Which vSphere feature creates a copy of a virtual machine that can be stored locally within a cluster or at another site, and provides the ability to rapidly restore a virtual machine within minutes?

Which vSphere feature creates a copy of a virtual machine that can be stored locally within a cluster or at another site, and provides the ability to rapidly restore a virtual machine within minutes? 

A. vSphere Data Protection
B. vSphere Replication
C. vSphere Snapshots
D. vSphere Heartbeat







Answer: B

How is changed block tracking (CBT) used in a vSphere implementation?

How is changed block tracking (CBT) used in a vSphere implementation? 

A. CBT is used by the VMkernel to reduce time needed for virtual machine copy operations.
B. CBT is used by VMware Data Protection (VDP) to reduce time needed for backup jobs.
C. CBT is used by vCenter Server to reduce the size of snapshots.
D. CBT is used by vSphere Replication for synchronous replication operations.




Answer: B

An administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one datastore to another, but the virtual machine has a snapshot. The virtual machine is running on an ESXi 5.x host. Which action must the vSphere administrator take to ensure that the snapshot data remains intact?

An administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one datastore to another, but the virtual machine has a snapshot. The virtual machine is running on an ESXi 5.x host.
Which action must the vSphere administrator take to ensure that the snapshot data remains intact? 

A. Perform a standard Storage vMotion migration.
B. Consolidate the snapshot and then perform a Storage vMotion migration.
C. Perform a Storage vMotion migration and then copy the snapshot file to the new location.
D. Delete the snapshot and then perform the Storage vMotion migration.





Answer: A

A vSphere administrator is attempting to migrate a virtual machine, but the progress bar for the migration remains at 10%. Which issue could be preventing the vMotion migration?

A vSphere administrator is attempting to migrate a virtual machine, but the progress bar for the migration remains at 10%.
Which issue could be preventing the vMotion migration? 

A. A networking problem between the source and destination hosts exists at the physical layer.
B. The virtual machine is not on shared storage visible to the source and destination hosts.
C. The vMotion migration priority for this migration was set to High.
D. The vMotion network is saturated.






Answer: A

What will cause the validation of a vMotion migration to fail?

What will cause the validation of a vMotion migration to fail? 

A. A virtual machine configured for CPU affinity
B. A virtual machine configured with a local .vswp file
C. A virtual machine configured to use NUMA
D. A virtual machine configured with a shared Raw-Device Mapped disk






Answer: A

An application team is implementing a new solution in the virtualized environment. The application vendor states the application is memory intensive. The application is very unstable when operating without adequate on-demand access to physical memory. The application's virtual machines are assigned to the Mission Critical resource pool. Which resource pool setting will help ensure the application has adequate access to memory?

An application team is implementing a new solution in the virtualized environment. The application vendor states the application is memory intensive. The application is very unstable when operating without adequate on-demand access to physical memory. The application's virtual machines are assigned to the Mission Critical resource pool.
Which resource pool setting will help ensure the application has adequate access to memory? 

A. Memory reservation
B. High memory share value
C. Unlimited memory
D. Expandable reservation






Answer: A

An administrator removes a virtual machine from a resource pool and places it in the DRS root resource pool. Users report the performance of the application running on the virtual machine has improved. The virtual machine relocation was the only change that occurred. What explains the change in application performance?

An administrator removes a virtual machine from a resource pool and places it in the DRS root resource pool. Users report the performance of the application running on the virtual machine has improved. The virtual machine relocation was the only change that occurred.
What explains the change in application performance?

A. The memory, storage, and/or CPU settings of the original resource pool restricted access to resources for the virtual machine.
B. The configured memory, storage and/or CPU shares on the root resource pool are higher than the original resource pool.
C. The memory, storage and/or CPU settings on the root resource pool restricted access to resources for the virtual machine
D. The configured memory storage and/or CPU reservations on the root resource pool are higher than the original resource pool.







