EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which two features are available for virtual machines configured with DirectPath I/O? (Choose two.)

Question2: Which two methods are recommended for managing the VMware Directory Service? (Choose two.)

Question3: 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?

Question4: What is the minimum Virtual Hardware version required for vFlash Read Cache?

Question5: A failed upgrade from vCenter Server version 5.x to version 6.0 produces the following error:
[00800 error 'Default'] Database version id '600' is incompatible with this release of VirtualCenter.
What is the cause of the upgrade failure?

Question6: An administrator wants to clone a virtual machine using the vSphere Client.
Which explains why the Clone option is missing?

Question7: Which two solutions require Physical Mode Raw Device Mapping (RDM)? (Choose two.)

Question8: 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?

Question9: 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?

Question10: 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?

Question11: An administrator needs two vCenter Servers to be visibile within a single vSphere Web Client session.
Which two vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller (PSC) configurations would accomplish this?
(Choose two.)

Question12: An administrator notices that there is an all paths down (APD) event occurring for the software FCoE storage.
What is a likely cause?

Question13: An administrator observes the following symptoms for a virtual machine:
CPU usage is consistently above 90%

CPU ready value is consistently above 20%.

Application performance is impacted.

Which two actions should the administrator take to improve the performance of this virtual machine?
(Choose two.)

Question14: 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?

Question15: 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.)

Question16: An administrator is deploying ESXi 6.x hosts using Auto Deploy and wants the image profile to be available, even after closing and opening a new PowerCLI window.
Which command can be used to ensure that image profiles are preserved across PowerCLI sessions?

Question17: 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?

Question18: In which two vsphere.local groups should an administrator avoid adding members? (Choose two.)

Question19: Which three ports are used by the vSphere Web Client when connecting directly to an ESXi 6.x host?
(Choose three.)

Question20: An administrator wants to upgrade to vCenter Server 6.x.
The vCenter Server:
Is hosted on a virtual machine server running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, with 8 vCPUs and

16GB RAM.
Will have an embedded Platform Services Controller.

Hosts a Large Environment with 1,000 ESXi hosts and 10,000 Virtual Machines.

Why does the vCenter Server not meet the minimum requirements?

Question21: Refer to the Exhibit.

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

Question22: Which three Authorization types are valid in vSphere? (Choose three.)

Question23: To reduce the attack vectors for a virtual machine, which two settings should an administrator set to false?
(Choose two.)

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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?

Question26: Which two roles can be modified? (Choose two.)

Question27: Which two statements are true regarding upgrading from a Distributed vCenter Server 5.x to vCenter Server 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question28: 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?

Question29: 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.)

Question30: Which file determines the location of the installation script during a scripted upgrade?

Question31: An administrator wishes to give a user the ability to manage snapshots for virtual machines.
Which privilege does the administrator need to assign to the user?

Question32: Which two tasks does the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) perform? (Choose two.)

Question33: What is the compression algorithm used by vSphere Replication to compress data at the source?

Question34: 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.)

Question35: Which condition would cause a vCenter Server installation to fail when installing on a Windows virtual machine?

Question36: Which two statements are correct regarding vSphere certificates? (Choose two.)

Question37: 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?

Question38: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator recently created a Virtual SAN but no Storage Policies were defined. A few virtual machines were deployed to this cluster. The administrator analyzes the default Virtual SAN policy as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

Question39: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator wishes to provide Load Balanced I/O for the device shown in the Exhibit.
To meet this requirement, which setting should be changed?

Question40: Which two considerations should an administrator keep in mind when booting from Software Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)? (Choose two.)

Question41: 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?

Question42: Refer to the Exhibit.
-- Exhibit --

Review the Exhibit. An administrator has configured permissions for a group called VMGroup and a user named VMUser. A new Role has been created called PowerVM. The group and role have these charecteristics:
PowerVM role can power on VMs

VMGroup granted PowerVM role on VMFolder

VMUser is a member of VMGroup

VMUser granted No Access on VMFolder

Based on the exhibit, which statement best explains why VMUser is denied access to the VMFolder?

