Which options would reduce the load on the VMkernel when connecting to an iSCSI array? (Choose two.)

Which options would reduce the load on the VMkernel when connecting to an iSCSI array? (Choose two.) 

A. Use an independent hardware iSCSI adapter
B. Use a Converged Network Adapter
C. Enable the software iSCSI adapter
D. Use a dependent hardware iSCSI adapter






Answer: A,B

When a virtual machine interacts with persistent thick virtual disks stored on a traditional Fibre Channel storage array, which two actions are always taken by the VMkernel? (Choose two.)

When a virtual machine interacts with persistent thick virtual disks stored on a traditional Fibre Channel storage array, which two actions are always taken by the VMkernel? (Choose two.) 

A. The file corresponding to the virtual machine is located on the VMFS datastore using NPIV.
B. Correlate the blocks requested by the virtual machine with the actual blocks on the array.
C. Send the I/O request through the device driver to the physical HBA or software FCoE adapter.
D. Place an atomic lock on the metadata database for the VMFS volume.







Answer: B,C

Which two storage adapters require no VMkernel ports? (Choose two.)

Which two storage adapters require no VMkernel ports? (Choose two.) 

A. Independent Hardware iSCSI Adapter
B. iSCSI Software Adapter
C. Dependent iSCSI Adapter
D. Fibre Channel HBA







Answer: A,D

An administrator wants to determine the current network adapter configuration for an uplink on an ESXi 5.x host. Which three items can be viewed from the Network Adapters section of the Configuration tab, using the vSphere Client? (Choose three.)

An administrator wants to determine the current network adapter configuration for an uplink on an ESXi 5.x host. Which three items can be viewed from the Network Adapters section of the Configuration tab, using the vSphere Client? (Choose three.) 

A. VLAN configuration
B. Adapter Driver
C. Actual speed and duplex
D. Adapter Name
E. vSwitch configuration




Answer: C,D,E

An administrator is creating a vSphere Standard Switch with virtual machine and VMkernel networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch and wants to make sure multiple sessions for a virtual machine can utilize both uplinks. Which load-balancing policy will guarantee this requirement is met, even if additional management or virtual machine traffic is added to the switch in the future?

An administrator is creating a vSphere Standard Switch with virtual machine and VMkernel networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch and wants to make sure multiple sessions for a virtual machine can utilize both uplinks. Which load-balancing policy will guarantee this requirement is met, even if additional management or virtual machine traffic is added to the switch in the future? 

A. Route based on IP hash
B. Route based on source MAC hash
C. Route based on the originating port ID
D. Use explicit failover.







Answer: A

What failure will beacon probing identify in vSphere networking?

What failure will beacon probing identify in vSphere networking? 

A. An improper VLAN configuration on a physical switch port
B. A disconnected network cable
C. A VMkernel IP mismatch affecting vMotion or
H. traffic
D. Jumbo frames improperly configured on an iSCSI target





Answer: A

Which vSwitch or vSwitch port group policy setting allows packets to be received by a virtual machine with different destination MAC addresses than the configured MAC address?

Which vSwitch or vSwitch port group policy setting allows packets to be received by a virtual machine with different destination MAC addresses than the configured MAC address? 

A. Promiscuous mode
B. Traffic shaping
C. Forged transmits
D. MAC address changes






Answer: D

Which statement describes the functionality of traffic shaping on a vSphere Standard Switch?

Which statement describes the functionality of traffic shaping on a vSphere Standard Switch?

A. vSphere Standard Switches support only egress traffic shaping.
B. vSphere Standard Switches support both ingress and egress traffic shaping.
C. vSphere Standard Switches support best-effort traffic shaping based on quality of service (QoS).
D. vSphere Standard Switches support only ingress traffic shaping.






Answer: A

Which methods can be used to migrate a VMkernel port from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose two.)

Which methods can be used to migrate a VMkernel port from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose two.) 

A. Use the Add Virtual Adapter wizard from the Manage Virtual Adapters window.
B. Use the Manage Hosts wizard from the Configuration tab of the vDS.
C. Use the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking option to select the port from a list.
D. Edit the Network Adapter settings for the port and select a dvPort group from the list.







Answer: A,B

Which type of port on a secondary private VLAN can communicate with promiscuous ports and other ports that share its VLAN tag?

Which type of port on a secondary private VLAN can communicate with promiscuous ports and other ports that share its VLAN tag? 

A. Isolated
B. Promiscuous
C. Community
D. Trunked





Answer: C

What are two network load-balancing policies for a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose two.)

What are two network load-balancing policies for a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose two.) 

A. Route based on source MAC hash
B. Route using physical NIC load
C. Route based on the destination virtual port ID
D. Route based on port ID hash







Answer: A,B

What are three methods of adding virtual machine networking to a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose three.)

What are three methods of adding virtual machine networking to a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose three.) 

A. A portgroup can be created using the vSphere client and virtual machines can be added using their Properties tab.
B. A portgroup can be created as part of the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking wizard before virtual machines are moved to the vDS.
C. A portgroup can be cloned from a vSphere Standard Switch, inheriting the virtual machines that were attached to the cloned portgroup.
D. A portgroup can be created using the vSphere client and virtual machines can be migrated using the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking wizard.
E. A portgroup can be created during the creation of the vDS and virtual machines can be migrated using the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking wizard.






Answer: A,D,E

Which three features are only available in the vSphere Client when using a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose three.)

Which three features are only available in the vSphere Client when using a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose three.) 

A. Port Mirroring
B. PVLAN tagging
C. Storage I/O Control
D. Ingress Traffic Shaping
E. 802.1q VLAN Tagging





Answer: A,B,D

When you are configuring the NIC teaming policy for a vSwitch, what happens when the Failback option is set to Yes?