Answer: A

A vSphere administrator attempts to move a powered on virtual machine into a resource pool that is configured in an HA/DRS cluster. The operation fails. What condition would cause this behavior?

A vSphere administrator attempts to move a powered on virtual machine into a resource pool that is configured in an HA/DRS cluster. The operation fails.
What condition would cause this behavior? 

A. HA admission control prevented the movement of the virtual machine due to insufficient resources.
B. Resource pool admission control prevented the movement of the virtual machine due to insufficient resources.
C. The virtual machine was not powered off before being moved into the resource pool.
D. The virtual machine's hardware level did not match the level of the existing virtual machines in the resource pool.







Answer: B

Which workflow should the administrator follow to create a High Availability (HA) cluster?

Which workflow should the administrator follow to create a High Availability (HA) cluster?

A. Select a datacenter, create a cluster in the datacenter, add resources to the cluster, enable HA, and configure HA-specific settings
B. Select a resource pool, create an HA Cluster in the resource pool, add resources to the cluster, configure HA-specific settings, and enable HA
C. Select a datacenter, create an HA Cluster, add resources to the cluster, configure HA-specific settings, and enable HA
D. Select a resource pool, create a cluster in the pool, add resources to the cluster, enable HA, and configure HA-specific settings






Answer: A

A Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster is displaying a message that recommends the migration of virtual machines, even though the cluster is currently balanced. What is the likely reason for this?

A Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster is displaying a message that recommends the migration of virtual machines, even though the cluster is currently balanced.
What is the likely reason for this? 

A. The DRS cluster does not satisfy the resource pool reservations.
B. The DRS cluster is not configured with shared storage.
C. The DRS cluster is in a critical state.
D. The DRS cluster contains hosts with CPU compatibility issues.






Answer: A

A vSphere administrator needs to increase the capacity of an existing Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) datastore cluster. The storage administrator has provisioned two new NFS datastores to be added to the cluster. The vSphere administrator receives an error message, preventing the administrator from adding the newly provisioned datastores to the cluster. What is the likely reason that the action failed?

A vSphere administrator needs to increase the capacity of an existing Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) datastore cluster. The storage administrator has provisioned two new NFS datastores to be added to the cluster.
The vSphere administrator receives an error message, preventing the administrator from adding the newly provisioned datastores to the cluster.
What is the likely reason that the action failed? 

A. There are virtual machines running on the datastores being added to the cluster.
B. The datastores in the SDRS cluster are VMFS datastores.
C. The datastores in the existing cluster have hardware acceleration enabled and the new datastores do not.
D. The SDRS cluster has not been placed into maintenance mode.






Answer: B

During a physical network reconfiguration, an ESXi host briefly lost connection to the management network. High Availability (HA) began powering off the virtual machines residing on the affected host to be restarted on an unaffected host in the cluster. Which setting should the administrator configure to prevent this behavior in the future?

During a physical network reconfiguration, an ESXi host briefly lost connection to the management network. High Availability (HA) began powering off the virtual machines residing on the affected host to be restarted on an unaffected host in the cluster.
Which setting should the administrator configure to prevent this behavior in the future?

A. Host isolation response
B. Host monitoring
C. VM monitoring
D. Admission control








Answer: A

What should an administrator do to identify compliance for virtual machine storage performance?

What should an administrator do to identify compliance for virtual machine storage performance? 

A. Create a Storage Policy and apply it to the virtual machine
B. Create Storage Capabilities and apply one or more capabilities to the virtual machine
C. Create a Storage Policy and apply it to the datastore containing the virtual machine
D. Create Storage Capabilities and apply one or more capabilities to the datastore containing the virtual machine






Answer: A

An administrator needs to establish that a database server is entitled to twice the CPU resources than a web server during CPU resource contention. Which settings should the administrator change to accomplish this?

An administrator needs to establish that a database server is entitled to twice the CPU resources than a web server during CPU resource contention.
Which settings should the administrator change to accomplish this? 