Question43: An administrator has migrated a vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.5 to version 6.x. During the migration, the administrator selected DHCP for the appliance and obtained a hostname from the DHCP server. The administrator adjusts the hostname after the migration and uses a static IP and hostname.
What should the administrator do immediately after this change to prevent service failures?

Question44: An administrator tries to capture network traffic for a virtual machine, but cannot see the expected traffic in the packet capture tool.
Which step can resolve the problem?

Question45: 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?

Question46: What command line utility can be used to upgrade an ESXi host?

Question47: 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?

Question48: 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.)

Question49: In a vSphere High Availability cluster, what is the VM Monitoring I/O stats interval default value?

Question50: Users are reporting CPU related performance problems on the virtual machine Email-Prod throughout the day.
The resource settings for the VM and the ESXi host the VM is running on are shown below:
VM:
Email-Prod

vCPUs: 4

Memory: 96GB

ESXi host:
CPU: 2 x 8 Core Processors

Memory: 128GB

NUMA architecturE. 2 Nodes

Which two options would alleviate the observed performance problem for Email-Prod? (Choose two.)

Question51: An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU issue for a virtual machine. The following is seen in esxtop:
CPU0 is at 100% usage

The remaining logical CPUs are close to 0%

%RDY value is consistently above 10%

What is likely the cause of the CPU issue?

Question52: An administrator has a virtual machine configured with the following settings:
ESXi version: 5.1

CPU: vCPUs 6

Memory: 48GB

Hardware version: 7

VMware Tools: Installed

Which two actions must the administrator take in order to utilize vNUMA? (Choose two.)

Question53: 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?

Question54: 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.)

Question55: Which two options are available in the Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP) setting Response for Datastore with All Paths Down (APD)? (Choose two.)

Question56: What are two limitations of Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on a vSphere Distributed Switch?
(Choose two.)

Question57: An administrator wants to provide users restricted access. The users should only be able to perform the following tasks:
Create and consolidate virtual machine snapshots

Add/Remove virtual disks

Snapshot Management

Which default role in vCenter Server would meet the administrator's requirements for the users?

Question58: When attempting to place a datastore in Maintenance Mode, the task remains at 1%.
What are two potential causes for this? (Choose two.)

Question59: Which three components should an administrator select when configuring vSphere permissions? (Choose three.)

Question60: Which two statements are true regarding iSCSI adapters? (Choose two.)

Question61: 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.)

Question62: An administrator would like to use the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) as an Intermediate Certificate Authority (CA). The first two steps performed are:
Replace the Root Certificate

Replace Machine Certificates (Intermediate CA)

Which two steps would need to be performed next? (Choose two.)

Question63: 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?

Question64: Refer to the Exhibit.

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

Question65: Refer to the Exhibit.

What will be the result of selecting the highlighted device?

Question66: 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?

Question67: 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?

Question68: An administrator as creating a new Content Library. It will subscribe to another remote Content Library without authentication enabled. Optimal performance is desired for the configuration.
What two steps should be taken to set up the library?

Question69: An administrator is implementing a vSphere 6.x environment containing one vCenter and five ESXi hosts.
The administrator has just finished deploying the vCenter Server appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller (PSC) and need to ensure that default security certificates within the vSphere 6.x environment are replaced with new certificates.
What should the administrator do to complete this task the least administrative effort?

Question70: Which three parameters should be considered when calculating the bandwidth for vSphere Replication?
(Choose three.)

Question71: An administrator would like to use a passphrase for their ESXi 6.x hosts which has these characteristics:
Minimum of 21 characters

Minimum of 2 words

Which advanced options must be set to allow this passphrase configuration to be used?

Question72: An administrator tries to run esxtop to troubleshoot CPU performance issues, but no output is displayed.
How can the issue be resolved?

Question73: 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?

Question74: Which three options are available for ESXi Certificate Replacement? (Choose three.)

Question75: What three supported methods can be used to upgrade a host from ESXi 5.x to ESXi 6.x? (Choose three.)

Question76: 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.)

Question77: Which two conditions would prevent an administrator from upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance to vSphere 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question78: Which two statements regarding Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity rules are true? (Choose two.)

