EMT Practice Test

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Question1: How are ports scaled on vSphere Standard Switches (vSS)?

Question2: 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?

Question3: 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.)

Question4: 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.)

Question5: Which two storage controller configurations can be used with Virtual SAN? (Choose two.)

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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.)

Question8: Which two events happen when Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is disabled? (Choose two.)

Question9: From which two locations in the inventory hierarchy can you deploy a virtual machine using a template?
(Choose two.)

Question10: Which three connection types are available when configuring a vSwitch in the vSphere Web Client?
(Choose three.)

Question11: 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?

Question12: 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.)

Question13: 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?

Question14: An administrator enables High Availability (HA) on a Virtual SAN cluster.
Which network is used for HA Network Heartbeat configuration?

Question15: Which three VLAN Tagging modes are available in vSphere 6.x? (Choose three.)

Question16: Which three traffic types are available services options when configuring a vmkernel port? (Choose three.)

Question17: 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?

Question18: 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.)

Question19: Which two statements are true about VMFS5 datastores on ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question20: An administrator needs to verify that vMotion operations can be performed in a vSphere data center.
What round trip time (RTT) latency is the maximum value that will allow vMotion operations to succeed?

Question21: An administrator is troubleshooting basic network connectivity issues.
Which two scenarios are potential issues that this administrator might face? (Choose two.)

Question22: 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.)

Question23: 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.)

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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.)

Question26: Which three statements are true regarding Fault Tolerance? (Choose three.)

Question27: What is a requirement when enabling a Virtual SAN cluster in an existing High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Cluster?

Question28: 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.)

Question29: 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?

Question30: Which scenario shows a reason for VMware Tools failing to install?

Question31: Which two are true about the Risk badge in vRealize Operations? (Choose two.)

Question32: How many Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) can be configured on a vSphere 6.x Distributed Switch?

Question33: 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.)

Question34: Which three conditions would prevent Storage I/O Control from being enabled on a group of datastores?
(Choose three.)

Question35: 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?

Question36: 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?

Question37: An administrator is unable to create the first group in a new vRealize Operations environment.
What is the likely cause of the problem?

Question38: 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.)

Question39: 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.)

Question40: When you add an ESXi 6.x host to a new Cluster, which vSphere object owns the CPU and Memory resources of the hosts?

Question41: Which two configurable options apply to both virtual machine CPU and memory allocation? (Choose two.)

Question42: 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.)

Question43: What is true about resource pools created on a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster?

Question44: What are three goals of resource management within a cluster? (Choose three.)

Question45: 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.)

Question46: 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.)

Question47: 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.)

Question48: VMware tools is failing to install on a Microsoft Windows virtual machine.
What are two possible situations that would prevent the installation? (Choose two.)

Question49: 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.)

Question50: What is a benefit of using Enhanced vMotion Compatibility for an environment?

Question51: Which two actions are required when enabling vFlash Read Cache for a virtual machine's virtual disk?
(Choose two.)

Question52: What condition would prevent an administrator from creating a new VMFS3 datastore on an ESXi 6.x host using the vSphere Web Client?

Question53: An administrator is tasked with performing a vMotion migration of a virtual machine. The virtual machine is configured as follows:
vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC) enabled

Is part of a Distributed Resource Cluster (DRS) Cluster

Which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

Question54: 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?

Question55: Which two statements are true regarding VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC)? (Choose two.)

Question56: When modifying a vApp, which two vSphere entities can be added? (Choose two.)

Question57: 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.)

Question58: 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?

Question59: 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?

Question60: Which method provides the best performance for the lowest resource cost when building a virtual machine for a single-threaded Windows application?

Question61: 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.)

Question62: 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?

Question63: An administrator has an application that requires connection directly to PCI devices through a virtual machine.
What is a limitation of this configuration?

Question64: 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?

Question65: 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.)

Question66: Refer to the 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?

Question67: When is it possible to place a VMFS5 datastore in maintenance mode?

Question68: What is required when changing a virtual machine name using the vSphere Web Client?

Question69: What are two benefits of using NFS 4.1 with vSphere 6.x as compared to NFS 3? (Choose two.)

Question70: Which two Virtual SAN related actions might start resynchronization of virtual machine objects? (Choose two.)

Question71: Which two options would allow a database administrator, with no access to the vSphere infrastructure, to connect to a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Question72: Which two NFS Protocol versions does vSphere 6 support? (Choose two.)

Question73: Which two badges are major badges in vRealize Operations? (Choose two.)

Question74: An administrator needs to monitor traffic on vSwitches in a vSphere 6.x environment.
Which option, if configured, would accomplish this task?

Question75: Which three features can be enabled for a new host cluster? (Choose three.)

Question76: 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?

Question77: Which three are architecture components of vRealize Operations? (Choose three.)

Question78: 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.)

Question79: 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?

Question80: Which two High Availability (HA) Cluster admission control policies can help avoid resource fragmentation?
(Choose two.)

Question81: 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?

Question82: An administrator needs to add an object to an existing vApp using the vSphere Web Client. How is this accomplished?

Question83: Which three features are not supported when using Fault Tolerance in vSphere 6.x? (Choose three.)

Question84: Which two networking connection types can be configured on a virtual switch? (Choose two.)

Question85: 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.)

Question86: 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.)

Question87: 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?

Question88: What must be enabled to ensure that VM Component Protection (VMCP) works in a High Availability cluster?

Question89: A vApp template recently added to a Content Library is not displayed.
Which two actions could correct this problem? (Choose two.)

Question90: 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?

Question91: 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.)

Question92: 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?

Question93: vMotion can be performed between which three physical boundaries? (Choose three.)

Question94: 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.)

Question95: Which three operations occur during a cold migration of a virtual machine? (Choose three.)

Question96: During a new vSphere Distributed Switch configuration, where does the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) value get modified?

Question97: 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?

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

Question100: You are creating a virtual machine in the Web Client using the New Virtual Machine wizard.
Which two steps are required? (Choose two.)

Question101: Which two actions are prerequisites to adding ESXi 6.x hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose two.)

Question102: An administrator is moving a virtual machine into a resource pool. The VM and resource pool are configured as shown:
VM configuration:
2GHz CPU reservation

1GB Memory limit

Resource Pool configuration:
6GHz CPU reservation

1GB Memory reservation

No limit to memory

What happens to the virtual machine's resource settings when it is moved into the pool?

Question103: What is the default load balancing policy for a newly created VMkernel port on a vSphere Distributed Switch?

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

Question106: Which three are requirements when using vMotion to move a virtual machine across vCenter Server systems? (Choose three.)

Question107: 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.)

Question108: 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?

Question109: 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?

Question110: What may be a cause for failure to unmount an NFS datastore?

Question111: 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.)

Question112: Why are some virtual machines orphaned after rebooting a High Availability (HA) enabled host?