When you are configuring the NIC teaming policy for a vSwitch, what happens when the Failback option is set to Yes? 

A. A failed uplink will be left inactive upon recovery until another uplink fails.
B. The physical switches are notified when a failover event occurs.
C. The physical switches are notified when a failback event occurs.
D. A failed uplink is returned to active duty immediately upon recovery.






Answer: D

Which settings are required for virtual machine guest tagging for VLAN 100 in a vSphere 5.x environment?

Which settings are required for virtual machine guest tagging for VLAN 100 in a vSphere 5.x environment? 

A. Port Group configured for VLAN 100, physical switch configured as a VLAN trunk
B. Port Group configured for VLAN 4095, physical switch configured as a VLAN trunk
C. Port Group configured for VLAN 100, physical switch configured for VLAN 100
D. Port Group configured for VLAN 4095, physical switch configured for VLAN 100





Answer: B

Click the Exhibit button. An administrator has been tasked with adding a newly installed uplink to vSwitch1. Based on the exhibit, what is a true statement about this environment?

Click the Exhibit button. An administrator has been tasked with adding a newly installed uplink to vSwitch1. Based on the exhibit, what is a true statement about this environment? 

A. The server does not have available vSwitches to be assigned to this uplink.
B. The available uplinks are not compatible with a standard vSwitch.
C. The host needs a driver installed for the newly installed uplink.
D. The current uplinks cannot be attached because they are in use by other port groups.




Answer: C

A virtual machine, VM21, will be migrated between two ESXi 5.x hosts, labeled ESXi01 and ESXi02. Each host has two vSphere Standard Switches (vSS), configured as follows: 1. vSwitch0 has a portgroup labeled Management and a portgroup labeled vMotion. 2. The Management portgroup contains a vmkernel port tagged for management traffic. 3. The vMotion portgroup contains a vmkernel port tagged for vMotion traffic. 4. vSwitch0 on ESXi01 has a single uplink attached to the 10.1.20.0/24 network. 5. vSwitch0 on ESXi02 has a single uplink attached to the 10.1.20.0/24 network. 6. Each host has a vSwitch1 with a Production portgroup used by virtual machine traffic. 7. Each vSwitch1 has an uplink attached to the 10.1.40.0/24 network. What is true about migrating VM21 to the new host?

A virtual machine, VM21, will be migrated between two ESXi 5.x hosts, labeled ESXi01 and ESXi02. Each host has two vSphere Standard Switches (vSS), configured as follows:
1. vSwitch0 has a portgroup labeled Management and a portgroup labeled vMotion.
2. The Management portgroup contains a vmkernel port tagged for management traffic.
3. The vMotion portgroup contains a vmkernel port tagged for vMotion traffic.
4. vSwitch0 on ESXi01 has a single uplink attached to the 10.1.20.0/24 network.
5. vSwitch0 on ESXi02 has a single uplink attached to the 10.1.20.0/24 network.
6. Each host has a vSwitch1 with a Production portgroup used by virtual machine traffic.
7. Each vSwitch1 has an uplink attached to the 10.1.40.0/24 network.
What is true about migrating VM21 to the new host? 

A. vMotion would be supported in this configuration.
B. Storage vMotion would not be supported in this configuration.
C. vMotion would not be supported in this configuration.
D. Storage vMotion would be supported if the storage device supports VAAI.






Answer: A

Which two statements are true regarding vSphere virtual switch uplinks? (Choose two.)

Which two statements are true regarding vSphere virtual switch uplinks? (Choose two.) 

A. vSphere virtual switches do not need to be configured with an uplink.
B. Multiple vSphere virtual switches can be configured to use the same uplink.
C. vSphere virtual switches must be configured with at least one uplink.
D. Multiple vSphere virtual switches cannot be configured to use the same uplink.






Answer: A,D

A vSphere Standard Switch has been configured for IP-based load balancing using two uplinks. A new uplink is added to the vSwitch. What is the status of the uplink by default?

A vSphere Standard Switch has been configured for IP-based load balancing using two uplinks. A new uplink is added to the vSwitch. What is the status of the uplink by default? 

A. The uplink is placed in standby mode until it is added to the active NIC team.
B. The uplink is marked as active but does not participate in the active NIC team until assigned to a port group.
C. The uplink is marked as active, but cannot be used by the active NIC team until it is added to the existing 802.3ad group on the physical switch.
D. The uplink is marked as unused until it is added to the active NIC team.






Answer: C

Which two statements are true about VLANs and port groups defined on a vSphere Standard Switch? (Choose two.)

Which two statements are true about VLANs and port groups defined on a vSphere Standard Switch? (Choose two.) 

A. A VLAN can be accessed by the entire virtual switch or individual port groups.
B. Multiple port groups are restricted from accessing the same VLAN.
C. VLANs can be configured only on individual port groups.
D. Multiple VLANs can be accessed by virtual machines connected to one port group.






Answer: A,D

Which VMware solution allows for the automated discovery and mapping of applications running over the VM infrastructure?

Which VMware solution allows for the automated discovery and mapping of applications running over the VM infrastructure? 

A. VMware vCloud Director
B. VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
C. VMware Service Manager
D. VMware vSphere 5






Answer: B

An existing vSphere 4 environment will be upgraded to vSphere 5.x. The current implementation utilizes ESXi 4.1 and the new implementation will use ESXi 5.x. In which two ways will the new ESXi 5.x implementation differ from the ESXi 4.1 implementation? (Choose two.)

An existing vSphere 4 environment will be upgraded to vSphere 5.x. The current implementation utilizes ESXi 4.1 and the new implementation will use ESXi 5.x. In which two ways will the new ESXi 5.x implementation differ from the ESXi 4.1 implementation? (Choose two.) 