Question79: An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine that has unexpectedly powered off.
Which two logs should be used to troubleshoot the issue? (Choose two.)

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

Question81: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is configuring a storage device as shown in the Exhibit.
What is the expected effect on the stated device after running the command?

Question82: Refer to the Exhibit.

The Prod-DB virtual machine has a VM Override as shown in the Exhibit.
What step, it taken, would require all virtual machines in the cluster to migrate automatically?

Question83: Which two scenarios would cause a Fault Tolerance-enabled virtual machine to fail to power the Secondary virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Question84: Which two statements are true regarding VMFS3 volumes in ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question85: 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.)

Question86: Which three traffic types can be configured for dedicated VMkernel adapters? (Choose three.)

Question87: An administrator has configured three vCenter Servers and vRealize Orchestrator within a Platform Services Controller domain, and needs to grant a user privileges that span all environments.
Which statement best describes how the administrator would accomplish this?

Question88: Which VMware Single Sign-On component issues Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens?

Question89: When troubleshooting a performance related issue, an administrator sees the following warning message on an ESXi Console:
Significant imbalance between NUMA nodes detected. Performance may be impacted.
Which action should the administrator take to correct this problem?

Question90: Which two features are deprecated in Network I/O Control 3 (NIOC3)? (Choose two.)

Question91: An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 5.5 host to ESXi 6.x and gets the following error:
MEMORY_SIZE
What does this indicate?

Question92: 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?

Question93: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator reviews the Health of a virtual machine, as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which three metrics can be used to determine the virtual machine's Workload characteristics? (Choose three.)

Question94: 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.)

Question95: Which secondary Private VLAN (PVLAN) type can communicate and send packets to an Isolated PVLAN?

Question96: Which two are valid Identity Sources when configuring vCenter Single Sign-On? (Choose two.)

Question97: Which group in the vsphere.local domain will have administrator privileges for the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)?

Question98: Refer to the Exhibit.

A Storage Policy for a Virtual SAN is set to the default policy, as shown in the Exhibit.
Which change would reduce the storage consumption by one third?

Question99: An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU performance issue for a virtual machine.
Which three esxtop counters may demonstrate CPU contention? (Choose three.)

Question100: Which two scenarios could cause Storage DRS to be disabled on a Virtual Disk (VMDK)? (Choose two.)

Question101: An administrator is unable to upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.1 Update 2 to version 6.0.
What is a likely reason for this?

Question102: What will occur if the .nvram file is deleted from a powered off virtual machine?

Question103: 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?

Question104: What is the highest object level from which a virtual machine can inherit privileges?

Question105: An administrator with global administrator privileges creates a custom role but fails to assign any privileges to it.
Which two privileges would the custom role have? (Choose two.)

Question106: 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?

Question107: 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?

Question108: Which two supported tools can be used to upgrade virtual machine hardware? (Choose two.)

Question109: VMware vSphere Replication protects virtual machines from partial or complete site failures by replicating the virtual machines between which three sites? (Choose three.)

Question110: 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?

Question111: 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.)

Question112: An administrator is upgrading an ESXi host from 5.5 to 6.0 and runs the following command:
esxcli software vib list --rebooting-image
What does this command show?

Question113: An administrator is upgrading vCenter Server and sees this error:
The DB User entered does not have the required permissions needed to install and configure vCenter Server with the selected DB. Please correct the following error(s): %s
Which two statements explain this error? (Choose two.)

Question114: Lockdown Mode has been enabled on an ESXi 6.x host and users are restricted from logging into the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI).
Which two statements are true given this configuration? (Choose two.)

Question115: 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 condition would explain why none of the hosts are able to receive a valid DHCP address?

Question116: What are two ways to view the DNS settings for an ESXi 6.x host? (Choose two.)

Question117: Which three are requirements for configuring Storage I/O Control (SIOC)? (Choose three.)

Question118: Which three statements are true when restoring a Resource Pool Tree? (Choose three.)

Question119: Which three troubleshooting actions should an administrator take to address slow performance when deploying a virtual machine template? (Choose three.)

