A new vSphere 7.0 environment is deployed with the following:
✑ A single vCenter Server
✑ Two vSAN clusters
✑ A vSAN default storage policy
Which statement is true regarding virtual disk availability in this environment? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Replicas will be placed on different disk groups but can be placed on the same host.
- B . All stripes will be placed on different disk groups and cannot be placed on the same host.
- C . Each virtual disk will have four replicas of data.
- D . Each virtual disk will have two replicas of data.
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/microsoft-sql-server-2014-on-virtual-san-6-1-hybrid/architecture-diagrams-1/
An administrator is utilizing Network I/O Control (NIOC) to allocate bandwidth utilization on a physical 10 Gbps adapter.
What is the maximum amount of bandwidth that can be reserved? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . 2.5 Gbps
- B . 10 Gbps
- C . 5.0 Gbps
- D . 7.5 Gbps
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/2.4/installation/GUID-9A8FD62A-F099-4329-8220-6D5853F9A62D.html (note)
A host profile is updated with a new password that urgently needs to be changed on all hosts attached to the host profile.
Which option would an administrator select to complete the password change? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Copy Settings from Host
- B . Remediate
- C . Check Host Profile Compliance
- D . Edit Host Customizations
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.hostprofiles.doc/GUID-9340FE80-356E-4457-8581-CE7B2830442E.html
An administrator wants to ensure that when virtual machines (VMs) are powered on, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) places them on the best-suited host. When the cluster becomes imbalanced, the administrator wants DRS to display recommendations for manual VM migration.
Which DRS automation level should the administrator select? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Manual
- B . Partially automated
- C . Fully automated
- D . Disabled
B
Explanation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-C21C0609-923B-46FB-920C-887F00DBCAB9.html
Which virtual disk option allows a virtual machine to consume the minimum storage capacity? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Independent persistent
- B . Lazy-zeroed thick-provisioned
- C . Eager-zeroed thick-provisioned
- D . Thin-provisioned
D
Explanation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-8204A8D7-25B6-4DE2-A227-408C158A31DE.html
An administrator wants to be able to log in to the vSphere Client and view the inventories of two vCenter Server instances.
What must the administrator do to meet this requirement? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Configure Enhanced Linked Mode on each vCenter Server instance after deployment is complete.
- B . Connect each vCenter Server instance to the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain during deployment.
- C . Connect each vCenter Server instance to the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain using the vSphere Client.
- D . Configure the vCenter Server Management Interface to view both vCenter Server
instances.
B
Explanation:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2034074
You can join vCenter Server instances in Linked Mode only when all of the instances are registered in the same Single Sign-On deployment. This includes Single Sign-On instances installed on different sites. When vCenter Server B on site B is joined to vCenter Server A on site A, the join tool establishes connection both to Single Sign-On A and Single Sign-On B.
An administrator needs to configure Proactive High Availability (HA) in a vSphere environment so that virtual machines (VMs) do not run on any partially degraded hosts. The administrator would also like to see the recommendations before VMs are migrated.
Which automation and remediation level should the administrator select? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Automation Level C Manual Remediation Level C Quarantine mode
- B . Automation Level C Automated Remediation Level C Maintenance mode
- C . Automation Level C Manual Remediation Level C Maintenance mode
- D . Automation Level C Automated Remediation Level C Mixed mode
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc/GUID-3E3B18CC-8574-46FA-9170-CF549B8E55B8.html?hWord=N4IghgNiBcIIIFcAuB7AtmJBTAJgAgCUs1cBLTUlAOzwBksA3LKAXyA
An administrator identifies a snapshot file named “Win10-000001-sesparse.vmdk” on a
datastore.
Which type of information can be determined about this datastore? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . The datastore is formatted as VMFS3.
- B . The datastore is formatted as VMFS6.
- C . The datastore is a raw device mapping.
- D . The datastore is a vSAN datastore.
