EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3: An administrator is tasked with setting up an iSCSI solution on an ESXI 6.x host. To provide multiple paths to the iSCSI array, the administrator chooses to setup iSCSI Port Binding.
Which three statements are true in regard to setting up iSCSI Port Binding? (Choose three.)

Question4: When attempting to power on a virtual machine, the following error message is shown:
Unable to access a file since it is locked
What are two actions that can be taken to address this situation? (Choose two.)

Question5: Which two badges are major badges in vRealize Operations? (Choose two.)

Question6: 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.)

Question7: 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?

Question8: 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?

Question9: An administrator enables High Availability (HA) on a Virtual SAN cluster.
Which network is used for HA Network Heartbeat configuration?

Question10: 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.)

Question11: Which two statements are correct when turning off a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Cluster?
(Choose two.)

Question12: 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?

Question13: When is it possible to place a VMFS5 datastore in maintenance mode?

Question14: Why are some virtual machines orphaned after rebooting a High Availability (HA) enabled host?

Question15: 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.)

Question16: 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?

Question17: 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?

Question18: Which two storage controller configurations can be used with Virtual SAN? (Choose two.)

Question19: Which three features are not supported when using Fault Tolerance in vSphere 6.x? (Choose three.)

Question20: 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.)

Question21: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator has configured a host profile so that ESXi 6.x hosts will point to the corporate NTP server for time synchronization. The NTP server is located at 10.0.30.213, but time has not been synchronized properly across the ESXi hosts.
The administrator reviews Host Profile settings as shown in the Exhibit.
Which two steps are required to resolve the issue? (Choose two.)

Question22: Which two NFS Protocol versions does vSphere 6 support? (Choose two.)

Question23: 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?

Question24: 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?

Question25: Which two options would allow a database administrator, with no access to the vSphere infrastructure, to connect to a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Question26: 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.)

Question27: Which two configurable options apply to both virtual machine CPU and memory allocation? (Choose two.)

Question28: You are creating a virtual machine in the Web Client using the New Virtual Machine wizard.
Which two steps are required? (Choose two.)

Question29: Which two SMTP Notification Event Details are specific to alarms triggered by events? (Choose two.)

Question30: Which three features can be enabled for a new host cluster? (Choose three.)

Question31: An administrator is deploying the vCenter Server Appliance.
Which two are valid steps that must be taken to successfully deploy the appliance? (Choose two.)

Question32: An organization has configured Distributed Power Management (DPM) on a vSphere 6.x cluster. The organization wants to be alerted when an ESXi host has been powered down by DPM.
Which two options represent the type and name of the alarm that would accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Question33: An administrator is trying to open a remote console session to a virtual machine using the vSphere Web Client. With each attempt, an error message is displayed that reads:
HTTP ERROR 404
What is the most likely cause for the error?

Question34: An administrator creates a DRS cluster of eight ESXi 6.x hosts. There are 10 virtual machines balanced across the hosts. An attempt to place the first host into maintenance mode fails.
What are two reasons that the host failed to enter maintenance mode? (Choose two.)

Question35: Which two statements are true about VMFS5 datastores on ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question36: An administrator needs to add an object to an existing vApp using the vSphere Web Client. How is this accomplished?

Question37: 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.)

Question38: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator logs into the vSphere Web Client and sees the warning shown in the Exhibit.
During a change control window, the warning was addressed.
What should be done to verify that the host is no longer showing the warning?

Question39: An administrator is editing the management network configuration of an ESXi 6.x host from the vSphere Web Client, but mistakenly puts the incorrect VLAN in place for the management network.
What action do you need to take to correct this?

Question40: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is analyzing a virtual machine as shown in the Exhibit.
What is the current long term risk for this virtual machine?

Question41: An administrator needs to monitor traffic on vSwitches in a vSphere 6.x environment.
Which option, if configured, would accomplish this task?

Question42: 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.)

Question43: Which two events happen when Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is disabled? (Choose two.)

Question44: Which three actions can be executed when an alarm is triggered? (Choose three.)

Question45: An administrator has an application that requires connection directly to PCI devices through a virtual machine.
What is a limitation of this configuration?

Question46: An administrator needs to deploy five virtual machines to a Virtual SAN-based datastore. Each virtual machine has a 50GB virtual disk and 16GB of memory. The remaining space on the datastore is 300GB.
The administrator is unable to power on all five virtual machines concurrently.
Which two statements will enable the administrator to power on all five virtual machines concurrently?
(Choose two.)

Question47: Which method provides the best performance for the lowest resource cost when building a virtual machine for a single-threaded Windows application?

Question48: Which two are true about the Risk badge in vRealize Operations? (Choose two.)

Question49: Which two Fibre Channel zoning options are supported with vSphere 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question50: Which two Virtual SAN related actions might start resynchronization of virtual machine objects? (Choose two.)

Question51: A High Availability (HA) cluster is configured to respond to a given number of host failures. The cluster contains virtual machines configured with these settings:
VM1 has a 1GHz CPU reservation and no Memory reservation

VM2 has a 2GHz CPU reservation and no Memory reservation

VM3 has no CPU reservation and no Memory reservation

Given this information, what is the correct slot size for the cluster?

Question52: Which three conditions would prevent Storage I/O Control from being enabled on a group of datastores?
(Choose three.)

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

Question54: Which two actions allow for the disabling of Network Rollback operations? (Choose two.)

Question55: 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?

Question56: Which three are architecture components of vRealize Operations? (Choose three.)

