The VMware vCenter Server Appliance has been deployed using default settings. What user name and password are used to log in to the administration interface to configure the appliance?

The VMware vCenter Server Appliance has been deployed using default settings.
What user name and password are used to log in to the administration interface to configure the appliance? 





A. The initial user name and password must be supplied on the first login attempt.
B. The initial user name and password must be supplied during deployment.
C. The initial user name is root and the password is blank.
D. The initial user name is root and the password is vmware.





Answer: D

Click the Exhibit button. Several virtual machines residing in the Production pool are exhibiting poor performance, and a critical virtual machine in the pool appears hung. What step can be taken to increase the performance of the critical virtual machine?

Click the Exhibit button.
Several virtual machines residing in the Production pool are exhibiting poor performance, and a critical virtual machine in the pool appears hung. What step can be taken to increase the performance of the critical virtual machine? 





A. Increase the CPU limit on the critical virtual machine.
B. Increase the CPU shares on the critical virtual machine.
C. Increase the CPU reservations on the resource pool.
D. Increase the CPU limit on the resource pool.





Answer: D

Click the Exhibit button. ACME Catering Services is using esxtop to troubleshoot a performance problem with one of their ESXi 5.x hosts. Host disconnections from vCenter Server as well as sluggish performance when performing tasks on the host have been observed. Based on the output in the exhibit, how many vCPU's have been assigned to FileServer01?

Click the Exhibit button.
ACME Catering Services is using esxtop to troubleshoot a performance problem with one of their ESXi 5.x hosts. Host disconnections from vCenter Server as well as sluggish performance when performing tasks on the host have been observed. Based on the output in the exhibit, how many vCPU's have been assigned to FileServer01? 





A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8






Answer: D

vCenter reports a connectivity problem with a ESXi 5.x host that is not a member of a cluster. An administrator attempts to connect directly to the host using the vSphere Client but fails with the message "An unknown connection error occurred." Virtual machines running on the host appear to be running and report no problem. What two methods would likely resolve the issue without affecting the virtual machines? (Choose two.)

vCenter reports a connectivity problem with a ESXi 5.x host that is not a member of a cluster. An administrator attempts to connect directly to the host using the vSphere Client but fails with the message "An unknown connection error occurred." Virtual machines running on the host appear to be running and report no problem.
What two methods would likely resolve the issue without affecting the virtual machines? (Choose two.) 





A. Enter the service mgmt-vmware restart command from either SSH or local CLI
B. Select Restart Management Agents in the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
C. Select Reboot Host in the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
D. Enter the services.sh restart command from either SSH or the local CLI







Answer: B,D

Click the Exhibit button. An administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tiered web application. The vApp has been configured as shown in the exhibit. Testing of the vApp indicates that attempts to communicate with the web server on Dev_Web_01 fail. The developer wants to be sure the database server OS is completely started before the other servers power on. The developer also wants to minimize recovery time. What changes to the vApp configuration will correct the issues?

Click the Exhibit button.
An administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tiered web application. The vApp has been configured as shown in the exhibit. Testing of the vApp indicates that attempts to communicate with the web server on Dev_Web_01 fail. The developer wants to be sure the database server OS is completely started before the other servers power on. The developer also wants to minimize recovery time.
What changes to the vApp configuration will correct the issues? 




A. Move the Dev_Web_01 virtual machine to Group 3 and increase the time value
B. Move the Dev_App_01 virtual machine to Group 1 and increase the time value
C. Move the Dev_Web_01 virtual machine to Group 3, decrease the time value and check VMware Tools are ready
D. Move the Dev_Web_01 virtual machine to Group 3, increase the time value and check VMware Tools are ready





Answer: D

ACME Anvil Incorporated has several departments which each have unique resource requirements in their environment: 1. The Manufacturing department has ten production virtual machines. 2. The Development department has two test/dev virtual machines. 3. The Manufacturing virtual machines have only CPU reservations. 4. No Development virtual machine should be able to use more resources than any Manufacturing virtual machine requests. 5. Manufacturing department virtual machines must always be able to power on. Resource Pools will be used to address these requirements. When creating the "Manufacturing" and "Development" pools, which settings should be part of the configuration to meet the stated requirements? (Choose two.)

ACME Anvil Incorporated has several departments which each have unique resource requirements in their environment:
1. The Manufacturing department has ten production virtual machines.
2. The Development department has two test/dev virtual machines.
3. The Manufacturing virtual machines have only CPU reservations.
4. No Development virtual machine should be able to use more resources than any Manufacturing virtual machine requests.
5. Manufacturing department virtual machines must always be able to power on.
Resource Pools will be used to address these requirements.
When creating the "Manufacturing" and "Development" pools, which settings should be part of the configuration to meet the stated requirements? (Choose two.) 