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-88E5A594-DEBC-4662-812F-EA421591C70F.html
Which tool is used to monitor the vCenter Server Appliance resources? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . vimtop
- B . esxtop
- C . esxcli
- D . vmstat
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2018/04/03/ow-to-monitor-a-vcsa-using-vimtop.aspx
Refer to the exhibit.
What is the effective role the test1 account has on the Finance01 virtual machine? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . No access
- B . Administrator
- C . Read-only
- D . Virtual machine user
A
Explanation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-72EE3449-79FD-4E7A-B164-26904958540F.html
An administrator wants to be able to send vCenter Server log files to a remote syslog server and analyze logs using vRealize Log Insight.
Which step must the administrator take to meet this requirement? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Configure the vCenter Server logging options using the vSphere Client.
- B . Specify the remote syslog server name at deployment using the vCenter Server GUI Installer.
- C . Specify the vRealize Log Insight system name using the vSphere Client.
- D . Configure log file forwarding using the vCenter Server Management Interface.
D
Explanation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenter.configuration.doc/GUID-9633A961-A5C3-4658-B099-B81E0512DC21.html?hWord=N4IghgNiBcIG4GECmA7ALkgTgAgMpbi2wgHsBzbAMwEsI
kBnEAXyA
Refer to the exhibit.
Which trusted infrastructure component is missing and represented by the area labeled “A”? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Key Management Server
- B . vSphere Virtual Machine Encryption
- C . Key Provider Service
- D . Attestation Service
A
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-CEFC9BAE-1685- 49A7-9854-4AC997F2F1C3.html
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-E4945A3B-BCBE- 42AD-A00F-6A6957217041.html
What is a requirement of Storage I/O Control? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Storage connected through Fibre Channel
- B . Management by a single vCenter Server
- C . Datastores with multiple extents
- D . Automated storage tiering capabilities
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-37CC0E44-7BC7-479C-81DC-FFFC21C1C4E3.html
Which two components are core to vSphere? (Choose two.)
- A . ESXi
- B . vSAN
- C . vCenter Server
- D . vRealize Network Insight
- E . vRealize Operations Manager
A,C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-302A4F73-CA2D-49DC-8727-81052727A763.html
Which two storage technologies can an administrator use to deploy the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)? (Choose two.)
- A . Fibre Channel storage
- B . vSAN storage
- C . Virtual Volumes storage
- D . NFS storage
- E . iSCSI storage
A,E
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vmware-vmfs-tech-overview- white-paper.pdf
VMFS can be deployed on three kinds of SCSI-based storage devices:
• Direct-attached storage
• Fibre Channel storage
• iSCSI storage
What are two pre-requisites for enabling ESXi secure boot? (Choose two.)
- A . External Key Management Service
- B . vCenter Server 7.0 or greater
- C . Trusted Platform Module version 2.0
- D . ESXi 7.0 or greater
- E . Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
A,E
Explanation:
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/05/secure-boot-esxi-6-5-hypervisor-assurance.html
Which tool is used to monitor the free space in the vCenter Server database? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . esxtop
- B . df
- C . vimtop
- D . vmstat
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76563
Which feature is a prerequisite for Proactive High Availability (HA)? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . vCenter High Availability
- B . vSAN Cluster
- C . Predictive Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- D . vSphere Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc/GUID-3E3B18CC-8574-46FA-9170-CF549B8E55B8.html
An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing VMware vSphere 6.5 environment to version 7.0. There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment.
Which two statements are true regarding this upgrade? (Choose two.)
- A . VMFS5 is no longer supported with ESXi 7.0.
- B . VMFS3 is no longer supported with ESXi 7.0.
- C . An ESXi 7.0 host can automatically upgrade a VMFS5 datastore.
- D . An ESXi 7.0 host will automatically upgrade a VMFS3 datastore when discovered.
- E . A VMFS3 datastore cannot be upgraded; a new VMFS6 datastore is required.
