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Question 142
What is the maximum file size (8MB VMFS-3 block size) ?
A. 256 GB
B. 2TB
C. 1TB
D. 2TB minus 512 bytes

Answer: D

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Exam Questions

Question 200


Which of the following CHAP settings is available only on Software and Dependent Hardware iSCSI initiators?  Select 2.
A. Do not use CHAP unless required by target.
B. Use CHAP unless prohibited by target
C. Use CHAP
D. Do not use CHAP

Answer: A C

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 6
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50%2FGUID-3F97FB05-3C92-4040-84E7-D928555B3808.html table ‘chap security level’


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Question 199

What type of items can be added to a vApp?  Select 3
A. Resource Pool
B. Host
C. vApp
D. Folder
E. VM

Answer: a c e

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 10,page 527,
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-9902FD4C-4727-43F7-AEAF-901DA4CB4D60.html

Question 198
When an administrator suspects a storage contention issue, which are the most common metrics to look at?  Select 3
A. GAVG
B. COSTP
C. %RDY
D. GAVG
E. DAVG

Answer: a d e

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 6
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1008205 table ‘analyzing esxtop columns’


Question 197
What is the maximum number of snapshots that each branch in the snapshot tree can contain?
A. 16
B. 4096
C. 1024
D. 32

Answer: d

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 7
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-CA948C69-7F58-4519-AEB1-739545EA94E5.html 

Question 196
Storage DRS provides which of the following functions.  Select 2
A. Path Load Balancing
B. Automatic setting of Queue depth
C. I/O Latency Load Balancing
D. Space Utilization Load Balancing

Answer: c d

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 7
http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/storage-drs.html

Question 195
ESX 3.5 hosts can be directly upgraded to ESXi 5?
A. False
B. True

Answer:  a

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 4
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc_50/GUID-1DBA847E-5D4B-4C56-8C3E-D29042EC325B.html

Question 194
An administrator wishes to troubleshoot a VMs networking issues with esxtop.  What are the common metrics he should look at first?  Select 2
A. DRPTX
B. PCRX
C. %RDY
D. DRPRX
E. CMDs/sec
F. PCTX

Answer:  a d

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 5
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.monitoring.doc_50%2FGUID-1A8CCD57-7919-42EA-835A-F12C16E669B4.html

Question 193

What are three valid settings for HA VM Monitoring sensitivity?
A. Stopped
B. Custom
C. Disabled
D. Low
E. High

Answer: b d e

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 7,page 388-389,
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-4-esx-vcenter/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vsphere.availability.doc_41/c_createha_param_heartbeat.html

Question 192

Which types of iSCSI initiators require a virtual switch in vSphere?  Choose 2
A. Software Initiator
B. Independent Hardware Initiator
C. Dependent Hardware Initiator

Answer: a c

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 6, chapter 7
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50%2FGUID-C476065E-C02F-47FA-A5F7-3B3F2FD40EA8.html

Question 191
The startup policies for services can be defined in the Security Proflie of a host.  Which of the following are valid start profiles?  Select 3
A. Start automatically if ports are open, and stop when ports are closed
B. Start after previous, stop before previous
C. Start and stop with the host
D. Start and stop manually
E. Start when powered on, stop when powered off.

Answer: a c d

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 6, chapter 8
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.security.doc_50%2FGUID-FAAC365F-C089-4E58-A849-6AD14EBC1A70.html

Question 190

What two options are available when installing VMware Tools on a guest OS?
A. Custom
B. Interactive
C. Advanced
D. Automatic

Answer:  b d

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 6, chapter 9 - Installing VMware Tools; Page 484
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.security.doc_50%2FGUID-FAAC365F-C089-4E58-A849-6AD14EBC1A70.html

Question 189

Which DRS automation level will recommend migrations, but automatically perform initial placement?
A. Partially Automated
B. Manual
C. Partial Automation
D. Semi-Automated
E. Fully Automated

Answer: a

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 12,page 603 'reviewing partially automated behavior'
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc%2FGUID-E83A6B62-37F8-46D0-8D0A-D6A9181979F2.html
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_drs_wp.pdf

Question 188

Where do the Microsoft sysprep tools need to be installed? 
A. In the guest OS
B. On a datastore which is accessible from all hosts.
C. In a specified directory on the host
D. In a specified directory on the vCenter Server

Answer: d

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 10,page 506,paragraph 2
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1005593

Question 187

Which setting is used to determine when an upstream network failure has occured?
A. Beacon Probing
B. Upstream NIC Detection
C. Notify Switches
D. Load Balancing

Answer: a d

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 5, page 250, paragraph 2
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/virtual_networking_concepts.pdf

Question 186

What are three requirements of EVC?  Select 2
A. All hosts must be supported for FT
B. All hosts must be connected to vCenter
C. All hosts must have CPUs from a single vendor
D. All hosts must be running vSphere 4.x or higher

Answer:  b c

References:
Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 12: Ensuring vMotion Compatibility; Page 596
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc%2FGUID-FEC87C0B-7276-4152-8EAA-915305E64FED.html

Question 185

What are valid formats for exporting a vApp? Select 2
A. OVA
B. ZIP
C. OVF
D. VIB
E. TPL

Answer: a c

References: Mastering VMWare sphere 5, chapter 10; Page 523
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI501/html/Export-VApp.html
row ‘format’ in table ‘parameters’


Question 184

Which VLAN type would an administrator use if he wished to specify a range of VLANs on a port group?
A. VLAN Trunking
B. VLAN
C. Etherchannel
D. VLAN - Multiple
E. Private VLAN

Answer: a
References
1)Mastering VmWare vSphere 5, chapter 5 page 188 Creating and Configuring Virtual Networks
2)http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_vlan_wp.pdf

Question 183

What are three things that can be configured on a host using host profiles?
A. Alarms
B. Root Password
C. Date and Time
D. BIOS Settings
E. Resource Pools

Answer: b c e
References
1) Mastering VmWare vSphere 5, chapter 3 page 106 Working with Host Profiles
2) http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Host-Profiles-Tech-Overview.pdf

Question 182

Which of the following can port blocking be applied to?  Select 2
A. A portgroup on a dvSwitch
B. A standard switch
C. A port group on both a standard and a distributed virtual switch.
D. A port on a dvSwitch
E. The virtual machine

Answer: a d
References
1)Mastering VmWare vSphere 5, chapter 5 page 223 Creating and Configuring Virtual Networks 
2)http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-vnetwork-ds-migration-configuration-wp.pdf

== Question 181 ==


What is a benefit of setting a limit on a VM?
A. Allows you to simulate having fewer resources or contention
B. Allows you set the minimum amount of CPU that a VM can recieve.
C. Allows you to make use of a hosts idle resources
D. Allows you to guarantee that the VM cannot be powered of during resource contention.