A. Enable Expandable Reservation on Memory Resources on the Manufacturing pool
B. Set a reservation for CPU Resources on the Manufacturing resource pool
C. Create a required Group Rule to ensure Development virtual machines always run on the Development host
D. Ensure the shares set on the Manufacturing pool are at least five times the shares set on the Development pool




Answer: B,D

An ESXi 5.x host displays a warning icon in the vSphere console and its summary page lists a configuration issue "SSH for the host has been enabled." What are two ways to clear this warning? (Choose two.)

An ESXi 5.x host displays a warning icon in the vSphere console and its summary page lists a configuration issue "SSH for the host has been enabled." What are two ways to clear this warning? (Choose two.) 





A. Using the Security Profile pane of the Configuration tab in the vSphere Client
B. Using the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
C. Using the Advanced Settings pane of the Configuration tab in the vSphere Client
D. Using the Networking pane of the Configuration tab in the vSphere Client






Answer: A,B

What are three use cases for vSphere Fault Tolerance? (Choose three.)

What are three use cases for vSphere Fault Tolerance? (Choose three.) 






A. Provide guaranteed up-time for a RDM enabled virtual machine
B. Provide efficient scheduled reliability for a payroll virtual machine
C. Provide guaranteed reliabilty for a development virtual machine with scheduled snapshots
D. Provide guaranteed reliabilty for a legacy Windows NT virtual machine
E. Ensure up-time for a Linux virtual machine without making any changes to the OS







Answer: B,D,E

An administrator is configuring a stretched HA cluster. The administrator wishes to restrict the failover of VMs to certain hosts within a given site. Which additional vSphere feature satisfies this requirement?

An administrator is configuring a stretched HA cluster. The administrator wishes to restrict the failover of VMs to certain hosts within a given site.
Which additional vSphere feature satisfies this requirement? 







A. vSphere Distribited Switch
B. Distributed Resource Scheduler
C. Datastore Clusters
D. Host Folders






Answer: B

A virtual machine failure occurs in a vSphere HA cluster, but the VM is not restarted. No error messages are given. Which two conditions would explain this behavior? (Choose two.)

A virtual machine failure occurs in a vSphere HA cluster, but the VM is not restarted. No error messages are given. Which two conditions would explain this behavior? (Choose two.) 





A. Monitoring sensitivity was set to Low.
B. Application Monitoring Only was selected.
C. The virtual machine has failed three times.
D. The HA cluster was set up with all defaults.






Answer: C,D

An administrator has discovered a failure that has affected network connectivity on the management network of a vSphere HA cluster. As a result, half of the hosts in the cluster are able to communicate with each other but not the other half. The cluster was configured with default settings. What happens as a result of the failure?

An administrator has discovered a failure that has affected network connectivity on the management network of a vSphere HA cluster. As a result, half of the hosts in the cluster are able to communicate with each other but not the other half. The cluster was configured with default settings.
What happens as a result of the failure? 






A. The VMs will be powered off on slave hosts in the cluster.
B. All VMs and hosts in the cluster are unaffected.
C. The VMs are unaffected, a second master will be elected.
D. The VMs will be powered down on all hosts in the cluster.






Answer: C

What type of failure is VMware Fault Tolerance designed to protect against?

What type of failure is VMware Fault Tolerance designed to protect against? 






A. A failure on the ESXi host running the primary virtual machine
B. A failure on an application within the primary virtual machine
C. Loss of storage connectivity to the primary virtual machine
D. An operating system failure on the primary virtual machine






Answer: A

What two statements regarding the VSWP file are true? (Choose two.)

What two statements regarding the VSWP file are true? (Choose two.) 




A. The VSWP file is equal to the memory allocation.
B. The VSWP file size is equal to the memory reservation.
C. The VSWP file size is equal to the difference between the memory assigned and reservation.
D. No VSWP file is created if reserved memory to the same value as allocated memory.






Answer: C,D

An administrator has configured a virtual machine using the Emulate IDE mode for the DVD drive. Using the vSphere Client from a remote PC, an administrator wants to connect to a virtual machine and burn a DVD, but is getting error messages in the disk burning application. What must the administrator do to fix this issue?

An administrator has configured a virtual machine using the Emulate IDE mode for the DVD drive. Using the vSphere Client from a remote PC, an administrator wants to connect to a virtual machine and burn a DVD, but is getting error messages in the disk burning application.
What must the administrator do to fix this issue? 





