An administrator is creating a vNetwork Standard Switch with virtual machine and VMkernel networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch but wants to separate the virtual machine and VMKernel traffic to the two uplinks. Which load-balancing policy will guarantee this requirement is met, even if additional management or virtual machine traffic is added to the switch

An administrator is creating a vNetwork Standard Switch with virtual machine and VMkernel networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch but wants to separate the virtual machine and VMKernel traffic to the two uplinks.
Which load-balancing policy will guarantee this requirement is met, even if additional management or virtual machine traffic is added to the switch 





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







Answer: 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 virtual machines between vCenter Server instances.
B. An administrator wants to define roles once and have them applied to all vCenter Server instances.
C. An administrator wants to manage ESX/ESXi hosts from multiple vCenter Server instances.
D. An administrator wants to search all inventory objects across multiple vCenter Server instances from on vSphere Client






Answer: A,C

Acme Disposal Services is a large company which has many administrators. For auditing purpose, each administrator must use a unique account to access ESXi 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 purpose, each administrator must use a unique account to access ESXi 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 ESXi
B. Configure a unique root level account for each administrator using vSphere Client.
C. Configure user accounts in a host profile, then apply the host profile to ESXi hosts
D. Configure Active Directory based authentication on the ESXi host using esxcli-auth








Answer: A

The database server administrator requests a virtual machine with a small system disk and a single data disk that must be 3TB in size. The storage administrator has already created a 3TB LUN. A 500GB VMFS3 datastore already exists. Which process will the vSphere administrator use to provision the data disk?

The database server administrator requests a virtual machine with a small system disk and a single data disk that must be 3TB in size. The storage administrator has already created a 3TB LUN. A 500GB VMFS3 datastore already exists.
Which process will the vSphere administrator use to provision the data disk? 






A. No action is required on the VMFS3 Datastore. On that volume, creates a critical compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 3TB LUN.
B. No action is required on the VMFS3 Datastore. On that volume, create a physical compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 3TB LUN.
C. Upgrade the VMFS3 Datastore to VMFS5. On that volume, creates a physical compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 3TB LUN.
D. Upgrade the VMFS3 Datastore to VMFS5. On that volume create a virtual compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 3TB LUN






Answer: D

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

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





A. An administrator wants to provide continuous availability of a business-critical application fails.
B. An administrator wants to provide on-demand fault tolerance for a virtual machine during a critical operation.
C. An administrator wants to provide fault tolerance for one or more physical servers.
D. An administrator wants application high availability for application that are not cluster-aware.
E. An administrator wants to provide continuous availability of a critical hardware component fails.






Answer: A,B,D

An administrator is configuring vCenter Server to support email notification. Which two parameters must be configured in the vCenter Server Settings? (Choose two)

An administrator is configuring vCenter Server to support email notification.
Which two parameters must be configured in the vCenter Server Settings? (Choose two) 





A. Sender email address
B. SNMP address information
C. SMTP server information
D. Receiver email address







Answer: A,C

Which of the following methods can be used to migrate a virtual machine from a vNetwork Standard Switch to a vNetwork Distributed Switch (Choose Two)?

Which of the following methods can be used to migrate a virtual machine from a vNetwork Standard Switch to a vNetwork Distributed Switch (Choose Two)? 




A. Migrate the port group containing the virtual machine from a vNetwork Standard Switch using the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking option
B. Edit the virtual adapter settings for ESXi host select a dvPort group from the list
C. Edit the Network Adapter settings for the VM and select a dvPort group from the list
D. Select the virtual machine from a list of virtual machines using the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking option







Answer: C,D

Users are complaining that they cannot access their files on a file server virtual machine. The vSphere client shows that a triggered alarm stating disk latency is beyond the default Threshold for the datastore where the file server virtual machine is located. The path selection policy has been set by the ESXi host to Fixed with default path settings? Which two options could be used to increase performance of the server virtual machine? (Choose two)

Users are complaining that they cannot access their files on a file server virtual machine. The vSphere client shows that a triggered alarm stating disk latency is beyond the default Threshold for the datastore where the file server virtual machine is located. The path selection policy has been set by the ESXi host to Fixed with default path settings?
Which two options could be used to increase performance of the server virtual machine? (Choose two) 





A. Use storage vMotion to move the file server virtual machine to datastore with lower latency
B. Use disk shares to increase the priority for the datastore housing the file server virtual machine
C. Change the path selection policy to Round Robin
D. Change the path selection policy to Most Recently Used (MRU)







Answer: A,C

Why is converting a virtual machine to template significantly faster than creating a clone of a virtual machine?