Answer:  a
References
1) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-resource-management-guide.pdf , page 12 chapter 2, "Resource Allocation Limit"
2) Mastering VmWare vSphere 5, chapter 11 page 580 Configuring Storage I/O Limits


Question 180



== Question 180 ==


What are three functions that VMware Tools provide? Select 3
A. Allows pointer to move freely from console to the client OS
B. Sends heartbeats to host to indicate system is running
C. Controls RDP sessions inside of Windows OSes
D. Syncronizes Time in the guest with the host.
E. Sends CPU/Memory metrics from the OS to the Host

Answer: a b d
References
1) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vmtools.install.doc/GUID-151025AE-6641-428B-9818-5E06916543F3.html (subtopics)
2) Mastering VmWare vSphere 5, chapter 9 page 484 Managing Installing VMware Tools


Question 179

An administrator has created a scheduled task to migrate a VM from host a to host b.  Since then, another administrator has deleted this VM.  What will happen to the scheduled task?
A. The scheduled task will fail.
B. The user will be presented with an option to disable the scheduled task while deleting the VM
C. The scheduled task will be disabled, but remain inside vCenter
D. The Scheduled Task will be removed from vCenter

Answer: d
References
1)http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-59C39B6B-FD6C-4E6B-A2B3-80E7B84790DC.html
2)Mastering VmWare vSphere 5, chapter 12


== Question 178 ==


What is the minimum number of  NICs required for ESXi host that is participating in a VSA Cluster?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 6

Answer: b
References
1) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsa.doc_10/GUID-31855B3A-E36C-47D6-8436-D69C9093BE2B.html
2) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsa.doc_10%2FGUID-31855B3A-E36C-47D6-8436-D69C9093BE2B.html
3) Mastering VmWare vSphere 5, chapter 6

== Question 177 ==


Which process will remove a VMFS datastore from a host, but not affect the data residing on it?  Select 2
A. Masking
B. Deleting
C. Soft Deleting
D. Removing
E. Unmounting

Answer: a e
References
1) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50/GUID-1B56EF97-F60E-4F21-82A7-8F2A7294604D.html
2) Mastering VmWare vSphere 5, chapter 6 page 321 Managing VMFS Datastore Copies


== Question 176 ==


Which of the following files is are valid files that make up a virtual machine? Select 3
A. VM-NAME.vmtp
B. VM-NAME.vmx
C. VM-NAME.rdy
D. VM-NAME.vmsn
E. VM-NAME-flat.vmdk

Answer: b d e
References
1) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vddk.pg.doc_50%2FvddkDataStruct.5.3.html
2) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc_50/GUID-51767DC5-9A03-4B41-A385-9A11F6BD36F1.html
3) Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 9, page 460 + 462



== Question 175 ==


Which of the following is true regarding the names of VMs within vCenter?  Select 2
A. Names must be unique within the host they reside on, but two VMs on separate hosts can have the same name.
B. Names must be unique within the folders they are stored.
C. Name can be a maximum of 25 characters
D. Name can be a maximum of 80 characters
E. Name can be a maximum of 15 characters

Answer: b d
References
1) Nearest match Mastering VmWare vSphere 5, chapter 9, page 476 
2) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-virtual-machine-admin-guide.pdf page33


== Question 174 ==

Which disk type allocates and zeros out all disk space up front?
A. Thin
B. Thick Lazy Zeroed
C. Thick Eager Zeroed
D. Flat

Answer: c

References
1) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50%2FGUID-4C0F4D73-82F2-4B81-8AA7-1DD752A8A5AC.html
2) Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 6, page 336, "Creating and configuring storage devices"



== Question 173 ==


Select three of the following tasks that can be scheduled within vCenter?
A. Restart the vCenter Hardware Services
B. Snapshot a VM
C. Add a host
D. Migrate a VM
E. Edit the number of CPUs allocated to a VM

Answer:  B 
C D

1) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc_50/GUID-F9DC9B18-625E-4ACB-AA3A-17BEB109A206.html#GUID-F9DC9B18-625E-4ACB-AA3A-17BEB109A206
2) Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 3, page 101, "Using scheduled tasks"



== Question 172 ==


Which storage metric will display the number of commands in the vmkernel that are currently being queued?

A - QUED
B - CMD/s
C - QUDP
D - %QDEPTH
E - KAVG

Answer: A

References
1)http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.monitoring.doc_50/GUID-A27C3166-DBD1-4E0B-917B-67EF56864F9B.html
2) Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 6, page 292, info box



== Question 171 ==


The ability to select a preferred path exists on which path selection policy?

A - Fixed
B - Round Robin
C - Most Recently Used
D - Only when using VAAI

Answer: A

References
1)http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50/GUID-37F97D1C-4E4F-460B-ACF9-04D1347959CC.html
2) Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 6, page 289, paragraph 1



== Question 170 ==


Which of the following are valid VM restart priorities?  Select 2

A - Disabled
B - Start and stop with the host
C - Power Off
D - Leave Powered On
E - High

Answer: A E

References
1)http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc_50/GUID-FA8B166D-A5F5-47D3-840E-68996507A95B.html
2) Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 7, page 382, paragraph 3


Question 169

An administrator is finding that listing his active directory users inside of vCenter is taking a long time due to the amount of users available.  Which setting should he use in order to solve the issue?
A. Enable vCenter AD Validation Limit
B. Point vCenter to pull from an OU instead of the root level of AD
C. Enable the query limit and increase the users & groups option
D. Enable the query limit and decrease the users & groups option

Answer: D

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc_50%2FGUID-C1AA4248-F3F6-4DAE-BEEC-C33D2CD59146.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 8, page 439-441.

Question 168

The default PSP for most active/passive arrays is what?
A. Most Recently Used
B. Round Robin
C. Fixed
D. Route based on Virtual Port ID

Answer: A

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50%2FGUID-9DED1F73-7375-4957-BF69-41B56C3E5224.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 6.

Question 167

Which of the following are NOT features of VM hardware version 8? Select 2
A. Ability to have 32 vCPUs per VM
B. A new paravirtualized network adapter called vmxnet3.
C. Ability to have up to 255 GB of RAM per VM
D. Support for USB3
E. Support for 3D graphics and HD Audio

Answer:  B C

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-68E5EDAE-66DE-43F8-9420-F424AFEADB1D.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 4.

Question 166

Which networking secuirty policy will block or allow traffic destined to a VM that has had it's effective MAC address changed?
A. Beacon Probing
B. Promiscuous Mode
C. Forged Transmits
D. MAC Spoof Blocking
E. MAC Address Changes

Answer: E

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.security.doc_50%2FGUID-942BD3AA-731B-4A05-8196-66F2B4BF1ACB.html&resultof=%22%4d%41%43%22%20%22%6d%61%63%22%20%22%41%64%64%72%65%73%73%22%20%22%61%64%64%72%65%73%73%22%20%22%43%68%61%6e%67%65%73%22%20%22%63%68%61%6e%67%22%20
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 5, page 248-251.

Question 165

Question 165

An administrator wishes to convert a thin provisioned disk to thick.  What are two ways they can accomplish this task?
A. Right click the VM, Edit Settings, and select Change Type.
B. Storage vMotion the VM and select thick as a disk type
C. Browse to the vmdk in the datastore browser, right click and select Inflate.
D. Select Expand Disk from the VMware Tools inside the OS.

Answer: B C

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-46EA4EA8-50FE-4F6E-B972-8B5B0CB18F69.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 12.

Question 164

An administrator would like to specify what hardware version the VM should have during provisioning.  Which provisioning option should he chose?
A. Custom
B. Customize based on a previously defined customization package
C. Advanced
D. Customize
E. Typical

Answer: A

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-85571E10-B31C-44F3-9339-C48E5DFCDA3B.html&resultof=%22%70%72%6f%76%69%73%69%6f%6e%69%6e%67%22%20%22%70%72%6f%76%69%73%22%20%22%6f%70%74%69%6f%6e%22%20%22%43%75%73%74%6f%6d%22%20%22%63%75%73%74%6f%6d%22%20
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 4.

Question 163

Which of the following are valid actions when creating an alarm on a host?  Select 3
A. Reset Host
B. Rescan Storage Adapters
C. Enter Maintenance Mode
D. Reboot
E. Enter Standby

Answer: C D E

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-46EA4EA8-50FE-4F6E-B972-8B5B0CB18F69.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 13, Using Alarms.

Question 162

Which of the following are valid choices for a SCSI Controler type?  Select 3
A. VMware Paravirtual
B. LSI Logic SAS
C. LSI Logic Parallel
D. BusLogic SAS
E. Enhanced vmxnet

Answer: A B C

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-46EA4EA8-50FE-4F6E-B972-8B5B0CB18F69.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 9.