Question120: What are two reasons why a local flash device would be unavailable for use with Virtual SAN? (Choose two.)

Question121: 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.)

Question122: Which statement is true for the Path Selection Plug-In VMW_PSP_MRU?

Question123: An administrator is having a problem configuring Storage I/O Control on a Datastore.
Which two conditions could explain the issue? (Choose two.)

Question124: 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 occuring?

Question125: 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.)

Question126: 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?

Question127: An administrator tries to connect the vSphere 5.5 Client to an ESXi 6.x host.
What will happen when this takes place?

Question128: How does vSphere High Availability calculate the memory slot size of a virtual machine?

Question129: What is the name of the command line utility that checks for VMFS5 metadata corruption?

Question130: An administrator is performing a silent automatic update of VMware Tools on a Windows virtual machine.
What syntax needs to be entered into the Advanced Options box?

Question131: When importing an existing SSL certificate into vSphere Replication Server, which file format is required?

Question132: Which command shows the Physical Uplink status for a vmnic?

Question133: During a vCenter Server upgrade, an ESXi 6.x host in a High Availability (HA) cluster fails.
Which statement is true?

Question134: An administrator notices that 8 out of 10 virtual machines have memory ballooning and swapping.
However, virtual machine 9 is not ballooning or swapping and virtual machine 10 is not ballooning but is swapping.
Which two statements explain the behavior of virtual machine 9 and virtual machine 10? (Choose two.)

Question135: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator wants to increase the capacity of a VMFS5 datastore; but the Increase Size by slider is not available, as shown in the Exhibit.
How should the administrator resolve this problem?

Question136: 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?

Question137: 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?

Question138: What would prevent VMware Convertor from initiating the VMware tools install during a windows server conversion?

Question139: An administrator is configuring Storage I/O Control. After enabling, the administrator notices high device latency and poor storage performance.
Which two actions would likely reduce latency and improve functionality? (Choose two.)

Question140: 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?

Question141: 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?

Question142: An administrator has created a resource pool named Marketing HTTP with a Memory Limit of 24 GB and a CPU Limit of 10,000 MHz.
The Marketing HTTP resource pool contains three virtual machines:
Mktg-SQL has a memory reservation of 16 GB.

Mktg-App has a memory reservation of 6 GB.

Mktg-Web has a memory reservation of 4 GB.

What would happen if all three virtual machines are powered on?

Question143: 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?

Question144: Which VMware Single Sign-On component handles STS authentication requests?

Question145: An administrator creates a Private VLAN with a Primary VLAN ID of 2. The administrator than creates three Private VLANs as follows:
Marketing

PVLAN ID. 4

PVLAN Type. Isolated

Accounting

PVLAN ID. 5

PVLAN Type. Community

Secretary

PVLAN ID. 17

PVLAN Type. Isolated

Users in the Accounting PVLAN are reporting problems communicating with servers in the Marketing PVLAN.
Which two actions could the administrator take to resolve this problem? (Choose two.)

Question146: Which two advanced features should be disabled for virtual machines that are only hosted on a vSphere system? (Choose two.)

Question147: An administrator has upgraded a Distributed vCenter Server environment from 5.5 to 6.0.
What is the next step that should be taken?

Question148: Which two identification sources can a vSphere Auto Deploy rule use to identify target hosts? (Choose two.)

Question149: 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.)

Question150: 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.)

Question151: 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?

Question152: 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?

Question153: 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?

Question154: Where is a Virtual SAN Fault Domain configured?

Question155: 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?

Question156: An administrator attempts to place a Storage DRS enabled Datastore into Maintenance Mode. The task never completes, and the Entering Maintenance Mode status remains at 1%.
Which two actions should the administrator take to resolve this problem? (Choose two.)

Question157: 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 is planned for administrative access to the host.
Which two conditions should be considered when planning this configuration? (Choose two.)

Question158: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is troubleshooting intermittent poor performance of virtual machines in a vSphere
6.x cluster. Investigating esxtop data shows that the only statistic that stands out is %CSTP as depicted in Exhibit 1:

The administrator proceeds to switch to the Power Management screen and observes the data depicted in Exhibit 2:

Based on the information in the exhibits, which two configurations are probable causes of the poor performance? (Choose two.)

