Professional VMware vSphere 8.x

Q40. An administrator successfully installs VMware ESXi onto the first host of a new vSphere cluster but makes no additional configuration changes. When attempting to log into the vSphere Host Client using the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the host, the administrator receives the following error message:
“Server Not Found – We can’t connect to the server at esxi101.corp.local.”
The following information has been provided to complete the configuration:

Host FQDN: esxi101.corp.local –

Management VLAN ID: 10 –

DHCP: No –
Management IP Address: 172.16.10.101 / 24
Management IP Gateway: 172.16.10.1
Corporate DNS Servers: 172.16.10.5, 172.16.10.6

ONS Domain: corp.local –
In addition, all host configurations must also meet the following requirements:
The management network must use only IPv4 network protocols.
The management network must be fault tolerant.
Which three high level tasks should the administrator complete, at a minimum, in order to successfully log into the vSphere Host Client using the FQDN for esxi101 and complete the configuration? (Choose three.)

A. Ensure a DNS A Record is created for the VMware ESXi host on the corporate DNS servers.
B. Update the VMware ESXi Management Network DNS configuration to use the corporate DNS servers for names resolution.
C. Update the VMware ESXi Management Network IPv4 configuration to use a static a IPv4 address.
D. Configure at least two network adapters for the VMware ESXi Management Network.
E. Set the value of the VMware ESXi Management Network VLAN ID to 10.
F. Disable IPv6 for the VMware ESXi Management Network.

Hint Answer: A C E

Q41. An administrator is tasked with moving an application and guest operating system (OS) running on top of a physical server to a software-defined data center (SDDC) in a remote secure location.
The following constraints apply:
The remote secure location has no network connectivity to the outside world.
The business owner is not concerned if all changes in the application make it to the SDDC in the secure location.
The application’s data is hosted in a database with a high number of transactions.
What could the administrator do to create an image of the guest OS and application that can be moved to this remote data center?

A. Create a hot clone of the physical server using VMware vCenter Converter.
B. Create a cold clone of the physical server using VMware vCenter Converter.
C. Restore the guest OS from a backup.
D. Use storage replication to replicate the guest OS and application.

Hint Answer: B

Q42. An administrator is performing maintenance activities and discovers that a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore has a lot more used capacity than expected. The datastore contains 10 virtual machines (VMs) and, when the administrator reviews the contents of the associated datastore, discovers that five virtual machines have a snapshot file (-delta.vmdk files) that has not been modified in over 12 months. The administrator checks the Snapshot Manager within the vSphere Client and confirms that there are no snapshots visible. Which task should the administrator complete on the virtual machines to free up datastore space?

A. Consolidate the snapshots for each VM.
B. Inflate the disk files for each VM.
C. Delete all snapshots for each VM.
D. Storage vMotion each VM to another datastore.

Hint Answer: A

Q43. Refer to the exhibit.

Given the configuration shown in the exhibit, what should the administrator do if the latest VM template contains changes that are no longer needed?

A. Delete App-LibTemplate (2)
B. Revert to App-LibTemplate (2)
C. Delete App-LibTemplate (3)
D. Check out App-LibTemplate (3)

Hint Answer: B

Q44. An administrator is preparing for a deployment of a new vCenter Server Appliance. The follow-ing information has been provided to complete the deployment:

• ESXi Host name (FQDN): esx01.corp.local
• ESXi IP Address: 172.20.10.200
• vCenter Server Name (FQDN): vcsa01.corp.local
• vCenter Server IP Address: 172.20.10.100
• NTP Server: 172.20.10.20
• DNS Server: 172.20.10.1
• Deployment Size: Tiny
• Storage Size: Default

Which two actions must the administrator complete before starting the installation of the vCenter Server Appliance? (Choose two.)

A. Create a DNS CNAME record for the vCenter Server (vcsa01.corp.local).
B. Create a DNS CNAME record for the ESXi Host server (esx01.corp.local).
C. Create a reverse DNS A record for the vCenter Server (vcsa01).
D. Create a reverse DNS A record for the ESXi Host server (esx01)
E. Create a forward DNS A record for the vCenter Server (vcsa01).