A. Set the database server's CPU Shares to High and leave the web server's CPU Shares at Normal.
B. Set the database server's CPU Shares to High and change the web server's CPU Shares to Low.
C. Set the database server's Shares to High and change the web server's CPU Shares value to a custom value of 500.
D. Set the database server's Shares to a Custom value of 500 and leave the web server's CPU Shares at Normal.







Answer: A

A system administrator is deploying a Windows virtual machine from a template and needs the IP address to be customized automatically. How should the administrator configure the IP address?

A system administrator is deploying a Windows virtual machine from a template and needs the IP address to be customized automatically.
How should the administrator configure the IP address? 

A. Use the Microsoft Sysprep Tool.
B. Specify IP addresses using the Deploy Virtual Machine Wizard.
C. Use the VMware Quickprep Tool.
D. Manually configure IP addresses after the deployment has completed.







Answer: A

The bandwidth between two sites is too slow to transfer large virtual machine files. The administrator needs to export a virtual machine to OVF to reduce the size of the transfer. When the administrator attempts to initiate the Export OVF Template feature, the selection is grayed out. What is the likely reason that the administrator is unable to select this option?

The bandwidth between two sites is too slow to transfer large virtual machine files. The administrator needs to export a virtual machine to OVF to reduce the size of the transfer. When the administrator attempts to initiate the Export OVF Template feature, the selection is grayed out.
What is the likely reason that the administrator is unable to select this option? 

A. The virtual machine is in a powered on state.
B. There is not enough disk space on the destination for the OVF.
C. The administrator's account does not have the correct privileges.
D. The virtual machine is not compatible with the OVF format.






Answer: A

A vSphere Administrator has a multi-tier application deployed in a vApp. The administrator needs to rapidly deploy copies of the multi-tier application to various departmental infrastructures throughout the company. Which step should the administrator take using the vSphere Web Client to allow this?

A vSphere Administrator has a multi-tier application deployed in a vApp. The administrator needs to rapidly deploy copies of the multi-tier application to various departmental infrastructures throughout the company.
Which step should the administrator take using the vSphere Web Client to allow this? 

A. Export the vApp as an OVF Template
B. Convert the vApp to a Template
C. Clone the vApp to a OVF Template
D. Add the vApp to the Catalog






Answer: A

A vSphere administrator deleted a vApp from disk. A second administrator needs the virtual machines that were contained in the vApp. What should the first administrator do to make the virtual machines available?

A vSphere administrator deleted a vApp from disk. A second administrator needs the virtual machines that were contained in the vApp.
What should the first administrator do to make the virtual machines available? 

A. Recover the virtual machines from backup
B. Add the virtual machines back into inventory
C. Undelete the vApp
D. Recover the virtual machines from Stranded Items







Answer: A

An administrator needs to manage a virtual machine that cannot be accessed directly from an external network. Which solution should the administrator choose?

An administrator needs to manage a virtual machine that cannot be accessed directly from an external network.
Which solution should the administrator choose? 

A. Power off the virtual machine and use the vSphere Web Client to open a console to the virtual machine.
B. Install the Client Integration Plug-in in the Web browser and open a console to the running virtual machine.
C. Install the DCUI plug-in in the Web browser and open a console to the running virtual machine.
D. Power off the virtual machine, install the Client Integration plug-in, and open a console to the virtual machine.






Answer: B

Which steps should an administrator take to migrate existing ESXi 5.x virtual machines to a storage over-subscription model?

Which steps should an administrator take to migrate existing ESXi 5.x virtual machines to a storage over-subscription model? 

A. Right-click the .vmdk file, and click Deflate.
B. Right-click the .vmdk file, and click Compress.
C. Right-click the virtual machine, click Migrate, select the same datastore, and select Thin Provision.
D. Right-click the virtual machine, click Migrate, select a different datastore, and select Thin Provision.




