Vmware: Exam 2V0-621D

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Exam 2V0-621D
VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization Delta
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Version: 6.0
[ Total Questions: 221 ]

VMware 2V0-621D : Practice Test
Question No : 1
Which three traffic types can be configured for dedicated VMkernel adapters? (Choose
three.)
A. Discovery traffic
B. vMotion traffic
C. vSphere Replication NFC traffic
D. Provisioning traffic
E. vSphere Custom traffic
Answer: B,C,D
Question No : 2
Which two identification sources can a vSphere Auto Deploy rule use to identify target
hosts? (Choose two.)
A. Processor Serial Number

B. Security Identifier
C. SMBIOS information
D. BIOS UUID
Answer: C,D
Question No : 3
An administrator is performing a silent automatic update of VMware Tools on a Windows

virtual machine.
What syntax needs to be entered into the Advanced Options box?
A. /s /v "/qn" /l "c:\Windows\filename.log"
B. --prefix=/usr/local,/usr/lib,/usr/doc --silent
C. --prefix=c:\Windows,c:\VMtools --silent
D. /fs /v "/qn+" /l "c:\Windows\filename.log"
Answer: A
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Question No : 4
An administrator is troubleshooting network communications between the vCenter Server

and the ESXi 6.x host.
Which log shows the interaction events between these components?
A. /var/log/syslog.log
B. /var/log/hostd.log
C. /var/log/vpxa.log
D. /var/log/fdm.log
Answer: C
Question No : 5
After successfully adding a new ESXi 6.x host to vCenter Server, an administrator sees it
as Not Responding in the vSphere Web Client interface a few minutes later.
If the issue is caused by a network firewall blocking traffic, which port must be opened to
correct this specific problem?
A. 443 (TCP)
B. 443 (UDP)
C. 902 (TCP)
D. 902 (UDP)
Answer: D
Question No : 6
An administrator observes that virtual machine storage activity on an ESXi 6.x host is
negatively affecting virtual machine storage activity on another host that is accessing the
same VMFS Datastore.

Which action would mitigate the issue?
A. Enable Storage IO Control.

B. Configure Storage DRS.
C. Enable the Dynamic Queue Depth Throttling option.
D. Configure the Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding parameter.
Answer: A
Question No : 7
Which three connection types are supported between a remote site and vCloud Air?
(Choose three.)
A. Secure Internet Connectivity

B. Private Connect
C. Direct Connect
D. Internet Connectivity
E. Secure VPN
Answer: A,C,E
Question No : 8
Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is troubleshooting intermittent poor performance of virtual machines in a

vSphere 6.x cluster. Investigating esxtop data shows that the only statistic that stands out
is %CSTP as depicted in Exhibit 1:
The administrator proceeds to switch to the Power Management screen and observes the
data depicted in Exhibit 2:

Based on the information in the exhibits, which two configurations are probable causes of
the poor performance? (Choose two.)
A. The active power policy is set to Low Power.

B. The host has active Sleep States configured in the BIOS.
C. The active power policy is set to High Performance.
D. The host has active Power States configured in the BIOS.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 9
An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU performance related problem for the SlowVM

virtual machine.
Which three actions should the administrator take to improve CPU performance for
SlowVM? (Choose three.)
A. Increase the number of vCPUs assigned to SlowVM.

B. Decrease the number of vCPUs assigned to SlowVM.
C. Power off other VMs running on the same ESXi host.
D. Increase the CPU limit for SlowVM.
E. Move SlowVM to another ESXi host with more physical CPU resources available.
Answer: B,C,E
Question No : 10
Attempting to update an ESXi 6.x host using the following command:

esxcli software vib update -d update.zip
Generates the following error:
Could not download from depot at /tmp/index.xml, skipping (('/tmp/index.xml', '', "[Errno 4]
IOError: <urlopen error [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/index.xml'>")) url =
/tmp/index.xml
What action should be taken to correct the problem?
A. Add the full file path to the command.

B. Use the update option instead of install.
C. Use the switch -d instead of -v.
D. Replace esxcli with esxupdate.
Answer: A
Question No : 11
An administrator wants to clone a virtual machine using the vSphere Client.
Which explains why the Clone option is missing?
A. The vSphere Client is directly connected to the ESXi host.

B. The virtual machine is configured with a thin-provisioned virtual disk.
C. The virtual machine is configured with outdated Virtual Hardware.
D. Cloning can only be performed with vRealize Orchestrator.
Answer: A
Question No : 12
Which two options are available in the Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP)
setting Response for Datastore with All Paths Down (APD)? (Choose two.)
A. Issue Events
B. Power off and restart virtual machines

C. Reset virtual machines
D. Leave Powered On
Answer: A,B
Question No : 13
When attempting to place a datastore in Maintenance Mode, the task remains at 1%.
What are two potential causes for this? (Choose two.)
A. Storage DRS is disabled on one or more virtual machine(s) disk(s).

B. Storage DRS rules prevent migration recommendations for the disk.
C. Storage DRS datastores have insufficient space to accommodate failover.
D. Storage DRS provisioning network has been limited with I/O control policies.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 14
When troubleshooting a performance related issue, an administrator sees the following

warning message on an ESXi Console:
Significant imbalance between NUMA nodes detected. Performance may be impacted.
Which action should the administrator take to correct this problem?
A. Ensure that the RAM modules are evenly balanced between processor sockets in the
physical server.
B. Ensure that all memory banks associated with CPU Socket 0 in the physical server are
completely filled.
C. Ensure that the physical server has the maximum amount of RAM modules that it can
support.
D. Ensure that all RAM modules in the host are Error-correcting code (ECC) modules.
Answer: A

Question No : 15
The Exhibit shows the status of vmhba32 and vmhba33 as Unbound.
What is a likely reason for this status?
A. The host bus adapter is not associated with a vmknic.

B. The Dynamic Target Discovery was not configured.
C. The Static Target Discovery was not configured.
D. The host bus adapter is not associated with a vmnic.
Answer: A
Question No : 16
An administrator is creating a new Content Library. It will subscribe to another remote

Content Library without authentication enabled.
What information from the published library will they need in order to complete the
subscription?
A. Subscription URL
B. A security password from the publishing Content Library
C. Publisher's Items.json file
D. Username from the publishing Content Library
Answer: A

Question No : 17
An administrator is configuring virtual machines to use Worldwide Port Names (WWPNs) to

access the storage.
Which two conditions are required? (Choose two.)
A. The switches in the fabric must be N-Port ID Virtualization aware.

B. The virtual machines must be using passthrough Raw Disk Mapping (RDMp).
C. The virtual machines must be using Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK).
D. The switches in the fabric must be Storage I/O Control aware.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 18
Which log file would you examine to identify an issue which occurred during the pre-
upgrade phase of a vCenter Server upgrade process?
A. vcdb_req.out
B. vcdb_export.out
C. vcdb_import.out
D. vcdb_inplace.out
Answer: A
Question No : 19
An administrator has recently audited the environment and found numerous virtual
machines with sensitive data written to the configuration files.
To prevent this in the future, which advanced parameter should be applied to the virtual
machines?
A. isolation.tools.setinfo.disable = true
B. isolation.tools.setinfo.enable = true
C. isolation.tools.setinfo.disable = false
D. isolation.tools.setinfo.enable = false

Answer: A
Question No : 20
A user notifies an administrator that Content Libraries are not visible.
What is a possible solution?
A. Assign the user the read-only role at the global permission level.
B. Assign the user the read-only role at the vCenter Server root level.
C. Assign the user the read-only role at the vCenter Server data center level.
D. Assign the user the read-only role at the vCenter Server cluster level.
Answer: A
Question No : 21
An administrator has a virtual machine configured with the following settings:
✑ ESXi version: 5.1

✑ CPU: vCPUs 6
✑ Memory: 48GB
✑ Hardware version: 7
✑ VMware Tools: Installed
Which two actions must the administrator take in order to utilize vNUMA? (Choose two.)
A. Upgrade the ESXi host to vSphere 5.5 or later.

B. Upgrade to Virtual Hardware version 8.
C. Configure numa.vcpu.min to 5
D. Configure numa.vcpu.min to 6
Answer: B,C
Question No : 22
Which statement is true for the Path Selection Plug-In VMW_PSP_MRU?

A. VMW_PSP_MRU is default for a majority of active-active and active-passive arrays.
B. VMW_PSP_MRU will remain on the selected path even if the state were to change.
C. VMW_PSP_MRU is recommended for Virtual SAN.
D. VMW_PSP_MRU will have no preferred path setting for the Plug-In.
Answer: D
Question No : 23
An administrator is adding an Active Directory over LDAP Identity Source for vCenter
Single Sign-On, as indicated in the Exhibit.
What is the correct value to configure for the Domain alias?
A. The domain's NetBIOS name.

B. The fully qualified domain name.
C. vsphere.local
D. A user defined label.
Answer: A

Question No : 24
An administrator wants to prevent a priority virtual machine that resides in a vSphere DRS
cluster from migrating to other hosts in the cluster.
What configuration step will accomplish this without affecting other virtual machines?
A. Set VM Overrides to Partially Automated.

B. Set VM Overrides to Manual.
C. Configure a VM/Host Rule with the setting Must run on hosts in group.
D. Configure a VM/Host Rule with the setting Should run on hosts in group.
Answer: B
Question No : 25
An administrator receives an error on a vSphere cluster as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which three configuration changes can resolve the error? (Choose
three.)
A. Change the Admission Control policy for the cluster.

B. Adjust CPU and Memory reservations of the virtual machines.

C. Increase the amount of failover resources in the cluster.
D. Reconfigure the ESXi host cluster for High Availability.
E. Disable Virtual Machine Monitoring.
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 26
What is the compression algorithm used by vSphere Replication to compress data at the
source?
A. FastLZ
B. Lz4
C. Lzr
D. Lzx
Answer: A
Question No : 27
What are two use cases for Fibre Channel Zoning in a vSphere environment? (Choose
two.)
A. Increases the number of targets presented to an ESXi host.

B. Controls and isolates paths in a fabric.
C. Controls and isolates paths to an NFS share.
D. Can be used to separate different environments.
Answer: B,D
Question No : 28
What two IT infrastructure components are virtualized by vSphere Essentials? (Choose

two.)
A. Networks
B. Applications

C. Storage
D. Management
Answer: A,C
Question No : 29
An administrator wants to set a non-default isolation address of 192.168.1.2 for High

Availability.
Which advanced setting would accomplish this task?
A. Das.isolationaddress0=192.168.1.2
B. Das.useisolationaddress0=192.168.1.2
C. Das.defaultisolationaddress0=192.168.1.2
D. Das.haisolationaddress0=192.168.1.2
Answer: A
Question No : 30
An administrator is assigning a user the Content Library administrator role. The user will
only be creating the library for a single vCenter Server.
What is the lowest level of the permission heirarchy that this role can be granted to the user
and still allow them to create a Content Library?
A. Global
B. Datacenter Folder
C. Virtual Center
D. Datacenter
Answer: A
Question No : 31
An administrator has upgraded a Distributed vCenter Server environment from 5.5 to 6.0.

