Q:1

An administrator is configuring an ESX Host to boot from SAN. After entering the HBA BIOS and
attempting to select a boot LUN, the ESX Host becomes unresponsive. Which of the following could
cause this issue?

A:

The HBA BIOS sees too many devices in the SAN Zone

The HBA BIOS sees too many target LUNs

The HBA BIOS cannot see any LUNs

The HBA BIOS cannot see the target storage device

Q:2
The proportional share mechanism is invoked whenever:

A:

there is resource contention

CPU ready time exceeds a threshold

More than 1 virtual machine is running

the sum of reservations exceeds the physical resources

Q:3

A VMotion validation check will fail if the virtual machine has (Choose Two):

A:

An active connection that matches an existing port group label on the target host

Insufficient network bandwidth on the target virtual switch

Different security policies on the target virtual switch

 An active connection to an internal virtual switch

Q:4

Which of the following are valid map types that can be displayed using a vSphere Client
connected to vCenter Server (Choose Two)?

A:5

Storage Maps

Network Maps

vMotion (Resource) Maps

Cluster Maps

Q:6

The vSwitch or vSwitch port group policy setting that allows a virtual machine to listen to
traffic other than that which is specifically destined for the given VM is:

A:

Traffic Shaping

Promiscuous Mode

MAC Address Changes

Forged Transmits

Q:7

Which of the following conditions will produce a warning message but WILL allow a VMotion
migration to proceed?
A:

A Virtual Machine has an active connection to the ESX Host's CD-ROM

A Virtual Machine has a CPU affinity set to run on a specific CPU.

A Virtual Machine is in an MSCS Cluster relationship with another virtual machine

A Virtual Machine is configured to use an internal virtual switch but is not connected to the switch

Q:8

When the guest OS of a virtual machine requires all of the VM's memory, which of the following
formulas defines the amount of memory that will always be composed of disk pages?

A:

Memory limit – memory reservation

Memory allocated – memory limit

Memory limit – memory available

Memory allocated – memory available

Q:9

When defining a NIC team (bond) in ESX Server, it is possible to designate some of the physical NICs
that make up the bond as "standby" NICs. Which statement most accurately describes the purpose of
a standby NIC? A standby NIC:

A:

is used to implement traffic shaping for the rest of the team.

is used only in the case of the failure of other NICs in the team.
 is not used as part of the team until activated by the administrator.

is used only when network traffic exceeds the capacity of the rest of the team.

Q:10

You are running into disk contention problems on a VMFS datastore. Which two actions should you
take to solve this problem (Choose Two)?

A:

Adjust disk shares for each ESX Server accessing this datastore.

Adjust disk shares for all virtual machines accessing this datastore from the same ESX Server

Move some of the virtual machines from this VMFS datastore to another datastore on the same LUN.

Move some of the virtual machines from this VMFS datastore to another datastore on a different LUN.

Q:11

Which statement is true about Stacked Graphs?

A:

All metrics are available for Stacked graphs.

Stacked graphs and Line graphs can be seen on the same chart.

A Stacked Graph cannot chart more than one metric for an object.

Stacked graphs per virtual machines (VMs) are displayed from the VM performance tab.

Q:12

An administrator is configuring iSCSI for use with ESX 4. Which networking feature should be
configured on the ESX host to improve iSCSI performance?
A:

Jumbo Frames

NetQueue

EtherChannel

PortFast

Q:13
You have 50 virtual machines (VMs) running across 5 ESX Servers in a DRS Cluster in a Production
environment for a number of weeks. Several VMs running on one of the ESX Servers suddenly blue-
screen. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the failure?

A:

A patch recently applied to all virtual machines.

A driver recently applied to all virtual machines.

A vmkernel panic on the ESX Server hosting the failed virtual machines.

A hardware problem on the ESX Server hosting the failed virtual machines.

Q:14
When configuring ESX Server, which of the following services does not require a Service Console port
(Choose Two)?

A:

VMware HA

VMware VMotion

VMware Fault Tolerance

Software iSCSI
Q:15
An administrator finds that the Hardware Status tab is unavailable when an ESX Host is selected in
vCenter Server. Which of the following steps could be taken to investigate the issue (Choose Two)?

