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An administrator is migrating a virtual machine in a DRS cluster. The migration fails the validation check because of a CPU incompatibility issue. Which items below could be causing this issue? (Choose two.)

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An administrator is migrating a virtual machine in a DRS cluster. The migration fails the validation check because of a CPU incompatibility issue. Which items below could be causing this issue? (Choose two.) 






A. Inconsistent CPU manufacturers.
B. Inconsistent CPU steppings.
C. Inconsistent CPU generations.
D. Inconsistent CPU GHZ.






Answer: A,C

A DRS cluster with two ESXi 5.x hosts is set to fully automated mode. One host in the cluster is running at 98% CPU utilization. The other host is running at 52% utilization. Upon analysis, it appears that none of the virtual machines are being migrated from the CPU-constrained host, and no recommendations are being generated. What are the two most likely causes of the problem? (Choose two.)

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A DRS cluster with two ESXi 5.x hosts is set to fully automated mode. One host in the cluster is running at 98% CPU utilization. The other host is running at 52% utilization. Upon analysis, it appears that none of the virtual machines are being migrated from the CPU-constrained host, and no recommendations are being generated. What are the two most likely causes of the problem? (Choose two.) 







A. The VMkernel port is assigned an incorrect IP adderss.
B. vMotion is not enabled on the VMkernel port.
C. The DRS Migration Threshold is too aggressive.
D. VMware DRS is not set to Fully Automated.






Answer: A,B

What are three true statements about an integrity check in vCenter Data Recovery? (Choose three.)

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What are three true statements about an integrity check in vCenter Data Recovery? (Choose three.) 






A. The operation is prevented from overlaping with the backup operations.
B. The operation is scheduled separately form the backup schedule.
C. An incremental operation can be manually started.
D. The operation automatically pauses when the end of the maintenance window is reached
E. By default the operation does not run during normal business hours.







Answer: B,D,E

An administrator is configuring admission control settings for a vSphere HA cluster. The administrator selects the option Allow VMs to Be Powered on Even if They Violate Availability Constraints. Which two events occur during an ESXi host failure? (Choose two.)

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An administrator is configuring admission control settings for a vSphere HA cluster. The administrator selects the option Allow VMs to Be Powered on Even if They Violate Availability Constraints. Which two events occur during an ESXi host failure? (Choose two.) 






A. Virtual machines with a High restart priority are restarted first.
B. Virtual machines with a Low restart priority are not restarted.
C. HA will not restart virtual machines configured for FT.
D. Virtual machines with VM Monitoring set to Enabled are restarted.









Answer: A,C

While building a VMware View environment one of the design requirements is keeping vCenter and View Composer always available. Which solution can be utilized to achieve this?

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While building a VMware View environment one of the design requirements is keeping vCenter and View Composer always available. Which solution can be utilized to achieve this? 





A. vCenter Server Heartbeat
B. vSphere HA
C. vSphere FT
D. Host Based Replication







Answer: A

Which three files are valid virtual machine files that might be identified when examining a folder that contains a virtual machine template on a VMFS datastore? (Choose three.)

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Which three files are valid virtual machine files that might be identified when examining a folder that contains a virtual machine template on a VMFS datastore? (Choose three.) 






A. RDM map file (-rdm.vmdk)
B. BIOS settings file (.bios)
C. Template file (.vmtx)
D. Lock file (.lck)
E. Suspended state file (.vmsn)







Answer: A,C,E

What are two reasons why a company would choose to use ESXi 5.x instead of using VMware Workstation 8? (Choose two.)

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What are two reasons why a company would choose to use ESXi 5.x instead of using VMware Workstation 8? (Choose two.) 






A. The company needs to be able to assign existing physical disks to virtual machines.
B. The company needs remote management of virtual machines
C. The company needs support for virtual machines with up to sixteen vCPUs
D. The company wants the lowest overhead possible for the virtual infrastructure.







Answer: C,D

When would an administrator configure the Explicit Failover option for a portgroup created on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks?

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When would an administrator configure the Explicit Failover option for a portgroup created on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks? 