Answer: D

An administrator needs to migrate a company's physical servers to virtual servers and deploy into the ESXi 5.x cluster. During the process of converting to a virtual machine, the administrator needs to reduce the size of the disks. Which method should the administrator use to meet this requirement?

An administrator needs to migrate a company's physical servers to virtual servers and deploy into the ESXi 5.x cluster. During the process of converting to a virtual machine, the administrator needs to reduce the size of the disks.
Which method should the administrator use to meet this requirement? 

A. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level
B. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-based cloning at the block level
C. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the block level
D. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level





Answer: A

Which controller is recommended for high disk I/O workloads?

Which controller is recommended for high disk I/O workloads? 

A. BusLogic Parallel
B. LSI Logic Parallel
C. LSI Logic SAS
D. VMware Paravirtual






Answer: D

When deploying two sibling resource pools (RP1 and RP2), an administrator needs to make all resources in RP1 available to virtual machines in RP2. Which configuration should the administrator use to meet this requirement?

When deploying two sibling resource pools (RP1 and RP2), an administrator needs to make all resources in RP1 available to virtual machines in RP2.
Which configuration should the administrator use to meet this requirement? 

A. Set the Reservation of RP2 to 0
B. Set the Reservation of RP1 to 0
C. Set the Limit of RP1 to Unlimited
D. Set the Limit of RP2 to Unlimited






Answer: B

An administrator needs to unmount a datastore that is also used for HA storage heartbeats. What is the least disruptive method for an administrator to perform this activity on a slave HA host?

An administrator needs to unmount a datastore that is also used for HA storage heartbeats. What is the least disruptive method for an administrator to perform this activity on a slave HA host? 

A. On the Datastore Heartbeating tab, unmount the datastore normally and confirm a new datastore has been selected.
B. On the Datastore Heartbeating tab, specify an alternate datastore, then unmount the datastore normally.
C. Disable HA datastore heartbeats, then unmount the datastore.
D. Reduce the number of heartbeat datastores, then remove the datastore from the heartbeat list.





Answer: B

A customer needs to select an appropriate Path Selection Policy (PSP) for their storage array. There is no requirement for a preferred path. The policy should not select a new path unless the current one fails. Which PSP meets the requirement?

A customer needs to select an appropriate Path Selection Policy (PSP) for their storage array. There is no requirement for a preferred path. The policy should not select a new path unless the current one fails.
Which PSP meets the requirement? 

A. Fixed
B. Round Robin
C. Most Recently Used
D. Asymmetric Logical Unit Access







Answer: C

Which two steps can an administrator take to upgrade an existing VMFS2 datastore to VMFS5? (Choose two.)

Which two steps can an administrator take to upgrade an existing VMFS2 datastore to VMFS5? (Choose two.) 

A. Attach the VMFS2 datastore to an ESX 3.x host and upgrade it to VMFS3
B. Attach the VMFS2 datastore to the vSphere 5 host and upgrade it to VMFS3
C. Upgrade the datastore from VMFS3 to VMFS5 on a vSphere 5 host
D. Upgrade the ESX host attached to the storage to vSphere 5






Answer: A,C

What is a characteristic of Virtual SAN?

What is a characteristic of Virtual SAN? 

A. It supports Virtual Machine Storage Policies.
B. It supports multiple Virtual SAN clusters for each host.
C. It supports native snapshots and SE Sparse disks.
D. It supports storage attached through USB, Fibre Channel, or iSCSI.





Answer: A

A vSphere administrator needs to place an ESXi host in maintenance mode to replace a hardware component. This host is a member of a Virtual SAN cluster that uses Automatic Mode Disk Groups. Availability of virtual machines running on this host is critical. HA and DRS are enabled on the Virtual SAN Cluster. Otherwise, the Virtual SAN cluster uses default values. Which action should the administrator take to automatically guarantee availability of virtual machines with the fastest migration time?