Question 161 (was 39)

The burst size option within traffic shaping allows an administrator to define the maximum amount of data included in a burst.  What units is this setting measured in?
A. kilobits/second
B. megabits/second
C. Kilobytes
D. Megabytes
E. kilobytes/second

Answer: C

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-46EA4EA8-50FE-4F6E-B972-8B5B0CB18F69.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 5.

Question 160 (was 40)

What is true regarding the  Testing FT failover function?  Select 2
A. The secondary machine will become the new primary, the old primary is then removed
B. The primary is unaffected during this test.
C. A new secondary machine will spawn up and sync up with the new primary.
D. The current secondary VM is destroyed and a new one is restarted

Answer: A C

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-46EA4EA8-50FE-4F6E-B972-8B5B0CB18F69.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 7, Implementing vSphere Fault Tolerance

Question 159(was 41)

Additional supported rulesets can be added to the ESXi firewall by adding the configuration file into /etc/vmware/  What is the extension used for these configuration files?
A. xml
B. zip
C. vib
D. conf

Answer: C

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-46EA4EA8-50FE-4F6E-B972-8B5B0CB18F69.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 2.

Question 158

An administrator would like to install a patch on a running VM containing a 3TB RDM in physical compatability mode.  The VM resides in an HA cluster, but HA is specifically turned off on this VM.  The VM is setup to use vSwitch0, but not currently connected, and as setup to use DirectPath.  Which of the following will prevent the administrator from taking a snapshot.  Select 2
A. Snapshots are supported on physical compatability mode RDMs, but not on those that are greater than 2TB in size.
B. Snapshots are not supported unless the VM is connected to a vSwitch with a vmkernel setup with the snapshot option.
C. Snapshots are not supported on VMs with HA disabled.
D. Snapshots are not supported with RDMs in Physical Compatability mode.
E. Snapshots are not supported when VMs are utilizing directPath I/O.

Answer: D E

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-46EA4EA8-50FE-4F6E-B972-8B5B0CB18F69.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 9, Using Virtual Machine Snapshots.

Question 157

Which of the following is only available within vSphere Enterprise Plus lisensing?  Select 3
A. Storage vMotion
B. Distributed Power Management
C. Distributed Virtual Switches
D. Host Profiles
E. vSphere Auto Deploy

Answer:  C D E

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-46EA4EA8-50FE-4F6E-B972-8B5B0CB18F69.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 7.

Question 156

VMware vCenter Server is lisensed in which way?
A. Per Server
B. Per Socket
C. Per Core

Answer: A

References
1 VMWare:http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_legacy_host_lic.pdf page:2.
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 7, page 394.

Question 155

Which of the following are required in order to use Fault Tolerance?  Select 3
A. Host Certificate checking must be enabled.
B. DRS must be configured on the cluster.
C. HA must be enabled on the cluster.
D. Hosts need access to the same storage
E. Host must have dedicated partition for FT logging.

Answer: A C D

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-46EA4EA8-50FE-4F6E-B972-8B5B0CB18F69.html
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 7, page 394.

Question 154

Which of the following plugins are included on the vCenter installation, but not installed by default?
A. vCenter Storage Monitoring
B. vSphere Update Manager
C. vShielld Zones
D. vCenter Orchestrator
E. vCenter Service Status

Answer: B C D

References
1 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 1, page 29
2 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsp40u1/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#context=install&file=esx_installation.1.1.html

Question 153

What are the total usable ports on a VSS?
A. 4088
B. 255
C. 1 per VM
D. 256
E. 4096

Answer: A

References
1 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 5, page 217
2 Configuration Maximums.pdf page 5
  http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf

Question 152

Which situations would most likely result in an administrator having to perform a manual scan on his ESXi hosts?  Select 3
A. Zoning a new disk array on a SAN
B. Creating new LUNS on a SAN
C. Increasing the size of an existing VMFS datastore.
D. Changing and CHAP Settings (iSCSI)
E. After you have created a new VMFS datastore.

Answer: A B D

References
1 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 5, page 277
2 ESXi Configuration Guide.pdf, page 64
  http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_esxi_server_config.pdf

Question 151

Which of the following is true about Traffic Shaping in vSphere?
A. Traffic Shaping is available ingress only on both the VSS and the dvSwitch
B. Trafic Shaping is available in egress only on both the VSS and the dvSwitch
C. Traffic Shaping is available on a VSS (ingress) and a dvSwtich (ingress and egress)
D. Traffic Shaping is available only on dvSwitches
E. Traffic shaping is available in a VSS (egress) and a dvSwtich (egress and ingress)

Answer: E

References
1 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 5, page 277
2 VMware® vNetwork Distributed Switch:Migration and Con�guration.pdf, page 4
  http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-vnetwork-ds-migration-configuration-wp.pdf

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Question 150

Which of the following formulas defines the amount of virtual machine memory that will always be composed of disk pages?

A. memory limit-(minus) memory reservation
B. memory limit-(minus) memory available
C. memory allocated-(minus) memory available
D. memory allocated- (minus) memory limit

Answer: D

References
1 VMware:Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware vSphere® 5.0.pdf;Page 16
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 11, page 844.
 
Question 149
Your manager has requested that you look for ways to ensure that your storage is utilized evenly. Which feature of vSphere 5 would help achieve this request?

A. sDRS
B. profile driven storage
C. VAAI
D. thin provisioning

Answer: A
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsphere-storage-drs-interoperability.pdf s3
Alt: Chapter 12 - Balancing Resource Utilization: Introducing and working with Storage DRS. Page 614.

 
Question 148
An administrator finds that vMotion and storage vMotion operations do not succeed on a virtual machine. The virtual machine has been configured with N_Port ID virtualization. The virtual machine has two data RDMs, one using a RAID 5 LUN on using a RAID0+1 LUN. The mapping file for RAID 5 LUN was created on the same datastore as the virtual machine, and the mapping file for the RAID0+1LUN was placed in a datastore used for production data virtual disks.Which two statements are true about this configuration? Choose two

A. vMotion cannot be used unless boot mapping files are placed on the same datastore
B. storage vMotion cannot be used unless both mapping files are placed on the same datastore
C. storage vMotion cannot be used with NPIV D. vMotion cannot be used with NPIV

Answer: A,C
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx25_rawdevicemapping.pdf
Alt: Chapter 7 - Ensuring High Availability and Business Continuity : Reviewing VM Clustering Configurations.
 
Question 147
What is the maximum VMFS-3 block size?
A. 1MB
B. 2MB
C. 4MB
D. 8MB 

Answer: D
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf Page 4, Table 4
Alt: Chapter 6 - Creating and configuring storage devices: Examining the vSphere virtual machine file system. Page 286.

Question 146
What are the three default roles provided on an ESXi host?
A. read only, operator access and administrator
B. virtual machine user, virtual machine power user and administrator
C. network consumer, datastore consumer and resource pool administrator
D. no access, read only and administrator

Answer: D
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_vc_roles.pdf
Alt: Chapter 8 - Securing VMware vSphere : Reviewing vCenter Server’s Roles.
 
Question 145
An iSCSI array is being added to a vSphere5 implementation. An administrator wants to verify that all IP storage VMkernel interfaces are configured for jumbo frames.What are two methods to verify the configuration? Choose two
A. run the esxcli network IP interface list command
B. run the esxcfg-vsvif-1command
C. view the VMkernel interface properties in the vSphere client
D. view the network adapter properties in the vSphere client

Answer: B, C
Ref: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007654
Alt: Chapter 6 - Creating and Configuring Storage Devices.
 
