When memory is overcommitted, which two values determine the amount of physical memory above the virtual machine reservation that is guaranteed to a given virtual machine? (Choose two)

When memory is overcommitted, which two values determine the amount of physical memory above the virtual machine reservation that is guaranteed to a given virtual machine? (Choose two) 






A. Idle Memory Tax
B. Shares
C. Working Set Size
D. Slot Size





Answer: B,D

When writes from a virtual machine are delivered to a Fibre Channel storage array, which two actions are taken by the VMkernel? (Choose two)

When writes from a virtual machine are delivered to a Fibre Channel storage array, which two actions are taken by the VMkernel? (Choose two) 





A. The modified I/O request is sent from the physical HBA to the device driver.
B. The file corresponding to the virtual machine is located is located on the VMFS datastores.
C. The request for blocks on the virtual disk is mapped to blocks on the appropriate physical device.
D. The I/O request is converted from binary data form to optical data from.






Answer: B,C

An administrator wants to restrict the ability of selected administrators to install plug-ins in their vSphere Client application. What action should the administrator perform?

An administrator wants to restrict the ability of selected administrators to install plug-ins in their vSphere Client application.
What action should the administrator perform? 





A. Modify permissions for the administrators and add the Validate Session privilege
B. Modify permissions for the administrators and add the Disable Methods privilege
C. Modify permissions for the administrators and remove the Register Extension privilege
D. Modify permissions for the administrators and remove the CIM Interaction privilege






Answer: C

An administrator is upgrading an application running in a virtual machine. Before performing the upgrade a snapshot called pre-upgrade is created. NO other snapshots exist. The upgrade operation succeeds and the administrator wants to keep the changes from the snapshot. Which two operations can the administrator perform to ensure that the upgrade cannot be reverted? (Choose two)

An administrator is upgrading an application running in a virtual machine. Before performing the upgrade a snapshot called pre-upgrade is created. NO other snapshots exist. The upgrade operation succeeds and the administrator wants to keep the changes from the snapshot.
Which two operations can the administrator perform to ensure that the upgrade cannot be reverted? (Choose two) 




A. Use the Delete All option within the Snapshot Manager
B. Use the Delete option within the Snapshot Manager
C. Use the Consolidate option with the Snapshot Manager
D. Use the Go To option in the snapshot






Answer: A,B

When an explicit failover order has not been configured on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks, what determines which uplink is used when a failover event occurs?

When an explicit failover order has not been configured on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks, what determines which uplink is used when a failover event occurs? 





A. The first available uplink that reports a positive link state
B. The reported uptime for the surviving uplinks
C. The next available uplink on the Host
D. The uplink with the shortest route







Answer: B

Click the exhibit button. An administrator has received reports of poor network performance with a virtual machine. Which task will improve the network performance of this virtual machine?

Click the exhibit button.
An administrator has received reports of poor network performance with a virtual machine.
Which task will improve the network performance of this virtual machine? 




A. Adjust shares for the virtual NIC on the virtual machine
B. Traffic-shape this virtual machine
C. Increase memory to the virtual machine
D. Add an uplink to the virtual switch that this virtual machine is attached to







Answer: D

What arc two functions of zoning in fibre Channel switches? (Choose two)

What arc two functions of zoning in fibre Channel switches? (Choose two) 





A. Controls and isolates LUNs on a Fibre Channel storage array
B. Restrict connections on a storage array to ESXi hosts that use the array
C. Prevents non-ESXi hosts from possibly destroying VMFS data
D. Reduces the number of targets and LUNs presented by a Fibre Channel storage array





Answer: B,C

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. Use the ESXi direct console and select the Host Backup option.
B. Use vCLI and run vicfg-cfgbackp ?Cs backupfile to save the ESXi host configuration.
C. Login to the ESXi host directly and run esxcfg-backup file to save the ESXi host configuration.
D. Using the vSphere Client, attach to the ESXi host and select the Backup option from the Configuration tab






Answer: B

What is beacon probing used for in vSphere networking?

