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Question 1
You work for a convenience store chain that has a full data center including shared
storage and many small stores. You want to make sure that data in the stores gets
copied to the main data center. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Answer: C
Reference:http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/definition/vSphereReplication
Question 2
Which VMware product allows for non-disruptive disaster recovery testing?
Answer: C
Reference:https://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/
Question 3
Your manager wants to know how virtual machines are going to benefit the
organization. What two statements accurately explain what virtual machines do?
(Choose two.)
Answer: B,D
Question 4
You are the VMware administrator for your local hospital. A fellow administrator
has asked what role a datastore plays in the environment. Which of the following
is a good definition of a datastore?
Answer: D
Question 5
You are considering using virtual machines for your new corporate email servers.
You are giving examples to your manager of the benefits this will provide. Which
two examples are true? (Choose two.)
B. Virtual machines perform faster than physical machines using the same
hardware.
C. Virtual machines allow you to add components such as network cards and hard
disks while the VM is running.
D. Virtual machines automatically increase and decrease their allocated memory
while running.
Answer: C,D
Question 6
You are explaining to your manager the different types of storage devices
supported in vSphere. You explain that some devices are block-based, while
others are file-based. Which of the following is a file-based storage type?
A. NFS
B. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
C. Fibre Channel
D. iSCSI
Answer: A
Reference:http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/magazineContent/Block-vs-filestorage-to-support- virtual-server-environments
Question 7
You work in a highly regulated, secure environment. You have been tasked with
finding a solution that will analyze the environment and report on any changes in
the environment to ensure you meet the compliance requirements in your
industry. Which VMware product can help to provide this solution?
Answer: C
Question 8
Which vSphere feature allows for more efficient storage usage?
A. Snapshots
B. Fast Provisioning
C. Thin Provisioning
D. Storage vMotion
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Storage-with-VMware-vSphere.pdf
Question 9
Your manager asks you: "What is the relationship between vMotion and VMware's
High Availability (HA) feature?" What do you tell him?
A. vMotion uses VMware's High Availability (HA) feature to move the VMs while
they are running.
B. VMware's High Availability (HA) feature uses vMotion to move the VMs after a
failure.
C. There is no interdependency between these two features.
D. Either feature only functions if the VMs are powered off.
Answer: B
Reference:https://communities.vmware.com/thread/405330?start=0&tstart=0
Question 10
What is a scalability challenge that vSphere can address?
Answer: B
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMwarevSphere-51-Platform- Technical-Whitepaper.pdf(page 12)
Question 11
You have a vSphere cluster managed by vCenter. One of the VMs is running a
critical application that is very sensitive to unplanned or sudden reboots. You wish
to protect this VM from potential data loss. Which of the following features will
help you?
A. vSphere Replication
B. Fault Tolerance (FT)
C. High Availability (HA)
D. vMotion
Answer: B
Reference:http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/virtualization/w/wiki/vmwarevsphere-fault-
Question 12
You manage a cluster of ESXi hosts using vCenter Server. You notice that some
ESXi hosts are more heavily burdened than others. Which feature of vCenter
server will potentially help automate the load balancing of the ESXi hosts?
A. Fault Tolerance
B. Distributed Power Management
C. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
D. High Availability
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsp_vc50_u2_rel_notes.
html(search for DRS)
Question 13
You are a consultant and your newest client is concerned about the visibility of
performance and capacity related information to help them manage their new
VMware environment more efficiently. Which of the following will enable them to
be proactive in their monitoring?
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=8MVD69ZN&tocp=25
Question 14
You have a VMware environment and you have noticed that the storage capacity
of your datastores varies widely. You would like to maximize the storage
environment by balancing the
Answer: D
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmw-vsphr-5-1-stor-drs-uslet-101web.pdf(page 5, first para)
Question 15
What does virtualization do?
Answer: A
Question 16
You are considering moving from an environment in which each physical server
hosts a single application, and each application is backed up on a specified
timeframe. The proposed environment will consist of virtual machines that
perform the role of their physical counterparts. Your manager is trying to
determine the best way to backup these applications once the project is complete.
