EMT Practice Test

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Question1: An administrator suspects that the MTU value for a vSphere Standard Switch is misconfigured.
Which two commands can determine the value? (Choose two.)

Question2: An administrator notices that one virtual machine is in an orphaned state.
What are two reasons that a virtual machine can appear as orphaned? (Choose two.)

Question3: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator has configured a firewall rule as shown in the Exhibit.
Which statement best describes the ESXi 6.x firewall rule?

Question4: Which statement is true for the Path Selection Plug-In VMW_PSP_MRU?

Question5: Refer to the Exhibit.

Refer to the Exhibit. The list of devices attached to vmhba1 will be the basis for configuring a VMware Virtual SAN using Manual Mode.
Based on the exhibit, which two combinations of devices should be used to create Disk Group(s)? (Choose two.)

Question6: Which two statements are true regarding VMFS3 volumes in ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question7: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is reviewing a vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) enabled Cluster and observes unexpected behavior as shown in the Exhibit.
What are three potential causes of the cluster imbalance? (Choose three.)

Question8: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU performance related problem for the SlowVM virtual machine.
Which three actions should the administrator take to improve CPU performance for SlowVM? (Choose three.)

Question9: What are two use cases for Fibre Channel Zoning in a vSphere environment? (Choose two.)

Question10: Which two are valid Identity Sources when configuring vCenter Single Sign-On? (Choose two.)

Question11: When attempting to place a datastore in Maintenance Mode, the task remains at 1%.
What are two potential causes for this? (Choose two.)

Question12: Which two considerations should an administrator keep in mind when booting from Software Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)? (Choose two.)

Question13: Refer to the Exhibit.

What will be created upon completion of the steps in this wizard?

Question14: Which three traffic types can be configured for dedicated VMkernel adapters? (Choose three.)

Question15: An administrator wants to configure an ESXi 6.x host to use Active Directory (AD) to manage users and groups. The AD domain group ESX Admins was previously created.
Which two conditions should be considered when planning this configuration? (Choose two.)

Question16: After deploying a vSphere Platform Services Controller (PSC), an administrator is unable to install vCenter Server. The error displayed is:
Could not contact Lookup Service. Please check VM_ssoreg.log.
Which two actions can be taken to correct this problem? (Choose two.)

Question17: An administrator needs to migrate a legacy physical application server to a virtual machine within a vSphere 6 cluster. As part of the conversion, the administrator must reduce the size of the virtual disks.
What action should the administrator take to create a virtual machine with smaller virtual disks than the original physical server?

Question18: An ESXi 6.x host in the vCenter Server inventory has disconnected due to an All Paths Down (APD) situation. An administrator has corrected the APD issue on the host, but it still remains disconnected.
What action should the administrator take next?

Question19: When importing an existing SSL certificate into vSphere Replication Server, which file format is required?

Question20: An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine that has unexpectedly powered off.
Which two logs should be used to troubleshoot the issue? (Choose two.)

Question21: An administrator is having a problem configuring Storage I/O Control on a Datastore.
Which two conditions could explain the issue? (Choose two.)

Question22: Which group in the vsphere.local domain will have administrator privileges for the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)?

Question23: An administrator plans to use VMware Converter Standalone to convert a virtual machine to a vSphere environment. The source virtual machine has these properties:
Running Windows 2008 R2

Contains one NTFS formatted volume

During conversion, how many virtual disks can the administrator add to the destination virtual machine?

Question24: Refer to the Exhibit.

The Exhibit shows the status of vmhba32 and vmhba33 as Unbound.
What is a likely reason for this status?

Question25: In a vSphere High Availability cluster, what is the VM Monitoring I/O stats interval default value?

Question26: An administrator is building a large virtual machine that will require as many vCPUs as the host can support. An ESXi 6.x host has these specifications:
Four 24-core Intel Xeon Processors

256 GB of Memory

512 GB Local disk space using VMFS5

What is the maximum number of virtual CPUs that the virtual machine can be allocated?

Question27: Which condition would cause a vCenter Server installation to fail when installing on a Windows virtual machine?

Question28: An administrator has decided to create 10 ESXi 6.x hosts via Auto Deploy for a new Test/Dev cluster. The hosts are configured to obtain their networking configuration via DHCP.
Which Direct Console User Interface option should the administrator use to renew the DHCP lease for the hosts?