A vSphere administrator needs to place an ESXi host in maintenance mode to replace a hardware component. This host is a member of a Virtual SAN cluster that uses Automatic Mode Disk Groups. Availability of virtual machines running on this host is critical. HA and DRS are enabled on the Virtual SAN Cluster. Otherwise, the Virtual SAN cluster uses default values.
Which action should the administrator take to automatically guarantee availability of virtual machines with the fastest migration time? 

A. Select Enter Maintenance Mode and accept the default values
B. Select Enter Maintenance Mode and select Full Data Migration option
C. Select Enter Maintenance Mode and select No Data Migration option
D. Migrate the virtual machines to another host and datastore then select Enter Maintenance Mode






Answer: A

An administrator has created a Virtual SAN Cluster using Automatic Mode Disk Groups. There is very little storage space left in the cluster. The administrator has access to an iSCSI storage array. Which approach should the administrator take to expand the Virtual SAN Cluster?

An administrator has created a Virtual SAN Cluster using Automatic Mode Disk Groups. There is very little storage space left in the cluster. The administrator has access to an iSCSI storage array.
Which approach should the administrator take to expand the Virtual SAN Cluster? 

A. Add new hosts to the cluster with available local disks then click the Claim Disks icon in the Disk Management section under the Virtual SAN tab.
B. Add new disks to the hosts in the cluster then click the Claim Disks icon in the Disk Management section under the Virtual SAN tab.
C. Add new hosts to the cluster with available local disk. No further action is required to claim the added storage.
D. Provision new LUNs on the iSCSI storage and present one LUN to each host in the cluster. No further action is required to claim the added storage.






Answer: C

Which field should an administrator add to a Virtual SAN Disk Group under the Device Backing settings to monitor the health of disks in the Disk Group?

Which field should an administrator add to a Virtual SAN Disk Group under the Device Backing settings to monitor the health of disks in the Disk Group? 

A. Issue
B. Operational Status
C. Capacity
D. Transport Type






Answer: A

An administrator of a secure environment needs to add an iSCSI target to a new ESXi host using the vSphere client. The administrator has configured discovery and performed a rescan operation, but the iSCSI target does NOT appear. Which action should the administrator take for the target to appear in the vSphere client?

An administrator of a secure environment needs to add an iSCSI target to a new ESXi host using the vSphere client. The administrator has configured discovery and performed a rescan operation, but the iSCSI target does NOT appear.
Which action should the administrator take for the target to appear in the vSphere client? 

A. Configure appropriate CHAP authentication settings
B. Bind a VMkernel port to the iSCSI initiator
C. Configure Jumbo Frames prior to adding iSCSI targets
D. Enable iSCSI in a vSphere Distributed Switch configuration





Answer: A

An administrator is considering using NPIV to assign WWNs to virtual machines. Virtual machine portability is a major concern. Why would NPIV be inappropriate for this deployment?

An administrator is considering using NPIV to assign WWNs to virtual machines. Virtual machine portability is a major concern.
Why would NPIV be inappropriate for this deployment? 

A. Virtual machines using NPIV must use DirectPath I/O.
B. Storage vMotion is not supported using NPIV.
C. vMotion is not supported using NPIV.
D. Enabling NPIV requires SR-IOV supported hardware.






Answer: B

An administrator is deploying vSphere using a NAS device as the shared storage system. The administrator has already created a VMkernel port, enabled the NFS client, and configured a mount point accessible to the hosts. Which additional configuration is required before the datastore can be used to create virtual machines?

An administrator is deploying vSphere using a NAS device as the shared storage system. The administrator has already created a VMkernel port, enabled the NFS client, and configured a mount point accessible to the hosts.
Which additional configuration is required before the datastore can be used to create virtual machines? 

A. The ESXi hosts must have root access to the datastore.
B. The NAS must support NFS version 4.
C. Port binding must be configured on the VMkernel port.
D. The MTU on the VMkernel port must be set to 9000.






Answer: A

An administrator has configured multi-pathing using an Fiber Channel array in an active-active configuration. What is the expected behavior of an ESXi host when a failed preferred path becomes available using the Fixed path selection policy for this array type?

