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What is a valid use case for the No Access role?

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What is a valid use case for the No Access role? 






A. An administrator wants to prevent a user from launching the vSphere Client
B. An administrator wants to allow only the status of an object to be viewed, but provide no other access
C. An administrator wants to revoke permissions on an object that would otherwise be propagated
D. An administrator wants to allow the state and details of an object to be viewed, but provide no other access






Answer: C

By default, if you remove a user from an Active Directory domain who is currently logged in to vCenter Server, which of the following actions is taken?

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By default, if you remove a user from an Active Directory domain who is currently logged in to vCenter Server, which of the following actions is taken? 






A. The user can remain logged in indefinitely, but once they log out they cannot log back in
B. The user can remain logged in for up to 24 hours
C. The user is logged out of vCenter Server and cannot log back in
D. The user is given a warning they are about to be logged out and given a 1 hour grace period







Answer: B

Assuming a user or a group is assigned a single vCenter Server role, if the role is then removed, which of the following occurs?

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Assuming a user or a group is assigned a single vCenter Server role, if the role is then removed, which of the following occurs? 




A. Users or groups are automatically assigned the Read Only role until an administrator can manually assign a new role
B. Users or groups retain the permissions associated with the removed role until they are manually assigned a new role
C. Users or groups assigned the removed role no longer have any permissions in vCenter
D. A role assigned to existing users or groups cannot be removed until all users or groups are removed from the role





Answer: C

When an existing role that has been assigned to users is removed from vCenter Server, which of the following can occur (Choose Two)?

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When an existing role that has been assigned to users is removed from vCenter Server, which of the following can occur (Choose Two)? 




A. Users or groups retain the removed role until they are manually assigned a new role
B. Users or groups can be reassigned to any available role
C. Users or groups that had privileges may no longer have any permissions in vCenter
D. Users or groups are automatically assigned to the next most restrictive role available







Answer: B,C

Securing an ESX service console is important because?

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Securing an ESX service console is important because? 







A. Service Console actions can affect all VMs on an ESX host
B. Service Console permissions are applied to users when logging in to a host via vCenter
C. VMs run in the service console
D. VMs depend on the patch level of the service console






Answer: A

When cloning a role, which of the following applies (Choose Two)?

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When cloning a role, which of the following applies (Choose Two)? 






A. The cloned role is applied to the same users and groups as the original role
B. The cloned role is not applied to the same users or groups as the original role
C. The cloned role can be edited during the cloning process to adjust the privileges in the role
D. The cloned role contains all of the same privileges as the original role






Answer: B,D

An administrator is configuring vCenter Server to support e-mail notification. Which of the following parameters must be configured in the vCenter Server settings (Choose Two)?

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An administrator is configuring vCenter Server to support e-mail notification. Which of the following parameters must be configured in the vCenter Server settings (Choose Two)? 




A. Sender e-mail address
B. SNMP address information
C. SMTP server information
D. Receiver e-mail address








Answer: A,C

An administrator wants to restrict the ability of selected administrators to install plug-ins in their vSphere Client applications. Which of the following would accomplish this?

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An administrator wants to restrict the ability of selected administrators to install plug-ins in their vSphere Client applications. Which of the following would accomplish this? 







A. Right-Click on the plug-in under Manage Plug-ins and choose Disable
B. Remove the plug-in or plug-ins from the vCenter Server
C. Modify permissions for the administrators and remove the Register Extension privilege
D. Modify the extensions.xml file and remove the unwanted plug-ins







Answer: C

An administrator needs to verify the functionality of virtual machines created in several different formats prior to converting them to ESX/ESXi. Using VMware Player, which of the following virtual machines can be run directly on an administrator desktop (Choose Two)?

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An administrator needs to verify the functionality of virtual machines created in several different formats prior to converting them to ESX/ESXi. Using VMware Player, which of the following virtual machines can be run directly on an administrator desktop (Choose Two)? 







A. Norton Ghost 10
B. Acronis True Image
C. Microsoft Virtual Server/Virtual PC
D. VMware Fusion







Answer: C,D

Which two are requirements when booting from SAN (Choose Two)?

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Which two are requirements when booting from SAN (Choose Two)? 