B,D
Explanation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-DAD74662-E09E-44A4-82F1-DB7A3433CEF9.html
Which feature can an administrator configure to have a copy of critical virtual machines in another cluster? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . vSphere Storage vMotion
- B . vSphere Fault Tolerance
- C . vSphere Replication
- D . Instant Clone
Which feature is a pre-requisite for configuring admission control on a cluster? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
- B . vSphere High Availability (HA)
- C . vSphere Fault Tolerance
- D . vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
B
Explanation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc/GUID-C4059DB9-D673-45CB-918C-68C87FEB060A.htm
An administrator is configuring ESXi host behavior before and during the remediation process.
Which remediation setting is supported only on select hardware platforms? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . VM migration
- B . HA admission control
- C . Maintenance mode failures
- D . Quick Boot
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere-lifecycle-manager.doc/GUID-472964C3-70F3-4B83-8B1E-6C7CB4906DF8.html
An IT department is decommissioning a storage array and tasks an administrator with removing a datastore from ESXi hosts.
What is a prerequisite for unmounting the datastore? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . The datastore is NOT managed by Storage DRS.
- B . The datastore is NOT being used by vSphere High Availability heartbeating.
- C . The datastore is NOT referenced by a host profile.
- D . The datastore does NOT contain powered-off virtual machines.
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004605
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator repeatedly encounters this error message while attempting to connect to vCenter Server.
What should the administrator do to address this error message? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Use a different browser.
- B . Trust the VMware certificate authority (CA) root certificate.
- C . Restart the vCenter Server Appliance.
- D . Reissue a new, unexpired certificate.
ESXi provides VLAN support by assigning a VLAN ID to which component? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Virtual standard switch
- B . Physical network interface card (NIC)
- C . Virtual distributed switch
- D . Port group
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://geek-university.com/vmware-esxi/configure-vlans/
A development team has a recurring need to rapidly replicate hundreds of virtual machines (VMs) for load testing.
Which method should the team use to deploy the VMs? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Linked clones from a content library
- B . Instant clones using the vSphere API
- C . Full clones using vSphere Auto Deploy
- D . Full clones from a template
An administrator can attach a baseline to which two inventory objects? (Choose two.)
- A . Resource pools
- B . Data centers
- C . Datastores
- D . Templates
- E . ESXi hosts
D,E
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc/GUID-5EA28531-0813-4B04-99A7-F8D88756F3CC.html
Which two configuration tasks must be performed from the vCenter Server Management Interface? (Choose two.)
- A . Add administrator accounts.
- B . Add an Network Time Protocol (NTP) server.
- C . Add a vCenter Server license.
- D . Enable SSH login.
- E . Change the logging level.
An administrator sees a virtual machine message that reads, “Consolidation is required” in the vSphere Client.
Which action does ESXi take when the administrator completes snapshot consolidation? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Collapses all snapshots in the current snapshot tree
- B . Commits redundant delta disks to the base disk
- C . Collapses all snapshots into a single snapshot
- D . Deletes all snapshots without committing to the base disk
What are two minimum disk requirements for a vSAN hybrid disk group configuration? (Choose two.)
- A . At least one magnetic data disk
- B . At least one SATADOM device
- C . At least two magnetic data disks
- D . At least one flash device
- E . At least two flash devices
C,D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/vsan_profile.html
Which step is required when adding an existing hard disk that is configured as a boot disk during virtual machine creation? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Enable Secure Boot.
- B . Select ‘RDM Disk’ from the ‘Add New Device’ drop-down menu.
- C . Remove the existing disk before adding the boot disk.
- D . Set the boot delay to at least 5,000 milliseconds.
C
Explanation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-79116E5D-22B3-4E84-86DF-49A8D16E7AF2.html#GUID-79116E5D-22B3-4E84-86DF-49A8D16E7AF2
An administrator is asked to deploy a virtual machine (VM) that can sniff packets for the Security team.