Hint Answer: C E

Q45. An administrator needs to configure a content library solution based on the following infor-mation:

• A new corporate virtual machine (VM) template is created every month to include all of the latest patches.
• The new VM template should be downloaded from the primary data center site (London) to two secondary data center sites (Tokyo and New York) as soon as possible.
• There is limited disk space available at one of the secondary data center sites (Tokyo) due to an ongoing data center consolidation project.

Which four steps should the administrator take to configure the content library solution before adding a VM template? (Choose four.)

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

Hint Answer: B D E G

Q46. A vSphere cluster has the following configuration:
Virtual machines (VMs) are running Production and Test workloads vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is enabled
There are no resource pools in the cluster
Performance monitoring data shows that the Production workload VMs are not receiving their fully allocated memory when the vSphere cluster is fully utilized.
A combination of which two steps could the administrator perform to ensure that the Production VMs are always guaranteed the full allocation of memory? (Choose two.)

A. Assign a custom memory share value to the resource pool containing the Production VMs.
B. Assign a memory reservation value to the resource pool containing the Production VMs.
C. Create a parent resource pool for the Production VMs.
D. Create a sibling resource pool for each of the Production and Test VMs.
E. Create a child resource pool for the Test VMs.

Hint Answer: B D

Q47. Which two tasks can be completed using vSphere LifeCycle Manager? (Choose two.)

A. Manage the firmware lifecycle of ESXi hosts that are part of a managed cluster with a single image.
B. Check that the ESXi hosts are compliant with the recommended baseline and update the hosts.
C. Upgrade VMware vCenter from version 7 to 8.
D. Check the hardware compatibility of the hosts in a cluster against the VMware Compatibility Guide (VCG) using baselines.
E. Manage the firmware lifecycle of ESXi hosts are part of a managed cluster using baselines.

Hint Answer: A B

Q48. What are two use cases for VMware vSphere+? (Choose two.)

A. Enhance on-premises workloads by managing them through the VMware Cloud Console.
B. Allow live migration between on-premises and VMware Cloud.
C. Increase the performance of the native vCenter vMotion capability.
D. Allow the creation of affinity and anti-affinity rules to be used during failover events.
E. Simplify vCenter lifecycle management through cloud-enabled automation.

Hint Answer: A E

Q49. A combination of which two components of the software-defined data center (SDDC) are re-sponsible for the initial abstraction of CPU, memory, disk, and network resources and their sub-sequent management? (Choose two.)

A. VMware Aria Operations
B. VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
C. VMware vCenter
D. VMware ESXi
E. VMware vCenter Cloud Gateway

Hint Answer: C D

Q50. What is the role of vSphere Distributed Services Engine?

A. Provide a live shadow instance of a virtual machine (VM) that mirrors the primary VM to prevent data loss and downtime during outages
B. Implement Quality of Service (QoS) on network traffic within a vSphere Distributed Switch
C. Provide hardware accelerated data processing to boost infrastructure performance
D. Redistribute virtual machines across vSphere cluster hosts to comply with user-defined affinity and anti-affinity rules following host failures or during maintenance operations

Hint Answer: C

Q51. An administrator needs to perform maintenance on a datastore that is running the vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) virtual machines (VMs).
Which feature can the administrator use in this scenario to avoid the use of Storage vMotion on the vCLS VMs?

A. vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
B. vSphere vMotion
C. vSphere Fault Tolerance
D. vCLS Retreat Mode

Hint Answer: D

Q52. An administrator needs better performance and near-zero CPU utilization from the ESXi hosts for networking functions and processing. The administrator creates a new vSphere Distributed Switch and enables network offloads compatibility.
Which solution would help achieve this goal?

A. vSphere Distributed Services Engine
B. Data Processing Units (DPUs)
C. vSphere Network I/O Control
D. Universal Passthrough version 2

Hint Answer: A

Q53. An administrator decides to restore VMware vCenter from a file-based backup following a failed upgrade.
Which interface should the administrator use to complete the restore?

A. Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
B. vCenter Management Interface (VAMI)
C. vSphere Client
D. vCenter GUI Installer

Hint Answer: D

Q54. When configuring vCenter High Availability (HA), which two statements are true regarding the active, passive, and witness nodes? (Choose two.)

A. Network latency must be less than 10 milliseconds.
B. They must have a supported Wide Area Network (WAN).
C. They must have a minimum of a 10 Gbps network adapter.
D. They must have a minimum of a 1 Gbps network adapter.
E. Network latency must be more than 10 milliseconds.