A. The Storage Array port WWN specified in the BIOS configuration of the HBA must be passive
B. The HBA should be plugged into the lowest PCI bus and slot number
C. The boot LUN should only be visible to the ESX Server that is booting from it
D. The boot LUN should be visible to all ESX Servers for HA failover







Answer: B,C

What is the proper LUN Masking configuration for LUNs presented to an ESXi Host when using the Boot from SAN option?

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What is the proper LUN Masking configuration for LUNs presented to an ESXi Host when using the Boot from SAN option? 







A. The Boot LUN should be masked so that only one ESXi Host can see the LUN, while the datastore LUNS should be masked so that all ESXi Hosts can see the LUNs
B. The Boot LUN and datastore LUNS should be masked so that all ESXi Hosts can see the LUNs
C. The Boot LUN should be masked so that all ESXi Hosts can see the LUN, while the datastore LUNS should be masked so that only one ESXi Host can see the LUNs
D. The Boot LUN and datastore LUNS should be masked so that only one ESXi Host can see the LUNs






Answer: A

Before you upgrade an ESXi host what should you do?

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Before you upgrade an ESXi host what should you do? 






A. update the ESXi restore CD with the current ESXi image
B. save the current ESXi image to another ESXi server
C. copy the embedded ESXi image to a USB flash drive
D. save the ESXi configuration using vicf g-cfgbackp s from the vCLI








Answer: D

An ESX Administrator plans to install additional supported components on the ESX Server that would increase the memory requirements for the Service Console. Which ESX Server partition would also need to be increased during installation as a result?

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An ESX Administrator plans to install additional supported components on the ESX Server that would increase the memory requirements for the Service Console. Which ESX Server partition would also need to be increased during installation as a result? 








A. /
B. vmfs3
C. swap
D. /boot







Answer: C

Which two statements accurately describes step that are taken to recover a virtual machine using vSphere Replication? (Choose two.)

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Which two statements accurately describes step that are taken to recover a virtual machine using vSphere Replication? (Choose two.) 





A. A recovery is initiated from the target site.
B. A recovery is initiated from the source site.
C. Upon recovery, the virtual machine is automatically attached to it's configured network.
D. Upon recovery, the virtual machine must be manually attached to a network.







Answer: A,D

The following error displays during the final step of the configuration for a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster attached to five datastores: The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 0, which is less than requireD. 2 What condition would cause this error?

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The following error displays during the final step of the configuration for a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster attached to five datastores:
The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 0, which is less than requireD. 2
What condition would cause this error? 







A. One of the hosts in the cluster is not attached to the datastores planned for use with HA.
B. The hosts in the cluster do not have Storage DRS configured on one or more of their datastores.
C. One of the hosts in the cluster has an invalid Storage Policy configured on one or more of their datastores.
D. The hosts in the cluster contain one or more datastores configured with a 1 MB block size.






Answer: A

An administrator needs to provide a report that will help managers better understand how all of their virtual machines are sized. Which report within vCenter Operations Manager should the administrator provide?

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An administrator needs to provide a report that will help managers better understand how all of their virtual machines are sized.
Which report within vCenter Operations Manager should the administrator provide? 








A. Undersized Virtual Machines Report
B. Configured Host or Cluster Capacity Report
C. Virtual Machine Capacity Overview Report
D. Virtual Machine Optimization Report







Answer: D

Why is the network configuration shown in the exhibit impossible?

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Why is the network configuration shown in the exhibit impossible? 




A. A single vmnic cannot be shared by two virtual switches.
B. The MAC address of the Management Network VMkernel port is invalid.
C. Virtual machines are not allowed to run on the same virtual machine port group as the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance.
D. Virtual Machine Port Groups and VMkernel Ports are not allowed on the same virtual switch.






Answer: A

An ESXi 5.x host is unable to connect to a vCenter 5.x server. Which commands should an administrator use to restart the management agents on the host?

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An ESXi 5.x host is unable to connect to a vCenter 5.x server.
Which commands should an administrator use to restart the management agents on the host? 






