EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A vSphere Administrator attempts to enable Fault Tolerance for a virtual machine but receives the
following error:
Secondary VM could not be powered on as there are no compatible hosts that can
accommodate it.
What two options could cause this error? (Choose two.)

Question2: By default, how often is the vCenter vpx user password automatically changed?

Question3: An administrator is attempting to access an ESXi host via the DCUI but is unable to do so.
Which could be two possible causes? (Choose two.)

Question4: Restoration of the vCenter Server Appliance is accomplished using which interface?

Question5: A vSphere administrator manages a cluster which includes critical and non-critical virtual machines. The
cluster requires different permissions for contractors and non-contractors.
How can the administrator exclude the contractor group from some of the critical VMs?

Question6: Which three requirements are true for the vCenter Server HA network? (Choose three.)

Question7: What VM Monitoring setting would ensure that the failure interval for a virtual machine is defined as 120
seconds?

Question8: Which is the correct sequence to upgrade a vSphere infrastructure?

Question9: What new feature was introduced to the Content Library in vSphere 6.5?

Question10: Which configuration could cause an ESXi installation to fail?

Question11: What two methods are used to configure VMware vSphere Storage I/O Control shares and limits? (Choose
two.)

Question12: What configuration option would ensure that a virtual NUMA topology is defined on VMs having more than
eight virtual CPUs?

Question13: The administrator must back up a vCenter HA deployment.
Which component must be backed up?

Question14: ESXi 6.5 introduces VMFS6, which supports both 512e and 512n devices.
What three configurations are supported when using these devices? (Choose three.)

Question15: An administrator must reprovision 25 hosts with a new image profile that he has created. Which two
methods can the administrator use to change the image profile? (Choose two.)

Question16: Which three operations can cause VMFS metadata updates? (Choose three.)

Question17: Which three types of Content Libraries exist within vSphere 6.5? (Choose three.)

Question18: In which scenario will vSphere DRS balance resources when set to Fully Automated?

Question19: Which two tasks should a vSphere administrator perform if the vmkernel log reports VMFS metadata
errors? (Choose two.)

Question20: Which two statements correctly describe Normal Lockdown Mode? (Choose two.)

Question21: When will vSphere Data Protection delete the expired backup image of a Platform Service Controller?

Question22: Which command can be used to configure a default gateway for a specific vmkernel adapter?

Question23: What are three parameters for traffic filtering or marking? (Choose three.)

Question24: Which storage feature always requires the use of third-party software on ESXi?

Question25: When attempting to migrate a virtual machine to another host in the same cluster, the error message,
"Select a valid compute resource" returns.
What could cause this error?

Question26: To prevent possible failures or issues during a vSphere upgrade, which component should be upgraded
first?

Question27: Which network is used by vSphere HA when VMware vSAN is enabled?

Question28: Virtual Volumes supports which three VMware features? (Choose three.)

Question29: Which two components are part of storage I/O multipathing on ESXi? (Choose two.)

Question30: Bidirectional CHAP is support by which storage initiator?

Question31: Which two protocols can be used to back up vCenter Server Appliance Instance? (Choose two.)

Question32: What are two requirements in order to restore a Resource Pool Tree from a snapshot? (Choose two.)

Question33: Which two ports are open by default on the ESXi firewall? (Choose two)

Question34: An ESXi host's VMCA-Signed certificate has expired. How can the certificate be renewed?

Question35: What is the default space threshold for vSphere Storage DRS?

Question36: What is the command for updating an ESXi host?

Question37: Which command can be used to backup the ESXi host configuration?

Question38: What three conditions could result in VMware Flash Read Cache being unable to claim a disk? (Choose
three.)

Question39: How can a vSphere administrator ensure that two virtual machines never run on the same datastore in a
datastore cluster, while permitting the VMs to be load-balanced?

Question40: Which three source object types are available for subscription when creating a subscribed content library
in vSphere 6.5? (Choose three.)

Question41: When performing a vCenter Server 5.5 for Windows with Microsoft SQL Server Express database
migration to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, which will be the target database?