Question 144
What is the size of a virtual machine .vswp file if defaults are accepted for the virtual machine reservations, limits, and shares?
A. the virtual machine .vswp file is equal to twice the amount of available memory configured for the virtual machine whrn it was created
B. the virtual machine .vswp file is equal to the amount of virtual memory (virtual machine) available memory, plus virtual machine overhead the virtual machine when it was creasted
C. the virtual machine .vswp file is equal to zero length when the virtual is created and expands as necessary
D. the virtual machine .vswp file is equal to the amount of available memory configured for the virtual machine when it was created

Answer: D
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/mem_mgmt_perf_vsphere5.pdf
Alt: Chapter 11 - Managing Resource Allocation : Using Memory Reservations.

Question 143
What is the maximum VUM host scans in a single vCenter server?
A. 1000
B. 512
C. 256
D. 128

Answer: A
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf , table 11.
Alt: Chapter 4 Installing and Configuring vSphere Update Manager

 
Question 142
What is the maximum file size (8MB VMFS-3 block size) ?
A. 256 GB
B. 2TB
C. 1TB
D. 2TB minus 512 bytes

Answer: D
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf Page 4, Table 4
Alt: Chapter 6 - Creating and configuring storage devices: Examining the vSphere virtual machine file system. Page 285.

Question 141
The organization you work for is currently running vSphere 4.1 U1. Your team have just created a new Test/Dev environment based on vSphere 5. The VM management team have asked if you could combine the curret 4.1 U1 environment and 5.0 vCenters with Linked-Mode. What is the correct response to the VM management team?
A. additional licensing is required to use Linked-Mode B. only vCenter administrators can use Linked-Mode C. No problem
D. vCenter 4.1 and vCenter cannot be joined with Linked-Mode

Answer: D
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vCenter-Server-50-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf s9
Alt: Chapter 3 - Installing and Configuring vCenter Server : Installing vCenter Server in a Linked Mode Group. Page 81.


Question 140
What is the maximum nx_nic 10GB Ethernet ports (NetXen) per host?
A. 2
B. 8
C. 24
D. 32

Answer: C
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf Page 6.
Alt: Chapter 5 - Creating and Configuring Virtual Networks.

 
Question 139
Which three features are only available when using a vNetwork distributed virtual switch? Choose three
A. NetFlow monitoring
B. 802 3ad link aggregation
C. network I/O control
D. egress traffic shaping

Answer: A,C,D
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-50-Networking-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf
Alt: Chapter 5 - Creating and Configuring Virtual Networks : Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch. Page 210 and 221
 
Question 138
You have just had a new storage array installed and you are asked by your VMware admin, what is the correct MMP to use? Where would you find out the recommended MPP?
A. VMware HCl
B. ask the guy installing it
C. let cSphere decide
D. VMware compatibility matrix

Answer: A
Ref:http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Storage-Appliance-Evaluation-Guide.pdf
Alt:Chapter 6 - Creating and Configuring Storage Devices : Understanding MPP Modules. Page 291

 
Question 137
VMware vSphere can be evaluated prior to purchase. What is the maximum number of days the evaluation can be used before a license must be purchased?
A. 30 days
B. 90 days
C. 120 days
D. 60 days

Answer: D
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Evaluation-Guide-1.pdf page 6.
Alt: Chapter 3 - Installing and Configuring vCenter Server
 
Question 136
What is the maximum virtual machine disk size?
A. 2TB minus 512B
B. 256GB
C. 1TB
D. 2TB

Answer: A
Ref: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf table 1.
Alt: Chapter 9 - Creating and Managing Virtual Machines : Size Limits for Virtual Hard Drives.

 

Question 135

Finance /Summary\ -Tab

Memory  
Shares: Normal(163840)
Reservation: 0 MB
Type: Expandable
Limit: Unlimited
Unreserved: 3009 MB
Assuming that this is the only virtual machine and the only resource pool, what is the maximum amount of memory that can be configured for use by the virtual machine that is part of the finance
resource pool?
A. 16,384 MB, less virtual machine overhead
B. 57 MB less virtual machine overhead
C. 3,009 MB, less virtual machine overhead
D. 13, 375 MB, less virtual machine overhead

Answer: C
 
Question 134
You’re new storage array supports vSphere storage APIs-Storage awareness. You are keen to manage storage placement by using virtual machine profiles. Which of the following is the correct set of tasks required to enable this?
A. a) Create user-defined storage capabilities b)Associate user-defined storage capabilities with datastores c) Create virtual machine storage profile e) Associate a virtual machine
B. a) Create virtual machine storage profile b) Enable virtual machine storage profiles for a host or cluster c) Create user-defined storage capabilities with datastores e) Associate a virtual machi
C. a) Enable virtual machine storage profiles for a host or cluster b) Create virtual machine storage profile c) Create user-defined storage capabilities d) Associate a virtual machine storage profile with the virtual machine files or virtual disks

Answer: A

Lowe: chapter 6 page 299
VMware: vSphere 5 Documentation Center

Question 133 An administrator plans to use an upgrade script to upgrade a number of ESXi hosts. Which two settings are requirements for the kick start file? Choose two A. keyboard layout B. root password C. install location D. IP address

Answer: B,C

Lowe: Chapter 2 - Planning and installing VMware ESXi page 35-37

VMware: vSphere 5 installation guide page 56 or 116

Question 141 The organization you work for is currently running vSphere 4.1 U1. Your team have just created a new Test/Dev environment based on vSphere 5. The VM management team have asked if you could combine the curret 4.1 U1 environment and 5.0 vCenters with Linked-Mode. What is the correct response to the VM management team? A. additional licensing is required to use Linked-Mode B. only vCenter administrators can use Linked-Mode C. No problem D. vCenter 4.1 and vCenter cannot be joined with Linked-Mode

Answer: D

Question 131 What is the maximum e1000 1GB Ethernet ports (Intel PCI-x) per host? A. 32 B. 24 C. 16 D. 8

Answer: A

Lowe: Chapter 5 - Creating and configuring virtual networks; Page 178

VMware: [http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf Configuration Maximums VMware® vSphere 5.0 Page 5]

Question 130
Which predefined vCenter service role can perform tasks on ESXi host objects?
A. datastore consumer
B. datacenter administrator
C. resource pool administrator
D. administrator

Answer: D

Lowe: Chapter 8 - Securing VMware vPshere; Page 423
VMware: Default Roles for ESXi and vCenter Server
 
Question 129 "needs picture of Cluster settings - vSphere DRS tab with manual checked!"
An administrator is applying patches to a batch of ESX1 5.x hosts in an under-allocated HA/DRS
cluster. An attempt is made to place the host into maintenance mode, but the progress has stalled at
2%. DRS are configured as shown in the exhibit. Of the four choices below, two would effectively resolve this issue.Which two steps could be taken to correct the problem? Choose two
A. manually migrates any running virtual machines to another host
B. set the cluster to fully automated
C. disable HA monitoring to allow maintenance mode to proceed
D. set the cluster migration threshold to aggressive

Answer: A, B

Lowe: Chapter 12 - Balancing resources utilization page 602
VMware: Knowledge Base

Question 128 What is the maximum Broadcom 10Gb iSCSI HBA initiator ports per server? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

Answer: D

Lowe: Chapter 5 - Creating and configuring virtual networks Page 178

VMware: Configuration Maximums page 3

Question 127

What is the maximum ixgbe 10Gb Ethernet ports(Intel) per host? A. 8 B. 2 C. 4 D. 32

Answer: A

Lowe: Chapter 5 -

VMware: Configuration Maximums page 5

Question 126 What is the maximum virtual machines connect to vCenter orchestrator? A. 10000 B. 15000 C. 30000 D. 20000

Answer: B

Lowe: Chapter 14

VMware: Configuration Maximums page 8


Question 125 What are the two valid default upgrade baselines included with vSphere Update manager? A. VMFS upgrade to match host B. VMware tools upgrade to match host C. VA upgrade to latest D. host upgrade to latest

Answer: B,C Chapter 4, Page 136

VMware: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_vum_40_admin_guide.pdf page.18