Why is converting a virtual machine to template significantly faster than creating a clone of a virtual machine? 





A. The clone process is creating a snapshot of the virtual machine before cloning
B. The clone process has low priority on the system CPU to minimize performance
C. The template conversion only renames the vmx file.
D. The template conversion creates a linked-mode disk.






Answer: A

When using a hardware iSCSI initiator with an ESXi host, which two tasks are performed by VMKernel? (Choose two)

When using a hardware iSCSI initiator with an ESXi host, which two tasks are performed by VMKernel? (Choose two) 





A. Encapsulation of iSCSI PDUs TCP/IP packets
B. Mapping requests for blocks on the virtual disk to blocks on the appropriate physical device
C. Issuing SCSS commands to the virtual disk
D. Encapsulation of I/O requests into iSCSI Protocol Data Units (PDUs)





Answer: A,D

An administrator is enabling Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in a DRS cluster. The administrator wants the greatest degree of flexibility when adding new hosts in the cluster. Which setting satisfies this requirement?

An administrator is enabling Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in a DRS cluster. The administrator wants the greatest degree of flexibility when adding new hosts in the cluster.
Which setting satisfies this requirement? 




A. Any baseline compatible with the existing ESXi hosts in the cluster
B. The highest baseline that is compatible with the ESXi hosts in the cluster
C. The lowest baseline that is compatible with all ESXi hosts in the cluster
D. The lowest baseline that is compatible with all ESXi hosts in the cluster





Answer: B

Which two conditions must exist on all hosts in the cluster of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) is used? (Choose two)

Which two conditions must exist on all hosts in the cluster of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) is used? (Choose two) 





A. The host must run all the same vSphere version.
B. The hosts must have the NXXD feature enabled in BIOS
C. The hosts must all belong to the same CPU family
D. The host must all be part of the same DRS Group





Answer: A,C

Several virtual machines residing in a resource pool are exhibiting pools and critical virtual machines in the pool appear hung. The resource pool has been allocated exactly 500MHA of CPU and does not have the option selected. The cluster in which the resource pool resides has a total of 6000MHz, with 1000MHA available. Which step can be used to increase the performance of the critical?

Several virtual machines residing in a resource pool are exhibiting pools and critical virtual machines in the pool appear hung. The resource pool has been allocated exactly 500MHA of CPU and does not have the option selected. The cluster in which the resource pool resides has a total of 6000MHz, with 1000MHA available.
Which step can be used to increase the performance of the critical? 





A. Increase the CPU limit on the critical virtual machine.
B. Increase the CPU reservations on the critical virtual mach
C. Increase the CPU reservations on the resource pool
D. Increase the CPU limit on the resource pool





Answer: D

Click the Exhibit button. An administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tiered web application. The vApp has been as shown in exhibit. Testing of the vApp indicates that attempts to communicate with the web server on Dev_Web_01 fail.

Click the Exhibit button.
An administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tiered web application. The vApp has been as shown in exhibit. Testing of the vApp indicates that attempts to communicate with the web server on Dev_Web_01 fail. 