Which technology provides a backup solution for virtual machines?
Answer: D
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Introduction-to-DataProtection.pdf
Question 17
Which vSphere feature allows for rapid provisioning of virtual machines?
Answer: D
Reference:http://globalsp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/ds-vSphereessentials-ess- plus.pdf(page 2, see vmware vcenter server for essentials)
Question 18
Your management has asked you to project your anticipated virtual machine
storage needs over the next 18 months. Which technology would help provide the
required information?
Answer: B
Question 19
What is an availability challenge that vSphere can address?
Answer: A
Question 20
What are two benefits of datacenter virtualization? (Choose two.)
Answer: C,D
Question 21
Which VMware product allows for the shared use of local storage?
A. vSphere Replication
B. Site Recovery Manager
C. vSphere Storage Appliance
D. Storage vMotion
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-storageappliance/features.html
Question 22
Your company is planning to migrate your datacenter to a new location, but they
wish to minimize downtime during the transition. You are entirely virtualized at
your primary datacenter, and have been given funding to acquire new hardware
for the new datacenter. Which of the following products can help you migrate the
VMs to the new datacenter?
Answer: C
http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/
Question 23
What is a feature of vSphere?
Answer: A
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features-drs-dpm
Question 24
Which vSphere feature allows hardware maintenance to be performed at any time
without impacting application availability?
A. CPU Hotplug
B. Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
C. vMotion
D. Cold migrations
Answer: B
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmotion_info_guide.pdf(page 6,
enhanced vmotion compatibility)
Question 25
What is a virtual switch used to do? (Choose two.)
Answer: A,B
Reference:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere- 55/index.jsp?topic=
%2Fcom.vmware.vcli.examples.doc%2Fcli_manage_networks.11.2.html
Question 26
Which of the following features is a benefit of shared storage within a VMware
environment?
Answer: D
Question 27
Your organization has a cluster of ESXi hosts that all have local storage devices,
including Solid State Drives. You wish to take advantage of this storage for your
VMs, but you don't want to sacrifice the vSphere abilities granted by having
shared storage. Which of the following is an appropriate solution?
Answer: D
Question 28
What is a feature of vSphere?
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-data-protection-advanced/
Question 29
Your manager comes and asks you how the VMs will be able to connect to the
outside world. You explain that there are two ways to connect to the network in
vSphere. Which two options can be used for this purpose? (Choose two.)
A. Distributed Switch
B. Standard Switch
C. Virtual router
D. Enhanced Switch
Answer: A,B
Reference:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere- 55/index.jsp?topic=
%2Fcom.vmware.vcli.examples.doc%2Fcli_manage_networks.11.2.html
Question 30
You are discussing virtual networking with a colleague. She asks you which type of
virtual switch supports the advanced networking option called Port Mirroring.
Which of the following is the correct answer?
Answer: B
Reference:http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/08/vsphere-5-new-networkingfeatures-port- mirroring.html
Question 31
You are a consultant and you have been contacted to assist in the planning for a
new VMware environment. The client is concerned about the complete loss of a
datacenter and the loss of production time. What option can you offer them to
help resolve their concerns?
A. vSphere Replication
B. High Availability (HA)
C. vSphere Data protection (vDP)
D. Site Recovery Manager
Answer: D
Reference:https://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/
Question 32
Which vSphere feature is used to help achieve greater uptime SLAs?
A. Storage vMotion
B. Distributed Resource Scheduler
C. High Availability
D. Site Recovery Manager
Answer: D
Question 33
Answer: D
Reference:http://www.globalknowledge.ie/content/files/documents/whitepapers/virtualisation/vcenter-ops-manager-what-it-is-and-why-you-should-usit.pdf(page 2, What is it?)
Question 34
You are explaining virtualization to your manager when he asks you to explain the
term "hypervisor". Which of the following statements best describes the function
of the hypervisor?
A. A CPU emulator that translates old programming code into new CPU
instructions.
B. Software responsible for allocating hardware resources to a virtual machine.
C. Software that simulates different operating systems.
D. A monitoring application installed within virtual machines.
Answer: B
Question 35
Due to recent budget cuts, your manager has asked you to produce a list of
inefficiently used resources in your vSphere environment. Which of the following
products will help you produce this list?