Question42: An administrator is trying to vMotion a VM from his datacenter to a recovery site. Which is the maximum
allowed RTT (Round-Trip Time) latency between source and destination host?

Question43: In network troubleshooting it is important to know what upstream switch the ESXi host is connected to.
Which two features does ESXi provide to help identify the upstream switch? (Choose two.)

Question44: When using VMware Converter to import a Windows server and improve the consistency of the destination
virtual machine, which optional step can be performed immediately prior to powering down the source
server?

Question45: What are the minimum hardware requirements for a Windows vCenter Server with embedded PSC that
manages a "Small" environment?

Question46: "OneAppServer" is a VM template stored in a content library named "LibraryOne", but the vSphere
administrator is not able to use this template for deployment.
Why is the administrator unable to deploy OneAppServer?

Question47: What two reasons can explain why a host cannot be removed from a vSphere Distributed Switch? (Choose
two.)

Question48: After upgrading the vSphere infrastructure and VMware Tools to version 6.5, the "Upgrade VM
Compatibility" option is grayed out in the vSphere Web Client. (See Exhibit.)

What must the administrator do to enable the VM compatibility upgrade?

Question49: A vSphere Administrator observes that the Primary VM configured with Fault Tolerance is executing
slowly. After further investigation, it is determined that the Secondary VM is on an overcommitted ESXi
host.
What two methods will correct the problem? (Choose two.)

Question50: An administrator is attempting to power on a virtual machine with 32GB of memory. The operation fails with
the following error:
Could not power on VM: No space left on device
Checking the space on the virtual machine's datastore, there is 30GB free.
Which action would allow the VM to power on?

Question51: Which three storage protocols are supported by Virtual Volumes? (Choose three.)

Question52: What counter should an administrator check to determine if a virtual machine is ballooning?

Question53: What two migration paths are supported for Windows vCenter Servers? (Choose two.)

Question54: What two VMware Remote Console Options can be defined in the virtual machine settings? (Choose two.)

Question55: Which method is supported for backing up the virtual machine that contains vCenter Server?

Question56: Upgrading vCenter Server with Microsoft SQL database fails with the following error message:
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
What could cause this error?

Question57: When enabling Storage DRS on a datastore cluster, which three components are enabled as a result?
(Choose three.)

Question58: Which two configurable options are available in Boot Options for a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Question59: Which feature facilitates the sharing of templates via vCenter Server?

Question60: Which command will show the iSCSI sessions on a ESXi 6.5 host?

Question61: Which port is used for communication between ESXi and vSphere Data protection?

Question62: Which vCenter Single Sign-On policy would force an SSO user's password to change every 90 days?

Question63: Which three prerequisites must be in place prior to enabling secure boot for a virtual machine? (Choose
three.)

Question64: A vSphere Administrator must ensure that a user is able to view and manage the system configuration in
vSphere Web Client.
In the vCenter Single Sign-On domain, which group should the user be a part of?

Question65: Which two features require the use of Host Profiles? (Choose two.)

Question66: Which two configuration options can exclude virtual disks from snapshot operations? (Choose two.)

Question67: In Advanced settings on a vSphere host, Security.Password Quality Control set as retry=3 min=disabled,
disabled, disabled, 7, 7
Which two passwords are valid? (Choose two.)

Question68: In a vSphere environment, two resource pools are created as shown in the Exhibit.

Each VM is configured with 1 GB of memory. When the administrator tried to power on VM3, the operation
failed.
What action in the resource pool settings will allow VM3 to power on successfully?

Question69: Assuming a mirrored (RAID-1) object configuration, how many hosts must contribute storage in a non-
stretched VMware vSAN cluster to satisfy the "Number of failures to tolerate" policy option?
"n" is the desired "Number of failures to tolerate" value for all options.

Question70: Which statement is true regarding the use of VMFS3 datastores with vSphere 6.5?

Question71: An administrator wants to enable proactive HA by moving virtual machines automatically if a hardware alert
is triggered.
What are the three required settings? (Choose three.)

Question72: Which three directories are available under the vcsa-cli-installer folder of the vCenter ServerAppliance
installation media? (Choose three.)