Question57: Which two High Availability (HA) Cluster admission control policies can help avoid resource fragmentation?
(Choose two.)

Question58: An administrator is unable to create the first group in a new vRealize Operations environment.
What is the likely cause of the problem?

Question59: An administrator has unsuccessfully attempted several times to install an Operating System inside a virtual machine. The administrator finds that the installation fails at random intervals.
Which two actions can be taken to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)

Question60: 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?

Question61: 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.)

Question62: Which type of Adapter does not require vmkernel networking?

Question63: 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.)

Question64: What are three changes that could result in a Network rollback operation? (Choose three.)

Question65: What condition would prevent an administrator from creating a new VMFS3 datastore on an ESXi 6.x host using the vSphere Web Client?

Question66: 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.)

Question67: What is a requirement when enabling a Virtual SAN cluster in an existing High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Cluster?

Question68: 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?

Question69: 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.)

Question70: Refer to the Exhibit.

A storage administrator has reported that full utilization of all bandwidth from an ESXi 6.x host is not being seen. In troubleshooting the issue, the Adapter details are shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, what is cause of the issue?

Question71: A user wants to monitor a business-critical virtual machine to ensure that it doesn't run out of resources.
What metric could be monitored in vRealize Operations to address this concern?

Question72: 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.)

Question73: What are two benefits of using NFS 4.1 with vSphere 6.x as compared to NFS 3? (Choose two.)

Question74: A vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 environment is upgraded to vRealize Operations. After the upgrade, the analytics services fail to start.
Which three steps must be taken to resolve the problem? (Choose three.)

Question75: What is required when changing a virtual machine name using the vSphere Web Client?

Question76: 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.)

Question77: 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.)

Question78: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is configuring an ESXi 6.x host to use multiple NICs to resolve a management network redundancy error. After configuring a second NIC, the server is not able to communicate when the primary connection is taken down. The administrator analyzes the Exhibit shown here.
Based on the exhibit, what is the likely cause of the issue?

Question79: VMware tools is failing to install on a Microsoft Windows virtual machine.
What are two possible situations that would prevent the installation? (Choose two.)

Question80: 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?

Question81: An administrator suspects the virtual machines on the host are trying to send more throughput to the storage system than the configuration on the host supports.
What data counter would best identify the suspected problem?

Question82: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is viewing network connectivity for a new virtual machine, as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the Exhibit, what will occur with the network traffic of this virtual machine when communicating externally from vSwitch1?

Question83: 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?

Question84: 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?

Question85: 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.)

Question86: 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.)

Question87: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator has created the resource pool configuration shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which virtual machine(s) can be successfully powered on?

Question88: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is adding an NFS datastore as shown in the Exhibit.
What is the purpose of the Servers to be added list?

Question89: 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?

Question90: What are two ways to identify TCP/IP stack information? (Choose two.)

Question91: After selecting an object in vRealize Operations, how can a user compare the badge values of related child objects?

Question92: An organization has an ESXi 6.x host that contains two resource pools. The host is being relocated to a DRS cluster.
What two actions can be taken to integrate the host into the cluster, and what would happen to the existing ESXi resource pool hierarchy as a result? (Choose two.)

Question93: Refer to the 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.)

Question94: 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?

Question95: 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.)

Question96: 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?

Question97: From which two locations in the inventory hierarchy can you deploy a virtual machine using a template?
(Choose two.)

Question98: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is installing Windows into a virtual machine. The DVD has been mounted on the Host and configured for the virtual machine as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, when the virtual machine is booted, why would it attempt to search for a PXE server?

Question99: Refer to the 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?

Question100: An administrator is trying to determine why a newly-created ESXi host cannot see the configured iSCSI LUNs. The administrator suspects that a colleague entered the iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN) incorrectly in the iSCSI software initiator settings. The IQN entered is:
iqn.iscsi.vmware.com.2015-06:lun01
Which two statements explain why the IQN address is incorrect? (Choose two.)

Question101: An administrator needs to configure an ODBC connection to the database for a vCenter Server install using the Windows built-in system account. What options must the administrator configure to accomplish the connection? (Choose two.)

Question102: What is true regarding datastores on ESXi 6.x?

Question103: 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.)

Question104: 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.)

Question105: 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?

Question106: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is migrating a powered-on virtual machine, as shown in the exhibit.
Which option should be selected to perform a Storage vMotion of the VM?

Question107: 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?

Question108: Which two statements are true about VMFS5 datastores on ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question109: An organization has a number of virtual machines that would benefit from Fault Tolerance. These include:
A single vCPU Apache Server

A dual vCPU vCenter Server

A quad vCPU SQL Server

An eight vCPU Hadoop Server

Which two virtual machines can be configured to use VMware Fault Tolerance? (Choose two.)

Question110: Which two parameters are required when adding an iSCSI target to an iSCSI Software Adapter using Dynamic Discovery? (Choose two.)

Question111: When you add an ESXi 6.x host to a new Cluster, which vSphere object owns the CPU and Memory resources of the hosts?

Question112: What are three goals of resource management within a cluster? (Choose three.)

Question113: 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?

Question114: What must be enabled to ensure that VM Component Protection (VMCP) works in a High Availability cluster?

Question115: What is true about resource pools created on a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster?

Question116: A vApp template recently added to a Content Library is not displayed.
Which two actions could correct this problem? (Choose two.)

Question117: What is a benefit of using Enhanced vMotion Compatibility for an environment?