Answer: A
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/VMware-vSphereEssentials-Kits- DataSheet.pdf(page 2, VMware vCenter operations manager
foundation)
Question 36
You are installing a new vSphere environment- You have configured a dedicated
1GB Ethernet network for your storage devices. Which two types of shared
storage does vSphere support in this configuration? (Choose two.)
A. NFS
B. Fibre Channel
C. CIFS
D. iSCSI
Answer: A,C
Question 37
An administrator has many tasks associated with managing hosts. What are two
examples? (Choose two.)
Answer: B,C
Question 38
You are on staff at a large medical center. You have multiple applications that are
required to run on Windows NT 4.0, and the base code cannot be upgraded, so
you are maintaining several legacy hardware servers. Which of the following can
help in this situation?
A. Use the VAAI APIs to allow the legacy application to run within a Windows
Server 2008 virtual machine.
B. Use Configuration Manager to modify the Windows NT operating system to run
on a new 64-bit server.
C. Use VMware Converter to convert the applications to a 64-bit version and
restore them to new servers.
D. Create a Windows NT 4.0 virtual machine for each of the legacy applications
and run them on a VMware ESXi server.
Answer: D
Question 39
You are meeting with fellow administrators and management about an upcoming
virtualization project. The topic of vCenter is brought up and the discussion
centers around the desire to virtualize vCenter for host management. Which of
the following is a benefit of virtualizing vCenter?
A. vCenter can easily be virtualized and HA can be used to restart the virtual
machine if necessary
B. vCenter cannot be virtualized due to the high level of administrator connections
C. vCenter can be virtualized, but it has to be deployed on a 32-bit server
D. vCenter can only be virtualized if local storage is used
Answer: A
Reference:http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/Virtualizing-vCenter-ServerWorth-the-effort
Question 40
You are in an interview for a position as a VMware administrator. You have been
asked for a definition for virtual switch. Which of the following would be a good
definition?
A. A virtual switch can act like a router handling traffic between VMs on separate
subnets
B. A virtual switch allows up to 500 VMs to share the same 1 GbE adapter through
Network I/O Control (NIOC)
C. A virtual switch allows VMs to communicate with each other and with physical
devices.
D. A virtual switch allows VMware to segment a physical switch to isolate VM
traffic
Answer: C
Question 41
You are the administrator for your company's VMware deployment. You have
noticed that one of the datastores has two drives that are reporting excessive
read errors. You would like to replace these failing drives, but cannot take the
virtual machines offline at this point. Which technology would provide a solution
to the problem?
A. Storage vMotion
B. vSphere APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
C. vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
D. Storage Profiles
Answer: A
Question 42
You work for a small company that can't afford to upgrade the entire environment
at once. Currently you have several small servers with internal storage on each.
You desire to automate the environment as much as possible (using vMotion, DRS,
HA, etc.) so you have time to work on other projects. Which of these choices will
best meet these goals?
Answer: D
Question 43
Which vSphere feature allows an automated method for placing virtual machines
on appropriate storage?
A. Thin Provisioning
B. Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler
C. Storage vMotion
D. Storage Service Classes
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features-vmotion(automate
and schedule migrations)
Question 44
What is a Management challenge that vSphere can address?
Answer: C
Question 45
The network manager at your company is concerned about the performance on
the virtual network. You explain that virtual switches support many of the same
performance features that physical switches do. Which two performance-related
options do virtual switches support? (Choose two.)
A. LACP
B. Traffic Shaping
C. QoS
D. VLANs
Answer: A,B
Question 46
What is an availability challenge that vSphere can address?
Answer: D
Question 47
Which of the following vSphere features do not use virtual networking?
A. FCoE
B. VMware Remote Console
C. iSCSI
D. vMotion
Answer: A
Reference:http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/12/vmwares-software-fcoeadapter.html
Question 48
Storage for vSphere broadly falls into two categories, block-based and file-based.
Which type of vSphere datastore is block-based?
