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Question #20

An administrator must gracefully restart a virtual machine (VM) through the vSphere Client but the option is greyed out. The administrator has full administrative access on VMware vCenter and all the objects available in vCenter, but has no access to log onto the operating system.

Which action should the administrator take to meet the objective?

• A. Upgrade the virtual hardware
• B. Migrate the VM to another host
• C. Install VMware Tools
• D. Restart vCenter

Correct Answer: C

Question #21

An administrator is tasked with installing VMware vCenter. The vCenter Server Appliance must support an environment of:

400 hosts

4000 virtual machines

Which two resources must be allocated, at a minimum, to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. 16 vCPUs
• B. 30 GB Memory
• C. 4 vCPUs
• D. 8 vCPUs
• E. 20 GB Memory

Correct Answer: BD

Question #22

Which VMware offering will allow an administrator to manage the lifecycle of multiple vCenter Server instances in a single software as a service (SaaS)-based solution to help drive operational efficiency?

• A. VMware vSphere with Tanzu
• B. VMware Cloud Foundation
• C. VMware vSphere+
• D. VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

Correct Answer: C

Question #23

Which feature would allow for the non-disruptive migration of a virtual machine between two clusters in a single VMware vCenter instance?

• A. vSphere vMotion
• B. Cross vCenter Migration
• C. vSphere Storage vMotion
• D. vSphere Fault Tolerance

Correct Answer: A

Question #24

Which four elements can a vSphere Lifecycle Manager image contain? (Choose four.)

• A. ESXi base image
• B. ESXi configuration
• C. Vendor agents
• D. Vendor add-ons
• E. BIOS updates
• F. Firmware and drivers add-on
• G. Independent components

Correct Answer: ADFG

Question #25

If a distributed switch uses the “Route based on physical NIC load” load balancing algorithm, what does the mean send or receive utilization of an uplink need to exceed for the flow of traffic to move to the second uplink?

• A. 75 percent of the capacity over a 30 second period
• B. 60 percent of the capacity over a 30 second period
• C. 60 percent of the capacity over a 40 second period
• D. 75 percent of the capacity over a 40 second period

Correct Answer: A

Question #26

An administrator manually configures a reference ESXi host that meets company security standards for vSphere environments. The administrator now needs to apply all of the security standards to every identically configured host across multiple vSphere clusters within a single VMware vCenter instance.

Which four steps would the administrator complete to meet this requirement? (Choose four.)

• A. Extract the host profile from the reference host.
• B. Export the host profile from vCenter.
• C. Import host customization on the reference host.
• D. Attach the host profile to each cluster that requires the secure configuration.
• E. Check the compliance of each host against the host profile.
• F. Reset host customization on the reference host.
• G. Remediate all non-compliant hosts.

Correct Answer: ADEG

Question #27

After a recent unexplained peak in virtual machine (VM) CPU usage, an administrator is asked to monitor the VM performance for a recurrence of the issue.

Which two tools can the administrator use? (Choose two.)

• A. vCenter Management Interface
• B. Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
• C. vSphere Performance Charts
• D. vCenter Command Line Interface
• E. ESXi Shell

Correct Answer: CE

Question #28

An administrator is tasked with configuring vSphere Trust Authority.

The administrator has completed the following steps:

Set up the workstation –

Enabled the Trust Authority Administrator

Enabled the Trust Authority State

Collected information about the ESXi hosts and vCenter to be trusted

Which step does the administrator need to complete next?

• A. Import the Trusted Host information to the Trust Authority Cluster
• B. Import the Trusted Cluster information to the Trusted Hosts
• C. Create the Key Provider on the Trusted Cluster
• D. Import the Trusted Host information to the Trusted Cluster

Correct Answer: A

Question #29

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator set up the following configuration:

The distributed switch has three ESXi hosts, and each host has two 40 Gbps NICs.

The amount of bandwidth reserved for virtual machine (VM) traffic is 6 Gbps.

The administrator wants to guarantee that VMs in the Finance distributed port group can access 50 percent of the available reserved bandwidth for VM traffic.

Given this scenario, what should the size (in Gbps) of the Finance network resource pool be?

• A. 18
• B. 80
• C. 36
• D. 120

Correct Answer: A

Question #30

A vSphere environment is experiencing intermittent short bursts of CPU contention, causing brief production outages for some of the virtual machines (VMs). To understand the cause of the issue, the administrator wants to observe near real-time statistics tor all VMs.

Which two vSphere reporting tools could the administrator use? (Choose two.)

• A. Advanced Performance Charts
• B. esxcli
• C. resxtop
• D. Overview Performance Charts
• E. esxtop

Correct Answer: CE

Question #31

An administrator is performing maintenance activities and discovers that a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore has a lot more used capacity than expected. The datastore contains 10 virtual machines (VMs) and, when the administrator reviews the contents of the associated datastore, discovers that five virtual machines have a snapshot file (-delta.vmdk files) that has not been modified in over 12 months. The administrator checks the Snapshot Manager within the vSphere Client and confirms that there are no snapshots visible.

Which task should the administrator complete on the virtual machines to free up datastore space?

• A. Consolidate the snapshots for each VM.
• B. Inflate the disk files for each VM.
• C. Delete all snapshots for each VM.
• D. Storage vMotion each VM to another datastore.

Correct Answer: A

Question #32

An administrator is attempting to configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC) on five datastores within a vSphere environment. The administrator is being asked to determine why SIOC configuration completed successfully on only four of the datastores.