Question 124 What is the maximum virtual machines per host? A. 265 B. 512 C. 128 D.1024

Answer: B Chapter 1, page 14

VMware: VMware vSphere 5 Maximums

Question 123 How has vMotion been improved in vSphere 5? A. long distance vMotion, allowing for vMotions over a large geographical area B. Multi platform vMotion, allowing for vMotions between vSphere and hyper-V platforms C. Storage vMotion, allowing for virtual machines storage to be moved between datastores D. multiple vMotion vmknicks, allowing for more and faster vmotion operations

Answer: D

VMware: VMware vSphere 5 performance
 

Question 122 An administrator is attempting to deploy a virtual machine from an existing template, but deploy Virtual Machine from this template menu option is unavailable. What are the two reasons this issue would occur? Choose two A. the template has not been stored in the proper format B. the vsphere client is connected to an ESXi host C. the template is listed as orphaned D. the administrator is using the vsphere web client

Answer: A,B Chapter 10, Page 517-

VMware: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-9062F225-E01B-42BA-8AFB-8EA4069068FE.html

Question 121 A vNetwork Standard Switch has been configured for IP based load balancing uplinks. A new uplink is added to the switch.How will the additional uplink be configured by default? A. the uplink is placed in standby mode until it is added to the active NIC team B. the uplink is considered active, active but it will not participate in the active NIC team C. the uplink automatically becomes a part of the IP-based NIC team D. the uplink is marked as unused until it is added to the active NIC team Chapter 5, page 198 Answer: C

VMware: VMware vSphere 5 networking

==Question 120== <pre>

What is the maximum failover as percentage of cluster? A. 100% B. 50% C. 64% D. 80%

Answer: A

Lowe: Chapter 7 page 378

VMware: Configuration Maximums page 6

Question 119

What is an HA slot? A. a slot is a given to each host in an HA cluster, there is a maximum of 32 in an HA cluster B. a slot is given to each virtual machine, this determines the restart priority C. a slot has nothing to do with HA, its how DRS calculates which virtual machine should be placed where D. a slot is a logical representation of the memory and CPU resources that satisfy the requirements for any powered-on virtual machine in the cluster

Answer: D

Lowe: Chapter 7 page 381 VMware: https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_availability.pdf


Question 118

Under which two situations does the dead space reclamation feature VAAI thin provisioning offer the ability to reclaim blocks of a thin provisional LUN on an array? Choose two A. when a virtual machine is migrated to a different datastore B. when a guest OS files in a virtual disk are deleted C. when a virtual machine is migrated to a different host D. when a virtual disk is deleted

Answer: A, D

Book (Lowe): Chapter 6 - VMware: http://www.vmware.com/technical-resources/virtualization-topics/virtual-storage/storage-apis.html

Question 117 What is the maximum number of paths to FC LUN? A. 10 B. 64 C. 32 D. 62

Answer: C

Book (Lowe): Chapter 6 - VMware: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_301_201_config_max.pdf

Question 116 What are the three host isolation response options available on a HA cluster? A. shut down. Restart, power on B. shut down, restart, leave powered on C. shut down, power off, leave powered off D. shut down, power off, leave powered on

Answer: D

Book (Lowe): Chapter 7 - Implementing vSphere High Availability; Page 384 VMware: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_ha_wp.pdf

Question 115 What is the maximum Broadcom 10Gb iSCSI: dynamic targets per adapter port? A. 62 B. 32 C. 64 D. 128

Answer: D

Book (Lowe): Chapter 6 - VMware: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf

Question 114 What is the maximum file size (4MB VMFS-3 block size)? A. 256GB B. 512GB C. 1TB D. 2TB minus 512 bytes

Answer: C

Book (Lowe): Chapter 6 - Implementing vSphere Storage Fundamentals; Page 286 VMware: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003565

Question 113 After an upgrade from ESX4.x to ESX5.x you notice that when you run the following command via the vMA: “esxcfg-vswif-I” you notice that there are no configure vswif interfaces listed. Why would this be? A. the service console is no longer available with vSphere 5. All vswif interfaces are removed during the upgrade B. during the upgrade process, vswif interfaces are disable by default, they’ll need to be enable before they will be listed C. the wrong command is being used. “vicfg-vswif-I” is the correct command to display all vswif interfaces D. during the upgrade process all vswif interfaces are migrated to vmk interfaces

Answer: D

Book (Lowe): Chapter 4 - Upgrading Hosts with vSphere Update Manager; VMware: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc_50%2FGUID-F2B101A9-1D02-4E79-ADD7-D66444E82341.html

Question 112 By deafault, where do hosts deployed with VMware Auto Deploy store logs A. first mounted LUN B. local disk C. vMA D. in memory

Answer: D

Book (Lowe): Chapter 2 - Deploying VMware ESXi; VMware: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-51-Platform-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf

Question 111 A memory reservation defines: A. the amount of virtual machine memory that can be paged to the VMkernel swapfiel B. the maximum amount of physical memory that will be used by a VM C. the amount of host memory reservedfor the VMkernel D. the amount of physical memory that is guaranteed to the VM

Answer: D

Book (Lowe): Chapter 11 - Working with Virtual Machine Memory; Page 544 VMware: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere4.0.pdf

Question 110 Which tool defines the image profiles used with auto deploy? A. the vSphere client via the image profiles management plug-in B. the vSphere power CLI image builder cmdlet C. the vSphere CLI esxcfg-image utility D. the vSphere CLI esxcli image add command

Answer: B

Book (Lowe): Chapter 2 - Deploying VMware ESXi; Page 43 VMware: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-50-Platform-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf

Filed Under (Uncategorized) by admin No Comments Read more December 04 2011 Question 109

What is the maximum VMFS-5 RDM size (physical compatibility)? A. 2TB minus 512 bytes B. 64TB C. 1TB D. 2TB

Answer: B

Book (Lowe): Chapter 6 - VMware: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003565

Question 108 Which two methods can be used to migrate a virtual machine from a vNetwork Standard to a vNetwork Distributed Switch? Choose two A. Edit the virtual adapter settings for the ESXi host and select a dvPort group from the list B. Migrate the port group containing the virtual machine from a vNetwork Standard Switch using the Migrate Virtual machine networking option C. Use the Migrate Virtual machine networking option to select the virtual machine from a list of virtual machines D. Edit the Network Adapter settings for the virtual machine and select a dvPort group from the list

Answer: B,D

Book (Lowe): Chapter 5 - Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch; VMware: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-vnetwork-ds-migration-configuration-wp.pdf

Question 107 What is the maximum e1000e 1Gb Ethernet ports (Intel PCI-e) per host? A. 24 B. 32 C. 16 D. 8

Answer: A

Book (Lowe): Chapter 5 - VMware: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf

Question 106 What is the maximum VMFS volumes per host? A. 128 B. 256 C. 512 D. 64

Answer: B

Book (Lowe): Chapter 6 - Implementing vSphere Storage Fundamentals; VMware: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf

Question 105

what is the maximum active ports per host(VSS and VDS ports)?
A. 4096
B. 1016
C. 4088
D. 5000

Answer: B

Book (Lowe): Chapter 5 - Working with vSphere Standard Switches; Page 208 (Table 5.1)
VMware: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf

Question 104
What is the maximum virtual machines hardware scans per host?
A. 70
B. 24
C. 40
D. 90

Answer: D

VMware: Configuration maximums page 8

Question 103 What is the maximum total virtual network switch ports per host (VSS and VDS ports)? A. 4088 B. 4096 C. 1016 D. 5000

Answer: B

VMware: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf

Question 102 An administrato has been tasked with creating a vSphere Standard Switch (vSS) for an ESXi host with the following specifications:

  1. 116 virtual machines will be connected to the switch
  2. The switch wall have four uplinks configured for port-based load balancing
  3. The switch will act as a secondary heartbeat network for HA

Which two statements are true about this configuration? (Choose two) A. The configuration requires a Service Console Port B. The configuration requires a VMkernel port C. A vSS created with default settings in the vSphere Client is insufficient for this configuration D. A vSS created with 128 ports using the vSphere CLI is sufficient for this configuration

Answer: B,C

References: Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 5, page 228 and 244.