What is the next step that should be taken?
A. vCenter Inventory Service must be manually stopped and removed.

B. vCenter Inventory Service must be changed from manual to automatic.
C. vCenter Inventory Service must be manually stopped and restarted.
D. vCenter Inventory Service must be changed from automatic to manual.
Answer: A
Question No : 32
What are two reasons why a local flash device would be unavailable for use with Virtual
SAN? (Choose two.)
A. It has a VMFS datastore present.

B. It is in use by the vFlash Read Cache feature.
C. It is smaller than the minimum capacity required for Virtual SAN usage.
D. It does not have any partitions created.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 33
After deploying a vSphere Platform Services Controller (PSC), an administrator is unable to

install vCenter Server. The error displayed is:
Could not contact Lookup Service. Please check VM_ssoreg.log.
Which two actions can be taken to correct this problem? (Choose two.)
A. Verify that the clocks on the host machines running the PSC, vCenter Server, and the
vSphere Web Client are synchronized.
B. Configure a valid Identity Source for the Platform Services Controller in the vSphere
Web Client.
C. Ensure that there is no firewall blocking port 7444 between the PSC and vCenter
Server.
D. Uninstall and reinstall the Platform Services Controller software.
Answer: A,C

Question No : 34
An administrator is observing slow performance of the vCenter Inventory Service and

observes the entries from the wrapper.log file:
Exception in thread "tomcat-exec-2" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap

spaceException in thread "http-bio-0.0.0.0-10443-Acceptor-0"
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
What should the administrator do to resolve the problem?
A. Increase the memory resources of the vCenter Server.

B. Increase the values using cloudvm-ram-size.
C. Increase the memory resouces of the Platform Services Controller.
D. Increase the wrapper.java.maxmemory value in wrapper.conf.
Answer: A
Question No : 35
-- Exhibit --

An administrator has created the DRS cluster shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which statement is true?
A. Under CPU contention, Prod-VM1 receives four times the CPU resources than Test-
VM1.
B. The Prod-VM1 will always have more CPU resources than all other virtual machines.
C. The Test-VM2 will always have less CPU resources than all other virtual machines.
D. Under CPU contention, Test-VM1 will receive 25% of the total CPU resources.
Answer: A
Question No : 36
An administrator decides to change the root password for an ESXi 6.x host to comply with
the company's security policies.
What are two ways that this can be accomplished? (Choose two.)
A. Use the Direct Console User Interface to change the password.

B. Use the passwd command in the ESXi Shell.
C. Use the password command in the ESXi Shell.
D. Use the vSphere client to update local users.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 37

The Prod-DB virtual machine has a VM Override as shown in the Exhibit.
What step, it taken, would require all virtual machines in the cluster to migrate
automatically?
A. Deselect the virtual machine from VM Overrides.

B. Add all virtual machines to the VM Overrides.
C. Change Response for Host Isolation to Use Cluster Settings.
D. Change the Automation level to Use Cluster Settings.
Answer: D
Question No : 38
Which three services can be enabled/disabled in the Security Profile for an ESXi host?
(Choose three.)
A. CIM Server
B. Single Sign-On
C. Direct Console UI
D. Syslog Server
E. vSphere Web Access
Answer: A,C,D
Question No : 39

What are three recommended prerequisites before upgrading virtual machine hardware?
(Choose three.)
A. Create a backup or snapshot of the virtual machine.

B. Upgrade VMware Tools to the latest version.
C. Verify that the virtual machine is stored on VMFS3, VMFS5, or NFS datastores.
D. Detach all CD-ROM/ISO images from the virtual machines.
E. Set the Advanced Parameter virtualHW.version = 11
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 40
A vSphere Replication user needs to connect a source site to a target site.
What privilege is needed at both sites?
A. VRM remote.Manage VRM

B. VRM datastore mapper.Manage
C. Host.vSphere Replication.Manage replication
D. Virtual machine.vSphere Replication.Manage replication
Answer: A
Question No : 41
An administrator subscribes to the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery service.
Which replicated objects can be directly monitored and managed?
A. Virtual machine Snapshots

B. vApps
C. Virtual machines
D. ESXi Hosts
Answer: C

Question No : 42
An administrator creates a custom ESXi firewall rule using an XML file, however the rules
do not appear in the vSphere Web Client.
Which action should the administrator take to correct the problem?
A. Load the new rules using esxcli network firewall reload.

B. Load the new rules using esxcli network firewall refresh.
C. Verify the entries in the XML file and then reboot the ESXi host.
D. Remove the ESXi host from the inventory and add it back.
Answer: B
Question No : 43
Which three statements are true when restoring a Resource Pool Tree? (Choose three.)
A. Distributed Resource Scheduler must be set to manual.

B. Restoring a snapshot can only be done on the same cluster from which it was taken.
C. No other resource pools can be present in the cluster.
D. Restoring a resource pool tree must be done in the vSphere Web Client.
E. Enabling Enhanced vMotion Compatibility on the cluster is required.
Answer: B,C,D
Question No : 44
During a vCenter Server upgrade, an ESXi 6.x host in a High Availability (HA) cluster fails.
Which statement is true?
A. HA will fail the virtual machines over to an available host during the vCenter Server
upgrade process.
B. HA is unavailable during the vCenter Server upgrade process.
C. HA will fail the virtual machines over to an available host after the vCenter Server
upgrade completes.
D. HA will successfully vMotion the virtual machines during the host failure.

Answer: A
Question No : 45
Which two methods are recommended for managing the VMware Directory Service?
(Choose two.)
A. Utilize the vmdir command.

B. Manage through the vSphere Web Client.
C. Manage using the VMware Directory Service.
D. Utilize the dc rep command.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 46
An administrator is configuring the clock tolerance for the Single Sign-On token
configuration policy and wants to define the time skew tolerance between a client and the
domain controller clock.
Which time measurement is used for the value?
A. Milliseconds
B. Seconds
C. Minutes
D. Hours
Answer: A
Question No : 47
An administrator wants to upgrade to vCenter Server 6.x.
The vCenter Server:
✑ Is hosted on a virtual machine server running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2,
with 8 vCPUs and 16GB RAM.

✑ Will have an embedded Platform Services Controller.
✑ Hosts a Large Environment with 1,000 ESXi hosts and 10,000 Virtual Machines.
Why does the vCenter Server not meet the minimum requirements?
A. Windows Server 2008 R2 is not a supported Operating System for vCenter Server.
B. The virtual machine has insufficient resources for the environment size.
C. The environment is too large to be managed by a single vCenter Server.
D. The Platform Services Controller must be changed to an External deployment.
Answer: B
Question No : 48
Which three ports are used by the vSphere Web Client when connecting directly to an ESXi
6.x host? (Choose three.)
A. 443 TCP
B. 902 TCP and UDP
C. 903 TCP
D. 5480 TCP
E. 9443 TCP and UDP
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 49
Which keystore would a vSphere Replication administrator use to manually add an

additional Certificate Authority certificate?
A. hms-truststore.jks
B. hms-keystore.jks
C. certificates.ks
D. cacerts.ks
Answer: A
Question No : 50

Which Advanced Setting should be created for the vCenter Server to change the expiration
policy of the vpxuser password?
A. VimPasswordExpirationInDays
B. VimExpirationPasswordDays
C. VimPassExpirationInDays
D. VimPasswordRefreshDays
Answer: A
Question No : 51
An administrator would like to use the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) as an

Intermediate Certificate Authority (CA). The first two steps performed are:
✑ Replace the Root Certificate

✑ Replace Machine Certificates (Intermediate CA)
Which two steps would need to be performed next? (Choose two.)
A. Replace Solution User Certificates (Intermediate CA)

B. Replace the VMware Directory Service Certificate (Intermediate CA)
C. Replace the VMware Directory Service Certificate
D. Replace Solution User Certificates
Answer: A,C
Question No : 52
Which two tasks does the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) perform? (Choose two.)
A. Handles I/O queueing to the logical devices.

B. Handles physical path discovery, but is not involved in the removal.
C. Handles physical path discovery and removal.
D. Handles I/O queueing to FC storage HBAs.
Answer: A,C

Question No : 53
An administrator manages a High Availability (HA)/Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)-

enabled cluster and has configured the affinity rule shown in the Exhibit.
Which two statements best describe the configuration shown in the exhibit? (Choose two.)
A. HA will not failover Marketing to ESXi hosts that are not in the Host Group.
B. HA will failover Marketing to ESXi hosts that are not in the Host group.
C. DRS will attempt to keep Marketing on the ESXi host 10.21.38.106.
D. DRS will not attempt to keep Marketing on the ESXi host 10.21.28.106.
Answer: B,D
Question No : 54
An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU performance issue for a virtual machine.
Which three esxtop counters may demonstrate CPU contention? (Choose three.)
A. %RDY

B. %RUN
C. %MLMTD
D. %WAIT
E. %CSTP
Answer: A,C,E
Question No : 55
An administrator wants to select a Host Power Management Policy for an ESXi 6.x host
that will disable most hardware power management features.
Which Host Power Management Policy should be selected to meet this requirement?
A. High Performance
B. Balanced
C. Low Power
D. Disabled
Answer: A
Question No : 56
An administrator wants to reduce the memory overhead for a 3D graphics enabled virtual
machine (VM).
What advanced feature can be added to the VM configuration file to reduce memory
overhead?
A. vga.vgaOnly=TRUE
B. vga.svgaEnable=FALSE
C. svgaEnabled=FALSE
D. svgaDisable=TRUE
Answer: A
Question No : 57

An administrator wants to increase the capacity of a VMFS5 datastore; but the Increase
Size by slider is not available, as shown in the Exhibit.
How should the administrator resolve this problem?
A. Select a valid partition configuration from the drop-down menu.

B. Use fdisk utility to manually resize the partition.
C. Use the mouse to resize the partition indicated in the Partition Layout.
D. Clicking Next will prompt for available usable space.
Answer: A
Question No : 58
The command esxcli network vm list displays four virtual machines connected to the
Production vSwitch. Within the vSphere Web Client, five virtual machines are seen.
What explains this behavior?
A. The fifth virtual machine is currently powered off.