A. The administrator must use the host DVD drive.
B. A DVD cannot be burned from within a virtual machine.
C. The administrator must change the DVD mode to Passthrough IDE.
D. The administrator must click the Writer checkbox in the DVD settings.






Answer: C

An administrator wants to reduce the amount of memory overhead required by a virtual machine. What two options below could be used to accomplish that task? (Choose two.)

An administrator wants to reduce the amount of memory overhead required by a virtual machine.
What two options below could be used to accomplish that task? (Choose two.) 





A. Reduce the amount of memory configured for the VM.
B. Reduce the memory reservation for the VM.
C. Reduce the memory shares for the VM.
D. Reduce the number of vCPUs VM.




Answer: A,D

In the vSphere Client, the Resource Allocation tab for virtual machines displays host memory and guest memory. Which two statements best describe these terms? (Choose two.)

In the vSphere Client, the Resource Allocation tab for virtual machines displays host memory and guest memory. Which two statements best describe these terms? (Choose two.) 






A. Guest memory is the amount of physical memory that has been allocated to a virtual machine.
B. Host memory is the amount of physical memory that has been allocated to a virtual machine.
C. Guest memory is the memory usage of a virtual machine.
D. Host memory includes VM overhead..





Answer: B,C

Why is converting a virtual machine to a template significantly faster than creating a clone of the virtual machine?

Why is converting a virtual machine to a template significantly faster than creating a clone of the virtual machine? 






A. Making a clone creates a linked-mode virtual disk.
B. Making a clone creates a full copy of the VMDK file.
C. Making a clone only creates a copy of the .vmx file.
D. The template conversion has low priority on the system CPU.






Answer: B

An administrator is troubleshooting an ESXi 5.x host and needs to export diagnostic information. The host is currently managed by a vCenter Server instance. Which two ways can the information be gathered using the vSphere Client? (Choose two.)

An administrator is troubleshooting an ESXi 5.x host and needs to export diagnostic information. The host is currently managed by a vCenter Server instance.
Which two ways can the information be gathered using the vSphere Client? (Choose two.) 





A. Select Home. Under Administration, click System Logs and click the Export System Logs button. Select the affected ESXi host. Select Select All. Select a location and click Finish.
B. In the vSphere Client, select the affected ESXi host. Right-click the host and select Export Diagnostic Data. Select a location and click OK.
C. Log in to the ESXi host locally, Select Export System Logs.
D. In the vSphere Client, select the affected ESXi host. Select File, Export and Export System Logs. Select Select All. Select a location and click Finish.





Answer: A,D

An administrator is working to update the hosts and virtual machines in a vSphere 5.x deployment using Update Manager Baselines. Other than host patches, which three items require a separate procedure or process to update? (Choose three.)

An administrator is working to update the hosts and virtual machines in a vSphere 5.x deployment using Update Manager Baselines. Other than host patches, which three items require a separate procedure or process to update? (Choose three.) 





A. Operating system patches
B. Virtual Appliance updates
C. Virtual Machine Virtual Hardware upgrades
D. VMware Tools on machines without VMware Tools already installed
E. Application patches within the virtual machine



Answer: A,D,E

An administrator is using Update Manager 5.x to update virtual appliances in a vSphere environment. The environment is using the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA). What would cause the remediation to fail?

An administrator is using Update Manager 5.x to update virtual appliances in a vSphere environment. The environment is using the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA).
What would cause the remediation to fail? 






A. Updating of the appliance can only be done if the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) has been put into Maintenance Mode.
B. Remediation must be configured on the Appliance Administration page before use.
C. Remediation of the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) with Update Manager is not supported.
D. Remediation requires the hosts to be connected to vCenter using an IPv4 address.







Answer: C

An administrator has recently upgraded their Update Manager infrastructure to vSphere 5.x. Several hosts and virtual machines have not been upgraded yet. Which vSphere component when upgraded will have the least impact to the existing environment?

An administrator has recently upgraded their Update Manager infrastructure to vSphere 5.x. Several hosts and virtual machines have not been upgraded yet.
Which vSphere component when upgraded will have the least impact to the existing environment? 





A. Virtual Machine Hardware
B. ESX Hosts
C. VMFS datastores
D. VMware Tools





Answer: D

An administrator has deployed vCenter Data Recovery and wants the largest possible deduplication store. Which three storage options can be used? (Choose three.)

An administrator has deployed vCenter Data Recovery and wants the largest possible deduplication store. Which three storage options can be used? (Choose three.) 