Question159: Which two are valid compliance results that indicate the need to apply a Host Profile? (Choose two.)

Question160: 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.)

Question161: Which Platform Service Controller Password Policy determines the number of days a password can exist before the user must change it?

Question162: Attempting to update an ESXi 6.x host using the following command:
esxcli software vib update -d update.zip
Generates the following error:
Could not download from depot at /tmp/index.xml, skipping (('/tmp/index.xml', '', "[Errno 4] IOError:
<urlopen error [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/index.xml'>")) url = /tmp/index.xml What action should be taken to correct the problem?

Question163: Refer to the Exhibit.

Which tab shows the Hardware Acceleration support status?

Question164: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator has configured Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) groups and Affinity Rules as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

Question165: Which Advanced Setting should be created for the vCenter Server to change the expiration policy of the vpxuser password?

Question166: Which three options are available for replacing vCenter Server Security Certificates? (Choose three.)

Question167: An administrator subscribes to the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery service.
Which replicated objects can be directly monitored and managed?

Question168: An administrator is unable to patch an ESXi 6.x host using VMware Update Manager.
What is an alternative option for patching a host?

Question169: 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?

Question170: An administrator wants to prevent a priority virtual machine that resides in a vSphere DRS cluster from migrating to other hosts in the cluster.
What configuration step will accomplish this without affecting other virtual machines?

Question171: 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.)

Question172: An administrator needs to migrate a very large virtual machine to vCloud Air from a branch office.
Which two components can be used to meet this requirement? (Choose two)

Question173: An administrator wants to select a Host Power Management Policy for an ESXi 6.x host that will disable most hardware power management features.
Which Host Power Management Policy should be selected to meet this requirement?

Question174: 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?

Question175: 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.)

Question176: Which two statements are true regarding Storage Multipathing Plug-Ins? (Choose two.)

Question177: 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.)

Question178: Which two reasons would prevent Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) from operating on a datastore? (Choose two.)

Question179: What are two likely causes for a DRS cluster to become unbalanced? (Choose two.)

Question180: To reduce the attack vectors for a virtual machine, which two settings should an administrator set to false?
(Choose two.)

Question181: A common root user account has been configured for a group of ESXi 6.x hosts.
Which two steps should be taken to mitigate security risks associated with this configuration? (Choose two.)

Question182: 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.)

Question183: Refer to the Exhibit.

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

Question184: An administrator is creating a new Platform Service Controller Password Policy with the following requirements:
Minimum length: Minimum of 8 characters.

Restrict use: 6.

Character requirements: At least one upper-case letter, one number, and one special character.

Identical adjacent characters: 0.

When trying to assign the password "P@$$w0rd", the administrator receives an error that the password does not meet the Password Policy requirements.
Which part of the Password Policy does this password violate?

Question185: 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.)

Question186: 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?

Question187: 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?

Question188: When a Content Library is deleted, what happens to the files contained on the backing storage?

Question189: What are two use cases for Fibre Channel Zoning in a vSphere environment? (Choose two.)

Question190: Which three statements are correct regarding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE)? (Choose three.)

Question191: When upgrading vCenter Server, an administrator notices that the upgrade fails at the vCenter Single Sign-On installation.
What must be done to allow the upgrade to complete?

Question192: What are two sample roles that are provided with vCenter Server by default? (Choose two.)

Question193: Which password meets ESXi 6.x host password requirements?

Question194: An administrator is writing a kickstart script to upgrade an ESXi 6.x host.
In which three locations can the script reside? (Choose three.)

Question195: What are three recommended prerequisites before upgrading virtual machine hardware? (Choose three.)

Question196: An administrator is troubleshooting a performance problem with a virtual machine (VM). The VM and ESXi host configuration is as follows:
The application which runs within the virtual machine is highly sensitive to memory latency, but has low

processor utilization.
The virtual machine has 6 vCPUs.

