EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A vSphere administrator is required to join all strategies ESXi hosts to an Active Directory domain for enhanced security.
Which utility would accomplish this?

Question2: An administrator is planning maintenance for a cluster with the following configuration:
* DRS is fully automated
* Dedicated 10GbE vMotion network
* iSCSI storage with CHAP
When a host is placed into maintenance mode, what is the maximum number of supported concurrent vMotion operations?

Question3: After installing vCenter, which two identity sources and users are available by default? (Choose two.)

Question4: A vSphere Administrator is receiving complaints a database VM is experiencing performance issues. The VM is a member of the high priority resource pool and the cluster has not experienced contention.
Which condition should be checked to address immediate performance concerns?

Question5: An administrator decides to implement vSphere networking using the VDS.
Which binding option should the administrator use to manage the VMs if vCenter becomes unavailable?

Question6: Which vSphere Update Manager baseline type is used for scanning and remediating objects third-party device drivers?

Question7: For security reasons the VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM) has no Internet access.
What can be used to provide a central shared repository in a DMZ?

Question8: Which setting should be used to exclude one hard disk from VM snapshots?

Question9: A customer is experiencing a network performance problem and is using the esxtop utility to determine the cause. Esxtop reveals no dropped packets.
Which two conditions should the customer check? (Choose two.)

Question10: A vSphere administrator discovers the size of the .vswp file for a VM with 2 vCPUs and 4GB of memory is zero.
What could be the cause?

Question11: A vSphere administrator wants to enable Proactive HA in a vSphere cluster.
What is required to use this feature?

Question12: An administrator has an environment with these conditions and requirements:
* The host provides 6GHz of CPU and 32GB of memory
* The host is shared between the Marketing and QA departments
* The QA department needs a higher compute resource priorit
How can the administrator meet the conditions and requirements?

Question13: A vSphere administrator is trying to create a resource pool but the option is grayed out.
What must be enabled before creating a resource pool?

Question14: An administrator is unable to use the vSphere Client shutdown option on a Windows VM.
What should be installed to correct this?

Question15: A vSphere administrator has configured software ISCSI port binding in the environment with two VMkernel ports and four target portals.
How many ISCSI sessions would be created from bound ports to targets?

Question16: Which host profile operation can be scheduled?

Question17: A vSphere administrator is performing a greenfield vSphere deployment with these requirements:
* vCenter Server sized for 100 ESXi hosts and 1000 virtual machines
* Each ESXi Host with 512 LUNs and 2048 paths mapped from Dell EMC XtremIO Storage Array Which vCenter Server Appliance deployment size meets requirements?

Question18: Which policy is used for intelligent optimization of network interface traffic on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)?

Question19: What are two advantages of deploying a VDS as compared to a VSS? (Choose two.)

Question20: A vSphere administrator is installing ESXi 6.7 on a diskless host booting from an onboard 8GB SD card.
What should be done to ensure log files are persisted through a host reboot?

Question21: When enabled, what ensures only signed drivers can load into a virtual machine?

Question22: Per a customer request, a vSphere administrator increases the number of vCPUs in several VMs within a cluster. After the vCPU increase, the upgraded VMs exhibit slower performance. The vSphere administrator uses esxtop to check ESXi host performance.
Which two counters should be checked to detect CPU overcommitment? (Choose two.)

Question23: Which file extension can export host customization for host profiles?

Question24: A user logs in to vCenter Server as an administrator and is unable to view Single Sign On Configuration.
Which vCenter Single Sign On group should the administrator belong to, to view Single Sign On Configuration?

Question25: Which DCUI option determines the time frame an administrator has to log in to the ESXI Shell after enabling the service?

Question26: In a vSphere HA enabled cluster, what happens if the master host is unable to communicate with a slave host over the management network?

Question27: A vSphere administrator has a requirement to move virtual machines between vCenter Servers using vSphere Client.
Which condition should be met for the Cross vCenter Server vMotion to succeed?

Question28: Which vSphere feature is designed to distribute space usage and I/O load across multiple datastores?

Question29: A vSphere Administrator wants to move a vCenter Server with an external Platform Services Controller from one SSO domain to another SSO domain.
Which option in cmsso-util will achieve this?

Question30: An administrator is concerned about the amount of time the IT team takes to create multiple VLANs in a very dynamic vSphere environment. The environment has these parameters:
* All virtual networking utilizes vSphere Standard Switches with uplinks to a Cisco Infrastructure
* Activities require 5-10 VLANs being created or removed every couple of days
* The IT team has three members
How can the administrator centralize the virtual networking configuration so the IT team utilizes time more efficiently?

Question31: A vSphere administrator notices performance issues with the vCenter Server Appliance. The CPU usage is over 70%.
Which two actions should the administrator take to investigate the performance issues? (Choose two.)

Question32: An administrator wants to ensure the VMs for two different departments are separated on a single broadcast domain.
Which configuration fulfills this requirement?

Question33: An application owner complains about poor performance on a VM named APPVM01. Troubleshooting indicates that another VM named DBVM01 on the same datastore is saturating the volume with I/O requests.
Which two actions can be taken to reduce DBVM01 impact on APPVM01, while still prioritizing DBVM01 disk I/O? (Choose two.)