A. VMware ESXi 5.x provides a host-based firewall.
B. VMware ESXi 5.x can boot from additional local sources such as a USB drive.
C. VMware ESXi 5.x can be managed from a web browser.
D. VMware ESXi 5.x can support virtual machines with larger hard drive configurations.





Answer: B,D

Which component is the metering tool for vCloud administration?

Which component is the metering tool for vCloud administration? 

A. VMware vCenter Chargeback
B. VMware vCloud Service Manager
C. VMware vCloud Request Manager
D. VMware vCloud Director







Answer: A

An administrator attempts to increase the number of vCPUs in a virtual machine to 8. The configuration cannot be successfully completed. What are two likely causes of this issue? (Choose two.)

An administrator attempts to increase the number of vCPUs in a virtual machine to 8. The configuration cannot be successfully completed. What are two likely causes of this issue? (Choose two.) 

A. MS-DOS was selected as guest OS.
B. The host has 4 processor threads.
C. Virtual machine hardware version 7 was chosen.
D. The vSphere 5.x implementation is using a Standard license.







Answer: A,B

What Windows security object is granted the vCenter Server administrator role during installation?

What Windows security object is granted the vCenter Server administrator role during installation? 

A. Domain Admins
B. Administrator
C. Administrators
D. ESX Admins







Answer: C

Which two features secure the VMkernel? (Choose two.)

Which two features secure the VMkernel? (Choose two.) 

A. Memory Encryption
B. Hardware assist virtualization
C. Kernel module integrity
D. Trusted Platform Module (TPM)







Answer: C,D

Acme Disposal Services is a large company which has many administrators. For auditing purposes, each administrator must use a unique account to access ESXi Standard hosts. Which two actions satisfy this requirement and require the least amount of administrative effort? (Choose two.)

Acme Disposal Services is a large company which has many administrators. For auditing purposes, each administrator must use a unique account to access ESXi Standard hosts. Which
two actions satisfy this requirement and require the least amount of administrative effort? (Choose two.) 

A. Configure Authentication Services for Active Directory based authentication to the ESXi hosts
B. Configure a unique root level account for each administrator using the vSphere Client
C. Configure user accounts in a host profile, then apply the host profile to the ESXi hosts
D. Configure Active Directory group ESX Admins with each administrator's AD account






Answer: A,D

For security reasons, an administrator removes a user from the Active Directory domain used by all ESXi hosts for authentication. At the time the user is removed they are actively logged into an ESXi 5.x host through the vSphere Client. What is true regarding this scenario?

For security reasons, an administrator removes a user from the Active Directory domain used by all ESXi hosts for authentication. At the time the user is removed they are actively logged into an ESXi 5.x host through the vSphere Client. What is true regarding this scenario? 

A. The user immediately loses connectivity to and permissions on the host.
B. The user retains permissions and connectivity to the host for up to 24 hours.
C. The user retains permissions on the host until the host is rebooted.
D. The user retains permissions on the object until the next time the user logs in to vCenter Server.







Answer: B

An administrator is performing an upgrade on an ESXi host. Which step can be used to back up the host before the upgrade is performed?

An administrator is performing an upgrade on an ESXi host. Which step can be used to back up the host before the upgrade is performed? 

A. Using the vSphere Client connected to vCenter, right-click the host and choose Host Backup.
B. Log into a vMA appliance and run vicfg-cfgbackup to save the ESXi host configuration.
C. Using the vSphere Client connected directly to the host, right-click the host and choose Host Backup.
D. Use PowerCLI to run the host-backup cmdlet to save the ESXi host configuration.






Answer: B

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to 4.0 using Update Manager. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS datastore on a private, SAN-attached LUN. What might cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful?

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to 4.0 using Update Manager. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS datastore on a private, SAN-attached LUN. What might cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful? 

A. The ESXi host has 4GB RAM.
B. The ESXi host has one processor.
C. ESXi 3.5 is not supported for upgrade.
D. Update Manager cannot upgrade a previously upgraded host.







Answer: D

Click the Exhibit button. 10 ESXi 5.x hosts will be installed as part of a vSphere 5.x deployment. Security hardening is required as part of the installation. The current security profile is displayed in the exhibit. Which three services shown in the exhibit are configured to run by default in a completed vSphere installation? (Choose three.)

Click the Exhibit button. 10 ESXi 5.x hosts will be installed as part of a vSphere 5.x deployment. Security hardening is required as part of the installation. The current security profile is displayed in the exhibit. Which three services shown in the exhibit are configured to run by default in a completed vSphere installation? (Choose three.) 

A. Network Login Server (Active Directory Service)
B. SSH
C. ESXi Shell
D. Direct Console UI
E. vpxa







Answer: A,D,E

Which three configuration settings will be migrated when upgrading a host from ESX 4.x Classic to ESXi 5.x? (Choose three.)

Which three configuration settings will be migrated when upgrading a host from ESX 4.x Classic to ESXi 5.x? (Choose three.) 

A. The SSH configuration in /etc/ssh
B. The host configuration in /etc/vmware/esx.conf
C. The NFS configuration in /etc/fstab
D. The services information in /etc/services
E. The licensing information in /etc/licenses/license.conf







Answer: B,C,D

An administrator has deployed a vCenter Server to manage a virtual environment. The administrator has been asked to develop a plan for handling major upgrades to the application. What should be included in the upgrade plan?

An administrator has deployed a vCenter Server to manage a virtual environment. The administrator has been asked to develop a plan for handling major upgrades to the application.
What should be included in the upgrade plan? 

A. Utilize vCenter Configuration Manager to upgrade the vCenter Server in place
B. Install a new vCenter Server and import the information from the existing vCenter Server
C. Install a new vCenter Server over the existing vCenter Server as an in-place upgrade
D. Utilize Update Manager to upgrade the vCenter Server in place







Answer: B

An administrator plans to deploy ESXi 5.x on a blade server containing no local disks. What boot options are supported for use in place of local disks? (Choose three.)