Hint Answer: A D

Q55. An administrator is investigating reports of users experiencing difficulties logging into a VMware vCenter instance using LDAP accounts.
Which service should the administrator check as part of troubleshooting?

A. vSphere Authentication Proxy Service
B. Lookup Service
C. Identity Management Service
D. VMware Authentication Framework Daemon

Hint Answer: C

Q56. Which four elements can a vSphere Lifecycle Manager image contain? (Choose four.)

A. ESXi base image
B. ESXi configuration
C. Vendor agents
D. Vendor add-ons
E. BIOS updates
F. Firmware and drivers add-on
G. Independent components

Hint Answer: A D F G

Q57. Which VMware offering will allow an administrator to manage the lifecycle of multiple vCenter Server instances in a single software as a service (SaaS)-based solution to help drive operational efficiency?

A. VMware vSphere with Tanzu
B. VMware Cloud Foundation
C. VMware vSphere+
D. VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

Hint Answer: C

Q58. An administrator must gracefully restart a virtual machine (VM) through the vSphere Client but the option is greyed out. The administrator has full administrative access on VMware vCenter and all the objects available in vCenter, but has no access to log onto the operating system.
Which action should the administrator take to meet the objective?

A. Upgrade the virtual hardware
B. Migrate the VM to another host
C. Install VMware Tools
D. Restart vCenter

Hint Answer: D

Q59. An administrator is tasked with configuring an appropriate Single Sign-On (SSO) solution for VMware vCenter based on the following criteria:
The solution should support the creation of Enhanced Link Mode groups.
All user accounts are stored within a single Active Directory domain and the solution must support only this Active Directory domain as the identity source.
All user account password and account lockout policies must be managed within the Active Directory domain.
The solution should support token-based authentication.
Which SSO solution should the administrator choose based on the criteria?

A. vCenter Identity Provider Federation with Active Directory Federation Services as the identity provider
B. vCenter Single Sign-On with Active Directory over LDAP as the identity source
C. vCenter Single Sign-On with Active Directory (Windows Integrated Authentication) as the identity source
D. vCenter Identity Provider Federation with Active Directory over LDAP as the identity provider

Hint Answer: A

Q60. A company has two sites: Site A and Site B. The administrator would like to manage the VMware vCenter inventories in both sites from a single vSphere Client session.
Which vCenter feature must be configured?

A. VMware Certificate Authority
B. VMware Site Recovery Manager
C. vCenter Single Sign-On
D. Enhanced Linked Mode

Hint Answer: D

Q61. An administrator creates a virtual machine that contains the latest company-approved software, tools and security updates. Company policy requires that only full clones are allowed for server workloads.
A combination of which two tasks should the administrator complete to prepare for the deployment of this virtual machine for multiple users? (Choose two.)

A. Set appropriate permissions on the virtual machine.
B. Create a virtual machine customization specification.
C. Upgrade the virtual hardware.
D. Convert the virtual machine to a template.
E. Take a snapshot of the virtual machine.

Hint Answer: B D

Q62. Which two datastore types store the components of a virtual machine as a set of objects? (Choose two.)

A. VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
B. VMware vSAN
C. Network File System (NFS) 3
D. vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
E. Network File System (NFS) 4.1

Hint Answer: B D

Q63. An administrator is tasked with configuring remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet v2 (RoCE v2).
Which two types of adapters must the administrator configure? (Choose two.)

A. Paravirtual RDMA adapter
B. RDMA network adapter
C. Software iSCSi adapter
D. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapter
E. Software NVMe over RDMA storage adapter

Hint Answer: B E

Q64. An administrator is working with VMware Support and is asked to provide log bundles for the ESXi hosts in an environment.
Which three options does the administrator have? (Choose three.)

A. Generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts using the vCenter Management Interface.
B. Generate a separate log bundle for each ESXi host using the vSphere Host Client.
C. Generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts using the vSphere Client.
D. Generate a separate log bundle for each ESXi host using the vSphere Client.
E. Generate a separate log bundle for each ESXi host using the vCenter Management Interface.
F. Generate a combined log bundle for all ESXi hosts using the vSphere Host Client.