What is beacon probing used for in vSphere networking? 





A. To identify when an upstream link failure has occurred
B. To probe for network intrusions
C. To discover which uplink has the shortest route
D. To identify which uplink has the longest reported uptime





Answer: C

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS datastores on 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. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS datastores on 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 direct upgrade
D. The VMFS datastore resides on a private, SAN-attached LUN






Answer: D

Which three requirements must be met so order to use Storage I/O Control? (Choose three.)

Which three requirements must be met so order to use Storage I/O Control? (Choose three.) 







A. The datastore must contain a single VMFS extent
B. The datastore must contain a single NFS volume
C. The datastore must not include virtual machines with snapshots
D. The datastore must be managed by a single vCenter Server
E. Array-based automated storage tiering must be explicitly certified






Answer: A,D,E

Which two are true about shared storage capabilities on NFS datastores supported by ESXi 5.x? (Choose two)

Which two are true about shared storage capabilities on NFS datastores supported by ESXi 5.x? (Choose two) 





A. You can use Storage vMotion to move virtual machines between NFS datastores
B. You can use MSCS to cluster virtual machine across ESXi hosts using NFS datastore
C. You can use VMware Storage APIs with an NFS datastore
D. You can create raw device mapping (RDM) virtual disks on NFS datastore






Answer: A,C

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

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





A. The datastore is removed 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 15 only removed from that specific ESX/ES3G host.






Answer: A,B

Which of the following describes the functionality of traffic shaping on a vNetwork Distributed Switch?

Which of the following describes the functionality of traffic shaping on a vNetwork Distributed Switch? 





A. vNetwork Distributed Switches support Best-Effort Traffic Shaping based on Quality of Service (QoS)
B. vNetwork Distributed Switches support Ingress Traffic Shaping only
C. vNetwork Distributed Switches support both Ingress and Egress Traffic Shaping
D. vNetwork Distributed Switches support Egress Traffic Shaping only





Answer: C

The typical option is selected while running the New Virtual Machine Wizard in the vSphere Client? Which three specific configuration options are skipped during virtual machine creation? (Choose three)

The typical option is selected while running the New Virtual Machine Wizard in the vSphere Client?
Which three specific configuration options are skipped during virtual machine creation? (Choose three) 





A. Datastore location
B. Virtual machine version
C. Resource pool
D. Number of vCPUs
E. Virtual machine configuration.





Answer: B,D,E

An administrator is configuring a stretched DRS/HA clusters. The administrator wishes to restrict the failover of VMs certain hosts within a given site. Winch vSphere feature satisfies this requirement?

An administrator is configuring a stretched DRS/HA clusters. The administrator wishes to restrict the failover of VMs certain hosts within a given site.
Winch vSphere feature satisfies this requirement? 





A. DRS Storage Groups
B. DRS Host Groups
C. Host Priority
D. Host Affinity







Answer: D

An administrator is working to implement Storage Profiles in their environment. Which two ways can storage capabilities be generated? (Choose two)

An administrator is working to implement Storage Profiles in their environment.
Which two ways can storage capabilities be generated? (Choose two) 





A. Generated by a Storage Cluster while monitoring its LUNs
B. Storage capabilities are pre-determined by the Storage Profile on creation
C. Pulled from the array through the VMwarc APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
D. Manually generated by the administrator






Answer: A,C

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 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 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: C

A 2TB VMFS3 datastore has been upgraded to VMFS5. The original block size was 2MB. What effect will this upgrade have on the maximum file size supported by the datastore?

A 2TB VMFS3 datastore has been upgraded to VMFS5. The original block size was 2MB.
What effect will this upgrade have on the maximum file size supported by the datastore? 





