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Question 1
An administrator is tasked with applying updates to a vSphere cluster running vSAN using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Downtime to the ESXi hosts must be minimal while the work is completed.
The administrator has already completed the following steps and no errors have been returned:
Downloaded all applicable software and created a new image.
Attached the new image to the cluster and run a compliance check against the image for the cluster.
Ran a remediation pre-check for the cluster.
Which two series of steps should the administrator perform to start the remediation of the cluster using the new image? (Choose two.)
- A: 1. Use the Remediate option in vSphere Lifecycle Manager to remediate all of the ESXi hosts in the cluster in parallel. 2. Allow vSphere Lifecycle Manager to automatically control maintenance mode on the ESXi hosts.
- B: 1. Place each of the ESXi hosts into maintenance mode manually. 2. Use the Stage option in vSphere Lifecycle Manager to stage the required software on all ESXi hosts one at a time.
- C: 1. Leave all ESXi hosts in the cluster operational. 2. Use the Stage All option in vSphere Lifecycle Manager to stage the required software onto all ESXi hosts one at a time.
- D: 1. Leave all ESXi hosts in the cluster operational. 2. Use the Stage All option in vSphere Lifecycle Manager to stage the required software onto all ESXi hosts in the cluster in parallel.
- E: 1. Use the Remediate option in vSphere Lifecycle Manager to remediate all of the ESXi hosts in the cluster in sequence. 2. Allow vSphere Lifecycle Manager to automatically control maintenance mode on the ESXi hosts.
Question 2
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.
Question 3
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator set up the following configuration:
• The distributed switch has four ESXi hosts, and each host has two 10 Gbps NICs.
• In the Network I/O Control configuration, the amount of bandwidth reserved for virtual machine (VM) traffic if 4 Gbps.
The administrator wants to guarantee that VMs in the Retail 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 Retail network resource pool be?
- A: 40
- B: 32
- C: 8
- D: 16
Question 4
Refer to the exhibit.
An environment has the following configuration:
- Resource Pool “RP-MOM” has a reservation of 6GHz and one running virtual machine (VM) “VM-M1” with 1 GHz reserved.
- 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.
Question 5
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.
Question 6
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.
Question 7
An administrator is tasked with configuring certificates for a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) based on the following requirements:
• The solution should minimize the ongoing management overhead of replacing certificates.
• No intermediate certificate authorities are allowed in the certificate chain.
• All external traffic should be secured using certificates signed by an Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA).
Which two actions should the administrator take to ensure the solution meets corporate policy? (Choose two.)
- A: Replace the solution user certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise CA.
- B: Replace the machine SSL certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise CA.
- C: Replace the machine SSL certificates with self-signed certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).
- D: Replace the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) certificate with a custom certificate gen-erated from the Enterprise CA.
- E: Replace the solution user certificates with self-signed certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).
Question 8
An administrator is planning to upgrade a VMware vCenter instance to version 8. It is currently integrated with the following solutions:
• VMware Aria Operations for Logs
• VMware Aria Operations
Which tool can the administrator use to automatically detect interoperability between the solu-tions and eliminate any unwanted or unexpected results during the upgrade process?
- A: vSphere Update Manager
- B: vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- C: VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
- D: vCenter Server Update Planner
Question 9
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 = true
• Quiesce guest file system = false
Which two statements describe 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 in a suspended state.
- B: The virtual machine will be restored in a powered off state.
- C: The virtual machine will be restored in a powered on state.
- D: The virtual machine will be restored to the parent snapshot.
- E: The virtual machine will be restored to the child snapshot.
Question 10
Refer to the exhibit.
Given the configuration shown in the exhibit, what must the administrator do to delete only the latest version of the template?
- A: In the SA-Templates folder, rename App-LibTemplate (2) to App-LibTemplate (4).
- B: Check out App-LibTemplate (3) and delete the template from the SA-Templates folder.
- C: Delete App-LibTemplate (3) from the SA-Templates folder.