B. The fifth virtual machine has two vnics.
C. The fifth virtual machine has an invalid IP address.
D. The fifth virtual machine has an invalid MAC address.

Answer: A
Question No : 59
An administrator observes the following symptoms for a virtual machine:
✑ CPU usage is consistently above 90%

✑ CPU ready value is consistently above 20%.
✑ Application performance is impacted.
Which two actions should the administrator take to improve the performance of this virtual
machine? (Choose two.)
A. Increase the number of vCPUs assigned to this virtual machine.

B. Decrease the number of vCPUs assigned to this virtual machine.
C. Verify that VMware Tools is installed on every virtual machine on the host.
D. Increase the CPU shares assigned to the virtual machine.
Answer: C,D
Question No : 60
A Storage Policy for a Virtual SAN is set to the default policy, as shown in the Exhibit.

Which change would reduce the storage consumption by one third?
A. Number of failures to tolerate = 1

B. Number of disk stripes per object = 2
C. Number of failures to tolerate = 3
D. Number of disk stripes per object = 1
Answer: A
Question No : 61
Which two groups of settings should be reviewed when attempting to increase the security
of virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)
A. Disable hardware devices

B. Disable unexposed features
C. Disable VMtools devices
D. Disable VM Template features
Answer: A,B
Question No : 62
An administrator notices that one virtual machine is in an orphaned state.
What are two reasons that a virtual machine can appear as orphaned? (Choose two.)
A. A VMware High Availability host failure has occurred.

B. The virtual machine was unregistered directly on the host.
C. The ESXi host is disconnected.
D. The user does not have privilege to access the virtual machine.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 63

An administrator is configuring a storage device as shown in the Exhibit.
What is the expected effect on the stated device after running the command?
A. I/O will rotate on all storage targets regardless of port group state.
B. I/O will rotate on all storage targets that are Active Optimized state only.
C. I/O will rotate on all storage targets that are Active Unoptimized state only.
D. I/O will rotate on all storage targets that are on Available Nodes only.
Answer: B
Question No : 64
Which two statements are true regarding Storage Multipathing Plug-Ins? (Choose two.)
A. The default Path Selection Policy is VMW_PSP_MRU for iSCSI or FC devices.

B. The default Path Selection Policy is VMW_PSP_FIXED for iSCSI or FC devices.
C. VMW_PSP_MRU is typically selected for ALUA arrays by default.
D. VMW_PSP_FIXED is typically selected for ALUA arrays by default.
Answer: B,C
Question No : 65
Which two roles can be modified? (Choose two.)
A. Administrator
B. Network Administrator
C. Datastore Consumer
D. Read-Only
Answer: B,C
Question No : 66
An administrator is building a large virtual machine that will require as many vCPUs as the
host can support. An ESXi 6.x host has these specifications:
✑ Six 32-core Intel Xeon Processors

✑ 256 GB of Memory
✑ 512 GB Local disk space using VMFS5
What is the maximum number of virtual CPUs that the virtual machine can be allocated?
A. 64
B. 128
C. 192
D. 256
Answer: B
Question No : 67
Which three components should an administrator select when configuring vSphere

permissions? (Choose three.)
A. Inventory Object
B. Role
C. User/Group
D. Privilege
E. Password
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 68

An administrator has configured a vSphere 6.x DRS cluster as shown in the Exhibit.
A. A virtual machine can be powered on in the Test Resource Pool with a 6 GB Memory
Reservation.
B. A virtual machine can be powered on in the Dev Resource Pool with a 8 GB Memory
Reservation.
C. A virtual machine from both the Test Resource Pool and the Dev Resource Pool can be
powered on with a 4 GB Memory Reservation.
D. No more virtual machines can be powered on due to insufficient resources.
Answer: A
Question No : 69
An administrator tries to connect the vSphere 5.5 Client to an ESXi 6.x host.
What will happen when this takes place?
A. The operation will fail, since the vSphere Client is deprecated in vSphere 6.x.
B. The operation will fail and the administrator will need to delete the client and install the
6.x version.

C. The operation will prompt the administrator to run a script to upgrade the vSphere Client.
D. The operation will update the vSphere Client silently in the background, then connect.
Answer: C
Question No : 70
Which two features are available for virtual machines configured with DirectPath I/O?
(Choose two.)
A. Fault Tolerance
B. Suspend and Resume
C. Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (vSMP)
D. Virtual Non-Uniform Memory Access (vNUMA)
Answer: C,D
Question No : 71
An administrator tries to capture network traffic for a virtual machine, but cannot see the
expected traffic in the packet capture tool.
Which step can resolve the problem?
A. Migrate the virtual machine to a Distributed Virtual Switch.

B. Enable Promiscous Mode on the relevant port group.
C. Modify the default value of MAC Address changes.
D. Enable Forged Transmits on the virtual machine.
Answer: B
Question No : 72
An administrator is unable to see performance statistics for only the Past Week
performance data. The vCenter Server is using a Microsoft SQL Server Database.
What are three likely causes contributing to this issue? (Choose three.)

A. Performance statistics are turned off.
B. The Past Day rollup job is not present.
C. The stats_rollup_1_proc is not present.
D. The VMware Performance Charts Service is stopped.
E. The JDBC URL is incorrect in the vcdb.properties file.
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 73
An administrator plans to use VMware Converter Standalone to convert a virtual machine

to a vSphere environment. The source virtual machine has these properties:
✑ Running Windows 2008 R2

✑ Contains one NTFS formatted volume
During conversion, how many virtual disks can the administrator add to the destination
virtual machine?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
Answer: A
Question No : 74
What is the maximum number of snapshot instances in vSphere Replication that can be
configured to recover a virtual machine at a specific point in time?
A. 16
B. 24
C. 48
D. 72
Answer: B
Question No : 75

An administrator reviews the Health of a virtual machine, as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which three metrics can be used to determine the virtual machine's
Workload characteristics? (Choose three.)
A. CPU
B. Memory
C. Network IO
D. Threads
E. vNUMA Stats
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 76
What is the name of the High Availability agent log?
A. fdm.log
B. ha.log
C. vpxa.log
D. aam.log
Answer: A
Question No : 77
Which three options are available for ESXi Certificate Replacement? (Choose three.)

A. VMware Certificate Authority mode
B. Custom Certificate Authority mode
C. Thumbprint mode
D. Hybrid Deployment
E. VMware Certificate Endpoint Authority Mode
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 78
What command line utility can be used to upgrade an ESXi host?
A. esxcli
B. esxupdate
C. vihostupdate
D. esxcfg
Answer: A
Question No : 79
Which two solutions require Physical Mode Raw Device Mapping (RDM)? (Choose two.)
A. Direct access to the storage array device

B. Virtual Machine Snapshots
C. Hardware Acceleration
D. Guest Clustering across ESXi hosts
Answer: A,D
Question No : 80
An administrator is having a problem configuring Storage I/O Control on a Datastore.
Which two conditions could explain the issue? (Choose two.)
A. A host is running ESXi 4.0.

B. An ESXi host does not have appropriate licensing.
C. The vCenter Server version is 5.0.
D. The vCenter Server License is Standard.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 81
An administrator wants to configure a High Availability cluster to allow virtual machines a

10 minute window to shut down in the event of a Host Isolation incident.
What two configuration settings would satisfy this requirement? (Choose two.)
A. Set the advanced option das.isolationshutdowntimeout = 10.

B. Set the advanced option das.isolationshutdowntimeout = 600.
C. Configure Host Isolation Response to Shut Down and Restart VMs.
D. Configure Host Isolation Response to Power Off and Restart VMs.
Answer: B,C
Question No : 82
Which two statements are true regarding iSCSI adapters? (Choose two.)
A. Software iSCSI adapters require vmkernel networking.

B. Independent Hardware iSCSI adapters offload processing from the ESXi host.
C. Dependent Hardware iSCSI adapters do not require vmkernel networking.
D. Independent Hardware iSCSI adapters require vmkernel networking.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 83
Which two are valid compliance results that indicate the need to apply a Host Profile?
(Choose two.)
A. Non-compliant

B. Inconsistent
C. Unknown
D. Disconnected
Answer: A,C
Question No : 84
An administrator would like to use a passphrase for their ESXi 6.x hosts which has these
characteristics:
✑ Minimum of 21 characters
✑ Minimum of 2 words
Which advanced options must be set to allow this passphrase configuration to be used?
A. retry=3 min=disabled, disabled, 7, 21, 7 passphrase=2

B. retry=3 min=disabled, disabled, 21, 7, 7 passphrase=2
C. retry=3 min=disabled, disabled, 2, 21, 7
D. retry=3 min=disabled, disabled, 21, 21, 2
Answer: B
Question No : 85
Which three parameters should be considered when calculating the bandwidth for vSphere
Replication? (Choose three.)
A. Data change rate

B. Traffic rates
C. Link speed
D. Application type
E. Hardware type
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 86

An administrator is attempting to enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC), but

receives the error shown in the Exhibit.
Which condition would explain the error?
A. The ESXi hosts are not licensed for EVC.

B. The administrator does not have privileges to enable EVC.
C. The ESXi host CPU has the Intel No-Execute feature disabled.
D. The administrator has turned on Intel Virtualization Technology.
Answer: C
Question No : 87
When attempting to log in with the vSphere Web Client, users have reported the error:
Incorrect Username/Password
The administrator has configured the Platform Services Controller Identity Source as:
✑ Type. Active Directory as an LDAP Server

✑ Domain: vmware.com
✑ Alias: VMWARE
✑ Default Domain: Yes
Which two statements would explain why users cannot login to the vSphere Web Client?
(Choose two.)
A. Users are typing the password incorrectly.

B. Users are in a forest that has 1-way trust.
C. Users are in a forest that has 2-way trust.
D. Users are logging into vCenter Server with incorrect permissions.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 88
An administrator recently created a Virtual SAN but no Storage Policies were defined. A
few virtual machines were deployed to this cluster. The administrator analyzes the default
Virtual SAN policy as shown in the Exhibit.
Based on the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)
A. Losing one cluster node will not affect data availability.

B. Losing one Hard Disk in a cluster node will not affect data availability.
C. Creating a virtual machine Swap file will fail if it violates default storage policy.
D. Creating a virtual machine will succeed even if it violates default storage policy.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 89
An administrator wants to monitor virtual machines on a host and send notifications when
memory usage reaches 80%.
What should the administrator create in vCenter Server to accomplish this?

