Q: What protocol is used by an ESX Server to communicate with NAS devices?

A:
iSCSI
CIFS
NFS
SMB

Q: An administrator wants to install vSphere ESX 4 on two blade servers. Each blade has
two dual core CPUs. How many vSphere licenses are required for this solution?
A:
2
4
8
12

Q: Which vSphere feature provides for the dynamic allocation of storage capacity for
individual virtual machines?
A:
vStorage
VMFS Volume Grow
VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning
VMware vStorage APIs
VMware ThinApp

Q: Which vSphere feature is depicted in the image?

A:
VMware VMsafe
VMware vShield Zones
VMware vCenter Orchestrator
vSphere vNetwork Distributed Switch

Q: A storage array containing a VMFS datastore must be taken offline for maintenance.
What can be done to avoid virtual machine downtime on VMs running in this datastore?
A:
Clone the virtual machines to a VMFS datastore on a different storage array.
Use Site Recovery Manager to failover the virtual machines on the storage array to the recovery
site. Use VMware HA to failover the virtual machines to ESX Servers attached to a different
storage array. Use Storage VMotion to migrate the virtual machines to a VMFS datastore on a
different storage array.

Q: Which of the following is a true statement about transparent memory page sharing?
A:
It will not share more than 65% of a VMs memory.
It must be enabled on each host
It is enabled by default
It cannot be disabled.

Q: Which of the following conditions will produce a warning message but WILL allow a
VMotion migration to proceed?
A:
A Virtual Machine has an active connection to the ESX Host's CD-ROM
A Virtual Machine has a CPU affinity set to run on a specific CPU.
A Virtual Machine is in an MSCS Cluster relationship with another virtual machine
A Virtual Machine is configured to use an internal virtual switch but is not connected to the
switch

Q: Which of the following is the maximum number of ports available on a vNetwork

Standard Switch?
A:
1016
1024
4088
4096

Q: What two things are controlled by the DRS automation level (Choose Two)?
A:
VM isolation response
VM restart priority
VM migration
Initial placement of Vms

Q: If a VMotion operation fails:

A:
the virtual machine will remain on its original host, but will stop
when the VMotion fails the virtual machine will be moved to the new host, but will not be running
the virtual machine
will continue to run on its original host the operation
will be retried automatically after 15 seconds

Q: An existing VMware VI3 infrastructure will be upgraded to vSphere. The

infrastrucure contains 250 ESX and ESXi Hosts in multiple HA/DRS clusters. Which of
the following tools does VMware recommend using to upgrade the ESX Hosts in this
infrastructure to ESX 4.x?
A:
vSphere Host Update
Utility vCenter Update Manager
esxupdate
vihostupdate

Q: An administrator is configuring a vNetwork Standard Switch for load balancing. The

physical network is configured for switch-assisted load balancing using EtherChannel.
Which ESX load-balancing policy must be used to support this configuration?
A:
Route based on source MAC hash
Route based on IP hash
Route based on the originating port ID
Route using Round-Robin

Q: When configuring ESX Server, which of the following services does not require a
Service Console port (Choose Two)?
A:
VMware HA
VMware VMotion
VMware Fault Tolerance
Software iSCSI

Q: A memory reservation defines:

A:
the amount of virtual machine memory that can be paged to the VMkernel swapfile
the amount of physical memory that is guaranteed to the VM
the maximum amount of physical memory that will be used by a VM
the amount of host memory reserved for the Vmkernel

Q: An administrator is configuring an ESX Host to boot from SAN. After entering the
HBA BIOS and attempting to select a boot LUN, the ESX Host becomes unresponsive.
Which of the following could cause this issue?
A:
The HBA BIOS sees too many devices in the SAN Zone
The HBA BIOS sees too many target LUNs
The HBA BIOS cannot see any LUNs
The HBA BIOS cannot see the target storage device

Q: When the guest OS of a virtual machine requires all of the VM's memory, which of
the following formulas defines the amount of memory that will always be composed of
disk pages?
A:
Memory limit – memory reservation
Memory allocated – memory limit
Memory limit – memory available
Memory allocated – memory available