A. To manually configure load balancing for the portgroup
B. To share uplinks between vSwitches
C. When configuring iSCSI Software Initiator multipathing
D. If the physical switch does not support etherchannel or 802.3ad







Answer: A

A user has permissions to create and manage alarms and tasks for a group of virtual machines. What happens if an administrator modifies permissions for the user so that they can no longer manage alarms?

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A user has permissions to create and manage alarms and tasks for a group of virtual machines. What happens if an administrator modifies permissions for the user so that they can no longer manage alarms? 





A. The user can no longer create alarms, but can modify or delete the existing alarms.
B. The user can create alarms but can no longer modify or delete alarms.
C. The user can no longer create, modify or delete alarms.
D. The Alarms tab is dimmed in the vSphere Client and no alarm-related actions may be taken by the user.






Answer: B

An administrator has two ESXi 5.x hosts. Each host has two resource pools, Production and Test and a vApp named TestvApp01. What is true when these hosts are added to a DRS cluster?

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An administrator has two ESXi 5.x hosts. Each host has two resource pools, Production and Test and a vApp named TestvApp01. What is true when these hosts are added to a DRS cluster? 







A. An option is given during the process to graft the pools under the cluster's root pool, the vApp will be removed.
B. An option is given during the process to graft the pools and vApp under the cluster's root pool.
C. The resource pools and vApp are automatically grafted into the cluster under the root pool.
D. The resource pools and vApp are automatically removed when the host is added.






Answer: A

Which two statements are true regarding a mixed DRS cluster with Intel-based and AMD-based ESXi 5.x hosts? (Choose two.)

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Which two statements are true regarding a mixed DRS cluster with Intel-based and AMD-based ESXi 5.x hosts? (Choose two.) 






A. DRS can load-balance running virtual machines, assuming multiple hosts per CPU family.
B. HA can only failover virtual machines to hosts within the same CPU family.
C. Cold Migration may be needed to balance the performance load on the cluster
D. Storage vMotion will not be available for this cluster






Answer: A,C

An administrator is configuring an ESXi 5.x host with two dual-port Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs. The FC storage array has four active storage processor ports. Zoning is configured on both fabrics, with ESXi HBA ports and the array ports in the same zone. There are two LUNs with VMFS datastores configured. Using Round Robin multipathing, what is the maximum number of paths that can be used to send data to the VMFS datastores at any given time?

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An administrator is configuring an ESXi 5.x host with two dual-port Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs. The FC storage array has four active storage processor ports. Zoning is configured on both fabrics, with ESXi HBA ports and the array ports in the same zone. There are two LUNs with VMFS datastores configured. Using Round Robin multipathing, what is the maximum number of paths that can be used to send data to the VMFS datastores at any given time? 







A. 2
B. 3
C. 1
D. 4






Answer: A

vCenter Server is running in a virtual machine that is part of a vSphere DRS cluster. The vCenter Server virtual machine has been tested and can successfully migrate with vMotion between all ESXi hosts in the cluster. DRS is configured for partial automation. What happens if an ESXi 5.x host that is running the vCenter Server virtual machine experiences a power outage?

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vCenter Server is running in a virtual machine that is part of a vSphere DRS cluster. The vCenter Server virtual machine has been tested and can successfully migrate with vMotion between all ESXi hosts in the cluster. DRS is configured for partial automation. What happens if an ESXi 5.x host that is running the vCenter Server virtual machine experiences a power outage? 






A. All DRS cluster operations will be unavailable until the failed ESXi host is brought back online.
B. vCenter Server will remain offline, but all virtual machines on the remaining hosts will continue without interruption.
C. This situation cannot occur, because vCenter Server cannot be installed on a virtual machine in a vSphere DRS cluster.
D. vSphere will restart the vCenter Server virtual machine on another host.







Answer: B

Click the Exhibit button. Which statement is true about the network performance of the virtual machine in the exhibit?

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Click the Exhibit button. Which statement is true about the network performance of the virtual machine in the exhibit? 








A. The virtual machine can send at the maximum of 10Mbps.
B. The virtual machine can send traffic as fast as the underlying virtual switch allows.
C. Virtual switch autonegotiation settings must to be adjusted to improve performance.
D. The underlying physical NIC is configured for 10Mbps.








Answer: B

What is a valid example of a vSphere Update Manager upgrade?

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What is a valid example of a vSphere Update Manager upgrade? 