A. SSH to the host and execute the commands - /etc/init.d/hostd restart and /etc/init.d/vpxa restart
B. SSH to the host and execute the commands - /etc/init.d/vpxd restart and /etc/init.d/vpxa restart
C. SSH to the host and execute the commands - /etc/init.d/vmware-hostd restart and /etc/init.d/vmware-vpxa restart
D. SSH to the host and execute the commands - /etc/init.d/vmware-hostd restart and /etc/init.d/vpxd restart







Answer: A

An administrator needs to create an alarm to monitor when a specific ESXi host in an HA/DRS cluster becomes disconnected from other vSphere components like HA agents or the vCenter server. Which process must the administrator use to accomplish this?

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An administrator needs to create an alarm to monitor when a specific ESXi host in an HA/DRS cluster becomes disconnected from other vSphere components like HA agents or the vCenter server.
Which process must the administrator use to accomplish this? 







A. Define a Host type alarm, monitor for the event Cannot connect host, and supply a conditional trigger on Host name equal to a specific label.
B. Define a Cluster type alarm, monitor for the event Cannot connect host, and supply a conditional trigger on Host name equal to a specific label.
C. Define a Cluster type alarm, monitor for the event Host status changed, and supply a specific label for each host.
D. Define a Host type alarm, monitor for the condition Host status changed, and supply a specific label for each host.








Answer: A

While shutting down a vApp for maintenance, a vSphere administrator determines that one of the virtual machines stays powered on. The administrator manually powers off the virtual machine inside the vApp. Which step should the administrator take to prevent the virtual machine from staying powered on in the future?

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While shutting down a vApp for maintenance, a vSphere administrator determines that one of the virtual machines stays powered on. The administrator manually powers off the virtual machine inside the vApp.
Which step should the administrator take to prevent the virtual machine from staying powered on in the future? 







A. Change the Shutdown Action for the virtual machine to None
B. Change the Shutdown Action for the virtual machine to Power Off
C. Change the Shutdown Action for the virtual machine to Manual
D. Change the Shutdown Action for the virtual machine to Excluded






Answer: B

When a vSphere administrator attempts to remediate a host with Update Manager, the host is unable to enter maintenance mode. Which condition is likely preventing the host from entering maintenance mode?

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When a vSphere administrator attempts to remediate a host with Update Manager, the host is unable to enter maintenance mode.
Which condition is likely preventing the host from entering maintenance mode? 






A. A virtual machine on the host has a removable device connected.
B. A virtual machine on the host is configured to use Fault Tolerance.
C. A virtual machine is powered off and cannot be migrated to another host.
D. A virtual machine is configured with a local .vswp file.







Answer: A

A vSphere administrator receives a report of an issue with a vApp. After connecting to the environment with the vSphere Client, the administrator does not see the vApp, but instead sees the inventory shown in the exhibit. What explains this behavior?

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A vSphere administrator receives a report of an issue with a vApp. After connecting to the environment with the vSphere Client, the administrator does not see the vApp, but instead sees the inventory shown in the exhibit.
What explains this behavior? 




A. The administrator is connected to the ESXi host running the vApp.
B. The administrator is using the Web Client.
C. The vApp is in a partially deleted state.
D. The vApp has been converted to a resource pool.








Answer: A

The administrator needs to modify the problematic configuration shown in the exhibit to meet the following requirements: 1. Uplink ports must connect to a 2-port Etherchannel connection. 2. Traffic must pass, even in the event of a port failure. Which two configuration changes should the administrator make? (Choose two.)

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The administrator needs to modify the problematic configuration shown in the exhibit to meet the following requirements:
1. Uplink ports must connect to a 2-port Etherchannel connection.
2. Traffic must pass, even in the event of a port failure.
Which two configuration changes should the administrator make? (Choose two.) 



A. Change the Load balancing algorithm to Route based on ip hash
B. Change the Load balancing algorithm to Route based on physical NIC load
C. Move Uplink 1 into Active Uplinks and Uplink 2 into Standby Uplinks
D. Move both uplinks into the Active Uplinks







Answer: A,D

While troubleshooting a crash event on an ESXi 5.x host, an administrator determines the log files related to the event are NOT present. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the logging issue?

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While troubleshooting a crash event on an ESXi 5.x host, an administrator determines the log files related to the event are NOT present.
Which action should the administrator take to resolve the logging issue? 






