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A company wants to increase disk capacity for their VMware vSphere environment Management mandates that: (1) VMotion must work in this environment (2) the existing LAN infrastructure must be used (3) the storage must support VMFS volumes Which storage option would best meet company objectives?

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A company wants to increase disk capacity for their VMware vSphere environment Management mandates that:
(1) VMotion must work in this environment
(2) the existing LAN infrastructure must be used
(3) the storage must support VMFS volumes
Which storage option would best meet company objectives? 







A. NFS
B. Fibre Channel
C. iSCSI
D. SATA



Answer: C

Using Hardware iSCSI Initiators with ESX/ESXi hosts allows which of the following tasks to be offloaded from the VMkernel (Choose Two)?

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Using Hardware iSCSI Initiators with ESX/ESXi hosts allows which of the following tasks to be offloaded from the VMkernel (Choose Two)? 







A. Encapsulation of I/O requests into iSCSI Protocol Data Units (PDUs)
B. Mapping requests for blocks on the virtual disk to blocks on the appropriate physical device
C. Encapsulation of iSCSI PDUs into TCP/IP packets
D. Issuing SCSI commands to the virtual disk





Answer: A,C

Using Hardware iSCSI Initiators with ESX/ESXi hosts allows which of the following tasks to be offloaded from the VMkernel?

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Using Hardware iSCSI Initiators with ESX/ESXi hosts allows which of the following tasks to be offloaded from the VMkernel? 





A. Issuing SCSI commands to the virtual disk
B. Encapsulation of I/O requests into iSCSI Protocol Data Units (PDUs)
C. Encapsulation of iSCSI PDUs into TCP/IP packets
D. Mapping requests for blocks on the virtual disk to blocks on the appropriate physical device






Answer: B,C

Which of the following steps, required for iSCSI software multipathing, must be performed using the esxcli interface?

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Which of the following steps, required for iSCSI software multipathing, must be performed using the esxcli interface? 






A. Binding the VMkernel ports to the selected uplinks
B. Connecting the iSCSI software initiator to the VMkernel ports
C. Connecting the VMkernel ports to the virtual switch
D. Configuring Dynamic Discovery for the iSCSI software initiator







Answer: B

How are new LUNs discovered by an ESXi Host?

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How are new LUNs discovered by an ESXi Host? 





A. A manual rescan operation is required every time a new LUN is added
B. ESXi hosts automatically detects new LUNs as they are presented
C. A rescan operation is periodically performed by ESXi hosts to detect any new LUNs
D. A reboot operation is required to detect newly presented LUNs





Answer: A

How many paths to a LUN can be simultaneously used when Round Robin multi-pathing is enabled?

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How many paths to a LUN can be simultaneously used when Round Robin multi-pathing is enabled? 





A. Round Robin will use only one path to send I/O
B. Round Robin can use up to 4 paths simultaneously to send I/O
C. Round Robin can be set to use additional paths simultaneously for every 1000 blocks of I/O transmitted
D. Round Robin can use up to 2 paths simultaneously to send I/O





Answer: A

An administrator is creating a vNetwork Standard Switch with Service Console and VMkernel networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch, but wants to separate the Service Console and VMkernel traffic to the two uplinks. Which of the following Load Balancing Policies will guarantee this, even if additional management or virtual machine traffic is added to the switch in the future?

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An administrator is creating a vNetwork Standard Switch with Service Console and VMkernel networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch, but wants to separate the Service Console and VMkernel traffic to the two uplinks. Which of the following Load Balancing Policies will guarantee this, even if additional management or virtual machine traffic is added to the switch in the future? 





A. Use Explicit Failover
B. Route based on IP hash
C. Route based on source MAC hash
D. Route based on the originating port ID







Answer: A

An administrator is unable to connect a vSphere Client to an ESXi Host. Which of the following options can be selected from the Direct Console to restore connectivity without disrupting running virtual machines?

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An administrator is unable to connect a vSphere Client to an ESXi Host. Which of the following options can be selected from the Direct Console to restore connectivity without disrupting running virtual machines? 





A. Disable the Management Network
B. Restart the Management Agents
C. Restore the Standard Switch
D. Restart the Management Network





Answer: B

Which of the following describe methods of adding Service Console networking to a vNetwork Distributed Switch (Choose Three)?