Which setting must be set to “accept” on the VM’s port group? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Promiscuous mode
- B . Forged transmits
- C . MAC address changes
- D . Traffic shaping
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://blog.packet-foo.com/2013/04/capturing-packets-of-vmware-machines/comment-page-1/
An administrator wants to implement virtual machine encryption.
Which component encrypts the virtual machine files? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Certificate
- B . Data encryption key (DEK)
- C . Key encryption key (KEK)
- D . Key management server (KMS)
B,C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vm-encryption-vsphere65- perf.pdf
Which two vSphere features enable remote site availability? (Choose two.)
- A . Proactive High Availability
- B . vSphere Fault Tolerance
- C . Cross vCenter Migration
- D . vSphere vMotion
- E . vSphere Replication
A,E
Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.virtualsan.doc/GUID-1BDC7194-67A7-4E7C-BF3A-3A0A32AEECA9.html
https://www.vmware.com/mena/products/vsphere/replication.html#:~:text=vSphere%20Replication%20is%20a%20deeply,sent%20to%20a%20secondary%20site.
A company has a vSphere environment consisting of the following characteristics:
✑ A content library named ‘CORP’ is published at corporate headquarters on a vCenter Server named ‘vcenterCorp’.
✑ A regional data center contains a set of hosts managed by a vCenter Server named vcenterR1.
✑ vcenterR1 subscribes to the CORP content library.
The administrator wants to create a new virtual machine image to use on vcenterR1.
What are two possible ways the administrator can accomplish this task? (Choose two.)
- A . Configure vcenterR1 to download all library content immediately.
- B . Upload the new image to the CORP library on vcenterR1.
- C . Publish the CORP content library on vcenterR1.
- D . Upload the new image to the CORP library on vcenterCorp.
- E . Upload the new image to a local content library on vcenterR1.
A,D
Explanation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-254B2CE8-20A8-43F0-90E8-3F6776C2C896.html
Which type of network adapter is designed to provide connectivity to hosts and handle the standard system traffic of vSphere vMotion? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . VMkernel port
- B . VXLAN virtual tunnel end point (VXLAN VTEP)
- C . Virtual machine network interface card (VMNIC)
- D . VM network
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-D4191320- 209E-4CB5-A709-C8741E713348.html
What are two functions of vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose two.)
- A . Update ESXi hosts in a cluster using baselines
- B . Upgrade VMware Tools and virtual machine hardware
- C . Run vCenter Server interoperability reports
- D . Run vCenter Server upgrade pre-checks
- E . Update standalone ESXi hosts using images
A,B
Explanation:
https://www.stevenbright.com/2020/04/getting-started-with-vsphere-7-0-lifecycle-manager/
vCenter Server experiences a catastrophic failure and the administrator must restore from a vCenter Server backup stored on an FTP server.
What must the administrator do to restore vCenter Server? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Use the vSphere Client to deploy the appliance onto an ESXi host and restore the vCenter Server data from the backup.
- B . Use the vCenter Server Management Interface to restore the vCenter Server data, and power on the appliance.
- C . Use the vCenter Server GUI installer to deploy a vCenter Server instance and use the vSphere Client to restore vCenter Server data from the backup.
- D . Use the vCenter Server GUI installer to deploy a vCenter Server instance and restore the vCenter Server data from the backup.
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vcenter.install.doc/GUID-3EAED005-B0A3- 40CF-B40D-85AD247D7EA4.html
What can an administrator use to partition limited CPU and memory resources between two departments? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . vSphere distributed switch
- B . vSphere High Availability
- C . vCenter folders
- D . Resource pools
An administrator is investigating the reason for a powered on virtual machine failing to migrate with the following error log message:
Which step should the administrator complete to resolve this error? (Choose the best answer.)
- A . Configure High Availability on the cluster.
- B . Configure vSAN on the cluster.
- C . Configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) on the cluster.
- D . Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility on the cluster.
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/65151