Professional VMware vSphere 8.x

Q1. An administrator notices a Fibre Channel adapter in an ESXi host has been experiencing incon-sistent connectivity states. Which trigger can be used to quickly identify the issue and alert the administrator so that the is-sue can be resolved?

A. Host Connection Lost
B. Lost Network Path Redundancy
C. Lost Network Connectivity
D. Lost Storage Connectivity

Hint Answer: D

Q2. An administrator is tasked with adding two additional hosts into an existing production vSphere cluster to support the need for additional capacity.

The vSphere cluster currently has four identically configured ESXi hosts (esx01, esx02, esx03 and esx04) that utilize Intel Skylake-based CPUs. The two new hosts (esx05 and esx06) are con-figured identically in terms of memory and storage to the existing hosts, but utilize Intel Ice Lake-based CPUs.

The administrator must ensure that:

• Any virtual machine migrates to any of the six ESXi hosts running in the cluster.
• There is no virtual machine downtime during the process of adding the new hosts.

Which step should the administrator take to meet these requirements?

A. Create a new vSphere cluster with Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) enabled and move all hosts into the new cluster.
B. Create a new vSphere cluster and move only three hosts into the new cluster.
C. Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) mode on the existing cluster and add the two new hosts into the cluster.
D. Create a new vSphere cluster with vSphere High Availability (HA) enabled and move all hosts into the new cluster.

Hint Answer: C

Q3. An administrator notices a performance issue in VMware vCenter. To try and understand more about the performance issue, the administrator needs to gather more information about the vCenter database to eliminate a potential disk space issue.

Which two tools can the administrator use? (Choose two.)

A. vCenter Management Interface (VAMI)
B. Perfmon
C. df
D. esxtop
E. vSphere Client

Hint Answer: A C

Q3. Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator is tasked with adding new capacity to an existing software-defined data center (SDDC).

• The SDDC currently hosts two vSphere clusters (ClusterA and ClusterB) with different CPU compatibilities.
• vSphere vMotion and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) are currently in use in the SDDC.
• The new capacity will be implemented by provisioning four ESXi hosts running a new generation of Intel Skylake CPUs.
• All workload virtual machines (VMs) must support live migration to any cluster in the SDDC.

The administrator noticed the running critical “evc1” virtual machine (VM) shown in the exhibit is not migrating using vSphere vMotion to the original Clusters A or B.

Which three steps must the administrator take to support this functionality? (Choose three.)

A. Disable the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) on the VM.
B. Reboot the VM.
C. Configure the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) on the VM to Intel Skylake.
D. Power on the VM.
E. Configure the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) on vSphere Cluster A and B to sup-port Intel Skylake.
F. Power off the VM.

Hint Answer: A D E

Q4. An administrator is required to configure several Microsoft Windows virtual machines (VMs) to support Secure Boot for a critical secure application.

The following information is provided:
• The corporate security policy states that all forms of data encryption must utilize a key provider.
• The firmware of each VM is currently set to use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
• Due to the nature of the application running within the VMs, the guest operating system for each VM is currently a minimum of Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7.

Which security feature should the administrator implement to meet these requirements?

A. vSphere Virtual Machine Encryption
B. vSphere Visualization-Based Security
C. Virtual Intel Software Guard Extensions (vSGX)
D. Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)

Hint Answer: D

Q5. A vSphere cluster has the following vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) group configuration:
Virtual machine (VM) group named DB
Host groups named PROD11 and PROD55
The administrator wants to force the VMs in the DB group to run on the hosts in the PROD11 group. However, if all the hosts in PROD11 go offline for maintenance, then the VMs in the DB group should run on hosts in PROD55.
Which VM/Host rule must the administrator create to ensure that these requirements are met?

A. A preferential rule between the DB group and the PROD11 group
B. A preferential rule between the DB group and the PROD55 group
C. A required rule between the DB group and the PROD11 group
D. A required rule between the DB group and the PROD55 group

Hint Answer: A

Q6. Refer to the exhibit.

After updating a predefined alarm on VMware vCenter, an administrator enables email notifications as shown in the attached alarm; however, notifications are NOT being sent.
Where must the mail server settings be configured by the administrator to resolve this issue?

A. In the ESXi host system config
B. In the alarm rule definition
C. In the vCenter settings in the vSphere Client
D. In the vCenter Management Interface

Hint Answer: C

Q7. An administrator is adding a new ESXi host to an existing vSphere cluster. When selecting the cluster, the administrator is unable to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow to add and configure the additional host.
What could be the root cause of this issue?