Question 101 What is the maximum Floppy devices per virtual machine? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

Answer: B

References: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_config_max.pdf, Table 1, row "Number of floppy devices per virtual machine"


Question 100
What is the maximum FC LUNs size?
A. 1TB
B. 2TB
C. 2TB minus 512k
D. 64TB

Answer: D

References
1 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 6, page 349
2 Configuration Maximums.pdf, page 4
  http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf

Question 99
What is the maximum virtual machines per cluster?
A. 1000
B. 512
C. 3000
D. 1024

Answer: C

References
1 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 1, page 37
2 Configuration Maximums.pdf, page 5
  http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf

Question 98
What is the maximum Floppy controllers per virtual machine?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 3

Answer: A

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc_50%2Fvim.vm.device.VirtualSIOControllerOption.html&resultof=%22%6d%61%78%69%6d%75%6d%22%20%22%46%6c%6f%70%70%79%22%20%22%66%6c%6f%70%70%69%22%20%22%63%6f%6e%74%72%6f%6c%6c%65%72%73%22%20%22%63%6f%6e%74%72%6f%6c%22%20.
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 9, page 459.

Question 97
Which vSwitch port group policy setting allows packets to be created by a virtual machine with different source MAC addresses MAC address?
A. Promiscuous mode
B. Traffic shaping
C. Forged transmits
D. MAC address changes

Answer: C

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.security.doc_50%2FGUID-7DC6486F-5400-44DF-8A62-6273798A2F80.html.
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 8, page 454.

Question 96
Which three modules are optional components that can be added from the vCenter server installer? (Choose three)
A. VMware vCenter ESXi Dump Collector
B. VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring
C. VMware vSphereWeb Client
D. VMware vCenter Orchestrator
E. VMware vSphere Update Manager

Answer: A,C,E

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50%2FGUID-78933728-7F02-43AF-ABD8-0BDCE10418A6.html&resultof=%22%6f%70%74%69%6f%6e%61%6c%22%20%22%6f%70%74%69%6f%6e%22%20%22%63%6f%6d%70%6f%6e%65%6e%74%73%22%20%22%63%6f%6d%70%6f%6e%22%20%22%76%43%65%6e%74%65%72%22%20%22%76%63%65%6e%74%65%72%22%20%22%73%65%72%76%65%72%22%20.
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 3, page 76.

Question 95
An administrator must decommission on a datastore.Before unmounting the datastore, which three requirements must be fulfilled? (Choose three)
A. No virtual machines reside on the datastore
B. The datastore is not used for vSphere HA heartbeat
C. The datastore must not have any contents
D. The datastore must not be a part of a datastore cluster.

Answer: A,B,D

References
1 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50%2FGUID-1B56EF97-F60E-4F21-82A7-8F2A7294604D.html&resultof=%22%75%6e%6d%6f%75%6e%74%69%6e%67%22%20%22%75%6e%6d%6f%75%6e%74%22%20%22%64%61%74%61%73%74%6f%72%65%22%20%22%64%61%74%61%73%74%6f%72%22%20.
2 Mastering VMWare vSphere 5, chapter 11, page 575-577.

Question 94
Where the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance manager (VSA manager) must be installed in a vSphere 5 environment?
A. On a standalone Windows machine
B. The Vsa manager is installed as a separate virtual appliance
C. On the vCenter Server System
D. On the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance

Answer: C

 Lowe: 
 VMWare: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp (Install VSA Manager)

Question 93
An administrator has deployed vCenter Data Recovery and needs to create a de-duplication. Which three storage options can be used? (Choose three)
A. 1TB Raw Device Mapped disk
B. 1TB virtual disk
C. 1TB CIFS network share
D. 500GB CIFS network share
E. 2TB Raw Device Mapped disk

Answer: B,C,D (Answer is A,B,D)

 Lowe:   chapter 7, page 403, Implementing VMware Data Recovery. (closest match)
 VMWare: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp (Deduplication Store Benefits)


Question 92
An administrator receives a call indicating users reported extremely slow access to virtual machines the previous evening. Access to virtual machines performs as expected as checked by the administrator. Over the course of several days, the administrator continues to receive calls about the issue, which appears to occur at intermittent times each evening.Which step can be taken to collect information about the issue?
A. Create a condition alarm to alert when Datastore Disk Usage (*) exceeds 70%
B. Collect resxtop performance data in batch mode and analyze total number of I/O operations
(CMDS/s) metrics.
C. Create an event alarm to alert when a storage device is disconnected.
D. Collect resxtop performance data in batch mode and analyze average device latency (DAVG/cm-d)
metrics

Answer: D

Lowe: Monitoring VMware vSphere Performance; Page 631
VMWare: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-501-monitoring-performance-guide.pdf (Page 43 Performance Monitoring Utilities: resextop and exstop)


Question 91
What is the maximum amount of virtual CPU’s per Fault Tolerance protected virtual machine?
A. 1
B. 4
C. 8
D. 32

Answer: A

Referances:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf Page 3, table 2.

Question 90

What is the maximum non-vMotion provisioning operations per host?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 10

Answer: C

- VMWare:vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf; page 4

Question 89
Which two users are assigned the Administrator role at the ESX Server level by default?
A. root, administrator
B. root, vpxa
C. root, hostd
D. root, vpxuser

Answer: D

- Lowe: Chapter 8 - Securing VMware vSphere; Page 537 (paragraph 3)
- VMWare: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-security-guide.pdf; Page 46 (paragraph 3)

Question 88
The information shown in the exhibit must be configured to support which cluster feature?
A. HA
B. DPM
C. DRS
D. EVC

Answer: A (Answer is B: DPM)

To be able to asnwer there should be a picure?

Lowe: No match
VMWare: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-resource-management-guide.pdf (page 67, Managing Power Resources)

Question 87
What is the maximum vCenter servers systems connected to a vCenter Orchestrator?
A. 10
B. 100
C. 8
D. 12

Answer: A

Lowe: No match(Chapter 3 Installing and configuring vCenter server; page 55, Chapter 14 Automating VMWare vSphere, Using workflows with vCenter Orchestrator; page 668)
VMWare:vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf; page 8

Question 86
What is the maximum FC LUN IDs?
A. 128
B. 256
C. 255
D. 512

Answer: C

Lowe: Chapter 6 Creating and Configuring Storage Devices; Page 252(Closest match)
VMWare:vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf; page 3

Question 85

4:15:30pm up 12:43, 200 worlds, 8 VMs, 16vCPUs; CPU load avarage 1.07, 1.10, 1.09
PCPU USED(%):  94  94  93  93  92  86  90  89 AVG:  91
PCPU UTIL(%):  93  93  93  93  93  87  89  89 AVG:  91