A. A VMware Tools upgrade on a Fault Tolerant machine with automatic snapshots.
B. Upgrading and patching multiple ESXi hosts simultaneously in a selected cluster.
C. Upgrading an ESX 4.1 host to ESXi 5.x with a sufficient boot partition.
D. An ESXi 5.x host update with automatically deleted snapshots.





Answer: C

An administrator is configuring a stretched HA configuration and has HA errors on all of the hosts at the remote site. What can be done to ensure virtual machines at one site can be restarted at the remote site?

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An administrator is configuring a stretched HA configuration and has HA errors on all of the hosts at the remote site. What can be done to ensure virtual machines at one site can be restarted at the remote site? 





A. Ensure any firewalls between the hosts are allowing port 8182
B. Create separate HA clusters at each site and enable Stretch Cluster on each
C. Ensure the latency between the sites is less than 5 milliseconds
D. Ensure each site has no more than 4 primary hosts





Answer: A

While performing a security check the vSphere administrator finds unassigned AD accounts with vSphere permissions. If the accounts are removed from Active Directory what will happen to any user logged into vCenter with those accounts?

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While performing a security check the vSphere administrator finds unassigned AD accounts with vSphere permissions. If the accounts are removed from Active Directory what will happen to any user logged into vCenter with those accounts? 






A. The vSphere client warns the user they will be logged out in 1 hour.
B. The user can remain logged in indefinitely.
C. The user is immediately disconnected from vCenter Server and cannot log back in.
D. The user can remain logged into vCenter for up to 24 hours.






Answer: D

An administrator is responsible for enabling file access for desktop users. Many users have complained that they cannot access their files. An alert in the vSphere Client states that the storage connectivity alarm for all hosts has been triggered. The storage screen indicates that everything is connected, but the triggered alert has not been acknowledged. Which action will correct the user access problem?

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An administrator is responsible for enabling file access for desktop users. Many users have complained that they cannot access their files. An alert in the vSphere Client states that the storage connectivity alarm for all hosts has been triggered. The storage screen indicates that everything is connected, but the triggered alert has not been acknowledged.
Which action will correct the user access problem? 






A. Rescan the storage on the file-sharing virtual machine on which the users are seeing the problem.
B. Reconnect the storage containing the user files to all hosts in the cluster, then Refresh datastores on all hosts in the cluster.
C. Tell each user to reboot their computer.
D. Reconnect the storage containing the user files to all hosts in the cluster, then Rescan datastores on all hosts in the cluster.






Answer: D

An administrator uses VMware Data Recovery to make backups of virtual machines. Checking on the backup jobs that were run the previous evening, the administrator notices that some jobs completed but that other jobs did not. What are two possible causes for the failure? (Choose two.)

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An administrator uses VMware Data Recovery to make backups of virtual machines. Checking on the backup jobs that were run the previous evening, the administrator notices that some jobs completed but that other jobs did not.
What are two possible causes for the failure? (Choose two.) 





A. The deduplication store had 400GB of available space before the start of the affected jobs.
B. Eight backup jobs were running simultaneously, causing new jobs to fail to start.
C. The backup window was not open long enough to retrieve all of the changed blocks.
D. CPU utilization on the VDR appliance exceeded 90% before one or more jobs executed.





Answer: B,C

Click the Exhibit button. An administrator has implemented a new vSphere 5 environment and is deploying their first Windows 2008 R2 template. When running the Deploy Template wizard, the error shown in the exhibit appears. What can be done to correct the problem?

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An administrator has implemented a new vSphere 5 environment and is deploying their first Windows 2008 R2 template. When running the Deploy Template wizard, the error shown in the exhibit appears. What can be done to correct the problem? 





A. Select the correct guest OS setting for the virtual machine.
B. Windows 2003 x64 cannot be customized.
C. Download and install the Microsoft Sysprep tool into the virtual machine to be customized.
D. Download the Microsoft Sysprep tool to the appropriate vCenter Server directory.




Answer: A

What are two requirements for successful vMotion migration? (Choose two.)

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What are two requirements for successful vMotion migration? (Choose two.) 





