Deck 1: VMware

Question 1

John, a VMware administrator, has noticed a massive increase in the vCenter database size. What is also alarming is that the size is continually increasing at an alarming rate. What is a possible cause for this increase?

A)The database has a simple recovery model.
B)The database backup failed.
C)The vCenter statistics level is set to 4.

Answer 1

The vCenter statistics level is set to 4.

Question 2

What is the maximum number of concurrent operations per vCenter server?

A)96
B)8
C)4
D)2
E)16

Answer 2

96

Question 3

What is the feature of a vSphere cluster that detects failure and provides for rapid recovery of virtual machines?

A)HA
B)DRS
C)EVC

Answer 3

HA

Question 4

John, a VMware administrator, has set a virtual machine as fault tolerant using VMware Fault Tolerance. The fault-tolerant pair of virtual machines has been working as expected for several weeks, but John is now receiving errors relating to the fault-tolerant pair. What is a likely cause of these error messages?

A)The hosts are at the same patch level.
B)There are only four identical hosts in the vSphere cluster.
C)The virtual machines only have one vCPU.
D)There is increased bandwidth on the physical network.

Question 5

Where can you check the configuration of a vSphere Distributed Switch using the vSphere client?

A)From the hosts configuration section
B)From the main network view
C)From the VMs and Templates view.
D)From the Datastores view.

Question 6

Of the following options, which can be monitored by vCenter? Select three.

A)Virtual machines
B)Hosts
C)Clusters
D)Physical switches

Question 7

Which of the following features are not supported for a fault-tolerant virtual machine? Select three.

A)Storage vMotion
B)vMotion
C)Snapshots
D)DRS

Question 8

What is the term used to refer to resource pools and virtual machines at the same level?

A)Parents
B)Children
C)Siblings
D)Brothers
E)Sisters

Question 9

Choose an option below to complete the statement following statement: You should complete a _____________ to confirm that backup is proceeding as expected and that a restore operation would complete correctly.

A)Backup Rehearsal
B)Failover test
C)Restore Rehearsal
D)Backup Test

Question 10

Guy is a vMware administrator in an Enterprise deployment of 400 ESXi hosts. He is performing some administration on several ESX hosts and does not wish for anybody else to impact his changes. How best could Guy communicate this to the other vCenter administrators?

A)Export the list of administrators to Excel, call HR to ask for the contact details and then call each of the administrators.
B)Guy could right-click the users in question and send them a message from vCenter.
C)Guy could edit the message of the day in vCenter settings to inform the administrators of his actions.
D)Guy could delete all the administrator accounts from active directory.

Question 11

A user who is a member of the Windows administrators group on the vCenter Server system by default has the same rights as what vCenter role?

A)Virtual machine power user
B)Datacentre administrator
C)Administrator
D)Host power user

Question 12

Which type of user account is added to an ESX host when that host is joined to a vCenter server?

A)Local administrator
B)vCenter admin
C)VPD admin
D)vpxuser

Question 13

Tom, a VMware administrator, is deploying a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine from a template using VMware Converter Standalone. He is unable to customize guest preferences for the virtual machine. What is a possible cause of this?

A)Tom does not have the customize virtual machine guest preference permission.
B)The Sysreconfig files are not present on Tom's machine.
C)The Sysprep files are not present on Tom's machine.
D)The Sysconfig files are not present on Tom's machine.

Question 14

James, an infrastructure engineer, has been tasked with changing a virtual machine's disk type from thin to thick. Select the correct way to achieve this.

A)Edit virtual machine advanced options and change the disk.type.provision option from Thick to Thin.
B)Power off the virtual machine and vMotion it to a different ESX host.
C)Leave the virtual machine powered on and Storage vMotion it to a different location, setting the new disk format as thick.

Question 15

Which of the following statements is most accurate?

A)You can always power on a VMware vApp.
B)You can power on a VMware vApp only if it contains a virtual machine.

Question 16

What would happen if a physical adapter were moved to a vNetwork Distributed Switch from a standard virtual switch with only one uplink and virtual machines currently connected?

A)You cannot move a single physical NIC to a vNetwork Distributed Switch.
B)The virtual machines will be migrated with the physical link.
C)The virtual machines will lose connectivity to the network.

Question 17

Please select the option that best completes the following statement:vNetwork standard switches can implement traffic shaping for _________.

A)Ingress and egress traffic.
B)Egress traffic only.
C)Ingress traffic only.

Question 18

ESXi does not allow for individual storage adapters to be scanned.

Question 19

What is the maximum number of hosts per vNetwork Distributed Switch?

A)8
B)18
C)12
D)64

Question 20

What two things are hosts scanned for at the datacenter level of the inventory?

A)Viruses
B)Faulty hardware
C)Patches and extensions
D)Upgrades

Question 21

Host profiles can be exported to a file in what file format?

A)VMware profile format (.vpf)
B)VMware host format (.vhf)
C)VMware host profile (.vhp)
D)VMware host profile format (.vhpf)

Question 22

Hosts can be checked for profile compliance from which locations? Select two.

A)Host's profile view.
B)VMs and Templates view.
C)The host's context menu.
D)vCenter Update Manager main view.

Question 23

Guy, a VMware administrator, is trying to prevent a particular test ESX host from accessing a LUN that is used specifically for live environments. How might he best achieve this?

A)He could mask the LUN in question using the #esxcli corestorage claimrule add commandlet.
B)He could remove the Fibre Channel cable that connected to the LUN.
C)He could alter the vCenter Server permissions for the connection account.
D)He could mask the LUN in question using the #esxcli corestorage claimrule delete commandlet.

Question 24

Guy, a VMware administrator, has removed an administrator that is suspected of malpractice from a group that controls the ability to remove hosts from vCenter. Several days after Guy has completed this task, he receives a call from his manager stating that the administrator Guy removed from the group has been removing hosts from vCenter. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the administrator's continued ability to remove hosts?

A)Guy is incompetent and did not remove the permissions correctly.
B)Permission changes take effect up to 10 days after being made.
C)The rogue administrator was specifically granted permissions through his user account.
D)The "no VMware remove" option was ticked in the rogue administrator's AD account.

Question 25

ESX and ESXi can be installed from which of the following locations? Select three.

A)Floppy disk
B)DVD
C)USB
D)Ticker tape
E)PXE boot

Question 26

Of the following options, which are are recommended post-installation activities for ESXi that increase security? Select two.

A)Change the root password.
B)Configure lockdown mode.
C)Destroy the installation media.
D)Write the root password down and put it in a safe place.
E)Remove floppy disks from the drive.

Question 27

What should be configured on a 10GbE adapter for maximum throughput of ISCSI-based storage?

A)No lock standard
B)MTU of 9000
C)None locking architecture
D)MTU of 256

Question 28

Guy, a VMware administrator, has just received confirmation that his LUN request has been granted by the storage team. He has been assured that the LUN has been created and that the ESX environment should be able to use the LUN immediately. When Guy tries to add the new LUN to his ESX system, he does not see the newly created LUN. What should Guy do next?

A)Reboot all hosts; LUNS are only visible after a reboot.
B)Call the storage team and complain about their incompetence.
C)Perform a storage rescan.

Question 29

Which path selection policy allows for I/O to be spread across multiple paths to active-active storage arrays?

A)Fixed
B)Fixed AP
C)Round Robin
D)Most recently used