EMT Practice Test

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Question1: What is a benefit of using VMware Data Protection (VDP)?

Question2: You are creating a virtual machine in the Web Client using the New Virtual Machine wizard.
Which two steps are required? (Choose two.)

Question3: A virtual machine template is accidently removed from the vCenter Server Inventory.
Which method would be used to recover the template back into the environment?

Question4: Which three actions can be taken as a result of executing the vSphere Update Manager 6.x scan and remediation wizards? (Choose three.)

Question5: Which two SMTP Notification Event Details are specific to alarms triggered by events? (Choose two.)

Question6: What are three valid disk configurations for the vSphere Data Protection 6.x Appliance? (Choose three.)

Question7: An administrator is unable to remove an ESXi 6.x host from a vSphere Distributed Switch.
What are two likely reasons for this issue? (Choose two.)

Question8: An administrator is deploying multiple Windows 2003 Virtual Machines from the same template.
What two steps should be taken to avoid network conflicts? (Choose two.)

Question9: An administrator is attempting to power on a virtual machine, but the task is hanging at 95%.
What three scenarios best explain why this problem is happening? (Choose three.)

Question10: A physical Windows 2008 R2 Server is converted to a virtual machine using VMware vCenter Converter.
Upon completion of the conversion and subsequent power on operation, the virtual machine fails to boot and the message below is observed in the Console of the virtual machine:
STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
Which two potential issues may be causing this boot failure? (Choose two.)

Question11: When configuring vSphere Replication for a virtual machine, what is the lowest Recovery Point Objective (RPO) that can be selected?

Question12: Which two Virtual SAN related actions might start resynchronization of virtual machine objects? (Choose two.)

Question13: Which two NFS Protocol versions does vSphere 6 support? (Choose two.)

Question14: An administrator wants to add a web server to an existing multi-tier application consisting of three virtual machines:
A web server

A database server

An application server

The web server should be added to the application when the primary web server reaches:
70% vCPU utilization

55% active memory

Which option will achieve this result?

Question15: What are two possible causes of Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) being disabled on one or more virtual machine disks in a datastore cluster? (Choose two.)

Question16: Which two storage controller configurations can be used with Virtual SAN? (Choose two.)

Question17: A vApp is running out of compute resources when overall activity is high within the resource pool. At other times, everything is fine.
What should be done to resolve this issue?

Question18: Which three traffic types are available services options when configuring a vmkernel port? (Choose three.)

Question19: When attempting to access a virtual machine, an administrator is unable to login using the vSphere credentials.
What two options are probable causes of the authentication failure? (Choose two.)

Question20: An administrator is attempting to power on a virtual machine, but is unable to do so.
Which two reasons are probable causes of the failure? (Choose two.)

Question21: An administrator needs to monitor traffic on vSwitches in a vSphere 6.x environment.
Which option, if configured, would accomplish this task?

Question22: An administrator is virtualizing a physical application server and adding it to an existing multi-tiered vApp.
The application license is currently tied to the physical NIC's MAC address, so the administrator needs to ensure the license will function properly in the virtual machine.
Which two actions can the administrator take to satisfy this task? (Choose two.)

Question23: A virtual machine has been renamed and an administrator is unable to find files with the new virtual machine name in the datastore.
What is the reason for this?

Question24: When attempting to power on a Virtual Machine you observe the following error:
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/volume/vm/vm-000002.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Which three actions will be the best solutions to address this problem? (Choose three.)

Question25: A new vApp was built and tested in the corporate headquarters datacenter running vSphere 6.x.
What condition would explain why the virtual machine is failing to boot in an offsite datacenter running on vSphere 5.5?

Question26: An administrator is attempting to restore a number of files in a directory within the Operating System of a virtual machine.
How can the administrator restore the files from a previous backup?

Question27: An administrator is configuring the Failover Order option on a vSphere Distributed Switch.
Which two options should be used with IP-hash load balancing? (Choose two.)

Question28: Which two statements are true about VMFS5 datastores on ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question29: An administrator reports that the System Event log data is only available for 24 hours when reviewing the Hardware Status tab.
Which condition could be responsible for the loss of data?

