My VCP exam Questions and Answers in July 2013 (50 out of 85)

    1)       

               

An administrator has deployed a new virtual machine on an ESXi 5.x host. Users are complaining of poor

performance on the application running on the virtual machine. Performance tools display the results shown

in the exhibit.

Which two tasks 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 hostD. Remove the limit on the CPU settings of the virtual machine

Answer: AD

Section: (none)

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

The picture shows CPU at 100% in VM, not CPU shortage on ESX server. A, D - these 2 options both

increase the amount of CPU allocated to VM B,C - these 2 options change the physical CPU allocated to

VM, but this was not the problem shown

2)       

Which two conditions prevent the application of a host profile to an ESXi 5.x host? (Choose two.)

A. The host has multiple profiles attached.

B. The host has not been placed into maintenance mode.

C. The host is running virtual machines.

D. The host is an ESXi host.

3)       

What happens to the total number of shares available to the children of a resource pool if a virtual machine

is powered off inside the resource pool?

A. It remains the same

B. It decreases

C. It increases

D. It remains the same only if a custom share value was configured

Answer: B

4)       

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: ACE

Section: (none)

5)       

Which two actions can be scheduled through the Scheduled Task wizard in the vSphere Client? (Choose

two.)

A. Remove a host.

B. Change the VM power state.

C. Create a virtual machine.

D. Revert to a snapshot of a virtual machine.

Answer: BC

6)       

Which network settings are only available with vSphere Distributed Switches?

A. Jumbo Frames

B. PVLAN

C. Load Balancing

D. Promiscuous Mode

7)       

An administrator plans to deploy ESXi 5.x on a blade server containing no local disks.

What boot options are supported for use in place of local disks? (Choose three.)

A. An SD card

B. A NIC with iBFT

C. Auto Deploy

D. A server with IPMI or iLO

E. A dedicated NFS share

8)       

An administrator is setting up vSphere Auto Deploy to deploy 25 ESXi 5.x hosts using the vCenter Server

Virtual Appliance (vCSA). What would be considered best practices for Auto Deploy? (Choose three.)

A. Enable vSphere HA on the cluster.

B. Protect the vCenter server with Fault Tolerance.

C. Install the Auto Deploy service on the VCSA.

D. Include the vmware-fdm VIB in the image profile.

E. Use PowerCLI to write a rule that assigns a custom image profile to the target hosts.

Answer: ADE

9)       

Which three modules are optional components that can be added from the vCenter Server installer?

(Choose three.)

A. VMware vCenter Syslog Collector

B. VMware vCenter License Server

C. VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy

D. VMware vCenter Host Update Utility

E. VMware vSphere Auto Deploy

10)   

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: AB

11)   

Which two actions can be scheduled through the Scheduled Task wizard in the vSphere Client? (Choose

two.)

A. Remove a host.

B. Change the VM power state.

C. Create a virtual machine.

D. Revert to a snapshot of a virtual machine.

12)   

Which two vCenter plug-ins are installed with a default vSphere Client installation? (Choose two.)A. vCenter Hardware Status

B. VMware ESXi Service Status

C. VMware vSphere Update Manager

D. VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service

13)   

Before upgrading an ESXi host to vSphere 5.x from vSphere 4.x, which three actions should be taken?

(Choose three.)

A. Update vCenter from 4.x to 5.x

B. Convert any Service Console port to Management.

C. Add an updated license to the host

D. Update vSphere 4.x licenses using the VMware License Portal  

E. Verify the intended host is compatible with vSphere 5.x

14)   

Under which two conditions is a master elected by vSphere HA? (Choose two.)

A. When any cluster is created

B. When a host is placed into maintenance mode

C. When the datastore configuration changes

D. When "Reconfigure for vSphere HA" is executed

15)   

A database administrator has requested that a virtual disk attached to a virtual machine running an I/O

intensive database application be fully provisioned. The virtual disk was initially thin provisioned. Which two

Methods would accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

A. Use Storage vMotion and change the disk type to Flat.

B. Use the Inflate option in the Datastore Properties.

C. Use Storage vMotion and change the disk type to Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed.

D. Use Storage vMotion and change the disk type to Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed

16)   

Which virtual disk types are supported on an network attached storage appliance using NFS with hardwareacceleration disabled?

A. Flat disk

B. Raw Device Mappings

C. Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed

D. Thin Provision

Answer: D

17)   

How does a hardware FCoE Adapter appear to an ESXi host?

A. As an uplink adapter attached to a vSphere Distributed Switch.

B. As a hardware FCoE Adapter.

C. As an enabled FCoE software initiator.

D. As a Fibre Channel Adapter.

18)   

Which two storage adapters require no VMkernel ports? (Choose two.)

A. Independent Hardware iSCSI Adapter

B. iSCSI Software Adapter

C. Dependent iSCSI Adapter

D. Fibre Channel HBA

Answer: AD

19)   

What failure will beacon probing identify in vSphere networking?

