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 new AD domain has just been added to vSphere as an identity source. This new domain has a user group called administrators group.
Which role do the administrators group users have by default, when authenticated to vCenter Server?
- A . Read Only
- B . No Cryptography Administrator
- C . Administrator
- D . No Access
D
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMwarevSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-93B962A7-93FA-4E96-B68FAE66D3D6C663.html
No Access Role The administrator of the vCenter Single Sign-On domain, administrator@vsphere.local by default, the root user, and vpxuser are assigned the Administrator role by default. Other users are assigned the No Access role by default.
Which two options are available for a vSphere administrator to install ESXi on a host? (Choose two.)
- A . vSphere Replication
- B . VMware Workspace ONE
- C . vSphere Update Manager
- D . Interactive Mode
- E . vSphere Auto Deploy
Which command should be used to monitor free disk space on a vCenter Server Appliance?
- A . df
- B . esxtop
- C . cloudvm-ram-size
- D . vimtop
A user logs in to vCenter Server as an administrator and is unable to view Single Sign On Configuration.
Which vCenter Single Sign On group should the administrator belong to, to view Single Sign On Configuration?
- A . ComponentManager.Administrators
- B . Administrators
- C . SystemConfiguration.Administrators
- D . SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdministrators
B
Explanation:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2120255
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.psc.doc/GUID-87DA2F34DCC9-4DAB-8900-1BA35837D07E.html
Administrators of the VMware Directory Service (vmdir). Members of this group can perform vCenter Single Sign-On administration tasks. Do not add members to this group unless you have compelling reasons and understand the consequences.
What should be installed on a VM to enhance performance and enable additional features?
- A . RAMmap
- B . PsInfo
- C . Process Monitor
- D . VMware Tools
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
A vSphere administrator has a VM that needs to be deployed from a template located in an optimized content library.
What needs to be done before the VM can be deployed?
- A . Export the template as an OVF.
- B . Clone the template to a new template.
- C . A subscribed content library needs to be created.
- D . Deploy VM from the template.
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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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
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.
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
VMs are violating affinity rules and DRS is unable to correct the rules violations.
Which two actions should an administrator take to identify why DRS is unable to satisfy the affinity rules? (Choose two.)
- A . Review VM Overrides tab.
- B . Review systems logs.
- C . Review if violated rules are in vCenter VAMI.
- D . Review Faults tab in DRS.
- E . Review VM OS logs.
What is used by a VM for direct access to a LUN?
- A . vSAN
- B . RDM
- C . NVMe
- D . ext3
When enabled, what ensures only signed drivers can load into a virtual machine?
- A . Secure Boot
- B . lockdown mode
- C . micro-segmentation
- D . TPM
Which native feature could be used to protect virtual machine files and disks containing confidential customer data?
- A . VMware Tools
- B . vCenter HA
- C . VM encryption
- D . VDP
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.
A user asks for a VM to be deployed that must remain on the same host at all times.
How should DRS be configured for the VM?
- A . Use cluster settings
- B . Partially Automated
- C . Fully Automated
- D . Disabled
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 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
What is required for host attestation to secure the hypervisor?
- A . VM encryption
- B . CHAP
- C . TPM 2.0 chip
- D . KMS server
C
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMwarevSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-10F7022C-DBE1-47A2-BD863840C6955057.html
A vCenter High Availability cluster consists of how many vCenter Server Appliance instances?
- A . 2
- B . 3
- C . 4
- D . 5
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.
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
Per a customer request, a vSphere administrator increases the number of vCPUs in several VMs within a cluster. After the vCPU increase, the upgraded VMs exhibit slower performance. The vSphere administrator uses esxtop to check ESXi host performance.
Which two counters should be checked to detect CPU overcommitment? (Choose two.)
- A . %SWPWT
- B . %USED
- C . %MLMTD
- D . %SYS
- E . %RDY
An administrator is planning maintenance for a cluster with the following configuration:
DRS is fully automated
Dedicated 10GbE vMotion network iSCSI storage with CHAP
When a host is placed into maintenance mode, what is the maximum number of supported concurrent vMotion operations?
- A . 4
- B . 6
- C . 8
- D . 10
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
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.
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.
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
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 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 feature allows a vSphere administrator to reduce power consumption on a cluster?
- A . WOL
- B . BMC
- C . DPM
- D . DNS
Where is vCenter SSO configured?
- A . In the service console
- B . In the DCUI
- C . In the vSphere client
- D . In the host client
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 wants to group virtual machines by guest operating system type in vCenter Server.
Which feature would accomplish this?
- A . Custom Attributes
- B . vSphere Tags
- C . Enhanced Linked Mode
- D . vFRC
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
An ESXi host is limited to two 1GbE physical NICs to support VM traffic.
Which VDS teaming policy should be chosen to ensure maximum availability across both uplinks?
- A . Route Based on IP Hash
- B . Route Based on Originating Virtual Port
- C . Route Based on Physical NIC Load
- D . Route Based on Source MAC
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
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 is unable to use the vSphere Client shutdown option on a Windows VM.
What should be installed to correct this?
- A . Autologon
- B . Windows Updates
- C . PortMon
- D . VMware Tools
An administrator configures vSphere Replication for a DR site.
Which two items should be deployed at the second site? (Choose two.)
- A . array-based storage
- B . vSphere Replication appliance
- C . vCenter Server
- D . vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)
- E . vSphere Data Protection (VDP)
Which host profile operation can be scheduled?
- A . Check Host Profile Compliance
- B . Apply Host Profile
- C . Remediate a Profile
- D . Detach Host Profile
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 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