Question30: What are two ways to identify TCP/IP stack information? (Choose two.)

Question31: An administrator is using the Host Failures to Tolerate Admission Control Policy for a vSphere High Availability (HA) cluster. When configuring this setting on the cluster, the administrator sees this error message:
Insufficient resources to satisfy HA failover level on cluster
What are two likely causes for the error? (Choose two.)

Question32: An administrator attempts to migrate a suspended virtual machine to a newly deployed vSphere 6.x cluster. The compatibility check fails.
What condition could cause this behavior?

Question33: An administrator is only able to see the Health Badge when using the vRealize Operations user interface.
What is the likely cause of this behavior?

Question34: An administrator is configuring the Maximum Transmission Unit value on a vSphere Distributed Switch.
Which two options are typical values for ESXi networking? (Choose two.)

Question35: Which two networking connection types can be configured on a virtual switch? (Choose two.)

Question36: Refer to the Exhibit.
-- Exhibit --

An administrator has been given requirements to configure vMotion for a new virtual machine. The configuration should:
Provide Network Redundancy

Use VLAN 550

Be secured against anyone trying to spoof communication

The vSwitch1 configuration is shown in the Exhibit.
Which three changes should be made to meet the stated requirements? (Choose three.)

Question37: vSphere Update Manager allows which two virtual machine attributes to be upgraded? (Choose two.)

Question38: Which two options would allow a database administrator, with no access to the vSphere infrastructure, to connect to a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Question39: An application running in a virtual machine is experiencing performance issues. When utilizing performance monitoring utilities, it is noted that the CPU Utilization of the application is at 100%.
Which two scenarios are probable causes of the CPU contention for the application? (Choose two.)

Question40: From which two locations in the inventory hierarchy can you deploy a virtual machine using a template?
(Choose two.)

Question41: An administrator must determine an appropriate backup solution, given these conditions:
50 of the virtual machines are in a resource pool named Finance.

50 of the virtual machines are in a resource pool named QA.

Which solution allows an administrator the ability to backup 100 virtual machines?

Question42: Which method provides the best performance for the lowest resource cost when building a virtual machine for a single-threaded Windows application?

Question43: An administrator deploys vRealize Operations into a vSphere 6.x environment. After the deployment, the administrator notices that badges are not appearing.
What is a likely cause of this behavior?

Question44: An administrator is migrating a virtual machine from a Test cluster to a Production cluster. The two environments do not have any shared storage.
What is the easiest way to accomplish this task?

Question45: Why are some virtual machines orphaned after rebooting a High Availability (HA) enabled host?

Question46: Which scenario shows a reason for VMware Tools failing to install?

Question47: During a new vSphere Distributed Switch configuration, where does the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) value get modified?

Question48: An administrator wants to deploy a vApp and dynamically assign IP addresses without a DHCP server on the network.
Which action would you take to accomplish this task?

Question49: A vApp named Sales has a Memory Limit of 32 GB and a CPU Limit of 12,000 MHz. There are three virtual machines within the vApp:
Sales-DB -- Has a memory reservation of 20 GB.

Sales-DC -- Has a memory reservation of 8 GB.

Sales-Web -- Has a memory reservation of 8 GB.

Which statement is correct?

Question50: A Fault Tolerance (FT) virtual machine with four vCPUs is experiencing high latency when performing ICMP and Application tests.
What are three potential causes that may be attributing to this latency? (Choose three.)

Question51: What is a benefit of using Enhanced vMotion Compatibility for an environment?

Question52: How many Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) can be configured on a vSphere 6.x Distributed Switch?

Question53: When modifying a vApp, which two vSphere entities can be added? (Choose two.)

Question54: An attempt to enable vSphere Fault Tolerance for a powered-on virtual machine fails.
Which two scenarios would result in this failure? (Choose two.)

Question55: An administrator configures vSphere Replication for a virtual machine and enables multiple point in time (PIT) instances under the recovery settings in the Configure Replication wizard.
Which two statements are correct for vSphere Replication with multiple point in time instances enabled?
(Choose two.)

