EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3: 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?

Question4: Which two statements are correct regarding vSphere certificates? (Choose two.)

Question5: An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 5.5 host to ESXi 6.x and gets the following error:
MEMORY_SIZE
What does this indicate?

Question6: 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?

Question7: An administrator subscribes to the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery service.
Which replicated objects can be directly monitored and managed?

Question8: Which three traffic types can be configured for dedicated VMkernel adapters? (Choose three.)

Question9: What will occur if the .nvram file is deleted from a powered off virtual machine?

Question10: Which two supported tools can be used to upgrade virtual machine hardware? (Choose two.)

Question11: VMware vSphere Replication protects virtual machines from partial or complete site failures by replicating the virtual machines between which three sites? (Choose three.)

Question12: 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?

Question13: 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?

Question14: In which two vsphere.local groups should an administrator avoid adding members? (Choose two.)

Question15: 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?

Question16: 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.)

Question17: 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?

Question18: Refer to the Exhibit.

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

Question19: 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.)

Question20: What are two limitations of Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on a vSphere Distributed Switch?
(Choose two.)

Question21: When a Content Library is deleted, what happens to the files contained on the backing storage?

Question22: Which two statements are true regarding iSCSI adapters? (Choose two.)

Question23: 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.)

Question24: An administrator has upgraded a Distributed vCenter Server environment from 5.5 to 6.0.
What is the next step that should be taken?

Question25: An administrator is writing a kickstart script to upgrade an ESXi 6.x host.
In which three locations can the script reside? (Choose three.)

Question26: 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?

Question27: An object has inherited permissions from two parent objects.
What is true about the permissions on the object?

Question28: 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?

Question29: Which log file would you examine to identify an issue which occurred during the pre-upgrade phase of a vCenter Server upgrade process?

Question30: 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?

Question31: Refer to the Exhibit.

What will be the result of selecting the highlighted device?

Question32: Which three components should an administrator select when configuring vSphere permissions? (Choose three.)

Question33: 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?

Question34: 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.)

Question35: 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?

Question36: Which three options are available for ESXi Certificate Replacement? (Choose three.)

Question37: Which two capabilities does the vSphere Replication Client Plug-in provide? (Choose two.)

Question38: What are three recommended prerequisites before upgrading virtual machine hardware? (Choose three.)

Question39: An administrator is having a problem configuring Storage I/O Control on a Datastore.
Which two conditions could explain the issue? (Choose two.)

Question40: 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.)

Question41: 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?

Question42: Which statement is true for the Path Selection Plug-In VMW_PSP_MRU?

Question43: Which two features are available for virtual machines configured with DirectPath I/O? (Choose two.)

Question44: 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?

Question45: 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?

Question46: Which two are valid Identity Sources when configuring vCenter Single Sign-On? (Choose two.)

Question47: Which two vCenter Server services are migrated automatically as part of an upgrade from a Distributed vCenter Server running 5.x? (Choose two.)

Question48: 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?

Question49: An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine that has unexpectedly powered off.
Which two logs should be used to troubleshoot the issue? (Choose two.)

Question50: 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.)

Question51: 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.)

Question52: An administrator notices that there is an all paths down (APD) event occurring for the software FCoE storage.
What is a likely cause?

Question53: Which two considerations should an administrator keep in mind when booting from Software Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)? (Choose two.)

Question54: Which file determines the location of the installation script during a scripted upgrade?

Question55: 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?

Question56: Which three connection types are supported between a remote site and vCloud Air? (Choose three.)

Question57: Where is a Virtual SAN Fault Domain configured?

Question58: An administrator suspects that the MTU value for a vSphere Standard Switch is misconfigured.
Which two commands can determine the value? (Choose two.)

Question59: Which two solutions require Physical Mode Raw Device Mapping (RDM)? (Choose two.)

Question60: 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?

Question61: Which two roles can be modified? (Choose two.)

Question62: 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.)

Question63: Which three options are available for replacing vCenter Server Security Certificates? (Choose three.)

Question64: Which three statements are correct regarding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE)? (Choose three.)

Question65: What is the minimum Virtual Hardware version required for vFlash Read Cache?

Question66: Which three Authorization types are valid in vSphere? (Choose three.)

Question67: 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.)

Question68: Which three services can be enabled/disabled in the Security Profile for an ESXi host? (Choose three.)

Question69: Which command shows the Physical Uplink status for a vmnic?