A:

Check the status of the CIM Data Feed in vCenter Service Status

Check the status of the vCenter Hardware Service in the Windows Services applet

Check the status of the vCenter Hardware Service in the Plug-in Manager

Check the status of the CIM Data Feed on the ESX Host

Q:16
Which of the following two statements are true regarding VMware High Availability
(Choose Two)?

A:
VMware HA will attempt to restart an individual VM that has crashed

VMware HA is a proactive solution that provides improved virtual machine utilization

VMware HA does not use VMotion

VMware HA guarantees that all VMs that were running on a failed host will be restarted on
the surviving ESX Servers in the cluster

Q:17
Which of the following is a default vCenter Server role?

A:
Datastore Consumer

Night Shift Operator

Datacenter Administrator

vCenter Administrator

Q:18
 Which of the following are valid map types that can be displayed using a vSphere Client connected to
vCenter Server (Choose Two)?

A:

Storage Maps

Network Maps

vMotion (Resource) Maps

Cluster Maps

Q:19
CPU Ready Time measures the amount of time that:

A:
an ESX server’s CPUs were idle (ready for work).

a VM was given CPU resources.

a VM was ready to run, but had to wait for CPU.

A guest OS was unable to use the CPU reservation

Q:20
A VMotion validation check will fail if the virtual machine has (Choose Two):

A:
An active connection that matches an existing port group label on the target host

Insufficient network bandwidth on the target virtual switch

Different security policies on the target virtual switch

An active connection to an internal virtual switch

Q:21

Which of the following VMware solutions provides self-service provisioning and management
capabilities to internal teams?

A:

VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager

VMware vCenter Orchestrator

VMware vCenterCapacityIQ

VMware vCenter Lab Manager

Q:22

Which of the following conditions will produce a warning message but WILL allow a VMotion migration
to proceed?

A:

A Virtual Machine has an active connection to the ESX Host's CD-ROM

A Virtual Machine has a CPU affinity set to run on a specific CPU.

A Virtual Machine is in an MSCS Cluster relationship with another virtual machine

A Virtual Machine is configured to use an internal virtual switch but is not connected to the switch

Q:23

The proportional share mechanism is invoked whenever:

A:

there is resource contention

 CPU ready time exceeds a threshold

More than 1 virtual machine is running

the sum of reservations exceeds the physical resources

Q:24
Which of the following has no effect on the amount of physical memory resources used for
virtualization overhead (Choose Two)?

A:

Installing a 64-bit versus 32-bit operating system.

Increasing the amount of RAM in the virtual machine.

Increasing the number of virtual CPUs in the virtual machine.

Increasing the memory shares for the virtual machine.

Q:25

Which of the following are virtual adapters that are only available in VMware vSphere (Choose Two)?

A:

Advanced vmxnet adapter

Flexible network adapter

Paravirtualized SCSI adapter

LSI Logic SCSI adapter

Q:26
VMware Tools should be installed on which virtual machines?

A:
 Linux

All except Linux

Windows

All

Q:27
An administrator is installing an ESX Host to boot from a SAN LUN. The storage array is an
active/passive array. After configuring the boot LUN and installing ESX, the system does not boot
properly. Which of the following could cause this issue?

A:

The LUN specified in the BIOS configuration of the HBA is passive

The Storage Processor port specified in the BIOS configuration of the HBA is passive

The Storage Processor port specified in the BIOS configuration of the HBA is active

The LUN specified in the BIOS configuration of the HBA is active

Q:28
Which two users are assigned the Administrator role at the ESX Server level by default?

A:

root, administrator

root, vpxuser

root, vpxa

root, hostd

Q:29
Which is NOT a supported database for vCenter Server?

A:

Oracle
 DB2

MySQL

SQL Server Express

Q:30

Which of the following will cause a warning to be reported by vCenter Service Status (Choose Three)?

A:

Statistics are not being rolled up correctly in the vCenter Server database

Hardware monitoring is not performing correctly

vCenter Server cannot connect to an LDAP source

The vCenter Mount Service is not responding