A. An improper VLAN configuration on a physical switch port

B. A disconnected network cable

C. A VMkernel IP mismatch affecting vMotion or HA traffic

D. Jumbo frames improperly configured on an iSCSI target

Answer: A

20)   

Which statement describes the functionality of traffic shaping on a vSphere Standard Switch?

A. vSphere Standard Switches support only egress traffic shaping.

B. vSphere Standard Switches support both ingress and egress traffic shaping.

C. vSphere Standard Switches support best-effort traffic shaping based on quality of service (QoS).

D. vSphere Standard Switches support only ingress traffic shaping.

Answer: A

21)   

Which three features are only available in the vSphere Client when using a vSphere Distributed Switch?

(Choose three.)

A. Port Mirroring

B. PVLAN tagging

C. Storage I/O Control

D. Inress Traffic Shaping

E. 802.1q VLAN Tagging

Answer: ABD

22)   

An administrator has been tasked with adding a newly installed uplink to vSwitch1.

Based on the exhibit, what is a true statement about this environment?

A. The server does not have available vSwitches to be assigned to this uplink.

B. The available uplinks are not compatible with a standard vSwitch.

C. The host needs a driver installed for the newly installed uplink.

D. The current uplinks cannot be attached because they are in use by other port groups

23)   

Which VMware solution allows for the automated discovery and mapping of applications running over the

VM infrastructure?

A. VMware vCloud Director

B. VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator

C. VMware Service Manager

D. VMware vSphere 5

Answer: B

24)   

An administrator plans to use an upgrade script to upgrade a number of ESXi 5.x hosts.

What options are available for the kickstart file? (Choose two.)

A. dryrun - Parse and check script but does not install

B. overwritevmfs - permits overwriting of existing VMFS volumes

C. vcenter - specifies vCenter Server

D. autodeploy - defines autodeploy options

Answer: AB

25)   

Which change will eliminate the symptom in the performance chart shown in the exhibit?

A. Set CPU shares to High

B. Set CPU affinity for the virtual machine

C. Migrate the VM to a host that is less utilized

D. Add a CPU to the virtual machine

Answer: C

26)   

Which three services will continue to function when vCenter Server is unavailable? (Choose three.)

A. Storage DRS

B. Fault Tolerance (FT)

C. vMotion

D. Thin Provisioning

E. High Availability

Answer: BDE

27)   

A vSphere environment is created with two virtual machines, VM23 and VM43. Each virtual machine has an

instance of the front-end web application for the company's manufacturing management database. A

physical load-balancer is configured for the application.

Which type of DRS rule should be implemented for VM23 and VM43?

A. Separate Virtual Machines

B. Virtual Machines to Hosts

C. Host DRS Groups

D. Keep Virtual Machines Together

28)   

Which two conditions could prevent HA from powering on a virtual machine? (Choose two.)

A. There is not enough free memory to meet the guests memory reservation.

B. The virtual machine has been assigned a required affinity rule.

C. Strict admission control is disabled for the HA cluster.

D. The vCenter is hosted on the ESXi host that failed.

Answer: AB

29)   

Which are the correct parameters to specify when adding an iSCSI target to an ESXi 5.x host using the

Static Discovery tab?

A. iSCSI server ip address, port 902

B. iSCSI server ip address, port 3260

C. iSCSI server ip address, port 902, iSCSI target name

D. iSCSI server ip address, port 3260, iSCSI target name

Answer: D

30)   

An administrator wants to configure a DRS Migration Threshold that allows automated migration only when

a host is placed into maintenance or to satisfy cluster constraints.

What setting should be utilized?

A. Priority 2

B. Priority 4

C. The most conservative setting

D. The default setting

31)   

How can you verify that vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) functionality is enabled for a storage

array in a vSphere 5.x implementation?

A. VAAI will be reported on the Hard Disk properties page for any VMDK stored on a compliant arrayB. Hardware Acceleration will be reported on the Hard Disk properties page for any VMDK stored on a

compliant array

C. Supported will be listed in the VAAI column for any datastore created on a compliant array

D. Supported will be listed in the Hardware Acceleration column for any datastore created on a compliant

array

Answer: D

32)   

What function does Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) provide?

A. The ability to enable Fault Tolerance on virtual machines that are not members of a cluster.

B. The ability to use vMotion to migrate virtual machines between ESXi hosts with different CPU vendors.

C. The ability to replace manual CPU identification masks with an automated process managed by the

cluster.

D. The ability to use vMotion to migrate virtual machines between hosts with identical CPUs but different

vSphere versions.

Answer: C

  33)   

What do changes made to resources reserved by a resource pool affect in the resource hierarchy?

A. Child pools

B. Host pools

C. Sibling and parent pools

D. Root resource pools

Answer: C

34)   

Which two steps are required before VMware Data Recovery can be used? (Choose two.)

