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