An administrator plans to deploy ESXi 5.x on a blade server containing no local disks. What boot options are supported for use in place of local disks? (Choose three.) 

A. An SD card
B. A NIC with iBFT
C. Auto Deploy
D. A server with IPMI or iLO
E. A dedicated NFS share







Answer: A,B,C

Which tool defines the Image Profiles used with Auto Deploy?

Which tool defines the Image Profiles used with Auto Deploy? 

A. The vSphere PowerCLI add-deployrule cmdlet
B. The vSphere PowerCLI new-deployrule cmdlet
C. The vSphere CLI add-deployrule command
D. The vSphere CLI new-deployrule command






Answer: B

An administrator is setting up vSphere Auto Deploy to deploy 25 ESXi 5.x hosts using the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA). What would be considered best practices for Auto Deploy? (Choose three.)

An administrator is setting up vSphere Auto Deploy to deploy 25 ESXi 5.x hosts using the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA). What would be considered best practices for Auto Deploy? (Choose three.) 

A. Enable vSphere HA on the cluster.
B. Protect the vCenter server with Fault Tolerance.
C. Install the Auto Deploy service on the VCSA.
D. Include the vmware-fdm VIB in the image profile.
E. Use PowerCLI to write a rule that assigns a custom image profile to the target hosts.






Answer: A,D,E

An administrator is deploying several ESXi 5.x hosts. Centralized logging with accurate timestamps is a requirement for the deployment. Which two operations ensure these requirements are met? (Choose two.)

An administrator is deploying several ESXi 5.x hosts. Centralized logging with accurate timestamps is a requirement for the deployment. Which two operations ensure these requirements are met? (Choose two.) 

A. Ensure TCP port 123 is not blocked
B. Configure a syslog server on each host
C. Configure ensure the hosts have the proper timezone configured
D. Configure a syslog server on the vSphere Management Appliance







Answer: A,D

What are two valid use cases for vCenter Server Linked Mode? (Choose two.)

What are two valid use cases for vCenter Server Linked Mode? (Choose two.) 

A. An administrator wants to migrate running virtual machines between vCenter Server instances.
B. An administrator wants to increase the vRAM entitlement pool.
C. An administrator wants to manage a virtual server environment and a View environment from the same pane of glass.
D. An administrator wants to search all inventory objects across multiple vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) instances from one vSphere Client






Answer: B,C

What are two prerequisites for installing the vCenter Server application? (Choose two.)

What are two prerequisites for installing the vCenter Server application? (Choose two.) 

A. The system vCenter Server is installed on must be a physical machine.
B. A valid vSphere vCenter license must be obtained before installation.
C. vCenter must be in the same network as the hosts if supporting vSphere Storage Appliance Cluster.
D. The system vCenter Server is installed on cannot be a domain controller.







Answer: C,D

An administrator is configuring Storage DRS in their environment. The Ds. Storage DRS has been enabled, but is showing as disabled on several virtual machine disks in the datastore cluster. Which two conditions would cause this error to occur? (Choose two.)

An administrator is configuring Storage DRS in their environment. The Ds. Storage DRS has been enabled, but is showing as disabled on several virtual machine disks in the datastore cluster.
Which two conditions would cause this error to occur? (Choose two.) 

A. The virtual machine is stored on a VMFS 3 volume.
B. One or more virtual machines have Persistent disks.
C. The virtual machine is stored on a NFS datastore.
D. The virtual machine is stored on a datastore with a 2mb block size.






Answer: A,B

Click the Exhibit button. An administrator is applying patches to a batch of ESXi 5.x hosts in an under-allocated HA/DRS cluster. An attempt is made to place the host into maintenance mode, but the progress has stalled at 2%. DRS is configured as shown in the exhibit. Of the four choices below, two would effectively resolve this issue. Which two steps could be taken to correct the problem? (Choose two.)

Click the Exhibit button.
An administrator is applying patches to a batch of ESXi 5.x hosts in an under-allocated HA/DRS cluster. An attempt is made to place the host into maintenance mode, but the progress has stalled at 2%. DRS is configured as shown in the exhibit. Of the four choices below, two would effectively resolve this issue.
Which two steps could be taken to correct the problem? (Choose two.) 

A. Enable VMware EVC.
B. Set the virtual machines on the host to Fully Automated.
C. Shut down the virtual machines on the host.
D. Move the virtual machine swap file off the local datastore.





Answer: B,C

Click the Exhibit button. An administrator has a DRS/HA cluster with five ESXi 5.x hosts. When the administrator tries to start a new Web server virtual machine, an error is displayed saying insufficient resources exist for HA. Based on the HA configuration in the exhibit, which two changes can resolve the issue? (Choose two.)

Click the Exhibit button.
An administrator has a DRS/HA cluster with five ESXi 5.x hosts. When the administrator tries to start a new Web server virtual machine, an error is displayed saying insufficient resources exist for HA.
Based on the HA configuration in the exhibit, which two changes can resolve the issue? (Choose two.) 

A. Shut down one or more virtual machines on the cluster.
B. Set VM Restart Priority to Disabled for the Web server.
C. Set Host Isolation response to Shut down.
D. Suspend one or more virtual machines in the cluster.





Answer: A,D

Which two circumstances might cause a DRS cluster to become invalid? (Choose two.)

Which two circumstances might cause a DRS cluster to become invalid? (Choose two.) 

A. DRS has been disabled on one or more ESXi hosts.
B. An ESXi host has been removed from the cluster.
C. A migration on a virtual machine is attempted while the virtual machine is failing over.
D. Virtual machines have been powered on from a vSphere Client connected directly to an ESXi host.