A. NFS
B. VMFS
C. NTFS
D. EXT4
Answer: B
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features-vmfs
Question 49
Your boss asks you to make sure your VMs are recoverable in the event of data
corruption or a major storage failure. Which feature do you tell him meets that
requirement?
A. Data Protection
B. Fault Tolerance
C. High Availability
D. Storage vMotion
Answer: A Reference:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?
language=en_US&cmd=display KC&externalId=2016565
Question 50
When VMs are created, they are placed on a datastore. Which two types of
datastores are supported? (Choose two.)
A. NFS Datastore
B. EXT4 Datastore
C. NTFS Datastore
D. VMFS Datastore
Answer: A,D
Reference:http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/tip/vSphere-file-systemsVMFS-5-plus- VMFS-vs-NFS
Question 51
You are discussing vSphere features with your manager. He asks you: "What is
vFlash?" What do you tell him?
Answer: B
Reference:http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2013/08/26/introduction-to-vsphere-flashread-cache-aka- vflash/
Question 52
What is a management challenge that vSphere can address?
Answer: B
Question 53
You are the VMware administrator for a community college. You have several
virtual machines that have very read-intensive workloads, and they are beginning
to indicate some disk latency during peak periods. You would like to decrease the
storage latency for these VMs. Which of the following would be a possible
solution?
Answer: B
Reference:http://www.joshodgers.com/tag/thin-provisioning/
Question 54
What might you tell your boss to convince him to start datacenter virtualization?
Answer: B
Question 55
You are a VMware architect designing a solution for several applications that are
not cluster- aware, yet still must be constantly available. If these applications
should stop, the manufacturing processes will need to be restarted, losing several
hours of production. Which technology would provide a valid solution?
Answer: B
Question 56
You have a physical server that needs to have a fan replaced. You don't have a
maintenance window available for several days but don't want to risk a second
failure causing the server to crash. Which feature allows you to move all the VMs
to another host with no downtime to the VMs?
Answer: D
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features-vmotion
Question 57
Your company is looking to improve IT management efficiency and wants an
automated platform to do the simple day-to-day tasks for best performance.
Which of the following features does vCenter provide to maximize performance?
Answer: C
Question 58
Your boss is confused on the relationship between a Virtual Machine and a
hypervisor. Which statement best describes this relationship?
Answer: B
Question 59
You work for a chain of grocery stores. For performance reasons, you want to run
each store from VMs located at the store, but you can only afford one server per
store. You want to make sure that in the event the server fails that the store can
run from a VM at the corporate headquarters instead with minimal downtime.
Which solution provides this capability?
A. High Availability
B. Data Protection
C. vSphere Replication
D. vMotion
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features-replication
Question 60
You need to move the mail server to the new, faster storage, but the server can't
be taken offline to make the change. Which technology should be used?
Answer: B
Reference:http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/definition/Storage-vMotion
Question 61
You have a critical application that cannot go down. What vCenter feature
provides the ability for the application to continue to run even if a host fails?
Answer: A
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Server-WPBestPractices.pdf(page 2, introduction)
Question 62
You have purchased additional storage for your storage array and want to load
balance the space and performance to utilize the new drives as simply as
possible. Which feature can be used to automatically move some of the VMs from
the old disks to the new disks?
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsphere-storage-drsinteroperability.pdf
Question 63
How does vCenter communicate with each other ESXi Server?
A. vCenter periodically polls each ESXi server using a virtual machine port.
B. A vCenter agent is added to each ESXi server as it is added to the vCenter
inventory
C. vCenter uses a Wake-on-LAN to access the local ESXi services.
D. vCenter does not communicate directly with an ESXi server, it relies on
administrative involvement.
Answer: D
Reference:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi- vcenter-server-501-hostmanagement-guide.pdf(page 50)
Question 64
You need more advanced monitoring and planning tools than vCenter can provide.
You decide to implement vCenter Operations Manager (vC OPS) for this. vC OPS
provides which two pieces of information that will help in these areas: (Choose
two.)