Question29: A user notifies an administrator that Content Libraries are not visible.
What is a possible solution?

Question30: Refer to the Exhibit.

A vSphere 6.x DRS cluster is configured as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which statement is true?

Question31: An administrator wants to configure a High Availability cluster to allow virtual machines a 10 minute window to shut down in the event of a Host Isolation incident.
What two configuration settings would satisfy this requirement? (Choose two.)

Question32: An administrator wants to monitor virtual machines on a host and send notifications when memory usage reaches 80%.
What should the administrator create in vCenter Server to accomplish this?

Question33: A vSphere 6 High Availability cluster has been configured with default settings. Four virtual machines in the cluster have been configured with these priorities:
Prod-DB. High

Prod-Email: High

Prod-VC. Medium

Dev-VDI: Low

How many VM Overrides would need to be defined at the cluster level to meet the restart priorities?

Question34: An administrator is creating a new Content Library. It will subscribe to another remote Content Library without authentication enabled.
What information from the published library will they need in order to complete the subscription?

Question35: A device's vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) support status command line output shows:
naa.500253825002a865 VAAI Plugin Name: ATS Status: unsupported Clone Status: unsupported Zero Status: supported Delete Status: unsupported What is the corresponding VAAI support status in the vSphere Web Client?

Question36: Which two identification sources can a vSphere Auto Deploy rule use to identify target hosts? (Choose two.)

Question37: An administrator decides to change the root password for an ESXi 6.x host to comply with the company's security policies.
What are two ways that this can be accomplished? (Choose two.)

Question38: Which three connection types are supported between a remote site and vCloud Air? (Choose three.)

Question39: An administrator is unable to see performance statistics for only the Past Week performance data. The vCenter Server is using a Microsoft SQL Server Database.
What are three likely causes contributing to this issue? (Choose three.)

Question40: An administrator wants to reduce the memory overhead for a 3D graphics enabled virtual machine (VM).
What advanced feature can be added to the VM configuration file to reduce memory overhead?

Question41: Which two capabilities does the vSphere Replication Client Plug-in provide? (Choose two.)

Question42: An administrator is attempting to enable Legacy Fault Tolerance (FT) on a virtual machine and observes the following in the vSphere Web Client:
Fault Tolerance has not been licensed on host <hostname>.
What is the minimum licensed edition that supports this configuration?

Question43: An administrator creates a custom ESXi firewall rule using an XML file, however the rules do not appear in the vSphere Web Client.
Which action should the administrator take to correct the problem?

Question44: Which two features are available for virtual machines configured with DirectPath I/O? (Choose two.)

Question45: When attempting to log in with the vSphere Web Client, users have reported the error:
Incorrect Username/Password
The administrator has configured the Platform Services Controller Identity Source as:
Type. Active Directory as an LDAP Server

Domain: vmware.com

Alias: VMWARE

Default Domain: Yes

Which two statements would explain why users cannot login to the vSphere Web Client? (Choose two.)

Question46: Which two tasks does the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) perform? (Choose two.)

Question47: Which three ports are used by the vSphere Web Client when connecting directly to an ESXi 6.x host?
(Choose three.)

Question48: An administrator subscribes to the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery service.
Which replicated objects can be directly monitored and managed?

Question49: An administrator is configuring an identity source for Single Sign-On. The administrator will use the machine that Single Sign-on is running on, but does not want all users on the machine to be visible to SSO.
Which identity Source meets this requirement?

Question50: VMware vSphere Replication protects virtual machines from partial or complete site failures by replicating the virtual machines between which three sites? (Choose three.)

Question51: Which two settings are required for Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP) to protect from All Paths Down (APD) and Permanent Device Loss (PDL)? (Choose two.)

Question52: An administrator notices that the time on an ESXi 6.x host is incorrect.
Which two actions should the administrator take to correct this issue? (Choose two.)

Question53: When a Content Library is deleted, what happens to the files contained on the backing storage?

Question54: What are two likely causes for a DRS cluster to become unbalanced? (Choose two.)

Question55: An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine performance issue using vRealize Operations.
Which two badges would help to identify possible resource contention concerns? (Choose two.)