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Which of the following describe methods of adding Service Console networking to a vNetwork Distributed Switch (Choose Three)? 





A. A Service Console port can be cloned from an existing vNetwork Standard Switch
B. A Service Console Network Adapter can be associated with an existing port group on a Network Distributed Switch
C. A Service Console Network Adapter can be created along with a Service Console port group on the selected vNetwork Distributed Switch
D. A Service Console Network Adapter can be created and added to a Standalone Port
E. A Service Console port can be migrated from an existing vNetwork Standard Switch





Answer: B,D,E

When creating a Service Console port, what is the purpose of the gateway device (Choose Two)?

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When creating a Service Console port, what is the purpose of the gateway device (Choose Two)? 





A. The gateway device is the network adapter used for the default route.
B. A gateway device is required when 2 or more uplinks are using the same subnet.
C. The gateway device is the Service Console port used for VMkernel networking.
D. A gateway device is always required.






Answer: A,B

When creating a dvPort group, which of the following port binding options assigns a port to a virtual machine the first time the virtual machine powers on after it has been connected to the dvPort Group?

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When creating a dvPort group, which of the following port binding options assigns a port to a virtual machine the first time the virtual machine powers on after it has been connected to the dvPort Group? 





A. Static Binding
B. Ephemeral
C. Flexible
D. Dynamic Binding






Answer: D

An administrator is building a vNetwork Distributed Switch. Which of the following describes what happens if an attempt is made to add an uplink to the switch that is in use by a vNetwork Standard Switch?

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An administrator is building a vNetwork Distributed Switch. Which of the following describes what happens if an attempt is made to add an uplink to the switch that is in use by a vNetwork Standard Switch? 




A. A warning is displayed saying the uplink is currently in use and the uplink cannot be added
B. The uplink is added and any virtual machines that were using the uplink lose connectivity
C. The uplink and the vNetwork Standard Switch are added to the vNetwork Distributed Switch
D. The uplink is added and any virtual machines that were using the uplink are added to the vNetwork Distributed Switch







Answer: B

Click the exhibit button. An administrator is applying patches to a batch of ESXi 5.x hosts in an under-allocated HA/DRS cluster. An attempt is made to place the host into maintenance mode, but the progress has stalled at 2%. DRS are configured as shown in the exhibit. Of the four choices below, two would effectively resolve this issue. Which two steps could be taken to correct the problem? (Choose two.)

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An administrator is applying patches to a batch of ESXi 5.x hosts in an under-allocated HA/DRS cluster. An attempt is made to place the host into maintenance mode, but the progress has stalled at 2%. DRS are configured as shown in the exhibit. Of the four choices below, two would effectively resolve this issue.
Which two steps could be taken to correct the problem? (Choose two.) 





A. Manually migrates any running virtual machines to another host
B. Set the cluster to Fully Automated
C. Disable
H. Monitoring to allow Maintenance Mode to proceed
D. Set the cluster migration threshold to Aggressive





Answer: B,D

What are three true statements about quiescing virtual machine snapshots? (Choose three)

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What are three true statements about quiescing virtual machine snapshots? (Choose three) 






A. VMware Tools is not required for quiescing to be successful.
B. The operation ensures that the snapshot includes a power state.
C. The operations may alter the behavior of applications within the virtual machine.
D. The operation ensures all pending disk I/O operations are written to disk.







Answer: B,C,D

A series of Auto Deploy ESXi hosts which utilize vDS are unable to boot in prior testing. All of the hosts were able to boot successfully. Which two conditions might cause this issue? (Choose two)

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A series of Auto Deploy ESXi hosts which utilize vDS are unable to boot in prior testing. All of the hosts were able to boot successfully.
Which two conditions might cause this issue? (Choose two) 





A. The hosts have experienced a network error.
B. The Auto Deploy server permissions are invalid.
C. vCenter Server is down.
D. The hosts have experienced a local disk error.