A. stability
B. health
C. risk
D. duplicate VM reports
Answer: B,C
Reference:http://www.petri.co.il/vcenter-operations-manager-5-review.htm
Question 65
You have a virtual machine that requires a software update. You have not yet
tested the update, so you need a back out plan. If the update fails you want to
recover the VM to its current state.
Which of the following features will help you do this in the least amount of time?
A. Fault Tolerance
B. vSphere Replication
C. Snapshots
D. vSphere Data Protection
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/preserve_snapshot_ws.html
Question 66
You are explaining virtual networking to your colleague. During the discussion she
asks you how the VMs are able to talk to physical devices on the network. Which
of the following is true statement?
A. VMs are connected directly to the network via Uplink ports; virtual switches are
only used for ESXi communication.
B. VMs are connected to virtual switches via VM port Groups; virtual switches are
connected to the physical network via uplink ports.
C. VMs are connected to virtual switches via Uplink ports; virtual switches are
connected to the physical network via VM port groups.
D. VMs are connected directly to the network via special physical cards; virtual
switches are only used for ESXi communication.
Answer: B
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi_architecture_wp.pdf
Question 67
The executives in your company have been following recent events and
decide that they need a DR plan. They want an automated solution with the ability
to non-disruptively test it to ensure that
it will work when there is a real disaster. Which technology meets these
requirements?
Answer: A
Reference:http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx%2F4AA21230ENW.pdf(page 3, see second bullet point)
Question 68
Several web server virtual machines in your environment are experiencing poor
performance. Upon further investigation you learn that one very active database
virtual machine is consuming most of your storage bandwidth. You would like to
restrict the storage performance of the database VM to increase the performance
of the web server VMs. Which of the following features will help you do this?
Answer: B
Reference:http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/definition/VMware-DRS
Question 69
You are the System Administrator for your organization and you have received an
SNMP alert that states that one of your ESXi servers has suffered a fan failure and
will automatically shut down in
2 minutes. This particular host is currently hosting a virtual machine that
is running an enterprise application that cannot be down for any length of time.
Which vSphere technology could help in this situation?
Answer: C
REference:http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/definition/Storage-vMotion
Question 70
Your company is evaluating data center virtualization on a single ESXi host. You
intend to add additional hosts, and perhaps even create a cluster of ESXi hosts
configured for High Availability. What software is required to create this cluster of
ESXi hosts?
A. vCloud Connector
B. Site Recovery Manager
C. vCloud Director
D. vCenter Server
Answer: D
Reference:http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/What-is-VMware-vCenter-Server
Question 71
Your organization would like to evaluate vSphere, but you are concerned that you
won't be able to take advantage of many of the features because you do not have
a shared storage infrastructure.
Which VMware feature could help you transform your local storage into usable
shared storage for your VMs?
Answer: B
Reference:http://labs.vmware.com/vmtj/storage-drs-automated-management-ofstorage-devices- in-a-virtualized-datacenter
Question 72
The name of the Type 1 hypervisor used in VMware's product line is:
A. vESX
B. vCenter
C. Workstation
D. ESXi
Answer: D
Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESX(second para on the page)
Question 73
Which VMware product assists in maintaining regulatory compliance?
A. ESXi
B. vCenter Server
D. vCenter Configuration Manager
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vcenter/VMware-vCenter-OperationsDS-EN1.pdf
Question 74
Your company is very cyclical in nature, with periods of very high demand and
periods of very low demand. You've heard that Distributed Power Management
(DPM) may be helpful in saving money. What function does DPM perform?
Answer: B
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Distributed-Power-ManagementvSphere.pdf
Question 75
After a recent change control problem, your management team is asking you to
implement a solution that will identify and monitor unauthorized changes that
have been made to your vSphere environment. Which of the following products
can help you monitor and detect non-compliant hosts?
Answer: A
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Host-Profiles-TechOverview.pdf(page 5)
Question 76
You arrive at a customer site and find that the customer is considering a
conversion from physical to virtual servers. They are curious as to how they can
perform updates on their new virtual machines, and still minimize the possible
impact to the virtual machines. What VMware option will allow them to update
their virtual machines safely?