Hint Answer: B C D

Q65. A VMkernel port is labelled PROD01 and uses the default TCP/IP stack. Currently, this VMkernel port is configured for supporting live virtual machine (VM) migrations.
Which configuration change should the administrator make to isolate live VM migration traffic from other network traffic?

A. Remove PROD01 and create a new VMkernel port and set the TCP/IP stack to vSphere vMotion.
B. Remove PROD01 and create a new VMkernel port with the TCP/IP stack set to provisioning.
C. Create a new VMkernel port and set the TCP/IP stack to provisioning.
D. Modify PROD01 by changing the TCP/IP stack to vSphere vMotion.

Hint Answer: A

Q66. During the staging of a patch on a vCenter Server Appliance, an error was encountered and the process stopped. An administrator resolved the root cause and is ready to continue with the staging of the patch.
From the vCenter Management Interface, which action should the administrator take to continue the process from the point at which the error occurred?

A. Use the Stage and Install option to resume the staging.
B. Use the Resume option to resume the staging.
C. Use the Unstage option to restart the staging.
D. Use the Stage Only option to restart the staging.

Hint Answer: B

Q67. An administrator is tasked with looking into the disaster recovery options for protecting a database server using VMware vSphere Replication.
The following requirements must be met:
The virtual machine must remain online during the protection.
The virtual machine’s snapshots must be used as part of the replication process.
Which step must the administrator complete to accomplish this task?

A. Configure the virtual machine storage policy.
B. Enable guest OS VSS quiescing for this virtual machine.
C. Perform a full initial synchronization of the source virtual machine to the target location.
D. Configure network traffic isolation for vSphere Replication.

Hint Answer: B

Q68. An administrator is looking to deploy a new VMware vCenter instance. The current environment consists of 75 hosts and is expected to grow up to 100 hosts over the next three years.
Which deployment size should the administrator select?

A. Medium
B. Tiny
C. Large
D. Small

Hint Answer: D

Q69. A vSphere cluster hosts a three-tier application. The cluster has 50% resources available. If a host in the cluster fails, the database server must be online before the application server, and the appli-cation server must be online before the Web server.
Which feature can be used to meet these requirements?

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

Hint Answer: B

Q70. An administrator receives reports from the application team of poor performance of a virtual ma-chine (VM). The administrator reviews the virtual machine and discovers that it has 20 snapshots that are over 12 months old. What could the administrator do to improve the VM’s performance?

A. Inflate the base disk to make space for future snapshots.
B. Revert to the latest snapshot.
C. Consolidate all of the snapshots into the base VM.
D. Identify and delete the largest delta .vmdk file.

Hint Answer: C

Q71. An administrator needs to update a VMware vCenter instance to a newer minor release version. Due to restrictions within the environment, the vCenter instance does not have access to the In-ternet. As a first step, the administrator downloads the required update on another machine. What are the next steps the administrator must perform to complete the update?

A. Place the update ISO file in a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore.
Use the vSphere Client to select the update ISO file as the source for the update.
B. Mount the ISO update file to the CD-ROM drive of the vCenter instance.
Use the vCenter Management Interface to select the CD-ROM as the source for the update.
C. Place the ISO update file in a folder accessible to the vCenter instance over HTTPS.
Use the vCenter Management Interface to select the update file as the source for the update.
D. Place the ZIP update file in a folder accessible to the vCenter instance over HTTPS.
Use the vSphere Client to select the update file as the source for the update.

Hint Answer: D

Q72. An administrator is tasked with deploying a new on-premises software-defined data center (SDDC) that will contain a total of eight VMware vCenter instances.
The following requirements must be met:
All vCenter instances should be visible in a single vSphere Client session.
All vCenter inventory should be searchable from a single vSphere Client session.
Any administrator must be able to complete operations on any vCenter instance using a single set of credentials.
What should the administrator configure to meet these requirements?

A. Two Enhanced Linked Mode groups consisting of four vCenter instances each in a Single Sign-On domain.
B. A single Hybrid Linked Mode group consisting of four vCenter instances each in a Single Sign-On domain.
C. A single Enhanced Linked Mode group consisting of eight vCenter instances in one Single Sign-On domain.
D. A single Hybrid Linked Mode group consisting of eight vCenter instances in one Single Sign-On domain.

Hint Answer: C

Q73. An administrator is investigating user logon failures for a VMware vCenter instance. Where can the administrator find log files containing information related to user login activities?