Question56: Which two scenarios would cause a Fault Tolerance-enabled virtual machine to fail to power the Secondary virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Question57: An administrator needs to configure a storage solution for a vSphere 6.x implementation with these characteristics:
● Snapshot support
● vMotion Capability
● Clustering across multiple ESXi hosts
● Database application with high transaction count
● vFlash Read Cache
Which solution meets all of the stated requirements?

Question58: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator receives vRealize Operations alerts for the Health of the virtual machine PVMAPP_0 as shown in Exhibit 1:
The administrator clicks on the Analysis pane, as shown in Exhibit 2:

Based on the exhibits, what action would correctly address the performance problems observed?

Question59: Which two are valid compliance results that indicate the need to apply a Host Profile? (Choose two.)

Question60: After configuring a Virtual SAN cluster, an administrator using the vSphere Web Client notices that the Virtual SAN datastore is smaller than expected. The cluster contains:
Three ESXi hosts

Each host has one 10GB SDD

Each host has one 100GB HDD

Why would the Virtual SAN datastore show as 100GB instead of 300GB?

Question61: An administrator enables High Availability (HA) on a Virtual SAN cluster.
There are four vmkernel port groups with the following IP addresses assigned:
Management: 192.168.12.10

vMotion: 192.168.13.10

Virtual SAN: 192.168.14.10

Fault TolerancE. 192.168.15.10

Which IP address will HA use for traffic?

Question62: Which two statements are true regarding iSCSI adapters? (Choose two.)

Question63: Where is a Virtual SAN Fault Domain configured?

Question64: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator manages a High Availability (HA)/Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)-enabled cluster and has configured the affinity rule shown in the Exhibit.
Which two statements best describe the configuration shown in the exhibit? (Choose two.)

Question65: Which two statements are true regarding upgrading from a Distributed vCenter Server 5.x to vCenter Server 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question66: A vSphere Replication user needs to connect a source site to a target site.
What privilege is needed at both sites?

Question67: An administrator is unable to start the vCenter Server service. The vpxd.log file shows this service failure:
[13308 error 'Default' opID=622892-371bf717] CoreDump: Unable to write minidump [13308 error 'Default' opID=622892-371bf717] error -2147024784 : There is not enough space on the disk.
What is preventing the start of the service?

Question68: An administrator uses the df -h command and notices that an NFS datastore is reporting a capacity of 0 Bytes.
What condition would cause this to occur?

Question69: An administrator has noticed that virtual machine VM2 in the vApp show in the Exhibit is demonstrating poor performance.

Which three changes, if performed separately, would improve the performance of VM2? (Choose three.)

Question70: Refer to the Exhibit.

What will be the result of selecting the highlighted device?

Question71: Which two features are deprecated in Network I/O Control 3 (NIOC3)? (Choose two.)

Question72: Which three parameters should be considered when calculating the bandwidth for vSphere Replication?
(Choose three.)

Question73: An administrator has recently configured HA on a cluster. After reviewing the summary tab on one of the hosts, the warning in Exhibit 1 is displayed:

The administrator proceeds to view the management network port group data shown in Exhibit 2:

The administrator then views the management network vSwitch as shown in Exhibit 3:

Based on the exhibits, which two steps should be taken to ensure redundancy on the management network? (Choose two.)

Question74: A vSphere Web Client task fails while creating a VMFS datastore on a disk with these characteristics:
The disk was formatted with a Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table

The disk was not erased

The disk is visible in the vSphere Web Client

What action needs to be performed to resolve the issue?

Question75: What is the maximum number of snapshot instances in vSphere Replication that can be configured to recover a virtual machine at a specific point in time?

Question76: An administrator needs two vCenter Servers to be visible within a single vSphere Web Client session.
Which two vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller (PSC) configurations would accomplish this?
(Choose two.)

Question77: Which command shows the Physical Uplink status for a vmnic?

Question78: Which Platform Service Controller Password Policy determines the number of days a password can exist before the user must change it?

Question79: An administrator is configuring the clock tolerance for the Single Sign-On token configuration policy and wants to define the time skew tolerance between a client and the domain controller clock.
Which time measurement is used for the value?

Question80: What is the command to list multipathing modules on an ESXi 6.x host?

Question81: When attempting to remove a host from a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS), an administrator observes the error message:
The resource '16' is in use
What are two reasons why this error would be displayed? (Choose two.)