A. A host alarm that will monitor virtual machine memory usage and set a trigger to email
the notification.
B. A vCenter Server alarm that will monitor virtual machine memory usage and set an
action to email the notification.
C. A host alarm that will monitor virtual machine memory usage and set an action to email
the notification.
D. A vCenter Server alarm that will monitor virtual machine memory usage and set a trigger
to email the notification.
Answer: B
Question No : 90
What is the highest object level from which a virtual machine can inherit privileges?
A. Host Folder
B. Data Center
C. Data Center Folder
D. VM Folder
Answer: C
Question No : 91

A vSphere 6.x environment is configured with VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs). An

administrator accesses the cluster Actions menu, as shown in the Exhibit.
Which option is used to create a VVOL on an existing VVOL container?
A. Storage
B. Deploy OVF Template

C. New vApp
D. Settings
Answer: A
Question No : 92
-- Exhibit --
Review the Exhibit. An administrator has configured permissions for a group called
VMGroup and a user named VMUser. A new Role has been created called PowerVM. The
group and role have these charecteristics:
✑ PowerVM role can power on VMs

✑ VMGroup granted PowerVM role on VMFolder
✑ VMUser is a member of VMGroup
✑ VMUser granted No Access on VMFolder
Based on the exhibit, which statement best explains why VMUser is denied access to the
VMFolder?
A. The VMUser permission overrides the VMGroup permission.

B. The No Access role overrides the PowerVM role.
C. The VMGroup permission overrides the VMUser permission.
D. The PowerVM role overrides the No Access role.
Answer: A

Question No : 93
An administrator is writing a kickstart script to upgrade an ESXi 6.x host.
In which three locations can the script reside? (Choose three.)
A. NFS
B. USB
C. HTTP
D. TFTP
E. PXE
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 94
Deletion of an NFS datastore generates the following error:
Sysinfo error on operation returned the following status: Busy
Which step can be performed that will allow the deletion to complete successfully?
A. Storage vMotion any virtual machines on the datastore to another location.

B. Remove the datastore from the Storage DRS cluster in which it resides.
C. Verify the value of the NFS.HeartbeatDelta is not set to 0.
D. Suspend any running virtual machines and unmount the NFS datstore.
Answer: A
Question No : 95
An administrator runs the command esxcli storage core device list and sees the following
output:
mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 Display Name: RAID 5 (mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0) Has Settable

Display Name: false SizE. 40960 Device Type: Direct-Access Multipath Plugin: NMP Devfs

Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 Status: off Is Local: true
What can be determined by this output?
A. The device is a being used for vFlash Read Cache.

B. The device is in a Permanent Device Loss (PDL) state.
C. The device is a local Solid State Device (SSD).
D. The device is in an All Paths Down (APD) state.
Answer: B
Question No : 96
An administrator receives the error message shown in the Exhibit.
Which two actions can be taken to clear the warning? (Choose two.)
A. Add a Virtual SAN datastore and configure it for High Availability heartbeating.
B. Set the advanced High Availability parameter Das.heartbeatdsperhost to 1.
C. Set the advanced High Availability parameter Das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore to true.
D. Add a shared datastore and reconfigure High Availability.
Answer: C,D
Question No : 97
An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU issue for a virtual machine. The following is seen
in esxtop:
✑ CPU0 is at 100% usage

✑ The remaining logical CPUs are close to 0%
✑ %RDY value is consistently above 10%

What is likely the cause of the CPU issue?
A. The virtual machine has a CPU limit configured.

B. The virtual machine's guest operating system is configured for SMP.
C. The virtual machine has CPU affinity configured.
D. The virtual machine is configured with a CPU reservation.
Answer: C
Question No : 98
Which group in the vsphere.local domain will have administrator privileges for the VMware
Certificate Authority (VMCA)?
A. SolutionUsers
B. CAAdmins
C. DCAAdmins
D. SystemConfiguration.Administrators
Answer: B
Question No : 99
An administrator is reviewing a vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) enabled

Cluster and observes unexpected behavior as shown in the Exhibit.

What are three potential causes of the cluster imbalance? (Choose three.)
A. A local device is mounted to one or more virtual machines.

B. DRS rules prevent virtual machines from being moved.
C. vMotion is not configured and enabled.
D. There are insufficient cluster resources to perform the migration.
E. DRS has been configured for a conservative migration threshold.
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 100
An administrator has decided to create 10 ESXi 6.x hosts via Auto Deploy for a new
Test/Dev cluster. The hosts are configured to obtain their networking configuration via
DHCP.
Which Direct Console User Interface option should the administrator use to renew the
DHCP lease for the hosts?
A. Restore Network Settings

B. Test Management Network
C. Restart Management Network
D. Network Restore Options
Answer: C
Question No : 101
What are two limitations of Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on a vSphere
Distributed Switch? (Choose two.)
A. IP Hash load balancing is not a supported Teaming Policy.

B. Software iSCSI multipathing is not compatible.
C. Link Status Network failover detection must be disabled.
D. It does not support configuration through Host Profiles.
Answer: B,D

Question No : 102
In which two vsphere.local groups should an administrator avoid adding members?

(Choose two.)
A. SolutionUsers
B. Administrators
C. DCAdmins
D. ExternalPDUsers
Answer: A,B
Question No : 103
An ESXi 6.x host in the vCenter Server inventory has disconnected due to an All Paths
Down (APD) situation. An administrator has corrected the APD issue on the host, but it still
remains disconnected.
What action should the administrator take next?
A. Select Restart Management Agents from the DCUI.

B. Execute esxcli system settings advanced set -d /Scsi/FailVMIOonAPD.
C. Modify the advanced parameter /Disk/ApdTokenRetryCount.
D. Enable the advanced parameter /Misc/APDHandlingEnable.
Answer: A
Question No : 104
An administrator is unable to start the vCenter Server service. The vpxd.log file shows this
service failure:
[13308 error 'Default' opID=622892-371bf717] CoreDump: Unable to write minidump

[13308 error 'Default' opID=622892-371bf717] error -2147024784 : There is not enough
space on the disk.

What is preventing the start of the service?
A. Insufficient space on the vCenter Server

B. Insufficient space on the Database Server
C. Insufficient space on the VMFS volume
D. Insufficient space on the ESXi ramdisk
Answer: A
Question No : 105
When a Content Library is deleted, what happens to the files contained on the backing
storage?
A. The files will be unchanged.

B. The files will be deleted.
C. The files will remain and be marked as orphaned.
D. The containing folder will be marked as orphaned.
Answer: B
Question No : 106
An administrator tries to run esxtop to troubleshoot CPU performance issues, but no output
is displayed.
How can the issue be resolved?
A. esxtop is deprecated in vSphere 6.x, resxtop must be used to produce the desired
output.
B. In esxtop, press f and place an asterisk next to each field that should be displayed.
C. sudo should be run in front of esxtop to give the administrator the proper permissions.
D. The esxtop command must be run from the /proc directory to produce output.
Answer: B
Question No : 107

A task fails while creating a VMFS5 datastore on a disk with these characteristics:
✑ Was previously used by a Linux server

✑ Was not erased
✑ Is visible with the vSphere Web Client
Which action can be performed to resolve the issue?
A. Delete the partitions on the disk manually with partedUtil first.

B. Create a VMFS3 file system first, then upgrade it.
C. Create the VMFS5 file system manually using vmkfstools.
D. Delete the data with the vmkfstools command.
Answer: A
Question No : 108
Where is a Virtual SAN Fault Domain configured?
A. VMware Virtual SAN Cluster configuration

B. VMware High Availability Cluster configuration
C. Distributed Resource Scheduler configuration
D. Datacenter Advanced Settings configuration
Answer: A
Question No : 109
An administrator has migrated a vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.5 to version 6.x.
During the migration, the administrator selected DHCP for the appliance and obtained a
hostname from the DHCP server. The administrator adjusts the hostname after the
migration and uses a static IP and hostname.
What should the administrator do immediately after this change to prevent service failures?
A. Regenerate the SSL certificates.

B. Re-register components to Single Sign-On.
C. Update the /etc/hosts file.
D. Execute the command services.restart vmware-vpxd.

Answer: A
Question No : 110
Which three are requirements for configuring Storage I/O Control (SIOC)? (Choose three.)
A. The datastore must consist of only one extent.

B. The datastore is managed by a single vCenter Server.
C. Auto-tiered storage must be compatable with SIOC.
D. Auto-tiered storage must be SSD or SATA.
E. The datastore must be VMFS.
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 111
Which three troubleshooting actions should an administrator take to address slow

performance when deploying a virtual machine template? (Choose three.)
A. Increase network throughput by adding additional uplinks to the vSwitch.

B. Change the destination datastore or volume for the virtual machine template.
C. Configure a Provisioning Traffic vmkernel port to perform the deployment operation.
D. Reduce the size of the virtual machine template's virtual disk.
E. Deploy the virtual machine template to the cluster and allow Distributed Resource
Scheduler to register the virtual machine.
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 112
What will occur if the .nvram file is deleted from a powered off virtual machine?
A. The .nvram file will get created the next time the virtual machine is powered on.
B. Restoring the file from backup is needed to allow the virtual machine to power on.
C. The virtual machine will fail to power on and enter an Orphaned state.
D. The virtual machine will fail to power on and enter an Inaccessible state.

Answer: A
Question No : 113
Which condition would cause a vCenter Server installation to fail when installing on a
Windows virtual machine?
A. The virtual machine does not have at least four vCPUs.

B. The virtual machine is running Windows Server 2008.
C. The virtual machine has an E1000 network device.
D. The virtual machine does not have 16GB of RAM.
Answer: B
Question No : 114
An administrator has been instructed to secure existing virtual machines in vCenter Server.
Which two actions should the administrator take to secure these virtual machines? (Choose
two.)
A. Disable native remote management services

B. Restrict Remote Console access
C. Use Independent Non-Persistent virtual disks
D. Prevent use of Independent Non-Persistent virtual disks
Answer: B,D
Question No : 115
Which file determines the location of the installation script during a scripted upgrade?
A. boot.cfg
B. ks.cfg
C. script.cfg
D. upgrade.cfg

Answer: A
Question No : 116
Which three statements are correct regarding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE)?
(Choose three.)
A. The network switch must have Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) set to AUTO.
B. The network switch must have Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) set to ON.
C. Each port on the FCoE card must reside on the same vSwitch.
D. Each port on the FCoE card must reside on a separate vSwitch.
E. The ESXi host will require a reboot after moving an FCoE card to a different vSwitch.
Answer: A,D,E
Question No : 117
An administrator is attempting to enable Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine with 4 vCPUs

and observes the following in the vSphere Web Client:
Fault Tolerance has not been licensed on host <hostname>.
What is the minimum licensed edition that supports this configuration?
A. Enterprise
B. Enterprise Plus
C. Standard
D. Essentials Plus
Answer: A
Question No : 118
Which two capabilities does the vSphere Replication Client Plug-in provide? (Choose two.)
A. Configure connections between vSphere Replication Sites.