- D: Revert to App-LibTemplate (2) and delete App-LibTemplate (3).
Question 11
A VMkernel port is labelled PROD01 and uses the default TCP/IP stack.
Which configuration change should the administrator make to isolate long-distance vSphere vMotion migration traffic from other vSphere vMotion traffic?
- A: Create a new VMkernel port and set the TCP/IP stack to vMotion.
- B: Remove PROD01 and create a new VMkernel port with the TCP/IP stack set to vMotion.
- C: Modify PROD01 by changing the TCP/IP stack to provisioning.
- D: Remove PROD01 and create a new VMkernel port with the TCP/IP stack set to provisioning.
Question 12
An administrator is configuring a vSphere cluster to use a vSphere Lifecycle Manager image. The vSphere Lifecycle Manager depot has been configured with all of the software components needed for the image. The administrator plans to reuse an existing image that is configured on a cluster in another VMware vCenter instance.
Which series of steps should the administrator take to complete this task?
- A: 1. Export the existing image to an ISO file format to their local machine. 2. Attach the ISO file to the CD-ROM drive of the ESXi host. 3. Import the image from the CD-ROM drive of the ESXi host into the vSphere Lifecycle Man-ager Import Image dialog to create a new image.
- B: 1. Export the existing image to a ZIP file format to a web server machine. 2. Import the ZIP image file into the vSphere Lifecycle Manager depot to create a new image.
- C: 1. Export the existing image to a JSON file format to their local machine. 2. Import the JSON image file into the vSphere Lifecycle Manager Import Image dialog to create a new image.
- D: 1. Export the existing image to an ISO file format to a web server. 2. Upload the ISO file to a datastore accessible to the vSphere Cluster. 3. Import the image from the uploaded ISO file into the vSphere Lifecycle Manager Import Im-age dialog to create a new image.
Question 13
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.
Question 14
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 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: Add additional memory resources to the vCenter Server Appliance.
- B: Power on the vCenter Server Appliance using the vSphere Host Client.
- C: Enable CPU Hot Add on the vCenter virtual machine.
- D: Enable CPU and Memory Hot Add on the vCenter virtual machine.
- E: Gracefully shut down vCenter using the vSphere Client.
- F: Enable Memory Hot Add on the vCenter virtual machine.
- G: Add additional CPU resources to the vCenter Server Appliance.
Question 15
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
Question 16
An administrator plans to update the Supervisor cluster and has noticed some of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters are running an incompatible version.
Which action must the administrator take before proceeding with the Supervisor cluster update?
- A: Update all Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters to the latest version prior to the Supervisor cluster update.
- B: No action is needed – Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters will be updated automatically as part of the update process.
- C: No action is needed – Incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters can be manually updated after the Supervisor cluster update.
- D: Update incompatible Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters prior to the Supervisor cluster update.
Question 17
Which three vSphere features are still supported for Windows-based virtual machines when enabling vSphere’s virtualization-based security feature? (Choose three.)
- A: vSphere vMotion
- B: PCI passthrough
- C: vSphere High Availability (HA)
- D: vSphere Fault Tolerance
- E: vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS)
- F: Hot Add of CPU or memory
Question 18
An administrator wants to create virtual machine (VM) templates and store them in a content library. The administrator would like to use the content library to manage different versions of these templates so that reverting to an earlier version is an option.
How should the administrator create these templates?
- A: Select a VM in the vCenter inventory. Clone the VM to the content library as a VM template type.
- B: Select a VM template in the vCenter inventory. Clone the template to the content library.
- C: Export a VM in the vCenter inventory to an OVF template. Import the OVF template into the content library.
- D: Convert a VM to a template in the vCenter inventory. Clone the template to the content library.
Question 19
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 VMCA.
- B: Replace the machine SSL certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise CA.
- 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 CA.
- E: Replace the solution user certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise CA.
- F: Replace the solution user certificates with trusted certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).
Question 20
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.
Question 21
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
Question 22
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.
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