A. The Data Recovery Appliance Module must be installed on vCenter Server.

B. A private network must be created for the backup appliance.

C. The vSphere Client plug-in must be installed on any machine VDR will be managed from.

D. The Data Recovery backup appliance must have additional storage added to it.

Answer: CD

35)   

An administrator finds that an ESXi 5.x host cannot be managed by vCenter Server.

Which three logs can be reviewed using the DCUI? (Choose three.)

A. Syslog

B. Config log

C. Virtual Center Agent

D. ESXi shell logs

E. VMware HA log

Answer: ABC

36)   

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: AD

37)   

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

38)   

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

39)   

What number of IOPS should be used with Storage I/O Control to limit disk throughput to roughly 10 MBps if

the guest application writes 64KB blocks?

A. 320

B. 160

C. 240

D. 64

Answer: B

40)   

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 is

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. Enable VMware EVC.

B. Set the virtual machines on the host to Fully Automated.

C. Shut down the virtual machines on the host.

D. Move the virtual machine swap file off the local datastore.

Answer: BC

41)   

An iSCSI array is being added to a vSphere 5.x implementation. An administrator wants to verify that all IP

storage VMkernel interfaces are configured for jumbo frames.

What are two methods to verify this configuration? (Choose two.)

A. Run the esxcli network ip interface list command

B. Run the esxcfg-vswif -l command

C. Ensure that the Enable Jumbo Frames box is checked in the VMkernel interface properties in the

vSphere client

D. Ensure that the MTU size is set correctly in the VMkernel interface properties in the vSphere client

42)   

ACME Catering Services is using esxtop to troubleshoot a performance problem with one of their ESXi 5.x

hosts. Host disconnections from vCenter Server as well as sluggish performance when performing tasks on

the host have been observed. Based on the output in the exhibit, how many vCPU's have been assigned to

FileServer01?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 4

D. 8

Answer: D

Section: (none)

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

NWLD: CPU 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,and 12 --> 8

43)   

Currently managed by a vCenter Server instance.

Which two ways can the information be gathered using the vSphere Client? (Choose two.)

A. Select Home. Under Administration, click System Logs and click the Export System Logs button. Select

the affected ESXi host. Select All. Select a location and click Finish.

B. In the vSphere Client, select the affected ESXi host. Right-click the host and select Export Diagnostic

Data. Select a location and click OK.

C. Log in to the ESXi host locally, Select Export System Logs.

D. In the vSphere Client, select the affected ESXi host. Select File, Export and Export System Logs. Select

Select All. Select a location and click Finish.

Answer: AD

44)   

An administrator is setting up vMotion in a vSphere environment. A migration is run to test the configuration,

but fails. What could the administrator do to resolve the issue?

A. Ensure the VMkernel port group is configured for Management Traffic.

B. Enable VMkernel port group for the vSphere cluster.

C. Ensure the vMotion enabled adaptors configured for the same subnet.

D. Use a vDS instead of a standard switch.

Answer: C

45)   

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

46)   

A database administrator has reported periodic poor performance on a particular virtual machine. The virtual

machine administrator has noticed a significant drop in performance when utilized memory exceeds 1GB.

What does this indicate and what could be checked next?

A. The application problems are definitely due to a non-memory-related problem. CPU affinity settings

should be checked for this virtual machine.

B. The application problems are definitely due to a non-memory-related problem. CPU utilization should be

checked next, using Windows Task Manager.

C. The virtual machine might not have physical memory available. Compression and swap activity on the

ESXi host should be checked next.

D. The virtual machine might not have physical memory available. Ensure the memory limit on the VM is

set to 0 MB.

Answer: C

47)   

Which two statements are true about shared storage capabilities on NFS datastores supported by ESXi 5.x?

(Choose two.)

A. You can create Fault Tolerant virtual machines

B. You can mount up to 256 NFS datastores

C. You can use VMware Storage APIs with all NFS datastores

D. You can use Storage vMotion from a virtual-mode RDM

Answer: AB

48)   

Which network driver is not supported with virtual machine hardware version 8?

A. vmxnet 3

B. Enhanced vmxnet

C. vmxnet 2

D. E1000

49)   

An administrator wants to reduce the amount of memory overhead required by a virtual machine. What two

options below could be used to accomplish that task? (Choose two.)

A. Reduce the amount of memory configured for the VM.

B. Reduce the memory reservation for the VM.

C. Reduce the memory shares for the VM.

D. Reduce the number of vCPUs VM.

Answer: AD

50)   

The storage administrator has recommended testing the performance benefits of jumbo frames and

enabled jumbo frames on the storage array. The VMware administrator has enabled jumbo frames on the

VMkernel port used for the software iSCSI initiator.

What other two components must be modified to enable jumbo frames support for the software iSCSI

initiator? (Choose two.)

A. The physical switch

B. The port group

C. The software initiator

D. The virtual switch

Answer: AD