A. The maximum virtual disk size remains 512MB
B. The maximum virtual disk size increases to 1TB
C. The maximum virtual disk size increases to 32TB providing the datastore is also increased
D. The maximum virtual disk size increases to 2TB minus 512B





Answer: D

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 prevents network traffic from bridging physical network ports
B. Limits enforces maximum throughput control on a virtual machine
C. Load based teaming efficiently uses a vDS set of dvUplinks for network capacity
D. Isolation prevents domination by any one traffic flow
E. Relative shares fairly allocates available bandwidth among multiple flows




Answer: B,D,E

An administrator notices that log files kept on an ESXi host are being rotated very quickly, initiating the troubleshooting of an issue? Which two configuration changes will resolve this issue?

An administrator notices that log files kept on an ESXi host are being rotated very quickly, initiating the troubleshooting of an issue?
Which two configuration changes will resolve this issue? 





A. Configure syslog to send the logs to a separate file
B. Increase the number of logs kept
C. Increase the logging level
D. Increase the log file size






Answer: A

The power and restart buttons for a virtual machine can be configured from the Options tab of the virtual machine. What are the two default actions that are configured for these buttons? (Choose two)

The power and restart buttons for a virtual machine can be configured from the Options tab of the virtual machine.
What are the two default actions that are configured for these buttons? (Choose two) 







A. The Restart button docs a graceful reboot.
B. Power button does a graceful shutdown
C. Power button does a hard shutdown
D. The Restart button resets power







Answer: A,C

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

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






A. The virtual machine is a vApp
B. A datastore in the cluster is completely full
C. One or more virtual machines has been enabled for Fault Tolerance
D. One or more virtual machines have swap files located on a local host datastore
E. One or more virtual machines are configured with an independent disk






Answer: C

An administrator selects the profile compliance tab of an HA/DRS cluster, than selects Sheck Compliance New? What happens if a host profile is not attached to the cluster?

An administrator selects the profile compliance tab of an HA/DRS cluster, than selects Sheck Compliance New?
What happens if a host profile is not attached to the cluster? 





A. The compliance check generates an error
B. The compliance check prompts for a valid host profile
C. The compliance check uses the default data center host profile
D. The duster is checked for specific HA, DRS, and VMware DPM cluster requirements.






Answer: D

The remote console performance for a virtual machine on an ESXi host appears to be degraded. What are two possible causes of the problem? (Choose two)

The remote console performance for a virtual machine on an ESXi host appears to be degraded.
What are two possible causes of the problem? (Choose two) 





A. The virtual NIC assigned to the virtual machine has a speed or duplex mismatch.
B. The physical NIC assigned to the virtual machine port group containing the affected virtual machine has a speed or duplex mismatch.
C. The physical NIC assigned to the Service Console port group has a speed or duplex mismatch.
D. The physical NIC assigned to the VMkernel port group has a speed or duplex mismatch.






Answer: B,D

An administrator is deploying a number of virtual machines to an NFS datastore. The NFS datastore does not support hardware Acceleration. Which virtual disk type is supported on this platform?

An administrator is deploying a number of virtual machines to an NFS datastore. The NFS datastore does not support hardware Acceleration.
Which virtual disk type is supported on this platform? 







A. Rat disk
B. Raw Device Mapped disk
C. Thin Provisioned disk
D. Thick Provisioned disk







Answer: C

What are three methods of adding VMkernel networking to a vNetwork Distributed Switch? (Choose three)

What are three methods of adding VMkernel networking to a vNetwork Distributed Switch? (Choose three) 






A. A VMkernel Network adapter can be created and added to a standalone port.
B. A VMkernel network adapter can be created along with a VMkernel port group on the selected vNetwork Distributed Switch.
C. A VMkernel port can be cloned from a vNetwork Standard Switch
D. A VMkernel network adapter can be associated with a port group on a vNetwork Distributed Switch.
E. A VMkernel port can be migrated from a vNetwork Standard Switch.







Answer: A,D,E

An administrator has determined that storage performance to group of virtual machines is reduced during peak activity. The virtual machines are located in VMFS datastore called Production 1 on an active-active storage array. The ESXi host running the virtual machine 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 group of virtual machines is reduced during peak activity. The virtual machines are located in VMFS datastore called Production 1 on an active-active storage array. The ESXi host running the virtual machine 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 physical storage, create a VMFS datastore called Production 2 on the New storage, and then migrate some of the virtual machines from Production1.
B. Change the storage multipathing policy to Round Robin.
C. Add physical storage and add an extent to the physical storage called Production 1.
D. Change the storage multipathing policy to fix.