B. Deploy and register additional vSphere Replication Servers.
C. Reconfigure the vSphere Replication Server.
D. Configure an external database for a vSphere Replication Site.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 119
A device's vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) support status command line output
shows:
naa.500253825002a865 VAAI Plugin Name: ATS Status: unsupported Clone Status:

unsupported Zero Status: supported Delete Status: unsupported
What is the corresponding VAAI support status in the vSphere Web Client?
A. Unknown
B. Supported
C. Not supported
D. Unsupported
Answer: A
Question No : 120
An object has inherited permissions from two parent objects.
What is true about the permissions on the object?
A. The common permissions between the two are applied and the rest are discarded.
B. The permissions are combined from both parent objects.
C. No permissions are applied from the parent objects.
D. The permission is randomly selected from either of the two parent objects.
Answer: B
Question No : 121
An administrator wants to allow users to login to the vSphere Web Client using the Use
Windows session authentication check box for faster authentication.
Which three requirements must be met for this feature to be available and functional?
(Choose three.)
A. Install the vSphere Web Client Integration browser plug-in on the vCenter Server and
Platform Services Controller machines.
B. Install the vSphere Web Client Integration browser plug-in on each workstation from
where a user will sign in.
C. The users must be signed into Windows using Active Directory user accounts.
D. The administrator must create a valid Identity Source in Single Sign-On for the users
domain.
E. The administrator must create a valid Single Sign-On Identity Source using Integrated
Windows Authentication.
Answer: B,C,D
Question No : 122
An administrator wants to configure an ESXi 6.x host to use Active Directory (AD) to
manage users and groups. The AD domain group ESX Admins is planned for
administrative access to the host.
Which two conditions should be considered when planning this configuration? (Choose
two.)
A. If administrative access for ESX Admins is not required, this setting can be altered.
B. The users in ESX Admins are not restricted by Lockdown Mode.
C. An ESXi host provisioned with Auto Deploy cannot store AD credentials.
D. The users in ESX Admins are granted administrative privileges in vCenter Server.
Answer: A,C
Question No : 123
To reduce the attack vectors for a virtual machine, which two settings should an
administrator set to false? (Choose two.)

A. ideX:Y.present
B. serial.present
C. ideX:Y.enabled
D. serial.enabled
Answer: A,B
Question No : 124
Which two statements regarding Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity rules are
true? (Choose two.)
A. When two VM-VM affinity rules conflict, the older one takes precedence and the newer
rule is disabled.
B. Using Specify Failover Hosts admission control policy, VM-VM affinity rules are not
supported.
C. DRS gives higher precedence to preventing violations of anti-affinity rules than violations
of affinity rules.
D. It is not possible to create an affinity rule that conflicts with the other rules being used.
Answer: A,C
Question No : 125
Which two vCenter Server services are migrated automatically as part of an upgrade from
a Distributed vCenter Server running 5.x? (Choose two.)
A. vCenter Single Sign-on Service

B. vSphere Web Client
C. vSphere Inventory Service
D. Storage Policy Based Management
Answer: B,C
Question No : 126
An administrator is experiencing network connectivity issues between virtual machines.

The virtual machines and hosts are configured as follows:

✑ VM1 is running on Host1
✑ VM2 is running on Host2
✑ Both Host1 and Host2 are attached to the vSphere Distributed Switch dvSwitch1
✑ Both Host1 and Host2 are using vmnic0 and vmnic1 on dvSwitch1
✑ Both virtual machines are using the default portgroup for network traffic
What are three settings the administrator should investigate while troubleshooting the
connectivity issue? (Choose three.)
A. VLANs of the physical NICs

B. Failover order of the uplinks
C. Virtual NIC connectivity to the dvSwitch
D. Security policy of the portgroup
E. Traffic shaping on the portgroup
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 127
An administrator needs to migrate a legacy physical application server to a virtual machine

within a vSphere 6 cluster. As part of the conversion, the administrator must reduce the
size of the virtual disks.
What action should the administrator take to create a virtual machine with smaller virtual
disks than the original physical server?
A. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-
based cloning at the disk level.
B. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the block level.
C. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-
based cloning at the file level.
D. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level.
Answer: D
Question No : 128
VMware vSphere Replication protects virtual machines from partial or complete site failures
by replicating the virtual machines between which three sites? (Choose three.)

A. From a source site to a target site.
B. From within a single site from one cluster to another.
C. From multiple source sites to a shared remote target site.
D. From a single source site to multiple remote target sites.
E. From multiple source sites to multiple remote target sites.
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 129
An administrator would like to add Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)

to an iSCSI adapter. The administrator accesses the Storage Adapters menu as shown in
the Exhibit.
In which tab can the task be accomplished?
A. Properties
B. Advanced Options
C. Targets
D. Devices
Answer: A
Question No : 130

Which two settings are required for Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP) to
protect from All Paths Down (APD) and Permanent Device Loss (PDL)? (Choose two.)
A. Host Monitoring
B. VM Restart Priority
C. Virtual machine Monitoring
D. Response for Host Isolation
Answer: A,B
Question No : 131
An administrator notices that there is an all paths down (APD) event occurring for the
software FCoE storage.
What is a likely cause?
A. Spanning Tree Protocol is enabled on the network ports.

B. Spanning Tree Protocol is disabled on the network ports.
C. Spanning Tree Protocol is enabled on the storage processors.
D. Spanning Tree Protocol is disabled on the storage processors.
Answer: A
Question No : 132

Refer to the Exhibit. The list of devices attached to vmhba1 will be the basis for configuring
a VMware Virtual SAN using Manual Mode.
Based on the exhibit, which two combinations of devices should be used to create Disk
Group(s)? (Choose two.)
A. One Disk Group with one Flash Drive and three HDDs
B. Two Disk Groups with one Flash Drive and two HDDs each
C. One Disk Group with one Flash Drive and four HDDs
D. Two Disk Groups with two Flash Drives and four HDDs each
Answer: A,B
Question No : 133
An administrator is deploying ESXi 6.x hosts using Auto Deploy and wants the image
profile to be available, even after closing and opening a new PowerCLI window.
Which command can be used to ensure that image profiles are preserved across PowerCLI
sessions?

A. Set-EsxImageProfile
B. Export-EsxImageProfile
C. Save-EsxImageProfile
D. Preserve-EsxImageProfile
Answer: B
Question No : 134
Which two are valid Identity Sources when configuring vCenter Single Sign-On? (Choose
two.)
A. Radius
B. NIS
C. OpenLDAP
D. LocalOS
Answer: C,D
Question No : 135
Which two statements are true regarding VMFS3 volumes in ESXi 6.x? (Choose two.)
A. Creation of VMFS3 volumes is unsupported.

B. Upgrading VMFS3 volumes to VMFS5 is supported.
C. Existing VMFS3 volumes are unsupported.
D. Upgrading VMFS3 volumes to VMFS5 is unsupported.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 136

An administrator is using the esxtop command to troubleshoot storage performance issues

on a virtual machine. The esxtop capture is shown in the Exhibit.
A. The iSCSI device is experiencing high latency.

B. The ESXi kernel is experiencing high latency.
C. The Guest OS is experiencing high latency and response time.
D. The NFS device is experiencing high latency.
Answer: A,C
Question No : 137
What are two sample roles that are provided with vCenter Server by default? (Choose two.)
A. Virtual machine User

B. Network Administrator
C. Content Library Administrator
D. Storage Administrator
Answer: A,B
Question No : 138

An administrator has configured Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) groups and Affinity
Rules as shown in the Exhibit.
A. If ESXi-A and ESXi-D failed, VM-A and VM-B would not failover.
B. A new conflicting affinity rule will be disabled by default.
C. VM-B and VM-D can run on the same hosts.
D. The administrator must disable Rule3 in order to enable Rule4.
Answer: B,D
Question No : 139
An administrator is troubleshooting a performance problem with a virtual machine (VM).

The VM and ESXi host configuration is as follows:
✑ The application which runs within the virtual machine is highly sensitive to memory
latency, but has low processor utilization.
✑ The virtual machine has 6 vCPUs.
✑ The ESXi host CPU topology has 2 Physical CPU Sockets, each with 8 Logical
CPUs.

✑ The ESXi host CPU has Hyper Threading enabled.
The administrator would like to improve CPU performance for this VM. Other VMs on the
host have no performance issues. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the
issue?
A. Set the Advanced Parameter numa.vcpu.preferHT = TRUE in the virtual machine

configuration file.
B. Set the Advanced Parameter numa.vcpu.preferHT = FALSE in the virtual machine
configuration file.
C. Set the Advanced Parameter numa.PreferHT = 1 in the ESXi host configuration file.
D. Set the Advanced Parameter numa.PreferHT = 0 in the ESXi host configuration file.
Answer: A
Question No : 140
An administrator is planning a vSphere infrastructure with the following specific networking

requirements:
• The ability to shape inbound (RX) traffic
• Support for Private VLANs (PVLANs)
• Support for LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
What is the minimum vSphere Edition that will support these requirements?
A. vSphere Essentials Plus

B. vSphere Standard
C. vSphere Enterprise
D. vSphere Enterprise Plus
Answer: D
Question No : 141
An administrator notices that a Windows virtual machine is using 95% CPU in Task
Manager.

Which two actions should be taken to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)
A. Increase the memory reservation of the virtual machine.

B. Increase the CPU Shares on the resource pool where the virtual machine resides.
C. Decrease the CPU reservation of the virtual machine.
D. Increase the CPU limit on the resource pool where the virtual machine resides.
Answer: B,D
Question No : 142
An administrator creates a Private VLAN with a Primary VLAN ID of 2. The administrator

than creates three Private VLANs as follows:
✑ Marketing
✑ PVLAN ID. 4
✑ PVLAN Type. Isolated
✑ Accounting
✑ PVLAN ID. 5
✑ PVLAN Type. Community
✑ Secretary
✑ PVLAN ID. 17
✑ PVLAN Type. Isolated
Users in the Accounting PVLAN are reporting problems communicating with servers in the
Marketing PVLAN.
Which two actions could the administrator take to resolve this problem? (Choose two.)
A. Change the PVLAN type for the Accounting network to Promiscuous.

B. Change the PVLAN ID for the Accounting network to 2.
C. Change the PVLAN type for Marketing network to Promiscuous.
D. Change the PVLAN ID for Accounting network to 4.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 143
An administrator is upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance and wants to ensure that all the
prerequisites are met.