Answer: B,D

Click the Exhibit button. An administrator is configuring vMotion in their environment. As part of the implementation, an administrator is examining resource mapping for virtual machines. What is a likely cause of the error shown in the exhibit?

Click the Exhibit button.
An administrator is configuring vMotion in their environment. As part of the implementation, an administrator is examining resource mapping for virtual machines. What is a likely cause of the error shown in the exhibit? 

A. vMotion has been disabled because the are no other hosts in the cluster with vMotion enabled.
B. vMotion has not been enabled on the Production port group.
C. The administrator has not created a Managent network.
D. vMotion has not been enabled on a VMkernel port group.





Answer: D

Which of these factors indicates a high likelihood that the performance of a virtual machine disk is being constrained by disk I/O?

Which of these factors indicates a high likelihood that the performance of a virtual machine disk is being constrained by disk I/O? 

A. A large number of commands issued
B. A high device latency value
C. A high disk used value
D. A large number of kilobytes read and written





Answer: B

An administrator has determined that storage performance to a group of virtual machines is reduced during peak activity. The virtual machines are located in a VMFS datastore called Production1 on an active-active storage array. The ESXi 5.x host running the virtual machines is configured with an MRU multipathing policy. Which two actions can be taken to improve the storage performance of these virtual machines? (Choose two.)

An administrator has determined that storage performance to a group of virtual machines is reduced during peak activity. The virtual machines are located in a VMFS datastore called Production1 on an active-active storage array. The ESXi 5.x host running the virtual machines is configured with an MRU multipathing policy.
Which two actions can be taken to improve the storage performance of these virtual machines? (Choose two.) 

A. Add virtual storage, create a VMFS datastore called Production2 on the new storage, and then migrate some of the virtual machines from Production1 to Production2.
B. Change the storage multipathing policy to Round Robin.
C. Add physical storage, create a VMFS datastore called Production2 on the new storage, and then migrate some of the virtual machines from Production1 to Production2.
D. Change the storage multipathing policy to Fixed with default settings.






Answer: B,C

Which resource management technique can be used to relieve a network bottleneck caused by a virtual machine with occasional high outbound network activity?

Which resource management technique can be used to relieve a network bottleneck caused by a virtual machine with occasional high outbound network activity? 

A. Convert the switch from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch.
B. Create a new portgroup for the virtual machine and enable traffic shaping.
C. Apply traffic shaping to the other virtual machines in the same port group.
D. Apply traffic shaping to the virtual machine with high activity.






Answer: B

A company wants to increase disk capacity for their vSphere environment Management mandates that: 1. vMotion must work in this environment. 2. The existing LAN infrastructure must be used. Which storage option best meets the company objectives?

A company wants to increase disk capacity for their vSphere environment Management mandates that:
1. vMotion must work in this environment.
2. The existing LAN infrastructure must be used.
Which storage option best meets the company objectives? 

A. iSCSI
B. Fibre Channel
C. SATA
D. NFS






Answer: D

An administrator is informed that there will be a storage maintenance window and that failovers may occur. What is the expected length of time that a Windows 2008 virtual machine storage I/O will pause during a path failover?

An administrator is informed that there will be a storage maintenance window and that failovers may occur.
What is the expected length of time that a Windows 2008 virtual machine storage I/O will pause during a path failover? 

A. 0 to 30 seconds
B. 90 to 120 seconds
C. 60 to 90 seconds
D. 30 to 60 seconds






Answer: D

An administrator must decommission a datastore. Before unmounting the datastore, which three requirements must be fulfilled? (Choose three.)

An administrator must decommission a datastore.
Before unmounting the datastore, which three requirements must be fulfilled? (Choose three.)

A. No virtual machines reside on the datastore.
B. The datastore is not used for vSphere HA heartbeat.
C. No registered virtual machines reside on the datastore.
D. The datastore must not have any extents.
E. The datastore must not be part of a datastore cluster.






Answer: A,B,E

An administrator receives a complaint that a virtual machine is performing poorly. The user attributes the issue to poor storage performance. If the storage array is the bottleneck, which two counters would be higher than normal? (Choose two.)

An administrator receives a complaint that a virtual machine is performing poorly. The user attributes the issue to poor storage performance. If the storage array is the bottleneck, which two counters would be higher than normal? (Choose two.) 

A. Average ESXi VMKernel latency per command, in milliseconds
B. Average ESXi highest latency, in milliseconds
C. Average virtual machine operating system latency per command, in milliseconds
D. Number of SCSI reservation conflicts per second






Answer: B,C

An administrator is unable to connect a vSphere Client to an ESXi 5.x host. Which option can be selected from the direct console to restore connectivity without disrupting running virtual machines?

An administrator is unable to connect a vSphere Client to an ESXi 5.x host.
Which option can be selected from the direct console to restore connectivity without disrupting running virtual machines? 

A. Restore the Standard Switch from the ESXi host.
B. Restart the Management Agents from the vSphere client.
C. Restart the Management Agent from the ESXi host
D. Disable the Management Network from the vSphere client.





Answer: C

An administrator is setting up vMotion in a vSphere environment. A migration is run to test the configuration, but fails. What could the administrator do to resolve the issue?

An administrator is setting up vMotion in a vSphere environment. A migration is run to test the configuration, but fails.
What could the administrator do to resolve the issue? 

A. Ensure the VMkernel port group is configured for Management Traffic.
B. Enable VMkernel port group for the vSphere cluster.
C. Ensure the vMotion enabled adaptors configured for the same subnet.
D. Use a vDS instead of a standard switch.





Answer: C

A user attempts a remote SSH connection to a newly-installed ESXi 5.x host to execute some commands. The SSH connection attempt fails, though the user is able to receive a ICMP ping back from the host. What must the administrator do to enable SSHA (Choose two.)