An administrator has configured multi-pathing using an Fiber Channel array in an active-active configuration.
What is the expected behavior of an ESXi host when a failed preferred path becomes available using the Fixed path selection policy for this array type? 

A. It automatically reverts to the preferred path.
B. It continues using the current path until it is manually reverted.
C. It resumes load balancing across all available paths.
D. It reverts to the preferred path after the host has been restored and rebooted.






Answer: A

Which configuration will block communication between two virtual machines on the same DMZ network?

Which configuration will block communication between two virtual machines on the same DMZ network? 

A. An isolated Private VLAN configured on a distributed switch and the two DMZ server virtual machines connected to the same port group
B. Two different port groups created on a distributed switch and 1 DMZ server virtual machine connected to each port group
C. Two different port groups created on a standard switch and 1 DMZ server virtual machine connected to each port group
D. The security policy exception set to Reject for the switch to which the two DMZ server virtual machines will be connected






Answer: A

A vSphere administrator needs to perform packet tracing from a Linux virtual machine. The virtual machine is attached to a vSphere Standard Switch configured with several VLANs. Which approach could the administrator use to configure the network to capture all traffic from the Linux virtual machine?

A vSphere administrator needs to perform packet tracing from a Linux virtual machine. The virtual machine is attached to a vSphere Standard Switch configured with several VLANs.
Which approach could the administrator use to configure the network to capture all traffic from the Linux virtual machine? 

A. Configure the virtual switch with VLAN Trunking and specify each VLANs on the port group containing the virtual machine.
B. Configure a vSphere Distributed Switch with VLAN Trunking. Create a port group and configure it with Promiscuous Mode. Connect the virtual machine to that port group.
C. Configure the port group containing the virtual machine for Promiscuous Mode. Set the port group to use VLAN 1.
D. Configure a vSphere Distributed Switch with VLAN Trunking. Connect the virtual machine to the switch and enable Port Mirroring on the port group containing the virtual machine.





Answer: B

An administrator is migrating 135 virtual machines from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed switch. The migration reports an error and only some of the virtual machines are transferred. What is causing the error to occur?

An administrator is migrating 135 virtual machines from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed switch. The migration reports an error and only some of the virtual machines are transferred.
What is causing the error to occur? 

A. The vSphere Distributed Switch was created with a single, default port group.
B. The switch has become disconnected from an ESXi host.
C. The port group on the vSphere Distributed Switch was not configured with an Elastic port binding.
D. The virtual machine that failed to transfer did not have a network adapter.







Answer: A

An administrator needs to deploy a vSphere solution containing a number of hosts and a vSphere Distributed Switch. Which steps should the administrator take to accomplish this?

An administrator needs to deploy a vSphere solution containing a number of hosts and a vSphere Distributed Switch.
Which steps should the administrator take to accomplish this? 

A. Create the vSphere Distributed Switch, deploy the ESXi hosts, and then add each host to the switch.
B. Deploy the ESXi hosts, create an HA/DRS cluster containing the hosts, create the vSphere Distributed Switch, and then add the cluster to the switch.
C. Create the vSphere Distributed Switch and as each ESXi host is deployed it will be automatically added to the switch.
D. Deploy the ESXi hosts and then create the vSphere Distributed Switch on the hosts.





Answer: A

Users accessing the WinXP virtual machine shown in the exhibit report intermittent connectivity to the corporate network. The configuration is as follows:

Users accessing the WinXP virtual machine shown in the exhibit report intermittent connectivity to the corporate network.
The configuration is as follows: 

* This virtual machine runs in a DRS/HA cluster of two ESXi hosts.
* The VCP_DCV_Example vSphere Distributed Switch was recently created.
* The WinXP virtual machine was recently migrated from another vSphere Distributed Switch.
* The WinXP virtual machine was able to connect prior to migration to this switch.
* No changes to the VCP_DCV_Example switch have been made since creation.
Which step should the administrator take to resolve the WinXP virtual machine's intermittent connectivity to the corporate network?