A. CPUs with matching SpeedStep settings must exist on both the source and destination hosts.
B. Virtul machines must not utilize hardware local to the host such as SCSI pass-through.
C. Virtual machines must not have a CDROM connected via the vSphere client.
D. Dedicated Gigabit Ethernet Networking must exist between the source and destination hosts.





Answer: B,C

Assuming that ballooning is possible, under which three circumstances might the VMkernel use a swap file for a running virtual machine? (Choose three.)

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Assuming that ballooning is possible, under which three circumstances might the VMkernel use a swap file for a running virtual machine? (Choose three.) 





A. The Mem.CtlMaxPercent value is between 10 and 25 percent.
B. Memory cannot be reclaimed quickly enough.
C. The virtual machine is starting up.
D. VMware Tools is not installed.
E. 50% of the configured memory has already been ballooned.





Answer: A,B,E

Select three of the steps for configuring iSCSI Software Initiator multipathing when load balancing with a single vSphere standard switch. (Choose three.)

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Select three of the steps for configuring iSCSI Software Initiator multipathing when load balancing with a single vSphere standard switch. (Choose three.) 





A. Change the Path Selection Policy to Round Robin (VMware)
B. Enable Override switch failover order
C. Enable Route based on IP Hash
D. Enable iSCSI port binding on the VMkernel object or objects
E. Add VMkernel adapters to the iSCSI Network Configuration





Answer: A,B,E

Which configuration requires an additional database server when adding vSphere Update Manager 5.x to an environment?

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Which configuration requires an additional database server when adding vSphere Update Manager 5.x to an environment? 






A. vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) with an external Oracle database
B. vCenter Application with the default database
C. vCenter Application with an external SQL 2008 Enterprise database
D. vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) with an external DB2 database





Answer: D

What are three of the steps recalled patches automatically go through in vSphere Update Manager? (Choose three.)

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What are three of the steps recalled patches automatically go through in vSphere Update Manager? (Choose three.) 






A. Hosts with recalled patches are placed maintenance mode.
B. Hosts with recalled patches are remediated.
C. The recalled patch binary is deleted from the repository.
D. The recalled patch is flagged in the database.
E. A notification is generated in the notification tab.







Answer: C,D,E

An administrator notices that the database virtual machines fail to backup within the backup window. Each database virtual machine has 4 vCPUs, 16GB RAM and 12 virtual disks. There are 16 database virtual machines to backup using 8 backup jobs. Which is the simplest way to improve the backup performance for these virtual machines?

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An administrator notices that the database virtual machines fail to backup within the backup window. Each database virtual machine has 4 vCPUs, 16GB RAM and 12 virtual disks. There are 16 database virtual machines to backup using 8 backup jobs.
Which is the simplest way to improve the backup performance for these virtual machines? 






A. Add a backup job for each virtual machine.
B. Set a 16GB reservation for each virtual machine.
C. Add 1MB VMDK drives at 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 on the VDR appliance.
D. Upgrade the array to 8GB FCP and ensure multipathing is configured properly.






Answer: C

What two methods can be used to reduce the vMotion migration time of a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

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What two methods can be used to reduce the vMotion migration time of a virtual machine? (Choose two.) 





A. Enable High priority on the virtual machine before starting the Migrate wizard.
B. Select High priority during the Migrate wizard.
C. Lower the memory reservation for the virtual machine.
D. Ensure the cluster has the default Swapfile policy set.





Answer: B,D

An administrator is attempting to clone a running virtual machine, but receives an error that prevents that the virtual machine is using a device that prevents the operation. What two device types listed below could be causing this error? (Choose two.)

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An administrator is attempting to clone a running virtual machine, but receives an error that prevents that the virtual machine is using a device that prevents the operation.
What two device types listed below could be causing this error? (Choose two.) 






A. An independent mode virtual disk
B. A physical compatibility mode RDM
C. An LSI logic SAS adapter
D. A BusLogic Parallel adapter






Answer: A,B

What is a benefit of vCenter Linked-Mode?

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What is a benefit of vCenter Linked-Mode? 