Q: Which of the following will cause a warning to be reported by vCenter Service Status
(Choose Three)?
A:
Statistics are not being rolled up correctly in the vCenter Server database
Hardware monitoring is not performing correctly
vCenter Server cannot connect to an LDAP source
The vCenter Mount Service is not responding

Q: Which of the following actions would be LEAST likely to reduce resource contention?
A:
Disable transparent memory page sharing.
VMotion the VM to another server with more available resources Disconnecting VMs from a
physical CD-ROM
Powering off a VM

Q: Which vSphere feature is depicted in the image?

A:
VMware vStorage APIs
VMware Site Recovery Manager
VMware vCenter Data Recovery
VMware Fault Tolerance

Q: Which of the following has no effect on the amount of physical memory resources
used for virtualization overhead (Choose Two)?
A:
Installing a 64-bit versus 32-bit operating system.
Increasing the amount of RAM in the virtual machine.
Increasing the number of virtual CPUs in the virtual machine. Increasing the memory shares for
the virtual machine.

Q: Which vSphere feature is depicted in the image?

A:
vCenter Service Status
Host Profile Manager
Plugin Manager
vCenter Server Heartbeat
Q: Which of the following are virtual adapters that are only available in VMware
vSphere (Choose Two)?
A:
Advanced vmxnet adapter
Flexible network adapter
Paravirtualized SCSI adapter
LSI Logic SCSI adapter

Q: You have 50 virtual machines (VMs) running across 5 ESX Servers in a DRS Cluster
in a Production environment for a number of weeks. Several VMs running on one of the
ESX Servers suddenly blue-screen. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the
failure?
A:
A patch recently applied to all virtual machines.
A driver recently applied to all virtual machines.
A vmkernel panic on the ESX Server hosting the failed virtual machines.
A hardware problem on the ESX Server hosting the failed virtual machines.

Q: The proportional share mechanism is invoked whenever:

A:
there is resource contention
CPU ready time exceeds a threshold
More than 1 virtual machine is running
the sum of reservations exceeds the physical resources

Q: Which is NOT a supported database for vCenter Server?

A:
Oracle
DB2
MySQL
SQL Server Express

Q: VMware vSphere can be evaluated prior to purchase. What is the maximum number
of days the evaluation can be used before a license must be purchased?
A:
30
60
90
120

Q: Which feature allows a running virtual machine to be moved from one server to
another without interruption?
A:
Storage VMotion
HA
Cold Migration
Vmotion

Q: An administrator finds that the Hardware Status tab is unavailable when an ESX
Host is selected in vCenter Server. Which of the following steps could be taken to
investigate the issue (Choose Two)?
A:
Check the status of the CIM Data Feed in vCenter Service Status
Check the status of the vCenter Hardware Service in the Windows Services applet
Check the status of the vCenter Hardware Service in the Plug-in Manager
Check the status of the CIM Data Feed on the ESX Host

Q: VMware HA provides which of the following?

A:
Automatic restart of virtual machines
Automatic balancing of server workloads
High availabilty of ESX hosts in a cluster
Zero downtime for virtual machines

Q: When defining a NIC team (bond) in ESX Server, it is possible to designate some of
the physical NICs that make up the bond as "standby" NICs. Which statement most
accurately describes the purpose of a standby NIC? A standby NIC:
A:
is used to implement traffic shaping for the rest of the team.
is used only in the case of the failure of other NICs in the team.
is not used as part of the team until activated by the administrator.
is used only when network traffic exceeds the capacity of the rest of the team.

Q: At what level can blocking policies be applied on a vNetwork Distributed Switch

(Choose Two)?
A:
Virtual Adapter
dvUplink
dvPort Group
Physical Adapter

Q: Which of the following are valid map types that can be displayed using a vSphere
Client connected to vCenter Server (Choose Two)?
A:
Storage Maps
Network Maps
Resource Maps
Cluster Maps