A. Add the ESXi host to the switch where the virtual machine is currently running
B. Disable Port Blocking on the VCP_DCV_Example switch
C. Disable Port Blocking on the Production port group
D. Enable Network I/O Control on the switch to better balance I/O






Answer: A

An organization is designing a new vSphere cluster to support a new product implementation. The following challenges have been identified by the vSphere administration team: * The organization has the vSphere Enterprise License. * The network team needs to gather virtual machine network statistics over a long period of time. * The network team needs the ability to quickly assess virtual machine traffic in the event of an attack. * The network team has previously had problems implementing manual etherchannel configurations on their physical switches, resulting in production outages. * The new cluster's initial size is 15 hosts. The organization is willing to upgrade to vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing if it addresses these challenges. Which three features of a version 5.5 vSphere Distributed Switch would address these challenges? (Choose three.)

An organization is designing a new vSphere cluster to support a new product implementation.
The following challenges have been identified by the vSphere administration team:
* The organization has the vSphere Enterprise License.
* The network team needs to gather virtual machine network statistics over a long period of time.
* The network team needs the ability to quickly assess virtual machine traffic in the event of an attack.
* The network team has previously had problems implementing manual etherchannel configurations on their physical switches, resulting in production outages.
* The new cluster's initial size is 15 hosts.
The organization is willing to upgrade to vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing if it addresses these challenges.
Which three features of a version 5.5 vSphere Distributed Switch would address these challenges? (Choose three.) 

A. LACP in Dynamic Mode
B. Port Mirroring
C. Network vMotion
D. Private VLANs
E. Network I/O Control






Answer: A,B,C

Which two traffic types can be enabled on the VMkernel adapters of an ESXi 5.5 host using the vSphere Web Client? (Choose two.)

Which two traffic types can be enabled on the VMkernel adapters of an ESXi 5.5 host using the vSphere Web Client? (Choose two.) 

A. Fault Tolerance Traffic
B. Virtual SAN Traffic
C. iSCSI Traffic
D. Virtual Machine Traffic





Answer: A,B

An administrator is building a new vSphere Standard Switch with two active uplinks. The physical switch ports for these uplinks are placed in an etherchannel. Which load balancing policy should the administrator use to support the etherchannel configuration?

An administrator is building a new vSphere Standard Switch with two active uplinks. The physical switch ports for these uplinks are placed in an etherchannel.
Which load balancing policy should the administrator use to support the etherchannel configuration? 

A. Route based on IP hash
B. Route based on the originating virtual port
C. Route based on source MAC hash
D. Route based on physical NIC load







Answer: A

A vSphere administrator needs to add redundancy to an ESXi 5.x management network on a vSphere Standard Switch. Which method should the administrator use to create redundant management networks?

A vSphere administrator needs to add redundancy to an ESXi 5.x management network on a vSphere Standard Switch.
Which method should the administrator use to create redundant management networks? 

A. Configure the management network vSwitch with two active uplinks
B. Configure an additional management portgroup on the same vSwitch
C. Create a second management network on a second vSwitch in the same subnet
D. Create a second management network on the same vSwitch in the same subnet






Answer: A

A vSphere administrator has created a vSphere Standard Switch with one virtual machine port group and one physical uplink. The administrator needs to ensure that the virtual machines on this port group can communicate only with each other. What should the administrator do?

A vSphere administrator has created a vSphere Standard Switch with one virtual machine port group and one physical uplink. The administrator needs to ensure that the virtual machines on this port group can communicate only with each other.
What should the administrator do? 

A. Remove the physical uplink from the vSphere Standard Switch
B. Create a Private VLAN and apply it to the virtual machine port group on the vSphere Standard Switch
C. Enable Port Security on the vSphere Standard Switch
D. Enable the Fenced setting on the virtual machine port group







Answer: A

The oncall system administrator has made a change on the ESXi host requiring a restart of the management network. Lockdown mode is enabled. Which action should the administrator take to restart the management network?