A. Change the startup sequence to startup when VMware Tools is ready
B. Change the Startup Sequence value from 120 to 240
C. Move the Dev_Web_01 virtual machine to Group 3
D. Move the Dev_SQL_01 virtual machine to Group 2 and move the Dev_App_01 virtual machine to Group 3





Answer: A

Refer to the Exhibit. 10 ESXi 5.x hosts will be installed as part of vSphere 5 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 can be disabled to secure the hosts with nominal impact to administrative operation? (Choose three)

Refer to the Exhibit.
10 ESXi 5.x hosts will be installed as part of vSphere 5 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 can be disabled to secure the hosts with nominal impact to administrative operation? (Choose three) 




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






Answer: A,C,E

Which three storages I/O Control conditions might trigger the Non-VI workload detected on the datastore alarm? (Choose three)

Which three storages I/O Control conditions might trigger the Non-VI workload detected on the datastore alarm? (Choose three) 





A. The datastore is connected to an ESX/ESXi 4.0 host that does not support Storage I/O Control.
B. The datastore is on an array that is performing system tasks such as replication.
C. The datastore is utilizing active/passive multipathing or NMP (Native Multi-Pathing)
D. The datastore is storing virtual machines with one or more snapshots.
E. The datastore is connected to an ESX/ESXi 4.0 host that is not managed by vCenter






Answer: B,C,D

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

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





A. Observed IP ranges
B. TCP segmentation offloads (TSO) support
C. Adapter speed
D. Jumbo frames support
E. Wake on LAN support






Answer: A,C,E

An administrator has received calls about a virtual machine experiencing intermittent application issues during the evening. To troubleshoot, the administrator needs to capture the virtual machine in the state it is in during the evening hours for later analysis. Which two tasks would accomplish this requirement? (Choose two)

An administrator has received calls about a virtual machine experiencing intermittent application issues during the evening. To troubleshoot, the administrator needs to capture the virtual machine in the state it is in during the evening hours for later analysis.
Which two tasks would accomplish this requirement? (Choose two) 






A. Create a scheduled task to clone the virtual machine once per evening
B. Create an alarm that is triggered when a loss of VMware Tools heartbeat to the virtual machine occurs.
C. Use esxtop in batch mode and capture metrics during the evening hours.
D. Create a scheduled task to create a snapshot of the virtual machine once per evening







Answer: C,D

Which two methods can be used to migrate a virtual machine from a vNetwork Standard to a vNetwork Distributed Switch? (Choose two)

Which two methods can be used to migrate a virtual machine from a vNetwork Standard to a vNetwork Distributed Switch? (Choose two) 






A. Edit the virtual adapter settings for the ESXi host and select a dvPort group from the list.
B. Migrate the port group containing the virtual machine from a vNetwork Standard Switch using the Migrate Virtual machine networking option.
C. Use the Migrate Virtual machine networking option to select the virtual machine from a list of virtual machines.
D. Edit the Network Adapter settings for the virtual machine and select a dvPort group from the list.







Answer: B,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
H. heartbeat.
C. The datastore must not have any contents.
D. The datastore must not be part of a datastore cluster.






Answer: A,B,D

A host failure occurs in vSphere HA cluster, but virtual machines from the failed host are not restarted on the surviving nodes in the cluster. Which two conditions explain this behavior? (Choose two)

A host failure occurs in vSphere HA cluster, but virtual machines from the failed host are not restarted on the surviving nodes in the cluster.
Which two conditions explain this behavior? (Choose two) 





A. HA has been configured to use a dedicated failure host, and the failed host is designated failover host.
B. An anti-affinity rule configured and restarting the VMs would place them on the same host.
C. The virtual machines on the failed host are HA disabled.
D. Hot Monitoring is disabled






Answer: B,C

Which two conditions will prevent a virtual machine from being successfully migrated using Storage vMotion? (Choose two)

Which two conditions will prevent a virtual machine from being successfully migrated using Storage vMotion? (Choose two) 





A. The virtual machine has active snapshots
B. The virtual machine has an in progress installation of VMware Tools.
C. The virtual machine has a disk that is configured as independent non-persistent.
D. The virtual machine has a disk that is configured as persistent.