Question70: Which three troubleshooting actions should an administrator take to address slow performance when deploying a virtual machine template? (Choose three.)

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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.)

Question73: What are two sample roles that are provided with vCenter Server by default? (Choose two.)

Question74: Which three ports are used by the vSphere Web Client when connecting directly to an ESXi 6.x host?
(Choose three.)

Question75: Which Platform Service Controller Password Policy determines the number of days a password can exist before the user must change it?

Question76: Which VMware Single Sign-On component issues Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens?

Question77: 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.)

Question78: An administrator wants to clone a virtual machine using the vSphere Client.
Which explains why the Clone option is missing?

Question79: 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?

Question80: An administrator tries to connect the vSphere 5.5 Client to an ESXi 6.x host.
What will happen when this takes place?

Question81: Which two statements are true regarding VMFS3 volumes in ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)

Question82: 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?

Question83: To reduce the attack vectors for a virtual machine, which two settings should an administrator set to false?
(Choose two.)

Question84: 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?

Question85: Which group in the vsphere.local domain will have administrator privileges for the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)?

Question86: 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?

Question87: 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.)

Question88: 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?

Question89: 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?

Question90: What is the command to list multipathing modules on an ESXi 6.x host?

Question91: Which two reasons would prevent Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) from operating on a datastore? (Choose two.)

Question92: An administrator is configuring virtual machines to use Worldwide Port Names (WWPNs) to access the storage.
Which two conditions are required? (Choose two.)

Question93: Which two statements are true regarding Storage Multipathing Plug-Ins? (Choose two.)

Question94: 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?

Question95: 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?

Question96: 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.)

Question97: Refer to the Exhibit.

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

Question98: Which keystore would a vSphere Replication administrator use to manually add an additional Certificate Authority certificate?

Question99: 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?

Question100: Which two tasks does the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) perform? (Choose two.)

Question101: Which two methods are recommended for managing the VMware Directory Service? (Choose two.)

Question102: 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?

Question103: 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.)

Question104: 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.)

Question105: 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?

Question106: What are three reasons why a virtual machine might fail to power on? (Choose three.)

Question107: 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?

Question108: 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?

Question109: 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.)

Question110: What command line utility can be used to upgrade an ESXi host?

Question111: 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.)

Question112: Which two features are deprecated in Network I/O Control 3 (NIOC3)? (Choose two.)

Question113: Which three are requirements for configuring Storage I/O Control (SIOC)? (Choose three.)

Question114: Which three statements are true when restoring a Resource Pool Tree? (Choose three.)

Question115: 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?

Question116: What is the highest object level from which a virtual machine can inherit privileges?

Question117: What are two reasons why a local flash device would be unavailable for use with Virtual SAN? (Choose two.)

Question118: A user notifies an administrator that Content Libraries are not visible.
What is a possible solution?

Question119: Which password meets ESXi 6.x host password requirements?

Question120: When importing an existing SSL certificate into vSphere Replication Server, which file format is required?

Question121: 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?

Question122: Which Advanced Setting should be created for the vCenter Server to change the expiration policy of the vpxuser password?

Question123: What is the compression algorithm used by vSphere Replication to compress data at the source?

Question124: 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?

Question125: 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?

Question126: A vSphere Replication user needs to connect a source site to a target site.
What privilege is needed at both sites?

Question127: 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?

Question128: Which three parameters should be considered when calculating the bandwidth for vSphere Replication?
(Choose three.)

Question129: Which two groups of settings should be reviewed when attempting to increase the security of virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)

Question130: 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?

Question131: 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.)

Question132: Which secondary Private VLAN (PVLAN) type can communicate and send packets to an Isolated PVLAN?

Question133: What are two use cases for Fibre Channel Zoning in a vSphere environment? (Choose two.)

Question134: Which two advanced features should be disabled for virtual machines that are only hosted on a vSphere system? (Choose two.)

Question135: What is the name of the command line utility that checks for VMFS5 metadata corruption?

Question136: 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?

Question137: 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.)

Question138: 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.)

Question139: 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?

Question140: 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?

Question141: 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?

Question142: During a vCenter Server upgrade, an ESXi 6.x host in a High Availability (HA) cluster fails.
Which statement is true?

Question143: Which two statements are true regarding Virtual SAN Fault Domains? (Choose two.)

Question144: What three supported methods can be used to upgrade a host from ESXi 5.x to ESXi 6.x? (Choose three.)

Question145: Which condition would cause a vCenter Server installation to fail when installing on a Windows virtual machine?