QUESTION NO: 325
What are two reasons why a company would choose to use VMware ESXi
instead of using VMware Server 2 (Choose Two)?
A. The company needs to access their virtual machines remotely and VMware Server 2
does not support a remote console option
B. The company needs the ability to run dual-processor virtual machines
C. The company wants to be able to patch the servers hosting their virtual machines with
zero virtual machine downtime
D. The company is virtualizing several physical servers and wants a centralized
management option
Answer: C,D
QUESTION NO: 326
An administrator wants to apply Disk Shares to ensure proper storage
performance. These shares are configured on which object?
A. Resource Pool
B. Storage Adapter
C. Virtual Machine
D. Datastore
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 327
Which of the following are requirements for a fully functional VMware HA
cluster (Choose Two)?
A. sufficient capacity to support at least one host failover
B. access to shared storage from all hosts
C. compatible CPUs in each host
D. a minimum of 2 Service Console ports
Answer: A,B
QUESTION NO: 322
An administrator is using Guided Consolidation and has added a system for
Analysis. After 30 minutes, the status has not changed from Collecting System
Information to Analyzing. Which of the following statements indicates why this might
occur?
A. The status change should be immediate and the Guided Consolidation Service status
should be checked on the vCenter Server
B. Guided Consolidation can take up to 24 hours to collect system information before the
status changes to Analyzing
C. Guided Consolidation can take up to 8 hours to collect system information before the
status changes to Analyzing
D. Guided Consolidation can take up to 1 hour to collect system information before the
status changes to Analyzing
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 323
When using the Explicit Failover option for a virtual switch with multiple
uplinks, ESX determines the uplink to use in a failover event by?
A. using link state tracking to see which uplinks are connected
B. using beacon probing to discover which uplink has the shortest route
C. a specified list
D. using the reported uptime to determine which uplink to select
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 324
Which of the following vSphere features cannot be used with virtual
machines that are enabled for VMware Fault Tolerance (Choose Two)?
A. RDMs in Virtual Compatibility Mode
B. VMware SMP
C. VMware EVC
D. VMware DRS
Answer: B,D
QUESTION NO: 319
What is the size of a Virtual Machine .vswp file if defaults are taken for the
VM reservations, limits, and shares?
A. The VM .vswp file is equal to the amount of virtual memory (VM available memory
plus VM overhead)
configured for the VM when it was created
B. The VM .vswp file is set to zero length when the VM is created and grows as
necessary
C. The VM .vswp file is equal to twice the amount of available memory configured for
the VM when it was created
D. The VM .vswp file is equal to the amount of available memory configured for the VM
when it was created
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 320
The maximum number of hosts in a VMware HA cluster is?
A. 8
B. 32
C. 24
D. 16
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 321
Which of the following is the technology used by VMware Fault Tolerance?
A. VMware vSafe
B. VMware vCluster
C. VMware vShield
D. VMware vLockstep
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 316
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, but
it will remain on the storage device and can be remounted as needed
B. only hosts in the same DRS/HA cluster no longer see the datastore, but it will remain
on the storage device and can be remounted as needed
C. all hosts that were configured to use the datastore will no longer see the datastore and
it is deleted from the storage device
D. 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
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 317
Thanks to Anti-affinity rules, VMware Fault Tolerant virtual machines are?
A. Never located within the same cluster
B. Sometimes located on the same host, but only in a powered off state
C. Never located on the same host
D. Sometimes located on the same host if an HA event occurs
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 318
Which of the following are valid use cases for VMware Fault Tolerance
(Choose Three)?
A. An administrator wants to provide continuous availability if 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 application high availability for applications that are not
cluster aware
D. An administrator wants to provide fault tolerance for one or more physical servers
E. An administrator wants to provide continuous availability if a critical hardware
component fails
Answer: B,C,E
QUESTION NO: 313
Which of the following can be configured or modified from the Resource
Allocation tab of a DRS Cluster (Choose Two)?