Question56: Which two Fibre Channel zoning options are supported with vSphere 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question57: What may be a cause for failure to unmount an NFS datastore?

Question58: An administrator has configured an alarm to be notified when a virtual machine meets two conditions:
high virtual CPU

high active memory consumption

The alarm is malfunctioning and triggering when either condition is met instead of both.
What can be done to correct the issue?

Question59: An administrator is creating a new Virtual SAN cluster on a Layer 2 network. There is an existing Virtual SAN cluster on the same Layer 2 network.
Which two actions would allow the new Virtual SAN cluster to coexist with the older cluster? (Choose two.)

Question60: What condition would prevent an administrator from creating a new VMFS3 datastore on an ESXi 6.x host using the vSphere Web Client?

Question61: Which two configurable options apply to both virtual machine CPU and memory allocation? (Choose two.)

Question62: An administrator is cloning and configuring five new web server virtual machines.
What would be the benefit of configuring resource shares for the new VMs?

Question63: An administrator is creating a new vSphere Distributed Switch that will be utilized with a specific vSphere Cluster. The cluster itself contains a mix of ESXi 5.x and 6.x Hosts.
Which Distributed Switch version should be created to support this configuration?

Question64: An administrator enables vSphere High Availability (HA) on an existing cluster with a large number of hosts and virtual machines. The administrator notices that the setup of vSphere HA on some of the hosts is failing.
What step, if taken, might resolve this issue?

Question65: Which three conditions would prevent Storage I/O Control from being enabled on a group of datastores?
(Choose three.)

Question66: Refer to the Exhibit.

-- Exhibit --
A 4 GB Memory virtual machine is experiencing extended memory issues, as shown in the Exhibit.
What potential issues could be attributed to this memory pressure?

Question67: An administrator is monitoring a High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) enabled cluster and has noticed that virtual machines in the cluster are being migrated without user intervention.
Why is this happening?

Question68: Which three actions can be executed when an alarm is triggered? (Choose three.)

Question69: When is it possible to place a VMFS5 datastore in maintenance mode?

Question70: Refer to the Exhibit.

A vSphere 6.x Standard Switch is configured with 4 virtual machine portgroups, as shown in the exhibit.
Which portgroup would be utilized by default when creating a new virtual machine?

Question71: What is true regarding datastores on ESXi 6.x?

Question72: An administrator receives a report that no real time statistics are available for a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory.
Which two statements indicate likely causes of the problem? (Choose two.)

Question73: A virtual machine is experiencing performance issues. The following performance metrics are observed:
CPU usage value for the virtual machine is above 90%

CPU ready value for the virtual machine is above 20%

Which two activities will likely resolve the performance issues? (Choose two.)

Question74: An administrator is attempting to remove an ESXi 6.x host from a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). When the administrator attempts to remove the host, the following error is observed:
The resource '16' is still in use.
What three steps are needed to successfully remove the host from the switch? (Choose three.)

Question75: What are two benefits of using NFS 4.1 with vSphere 6.x as compared to NFS 3? (Choose two.)

Question76: Which two actions are prerequisites to adding ESXi 6.x hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose two.)

Question77: Which two parameters are required when adding an iSCSI target to an iSCSI Software Adapter using Dynamic Discovery? (Choose two.)

Question78: An administrator has been tasked with enabling High Availability (HA) on a cluster in a vSphere
6.x environment with default settings. The cluster configures properly and there are no errors. The next day when powering on a virtual machine, an error is presented:
Not Enough Failover Resources
Which three scenarios are likely causes of this error message? (Choose three.)

Question79: An administrator is installing a new network card in an ESXi 6.x host that is part of a vSphere cluster.
When the host is placed into maintenance mode, the vSphere Web Client displays the progress bar at 2% for over 30 minutes.
Which two are likely reasons for this occurrence? (Choose two.)

Question80: An administrator has configured an alarm to be notified when a virtual machine meets either of these conditions:
High virtual CPU

High active memory consumption.

The alarm is only triggering when both of the conditions are met.
What can be done to correct the alarm behavior?

