WOL

B. BMC

C. DPM

D. DNS

An administrator is deploying a new mission critical database. The database requirements are 12 vCPUs and 24GB of RAM.
What can the administrator enable for the lowest possible downtime?

A. DRS

B. vSphere replication

C. fault tolerance

D. proactive HA

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

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

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 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 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

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 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 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 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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Where is vSphere Client Service health viewed?

A. VAMI

B. ESXi DCUI

C. Performance Charts

D. Host Client

What are two requirements to implement vTPM in a vSphere environment? (Choose two.)

A. select EFI firmware for VM

B. enable TPM on ESXi host

C. enable UEFI Secure Boot

D. use VM hardware version 14

E. disable Quick Boot

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 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

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.

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

A vSphere administrator discovers the size of the .vswp file for a VM with 2 vCPUs and 4GB of memory is zero.
What could be the cause?

A. All VM memory is reserved.

B. Memory reservation is not set.

C. VM is running on a snapshot.

D. VM is in a suspended state.

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 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.

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.