What action must be taken before upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance?
A. Install the Client Integration Plug-in.

B. Install the database client.
C. Install the ODBC connector.
D. Install the Update Manager Plug-in.
Answer: A
Question No : 144
Which three logs can be reviewed to troubleshoot a vCenter Server upgrade failure?
(Choose three.)
A. vminst.log
B. vim-vcs-msi.log
C. pkgmgr.log
D. vc-upgrade.log
E. firstboot.log
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 145

An administrator wishes to provide Load Balanced I/O for the device shown in the Exhibit.
To meet this requirement, which setting should be changed?
A. Storage Array Type Policy = VMW_NMP_RR

B. Path Selection Policy = Round Robin (VMware)
C. Storage Array Type Policy = VMW_SATP_RR
D. Path Selection Policy = MRU (VMware)
Answer: B
Question No : 146
Strict Lockdown Mode has been enabled on an ESXi host.
Which action should an administrator perform to allow ESXi Shell or SSH access for users
with administrator privileges?

A. Grant the users the administrator role and enable the service.
B. Add the users to Exception Users and enable the service.
C. No action can be taken, Strict Lockdown Mode prevents direct access.
D. Add the users to vsphere.local and enable the service.
Answer: B
Question No : 147
What three supported methods can be used to upgrade a host from ESXi 5.x to ESXi 6.x?
(Choose three.)
A. vSphere Update Manager

B. vihostupdate
C. esxcli
D. vSphere Auto Deploy
E. esxupdate
Answer: A,C,D
Question No : 148
Which command shows the Physical Uplink status for a vmnic?
A. esxcli network ip get

B. esxcli network nic list
C. esxcli network vmnic list
D. esxcli network ifconfig get
Answer: B
Question No : 149
Which two statements are correct regarding vSphere certificates? (Choose two.)
A. ESXi host upgrades do not preserve the SSL certificate and reissue one from the
VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).

B. ESXi host upgrades preserve the existing SSL certificate.
C. ESXi hosts have assigned SSL certificates from the VMware Certificate Authority
(VMCA) during install.
D. ESXi hosts have self-signed SSL certificates by default.
Answer: B,C
Question No : 150
An administrator is unable to patch an ESXi 6.x host using VMware Update Manager.
What is an alternative option for patching a host?
A. Upload the offline bundle to a datastore and execute the command esxcli software vib
install -d to apply it manually.
B. Upload the vib to a datastore and execute the command esxcli software vib install -d to
apply it manually.
C. Upload the offline bundle to a datastore and execute the command esxupdate install -v
to apply it manually.
D. Upload the vib to a datastore and execute the command esxupdate install -v to apply it
manually.
Answer: A
Question No : 151
A vSphere Web Client task fails while creating a VMFS datastore on a disk with these
characteristics:
✑ The disk was formatted with an Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table
✑ The disk was not erased
✑ The disk is visible in the vSphere Web Client
What action needs to be performed to resolve the issue?
A. Delete the partitions manually with partedUtil.

B. Create a VMFS3 file system first, then upgrade it.
C. Create a VMFS5 file system with the command esxcli storage filesystem add.
D. Delete the data with the vmkfstools command.

Answer: A
Question No : 152
An administrator is upgrading vCenter Server and sees this error:
The DB User entered does not have the required permissions needed to install and
configure vCenter Server with the selected DB. Please correct the following error(s): %s
Which two statements explain this error? (Choose two.)
A. The database is set to an unsupported compatibility mode.

B. The permissions for the database are incorrect.
C. The permissions for vCenter Server are incorrect.
D. The database server service has stopped.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 153
An administrator connects to an ESXi 6.x host console in order to shutdown the host.
Which option in the Direct Console User Interface would perform this task?
A. Press the F12 key

B. Press the F2 key
C. Press Alt + F1 simultaneously
D. Press Alt + F2 simultaneously
Answer: A
Question No : 154
An administrator is concerned about possible vCPU over-commitment for an ESXi 6.x host.

Which two Performance Counters should be reviewed in the vSphere Web Client
Performance Charts to confirm if there is contention on the host? (Choose two.)
A. Wait
B. Ready
C. Core Utilization
D. Co-Stop
Answer: B,D
Question No : 155
An administrator is unable to upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.1 Update
2 to version 6.0.
What is a likely reason for this?
A. vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 does not support upgrades from version 5.1 Update 2.
B. vCenter Server Appliance must be joined to an Active Directory domain before
upgrading to version 6.0.
C. vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 Update 2 uses an incompatible database for upgrading to
version 6.0.
D. vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 must be upgraded using the vSphere Web Client.
Answer: A
Question No : 156
Which two scenarios could cause Storage DRS to be disabled on a Virtual Disk (VMDK)?
(Choose two.)
A. The VMDK is an independent disk.

B. The virtual machine has vSphere Fault Tolerance enabled.
C. The VMDK is hosted on NFS storage.
D. The virtual machine has a CD-ROM/ISO image connected.
Answer: A,B

Question No : 157
What is the minimum Virtual Hardware version required for vFlash Read Cache?
A. Version 8
B. Version 9
C. Version 10
D. Version 11
Answer: C
Question No : 158
Which two scenarios would cause a Fault Tolerance-enabled virtual machine to fail to
power the Secondary virtual machine? (Choose two.)
A. The host has entered a Network Partitioned state.

B. vSphere High Availability (HA) is disabled on the host cluster.
C. Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) is enabled on the host cluster.
D. vSphere Distributed Power Management (DPM) is enabled on the host cluster.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 159
An administrator enables High Availability (HA) on a Virtual SAN cluster.
There are four vmkernel port groups with the following IP addresses assigned:
✑ Management: 192.168.12.10
✑ vMotion: 192.168.13.10
✑ Virtual SAN: 192.168.14.10
✑ Fault TolerancE. 192.168.15.10
Which IP address will HA use for traffic?
A. 192.168.12.10

B. 192.168.13.10
C. 192.168.14.10
D. 192.168.15.10
Answer: C
Question No : 160
Lockdown Mode has been enabled on an ESXi 6.x host and users are restricted from
logging into the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI).
Which two statements are true given this configuration? (Choose two.)
A. A user granted administrative privileges in the Exception User list can login.
B. A user defined in the DCUI.Access without administrative privileges can login.
C. A user defined in the ESXi Admins domain group can login.
D. A user set to the vCenter Administrator role can login.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 161
An administrator notices that the time on an ESXi 6.x host is incorrect.
Which two actions should the administrator take to correct this issue? (Choose two.)
A. Modify the time for the host using the vSphere client.
B. Correct the NTP settings in the /etc/ntp.conf file.
C. Configure NTP from the Direct Console User Interface.
D. Use the vicfg-ntp command from the vSphere Management Appliance.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 162
How does vSphere High Availability calculate the memory slot size of a virtual machine?

A. Virtual machine memory reservation + overhead of largest virtual machine
B. Virtual machine memory reservation - overhead of largest virtual machine
C. Virtual machine memory reservation + overhead of smallest virtual machine
D. Virtual machine memory reservation - overhead of smallest virtual machine
Answer: A
Question No : 163
Which three Authorization types are valid in vSphere? (Choose three.)
A. Group Membership in vsphere.local

B. Global
C. Forest
D. vCenter Server
E. Group Membership in system-domain
Answer: A,B,D
Question No : 164
What will be the result of selecting the highlighted device?
A. Datastore will grow up to 200.01GB using the remaining free space on the device.
B. Datastore will add 200.01GB by adding the device as a second extent.
C. The device size can be expanded to be larger than 200.01 GB in size.
D. The device is not suitable for this operation.
Answer: A

Question No : 165
What is the command to list multipathing modules on an ESXi 6.x host?
A. esxcli storage core list plugin --plugin-class=MP

B. esxcli storage core list plugin --class-plugin=MP
C. esxcli storage core plugin list --plugin-class=MP
D. esxcli storage core plugin list --class-plugin=MP
Answer: C
Question No : 166
Which two statements are true regarding Virtual SAN Fault Domains? (Choose two.)
A. They enable Virtual SAN to tolerate the failure of an entire physical rack.
B. Virtual SAN ensures that no two replicas are provisioned on the same domain.
C. Virtual SAN ensures that all replicas are provisioned on the same domain.
D. They require VMware High Availability (HA) to ensure component distribution across
domains.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 167
When attempting to remove a host from a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS), an

administrator observes the error message:
The resource '16' is in use
What are two reasons why this error would be displayed? (Choose two.)
A. VMkernel network adapters on the vDS are in use.

B. Virtual machine network adapters are connected to the vDS.
C. Network I/O Control has been configured on the vDS.
D. There is active network traffic on the vDS.
Answer: A,B

Question No : 168
Which two advanced features should be disabled for virtual machines that are only hosted
on a vSphere system? (Choose two.)
A. isolation.tools.unity.push.update.disable
B. isolation.tools.ghi.launchmenu.change
C. isolation.tools.bbs.disable
D. isolation.tools.hgfsServerSet.enable
Answer: A,B
Question No : 169
An administrator is attempting to enable Legacy Fault Tolerance (FT) on a virtual machine

and observes the following in the vSphere Web Client:
Fault Tolerance has not been licensed on host <hostname>.
What is the minimum licensed edition that supports this configuration?
A. Standard
B. Enterprise
C. Enterprise Plus
D. Essentials Plus
Answer: A
Question No : 170
A virtual machine is exhibiting these symptoms:
✑ Memory usage is constantly high (94% or greater) or constantly low (24% or less).
✑ Free memory is consistently 6% or less and swapping frequently occurs
Which three solutions could correct this problem? (Choose three.)

A. Verify that VMware Tools is installed on each virtual machine.
B. Decrease the memory reservation setting, if higher than active memory.
C. Add physical memory to the host.
D. Disable the balloon driver in each virtual machine.
E. Create a memory limit for each virtual machine.
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 171
Which two features are deprecated in Network I/O Control 3 (NIOC3)? (Choose two.)
A. Class Of Service (COS) Tagging

B. Bandwidth Allocation
C. User-defined network resource pools
D. Admission control
Answer: A,C
Question No : 172

An administrator has configured a firewall rule as shown in the Exhibit.
Which statement best describes the ESXi 6.x firewall rule?
A. Connections from the ESXi host to all devices on the 192.168.1.0 network and
192.168.2.220 on port 22 are allowed.
B. Connections coming from IP addresses from the 192.168.1.0 network and
192.168.2.220 on port 22 are allowed.
C. TCP Connections coming from IP addresses from the 192.168.1.0 network and
192.168.2.220 on port 22 are not allowed.
D. TCP Connections from the ESXi host to all devices on the 192.168.1.0 network and
192.168.2.220 on port 22 are not allowed.
Answer: B
Question No : 173
An administrator needs two vCenter Servers to be visibile within a single vSphere Web
Client session.
Which two vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller (PSC) configurations would
accomplish this? (Choose two.)
A. Install a single PSC with two vCenter Servers registered to it.