Answer: A,D

Which statement describes the functionality of traffic shaping on a vNetwork Distributed Switch?

Which statement describes the functionality of traffic shaping on a vNetwork Distributed Switch? 






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






Answer: B

An administrator is working to upgrade the host and virtual machines in vSphere 5 deployment Upgrade Baselines. Other than host patches, which three items can be added to a vSphere 5 Baseline? (Choose three)

An administrator is working to upgrade the host and virtual machines in vSphere 5 deployment Upgrade Baselines.
Other than host patches, which three items can be added to a vSphere 5 Baseline? (Choose three) 







A. Operating system patches
B. Virtual appliance updates
C. Virtual machine Virtual Hardware upgrade
D. VMware tools
E. Applications patches within the virtual machine






Answer: B,D,E

What are two requirements when configuring a Fibre Chanel SAN with ESXi 5.x? (Choose two)

What are two requirements when configuring a Fibre Chanel SAN with ESXi 5.x? (Choose two) 








A. Virtual machine multipathing software should be used to perform I/O load balancing to individual LUNs.
B. RDMs should not be used to access raw disks from ESX 2 5 or 3 x hosts.
C. Each LDN should contain only one VMFS datastore.
D. Each LUN must present the same LUN ID number to all ESXi hosts






Answer: C,D

Click the Exhibit button ACME Party Supplies Corporation has a requirement to monitor all virtual machines in a vSphere 5 environment for CPU and Memory usage. An administrator configures an alarm in vCenter Server to send an alert when any VM exceeds 65% memory utilization and 75% CPU utilization. The alarm should warn administrators if the virtual machine is within 10% of the defined thresholds. The alarm has been created with the default options shown in exhibit. Which three modifications must be made to the default settings m the alarm definition to satisfy stated requirements? (Choose three)

Click the Exhibit button
ACME Party Supplies Corporation has a requirement to monitor all virtual machines in a vSphere 5 environment for CPU and Memory usage. An administrator configures an alarm in vCenter Server to send an alert when any VM exceeds 65% memory utilization and 75% CPU utilization.
The alarm should warn administrators if the virtual machine is within 10% of the defined thresholds. The alarm has been created with the default options shown in exhibit.
Which three modifications must be made to the default settings m the alarm definition to satisfy stated requirements? (Choose three) 




A. Set the VM CPU Usage (%) Alert trigger to 75% and the VM Memory usage (%) Warning trigger to 65%
B. Set the VM CPU Usage (%) Alert trigger to 75% and the VM Memory Usage (%) Alert trigger to 65%
C. Set the VM CPU Usage (%) Warning trigger to 65% and the VM Memory usage (%) Warning trigger to 65%
D. Set the Trigger if all of the conditions are satisfied radio button.
E. Set the Trigger id any of the conditions are satisfied radio button.





Answer: B,D,E

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







A. Configure the host to use an NTP server
B. Configure the hosts to direct logs to a syslog server
C. Configure the host to record fame stamps m the local time zone
D. Configure vilogger on the vSphere Management Appliance






Answer: A

Which two events will result in a vSphere 5.x host running a virtual machine that contains an older virtual hardware version? (Choose two)

Which two events will result in a vSphere 5.x host running a virtual machine that contains an older virtual hardware version? (Choose two) 





A. a virtual machine is created on a vSphere 5.x host and virtual for the VM are created on a VMFS3 datastore.
B. a virtual machine was migrated from a vSphere 4.x host.
C. a virtual machine is created on a vSphere 5.x host with a with a vmxnet network adapter.
D. a virtual machine is created on a vSphere 5.x host and attached to an existing virtual disk created with vSphere 4.x







Answer: B

Witch two statements are true about High Priority vMotion requests in vSphere 5.x? (Choose two)

Witch two statements are true about High Priority vMotion requests in vSphere 5.x? (Choose two) 







A. Migrations always proceed regardless of whether or not resources have been successfully
B. Migrations do not proceed if resources are not successfully reserved.
C. vCenter Server attempts to reserve resources on both the source and destination hosts to be shared among all concurrent migrations with vMotions.
D. vCenter Server attempts to reserve resources on both the source and destinations hosts for each individual High Priority migration with vMotion.