Answer: B,D

An administrator finds that vMotion and Storage VMotion operations do not succeed on a virtual machine. The virtual machine has been configured with N_Port ID Virtualization. The virtual machine has two data RDMs, one using a RAID 5 LUN on using a RAID0+1 LUN. The mapping file for RAID 5 LUN was created on the same datastore as the virtual machine, and the mapping file for the RAID0+1 LUN was placed in a datastore used for production data virtual disks. Which two statements are true about this configuration? (Choose two)

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An administrator finds that vMotion and Storage VMotion operations do not succeed on a virtual machine. The virtual machine has been configured with N_Port ID Virtualization. The virtual machine has two data RDMs, one using a RAID 5 LUN on using a RAID0+1 LUN. The mapping file for RAID 5 LUN was created on the same datastore as the virtual machine, and the mapping file for the RAID0+1 LUN was placed in a datastore used for production data virtual disks.
Which two statements are true about this configuration? (Choose two) 







A. vMotion cannot be used unless boot mapping files are placed on the same datastore.
B. Storage vMotion cannot be used unless both mapping files are placed on the same datastore.
C. Storage vMotion cannot be used with NPIV.
D. vMotion cannot be used with NPIV





Answer: A,C

In the vSphere Client, the Resource Allocation tab for virtual machines displays host memory and guest memory. Which two statements best describe these terms? (Choose two.)

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In the vSphere Client, the Resource Allocation tab for virtual machines displays host memory and guest memory. Which two statements best describe these terms? (Choose two.) 





A. Guest memory is the amount of physical memory that has been allocated to a virtual machine
B. Host memory is the amount of physical memory that has been allocated to a virtual machine.
C. Guest memory is the memory usage of a virtual machine.
D. Host memory is the memory usage of a virtual machine.






Answer: B,C

An administrator has recently upgraded their Update manager infrastructure to vSphere 5. Several hosts and virtual machines have not been upgraded yet. Which vSphere object cannot be upgraded by Update Manager when running against a legacy host?

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An administrator has recently upgraded their Update manager infrastructure to vSphere 5. Several hosts and virtual machines have not been upgraded yet.
Which vSphere object cannot be upgraded by Update Manager when running against a legacy host? 





A. Virtual Machine Hardware
B. ESX Host
C. ESX Patches
D. VMware Tools






Answer: A

Click the exhibit button: An administrator is configuring vMotion in their environment. As a part of the implementation, an administrator is examining resource mapping for virtual machines. What is a likely cause of the error shown in the exhibit?

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An administrator is configuring vMotion in their environment. As a part of the implementation, an administrator is examining resource mapping for virtual machines.
What is a likely cause of the error shown in the exhibit? 




A. vMotion has been disabled because the Production network does not exist on both ESXi host.
B. vMotion has not been enabled on the Production port group.
C. vMotion has not been enabled on a VMkernel port group.
D. vMotion has been disabled because datastored is not presented to both ESXi hosts.







Answer: A

An administrator wishes to send traffic from a vNetwork Distributed Switch to a collector virtual machine for analysis. vSphere 5 has been deployed in the datacenter. Which two configurations will enable the functionality? (Choose two)

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An administrator wishes to send traffic from a vNetwork Distributed Switch to a collector virtual machine for analysis. vSphere 5 has been deployed in the datacenter.
Which two configurations will enable the functionality? (Choose two) 





A. The source and target virtual machines must be on the same vNetwork Switch.
B. The source and target virtual machines must both be on a vNetwork Switch, but can be on any vDS in the datacenter.
C. The port group on the distributed port must have Promiscuous Mode enabled.
D. The port group on distributed port must have NetFlow enabled.







Answer: B,D

An administrator receives a call indicating users reported extremely slow access to virtual machines the previous evening. Access to virtual machines performs as expected as checked by the administrator. Over the course of several days, the administrator continues to receive calls about the issue, which appears to occur at intermittent times each evening. Which step can be taken to collect information about the issue?

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An administrator receives a call indicating users reported extremely slow access to virtual machines the previous evening. Access to virtual machines performs as expected as checked by the administrator. Over the course of several days, the administrator continues to receive calls about the issue, which appears to occur at intermittent times each evening.
Which step can be taken to collect information about the issue? 






A. Create a condition alarm to alert when Datastore Disk Usage (*) exceeds 70%
B. Collect resxtop performance data in batch mode and analyze total number of I/O operations (CMDS/s) metrics
C. Create an event alarm to alert when a storage device is disconnected
D. Collect resxtop performance data in batch mode and analyze average device latency (DAVG/cm-d) metrics.