The oncall system administrator has made a change on the ESXi host requiring a restart of the management network. Lockdown mode is enabled.
Which action should the administrator take to restart the management network? 

A. Use the vSphere client to enable local authentication services, then logon directly to the ESXi Shell and run services mgmt-vmware restart.
B. Use an SSH client to logon to the command line and run services mgmt-vmware restart.
C. Use the vSphere client to enable the DCUI and then logon to the ESXi Shell and use the menu to restart the management network.
D. Logon directly to the DCUI and use the menu to restart the management network.







Answer: D

An administrator needs to implement trusted SSL certificates for all vCenter 5.5 components. Which component needs an SSL certificate?

An administrator needs to implement trusted SSL certificates for all vCenter 5.5 components.
Which component needs an SSL certificate? 

A. Update Manager
B. Auto Deploy
C. ESXi Dump Collector
D. Network Syslog Collector







Answer: A

An administrator needs to join several ESXi hosts in the environment to the corporate Active Directory instance. The container and path for the OU is Servers\VMware. The FQDN of the local Active Directory is CORP.AD. Which option accurately shows the information an administrator would enter when configuring an ESXi host to join the domain and ensures the host is placed in the appropriate OU?

An administrator needs to join several ESXi hosts in the environment to the corporate Active Directory instance. The container and path for the OU is Servers\VMware. The FQDN of the local Active Directory is CORP.AD.
Which option accurately shows the information an administrator would enter when configuring an ESXi host to join the domain and ensures the host is placed in the appropriate OU?

A. ldap://CORP.AD:389/Servers/VMware
B. CORP.AD/Servers/VMware
C. cn=VMware, ou=Servers, dc=CORP, dc=AD
D. ou=VMware, ou=Servers, dc=CORP, dc=AD






Answer: B

An organization has a cluster of 6 ESXi hosts. Security policy requires that all administrative activity occurs through vCenter Server and not directly on the hosts. Which action should a system administrator take to enforce this policy?

An organization has a cluster of 6 ESXi hosts. Security policy requires that all administrative activity occurs through vCenter Server and not directly on the hosts.
Which action should a system administrator take to enforce this policy? 

A. Use the vSphere client to right-click on the cluster and select Enable lockdown mode on the ESXi hosts in the cluster.
B. Use the vSphere client to navigate to the Security Profile of each ESXi host and enable lockdown mode.
C. Connect to the DCUI of each ESXi host and navigate the menus to the Troubleshooting Options and enable lockdown mode.
D. Connect to the ESXi shell on each host and type the command service lockdown start.





Answer: B

Before upgrading from vCenter 4.x to 5.x, an administrator runs the vCenter Host Agent Pre- Upgrade Checker. The Checker reports an issue. What would cause the vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker to report an issue?

Before upgrading from vCenter 4.x to 5.x, an administrator runs the vCenter Host Agent Pre- Upgrade Checker. The Checker reports an issue.
What would cause the vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker to report an issue? 

A. The .NET framework 3.5 is installed.
B. The host network card is only 1 Gbps.
C. The file system is not intact.
D. The VMFS file system is version 4.0.





Answer: C

Which VMware Tools upgrade method minimizes the need for scheduled downtime?

Which VMware Tools upgrade method minimizes the need for scheduled downtime? 

A. Use vCenter Server to select and upgrade virtual machines
B. Use vSphere PowerCLI and create a script to upgrade the virtual machines
C. Use Update Manager to perform an orchestrated upgrade of virtual machines
D. Configure the virtual machines to check for and install updates at each reboot cycle






Answer: D

Which installation method is not available for a new deployment of ESXi 5.x?

Which installation method is not available for a new deployment of ESXi 5.x?

A. Update Manager installation
B. Text-based interactive installation
C. Scripted installation
D. Auto Deploy installation







Answer: A