A. Allows the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) to manage multiple sites
B. Pools vRAM entitlement
C. Increases vCenter security
D. Increases vCenter reliability






Answer: B

A company is planning an upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5. They currently have three dual CPU servers licensed for ESXi 4.1 Advanced Each server has 256GB of RAM installed. Their virtual machines are sized three ways. Light. 1v CPU, 4GB RAM Medium. 2v CPU, 8GB RAM Heavy. 4 vCPU, 12GB RAM The Production workload consists of. 20 Light servers 20 Medium servers 2 Heavy servers The Development workload consists of. 10 Light servers 10 Medium servers How will vSphere 5 licensing impact their upgrade? (Choose two.)

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A company is planning an upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5. They currently have three dual CPU servers licensed for ESXi 4.1 Advanced
Each server has 256GB of RAM installed.
Their virtual machines are sized three ways.
Light. 1v CPU, 4GB RAM
Medium. 2v CPU, 8GB RAM
Heavy. 4 vCPU, 12GB RAM
The Production workload consists of.
20 Light servers
20 Medium servers
2 Heavy servers
The Development workload consists of.
10 Light servers
10 Medium servers
How will vSphere 5 licensing impact their upgrade? (Choose two.) 





A. They will need to purchase additional ESXi licenses.
B. They will be able to reduce their power consumption.
C. They will be restricted from powering on additional virtual machines.
D. A license upgrade will be needed to add vCPUs to the Heavy servers.





Answer: B,C

A mid-size company with a vSphere 5 cluster wants to enable their helpdesk staff to be able to acknowledge alarms on the hosts. Currently the group "HelpDesk" has the Read-only role assigned to the Cluster object. Which action should the administrator perform?

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A mid-size company with a vSphere 5 cluster wants to enable their helpdesk staff to be able to acknowledge alarms on the hosts. Currently the group "HelpDesk" has the Read-only role assigned to the Cluster object. Which action should the administrator perform? 






A. Enable Propagate to Child Objects on the current permission.
B. Move the current permission to the Datacenter object.
C. Add the Alarms - Acknowledge Alarm privilege to the current role and enable "Propagate to Child Objects"
D. Clone the role, add the Alarms - Acknowledge Alarm privilege, replace the current role.






Answer: D

An administrator creates a new Role of "Virtual Machine Creator" for members of the helpdesk and server teams. Privileges include. Datastore - Allocate space Network - Assign network Resource - Assign virtual machine to resource pool Virtual machine > Configuration - all Virtual machine > Interaction - all The new role is granted to the teams at the appropriate VMs and Templates folder, Cluster and Datastore objects. After applying the role, users report they are unable to create new Virtual Machines. What should be changed to allow new virtual machines to be created?

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An administrator creates a new Role of "Virtual Machine Creator" for members of the helpdesk and server teams. Privileges include.
Datastore - Allocate space
Network - Assign network
Resource - Assign virtual machine to resource pool
Virtual machine > Configuration - all
Virtual machine > Interaction - all
The new role is granted to the teams at the appropriate VMs and Templates folder, Cluster and Datastore objects. After applying the role, users report they are unable to create new Virtual Machines. What should be changed to allow new virtual machines to be created? 






A. Add a privilege to the role Virtual machine > Inventory - Create new
B. Grant the teams the role at the Datacenter level
C. Ensure Propagate to Child Objects is selected on the objects.
D. Grant the teams the role on the Production network object.






Answer: A

An administrator is investigating a report of slow disk performance. Where is the most efficient place for the administrator to check?

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An administrator is investigating a report of slow disk performance. Where is the most efficient place for the administrator to check? 





A. The performance tab of the vApp.
B. The performance tab of the virtual machine.
C. The performance tab of the vApp resource pool.
D. The performance tab of the cluster.





Answer: B

Which two statements are true regarding vSphere standard switches? (Choose two.)

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Which two statements are true regarding vSphere standard switches? (Choose two.) 





A. Beaconing requires at least three uplinks to be considered useful.
B. Virtual machines on different vSwitches require the vSwitches to share an uplink to communicate.
C. vSphere virtual switches require at least one uplink adapter.
D. Setting the number of ports to the maximum on a vSwitch will exhaust the total ports on a host.




Answer: A,D

An administrator is creating a new virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine wizard in custom mode on an ESXi 5.x host with two quad-core CPUs. What would limit the maximum number of virtual sockets for the virtual machine to 8? (Choose three.)