A. virtual machine CPU share value
B. expandable reservation for resource pools in the cluster
C. virtual machine memory reservation
D. share priority for resource pools in the cluster
Answer: A,C
QUESTION NO: 314
A company wants to increase disk capacity for their VMware vSphere environment.
Management mandates that:
(1) VMotion must work in this environment
(2) the existing LAN infrastructure must be used
(3) the storage must support VMFS volumes
Which storage option would best meet company objectives?
A. iSCSI
B. Fibre Channel
C. NFS
D. SATA
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 315
Using Hardware iSCSI Initiators with ESX/ESXi hosts allows which of the
following tasks to be offloaded from the VMkernel?
A. Issuing SCSI commands to the virtual disk
B. Mapping requests for blocks on the virtual disk to blocks on the appropriate physical
device
C. Encapsulation of iSCSI PDUs into TCP/IP packets
D. Encapsulation of I/O requests into iSCSI Protocol Data Units (PDUs)
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 310
On an ESX Host, a particular user is assigned the Administrator role. However, when that
user logs into the vCenter Server, he has Read Only permissions. What most likely
caused this?
A. ESX Server permission assignments do not propagate to the vCenter Server
B. The permissions assigned on the ESX Server will not update in vCenter until the next
scheduled update interval
C. The ESX Server is not joined to the Active Directory domain
D. The user has Read Only permissions specifically assigned to an item, which overrides
propagated permissions
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 311
Assuming a user or a group is assigned a single vCenter Server role, if the
role is then removed, which of the following occurs?
A. Users or groups retain the permissions associated with the removed role until they are
manually assigned a new role
B. Users or groups are automatically assigned the Read Only role until an administrator
can manually assign a new role
C. Users or groups assigned the removed role no longer have any permissions in vCenter
D. A role assigned to existing users or groups cannot be removed until all users or groups
are removed from the role
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 312
An administrator needs to determine the current network adapter
configuration for an uplink on an ESX Host. Which of the following items can be viewed
from the Network Adapters section of the Configuration tab using the vSphere Client
(Choose Three)?
A. Jumbo Frame support
B. Wake on LAN support
C. Observed IP ranges
D. Speed and Duplex settings
E. TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) support
Answer: B,C,D
QUESTION NO: 307
Under which of the following conditions would an administrator consider using the Boot
from SAN option for the ESX Host (Choose Two)?
A. When concern exists that contention might occur between the Service Console and the
VMkernel
B. To easily replicate the Service Console to a remote site
C. When using Microsoft Cluster Service
D. In diskless hardware configurations
Answer: B,D
QUESTION NO: 308
A group of ABC virtual machines has been deployed using thin disks
due to limited storage space availability. The storage team has expressed concern about
extensive use of this type of provisioning. Which of the following actions can be taken to
inform an administrator
when an unacceptably large number of virtual machines are being deployed using thin
disk provisioning?
A. Modify the default Datastore Usage on Disk alarm with a determined percentage.
Create a trigger For the alarm with an e-mail or SNMP notification option.
B. Use the default Host Storage Status alarm. Create a trigger for the alarm with an e-mail
or SNMP notification option.
C. Create an alarm for Datastore Disk Overallocation and determine an appropriate
percentage. Create A trigger for the alarm with an e-mail or SNMP notification option.
D. Create an alarm for Disk Usage and determine the appropriate amount. Create a trigger
for the Alarm with an e-mail or SNMP notification option.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 309
When you delete a VMFS datastore, it is destroyed and disappears from?
A. only the host that you have deleted it from
B. the storage device containing the datastore
C. all hosts in the same DRS/HA cluster
D. all hosts with connectivity to the datastore
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 304
An administrator decides to use vCenter Data Recovery to back up virtual
machines. After downloading the VMware Data Recovery virtual appliance and
importing it into vCenter, the administrator does not see the plugin listed as an available
plugin in vCenter. What additional action must be taken before the plugin is available in
vCenter?