Question81: An administrator attempts to create a Thick Provisioned Virtual Disk (VMDK) on an NFS datastore; but it fails.
Which two reasons would explain the failure? (Choose two.)

Question82: Refer to the Exhibit.

-- Exhibit --
An administrator attempts to enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) on a cluster. The operation results in a compatibility error, as shown in the exhibit.
What is the likely cause of this error?

Question83: A company has decided to implement Virtual SAN within their vSphere 6.x environment. The Virtual SAN cluster will be composed of three ESXi 6.x hosts that are on the Virtual SAN Ready Node list.
Each ESXi host includes:
Two SAS Controllers that support Passthrough Mode

Four Solid State Drives (SSDs) 1TB in size each

20 SAS Magnetic Disks (MDs) 1TB in size each

The SSDs and MDs are evenly split between the two SAS controllers

The company will pilot a Virtual SAN cluster utilizing VMware best practices while maximizing storage capacity. The Virtual SAN cluster will use Manual Mode.
Which two Disk Group configurations would meet the stated configuration requirements? (Choose two.)

Question84: An administrator is troubleshooting basic network connectivity issues.
Which two scenarios are potential issues that this administrator might face? (Choose two.)

Question85: Which two actions allow for the disabling of Network Rollback operations? (Choose two.)

Question86: VMware tools is failing to install on a Microsoft Windows virtual machine.
What are two possible situations that would prevent the installation? (Choose two.)

Question87: What is required when changing a virtual machine name using the vSphere Web Client?

Question88: Which two statements are true about deploying and using vSphere Replication? (Choose two.)

Question89: A vSphere administrator needs to backup a virtual machine that has a Microsoft SQL Server Database installed.
Which solution allows for an application quiesce to occur during backup?

Question90: An administrator has an application that requires connection directly to PCI devices through a virtual machine.
What is a limitation of this configuration?

Question91: Refer to the Exhibit.

A storage administrator is not seeing full utilization of all bandwidth from an ESXi host. The vSphere administrator observes the adapter details, as shown in the Exhibit.
What is the probable cause of this issue?

Question92: Users of an application are reporting performance issues. The following performance values are observed in the vSphere Web Client:
Host CPU utilization is 90%

Virtual Machine memory utilization is consistently greater than 90%

CPU Ready values are higher than 20%

What could be the cause of the application performance issue?

Question93: A user is trying to retrieve objects from a SharePoint server and finds the request is taking an excessive amount of time. An administrator tries to isolate the issue and notes the following:
Application performance is poor when compared to virtual machines on other hosts.

Performance improves when the virtual machine is moved to another host.

The virtual machine encounters higher than expected CPU %Ready times.

What conclusion can be reached regarding the performance issues for this virtual machine?

Question94: An administrator is attempting to enable Storage I/O Control on a datastore, but it is failing.
What is the likely reason for this failure?

Question95: An administrator is unable to create the first group in a new vRealize Operations environment.
What is the likely cause of the problem?

Question96: Which three steps must be taken to use vSphere Update Manager 6.x to upgrade an ESXi 5.5 host to vSphere 6.x? (Choose three.)

Question97: An administrator needs to add an object to an existing vApp using the vSphere Web Client. How is this accomplished?

Question98: An administrator has a virtual machine that requires four times the compute resources than other virtual machines on the same ESXi 6.x host.
How should the administrator configure the virtual machine settings, in order to be prepared for any resource contention?

Question99: An administrator logs into the vSphere Web Client, but is unable to see any hosts and clusters.
Which two options could fix the problem? (Choose two.)

Question100: An ESXi 6.x host consists of 24 logical cores. Hyperthreading is enabled on the host.
What is the maximum number of vCPUs that can be assigned to a virtual machine on this host?

Question101: A mission-critical virtual machine built on vSphere 4.1 needs to be moved to an ESXi 6.x host.
Which virtual hardware version is needed to move the virtual machine without upgrading?

Question102: Which type of Adapter does not require vmkernel networking?

Question103: Which load balancing policy, previously limited to vSphere Distributed Switches, is now available on vSphere Standard Switches with vSphere 6.x?