Answer: D

An administrator is considering deploying a new storage array for a vSphere 5 implementation. If the array supports the vStorage APIs for array integration (VAAI), which two tasks can be performed directly by the array? (Choose two.)

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An administrator is considering deploying a new storage array for a vSphere 5 implementation. If the array supports the vStorage APIs for array integration (VAAI), which two tasks can be performed directly by the array? (Choose two.) 





A. creating VMFS datastores
B. cloning virtual machines and templates
C. migrating virtual machines using Storage vMotion
D. creating NFS datastores






Answer: A,D

What is the most appropriate way to test a virtual machine enabled for VMware Fault Tolerance?

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What is the most appropriate way to test a virtual machine enabled for VMware Fault Tolerance? 







A. Cause a failure on the ESXi host running the primary virtual machine
B. Cause a failure on an application within the primary virtual machine
C. Disable network connectivity to the primary virtual machine
D. Cause a failure on the primary virtual machine






Answer: D

An administrator is creating a virtual machine that will be running "Windows 2008 Enterprise (64bit). The application to installed in the virtual machine requires eight vCPUs to run effectively. During installation, the only available options are one, two, three, or four vCPUs. What condition explains the available vCPU selections?

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An administrator is creating a virtual machine that will be running "Windows 2008 Enterprise (64bit).
The application to installed in the virtual machine requires eight vCPUs to run effectively. During installation, the only available options are one, two, three, or four vCPUs.
What condition explains the available vCPU selections? 







A. The virtual machine hardware version is 8.
B. The guest operating system for the virtual machine is 64-bit
C. The ES3G host has two AMD dual-core CPUs
D. The ESXi host has two Intel dual-core CPUs








Answer: B

Which two statements are about Unplanned Device Loss in a vSphere 5 environment? (Choose two)

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Which two statements are about Unplanned Device Loss in a vSphere 5 environment? (Choose two) 










A. It is condition where an ESXi host determines a device loss has occurred that was not planned.
B. Performing a storage rescan restores access to determine why device loss occurred.
C. It is a condition where an ESXi host is unable to determine why device loss occurred.
D. Performing a storage rescan removes the persistent information related to the device.





Answer: A,D

Click the exhibit button. An administrator has deployed a new virtual machine on an ESXi host. Users are complaining of poor performance on the virtual machine performance tool display the result shown in the exhibit. Which two might improve the user experience? (Choose two)

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Click the exhibit button.
An administrator has deployed a new virtual machine on an ESXi host. Users are complaining of poor performance on the virtual machine performance tool display the result shown in the exhibit.
Which two might improve the user experience? (Choose two) 




A. Add a vCPU to the virtual machine
B. Remove CPU affinity on the advanced CPU setting of the virtual machine
C. Migrate the virtual machine to another ESXi host
D. Remove the limit on the CPU settings of the virtual machine






Answer: A,B

Beacon Probing is used in vSphere networking to?

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Beacon Probing is used in vSphere networking to? 










A. discover which uplink has the shortest route
B. identify when an upstream link failure has occurred
C. discover alternate default gateway addresses
D. identify which uplink has the longest reported uptime



Answer: B

An iSCSI array is being added to a vSphere5 implementation. An administrator wants to verify that all IP storage VMkernel interfaces are configured for jumbo frames. What are two methods to verify the configuration? (Choose two)

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An iSCSI array is being added to a vSphere5 implementation. An administrator wants to verify that all IP storage VMkernel interfaces are configured for jumbo frames.
What are two methods to verify the configuration? (Choose two) 






A. Run the esxcli network IP interface list command
B. Run the esxcfg-vswitch -l command
C. View the VMKernel interface properties in the vSphere Client
D. View the Network Adapter properties in the vSphere Client







Answer: B,C

What is the size of a virtual machine .vswp file if defaults are accepted for the virtual machine reservations, limits, and shares?

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What is the size of a virtual machine .vswp file if defaults are accepted for the virtual machine reservations, limits, and shares? 






A. The virtual machine. vswp file is equal to twice the amount of available memory configured for the virtual machine when it was created.
B. The virtual machine. vswp file is equal to the amount of virtual memory (virtual machine available memory, plus virtual machine overhead the virtual machine when it was created.
C. The virtual machine. vswp file is equal to zero length when the virtual machine is created and expands as necessary
D. The virtual machine. vswp file is equal to the amount of available memory configured for the virtual machine when it was created.