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An administrator is creating a new virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine wizard in custom mode on an ESXi 5.x host with two quad-core CPUs. What would limit the maximum number of virtual sockets for the virtual machine to 8? (Choose three.) 





A. Windows 2008 32-bit is configured as the guest operating system.
B. Virtual machine hardware version 8 is configured for the VM.
C. Hyperthreading is disabled on the ESXi host.
D. The ESXi host is configured with a Standard license.
E. The number of cores per virtual socket is set to 4.






Answer: C,D,E

Virtual machine VM1 is unable to communicate with virtual machine VM2. Both virtual machines are connected to a portgroup named Production on vSwitch1 on host ESXi01. Which statement could explain why?

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Virtual machine VM1 is unable to communicate with virtual machine VM2. Both virtual machines are connected to a portgroup named Production on vSwitch1 on host ESXi01. Which statement could explain why? 




A. The only vmnic connected to vSwitch1 on ESXi01 is set to unused
B. The only vmnic connected to vSwitch1 on ESXi01 is set to standby
C. Load balancing settings on Production do not match vSwitch1
D. VM1 is configured for VGT, VM2 is configured for VST






Answer: D

An administrator has been tasked with upgrading an existing host from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.x. The existing host has only vSwitch0 with all the default settings. The upgraded host will have the following new requirements. 1. 116 virtual machines will be connected. 2. Four uplinks configured for port-based load balancing. 3. The switch will include a secondary heartbeat network for HA. Which two statements are true about this configuration? (Choose two.)

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An administrator has been tasked with upgrading an existing host from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.x. The existing host has only vSwitch0 with all the default settings. The upgraded host will have the following new requirements.
1. 116 virtual machines will be connected.
2. Four uplinks configured for port-based load balancing.
3. The switch will include a secondary heartbeat network for HA.
Which two statements are true about this configuration? (Choose two.) 





A. The Service Console Port will be removed during the upgrade
B. The configuration requires only one VMkernel Port
C. The default vSwitch0 is sufficient for this configuration
D. A change to vSwitch0 Properties is required






Answer: A,D

An administrator has purchased a new 10GB Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for installation in a system that is running ESXi 5.x. The administrator has downloaded the latest driver from the hardware vendor and wants to include the driver in an image. The image profile acceptance level is set to VMwareSupported. The acceptance level of the driver is VMwareSupported. Which two statements are true about the inclusion of this driver in the image? (Choose two.)

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An administrator has purchased a new 10GB Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for installation in a system that is running ESXi 5.x. The administrator has downloaded the latest driver from the hardware vendor and wants to include the driver in an image. The image profile acceptance level is set to VMwareSupported. The acceptance level of the driver is VMwareSupported.
Which two statements are true about the inclusion of this driver in the image? (Choose two.) 






A. Support calls for the driver will be directed to the partner.
B. The image can be built, but the driver will not be included in the image.
C. The image can be built and the driver will be included.
D. Support calls for the driver will be handled by VMware.







Answer: A,C

A group of virtual machines has been deployed using thin disks because of limited storage space availability. The storage team has expressed concern about extensive use of this type of provisioning. At which level can the administrator set an alarm to notify the storage team?

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A group of virtual machines has been deployed using thin disks because of limited storage space availability. The storage team has expressed concern about extensive use of this type of provisioning. At which level can the administrator set an alarm to notify the storage team? 






A. Datastore
B. Virtual Machine
C. Host
D. Resource Pool





Answer: A

An administrator would like to have vCenter take action any time a virtual machine is using over 90% of its available resources for five minutes or longer. Which three actions can be taken by vCenter Server in response to the trigger without running a script? (Choose three.)

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An administrator would like to have vCenter take action any time a virtual machine is using over 90% of its available resources for five minutes or longer.
Which three actions can be taken by vCenter Server in response to the trigger without running a script? (Choose three.) 





A. Power on a VM
B. Reboot Guest on VM
C. Increase Virtual Machine Memory
D. Migrate a VM
E. Increase Virtual Machine CPU Shares





Answer: A,B,D

An administrator is performing maintenance on a storage array used by an ESXi 5.x host. The administrator wants to disable alarm actions for the host while the maintenance is taking place. What procedure will accomplish this task?

