VMWARE VCAD510 EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Number: VCAD-510
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Time Limit: 120 min
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VMWARE VCAD510 EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Exam Name: VMware Certified Associate Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV) Exam

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QUESTION 1
Your boss asks you to make sure your VMs are recoverable in the event of data corruption or a major
storage failure. Which feature do you tell him meets that requirement?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Data Protection
Storage vMotion
Fault Tolerance
High Availability

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 2
You have a customer planning a VMware deployment. They are interested in maximizing uptime for their
virtual machine. Which technology would provide a valid solution?
A.
B.
C.
D.

High Availability (HA)

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
vSphere APIs for Array Integration (VASA)
vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS)

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 3
What is a Management challenge that vSphere can address?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Change management processes can be eliminated

CMDBs are automatically updated
IT processes can be automatically updated
Legacy applications can be run on new hardware

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 4
Which vSphere feature is used to help achieve greater uptime SLAs?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Distributed Resource Scheduler

High Availability
Site Recovery Manager
Storage vMotion

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 5
An administrator has many tasks associated with managing hosts. What are two examples? (Choose two)
A.
B.
C.
D.

Monitoring performance.
Patching the hypervisor.
Creating security policies.
Creating portals for users to access their VMs.

Correct Answer: AB
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QUESTION 6
You are a consultant and your newest client is concerned abaout the visibility of performance and capacity
related information to help them manage their new VMware environment more efficiently. Which of the
following will enable them to be proactive in their monitoring?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS)

vCenter advanced performance charts
Scheduled PowerShell scripts to gather performance data
vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 7
What does virtualization do?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Converts hardware into software

Converts software into hardware
Cause your servers to consume less power
Cause your servers to run lighter workloads

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 8
You are the CIO. The VP of manufacturing tells you that an old DOS application is critical to the assembly
line and that if it goes down, it takes 8 hours to restart the assembly line. The CEO has told you that is
unacceptable and has asked you to find a solution that will prevent downtime. Which vSphere feature meets
that requirement?
A. Data Protection (DP)
B. Fault Tolerance (FT)

C. High Availability (HA)

D. vMotion
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 9
Which vSphere feature allows hardware maintenance to be performed at any time without impacting
application availability?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

vMotion
Cold migrations
CPU Hotplug

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 10
Your company is planning to migrate your datacenter to a new location, but they wish to minimize downtime
during the transition. You are entirely virtualized at your primary datacenter, and have been given funding to
acquire new hardware for the new datacenter. Which of the following products can help you migrate the
VMs to the new datacenter?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vCenter Converter
vCenter Configuration Manager
vCenter Operations Manager
vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 11
You have a VMware environment and you have noticed that the storage capacity of your datastores varies
widely. You would like to maximize the storage environment by balancing the space utilization across each
of the datastores. Which of the following is a viable solution?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Storage I/O Control

vSphere APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS)

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 12
The network manager at your company is concerned about the performance on the virtual network. You
explain that virtual switches support many of the same performance features that physical switches do.
Which two performance-related options do virtual switches support? (Choose two)
A.
B.
C.
D.

LACP
VLANs
QoS
Traffic Shaping

Correct Answer: BC
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QUESTION 13
You are the VMware administrator for your local hospital. A fellow administrator has asked what role a
datastore plays in the environment. Which of the following is a good definition of a datastore?
A.
B.
C.
D.