Question34: A new AD domain has just been added to vSphere as an identity source. This new domain has a user group called administrators group.
Which role do the administrators group users have by default, when authenticated to vCenter Server?

Question35: Which two availability features require a VM restart for recovery? (Choose two.)

Question36: A vSphere administrator has disabled Fault Tolerance on a powered-off VM.
What could cause the VM to fail to power back on?

Question37: The VM storage policy compliance status is out of date.
Which step should the administrator take to maintain compliance with the existing storage policy?

Question38: VMs are violating affinity rules and DRS is unable to correct the rules violations.
Which two actions should an administrator take to identify why DRS is unable to satisfy the affinity rules?
(Choose two.)

Question39: A vSphere administrator creates a VM with 2 vCPUs and 4GB memory. A 3GB memory reservation is applied to the VM. What size is .vswp file when the VM is powered on?

Question40: What could cause a high %RDY value?

Question41: What should be installed on a VM to enhance performance and enable additional features?

Question42: A vSphere administrator configures log forwarding for remote syslog server in a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) through the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI).
What is the maximum number of remote syslog servers that can be configured?

Question43: A vSphere administrator is working in a high security environment. The administrator wants to ensure unencrypted VMs can be migrated securely.
What should the vSphere administrator use to meet this requirement?

Question44: Which two options are available for a vSphere administrator to install ESXi on a host? (Choose two.)

Question45: What happens within the network when a customer uses a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) and vCenter is offline?

Question46: Which two actions should an administrator take to ensure a VM has the highest networking bandwidth?
(Choose two.)

Question47: An administrator suspects poor VM performance. The administrator runs esxtop and sees the following output from the CPU and memory screens:
* 6:48:19pm up 4:22, 528 worlds, 8 VMs, 16 vCPUs, CPU load average: 0.26, 0.36, 0.16
* VMKMEM/MB: 8151 managed: 407 minfree, 3055 rsvd, 5095 ursvd, high state What can the administrator conclude from this output?

Question48: Which native feature could be used to protect virtual machine files and disks containing confidential customer data?

Question49: A VM is experiencing inconsistent network connectivity between two ESXi hosts connecting to the same physical switches. The effect of the inconsistency is this:
* vMotion from host 1 to host 2, network connection is down
* vMotion from host 2 to host 1, network connection is up
* vMotion from host 1 to host 2, network connection is up
The vSphere administrator wants to ensure the physical switches connecting to the ESXi are configured correctly.
How can this be accomplished?

Question50: A vSphere Administrator wants to convert a vCenter Server instance with an external Platform Services Controller to an embedded Platform Services Controller instance.
Which tool should be used to accomplish this?

Question51: A cluster contains database VMs which have low utilization, except during a weekly data load that causes extremely high utilization.
As DRS balances the VM load, there is an extended period of slow performance.
Which two actions could be taken to reduce the impact of the recurring data load? (Choose two.)

Question52: Which optional module of vSphere Update Manager supports patch recalls and notifications?

Question53: What should be installed on a VM to assist with VM-to-host time synchronization?

Question54: An administrator runs a vSphere cluster containing database VMs with extremely heavy disk I/O. Database VMs are placed on a costly all-flash array. The workloads are not memory intensive.
How can the administrator ensure the most cost-effective utilization of the all-flash storage array?

Question55: A vSphere Administrator wants to convert a vCenter Server instance with an external Platform Services Controller to an embedded Platform Services Controller instance.
Which tool should be used to accomplish this?

Question56: An administrator is using vSphere Web Client to configure the firewall to allow specific third-party application SSH access to an ESXi Host.
What is the most secure way to configure the firewall rule?

Question57: An administrator is elevating the security posture of a vSphere environment after a recent data breach. All VMs will be encrypted as part of this plan.
Which additional component is required for the encryption?

Question58: Which two infrastructure services are provided by the Platform Services Controller? (Choose two.)

Question59: A user asks for a VM to be deployed that must remain on the same host at all times.
How should DRS be configured for the VM?

Question60: An administrator configures vSphere Replication for a DR site.
Which two items should be deployed at the second site? (Choose two.)

Question61: An administrator runs vSphere Infrastructure in the following configuration:
* Single vCenter
* Multiple data centers
* Multiple clusters under each data center, all with identical hardware The administrator wants to use host profiles to manage the hosts.
Where should the administrator attach the host profile?

Question62: Which teaming and failover policy offers the lowest latency when a failover or a migration with vSphere vMotion occurs?

Question63: An administrator manages a vSphere environment with the following configuration:
* HA enabled
* Admission Control enabled based on fixed slot size
* 1 VM with a memory reservation significantly larger than the fixed slot size The administrator notices that occasionally the VM with the memory reservation fails to restart during an HA host failure event.
What could cause this to happen?

Question64: A customer suspects someone or something is changing the MAC address of a virtual machine.
Which security policy should be customer modify to obtain more information?

Question65: An administrator enables DRS and sets the automation level to Fully Automated. DRS is only making initial placement recommendations.
What is causing this?