A. The administrator has previously dismissed the Cluster Quickstart workflow.
B. The administrator must manually add the host to the cluster before using the Cluster Quickstart workflow.
C. The administrator has not been assigned the required permissions to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow.
D. The administrator must enable the Cluster Quickstart workflow option in VMware vCenter.

Hint Answer: A

Q8. Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator set up the following configuration:
The distributed switch has three ESXi hosts, and each host has two 40 Gbps NICs.
The amount of bandwidth reserved for virtual machine (VM) traffic is 6 Gbps.
The administrator wants to guarantee that VMs in the Finance distributed port group can access 50 percent of the available reserved bandwidth for VM traffic.
Given this scenario, what should the size (in Gbps) of the Finance network resource pool be?

A. 18
B. 80
C. 36
D. 120

Hint Answer: A

Q9. A vSphere environment is experiencing intermittent short bursts of CPU contention, causing brief production outages for some of the virtual machines (VMs). To understand the cause of the issue, the administrator wants to observe near real-time statistics tor all VMs. Which two vSphere reporting tools could the administrator use? (Choose two.)

A. Advanced Performance Charts
B. esxcli
C. resxtop
D. Overview Performance Charts
E. esxtop

Hint Answer: C E

Q10. A group of new virtual machines have been deployed using thin-provisioned disks due to the limited storage space available in an environment. The storage team has expressed concern about extensive use of this type of provisioning. An administrator is tasked with creating a custom alarm to notify the storage team when thin provisioning reaches a certain capacity threshold. Where must the administrator define this alarm?

A. Datastore
B. Data center
C. Datastore cluster
D. Virtual machine

Hint Answer: B

Q11. An administrator has mapped three vSphere zones to three vSphere clusters.
Which two statements are true for this vSphere with Tanzu zonal Supervisor enablement? (Choose two.)

A. One Supervisor will be created in a specific zone.
B. One Supervisor will be created across all zones.
C. Three Supervisors will be created in Linked Mode.
D. Individual vSphere Namespaces will be placed into a specific zone.
E. Individual vSphere Namespaces will be spread across all zones.

Hint Answer: A D

Q12. An administrator has a requirement to revert a running virtual machine to a previous snapshot af-ter a failed attempt to upgrade an application. When the administrator originally took the snap-shot, the following choices in the Take Snapshot dialog were made:

• Snapshot the virtual machine’s memory = false
• Quiesce guest file system = false

What will be the result of the administrator selecting the “Revert to Latest Snapshot” option to return the virtual machine to a previous snapshot? (Choose two.)

A. The virtual machine will be restored to the parent snapshot
B. The virtual machine will be restored in a powered off state.
C. The virtual machine will be restored to the child snapshot
D. The virtual machine will be restored in a powered on state.
E. The virtual machine will be restored in a suspended state.

Hint Answer: A B

Q13. Following a merger with another company, an administrator is tasked with configuring an identity source for VMware vCenter so that all vSphere administrators can authenticate using their existing Active Directory accounts. Each company has user accounts in their own Active Directory forests.
The following additional information has been provided:
The corporate policy states that only Windows-based machine accounts are allowed in Active Directory.
Which action should the administrator take to configure vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) to meet this requirement?

A. Configure SSO to use Active Directory over LDAP as the identity source.
B. Configure SSO to use OpenLDAP as the identity source.
C. Join the vCenter Server Appliance to the LDAP domain.
D. Configure SSO to use Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication) as the identity source.

Hint Answer: A

Q14. An administrator needs to provide encryption for workloads within an existing vSphere cluster.
The following requirements must be met:
Workloads should be encrypted at rest.
Encrypted workloads must automatically be encrypted during transit.
Encryption should not require any specific hardware.
What should the administrator configure to meet these requirements?

A. Encrypted vSphere vMotion
B. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot
C. Host Encryption
D. VM Encryption

Hint Answer: D

Q15. An administrator has a requirement to revert a running virtual machine to a previous snapshot after a failed attempt to upgrade an application. When the administrator originally took the snapshot, the following choices in the Take Snapshot dialog were made:
Snapshot the virtual machine’s memory = false
Quiesce guest file system = false
What will be the result of the administrator selecting the “Revert to Latest Snapshot” option to return the virtual machine to a previous snapshot?

A. The virtual machine will be restored to the parent snapshot in a powered on state.
B. The virtual machine will be restored to the parent snapshot in a powered off state.
C. The virtual machine will be restored to the child snapshot in a powered off state.
D. The virtual machine will be restored to the child snapshot in a powered on state.