B. Install two PSCs in the same Single Sign-On domain with one vCenter Server registered
to each PSC.
C. Install a single PSC with two vCenter Servers registered to it and configure Linked
Mode.
D. Install two PSCs in the same Single Sign-On domain with one vCenter Server registered
to each PSC and configure Linked Mode.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 174
Which VMware Single Sign-On component issues Security Assertion Markup Language
(SAML) tokens?

A. VMware Security Token Service
B. Administration Server
C. VMware Directory Service
D. Identity Management Service
Answer: A
Question No : 175
An administrator is using Auto Deploy to create several ESXi 6.x hosts that will be
connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch. After the hosts are deployed, the administrator
notices that LACP packets are not being sent between them.
Which statement best describes why this issue is occuring?
A. LACP is not enabled on the vCenter Server.

B. The LACP support settings do not exist in the host profile.
C. The LACP installation bundle is not included in the image profile.
D. LACP has not been configured on the Auto Deploy server.
Answer: B
Question No : 176
An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine performance issue using vRealize

Operations.
Which two badges would help to identify possible resource contention concerns? (Choose
two.)
A. Health > Workload

B. Health > Faults
C. Risk > Time Remaining
D. Risk > Stress
Answer: A,D

Question No : 177
When upgrading vCenter Server, an administrator notices that the upgrade fails at the
vCenter Single Sign-On installation.
What must be done to allow the upgrade to complete?
A. Verify that the VMware Directory service can stop by manually restarting it.
B. Verify that the vCenter Single Sign-On service can stop by manually restarting it.
C. Uninstall vCenter Single Sign-On service.
D. Uninstall the VMware Directory service.
Answer: A
Question No : 178
An administrator has created a resource pool named Marketing HTTP with a Memory Limit
of 24 GB and a CPU Limit of 10,000 MHz.
The Marketing HTTP resource pool contains three virtual machines:
✑ Mktg-SQL has a memory reservation of 16 GB.

✑ Mktg-App has a memory reservation of 6 GB.
✑ Mktg-Web has a memory reservation of 4 GB.
What would happen if all three virtual machines are powered on?
A. All three virtual machines can power on, but will have memory contention.
B. All three virtual machines can power on without memory contention.
C. Only two of the three virtual machines can power on.
D. Only one of the virtual machines can power on.
Answer: C
Question No : 179
An administrator notices that 8 out of 10 virtual machines have memory ballooning and
swapping. However, virtual machine 9 is not ballooning or swapping and virtual machine 10
is not ballooning but is swapping.

Which two statements explain the behavior of virtual machine 9 and virtual machine 10?
(Choose two.)
A. Virtual machine 9 has a 100% memory reservation.

B. Virtual machine 10 has a memory limit configured.
C. Virtual machine 9 has memory shares set to HIGH.
D. Virtual machine 10 does not have VMware Tools enabled or installed.
Answer: A,D
Question No : 180
An administrator needs to recover disk space on a previously-used thin provisioned virtual

disk. The volumes where the administrator needs to recover the disk blocks are on VAAI-
compliant storage arrays.
Which two actions should the administrator take accomplish this task? (Choose two.)
A. Perform a Storage vMotion to another volume in order to force free space recovery to
occur. This recreates the volume in a new location and recovers all unused space.
B. Use VMware Converter to migrate the virtual machine to a new datastore. This will
recreate the volumes and recover all unused space.
C. Issue the vmkfstools -vmfs unmap command within the VMFS volume directory on the
ESXi host console.
D. Execute the esxcli storage vmfs unmap command.
Answer: B,D
Question No : 181
An administrator wishes to give a user the ability to manage snapshots for virtual
machines.
Which privilege does the administrator need to assign to the user?
A. Datastore.Allocate Space
B. Virtual machine.Configuration.create snapshot
C. Virtual machine.Configuration.manage snapshot

D. Datastore.Browse Datastore
Answer: A
Question No : 182
What are two likely causes for a DRS cluster to become unbalanced? (Choose two.)
A. Migration threshold is too low.

B. Affinity rules are preventing virtual machines from being moved.
C. A device is mounted to a virtual machine preventing vMotion.
D. Migration cost is too low.
Answer: B,C
Question No : 183
Which three options are available for replacing vCenter Server Security Certificates?
(Choose three.)
A. Replace with Certificates signed by the VMware Certificate Authority.

B. Make VMware Certificate Authority an Intermediate Certificate Authority.
C. Do not use VMware Certificate Authority, provision your own Certificates.
D. Use SSL Thumbprint mode.
E. Replace all VMware Certificate Authority issued Certificates with self-signed Certificates.
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 184
An administrator needs to create an Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) Identity

Source on a newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA).
Which two actions will accomplish this? (Choose two.)
A. Use a Service Principal Name (SPN) to configure the Identity Source.

B. Use a Domain administrator to configure the Identity Source.

C. Join the VCSA to Active Directory and configure the Identity Source with a Machine
Account.
D. Create a computer account in Active Directory for the VCSA and configure the Identity
Source.
Answer: A,C
Question No : 185
Which secondary Private VLAN (PVLAN) type can communicate and send packets to an
Isolated PVLAN?
A. Community
B. Isolated
C. Promiscuous
D. Primary
Answer: C
Question No : 186

What will be created upon completion of the steps in this wizard?
A. 100GB VMFS5 datastore with free space available for expansion

B. 100GB VMFS5 datastore with free space available for a second datastore
C. 100GB VMFS3 datastore
D. 200.01 GB VMFS5 datastore
Answer: A
Question No : 187
A vSphere 6.x DRS cluster is configured as shown in the Exhibit.
A. A virtual machine can be powered on in the Web Resource Pool with a 3 GHz CPU
Reservation.
B. A virtual machine can be powered on in the Web Resource Pool with a 4 GHz CPU
Reservation.

C. A virtual machine can be powered on in the DB Resource Pool with a 3 GHz CPU
Reservation.
D. A virtual machine can be powered on in the DB Resource Pool with a 4 GHz CPU
Reservation.
Answer: C
Question No : 188
An administrator wants to provide users restricted access. The users should only be able to
perform the following tasks:
✑ Create and consolidate virtual machine snapshots

✑ Add/Remove virtual disks
✑ Snapshot Management
Which default role in vCenter Server would meet the administrator's requirements for the
users?
A. Virtual machine user

B. Virtual machine power user
C. Virtual Datacenter administrator
D. VMware Consolidated Backup user
Answer: B
Question No : 189
A vSphere 6 High Availability cluster has been configured with default settings. Four virtual
machines in the cluster have been configured with these priorities:
✑ Prod-DB. High
✑ Prod-Email: High
✑ Prod-VC. Medium
✑ Dev-VDI: Low
How many VM Overrides would need to be defined at the cluster level to meet the restart
priorities?
A. 1
B. 2

C. 3
D. 4
Answer: B
Question No : 190
In a vSphere High Availability cluster, what is the VM Monitoring I/O stats interval default
value?
A. 60 seconds
B. 90 seconds
C. 120 seconds
D. 180 seconds
Answer: C
Question No : 191
Which Platform Service Controller Password Policy determines the number of days a
password can exist before the user must change it?
A. Maximum Lifetime
B. Password Age
C. Maximum Days
D. Password Lifetime
Answer: A
Question No : 192
An administrator attempts to place a Storage DRS enabled Datastore into Maintenance

Mode. The task never completes, and the Entering Maintenance Mode status remains at
1%.
Which two actions should the administrator take to resolve this problem? (Choose two.)

A. Set the Storage DRS advanced option IgnoreAffinityRulesForMaintenance = 1.
B. Set the Storage DRS advanced option IgnoreAffinityRulesForMaintenance = 0.
C. Disable Storage DRS affinity rules associated with this datastore cluster.
D. Enable Storage DRS affinity rules associated with this datastore cluster.
Answer: A,C
Question No : 193
Which tab shows the Hardware Acceleration support status?
A. Devices
B. Properties
C. Paths
D. Advanced Options
Answer: A
Question No : 194
An administrator has recently configured HA on a cluster. After reviewing the summary tab
on one of the hosts, the warning in Exhibit 1 is displayed:

The administrator proceeds to view the management network port group data shown in
Exhibit 2:
The administrator then views the management network vSwitch as shown in Exhibit 3:
Based on the exhibits, which two steps should be taken to ensure redundancy on the
management network? (Choose two.)
A. Move vmnic1 to Standby adapters.

B. Add an additional vmknic to the Network Adapters and move it to Active adapters.
C. Set the advanced HA configuration parameter das.ignoreRedundantNetWarning to True.
D. Uncheck the Override Failover Checkbox on the management network port group.
Answer: A,D
Question No : 195
An administrator with global administrator privileges creates a custom role but fails to

assign any privileges to it.
Which two privileges would the custom role have? (Choose two.)
A. System.View
B. System.Anonymous
C. System.User
D. System.ReadOnly
Answer: A,B
Question No : 196
When importing an existing SSL certificate into vSphere Replication Server, which file
format is required?
A. PKCS#12
B. DER
C. PEM
D. PKCS#7
Answer: A
Question No : 197
An administrator is upgrading an ESXi host from 5.5 to 6.0 and runs the following
command:
esxcli software vib list --rebooting-image
What does this command show?
A. VIBs active after a reboot.

B. VIBs that require a reboot.
C. VIBs that are in the boot image.
D. VIBs that are third-party.
Answer: A

Question No : 198
An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine that has unexpectedly powered off.
Which two logs should be used to troubleshoot the issue? (Choose two.)
A. vmware.log
B. hostd.log
C. syslog.log
D. shell.log
Answer: A,B
Question No : 199
What is the name of the command line utility that checks for VMFS5 metadata corruption?
A. vmkfstools --check
B. voma
C. vmfsanalyzer
D. esxcli vmfs check
Answer: B
Question No : 200
A failed upgrade from vCenter Server version 5.x to version 6.0 produces the following
error:
[00800 error 'Default'] Database version id '600' is incompatible with this release of
VirtualCenter.
What is the cause of the upgrade failure?