What are two possible reasons why the configuration was not successful? (Choose two.)

• A. The datastore contains Raw Device Mappings (RDMs).
• B. SAS disks are used for the datastore.
• C. The datastore has multiple extents.
• D. The datastore is using ISCSI.
• E. The administrator is using NFS storage.

Correct Answer: AC

Question #: 32

An administrator is attempting to configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC) on five datastores within a vSphere environment. The administrator is being asked to determine why SIOC configuration completed successfully on only four of the datastores.

What are two possible reasons why the configuration was not successful? (Choose two.)

• A. The datastore contains Raw Device Mappings (RDMs).
• B. SAS disks are used for the datastore.
• C. The datastore has multiple extents.
• D. The datastore is using ISCSI.
• E. The administrator is using NFS storage.

Suggested Answer: AC

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AC (100%)

Question #33

An administrator has mapped three vSphere zones to three vSphere clusters.

Which two statements are true for this vSphere with Tanzu zonal Supervisor enablement? (Choose two.)

• A. One Supervisor will be created in a specific zone.
• B. One Supervisor will be created across all zones.
• C. Three Supervisors will be created in Linked Mode.
• D. Individual vSphere Namespaces will be placed into a specific zone.
• E. Individual vSphere Namespaces will be spread across all zones.

Suggested Answer: AD

Question #: 34

An administrator is investigating reports of users experiencing difficulties logging into a VMware vCenter instance using LDAP accounts.

Which service should the administrator check as part of troubleshooting?

• A. vSphere Authentication Proxy Service
• B. Lookup Service
• C. Identity Management Service
• D. VMware Authentication Framework Daemon

Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 35

An administrator is looking to deploy a new VMware vCenter instance. The current environment consists of 75 hosts and is expected to grow up to 100 hosts over the next three years.

Which deployment size should the administrator select?

• A. Medium
• B. Tiny
• C. Large
• D. Small

Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 36

An administrator has been notified that a number of hosts are not compliant with the company policy for time synchronization.

The relevant portion of the policy states:

All physical servers must synchronize time with an external time source that is accurate to the microsecond.

Which step should the administrator take to ensure compliance with the policy?

• A. Ensure that each vCenter Server Appliance is configured to use a Network Time Protocol (NTP) source.
• B. Ensure that each ESXi host is configured to use a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) source.
• C. Ensure that each ESXi host is configured to use a Network Time Protocol (NTP) source.
• D. Ensure that each vCenter Server Appliance is configured to use a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) source.

Suggested Answer: B

Question #: 37

An administrator is creating a content library to manage VM templates and ISO images. The administrator wants to password-protect the images and templates and share them with a remote site.

Which two tasks must the administration perform when creating the content library? (Choose two.)

• A. Publish the local content library.
• B. Enable the security policy.
• C. Create a subscribed content library.
• D. Select an NFS datastore.
• E. Enable authentication.

Suggested Answer: AE

Question #: 38

An administrator is responsible for the management of a VMware vCenter instance that is currently experiencing performance issues. The administrator quickly identifies that the CPU and memory utilization of vCenter is consistently over 80%. Upon further analysis, it seems that the vpxd process is contributing significantly to the performance issue.

A combination of which four steps should the administrator take to resolve the performance issues and ensure that a similar issue can be rectified without requiring downtime to vCenter moving forward? (Choose four.)

• A. Gracefully shut down vCenter using the vSphere Client.
• B. Enable CPU Hot Add on the vCenter virtual machine.
• C. Power on the vCenter Server Appliance using the vSphere Host Client.
• D. Enable CPU and Memory Hot Add on the vCenter virtual machine.
• E. Add additional CPU and memory to the vCenter Server Appliance.
• F. Power on the vCenter Server Appliance using the vSphere Client.
• G. Enable Memory Not Add on the vCenter virtual machine.

Suggested Answer: ACDE

Question #: 39

An administrator successfully installs VMware ESXi onto the first host of a new vSphere cluster but makes no additional configuration changes. When attempting to log into the vSphere Host Client using the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the host, the administrator receives the following error message:

“Server Not Found – We can’t connect to the server at esxi101.corp.local.”

The following information has been provided to complete the configuration:

Host FQDN: esxi101.corp.local –

Management VLAN ID: 10 –

DHCP: No –

Management IP Address: 172.16.10.101 / 24

Management IP Gateway: 172.16.10.1

Corporate DNS Servers: 172.16.10.5, 172.16.10.6

ONS Domain: corp.local –

In addition, all host configurations must also meet the following requirements:

The management network must use only IPv4 network protocols.

The management network must be fault tolerant.

Which three high level tasks should the administrator complete, at a minimum, in order to successfully log into the vSphere Host Client using the FQDN for esxi101 and complete the configuration? (Choose three.)

• A. Ensure a DNS A Record is created for the VMware ESXi host on the corporate DNS servers.
• B. Update the VMware ESXi Management Network DNS configuration to use the corporate DNS servers for names resolution.
• C. Update the VMware ESXi Management Network IPv4 configuration to use a static a IPv4 address.
• D. Configure at least two network adapters for the VMware ESXi Management Network.
• E. Set the value of the VMware ESXi Management Network VLAN ID to 10.
• F. Disable IPv6 for the VMware ESXi Management Network.

Suggested Answer: ACE