Answer: B,D

Assuming that VLANs are not configured, what is true about traffic from a virtual machine connected to a port group on a vNetwork Standard Switch with NO uplinks?

Assuming that VLANs are not configured, what is true about traffic from a virtual machine connected to a port group on a vNetwork Standard Switch with NO uplinks? 







A. The virtual switch will drop the packets of no uplink is present.
B. Virtual machines on nay vNetwork Standard Switch on the same ESXi host can receive the traffic.
C. Virtual machines in any port group on the virtual switch can receive the traffic.
D. Only virtual machines in the same port group on the virtual switch can receive the traffic.






Answer: C

Which two statements are true about port groups and VLANs defined on a vNetwork standard Switch? (Choose two)

Which two statements are true about port groups and VLANs defined on a vNetwork standard Switch? (Choose two) 





A. A VLAN can be configured for the entire virtual switch or on individual port groups or both
B. Multiple port groups can specify the same VLAN
C. VLANs can be configured only on individual port groups
D. Multiple VLANs can be specified in a port group






Answer: B,C

An administrator is cloning a vSpbere 5 virtual machine. The resulting clone will be placed in a datastore cluster. The virtual machine requires high availability on high storage performance. Which option can be selected during the cloning process to meet these requirements?

An administrator is cloning a vSpbere 5 virtual machine. The resulting clone will be placed in a datastore cluster. The virtual machine requires high availability on high storage performance.
Which option can be selected during the cloning process to meet these requirements?






A. Change the format of the virtual disks to Flat
B. Apply a VM Storage Profile
C. Select Disable Storage DRS for this virtual machine
D. Do not select a datastore cluster, manually select an appropriate datastore





Answer: C

A vNetwork Distributed Switch is best described as?

A vNetwork Distributed Switch is best described as? 




A. A single virtual switch that aggregates existing vNetwork Standard Switches
B. A distributed set of vNetwork Standard Switches that allow a virtual machine to maintain a consistent network configuration between multiple ESX Hosts
C. A single virtual switch shared between multiple ESX Hosts
D. A distributed set of vNetwork Standard Switches on individual ESX Hosts capable of forwarding traffic between hosts







Answer: C

Click the exhibit button. An administrator has a DRS/HA clusters with five ESXi 5.x hosts. When the administrator tries to start a new Web server virtual machine, an administrator 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 clusters with five ESXi 5.x hosts. When the administrator tries to start a new Web server virtual machine, an administrator 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. Specify one of the ESXi hosts to be a failover host
B. Allow virtual machines to be powered on even if they violate
H. availability constraints
C. Modify the percentage of reserved resources to 30 percent
D. Add a ESXi host to the cluster






Answer: B,D

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

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







A. A dedicated Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) LUN
B. A PXE capable NIC
C. A shared Fibre Channel LUN
D. An NFS share







Answer: A,C,D

It appears that a single vCPU virtual machine in a resource pool called Production is available in having performance problem because it does not have enough CPU Storages. "Which two methods can be used to improve performance and reduce CPU contention of this virtual machine while maintaining compatibility with DRS? (Choose two)

It appears that a single vCPU virtual machine in a resource pool called Production is available in having performance problem because it does not have enough CPU Storages.
"Which two methods can be used to improve performance and reduce CPU contention of this virtual machine while maintaining compatibility with DRS? (Choose two) 






A. Configure a CPU reservation for this virtual machine.
B. Dedicate a physical CPU to this virtual machine.
C. Increase the share priority setting for this virtual machine.
D. Increase the share priority setting for the Production resource pool







Answer: A,C