Answer: A,C

An administrator is using vSphere auto deploy to Deploy 25 ESXi hosts. The information used for deployment will be stored using an answer file. What are three ways that auto deploy can access the answer file? (Choose three)

An administrator is using vSphere auto deploy to Deploy 25 ESXi hosts. The information used for deployment will be stored using an answer file.
What are three ways that auto deploy can access the answer file? (Choose three)





A. ISO
B. CIFS
C. SFTP
D. HTTP






Answer: B,C,D

A vSphere 5 environment has an ESXi 5 x host configured to boot from a Software iSCSI adapter. What is the expected outcome if the administrator attempts to disable the iSCSI Software adapter?

A vSphere 5 environment has an ESXi 5 x host configured to boot from a Software iSCSI adapter.
What is the expected outcome if the administrator attempts to disable the iSCSI Software adapter? 





A. The adapter will be disabled, but is re-enabled the next time the host boots up.
B. The adapter will be disabled and the host will not boot the next time the host boots up
C. The adapter will not be disabled and the vSphere Client will return an error message
D. The adapter will be enabled, but the host will boot into troubleshooting mode the next time the host boots






Answer: A

A vNetwork Standard Switch has been configured for IP based load balancing uplinks. A new uplink is added to the switch. How will the additional uplink be configured by default?

A vNetwork Standard Switch has been configured for IP based load balancing uplinks. A new uplink is added to the switch.
How will the additional uplink be configured 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, active but it will not participate in the active NIC team until assigned to a port group.
C. The uplink automatically becomes a part of the IP-based NIC team.
D. The uplink is marked as unused until it is added to the active NIC team.






Answer: B

Using the vSphere Client from a remote PC, an administrator wants to connect a virtual machine and burn a DVD. What is true about this scenario?

Using the vSphere Client from a remote PC, an administrator wants to connect a virtual machine and burn a DVD.
What is true about this scenario? 





A. The host device must be used. The virtual machine must be configured for Host Device and Passthrough IDE mode.
B. The remote client device can be used. The virtual machine must be configured for Host Device and Emulate IDE mode.
C. The host device must be used. The virtual machine must be configured for Host Device and Emulate IDE mode.
D. The remote client device can be used. The virtual machine must be configured for Host Device and Passthrough IDE mode.






Answer: A

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

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






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




Answer: D

A VMFS3 datastore has just been upgraded to VMFS5. In what two ways does this affect the partition format? (Choose two)

A VMFS3 datastore has just been upgraded to VMFS5.
In what two ways does this affect the partition format? (Choose two) 






A. The partition format is retained, which is the MBR (Master Boot Record) format.
B. The partition format is retained, which is the MBR (Master Boot Record) format. To change the GPT (Guide Partition table) format, the datastore must be re-formatted.
C. The partition format is retained, but will be upgraded to GPT (GUID Partition Table) format once the datastore exceeds 2TB.
D. The partition format is upgraded to the GPT (GUID Partition table) format






Answer: A,C

Users are experiencing performance issue when updating their database hosted on a virtual machine. The administrator determines that I/O is high across all HBAs on the ESXi host containing the virtual machine. What actions will most likely correct the issue without significantly impacting other users?

Users are experiencing performance issue when updating their database hosted on a virtual machine. The administrator determines that I/O is high across all HBAs on the ESXi host containing the virtual machine.
What actions will most likely correct the issue without significantly impacting other users? 





A. Manually configure the disk multipathing policies to fix for each datastore.
B. Migrate the virtual machine to a less used datastore with storage vMotion.
C. Use vMotion to migrate the Virtual machine to another ESXi host.
D. Map additional LUNs to the ESXi host and extend the datastores.







Answer: C

When you are configuring the vSwitch NIC teaming policy, what happens when the Notify Switches option is set to yes?

When you are configuring the vSwitch NIC teaming policy, what happens when the Notify Switches option is set to yes? 






A. The physical switch is notified when the virtual NIC link state changes.
B. The physical switch is notified when the location of a virtual NIC changes.
C. The virtual switch is notified when the location of a physical NIC changes.
D. The virtual switch is notified when the physical NIC link state changes.