Question82: When attempting to connect to a vCenter Server, an administrator observes the following at the top of the vSphere Web Client:
Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server Systems:https://vCenter.corp.com:443/sdk What three reasons could be preventing the vSphere Web Client from communicating with this vCenter Server? (Choose three.)

Question83: An administrator needs to recover disk space on a previously-used thin provisioned virtual disk. The volumes where the administrator needs to recover the disk blocks are on VAAI-compliant storage arrays.
Which two actions should the administrator take accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

Question84: An administrator is configuring virtual machines to use Worldwide Port Names (WWPNs) to access the storage.
Which two conditions are required? (Choose two.)

Question85: How does vSphere High Availability calculate the memory slot size of a virtual machine?

Question86: An administrator is building a large virtual machine that will require as many vCPUs as the host can support. An ESXi 6.x host has these specifications:
Six 32-core Intel Xeon Processors

256 GB of Memory

512 GB Local disk space using VMFS5

What is the maximum number of virtual CPUs that the virtual machine can be allocated?

Question87: An administrator is assigning a user the Content Library administrator role. The user will only be creating the library for a single vCenter Server.
What is the lowest level of the permission heirarchy that this role can be granted to the user and still allow them to create a Content Library?

Question88: An administrator created a six node Virtual SAN cluster, created a fault domain, and moved three of the six nodes into that domain.
A node that is a member of the fault domain fails.
What is the expected result?

Question89: After successfully adding a new ESXi 6.x host to vCenter Server, an administrator sees it as Not Responding in the vSphere Web Client interface a few minutes later.
If the issue is caused by a network firewall blocking traffic, which port must be opened to correct this specific problem?

Question90: An administrator runs the command esxcli storage core device list and sees the following output:
mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 Display Name: RAID 5 (mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0) Has Settable Display Name: false SizE. 40960 Device Type: Direct-Access Multipath Plugin: NMP Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/ mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 Status: off Is Local: true What can be determined by this output?

Question91: An administrator connects to an ESXi 6.x host console in order to shutdown the host.
Which option in the Direct Console User Interface would perform this task?

Question92: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator receives an error on a vSphere cluster as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which three configuration changes can resolve the error? (Choose three.)

Question93: Which secondary Private VLAN (PVLAN) type can communicate and send packets to an Isolated PVLAN?

Question94: Refer to the Exhibit.

A vSphere 6.x environment is configured with VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs). An administrator accesses the cluster Actions menu, as shown in the Exhibit.
Which option is used to create a VVOL on an existing VVOL container?

Question95: What is the name of the command line utility that checks for VMFS5 metadata corruption?

Question96: An administrator tries to run esxtop to troubleshoot CPU performance issues, but no output is displayed.
How can the issue be resolved?

Question97: The command esxcli network vm list displays four virtual machines connected to the Production vSwitch.
Within the vSphere Web Client, five virtual machines are seen.
What explains this behavior?

Question98: What will occur if the .nvram file is deleted from a powered off virtual machine?

Question99: Refer to the Exhibit.

-- Exhibit --
An administrator has created the DRS cluster shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which statement is true?

Question100: An administrator is troubleshooting network communications between the vCenter Server and the ESXi 6.x host.
Which log shows the interaction events between these components?

Question101: A virtual machine is exhibiting these symptoms:
Memory usage is constantly high (94% or greater) or constantly low (24% or less).

Free memory is consistently 6% or less and swapping frequently occurs

Which three solutions could correct this problem? (Choose three.)

Question102: An administrator tries to connect the vSphere 5.5 Client to an ESXi 6.x host.
What will happen when this takes place?

Question103: An administrator is observing slow performance of the vCenter Inventory Service and observes the entries from the wrapper.log file:
Exception in thread "tomcat-exec-2" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap spaceException in thread
"http-bio-0.0.0.0-10443-Acceptor-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space What should the administrator do to resolve the problem?

Question104: What is the minimum Virtual Hardware version required for vFlash Read Cache?

Question105: To reduce the attack vectors for a virtual machine, which two settings should an administrator set to false?
(Choose two.)

Question106: Refer to the Exhibit.

Examine the esxtop command output shown in the Exhibit.
Which option would improve application performance for the SlowVM virtual machine?

Question107: Which two solutions require Physical Mode Raw Device Mapping (RDM)? (Choose two.)

