EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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.)

Question2: 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.)

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: What are three valid disk configurations for the vSphere Data Protection 6.x Appliance? (Choose three.)

Question6: What is required when changing a virtual machine name using the vSphere Web Client?

Question7: You are creating a virtual machine in the Web Client using the New Virtual Machine wizard.
Which two steps are required? (Choose two.)

Question8: When modifying a vApp, which two vSphere entities can be added? (Choose two.)

Question9: What is true regarding datastores on ESXi 6.x?

Question10: Which three conditions would prevent Storage I/O Control from being enabled on a group of datastores?
(Choose three.)

Question11: Which scenario shows a reason for VMware Tools failing to install?

Question12: 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?

Question13: Which two badges are major badges in vRealize Operations? (Choose two.)

Question14: 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.)

Question15: 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?

Question16: 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?

Question17: 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.)

Question18: When is it possible to place a VMFS5 datastore in maintenance mode?

Question19: What are two ways to identify TCP/IP stack information? (Choose two.)

Question20: 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 previously created cluster?
(Choose two.)

Question21: 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?

Question22: 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?

Question23: Which method provides the best performance for the lowest resource cost when building a virtual machine for a single-threaded Windows application?

Question24: An administrator is troubleshooting basic network connectivity issues.
Which two scenarios are potential issues that this administrator might face? (Choose two.)

Question25: Which two Fibre Channel zoning options are supported with vSphere 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question26: An administrator needs to add an object to an existing vApp using the vSphere Web Client. How is this accomplished?

Question27: A vApp template recently added to a Content Library is not displayed.
Which two actions could correct this problem? (Choose two.)

Question28: 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.)

Question29: 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.)

Question30: Which two are true about the Risk badge in vRealize Operations? (Choose two.)

Question31: 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?

Question32: 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?

Question33: An administrator is attempting to migrate a large Hadoop virtual machine using vMotion. The administrator notices a delay when the machine is quiesced. The Hadoop virtual machine is processing many transactions a second to an in-memory database.
Which two actions would help reduce the amount of time needed to perform a vMotion on this virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Question34: 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.)

Question35: 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?

Question36: An administrator has an application that requires connection directly to PCI devices through a virtual machine.
What is a limitation of this configuration?

Question37: 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.)

Question38: vSphere Update Manager allows which two virtual machine attributes to be upgraded? (Choose two.)

Question39: Which three VLAN Tagging modes are available in vSphere 6.x? (Choose three.)

Question40: Which two parameters are required when adding an iSCSI target to an iSCSI Software Adapter using Dynamic Discovery? (Choose two.)

Question41: 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?

Question42: Which two networking connection types can be configured on a virtual switch? (Choose two.)

Question43: 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.)

Question44: 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?

Question45: 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?

Question46: How many Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) can be configured on a vSphere 6.x Distributed Switch?

Question47: An administrator needs to monitor traffic on vSwitches in a vSphere 6.x environment.
Which option, if configured, would accomplish this task?

Question48: What are two benefits of using NFS 4.1 with vSphere 6.x as compared to NFS 3? (Choose two.)

Question49: 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.)

Question50: Which type of Adapter does not require vmkernel networking?

Question51: 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?

Question52: 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?

Question53: Which two storage controller configurations can be used with Virtual SAN? (Choose two.)

Question54: 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.)

Question55: 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.)

Question56: 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?

Question57: What is a benefit of using VMware Data Protection (VDP)?

Question58: Which two NFS Protocol versions does vSphere 6 support? (Choose two.)

Question59: Why are some virtual machines orphaned after rebooting a High Availability (HA) enabled host?

Question60: Which three actions can be taken as a result of executing the vSphere Update Manager 6.x scan and remediation wizards? (Choose three.)

Question61: After selecting an object in vRealize Operations, how can a user compare the badge values of related child objects?

Question62: Which two Virtual SAN related actions might start resynchronization of virtual machine objects? (Choose two.)

Question63: Which two actions are prerequisites to adding ESXi 6.x hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose two.)

Question64: 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.)

Question65: When you add an ESXi 6.x host to a new Cluster, which vSphere object owns the CPU and Memory resources of the hosts?

Question66: 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?

Question67: Which two actions allow for the disabling of Network Rollback operations? (Choose two.)

Question68: 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?

Question69: 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.)

Question70: During a new vSphere Distributed Switch configuration, where does the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) value get modified?

Question71: Which two statements are true about deploying and using vSphere Replication? (Choose two.)

Question72: 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.)

Question73: An administrator is unable to create the first group in a new vRealize Operations environment.
What is the likely cause of the problem?

Question74: 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?

Question75: Which two SMTP Notification Event Details are specific to alarms triggered by events? (Choose two.)

Question76: 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?

Question77: Which two statements are true about VMFS5 datastores on ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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.)

Question81: 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?

Question82: 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?

Question83: 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.)

Question84: 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?

Question85: 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.)

Question86: 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.)

Question87: 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.)

Question88: Which two configurable options apply to both virtual machine CPU and memory allocation? (Choose two.)

Question89: 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.)

Question90: Which three are architecture components of vRealize Operations? (Choose three.)

Question91: 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?

Question92: VMware tools is failing to install on a Microsoft Windows virtual machine.
What are two possible situations that would prevent the installation? (Choose two.)

Question93: 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?

Question94: 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?

Question95: Which three actions can be executed when an alarm is triggered? (Choose three.)

Question96: From which two locations in the inventory hierarchy can you deploy a virtual machine using a template?
(Choose two.)

Question97: 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.)

Question98: 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?

Question99: 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.)

Question100: Which three traffic types are available services options when configuring a vmkernel port? (Choose three.)

Question101: When configuring vSphere Replication for a virtual machine, what is the lowest Recovery Point Objective (RPO) that can be selected?

Question102: 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.)

Question103: 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.)

Question104: 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.)

Question105: Which load balancing policy, previously limited to vSphere Distributed Switches, is now available on vSphere Standard Switches with vSphere 6.x?

Question106: An attempt to enable vSphere Fault Tolerance for a powered-on virtual machine fails.
Which two scenarios would result in this failure? (Choose two.)

Question107: What may be a cause for failure to unmount an NFS datastore?

Question108: 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.)

Question109: 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?

Question110: 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?

Question111: 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.)

Question112: 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?

Question113: 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?

Question114: 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.)

Question115: 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?

Question116: What condition would prevent an administrator from creating a new VMFS3 datastore on an ESXi 6.x host using the vSphere Web Client?

Question117: 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?

Question118: Which two options would allow a database administrator, with no access to the vSphere infrastructure, to connect to a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Question119: 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?

Question120: 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?