A. Two CIFS shares
B. Two RDMs on a FCP array
C. One NFS mount on the ESXi host and one RDMs on an iSCSI array
D. One CIFS share and one FCP RDM
E. Two NFS mounts on the ESXi host




Answer: B,C,E

What are three true statements about quiescing virtual machine snapshots? (Choose three.)

What are three true statements about quiescing virtual machine snapshots? (Choose three.) 






A. vSphere snapshot quiescing only occurs on Windows guest OSes.
B. The quiescing operation is automatic with any snapshot.
C. The quiescing operation varies by guest OS.
D. Quiescing should occur before array-based snapshots to ensure consistency.
E. VMware Tools is required for quiescing to be successful.





Answer: C,D,E

Click the Exhibit button. ACME Logging Inc. has been using the vSphere Web Client to deploy templates to a five-node vSphere 5.x cluster. After deploying a new template, the resulting virtual machine is not able to connect to the Development network to which it was assigned. When deploying another template, the message in the exhibit is shown. Based on this information, what is the likely problem?

Click the Exhibit button.
ACME Logging Inc. has been using the vSphere Web Client to deploy templates to a five-node vSphere 5.x cluster. After deploying a new template, the resulting virtual machine is not able to connect to the Development network to which it was assigned. When deploying another template, the message in the exhibit is shown.
Based on this information, what is the likely problem? 





A. The interface on esxi2 that is assigned to the virtual switch is down.
B. The interface on esxi2 that is assigned to the virtual switch is configured incorrectly.
C. The Production virtual switch is internal only.
D. The Production virtual switch is a vDS.




Answer: C

What is the recommended maximum memory value that is displayed when configuring a virtual machine based upon?

What is the recommended maximum memory value that is displayed when configuring a virtual machine based upon? 







A. The amount of memory in the ESXi host
B. The threshold needed for the ESXi host to satisfy a reservation value
C. The maximum value the guest operating system supports
D. The maximum recommended by the OS manufacturer.






Answer: A

A database administrator has requested that a virtual disk attached to a virtual machine running an I/O intensive database application be fully provisioned. The virtual disk was initially thin provisioned. Which two methods would accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

A database administrator has requested that a virtual disk attached to a virtual machine running an I/O intensive database application be fully provisioned. The virtual disk was initially thin provisioned. Which two methods would accomplish this task? (Choose two.) 





A. Use Storage vMotion and change the disk type to Flat.
B. Use the Inflate option in the Datastore Properties.
C. Use Storage vMotion and change the disk type to Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed.
D. Use Storage vMotion and change the disk type to Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed.





Answer: B,D

A database administrator has requested a disk for a virtual machine that will run an I/O intensive database application on an ESXi 5.x host. Which two disk types will best fit the needs of the application? (Choose two.)

A database administrator has requested a disk for a virtual machine that will run an I/O intensive database application on an ESXi 5.x host. Which two disk types will best fit the needs of the application? (Choose two.) 






A. Raw Device Mapped Disk
B. Thin Provisioned Disk
C. Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed Disk
D. Thick Provision Eager Zeroed Disk




Answer: A,D

The Power and Suspend 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 Suspend 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 Suspend button suspends the VM though the guest OS.
B. The Power button does a graceful shutdown.
C. The Power button does a hard shutdown.
D. The Suspend button suspends the VM though ESXi.





Answer: B,D

An administrator is installing a Windows Server 2008 operating system into a virtual machine on an ESXi 5.x host. What are two valid SCSI adaptors for this installation? (Choose two.)

An administrator is installing a Windows Server 2008 operating system into a virtual machine on an ESXi 5.x host. What are two valid SCSI adaptors for this installation? (Choose two.) 






A. Paravirtual SCSI
B. LSI Logic SAS
C. BusLogic SAS
D. Broadcom SAS





Answer: A,B

An administrator has created a virtual machine that will be accessed from a public kiosk. Management has requested that the virtual machine be reset to a known state once a week or on demand if requested. Which method is the simplest way to meet this requirement?

An administrator has created a virtual machine that will be accessed from a public kiosk. Management has requested that the virtual machine be reset to a known state once a week or on demand if requested.
Which method is the simplest way to meet this requirement? 





A. Configure the storage array to be vSphere aware and script routine array snapshot restores of the datastore.
B. Implement a 3rd party imaging server and PXE boot the virtual machine off a static image.
C. Set the VMDKs of the virtual machine to be Independent-Nonpersistent and schedule restarts of the virtual machine.
D. Create Nonpersistent disks for the virtual machine and set the guest OS to reboot once a week.





Answer: C

What is the size of a virtual machine .vswp file?

What is the size of a virtual machine .vswp file? 