A user attempts a remote SSH connection to a newly-installed ESXi 5.x host to execute some commands. The SSH connection attempt fails, though the user is able to receive a ICMP ping back from the host. What must the administrator do to enable SSHA (Choose two.) 

A. Enable root logon on the ESXi server.
B. Open the SSH port on the ESXi firewall.
C. Start the SSH service on the ESXi server.
D. Create a local user on the ESXi server.





Answer: B,C

A vSphere 5 implementation consists of a fully automated DRS cluster with two ESXi 5.x hosts with the following vSphere Standard Switch configuration. 1. Switch A. three vmnics, one port group named sFTP-PG 2. Switch B. two vmnic, one port group named Web-PG 3. All vmnics are trunked to the same physical switch. DRS has been configured with an anti-affinity rule for all virtual machines in the Web-PG so that no more than half of the virtual machines run on any given host. The virtual machines on WebPG are experiencing significant network latency. The network team has determined that a performance bottleneck is occurring at the ESXi host level. Which solution will require the least amount of administrative work and the least amount of service interruption?

A vSphere 5 implementation consists of a fully automated DRS cluster with two ESXi 5.x hosts with the following vSphere Standard Switch configuration.
1. Switch A. three vmnics, one port group named sFTP-PG
2. Switch
B. two vmnic, one port group named Web-PG
3. All vmnics are trunked to the same physical switch.
DRS has been configured with an anti-affinity rule for all virtual machines in the Web-PG so that no more than half of the virtual machines run on any given host. The virtual machines on WebPG are experiencing significant network latency. The network team has determined that a performance bottleneck is occurring at the ESXi host level.
Which solution will require the least amount of administrative work and the least amount of service interruption? 

A. Migrate Web-PG to Switch A and sFTP-PG to Switch B on each host
B. Move a vmnic from Switch A to Switch B on each host
C. Convert the three Switch Bs to a single vSphere Distributed Switch
D. Use vMotion to redistribute some of the VMs in Web-PG to a different ESXi host





Answer: B

An administrator has configured a vSphere Distributed Switch to send all network traffic to a collector virtual machine for analysis. However, after checking the collector virtual machine several hours later the administrator finds that no data has been collected. vSphere 5.x has been deployed in the datacenter. Which two items below could be causing this issue? (Choose two.)

An administrator has configured a vSphere Distributed Switch to send all network traffic to a collector virtual machine for analysis. However, after checking the collector virtual machine several hours later the administrator finds that no data has been collected. vSphere 5.x has been deployed in the datacenter.
Which two items below could be causing this issue? (Choose two.) 

A. The source virtual machine does not have Promiscuous Mode enabled.
B. The source and target virtual machines are not both be on the same vSphere Distributed Switch.
C. The port group or distributed does not have Promiscuous Mode enabled.
D. The port group or distributed port does not have NetFlow enabled.






Answer: B,D

An iSCSI array is being added to a vSphere 5.x implementation. An administrator wants to verify that all IP storage VMkernel interfaces are configured for jumbo frames. What are two methods to verify this configuration? (Choose two.)

An iSCSI array is being added to a vSphere 5.x implementation. An administrator wants to verify that all IP storage VMkernel interfaces are configured for jumbo frames.
What are two methods to verify this configuration? (Choose two.) 

A. Run the esxcli network ip interface list command
B. Run the esxcfg-vswif -l command
C. Ensure that the Enable Jumbo Frames box is checked in the VMkernel interface properties in the vSphere client
D. Ensure that the MTU size is set correctly in the VMkernel interface properties in the vSphere client






Answer: A,D

An administrator wants to monitor the health status of an ESXi 5.x host. However, when the administrator clicks the Hardware Status tab the following error is displayed. This program cannot display the webpage What might cause this problem?

An administrator wants to monitor the health status of an ESXi 5.x host. However, when the administrator clicks the Hardware Status tab the following error is displayed.
This program cannot display the webpage
What might cause this problem? 

A. The VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices Service is not started.
B. The required plug-in is not enabled.
C. The VMware ESXi Management Webservices Service is not started
D. The name of the vCenter Server system could not be resolved.






Answer: A

A series of Auto Deploy ESXi 5.x hosts which utilize vSphere Standard Switches are unable to boot. In prior testing, all of the hosts were able to boot successfully. Which two conditions might cause this issue? (Choose two.)

A series of Auto Deploy ESXi 5.x hosts which utilize vSphere Standard Switches are unable to boot. In prior testing, all of the hosts were able to boot successfully.
Which two conditions might cause this issue? (Choose two.) 

A. The Hosts are unable to connect to the SAN.
B. The TFTP server is down.
C. The DNS server is down.
D. The DHCP server is down.






Answer: B,D

An administrator notices that log files kept on an ESXi 5.x host are being rotated very quickly, inhibiting the troubleshooting of an issue. Which two configuration changes will resolve the issue? (Choose two.)

An administrator notices that log files kept on an ESXi 5.x host are being rotated very quickly, inhibiting the troubleshooting of an issue. Which two configuration changes will resolve the issue? (Choose two.) 

A. Configure syslog to send the logs a syslog server
B. Increase the number of logs kept
C. Increase the logging level
D. Increase the size of the partition where log files are stored






Answer: A,B

What is a function of the vmmemctl driver?

What is a function of the vmmemctl driver? 

A. reclaims unused memory from the guest OS
B. allows the operation of unsupported guest OS types
C. enables transparent page sharing
D. enables swapping of the virtual machines







Answer: A

During peak operating hours, an Administrator finds that a business critical application is not performing as well as during normal hours. Which of the following memory management methods could be used to guarantee the application performs well at all times?

During peak operating hours, an Administrator finds that a business critical application is not performing as well as during normal hours. Which of the following memory management methods could be used to guarantee the application performs well at all times? 