Answer: D

Which three configuration settings will be migrated when upgrading a host from ESX 4.x Classic to ESXi 5.x? (Choose three)

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Which three configuration settings will be migrated when upgrading a host from ESX 4.x Classic to ESXi 5.x? (Choose three) 





A. The NTP configuration in /etc/atp.conf
B. The syslog configuration in /etc/syslog.conf
C. The hostname information in /etc/hosts
D. The time zone configuration in /etc/local time







Answer: A,B,C

An administrator is using Update Manager 5.0 to update virtual appliances in a vSphere environment. The environment is using the vCenter Server appliance. The administrator is unable to remediate the vCenter Server appliance. What would cause the remediation to fail?

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An administrator is using Update Manager 5.0 to update virtual appliances in a vSphere environment. The environment is using the vCenter Server appliance. The administrator is unable to remediate the vCenter Server appliance.
What would cause the remediation to fail? 





A. Updating of the appliance can only be done if the vCenter Server Appliance has been
B. Remediation must be configured on the Appliance Administration page before use
C. Remediation of the vCenter Server Appliance with Update Manager is not supported
D. Remediation of the vCenter Server Appliance must be done from the PowerCLL






Answer: B

A company runs several instances of multi-threaded application that requires virtual machines to be configured with multiple vCPUs. Which metric is checked to determine if CPU contention exists on an ESXi 5.x host?

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A company runs several instances of multi-threaded application that requires virtual machines to be configured with multiple vCPUs.
Which metric is checked to determine if CPU contention exists on an ESXi 5.x host? 







A. %RUN
B. %WAIT
C. %USED
D. %RPV






Answer: B

An administrator has deployed a vSphere 5 implementation. Due to security reasons the system state of a virtual machine must be reverted on a regular basis what feature will meet this requirement?

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An administrator has deployed a vSphere 5 implementation. Due to security reasons the system state of a virtual machine must be reverted on a regular basis what feature will meet this requirement? 







A. Create the virtual machine using Independent-Persistent disks
B. Create a Scheduled Task using the Delete All Snapshots option according to security requirements
C. Create the virtual machine using Independent-Nonpersistent disks
D. Create a Scheduled Task using the Delete Snapshot option to delete the most recent snapshot according to security requirements.






Answer: C

Anvil Incorporated has several departments which each have unique resource requirements in their environment: The Manufacturing department has three production virtual machines The Manufacturing virtual machines need to have priority access to resources. The development department has no specific resource requirements Resource Pools will be used to address three requirements. When creating the Manufacturing resource pool, which two settings might be configured to meet the stated requirements? (Choose two.)

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Anvil Incorporated has several departments which each have unique resource requirements in their environment:
The Manufacturing department has three production virtual machines
The Manufacturing virtual machines need to have priority access to resources.
The development department has no specific resource requirements
Resource Pools will be used to address three requirements.
When creating the Manufacturing resource pool, which two settings might be configured to meet the stated requirements? (Choose two.) 





A. Set the shares value to High for memory and CPU on the resource pool
B. Set a reservation for memory and CPU on the resource pool
C. Set affinity or anti-affinity rules to ensure that the Development VMs do not run on the same hosts as Production VMs
D. Set a limit for memory and CPU on the resource pool






Answer: A,B

Click the Exhibit button. ACME Catering Services is using esx top to troubleshoot a problem with one of their ESXi hosts Host disconnection from vCenter server as well as sluggish perform when performing tasks on the host have been observed. Based on the output in tin- exhibit, what three corrective actions can be taken to resolve the issue? (Choose three)

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Click the Exhibit button.
ACME Catering Services is using esx top to troubleshoot a problem with one of their ESXi hosts Host disconnection from vCenter server as well as sluggish perform when performing tasks on the host have been observed.
Based on the output in tin- exhibit, what three corrective actions can be taken to resolve the issue? (Choose three) 




A. Increase the CPU Reservation on file server01
B. Decrease the number of vCPUs in use on this host
C. Migrate the File Server00 virtual machine to another host
D. Increase the number of Physical CPUs in the host
E. Increase the amount of RAM in the host because swapping is occurring







Answer: A,C,E
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