A. Increase the amount of memory committed to log storage.
B. Increase the statistic data collection level to 4.
C. Change the roll-up type to maximum.
D. Create a persistent scratch location.







Answer: D

An administrator needs to install vSphere Update Manager using an external SQL Server 2008 R2 database. The administrator has created the database successfully, but cannot establish connectivity when testing the DSN. Which configuration setting could be causing the issue?

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An administrator needs to install vSphere Update Manager using an external SQL Server 2008 R2 database. The administrator has created the database successfully, but cannot establish connectivity when testing the DSN.
Which configuration setting could be causing the issue? 










A. The database was configured to use Windows authentication.
B. The DSN was configured using a 32-bit ODBC connection.
C. Update Manager does not support the use of a remote database.
D. Port 9087 is being blocked by Windows Firewall on the Update Manager server.





Answer: A

A host in a 4-node HA\DRS cluster has failed. HA initiates restart tasks for the virtual machines on the remaining hosts in the cluster but half of them fail to restart. What is the likely reason virtual machines fail to restart?

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A host in a 4-node HA\DRS cluster has failed. HA initiates restart tasks for the virtual machines on the remaining hosts in the cluster but half of them fail to restart.
What is the likely reason virtual machines fail to restart? 








A. HA admission control is blocking the restart of the virtual machines due to insufficient resources to support the configured failover level of the cluster.
B. The vMotion network has failed on the remaining hosts preventing the virtual machines from migrating.
C. Storage vMotion has failed on the datastore containing the virtual machines preventing them from migrating.
D. The failed host was the Master host in the cluster and no other hosts are able to perform the necessary
H. function to restart the virtual machines.







Answer: A

A vSphere administrator needs to add a CPU to a virtual machine, but upon editing the VM settings the option is grayed out. What would explain this behavior?

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A vSphere administrator needs to add a CPU to a virtual machine, but upon editing the VM settings the option is grayed out.
What would explain this behavior? 







A. The virtual machine is running
B. The virtual machine has been configured with a CPU limit
C. CPU Hot-add has not been enabled on the virtual machine
D. The virtual machine is in a resource pool with no available CPU resources





Answer: A,C

The vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one ESXi 5.5 host to another ESXi 5.5 host. The virtual machine has a virtual disk that is stored in local storage. Assuming only the vSphere Essentials licensing is in place, which technique should the administrator use to accomplish the migration?

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The vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one ESXi 5.5 host to another ESXi 5.5 host. The virtual machine has a virtual disk that is stored in local storage.
Assuming only the vSphere Essentials licensing is in place, which technique should the administrator use to accomplish the migration? 






A. vMotion migration
B. Cold migration
C. Enhanced vMotion migration
D. Storage vMotion migration





Answer: B

A vSphere administrator is attempting to upgrade an ESXi host using vSphere Update Manager. The administrator has attached the baseline and remediated the host. Update Manager reports the remediation process has completed successfully. However, upon inspection the host is not upgraded. What is the most likely reason for this issue?

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A vSphere administrator is attempting to upgrade an ESXi host using vSphere Update Manager.
The administrator has attached the baseline and remediated the host. Update Manager reports the remediation process has completed successfully. However, upon inspection the host is not upgraded.
What is the most likely reason for this issue? 






A. The ESXi host has less than 10MB free in its /tmp directory.
B. The user performing the upgrade has insufficient privileges.
C. The Update Manager service has not been configured with root level access to the host.
D. The baseline has been configured using an invalid ISO image.






Answer: A

A vSphere administrator has configured a virtual machine alarm to trigger a warning when the condition Snapshot Size exceeds 1GB. Which action should the administrator configure on the alarm to automatically resolve the condition?

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A vSphere administrator has configured a virtual machine alarm to trigger a warning when the condition Snapshot Size exceeds 1GB.
Which action should the administrator configure on the alarm to automatically resolve the condition?







A. Delete Snapshot
B. Reset VM
C. Run a Command
D. Consolidate Snapshot






Answer: C

What is the purpose of configuring a VMkernel port for Fault Tolerance logging?

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What is the purpose of configuring a VMkernel port for Fault Tolerance logging? 