    ID     GID   LWID NAME            NWLD  %USED   %RUN   %SYS   %WAIT %VMWAIT   %RDY   %IDLE  %OVRLP  %CSTP %MLMTD %SWPWT
  30172  30172  40901 dsaojose-vma50     5   0.58   0.52   0.06  497.01    0.15   3.63   96.71    0.01   0.00   0.00   0.00
  31109  31109  42222 Dev_App_01         5  60.98  60.30   0.04  395.71    0.00  44.19    0.00    0.08   0.00   0.00   0.00
  31112  31112  42228 Dev_SQL_01         5  62.93  63.58   0.02  398.20    0.00  38.52    0.00    0.08   0.00   0.00   0.00
  31115  31115  42234 DEv_Web_01         5  67.16  66.76   0.02  398.02    0.00  35.66    0.00    0.10   0.00   0.00   0.00
  31275  31275  42457 FileServer01      12 470.63 471.52   0.05  608.00  210.90 113.49    0.00    1.00   9.28   0.00   0.74
  31281  31281  42491 jonathanm-SQL20    5   1.83   1.79   0.05  495.49    0.00   3.86   95.39    0.01   0.00   0.00   0.00
  31886  31886  43286 victim-001         5  60.60  60.34   0.01  393.30    0.00  46.82    0.00    0.08   0.00   0.00   0.00
ACME catering Services is using ''esx top'' to troubleshoot a problem with one of their ESXi hosts. Host disconnection from 
vCenter server as well as sluggish perform when performing tasks on the host have been observed.Based on the output in
the exhibit, what three corrective
actions can be taken to resolve the issue?(Choose three)
A. Increase the CPU Reservation on file server01
B. Decrease the number of vCPUs in use on this host
C. Migrate the File Server00 virtual machine to another host
D. Increase the number of Physical CPUs in the host
E. Increase the amount of RAM in the host because swapping is occuring

Answer: A,C,E
(No references)!!!
Lowe: 
VMWare: 

Question 84
What do changes made to resources available in a parent pool affect in a resource pool hierarchy?
A. Child pools
B. Sibling pools
C. Sibling and child pools
D. Root resource pools

Answer: C

Lowe: Chapter 11 Managing Resource Allocation, Using Resource Pools; Page 559-566
VMWare: Page 45 from vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-resource-management-guide.pdf

Question 83
What is the maximum distributed switches (VDS) per vCenter?
A. 32
B. 24
C. 256
D. 8

Answer: A

Lowe: Chapter 8 Securing VMWare vSphere; Page 448 vSphere Distributed switch (Closest match)
VMWare: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf (page 5, table 5)

Question 82
VMware vCenter site Recovery Manager requires which two VMware products as part of the solution?
A. vSphere HA
B. VMware ESXi
C. VMware vCenter Server
D. VMware Data Recovery

Answer: B,C

Lowe: Chapter 7 Ensuring high availability and buisness continuity; Page 405( The book tells you to visit www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/ for info about SRM)
VMWare: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-virtual-machine-admin-guide.pdf (page 203, Monitoring Solutions with the vCenter Solutions Manager)

Question 81
What is the maximum virtual disks per host?
A. 128
B. 1024
C. 2048
D. 512

Answer: C

Lowe: Chapter 6 Creating and Configuring Storage Devices; Page 252(Closest match)
VMWare: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf (page 3, table 4)

Question 80
Q 80 What is the maximum number of swap files?
A. 1 per virtual machine
B. 2 per virtual machine
C. 3 per virtual machine 
D. 4 per virtual machine

Answer: D ?? (Answer is A: 1 per virual machine)

Lowe: Chapter 11 Managing Resource Allocation; Page 537(Closest match)
VMWare: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf (page 3, table 3)

Question 79
What is the maximum file size (1MB VMFS-3 block size)?
A. 128GB
B. 256GB
C. 512GB
D. 1TB

Answer: B

* Lowe: chapter 6 Creating and configuring storage devices; Page 286
* VMWare: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf 
(Sida 4, Tabell 4)

Question 78
What are three valid objects to place in a vApp? (Choose three)
A. Folders
B. Hosts
C. Resource pools
D. vApps
E. Virtual machines

Answer: C, D,E

Lowe: Chapter 10 Using Templates And vApps; Page 526-536 Working with vApps
VMWare:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-security-guide.pdf (page 47, Figure 4-2) 

Question 77
What is the Maximum Host per VDS?
A. 350
B. 256
C. 32
D. 100

Answer: A

- Lowe: Chapter 8 Securing VMWare vSphere; PAge 448 vSphere Distributed switch
- VMWare: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf page 5 (table 5)

Question 76
What is the Maximum ESXi host upgrades per VUM server?
A. 71
B. 75
C. 90
D. 24

Answer: A

- Lowe: Chapter 4 Installing and Configuring vSphere Update Manager; Page 121(closest match)
- VMWare: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf; page 8 (table 9)

Question 75

What is the Maximum VUM Cisco VDS update and deployment? (fragmenterad fråga?) (VUM?)
A. 70
B. 10
C. 40
D. 100

Answer: C ?? (Answer is A: 70)

Lowe: Chapter 4 Installing and Configuring vSphere Update Manager; Page 121(closest match)
VMWare: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf (page 7, table 9, Cisco VDS update and deployment)

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Question 74
What is the Maximum tg3 1Gb Ethernet ports (Broadcom) per host?
A. 32
B. 16
C. 24
D. 8

Answer: A

VMware.com: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf
Page 5.

Lowe: page 178, "uplink limits"

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Question 72
What are the 4 VM Restart Priority options available on an HA cluster?
A. Enabled, Small, Medium, Large
B. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
C. Priority, 2nd Tier, 3rd Tier, Best Effort
D. Disabled, Low, Medium, High

Answer: D

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-installation-setup-guide.pdf
(Sid. 97, sök på Restart priority)

Lowe: page 382, last paragraph

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Question 71
What are the block size options for a new created VMFS-5 VMDK?
A. 1MB, 2MB, 4MB, 8MB
B. 1MB
C. 4MB
D. 8MB

Answer: B

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf
(Sid. 114, sök på "block size")
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf
(Sid. 4, sök på "block Size" (1MB is default block size))

Lowe: page 286

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Question 70
Which of the following dvPort binding types have been removed in vSphere5?
A. Ephemeral Binding
B. Static Binding
C. Dynamic Binding

Answer: C
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022312
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf
(Sid 5, sök på "Ephemeral" (De nämner aldrig att dynamic finns, bara de andra 2 alternativen))

Lowe: Table 5.2, Only static and ephemeral are mentioned. (?)

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Question 69

What is the Maximum virtual disks per datastore cluster?
A. 1000
B. 9000
C. 5000
D. 256

Answer: B

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf
(sök på 9000)

Lowe: It's just a number, same as in vmware.com

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Question 68
Which two types of information can be obtained about a VMFS datastore using the Storage Views tab in the vSphere Client? (Choose two)
A. Multipathing status for the datastore
B. vmhba adapter used to access the datastore
C. Space used in the datastore
D. Runtime name of the datastore

Answer: A,C

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf
(Sid. 23, sök på "Storage Views")

Lowe: page 99, "Storage views"

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Question 67
Based on the exhibit, what is the appropriate action to disable a path?
A. Paths cannot be disabled in this interface
B. Right-click the path you want to disable and then select disable
C. Click, the path you want to disable then press Delete
D. Double-click the new path you wish to make active. The existing path will be disabled

Answer: B

VMware pdf: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf
Sida: 164 (sök på "disable paths")

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Question 66
An administrator has deployed a vCenter Server Appliance to manage a virtual environment. The administrator has been asked to develop a plan for handling major upgrades to the appliance. What should be included in the upgrade plan ?
A. Utilize vCenter Configuration Manager to upgrade the vCenter Server Appliance in place.
B. Install a new vCenter Server Appliance and import the information from the existing vCenter Server
Appliance.
C. Install a new vCenter Server Appliance over the existing vCenter Server Appliance.
D. Utilize Update Manager to upgrade the vCenter Server Appliance in place.

Answer: D (Not sure)!!!

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-virtual-machine-admin-guide.pdf
(Sid. 13, sök på "update manager" (hittade inget bra svar direkt)) 

Lowe: Upgrade plans do not exist... Should be somewhere in chapter 4. Page 144-145 "vApp Settings" & "VA Upgrades" (?).