Hint Answer: B

Q16. An administrator is tasked with providing users access to objects within an existing VMware vCenter instance. The vCenter inventory has a single data center with one management vSphere cluster and five workload vSphere clusters.
The following requirements must be met for assigning the users access:
Users must only be able to view all of the inventory objects associated with the management vSphere cluster.
Users must be able to edit all of the inventory objects associated with the workload vSphere clusters.
The administrator creates a custom role to provide the permissions needed to allow users to edit inventory objects.
Which series of steps should the administrator complete to assign the custom role and provide the required level of access to users?

A. Apply Global permissions to assign the Read Only role to the root vCenter object.
Apply vCenter permissions to assign the custom role to the workload vSphere clusters and enable propagation.
B. Apply Global permissions to assign the Read Only role to the root vCenter object and enable propagation.
Apply vCenter permissions to assign the custom role to the workload vSphere clusters and enable propagation.
C. Apply Global permissions to assign the Read Only role to the root vCenter object.
Apply vCenter permissions to assign the custom role to the workload vSphere clusters.
D. Apply Global permissions to assign the Read Only role to the root vCenter object and enable propagation.
Apply vCenter permissions to assign the custom role to the workload vSphere clusters.

Hint Answer: B

Q17. An administrator is tasked with migrating a single virtual machine (VM) from an existing VMware vCenter to a secure environment where corporate security policy requires that all VMs be encrypted. The secure environment consists of a dedicated vCenter instance with a 4-node vSphere cluster and already contains a number of encrypted VMs. Which two steps must the administrator take to ensure the migration is a success? (Choose two.)

A. Ensure that the source and destination vCenter instances share the same Key Management Server (KMS).
B. Ensure that Encrypted vMotion is turned off for the VM.
C. Ensure that the VM is encrypted before attempting the migration.
D. Ensure that the VM is powered off before attempting the migration.
E. Ensure that the source and destination vCenter Servers have a different Key Management Server (KMS).

Hint Answer: A C

Q18. An administrator is configuring vSphere Lifecycle Manager to install patches to a vSphere cluster. The cluster runs workload virtual machines (VMs) that are incompatible with vSphere vMotion, and therefore cannot be live migrated between hosts during the installation of the patches.
Which configuration in vSphere Lifecycle Manager will allow the administrator to reduce the downtime associated with the patching operation without migrating the VMs?

A. Enable Distributed Power Management (DPM) and set the VM power state to the suspend to disk option
B. Enable Quick Boot ana set the VM power stale to the suspend to disk option
C. Enable vSphere High Availability (HA) admission control and set the VM power stale to the suspend to memory option
D. Enable Quick Boot and set the VM power state to the suspend to memory option

Hint Answer: D

Q19. Which three features are only available when using vSphere Distributed Switches instead of vSphere Standard Switches? (Choose three.)

A. 802.1Q tagging
B. Port mirroring
C. Netflow
D. Configuration backup and restore
E. IPv6 support
F. IPv4 support

Hint Answer: B C D

Q20. An administrator has Windows virtual machines (VMs) and VMware Tools is installed in each VM. The administrator performs a status check of VMware Tools using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. What is the VMware Tools status for the Windows VMs if the version of VMware Tools has a known problem and must be immediately upgraded?

A. Version Unsupported
B. Guest Managed
C. Unknown
D. Upgrade Available

Hint Answer: A

Q21. An administrator is responsible for the management of a VMware vCenter instance that is currently experiencing performance issues. The administrator quickly identifies that the CPU and memory utilization of vCenter is consistently over 80%. Upon further analysis, it seems that the vpxd process is contributing significantly to the performance issue. A combination of which four steps should the administrator take to resolve the performance issues and ensure that a similar issue can be rectified without requiring downtime to vCenter moving forward? (Choose four.)

A. Gracefully shut down vCenter using the vSphere Client.
B. Enable CPU Hot Add on the vCenter virtual machine.
C. Power on the vCenter Server Appliance using the vSphere Host Client.
D. Enable CPU and Memory Hot Add on the vCenter virtual machine.
E. Add additional CPU and memory to the vCenter Server Appliance.
F. Power on the vCenter Server Appliance using the vSphere Client.
G. Enable Memory Not Add on the vCenter virtual machine.

Hint Answer: A C D E

Q22. An administrator is creating a content library to manage VM templates and ISO images. The administrator wants to password-protect the images and templates and share them with a remote site. Which two tasks must the administration perform when creating the content library? (Choose two.)

A. Publish the local content library.
B. Enable the security policy.
C. Create a subscribed content library.
D. Select an NFS datastore.
E. Enable authentication.