A. The virtual machine .vswp file is equal to twice the amount of available memory configured for the virtual machine when it was created.
B. The virtual machine .vswp file is equal to the amount of virtual memory (virtual machine available memory, plus virtual machine overhead) configured for the virtual machine when it was created.
C. The virtual machine .vswp file is set to the amount of memory allocated minus any memory reservation.
D. The virtual machine .vswp file is equal to the amount of available memory in the ESXi server.





Answer: C

Windows virtual machines use a page file and Linux virtual machines use a swap partition for virtual memory. When you are determining the appropriate size for these, which file is affected?

Windows virtual machines use a page file and Linux virtual machines use a swap partition for virtual memory. When you are determining the appropriate size for these, which file is affected? 






A. The .vmx file
B. The .vswp file
C. The service console swap partition
D. The virtual disk size






Answer: D

An administrator is creating a virtual machine that will be running Windows 2008 Enterprise (64- bit). The application to be installed in the virtual machine requires eight vCPUs to run effectively. During installation, the only available options are one, two, three, or four vCPUs. What condition explains the available vCPU selections?

An administrator is creating a virtual machine that will be running Windows 2008 Enterprise (64- bit). The application to be installed in the virtual machine requires eight vCPUs to run effectively. During installation, the only available options are one, two, three, or four vCPUs.
What condition explains the available vCPU selections? 





A. The virtual machine hardware version is 8.
B. The guest operating system for the virtual machine is 64-bit.
C. The ESXi host has two non hyperthreaded dual-core CPUs.
D. The ESXi host has two hyperthreaded dual-core CPUs.




Answer: C

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





A. Datastore location
B. Virtual machine version
C. Number of vCPUs
D. Storage DRS
E. Virtual disk size




Answer: A,D,E

What are two consequences of deleting a VMFS datastore from an ESXi 5.x host? (Choose two.)

What are two consequences of deleting a VMFS datastore from an ESXi 5.x host? (Choose two.) 






A. The datastore is unaccessible from all connected 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 is only removed from that specific ESXi host.








Answer: A,B

An administrator takes a vSphere snapshot of a virtual machine and applies an OS update. After confirming the update the administrator cannot enable Fault Tolerance on the virtual machine and suspects there are snapshots that have not been consolidated. Which two operations can the administrator perform to verify consolidation is needed? (Choose two.)

An administrator takes a vSphere snapshot of a virtual machine and applies an OS update. After confirming the update the administrator cannot enable Fault Tolerance on the virtual machine and suspects there are snapshots that have not been consolidated.
Which two operations can the administrator perform to verify consolidation is needed? (Choose two.) 






A. Expose the Needs Consolidation column in the virtual machines tab of the host.
B. Browse the datastore containing the vmdk files and look for files with the "-delta.vmdk" extension.
C. Expose the Needs Consolidation column in the virtual machine summary tab.
D. Select and run the vSphere Cluster HealthCheck from the right-click menu of the cluster object.






Answer: A,B

Users are experiencing performance issues when updating their database hosted on a virtual machine. The administrator determines that disk I/O is high across one of the HBAs on the ESXi host containing the virtual machine. What is the action will most likely correct the issue without significantly impacting other users or datastores?

Users are experiencing performance issues when updating their database hosted on a virtual machine. The administrator determines that disk I/O is high across one of the HBAs on the ESXi host containing the virtual machine.
What is the action will most likely correct the issue without significantly impacting other users or datastores? 






A. Manually configure the disk multipathing policy to Round Robin for the datastore
B. Migrate the virtual machine to an NFS datastore using Storage vMotion
C. Use Storage vMotion to migrate the virtual machine to a new VMFS5 datastore
D. Map additional LUNs to the ESXi host and extend the datastores





Answer: A

Which two conditions must exist on all hosts in the cluster if Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) is used? (Choose two.)

Which two conditions must exist on all hosts in the cluster if Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) is used? (Choose two.) 





A. The cluster must be enabled for DRS.
B. All hosts in the cluster must be running ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 or later.
C. All hosts in the cluster must have hardware virtualization support enabled.
D. The cluster must be enabled for HA.






Answer: B,C

An administrator is enabling Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) in a DRS cluster. The administrator wants only hosts with the newest Intel processors added to the cluster. Which setting satisfies this requirement?

An administrator is enabling Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) in a DRS cluster. The administrator wants only hosts with the newest Intel processors added to the cluster.
Which setting satisfies this requirement? 






A. The baseline with the most CPUs listed
B. The baseline with the fewest CPUs listed
C. Any baseline that contains Future Intel processors
D. Create a new baseline and add only the latest processor family






Answer: D