A. The VMwareDataRecoveryPlugin.msi file must be installed on the system running the
vSphere Client
B. The VMwareDataRecoveryPlugin.msi file must be installed on the VDR Appliance
C. The vCenter Server Service must be restarted
D. The VMwareDataRecoveryPlugin.msi file must be installed on the vCenter Server
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 305
Users are complaining that they cannot access their files located on a file
server virtual machine. The vSphere client shows a triggered alarm stating disk latency is
beyond the default threshold for the datastore where the user file server is located. The
Path Selection Policy has been set by the ESX Host to Fixed with default path settings.
Which of the following two options could be used to increase performance of the file
server VM (Choose Two)?
A. Change the Path Selection Policy to Round Robin
B. Change the Path Selection Policy to Most Recently Used (MRU)
C. Use disk shares to increase the priority for the datastore housing the file server VM
D. Use Storage VMotion to move the file server VM to a datastore with lower latency
Answer: A,D
QUESTION NO: 306
An administrator is in the process of upgrading ESX 3.5 Hosts to vSphere. vCenter Data
Recovery has been installed and configured to back up the virtual machines in the
datacenter. However, after a scheduled backup it appears that not all of the virtual
machines selected were successfully backed up. What is most likely the cause for this
issue?
A. The virtual machines which were not backed up are running unsupported Operating
Systems.
B. The affected virtual machines did not have the VDR agent installed
C. Some of the virtual machines are on the ESX 3.5 hosts.
D. Some of the virtual machines were running during the backup window.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 301
Which of the following is a valid object to add an extent to?
A. an existing VMFS or NFS datastore
B. an existing NFS datastore
C. an existing VMFS datastore
D. an available unused storage volume
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 302
A Windows virtual machine (VM) is experiencing poor application
performance. The suspected issue is a lack of available memory. Windows Task Manager
shows 30% of the memory within the VM is not currently being used. What does this
indicate and what could be checked next?
A. The VM has memory available, however it may not actually have physical memory
available. VMkernel swap activity on the ESX Server host should be checked next.
B. Windows Task Manager is not reading actual memory usage in the VM. Windows
System Monitor should be used to get a precise reading on memory usage.
C. The application problems are definitely due to a non-memory related problem. CPU
affinity settings should be checked for this VM.
D. The application problems are definitely due to a non-memory related problem. CPU
utilization should be checked next using Windows Task Manager.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 303
Suppose you have 10000 Virtual Machines across 2 Datacenters, with
approximately 5000 Virtual Machines in each Datacenter. What is the minimum number
of vCenter installations and vNetwork Distributed Switches required to support this
configuration (Choose Two)?
A. 1 vCenter Server
B. 2 vNetwork Distributed Switches per Datacenter
C. 2 vCenter Servers
D. 1 vNetwork Distributed Switch per Datacenter
Answer: A,B
QUESTION NO: 298
What are two functions of zoning in Fibre Channel Switches (Choose Two)?
A. Restrict connections on a storage array to ESX Hosts that utilize the array
B. Prevents non-ESX Hosts from possibly destroying VMFS data
C. Controls and isolates LUNs on a Fibre Channel Storage Array
D. Reduces the number of targets and LUNs presented by a Fibre Channel Storage Array
Answer: A,B
QUESTION NO: 299
An administrator is creating a database for a vCenter installation. Approximately how
much additional space is needed for every 50 virtual machines being managed, assuming
statistic collection is at the default level?
A. 700MB
B. 1GB
C. 500MB
D. 100MB
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 300
When configuring a FC-SAN with ESX 4, which of the following are valid
requirements and/or recommendations (Choose Two)?
A. Each LUN should contain only one VMFS datastore
B. Each LUN must present the same LUN ID number to all ESX/ESXi hosts
C. Virtual machine multipathing software should be used to perform I/O load balancing
to individual LUNs
D. RDMs should not be used to access raw disks from previous ESX 2.5 or 3.x Hosts
Answer: A,B