Question73: A Telco customer is implementing NFV using vSphere as the virtualization platform.
Which feature can help achieve a high packet rate with lower CPU consumption?

Question74: Which are two supported storage primitives for VAAI NAS? (Choose two.)

Question75: When installing vCenter Converter Standalone, why must an administrator perform a client-server
installation instead of a local installation?

Question76: Which two statements are true about Highly Available vSphere Auto Deploy infrastructure? (Choose two.)

Question77: Which statement applies to the vSphere Replication appliance?

Question78: The business managers have asked the IT administrator to ensure configuration compliance in the
vSphere infrastructure. The IT administrator wants to use Host Profiles to accomplish this, but is unable to
do so.
Why is the administrator unable to use Host Profiles?

Question79: vCenter Server Appliance Instance can be backed up using which Client Interface?

Question80: An administrator has upgraded to vSphere 6.5 and also wants to use Kerberos authentication for NFS.
Which can be done to the existing NFSv3 volumes to enable this feature?

Question81: Which three statements are correct regarding booting an ESXi Host from Fibre Channel SAN? (Choose
three.)

Question82: What are the three types of nodes in a vCenterServer HA cluster? (Choose three.)

Question83: A vSphere Administrator would like to identify which physical NUMA node their virtual machine is currently
residing on.
What esxtop metric would provide this information?

Question84: The networking team has requested to have a dedicated network for iSCSI traffic. This task has been
assigned to the vSphere Administrator.
What is the VMware-recommended way to accomplish this?

Question85: A user is a member of groups A and B.
-VM10 and VM20 are in VM Folder.
-Group A is assigned permission "Read-only" on VM Folder.
What two configurations will allow the user to edit the settings for only VM10? (Choose two.)

Question86: Which are two vCenter Server two-factor authentication methods? (Choose two.)

Question87: The vSphere Data Protection performance analysis results in the "Conditionally Passed" status.
What can cause this condition?

Question88: Assume that all ESXi hosts need several default settings changed to custom values to comply with internal
practices, and compliance must be routinely audited.
What vSphere technology enables the administrator to ensure consistent configuration at scale?

Question89: When troubleshooting VMware vCenter Server issues, when logging level provides maximum detail?

Question90: Which two Network I/O Control bandwidth allocation parameters are applicable? (Choose two.)

Question91: The storage vendor recommends adjusting the Fibre Channel HBA queue depth to resolve a performance
problem.
Which esxcli namespace can a vSphere Administrator use to adjust the queue depth?

Question92: What is the VMware recommendation for the minimum number of network adapters for beacon probing?

Question93: Which two statements describe why a vSphere DRS cluster would report load imbalance? (Choose two.)

Question94: Which guest operating system supports PVRDMA?

Question95: If there are eight paths per LUM in a vSphere6.5 environment, what is the maximum number of LUNs
usable by an ESXi host?

Question96: A vSphere Administrator wants to reserve 0.5 Gbps for virtual machines on each uplink on a disturbed
switch that has 10 uplinks.
What is the quota that should be reserved for the network resource pool?

Question97: An administrator is trying to set up Host Partial Failure Response, but the Automated option is grayed out.
What can the administrator change to enable the Automated option?

Question98: How can a vSphere administrator ensure that a set of virtual machines run on different hosts in a DRS
cluster?

Question99: The virtual machine log rotation size can be changed for all VMs by which two interfaces? (Choose two.)

Question100: An administrator wishes to enable network port mirroring based on source port. Which feature should be
enabled?

Question101: Which is the block size on the VMFS6 datastore?

Question102: What two debugging levels can a virtual machine be configured to? (Choose two.)

Question103: A virtual machine fails to power on after being deployed from a template.
What two remediation steps could correct this issue? (Choose two.)

Question104: What tool can capture network traffic at the uplinks, or vSwitch, or virtual port levels?

Question105: What can prevent Storage DRS from functioning on a datastore?

Question106: Which two statements are true for NFS v4.1 firewall behavior? (Choose two.)

Question107: How can an administrator exclude Encryption rights from a support engineer?

Question108: Which three are supported upgrade processes for ESXi host? (Choose three.)