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An administrator is performing maintenance on a storage array used by an ESXi 5.x host. The administrator wants to disable alarm actions for the host while the maintenance is taking place.
What procedure will accomplish this task? 




A. Right-click and disable each alarm.
B. Right-click the DRS cluster and select Alarm and Disable Alarm Actions.
C. Right-click the ESXi host and select Alarm and Disable Alarm Actions.
D. Go to the Alarms tab for the Datacenter containing the DRS cluster. Locate the storage-related alarms. Right-click and disable each alarm.






Answer: C

Click the Exhibit button. ACME Party Supplies Corporation has a requirement to monitor all virtual machines in a vSphere 5 environment for CPU and Memory usage. An administrator configures an alarm in vCenter Server to send an alert when any VM exceeds 65% memory utilization and 75% CPU utilization. The alarm should warn administrators if the virtual machine is within 20% of the defined thresholds. The alarm has been created with the default options as shown in the exhibit. Which three modifications must be made to the default settings in the alarm definition to satisfy the stated requirements? (Choose three.)

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ACME Party Supplies Corporation has a requirement to monitor all virtual machines in a vSphere 5 environment for CPU and Memory usage. An administrator configures an alarm in vCenter Server to send an alert when any VM exceeds 65% memory utilization and 75% CPU utilization. The alarm should warn administrators if the virtual machine is within 20% of the defined thresholds. The alarm has been created with the default options as shown in the exhibit.
Which three modifications must be made to the default settings in the alarm definition to satisfy the stated requirements? (Choose three.) 





A. Set the VM CPU Usage (%) Alert trigger to 75% and the VM Memory Usage (%) Alert trigger to 55%
B. Set the VM CPU Usage (%) Alert trigger to 75% and the VM Memory Usage (%) Warning trigger to 55%
C. Set the VM CPU Usage (%) Warning trigger to 65% and the VM Memory Usage (%) Warning trigger to 45%
D. Set the Trigger if all of the conditions are satisfied radio button
E. Set the Trigger if any of the conditions are satisfied radio button






Answer: A,C,E


It appears that a single vCPU virtual machine in a resource pool called Production is having performance problems because it does not have enough CPU resources available. Which two methods can be used to improve performance and reduce CPU contention of this virtual machine while maintaining compatibility with DRS? (Choose two.)

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It appears that a single vCPU virtual machine in a resource pool called Production is having performance problems because it does not have enough CPU resources available.
Which two methods can be used to improve performance and reduce CPU contention of this virtual machine while maintaining compatibility with DRS? (Choose two.) 





A. Configure a CPU reservation for this virtual machine.
B. Increase the CPU shares for the resource pool.
C. Increase the CPU shares for the virtual machine.
D. Increase the share priority setting for the Production resource pool.




Answer: A,C

Which three requirements must be met in order to use Storage I/O Control? (Choose three.)

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Which three requirements must be met in order to use Storage I/O Control? (Choose three.) 






A. The datastore must contain multiple VMFS extents.
B. The datastore must contain a single NFS volume.
C. The datastore must not include virtual machines with snapshots.
D. The datastore must be managed by a single vCenter Server.
E. Array-based automated storage tiering must be explicitly certified.





Answer: B,D,E

Which three statements regarding Network I/O Control (NIOC) are accurate? (Choose three.)

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Which three statements regarding Network I/O Control (NIOC) are accurate? (Choose three.)






A. NIOC enforces traffic bandwidth limits on the overall vDS set of dvUplinks.
B. NIOC limits maximum throughput control on connected virtual machines.
C. Load based teaming efficiently uses a vDS set of dvUplinks for network capacity.
D. Isolation provides priority to any one traffic flow.
E. Relative shares fairly allocates available bandwidth among multiple flows.






Answer: A,C,E

A company has converted several physical machines to virtual machines but are seeing significant performance issues on the converted machines. The host is configured with sufficient memory and storage does not appear to be a bottleneck. Which metric can be checked to determine if CPU contention exists on an ESXi 5.x host?

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A company has converted several physical machines to virtual machines but are seeing significant performance issues on the converted machines. The host is configured with sufficient memory and storage does not appear to be a bottleneck. Which metric can be checked to determine if CPU contention exists on an ESXi 5.x host? 





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






Answer: D
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