Hint Answer: A E

Q23. An administrator has been notified that a number of hosts are not compliant with the company policy for time synchronization.
The relevant portion of the policy states:
All physical servers must synchronize time with an external time source that is accurate to the microsecond.
Which step should the administrator take to ensure compliance with the policy?

A. Ensure that each vCenter Server Appliance is configured to use a Network Time Protocol (NTP) source.
B. Ensure that each ESXi host is configured to use a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) source.
C. Ensure that each ESXi host is configured to use a Network Time Protocol (NTP) source.
D. Ensure that each vCenter Server Appliance is configured to use a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) source.

Hint Answer: B

Q24. If a distributed switch uses the “Route based on physical NIC load” load balancing algorithm, what does the mean send or receive utilization of an uplink need to exceed for the flow of traffic to move to the second uplink?

A. 75 percent of the capacity over a 30 second period
B. 60 percent of the capacity over a 30 second period
C. 60 percent of the capacity over a 40 second period
D. 75 percent of the capacity over a 40 second period

Hint Answer: A

Q25. Which feature would allow for the non-disruptive migration of a virtual machine between two clusters in a single VMware vCenter instance?

A. vSphere vMotion
B. Cross vCenter Migration
C. vSphere Storage vMotion
D. vSphere Fault Tolerance

Hint Answer: A

Q26. The vCenter inventory contains a virtual machine (VM) template called Linux-01. The adminis-trator wants to install a software patch into Linux-01 while allowing users to continue to access Linux-01 to deploy VMs. Which series of steps should the administrator take to accomplish this task?

A. 1. Verify that Linux-01 is in a content library.
2. Clone Linux-01
3. Convert the clone to a VM.
4. Install the software patch.
B. 1. Convert Linux-01 to a VM
2. Install the software patch.
3. Convert the VM back to a VM template.
4. Add Linux-01 to the content library.
C. 1. Verify that Linux-01 is in a content library.
2. Check out Linux-01.
3. Install the software patch.
4. Check in Linux-01.
D. 1. Clone Linux-01.
2. Convert the clone to a VM.
3. Install the software patch.
4. Convert the VM back to a template.

Hint Answer: C

Q27. An administrator is deploying a new all flash vSAN cluster based on the vSAN Original Storage Architecture (OSA). What is the minimum supported network throughput in Gb/s for each host?

A. 50
B. 10
C. 25
D. 1

Hint Answer: B

Q28. An administrator is tasked with configuring certificates for a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) based on the following requirements:
All certificates should use certificates trusted by the Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA). The solution should minimize the ongoing management overhead of replacing certificates. Which three actions should the administrator take to ensure that the solution meets corporate policy? (Choose three.)

A. Replace the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) certificate with a self-signed certificate generated from the VMC
A.
B. Replace the machine SSL certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise C
A.
C. Replace the machine SSL certificates with trusted certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).
D. Replace the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) certificate with a custom certificate generated from the Enterprise C
A.
E. Replace the solution user certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise C
A.
F. Replace the solution user certificates with trusted certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).

Hint Answer: C D F

Q29. What are three options an administrator can configure after creating a vSphere Namespace? (Choose three.)

A. Backup schedule
B. Certificates
C. Storage policies
D. Update policies
E. Permissions
F. Resource and Object limits

Hint Answer: C E F

Q30. Refer to the exhibit.

After removing an ESXi host from a cluster for maintenance, a number of virtual machines have encountered the warning seen in the exhibit.

After re-adding the ESXi, the issue is resolved.

Which step should the administrator take to move the triggered alarm to its normal state?

A. Ignore
B. Acknowledge
C. Disable
D. Reset to Green

Hint Answer: D

Q31. An administrator manages VM templates and ISO images for a remote office. Their main re-quirements are to store these templates in a single repository and manage different versions of the templates. What solution should the administrator deploy to meet these requirements?

A. A vSAN datatore
B. A shared VMFS datastore
C. A local content library
D. A subscribed content library

Hint Answer: C

Q32. An administrator plans to bring VMware vCenter offline in order to perform hardware mainte-nance on the host where the vCenter Server Appliance is running.
Which vSphere feature must be configured to ensure that vCenter users experience minimal downtime?

A. vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
B. Hybrid Linked Mode
C. vCenter Server High Availability
D. Enhanced Linked Mode

Hint Answer: C

Q33. An administrator creates a new corporate virtual machine (VM) template every month to include all of the latest patches. The administrator needs to ensure that the new VM template is synchronized from the primary data center site (London) to two secondary data center sites (Tokyo and New York). The administrator is aware that datastore space is limited within the secondary data center sites. The administrator needs to ensure that the VM template is available in the secondary sites the first time a new virtual machine is requested. Which four steps should the administrator take to meet these requirements? (Choose four.)

A. Create a new published content library at the primary site.
B. Add the virtual machine template to the subscribed content library.
C. Create a new published content library in each secondary site.
D. Create a new subscribed content library in each secondary site.
E. Configure the subscribed content library to download content when needed.
F. Configure each subscribed content library to download content immediately.
G. Add the virtual machine template to the published content library.

Hint Answer: A D E G

Q34. To keep virtual machines (VMs) up and running at all times in a vSphere cluster, an administrator would like VMs to be migrated automatically when the host hardware health status becomes degraded. Which cluster feature can be used to meet this requirement?

A. Predictive DRS
B. Proactive HA
C. vSphere HA Orchestrated Restart
D. vSphere Fault Tolerance

Hint Answer: B

Q35. Refer to the exhibit.

An environment has the following configuration:

1. Resource Pool “RP-MOM” has a reservation of 6GHz and one running virtual machine (VM) “VM-M1” with 1 GHz reserved.
2. Resource Pool “RP-KID” has a reservation of 2GHz, and expandable reservations is activated.

The administrator creates two VMs, “VM-K1” and “VM-K2”, in the “RP-KID” resource pool with 2GHz reserved for each, and turns on “VM-M1.”

Given this scenario, which statement is true?

A. The administrator must deactivate expandable reservations to turn on VM-K2.
B. The administrator can create a third VM (“VM-K3”) at RP-KID and reserve 6GHz.
C. VM-K2 can be powered on because it can get the resources needed from RP-MOM.
D. VM-K2 cannot be powered on because there are not enough resources in RP-KID.

Hint Answer: C

Q36. An administrator is preparing to perform an update to vSphere clusters that are running vSAN. The administrator wants to ensure that the following requirements are met as part of the update:
• All hosts in the cluster are updated with the same software.
• The firmware versions on the hosts are updated.
• The new software versions are checked for compliance against the vSAN Hardware Compatibility List.

Which three steps should the administrator take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

A. Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager with an image for the cluster.
B. Register the vendor hardware management system as a vCenter Server extension.
C. Download the firmware updates from the VMware website.
D. Download the firmware updates from the vendor website.
E. Run a hardware compatibility check using vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
F. Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager with a baseline for the cluster.

Hint Answer: A B E

Q37. An administrator is responsible for performing maintenance tasks on a vSphere cluster.
The cluster has the following configuration:
Identically configured vSphere ESXi hosts (esx01, esx02, esx03 and esx04)
All workloads are deployed into a single VMFS datastore provided by the external storage array vSphere High Availability (HA) has not been enabled vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) has not been enabled
Currently, a critical production application workload (VM1) is running on esx01.
Given this scenario, which two actions are required to ensure VM1 continues to run when esx01 is placed into maintenance mode? (Choose two.)

A. Fully automated DRS must be enabled on the cluster so that VM1 will be automatically migrated to another host within the cluster when esx01 is placed into maintenance mode.
B. VM1 must be manually shut down and cold migrated to another host within the cluster using vSphere vMotion before esx01 is placed into maintenance mode.
C. vSphere HA must be enabled on the cluster so that VM1 will be automatically migrated to another host within the cluster when esx01 is placed into maintenance mode.
D. VM1 must be manually live migrated to another host within the cluster using vSphere vMotion before esx01 is placed into maintenance mode.
E. VM1 must be manually migrated to another host within the cluster using vSphere Storage vMotion before esx01 is placed into maintenance mode.

Hint Answer: A D

Q38. After a number of outages within a production VMware software-defined data center, an administrator is tasked with identifying a solution to meet the following requirements:
Reduce the risk of outages by proactively identifying issues with the environment and resolving them.
Reduce the complexity of uploading log bundles when raising support tickets.
Which solution should the administrator recommend to meet these requirements?

A. VMware Aria Operations for Logs
B. VMware Skyline Advisor Pro
C. VMware Skyline Health
D. VMware Aria Operations

Hint Answer: B

Q39. What are two uses cases for VMware Tools? (Choose two.)

A. Time synchronization with an NTP server
B. Direct deployment of the Aria Automation Config minion
C. Share folders between ESXi hosts and guest OS file systems
D. Ability to shut down a virtual machine remotely
E. Support for unsupported network device drivers

Hint Answer: C D