Question109: When migrating a Windows vCenter Server 6.0 to the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, which two will be
migrated by default? (Choose two.)

Question110: Which statement is correct when migrating from a Windows vCenter Server to the vCenter
ServerAppliance 6.5?

Question111: Which is the maximum number of block devices (LUNs) that are supported by ESXi hosts that are running
version 6.5?

Question112: A VM folder contains VM1 and VM2.
Group A has permission to power on virtual machines, defined on the VM folder and its children.

Group B has permission to power off virtual machine VM2.

If a user is a member of group A and B, what action can the user perform?

Question113: What are two remediation options for vCenter Proactive HA? (Choose two.)

Question114: What VM Monitoring setting would ensure that the maximum reset window for a virtual machine is 24
hours?

Question115: An administrator is creating VMkernel adapters on an ESXi 6.5 host and wants to create separate
VMkernel adapters for every type of traffic in the default TCP/IP stack.
Which three types of traffic can be explicitly enabled on a separate VMkernel adapter? (Choose three.)

Question116: A scripted upgrade of ESXi fails due to an incorrect parameter in the upgrade script.
What file must the administrator modify to correct the problem?

Question117: An administrator must collect diagnostic information following a failed ESXi host upgrade.
Which command should the administrator run?

Question118: An administrator has a large boot from SAN cluster and wants to ensure consistent configuration by using
host profiles.
What special considerations are required for boot from SAN hosts?

Question119: A VM folder contains VM1 and VM2.
Group A has permission to power on virtual machines, defined on the VM folder and its children.

Group B has permission to power off virtual machines, defined on the VM folder and its children.

If a user is a member of Groups A and B, what will be the user's effective permission on VM1 and VM2?

Question120: Which iSCSI initiator type can be used with any network interface card?

Question121: An administrator finds that the Microsoft Exchange virtual machines are exhibiting network latency.
What two in-guest changes can help decrease latency? (Choose two.)

Question122: What three options can improve network performance for a virtual machine? (Choose three.)

Question123: If vCenter Server 5.5 installation has one or more services deployed remotely, which three services are
relocated to vCenter Server 6.5 on upgrade? (Choose three.)

Question124: In what two ways can Storage DRS load balance virtual machines? (Choose two.)

Question125: Which two new vSphere 6.5 features enable an Administrator to locate configuration options when creating
or editing host profiles more easily than in previous versions? (Choose two.)

Question126: A vSphere administrator observes a CPU spike on one of the web servers (view the Exhibit.)

Which two statements can describe the cause of this activity? (Choose two.)

Question127: An administrator has multiple vCenter Server 6.5 systems but cannot enable Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
on a datastore shared by ESXi hosts managed by the vCenter Server systems.
Which action should the administrator take to resolve the issue?

Question128: Which are the two network requirements for a VMware vSAN 6.5 cluster? (Choose two.)

Question129: A vSphere Administrator must ensure that vCenter Server service is running in a domain user account
rather than Local System Account.
To accomplish this, the user account should have which two permissions? (Choose two.)

Question130: Which two options allow storage space reclamation? (Choose two.)

Question131: Which three design requirements must be satisfied to enable RAID-6 objects in a VMware vSAN cluster?
(Choose three.)

Question132: Which is required for configuring iSCSI Software Adapter network port binding?

Question133: Which two items are required to enable NPIV in a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

Question134: In vSphere Data Protection 6.1, which is the function of a Backup Verification job?

Question135: What advanced option for vSphere HA defines a maximum number of reset attempts by VMCP for a virtual
machine?

Question136: A vSphere Administrator has VM Component Protection (VMCP) enabled, but the VM was not restarted
when one of the VMFS datastores experienced an All Paths Down (APD) failure.
What two scenarios would explain why the virtual machine was not restarted? (Choose two.)

Question137: When vSphere Flash Read Cache is assigned to a virtual machine, which statement is true?

Question138: The administrator wants to power on VM-K2, which has a 2GHz CPU reservation. VM-M1, VM-M2, and
VM-K1 are all powered on. VM-K2 is not powered on.
The exhibit shows the parent and child resource reservations.

If Resource Pool RP-KID is configured with an expandable reservation, which statement is true?