A datastore is where virtual machine's files are stored

A datastore is used by the hypervisor to store logs and performance data
A datastore is used as the destination for the core dump file
A datastore is used by the hypervisor to swap local memory content if needed

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 14
What is an availability challenge that vSphere can address?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Disaster recovery is greatly simplified

More servers can be deployed to provide higher availability
Virtual machines can be proactively migrated when a server failure is imminent
Hardware maintenance can be performed at any time without application impact

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 15
Which vSphere feature allows for rapid provisioning of virtual machines?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Distributed Resource Scheduler

vNetwork Distributed Switches
Thin Provisioning
Templates

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 16
You have a critical application that cannot go down. What vCenter feature provides the ability for the
application to continue to run even if a host fails?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vMotion
Fault Tolerance (FT)
vSphere Replication (VR)
High Availability (HA)

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 17
Which VMware product will help identify mis-sized virtual machine?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vCenter Service Manager

vCloud Director
vCenter Configuration Manager
vCenter Operations Manager

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 18
What is a scalability challenge that vSphere can address?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Automatic balancing of virtual machines after adding new physical servers

Easier disaster recovery processes
Change management processes are simplified
Users have self-service provisioning of virtual machine workloads

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 19
Which of the following features is a benefit of shared storage within a VMware environment?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Allows for the deployment of DRS and HA clusters

Provides the ability to view the disk I/O more efficiently
Provides the ability to backup data more efficiently
Allows storage to be deployed from a single vendor

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 20
You are installing a new vSphere environment. You have configured a dedicated 1GB Ethernet network for
your storage devices. Which two types of shared storage does vSphere support in this configuration?
A.
B.
C.
D.

iSCSI
NFS
Fibre Channel
CIFS

Correct Answer: AB
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QUESTION 21
Which vSphere feature allows an automated method for placing virtual machines on appropriate strorage?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Storage vMotion
Storage Services Classes
Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler
Thin Provisioning

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 22
You are meeting with fellow administrators and management about an upcoming virtualization project. The
topic of vCenter is brought up and the discussion centers around the desire to virtualize vCenter for host
management. Which of the following is a benefit of virtualizing vCenter?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vCenter can only be virtualized if local storage is used

vCenter can easily be virtualized and HA can be used to restart the virtual machine if necessary
vCenter cannot be virtualized due to the high level of administrator connections
vCenter can be virtualized, but it has to be deployed on a 32-bit

Correct Answer:
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QUESTION 23
You are discussing virtual networking with a colleague.She asks you which type of virtual switch supports
the advanced networking option called port mirroring. Which of the following is the correct answer?
A. Extended virtual switch

B. Enterprise virtual switch

C. Distributed virtual switch
D. Standard virtual switch
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 24
Which vSphere feature allows for more efficient storage usage?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Storage vMotion
Thin Provisioning
Fast Provisioning
Snapshots

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 25
You have a vSphere cluster managed by vCenter. One of the VMs is running a critical application that is
very sensitive to unplanned of sudden reboots. You wish to protect this VM from potential data loss. Which
of the following features will help you?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vMotion
vSphere Replication
Fault Tolerance (FT)
High Availability (HA)

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 26
What is a virtual switch used to do? (Choose two)
A.
B.
C.
D.

Connect VMs to the physical network

Replace physical switches to save money
Connect the ESXi OS to the physical network
Connect to Fibre Channel storage.

Correct Answer: AD
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QUESTION 27
Your manager is asking you to report on the utilization of your servers and storage. He would also like

trending information so that you can plan for future growth. Which product will help you produce these
reports?
A.
B.
C.
D.

VMware Horizon View

VMware Hyperic
vCenter Configuration Manager
vCenter Operations Manager

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 28
Which VMware product allows for non-disruptive disaster recovery testing?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vCenter Operations manager

vSphere Replication
Site Recovery Manager
vCenter Configuration Manager

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 29
Which of the following vSphere features do not use virtual networking?
A.
B.
C.
D.

FCoE
VMware Remote Console
iSCSI
vMotion

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 30
You are in an interview for a position as a VMware administrator. You have been asked for a definition for
virtual switch. Which of the following would be a good definition?
A. A virtual switch allows VMs to communicate with each other and physical device.
B. A virtual switch allows VMware to segment a physical switch to isolate VM traffic
C. A virtual switch allows up to 500 VMs to share the same 1 GbE adapter through Network I/O Control
(NIOC)
D. A virtual switch can act like a router handling traffic between VMs on separate subnets
Correct Answer: A
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