Answer: B
Reference:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?
language=en_US&cmd=displa yKC&externalId=1009402
Question 77
Developers in your organization are concerned about moving away from physical
equipment to virtual machines as they don't understand what a VM is. You explain
that a VM is:
Answer: B
Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
Question 78
Your company needs the features provided in a distributed switch. You have been
tasked with finding the least expensive version of vSphere that meets the need.
Which edition meets these requirements?
Answer: A
Reference:http://searchitchannel.techtarget.com/tip/VMwares-standard-anddistributed-virtual- switches-What-resellers-need-to-know(see VMware sphere
standard virtual switch)
Question 79
You have a single VMware ESXi host, and you do not have vCenter server installed
to manage this host. Which two actions can be performed without the presence of
vCenter? (Choose two.)
Answer: A,C
Reference:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.solutions.doc%2FGUID-91F2410CDF89-4F98- 8112-CF0D00400E23.html
Question 80
Your VMware environment was deployed by a contractor and you are taking over
management responsibilities. The contractor has configured a 5-node Distributed
Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster, and has deployed all of your virtual machines
within the cluster. Why was a DRS cluster chosen?
A. DRS can automatically load balance the cluster to equalize resource utilization
B. DRS will protect the virtual machines from malware and virus attacks
automatically
C. DRS is used to automatically backup the virtual machines on an administrator's
schedule
D. DRS will prevent any downtime for the virtual machines by maintaining a
steady input voltage for the physical servers
Answer: A
Reference:https://www.google.com/url?
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Question 81
You are planning to deploy a new VMware environment. The team leader of the
networking team has requested the ability to monitor virtual machine traffic in
order to maintain the physical network more efficiently. Which option provides this
capability?
Answer: A
Reference:http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/01/vsphere-5-1-vds-featureenhancements-
Question 82
You are the CIO. The VP of manufacturing tells you that an old DOS application is
critical to the assembly line and that if it goes down, it takes 8 hours to restart the
assembly line. The CEO has told you that is unacceptable and has asked you to
find a solution that will prevent downtime.
Which vSphere feature meets that requirement?
Answer: A
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/fault-tolerance.html
Question 83
You are the VMware architect for Mason Public Library. This customer deployed a
VMware environment several years ago, in the form of 3 stand-alone servers, each
with 6 600GB internal SAS drives. The environment has been working well, but
they are concerned about the ability to access their virtual machines in the event
of a failure to one of their servers. They do not have the additional budget for a
new shared storage array. Which of the following is a recommended option to help
them achieve higher availability?
A. Power off each virtual machine and copy them to a single server
B. Deploy vCenter Server and deploy the vSphere Storage Appliance
C. Use Storage vMotion to move all of the VMs to a single server
D. Configure CPU affinity to increase CPU access for each virtual machine
Answer: B
Reference:http://www.esaa-members.com/app/webroot/marketing_docs/VMwarevSphereStorage-Appliance-Datasheet.pdf
Question 84
Your systems administrator has recently expressed frustration while rolling back
broken operating system patches on the physical servers in your environment.
Which feature of a virtual machine could help mitigate the risk of installing
patches in a VMs, by enabling you to roll back recent changes?
Answer: A
reference:http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_upgrade_guide.pdf(p
age 17)
Question 85
You have a large virtual environment with workloads that vary widely throughout
the day. You want an automated system to quickly load balance as conditions
change. What vSphere feature performs this task?
Answer: D
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features-storage-drs
Question 86
Your company has just purchased a new storage array to host your virtual
machines (VMs). You have connected the storage to each of your ESXi hosts and
now wish to move some of the running VMs to the new storage. Which vCenter
feature would help you do this non-disruptively?
Answer: D
Reference:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere- 51/index.jsp?topic=
%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc%2FGUID-AB266895-BAA4-4BF3- 894E47F99DC7B77F.html
Question 87
You are the administrator for a new VMware installation and you have an
application that is running within a virtual machine that creates a high amount of
inbound traffic. This traffic seems to be affecting other virtual machines on the
same virtual switch. What can you do to reduce the impact to the peer virtual
machines?
Answer: B Reference:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?
language=en_US&cmd=display KC&externalId=1010555(see the bulleted points)
Question 88
Which two features require shared storage? (Choose two.)