A. There was a database schema upgrade failure during the installation.
B. The VMWAREVCMSDS service was upgraded before the vCenter Server service.
C. The VMware Directory Service database failed during the installation.
D. There was an incompatible ODBC driver version for the database.
Answer: A
Question No : 201
Which minor badge items make up the Efficiency badge score for an ESXi host in vCenter
Operations Manager?
A. Workload, Anomalies, Faults

B. Workload, Stress, Density
C. Time Remaining, Capacity Remaining
D. Reclaimable Waste, Density
Answer: D
Question No : 202
An administrator suspects that the MTU value for a vSphere Standard Switch is
misconfigured.
Which two commands can determine the value? (Choose two.)
A. esxcfg-vswitch -l
B. esxcli network vswitch standard list
C. esxcfg-vss -l
D. esxcli network standard vswitch list
Answer: A,B
Question No : 203

An administrator receives vRealize Operations alerts for the Health of the virtual machine
PVMAPP_0 as shown in Exhibit 1:
The administrator clicks on the Analysis pane, as shown in Exhibit 2:

Based on the exhibits, what action would correctly address the performance problems
observed?
A. Increase the number of vCPUs for PVMAPP_0.

B. Increase the allocation of memory for PVMAPP_0.
C. Increase the Memory limit for PVMAPP_0.
D. Increase the reservation in MHz for vCPUs for PVMAPP_0.
Answer: A
Question No : 204
An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 5.5 host to ESXi 6.x and gets the following error:
MEMORY_SIZE
What does this indicate?
A. Insufficient memory on the ESXi host to complete the upgrade.

B. Insufficient memory for Auto Deploy to complete the upgrade.
C. Insufficient memory in vCenter Server to complete the upgrade.
D. Insufficient memory for Update Manager to complete the upgrade.
Answer: A
Question No : 205

When attempting to connect to a vCenter Server, an administrator observes the following at
the top of the vSphere Web Client:
Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server

Systems:https://vCenter.corp.com:443/sdk
What three reasons could be preventing the vSphere Web Client from communicating with
this vCenter Server? (Choose three.)
A. The vCenter Server machine is not responding via the network.

B. An incorrect entry for this vCenter Server exists in the Single Sign-On service.
C. The SSL certificates do not match the FQDN address for the server.
D. The Platform Services Controller is external to this vCenter Server.
E. The DNS entry for the vCenter Server is incorrect.
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 206
An administrator uses the df -h command and notices that an NFS datastore is reporting a
capacity of 0 Bytes.
What condition would cause this to occur?
A. The NFS server on which the datastore resides is down.

B. The datastore was mounted as Read/Write.
C. The datastore was mounted as Read-Only.
D. The datastore was created with NFS version 4.1.
Answer: A
Question No : 207
Which two supported tools can be used to upgrade virtual machine hardware? (Choose
two.)
A. vSphere Web Client

B. vSphere Update Manager

C. vmware-vmupgrade.exe
D. esxcli vm hardware upgrade
Answer: A,B
Question No : 208
An administrator wants to power on a virtual machine (VM) while connected to an ESXi

host using SSH. The VM has the following Name and ID:
✑ VM Name = SQL001
✑ VMID = 12345
Which command would successfully power on the virtual machine?
A. vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 12345

B. vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on SQL001
C. vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 12345
D. vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on SQL001
Answer: A
Question No : 209
A common root user account has been configured for a group of ESXi 6.x hosts.
Which two steps should be taken to mitigate security risks associated with this
configuration? (Choose two.)
A. Remove the root user account from the ESXi host.

B. Set a complex password for the root account and limit its use.
C. Use ESXi Active Directory capabilities to assign users the administrator role.
D. Use Lockdown mode to restrict root account access.
Answer: B,C
Question No : 210

Which password meets ESXi 6.x host password requirements?
A. 8kMVnn2x!
B. zNgtnJBA2
C. Nvgt34kn44
D. !b74wr
Answer: A
Question No : 211
An administrator is changing the settings on a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). During

this process, the ESXi Management IP address is set to an address which can no longer
communicate with the vCenter Server.
What is the most likely outcome of this action?
A. The host will disconnect from the vCenter Server and remain disconnected.
B. The host will automatically detect the communication issue and revert the change.
C. The host will stay connected with the change, but show an alert.
D. The host will disconnect and migrate the vDS portgroup to a standard switch.
Answer: B
Question No : 212
Users are reporting CPU related performance problems on the virtual machine Email-Prod
throughout the day.
The resource settings for the VM and the ESXi host the VM is running on are shown below:

VM:
✑ Email-Prod
✑ vCPUs: 4
✑ Memory: 96GB
ESXi host:
✑ CPU: 2 x 8 Core Processors

✑ Memory: 128GB
✑ NUMA architecturE. 2 Nodes
Which two options would alleviate the observed performance problem for Email-Prod?
(Choose two.)
A. Enable the advanced parameter Numa.PageMigEnable.

B. Enable the advanced parameter Numa.AutoMemAffinity.
C. Enable CPU affinity to separate 2 vCPUs for each NUMA node.
D. Enable CPU affinity to bind all vCPUs to one NUMA node.
Answer: B,C
Question No : 213
What are three reasons why a virtual machine might fail to power on? (Choose three.)
A. The virtual machine is running on an ESXi host which has an expired license.
B. The virtual machine is running on a datastore which has insufficient disk space for the
.vswp file.
C. The virtual machine is in a cluster with vSphere HA Admission control enabled.
D. The virtual machine has a disconnected network adapter.
E. The virtual machine does not have a Virtual Hard Disk assigned.
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 214
An administrator has configured three vCenter Servers and vRealize Orchestrator within a
Platform Services Controller domain, and needs to grant a user privileges that span all
environments.

Which statement best describes how the administrator would accomplish this?
A. Assign a Global Permission to the user.

B. Assign a vCenter Permission to the user.
C. Assign vsphere.local membership to the user.
D. Assign an ESXi Permission to the user.
Answer: A
Question No : 215
Which two considerations should an administrator keep in mind when booting from
Software Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)? (Choose two.)
A. Software FCoE boot configuration can be changed from within ESXi.

B. Software FCoE boot firmware cannot export information in FBFT format.
C. Multipathing is not supported at pre-boot.
D. Boot LUN cannot be shared with other hosts even on shared storage.
Answer: C,D
Question No : 216
After configuring a Virtual SAN cluster, an administrator using the vSphere Web Client
notices that the Virtual SAN datastore is smaller than expected. The cluster contains:
✑ Three ESXi hosts

✑ Each host has one 10GB SDD
✑ Each host has one 100GB HDD
Why would the Virtual SAN datastore show as 100GB instead of 300GB?
A. There is a network problem with the Virtual SAN vmkernel ports.

B. The Virtual SAN VASA provider is disabled.
C. vSphere High Availability is enabled on the Virtual SAN cluster.
D. The Virtual SAN cluster must be managed using the vSphere Web Client.
Answer: A

Question No : 217
An administrator created a six node Virtual SAN cluster, created a fault domain, and moved
three of the six nodes into that domain.
A node that is a member of the fault domain fails.
What is the expected result?
A. The remaining two fault domain members are treated as failed.

B. The remaining two fault domain members stay protected by the domain.
C. One of the non-member nodes will be automatically added to the fault domain.
D. VMware High Availability will restart virtual machines on remaining nodes in the domain.
Answer: A
Question No : 218
What are two ways to view the DNS settings for an ESXi 6.x host? (Choose two.)
A. Use the vicfg-dns command from the vSphere Management Appliance.

B. View the /etc/resolv.conf file on the ESXi host.
C. Use vicfg-dns command on the ESXi host.
D. View the /etc/dns.conf file on the ESXi host.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 219
Examine the esxtop command output shown in the Exhibit.

Which option would improve application performance for the SlowVM virtual machine?
A. Increase the number of vCPUs provided to SlowVM.

B. Decrease the number of vCPUs provided to SlowVM.
C. Move SlowVM to another ESXi host with more physical CPU resources available.
D. Increase the CPU limit assigned to SlowVM.
Answer: D
Question No : 220
Which two reasons would prevent Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) from
operating on a datastore? (Choose two.)
A. The datastore has Storage I/O Control disabled.

B. The datastore is connected to an unsupported host.
C. The datastore is hosted on an NFS server.
D. The datastore is hosted on an iSCSI server.
Answer: A,B
Question No : 221
An administrator is able to manage an ESXi 6.x host connected to vCenter Server using
the vSphere Web Client but is unable to connect to the host directly.
Which action should the administrator take to correct this behavior?
A. Restart management agents on the ESXi host.

B. Disable Lockdown Mode on the ESXi host through vCenter Server.
C. Disable the ESXi firewall with the command esxcli network firewall unload.
D. Reboot the ESXi host.
Answer: B

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A. Processor Serial Number

An administrator is performing a silent automatic update of VMware Tools on a Windows

What syntax needs to be entered into the Advanced Options box?

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An administrator is troubleshooting network communications between the vCenter Server

Which log shows the interaction events between these components?

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A. Enable Storage IO Control.

A. Secure Internet Connectivity

Refer to the Exhibit.

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An administrator is troubleshooting intermittent poor performance of virtual machines in a

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A. The active power policy is set to Low Power.

Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is troubleshooting a CPU performance related problem for the SlowVM

A. Increase the number of vCPUs assigned to SlowVM.

Attempting to update an ESXi 6.x host using the following command:

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Generates the following error:

What action should be taken to correct the problem?

A. Add the full file path to the command.

An administrator wants to clone a virtual machine using the vSphere Client.

Which explains why the Clone option is missing?

A. The vSphere Client is directly connected to the ESXi host.

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What are two potential causes for this? (Choose two.)

A. Storage DRS is disabled on one or more virtual machine(s) disk(s).

When troubleshooting a performance related issue, an administrator sees the following

Significant imbalance between NUMA nodes detected. Performance may be impacted.

Which action should the administrator take to correct this problem?

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Refer to the Exhibit.

The Exhibit shows the status of vmhba32 and vmhba33 as Unbound.

What is a likely reason for this status?

A. The host bus adapter is not associated with a vmknic.

An administrator is creating a new Content Library. It will subscribe to another remote

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An administrator is configuring virtual machines to use Worldwide Port Names (WWPNs) to

Which two conditions are required? (Choose two.)

A. The switches in the fabric must be N-Port ID Virtualization aware.

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A user notifies an administrator that Content Libraries are not visible.

What is a possible solution?

An administrator has a virtual machine configured with the following settings:

✑ ESXi version: 5.1

A. Upgrade the ESXi host to vSphere 5.5 or later.

Which statement is true for the Path Selection Plug-In VMW_PSP_MRU?

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Refer to the Exhibit.

What is the correct value to configure for the Domain alias?

A. The domain's NetBIOS name.

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A. Set VM Overrides to Partially Automated.

Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator receives an error on a vSphere cluster as shown in the Exhibit.