A. On the vCenter Management Interface
B. On the ESXi host using the Direct Console User Interface
C. On the vCenter Server Appliance
D. In the vSphere Client when viewing the vCenter virtual machine

Hint Answer: C

Q74. Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator configures a distributed switch and adds the first VMware ESXi server to it.

The administrator also performs the following activities:
• The administrator assigns two uplinks to the distributed switch.
• The administrator enables uplink teaming.

When attempting to perform a health check of the teaming policy, the health status of the Team-ing and Failover reports as “Unknown”, as seen in the exhibit.

What can the administrator changes in the distributed switch for the health status to report cor-rectly?

A. Add a minimum of three hosts with two uplinks each
B. Add a minimum of two hosts with two uplinks each
C. Add a minimum of three hosts with four uplinks each
D. Add a minimum of two hosts with one uplink each

Hint Answer: B

Q75. Which step is completed during Stage 1 of the vCenter Server Appliance deployment?

A. Join a vCenter Single Sign-On domain
B. Create a new vCenter Single Sign-On domain
C. Select the deployment size
D. Configure SSH access

Hint Answer: C

Q76. What is the minimum network throughput in Gb/s for vSAN using the Express Storage Architec-ture (ESA)?

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

Hint Answer: B

Q77. An administrator is tasked with implementing a backup solution capable of backing up the Su-pervisor cluster, vSphere Pods, and persistent volumes. Which two solutions must be used to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

A. VMware vCenter
B. Standalone Velero and Restic
C. NSX-T Manager
D. vSphere Host Client
E. Velero Plugin for vSphere

Hint Answer: B E

Q78. An administrator remotely deploys VMware ESXi using an out of band management connection and now needs to complete the configuration of the management network so that the host is ac-cessible through the vSphere Host Client.

The following information has been provided to complete the configuration:

• Host FQDN: esxi01.corp.local
• Management VLAN ID: 10
• DHCP: No
• Management IP Address: 172.16.10.101/24
• Management IP Gateway: 172.16.10.1
• Corporate DNS Servers: 172.16.10.5, 172.16.10.6
• DNS Domain: corp.local

In addition, all host configurations must also meet the following requirements:

• The management network must use only IPv4 network protocols.
• The management network must be fault tolerant.

Which four high level tasks should the administrator complete in the Direct Console User Inter-face (DCUI) in order to meet the requirements and successfully log into the vSphere Host Cli-ent? (Choose four.)

A. Set the value of the VMware ESXi Management Network VLAN ID to 10.
B. Configure at least two network adapters for the VMware ESXi Management Network.
C. Update the VMware ESXi Management Network IPv4 configuration to use a static IPv4 ad-dress.
D. Create a DNS A Record for the VMware ESXi host on the corporate DNS servers.
E. Disable IPv6 for the VMware ESXi Management Network.
F. Restore the original Management vSphere Standard Switch.
G. Update the VMware ESXi Management Network DNS configuration to use the corporate DNS servers for names resolution.

Hint Answer: A B C E

Q79. An administrator is asked to segregate virtual machine (VM) traffic by VLAN on a vSphere standard switch.

The following requirements must be met:
• VLAN ID on the switch port group must be 4095.
• VLAN tagging must be done at the VM level.

Which tagging mode is required?

A. External Switch Tagging (EST)
B. None
C. Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT)
D. Virtual Switch Tagging (VST)

Hint Answer: C

Q80. An administrator is tasked with allowing a single user the ability to take snapshots on a virtual machine. When looking in vCenter, the administrator can see that there are already users and groups assigned permissions on the virtual machine as follows:

• The group VM_Users has the Virtual Machine Power User role.
• The group VM_Viewers has the Read Only role.

The administrator confirms that the user requesting the additional access is currently one of five members of the VM_Viewers group.

Which two steps should the administrator take to grant this user the additional access required without impacting the user access of others? (Choose two.)

A. Add the user to the VM_Users group and leave the permissions on the virtual machine object unchanged.
B. Add a new permission on the virtual machine object selecting the user and the new custom role.
C. Edit the Read Only role to add the Virtual Machine Snapshot Management privileges.
D. Create a new custom role with the Virtual Machine Snapshot Management privileges.
E. Add a new permission on the virtual machine object selecting the VM_Viewers group and the new custom role.

Hint Answer: B D