Answer: C,D
Reference:http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/answer/When-using-HA-or-DRSyou-need-an- ESXi-storage-safety-net
Question 89
What vCenter feature does Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) use during the
automated load balancing of virtual machines?
A. vSphere Replication
B. vMotion
C. High Availability
D. Fault Tolerance
Answer: B
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/drs-dpm.html(see
automated load balancing)
Question 90
In a meeting with your manager, you are asked to describe the difference
between vCenter Site
Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication. Which of the following is a feature
provided only by vCenter Site Recovery Manager?
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/business-continuity/disaster-recovery
Question 91
Which vCenter feature allows for QoS?
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.vxpertise.net/2013/08/whats-new-in-vsphere-5-5/(see
Networking features-> Quality of service tagging)
Question 92
You have been asked by your supervisor to define some virtualization terms for
her. She has asked about the difference between a bare-metal hypervisor and a
host-based hypervisor. What can you tell her?
Answer: A
Reference:http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/Understandinghosted-and-bare- metal-virtualization-hypervisor-types
Question 93
Which two types of storage require switches that use Ethernet? (Choose two.)
A. Fibre Channel
B. NFS
C. iSCSI
D. InfiniBand
Answer: B,C
Reference:http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2012/05/storage-protocol-basicsiscsi-nfs-fibre- channel-fcoe/
Question 94
You have been receiving complaints that the mail server has been slow. You
investigate and determine that a print server in the same storage location is using
much of the bandwidth to the storage array. Which feature will allow you to
increase the priority of the mail server so that it meets the SLA defined for it?
Answer: A
Reference:http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/tip/vSphere-Storage-I-OControl-What-it- does-and-how-to-configure-it
Question 95
You are designing your virtual network. Your network administrator has given you
a list of features that he hopes are supported by vSphere. Which of the following
features requires a distributed switch?
Answer: A
Reference:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere- 51/index.jsp?topic=
%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc%2FGUID-21FF6B4F-6651-462D- B95569C0ADFFC6E6.html
Question 96
You are converting your physical servers into virtual machines. One prospective
virtual machine has an application that utilizes a 1.5 TB SAN LUN for data. You are
concerned that this new virtual machine would take too long to convert to a
virtual machine. How can you configure the storage of this virtual machine to
minimize the conversion time required to copy the data across the network?
A. Place the new VM on a thin provisioned VMFS volume with other VMs
B. Place the new VM on a shared VMFS datastore with other VMs
C. Place the new VM on local storage available to only one ESXi host
D. Deploy the new VM with a raw device mapping (RDM)
Answer: A
Reference:http://www.vcritical.com/2009/10/responsible-thin-provisioning-invmware-vsphere/
Question 97
A large hospital has called you to consult on their new VMware deployment. They
are concerned about the management for the new virtual networks. What can you
tell them about the virtual switches?
Answer: A
Reference:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere- 50/index.jsp?topic=
%2Fcom.vmware.vcli.examples.doc_50%2Fcli_manage_networks.11.4.html
Question 98
What is a scalability challenge that vSphere can address?
Answer: C
Reference:http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/01/16/enabling-hot-add-by-defaultcc-gabvirtualworld/
Question 99
You are explaining virtual machine storage to a colleague. She asks you where the
virtual machine files are stored. What are the storage containers called in
vSphere?
A. VM Port Groups
B. Clusters
C. Data Centers
D. Datastores
Answer: D
Reference:http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/01/16/enabling-hot-add-by-defaultcc- gabvirtualworld/
Question 100
Your manager is concerned that there are too many physical servers to be
managed by a single vCenter instance. What can you tell her to reassure her
about the scalability of vCenter?
A. vCenter can manage up to 1,000 physical servers and 10,000 virtual machines
B. vCenter can manage up to 3,000 physical servers and 30,000 virtual machines
C. vCenter is used only to manage an ESXi server on a one-to-one basis
D. vCenter can manage up to 5,000 physical ESXi servers and 25,000 virtual
machines
Answer: A
Reference:http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server/features.html(see
scalable and extensible platform)