A. The selected vmkernel port is used to send external inputs from a primary virtual machine to its secondary counterpart.
B. The selected vmkernel port is able to log Fault Tolerance events to a syslog server.
C. The selected vmkernel port is used to trigger a failover from the primary machine if a hardware crash occurs.
D. The selected vmkernel port is able to maintain a log of changes to the secondary virtual machine.








Answer: A

An administrator is planning a vSphere Fault Tolerance implementation for 6 virtual machines. Which two virtual disk types are supported with FT? (Choose two.)

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An administrator is planning a vSphere Fault Tolerance implementation for 6 virtual machines. Which two virtual disk types are supported with FT? (Choose two.) 






A. Raw Device Mapped LUN configured for Virtual Compatibility Mode
B. Raw Device Mapped LUN configured for Physical Compatibility Mode
C. Virtual disk thick provisioned, eager zeroed
D. Virtual disk thick provisioned, lazy zeroed








Answer: A,C

A vSphere administrator created a Virtual SAN and a relevant virtual machine Storage Policy. The administrator is unable to select this virtual machine Storage Policy when creating a new virtual machine. Based on the exhibit, why is the administrator unable to select this virtual machine Storage Policy?

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A vSphere administrator created a Virtual SAN and a relevant virtual machine Storage Policy. The administrator is unable to select this virtual machine Storage Policy when creating a new virtual machine.
Based on the exhibit, why is the administrator unable to select this virtual machine Storage Policy? 





A. The administrator did not enable the virtual machine Storage Policy per compute resource.
B. The ESXi Host license does not support virtual machine Storage Policies.
C. The vCenter Server license does not support virtual machine Storage Policies.
D. The administrator did not create a storage policy for the datastore selected for the virtual machine.








Answer: A

An application administrator reports application slowness when loading the application's web portal. The virtual machine is currently connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch. The application owner requests information about the virtual machine's network traffic. Which feature of a vSphere Distributed Switch should the administrator use to gather the needed information?

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An application administrator reports application slowness when loading the application's web portal. The virtual machine is currently connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch. The application owner requests information about the virtual machine's network traffic.
Which feature of a vSphere Distributed Switch should the administrator use to gather the needed information? 






A. NetFlow
B. Port Mirroring
C. Network I/O Control
D. Promiscuous Mode







Answer: A

A vSphere administrator has been using vSphere in evaluation mode and now wants to deploy an environment that provides the same features. Which edition of vSphere provides similar functionality to evaluation mode?

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A vSphere administrator has been using vSphere in evaluation mode and now wants to deploy an environment that provides the same features.
Which edition of vSphere provides similar functionality to evaluation mode? 







A. Enterprise Plus
B. Enterprise
C. Standard
D. Essentials







Answer: A

A vSphere administrator manages a three host cluster with 20 VMs. The HA cluster is configured with the Host Failures the Cluster Tolerates admission control policy and all other settings are set to default values. The administrator determines that one of the VMs is not able to power on. After further inspection, it is determined that this VM cannot power on because of a very large CPU reservation. Which cluster advanced HA setting can the administrator modify to enable the virtual machine to power on?

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A vSphere administrator manages a three host cluster with 20 VMs. The HA cluster is configured with the Host Failures the Cluster Tolerates admission control policy and all other settings are set to default values. The administrator determines that one of the VMs is not able to power on. After further inspection, it is determined that this VM cannot power on because of a very large CPU reservation.
Which cluster advanced HA setting can the administrator modify to enable the virtual machine to power on? 







A. Lower das.vmcpumaxmhz attribute value
B. Higher das.vmcpuminmhz attribute value
C. Lower das.slotcpuoutmhz attribute value
D. Higher das.slotcpuinmhz attribute value






Answer: D

An administrator needs to configure vFlash Read Cache to improve performance. What would benefit the most from enabling vFlash Read Cache?

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An administrator needs to configure vFlash Read Cache to improve performance.
What would benefit the most from enabling vFlash Read Cache? 





A. Virtual machines replicated with vSphere Replication
B. Web Server virtual machines
C. Database virtual machines
D. Virtual machines migrated using Storage vMotion







Answer: B
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