Answer: B

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: vSwitch0 has a port group labeled management and a port group labeled vMotion. The management port group contains a vmkernel port tagged for management traffic. The vMotion port group contains a vmkernel port tagged for vMotion traffic. vSwitch0 on ESX01 has an uplink attached to the 10.1.30.0/24 network. vSwitch0 on ESX02 has an uplink connected to the 10.1.30.0/24 network. Each host has a vSwitch 1 with a production port group used by virtual machine traffic. Each vSwitch 1 has an uplink attached to the 10.1.40.0/24 What is true about migrating VH21 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:
vSwitch0 has a port group labeled management and a port group labeled vMotion.
The management port group contains a vmkernel port tagged for management traffic.
The vMotion port group contains a vmkernel port tagged for vMotion traffic.
vSwitch0 on ESX01 has an uplink attached to the 10.1.30.0/24 network.
vSwitch0 on ESX02 has an uplink connected to the 10.1.30.0/24 network.
Each host has a vSwitch 1 with a production port group used by virtual machine traffic.
Each vSwitch 1 has an uplink attached to the 10.1.40.0/24
What is true about migrating VH21 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 it the storage device supports





Answer: A

A VMFS datastore with several running virtual machines is nearing 100% capacity. An administrator intends to grow the datastore so that existing virtual machines will have room for re-sizing, thin provisioning and snapshots. Which action can be taken to provide additional capacity for these functions?

A VMFS datastore with several running virtual machines is nearing 100% capacity. An administrator intends to grow the datastore so that existing virtual machines will have room for re-sizing, thin provisioning and snapshots. Which action can be taken to provide additional capacity for these functions? 





A. Add an Extent to the existing VMFS Datastore from the configuration tab of an ESXi Host
B. Add an Extent to the existing VMFS Datastore from the Datastore inventory view in vCenter server.
C. Use VMFS Volume Grow from an configuration tab of an ESXi Host with visibility to the applicable VMFS datastore
D. Use VMFS Volume Grow from the Datastore Inventory view in vCenter server





Answer: C

Which of the following are accurate descriptions of the Predictive and Adaptive Schemes for placing VMFS datastores (Choose Two)?

Which of the following are accurate descriptions of the Predictive and Adaptive Schemes for placing VMFS datastores (Choose Two)? 





A. The Predictive Scheme utilizes several LUNs with different storage characteristics
B. The Predictive Scheme utilizes a small number of large LUNs
C. The Adaptive Scheme utilizes a small number of large LUNs
D. The Adaptive Scheme utilizes several LUNs with different storage characteristics





Answer: A,C

Which of the following statements characterize the VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) (Choose Two)?

Which of the following statements characterize the VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) (Choose Two)? 






A. SCSI commands issued by virtual machines are passed through to the VMFS file system
B. The VMFS is optimized to run multiple virtual machines as a single workload
C. SCSI commands issued by virtual machines are translated at the virtualization layer to VMFS file operations
D. The VMFS prioritizes single virtual machine workloads for optimal performance




Answer: B,C

When you delete a VMFS datastore from an ESX Host, which of the following occurs?

When you delete a VMFS datastore from an ESX Host, which of the following occurs? 






A. all hosts that were configured to use the datastore will no longer see the datastore and it is deleted from the storage device
B. all hosts that were configured to use the datastore will no longer see the datastore, but it will remain on the storage device and can be remounted as needed
C. the datastore will no longer be available to the host that it was deleted from, but all other hosts that were configured to use the datastore will remain connected
D. only hosts in the same DRS/
H. cluster no longer see the datastore, but it will remain on the storage device and can be remounted as needed





Answer: A

An ESX Server is configured to access an iSCSI target using CHAP authentication. What happens to the access if CHAP is disabled on the ESX Host?

An ESX Server is configured to access an iSCSI target using CHAP authentication. What happens to the access if CHAP is disabled on the ESX Host? 





A. Access is immediately removed
B. Access is unaffected until either the ESX Server or the iSCSI Array are restarted
C. Access is removed on the next rescan
D. Access is unaffected until the ESX Server is restarted






Answer: B