A. Set a Reservation equal to the Average Memory utilization of the virtual machine running the application
B. Set the Share level to High for the virtual machine running the application and set all other virtual machines to Low
C. Set a Limit equal to the Peak Memory utilization of the virtual machine running the application
D. Set a Reservation equal to the Configured Memory of the virtual machine running the application







Answer: D

What is the maximum number of cores that can be used with Standard licensing?

What is the maximum number of cores that can be used with Standard licensing? 

A. 8
B. 16
C. 12
D. 6






Answer: D

Additional licensing is required once the number of cores per CPU reaches which of the following?

Additional licensing is required once the number of cores per CPU reaches which of the following?

A. 16 or more cores
B. 12 or more cores
C. 8 or more cores
D. 6 or more cores





Answer: C

Creating which of the following optional partitions would change the default partition size for /?

Creating which of the following optional partitions would change the default partition size for /? 

A. /tmp
B. /home
C. /var/log
D. /usr





Answer: D

Click the Exhibit button. Based on the exhibit, what is the reason that two of the paths are marked as standby?

Click the Exhibit button.
Based on the exhibit, what is the reason that two of the paths are marked as standby? 

A. The other two paths were set to active.
B. That is a characteristic of the storage array used.
C. The active paths were set to preferred.
D. The storage adapers need to be rescanned before those paths will be set to active.






Answer: B

A vSphere Standard Switch has been configured for IP-based load balancing using two uplinks. A new uplink is added to the vswitch. What additional configuration is required by default?

A vSphere Standard Switch has been configured for IP-based load balancing using two uplinks. A new uplink is added to the vswitch. What additional configuration is required by default? 

A. The uplink is placed in standby mode until it is added to the active NIC team.
B. The uplink is considered active, but it will not participate in the active NIC team until assigned to a port group.
C. The physical switch must add the new port to the existing 802.3ad group.
D. The uplink is automatically marked as unused when it is added to IP-based NIC team.






Answer: C

The VMware vCenter Server Appliance offers many features of the Windows application version. Which of the following features is only available on the Windows application version of vCenter?

The VMware vCenter Server Appliance offers many features of the Windows application version. Which of the following features is only available on the Windows application version of vCenter? 

A. Host Profiles
B. Template and clone customization
C. Active Directory authentication
D. Linked Mode






Answer: D

What is the default VFAT scratch partition size for ESXi 5.x?

What is the default VFAT scratch partition size for ESXi 5.x? 

A. 4GB
B. 600MB
C. 544MB
D. None






Answer: A

Which two statements are true about VLANs and portgroups defined on a vSphere Standard Switch? (Choose two.)

Which two statements are true about VLANs and portgroups defined on a vSphere Standard Switch? (Choose two.) 

A. A VLAN can be accessed by the entire virtual switch or individual portgroups.
B. VLANs can be configured only on individual portgroups.
C. Multiple portgroups are restricted from accessing the same VLAN.
D. Multiple VLANs can be accessed by virtual machines connected to one portgroup.






Answer: A,D

Which are three use cases for vSphere Fault Tolerance? (Choose three.)

Which are three use cases for vSphere Fault Tolerance? (Choose three.) 

A. Provide guaranteed reliability for a legacy Windows NT virtual machine
B. Provide efficient scheduled reliability for a payroll virtual machine
C. Guarantee up-time for a virtual machine - VMFILE01 with a 4GB RDM
D. Ensure up-time for a Linux virtual machine without making any changes to the OS
E. Provide guaranteed reliability for a development virtual machine with scheduled snapshots






Answer: A,B,D

In a vSphere HA cluster what is the maximum number of point-to-point communication links to the slaves each master maintains?

In a vSphere HA cluster what is the maximum number of point-to-point communication links to the slaves each master maintains? 

A. 32
B. 64
C. 512
D. 1024




Answer: A

An administrator decides to use Data Recovery to back up some key virtual machines. What is the process to install Data Recovery?

An administrator decides to use Data Recovery to back up some key virtual machines. What is the process to install Data Recovery? 

A. Download the vmdk and vmx files from VMware.com and copy to a datastore. Right-click the vmx file and select Add to Inventory.
B. Download the .exe from VMware.com and run from the vSphere Client machine.
C. Use the vCenter Installer from the original vCenter media and select "vSphere Data Recovery".
D. Download OVF from VMware.com onto the vSphere Client machine and use Deploy OVF Template.






Answer: D

An administrator is upgrading an ESX 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to ESX 4.0 using Update Manager. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS datastore on a private, SAN-attached LUN. What might cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful?

An administrator is upgrading an ESX 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to ESX 4.0 using Update Manager. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS datastore on a private, SAN-attached LUN.
What might cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful? 

A. Update Manager does not support upgrading from ESX.
B. The host has one processor.
C. The host has 4GB RAM.
D. ESX 3.5 is not supported by Update Manager.







Answer: D

Which two methods can be used to improve the vMotion migration speed of a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Which two methods can be used to improve the vMotion migration speed of a virtual machine? (Choose two.) 

A. Enable High priority on the virtual machine before starting vMotion.
B. Lower the memory reservation for the virtual machine.
C. Ensure the cluster has the default Swapfile Policy set.
D. Select High priority during the migration wizard.





Answer: C,D

Click the Exhibit button. An administrator is configuring vMotion in their environment. As part of the implementation, an administrator is examining resource mapping for virtual machines. What is a likely cause of the error shown in the exhibit?

Click the Exhibit button.
An administrator is configuring vMotion in their environment. As part of the implementation, an administrator is examining resource mapping for virtual machines.
What is a likely cause of the error shown in the exhibit? 