Question108: Which three troubleshooting actions should an administrator take to address slow performance when deploying a virtual machine template? (Choose three.)

Question109: What are two reasons why a local flash device would be unavailable for use with Virtual SAN? (Choose two.)

Question110: Which three statements are correct regarding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE)? (Choose three.)

Question111: What are three reasons why a virtual machine might fail to power on? (Choose three.)

Question112: Which keystore would a vSphere Replication administrator use to manually add an additional Certificate Authority certificate?

Question113: Which two statements are true regarding Storage Multipathing Plug-Ins? (Choose two.)

Question114: An administrator notices that a Windows virtual machine is using 95% CPU in Task Manager.
Which two actions should be taken to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)

Question115: What are two limitations of Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on a vSphere Distributed Switch?
(Choose two.)

Question116: An administrator wants to set a non-default isolation address of 192.168.1.2 for High Availability.
Which advanced setting would accomplish this task?

Question117: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is adding an Active Directory over LDAP Identity Source for vCenter Single Sign-On, as indicated in the Exhibit.
What is the correct value to configure for the Domain alias?

Question118: An administrator observes that virtual machine storage activity on an ESXi 6.x host is negatively affecting virtual machine storage activity on another host that is accessing the same VMFS Datastore.
Which action would mitigate the issue?

Question119: A task fails while creating a VMFS5 datastore on a disk with these characteristics:
Was previously used by a Linux server

Was not erased

Is visible with the vSphere Web Client

Which action can be performed to resolve the issue?

Question120: An administrator is attempting to enable Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine with 4 vCPUs and observes the following in the vSphere Web Client:
Fault Tolerance has not been licensed on host <hostname>.
What is the minimum licensed edition that supports this configuration?

Question121: Which two options are available in the Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP) setting Response for Datastore with All Paths Down (APD)? (Choose two.)

Question122: An administrator wants to clone a virtual machine using the vSphere Client.
Which explains why the Clone option is missing?

Question123: An administrator needs to create an Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) Identity Source on a newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA).
Which two actions will accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Question124: What is the name of the High Availability agent log?

Question125: An administrator wants to power on a virtual machine (VM) while connected to an ESXi host using SSH.
The VM has the following Name and ID:
VM Name = SQL001

VMID = 12345

Which command would successfully power on the virtual machine?

Question126: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is changing the settings on a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). During this process, the ESXi Management IP address is set to an address which can no longer communicate with the vCenter Server.
What is the most likely outcome of this action?

Question127: Deletion of an NFS datastore generates the following error:
Sysinfo error on operation returned the following status: Busy
Which step can be performed that will allow the deletion to complete successfully?

Question128: An administrator has a virtual machine (VM) that uses a shared USB device.
Which option will allow the VM to utilize vMotion while retaining the maximum possible functionality?

Question129: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator has configured a vSphere 6.x DRS cluster as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which statement is true?

Question130: An administrator is concerned about possible vCPU over-commitment for an ESXi 6.x host.
Which two Performance Counters should be reviewed in the vSphere Web Client Performance Charts to confirm if there is contention on the host? (Choose two.)

Question131: An administrator is experiencing network connectivity issues between virtual machines. The virtual machines and hosts are configured as follows:
VM1 is running on Host1

VM2 is running on Host2

Both Host1 and Host2 are attached to the vSphere Distributed Switch dvSwitch1

Both Host1 and Host2 are using vmnic0 and vmnic1 on dvSwitch1

Both virtual machines are using the default portgroup for network traffic

What are three settings the administrator should investigate while troubleshooting the connectivity issue?
(Choose three.)

Question132: An administrator is able to manage an ESXi 6.x host connected to vCenter Server using the vSphere Web Client but is unable to connect to the host directly.
Which action should the administrator take to correct this behavior?

Question133: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is attempting to enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC), but receives the error shown in the Exhibit.
Which condition would explain the error?

Question134: An administrator wants to allow users to login to the vSphere Web Client using the Use Windows session authentication check box for faster authentication.
Which three requirements must be met for this feature to be available and functional? (Choose three.)

Question135: An administrator is using Auto Deploy to create several ESXi 6.x hosts that will be connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch. After the hosts are deployed, the administrator notices that LACP packets are not being sent between them.
Which statement best describes why this issue is occurring?