The ESXi host CPU topology has 2 Physical CPU Sockets, each with 8 Logical CPUs.

The ESXi host CPU has Hyper Threading enabled.

The administrator would like to improve CPU performance for this VM. Other VMs on the host have no performance issues. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the issue?

Question197: Strict Lockdown Mode has been enabled on an ESXi host.
Which action should an administrator perform to allow ESXi Shell or SSH access for users with administrator privileges?

Question198: An administrator wants to prevent a priority virtual machine that resides in a vSphere DRS cluster from migrating to other hosts in the cluster.
What configuration step will accomplish this without affecting other virtual machines?

Question199: 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.)

Question200: Which log file would you examine to identify an issue which occurred during the pre-upgrade phase of a vCenter Server upgrade process?

Question201: Which keystore would a vSphere Replication administrator use to manually add an additional Certificate Authority certificate?

Question202: What are three reasons why a virtual machine might fail to power on? (Choose three.)

Question203: When operating with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM), what two statements explain the impact of disabling vSphere High Availability admission control? (Choose two.)

Question204: An administrator observes a warning on the vSphere Availability (HA) cluster.
This host currently has no management network redundancy
Which two actions would address the warning? (Choose two.)

Question205: 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.)

Question206: An administrator has been instructed to secure existing virtual machines in vCenter Server.
Which two actions should the administrator take to secure these virtual machines? (Choose two.)

Question207: An administrator suspects that the MTU value for a vSphere Standard Switch is misconfigured.
Which two commands can determine the value? (Choose two.)

Question208: An administrator has recently audited the environment and found numerous virtual machines with sensitive data written to the configuration files.
To prevent this in the future, which advanced parameter should be applied to the virtual machines?

Question209: An object has inherited permissions from two parent objects.
What is true about the permissions on the object?

Question210: A user notifies an administrator that Content Libraries are not visible.
What is a possible solution?

Question211: An administrator is configuring virtual machines to use Worldwide Port Names (WWPNs) to access the storage.
Which two conditions are required? (Choose two.)

Question212: 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?

Question213: Which three services can be enabled/disabled in the Security Profile for an ESXi host? (Choose three.)

Question214: Which two capabilities does the vSphere Replication Client Plug-in provide? (Choose two.)

Question215: 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?

Question216: 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?

Question217: 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.)

Question218: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator would like to add Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) to an iSCSI adapter. The administrator accesses the Storage Adapters menu as shown in the Exhibit.
In which tab can the task be accomplished?

Question219: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator receives the error message shown in the Exhibit.
Which two actions can be taken to clear the warning? (Choose two.)

Question220: 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.)

Question221: Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is using the esxtop command to troubleshoot storage performance issues on a virtual machine. The esxtop capture is shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

Question222: Which three connection types are supported between a remote site and vCloud Air? (Choose three.)

Question223: Which two statements are true regarding Virtual SAN Fault Domains? (Choose two.)

Question224: Click the Exhibit.

Which three conditions would explain the error? (Choose three.)

Question225: 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?

Question226: 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?

Question227: Which two groups of settings should be reviewed when attempting to increase the security of virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)

Question228: A vSphere Replication user needs to connect a source site to a target site.
What privilege is needed at both sites?

Question229: 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?

Question230: A vSphere Web Client task fails while creating a VMFS datastore on a disk with these characteristics:
The disk was formatted with an 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?

Question231: What is the name of the High Availability agent log?

Question232: An administrator is upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance and wants to ensure that all the prerequisites are met.
What action must be taken before upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance?

Question233: Refer to the Exhibit.

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

Question234: The Prod-DB virtual mavhine has a VM Override as shown in the Exhibit:

What step, if taken, would require all virtual machines in the cluster to migrate automatically?

Question235: Which three logs can be reviewed to troubleshoot a vCenter Server upgrade failure? (Choose three.)

Question236: 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.)

Question237: 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?

Question238: 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?

Question239: 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.)

Question240: 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?

Question241: 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?

Question242: Which two vCenter Server services are migrated automatically as part of an upgrade from a Distributed vCenter Server running 5.x? (Choose two.)