Q1. 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
Q2. 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
Q3. 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
Q4. 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
Q5. 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
Q6. 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
Q7. 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
Q8. 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
Q9. 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
Q10. 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
Q11. 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
Q12. 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
Q13. 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
Q14. Refer to the Exhibit.
-- 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
Q15. 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
Q16. 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