A. vMotion has not been enabled on a VMkernel portgroup.
B. The administrator has not created a Management network.
C. vMotion has not been enabled on the Production portgroup.
D. vMotion has been disabled because there are no other hosts in the cluster with vMotion enabled.





Answer: A

Which resource management technique can be used to relieve a network bottleneck caused by a virtual machine with occasional high outbound network activity?

Which resource management technique can be used to relieve a network bottleneck caused by a virtual machine with occasional high outbound network activity? 

A. Convert the switch from a vNetwork Standard Switch to a vNetwork Distributed Switch.
B. Create a new portgroup for the virtual machine and enable traffic shaping.
C. Apply traffic shaping to the virtual machine with high activity.
D. Apply traffic shaping to the other virtual machines in the same portgroup.





Answer: B

An administrator is setting up vMotion in a vSphere environment. A migration is run to test the configuration but fails. What could the administrator do to resolve the issue?

An administrator is setting up vMotion in a vSphere environment. A migration is run to test the configuration but fails.
What could the administrator do to resolve the issue? 

A. Ensure the VMkernel portgroup is configured for Management Traffic.
B. Enable VMkernel portgroup for the vSphere cluster.
C. Use a vDS instead of a standard switch.
D. Ensure the VMotion enabled adapters are configured for the same subnet.







Answer: D

A DRS cluster has been created with two ESXi hosts. One host in the cluster is running at 98 percent CPU utilization. The other host is running at 52 percent utilization. Upon analysis, it appears that none of the virtual machines are being migrated from the CPU-constrained host, and no recommendations are being generated. What are the two most likely causes of the problem? (Choose two.)

A DRS cluster has been created with two ESXi hosts. One host in the cluster is running at 98 percent CPU utilization. The other host is running at 52 percent utilization. Upon analysis, it appears that none of the virtual machines are being migrated from the CPU-constrained host, and no recommendations are being generated.
What are the two most likely causes of the problem? (Choose two.) 

A. The VMkernel port is assigned an incorrect IP address.
B. VMotion is not enabled on the VMkernel port.
C. DRS migration Threshold is not set high enough.
D. VMware DRS is not set to Fully Automated.





Answer: A,B

Which are three of the steps recalled patches automatically go through in vSphere Update Manager? (Choose three.)

Which are three of the steps recalled patches automatically go through in vSphere Update Manager? (Choose three.) 

A. Delete recalled patch binary from repository
B. Remediate any host with recalled patches
C. Generate a notification in the notification tab
D. Place hosts with recalled patches in maintenance mode
E. Flag recalled patch in database






Answer: A,C,E

Which three statements regarding Network I/O Control (NetIOC) are accurate? (Choose three.)

Which three statements regarding Network I/O Control (NetIOC) are accurate? (Choose three.) 

A. Isolation allows domination by any one traffic flow.
B. Limits enforce maximum throughput control on a virtual machine.
C. Enforce traffic bandwidth limit on the overall vDS set of dvUplinks.
D. Load based teaming efficiently uses a vDS set of dvUplinks for network capacity.
E. Relative shares fairly allocates available bandwidth among multiple flows.






Answer: C,D,E

Which scenario requires an additional database server when adding vSphere Update Manager 5 to an environment?

Which scenario requires an additional database server when adding vSphere Update Manager 5 to an environment? 

A. vCenter Appliance with an external Oracle database
B. vCenter Application with the default database
C. vCenter Application with an external SQL 2008 Enterprise database
D. vCenter Appliance with an external DB2 database






Answer: D

Which two solutions require Raw Device Mapping using virtual compatibility mode? (Choose two.)

Which two solutions require Raw Device Mapping using virtual compatibility mode? (Choose two.) 

A. Array-based snapshots
B. virtual machine snapshots
C. Move the data using Storage vMotion
D. SAN management agents





Answer: B,C

An administrator finds that an ESXi host cannot be managed by vCenter Server. Which logs can be reviewed using the DCUI? (Choose three.)

An administrator finds that an ESXi host cannot be managed by vCenter Server.
Which logs can be reviewed using the DCUI? (Choose three.) 

A. Syslog
B. Config log
C. Virtual Center Agent
D. ESXi shell logs
E. VMware
H. log






Answer: A,B,C

What is an accurate statement about vSphere Fault Tolerant secondary virtual machines?

What is an accurate statement about vSphere Fault Tolerant secondary virtual machines? 

A. Cannot be stored on an NFS datastore
B. Created on the same host as the primary
C. Can prevent other virtual machines from powering up.
D. Can be used for load balancing






Answer: C

When deploying an OVF template, what file format will the resulting virtual disk be?

When deploying an OVF template, what file format will the resulting virtual disk be? 

A. OVF
B. VMDK
C. VMX
D. VSWP






Answer: B

How is the page file for a Windows guest operating system or the swap partition for a Linux guest operating system created?

How is the page file for a Windows guest operating system or the swap partition for a Linux guest operating system created? 

A. By the ESXi host
B. By the guest operating system
C. By the vCenter server
D. By the vCenter cluster






Answer: B

What are two consequences of deleting an VMFS datastore from an ESXi host? (Choose two.)

What are two consequences of deleting an VMFS datastore from an ESXi host? (Choose two.) 

A. The datastore is unaccessible from all connected ESX/ESXi hosts.
B. The datastore and all virtual machines are removed from the storage device.
C. The datastore and all virtual machines remain on the storage device.
D. The datastore is only removed from that specific ESX/ESXi host.




Answer: A,B

How can you verify vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) is enabled?

How can you verify vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) is enabled? 

A. "VAAI" listed on the Hard Disk properties page for any VMDK stored on a compliant array
B. "Hardware Acceleration" listed on the Hard Disk properties page for any VMDK stored on a compliant array
C. "VAAI" column for any datastore created on a compliant array
D. "Hardware Acceleration" column for any datastore created on a compliant array






Answer: D