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Question 65
An administrator wishes to send traffic from a vNetwork Distributed Switch to a collector virtual machine for analysis. vSphere 5 has been deployed in the datacenter. Which two configurations will enable the functionality? (Choose two)
A. The source and target virtual machines must be on the same vNetwork Switch.
B. The source and target virtual machines must both be on a vNetwork Switch, but can be on any vDS
datacenter.
C. The port group on the distributed port must have Promiscuous Mode enabled.
D. The port group on distributed port must have NetFlow enabled.

Answer: B,D

Lowe: page 228-229

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Question 64
To get the maximum performance benefits of vNUMA it is recommended to:
A. Only use single vCPU virtual machines
B. Enable EVC on your clusters
C. Disable Hyper-Threading
D. Make sure your clusters are composed entirely of hosts with matching NUMA architecture

Answer: D

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-resource-management-guide.pdf Chapter 13
(Det står om NUMA, men hittar inget om att man måste ha ENBART hosts med matchande NUMA arkitektur)

Lowe: vNuma does not exist in the book.

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Question 63
Is it possible to perform Storage vMotion on virtual machines that have snapshots?
A. Yes
B. No

Answer: A

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf
Page. 26 (Simplified array migrations and storage upgrades)
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-virtual-machine-admin-guide.pdf
Page. 211.

Lowe: page 612, nr 1 in the list.

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Question 62
Which vSphere feature provides dynamic allocation of storage capacity?
A. vStorage APIs/VCB
B. Thinapp
C. sDRS
D. vStorage Thin Provisioning

Answer: D

REFERENCE: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-virtual-machine-admin-guide.pdf 
page 129

Lowe: page 295 (?)

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Question 61
What is the Maximum ESXi host upgrades per cluster?
A. 1
B. 71
C. 10
D. 32

Answer: A

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf
(sid. 8, sök på "upgrade")

Lowe: page 161

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Question 60

What is the Maximum virtual machines hardware upgrades per VUM server?
A. 75
B. 90
C. 24
D. 70

Answer: A

REFERENCE: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf
Page 8, search for "hardware upgrade"

Lowe: The book does not say, but it's just a number, so just look at the reference above!

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Question 59 NEW QUESTION REPLACES OLD, DUE TO "EXHIBIT" PROBLEM

Which of the following are accurate descriptions of the Predictive and Adaptive Schemes for placing VMFS datastores (Choose Two)?

A. The Adaptive Scheme utilizes a small number of large LUNs
B. The Predictive Scheme utilizes several LUNs with different storage characteristics
C. The Adaptive Scheme utilizes several LUNs with different storage characteristics
D. The Predictive Scheme utilizes a small number of large LUNs

Answer:  A, B    

References:
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50/GUID-2C8FAE1F-98F7-4E0B-AEA0-83A4FF16A252.html 

Question 58
What is the Maximum datastores per datastore cluster?
A. 32
B. 300
C. 10
D. 26

Answer: A

References:
Bok - Chapter 6, subchapter: Expanding a VMFS Datastore
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc_50%2FGUID-2C76423B-0DB5-4E97-9DA2-EC69C54FC59E.html

Question 57
What is the Maximum host per VMFS volume?
A. 256
B. 64
C. 10
D. 32

Answer: B

References:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf Table 4.
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc_50%2FGUID-2B1513BD-21D9-4E4C-8883-23DF9EB7C715.html
Bok - Chapter 6, subchapter: Examining the vSphere Virtual Machine File System

Question 56
What is the Maximum concurrent Storage vMotion operations per host?
A. 2
B. 8
C. 128
D. 32

Answer: A

References:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf Table 7.
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc_50%2FGUID-4D4B3DF2-D033-4782-A030-3C3600DE5A7F.html&resultof=%22concurrent%22%20%22concurr%22%20%22Storage%22%20%22storag%22%20%22vMotion%22%20%22vmotion%22%20%22operations%22%20%22oper%22

Question 55
What is the Maximum virtual network switch creation ports per standard switch (VSS) ?
A. 4088
B. 4096
C. 1016
D. 30000

Answer: A 

References:
Bok - Chapter 5, subchapter: Creating and Configuring Virtual Switches
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc_50%2FGUID-627A006F-055D-452A-99ED-A7B874FC8558.html

Question 54
Which of the following is a requirement for vCenter?
A. A DHCP IP address
B. A static IP address
C. A valid (internal) domain name system (DNS) registration.

Answer: C

References:
Bok - Chapter 3, subchapter: Installing vCenter Server in a Linked Mode Group

Question 53
What is the Maximum distributed virtual network switch ports per vCenter?
A. 30000
B. 4096
C. 4088
D. 5000

Answer: D (ANSWER IS A: 30000) Ref:http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf table 5 page 5)

References:
Bok - Chapter 5, subchapter: dvSwitch Total Ports and Available Ports
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc_50%2FGUID-B15C6A13-797E-4BCB-B9D9-5CBC5A60C3A6.html

Question 52
A network administrator has discovered a failure that has affected accessibility to the management network As a result, none clusters are able to communicate on this network. The cluster was configured with default settings.What happens as a result of the failure?
A. The VMs will be powered off on slave hosts in the cluster.
B. All VMs on all hosts in the cluster are unaffected.
C. The VMs will be powered off on slave hosts that cannot communicate with the master on the affected
network.
D. The VMs will be powered down on all hosts in the cluster

Answer: A

References:
Book:Chapter 9 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines - Examining Virtual Machines from the Inside
Links: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-virtual-machine-admin-guide.pdf page 12 (best i could find)

Question 51
What is the Maximum Broadcom 1 Gb iSCSI HBA initiator ports per server?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

Answer: D

References:
Book:Chapter 9 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines - Examining Virtual Machines from the Inside
Links:http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf table 4 


Question 50
What is the Maximum Virtual machine swap file size?
A. 255GB
B. 256GB
C. 1TB
D. 2TB

Answer: C

References:
Book: Chapter 11  Managing Resource Allocation - Controlling Memory Allocation
Links: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf table 1

Question 49
What is the Maximum USB controllers per virtual machine?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

Answer: A

References:
Book:Chapter 9 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines -  Examining Virtual Machines from the Inside
Links: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf table 1 page 2

Question 48
Which of the following installation methods installs the ESXi image directly into the Host memory ?
A. Scripted ESXi Installation
B. Interactive ESXi Installation
C. Upgrade via VMware Update Manager
D. vSphere Auto Deploy ESXi Installation Option

Answer: D

References:
Book: Chapter 2 Planning and Installing VMware ESXi - Deploying VMware ESXi with vSphere Auto Deploy
Links: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-installation-setup-guide.pdf page 63 

Question 47
What is the Maximum children resource pool?
A. 1600
B. 1024
C. 512
D. 1000

Answer: B

References:
Book: Can't find
links: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf  page 6 table 6

Question 46
The upgrade procedure from VMFS-3 to VMFS-5 will require downtime of that datastore?
A. True
B. False

Answer: B


References:
Book: Chapter 6 Creating and Configuring Storage Devices - Locking in a Multi-Extent VMFS Configuration
Links:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf page 121 

Question 45

What is the Maximum Virtual SCSI targets per virtual SCSI adapter?
A. 15
B. 4
C. 60
D. 14

Answer: A

References:
Virtual Machine Maximums, Table 1 Page 1 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf
* C is wrong answer!!! There is 60 Virtual SCSI targets per _virtual machine_, not per SCSI adapter as the question asks for!!
Book:Chapter 9 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines  -  Adding Existing Disks

Question 44
In an HA cluster after an initial election process, host are either:
A. Primary or Secondary
B. King or Queen
C. Live or Standby
D. Master or Slave

Answer: D

References:
Master and Slave Hosts, Page 11 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-51-availability-guide.pdf
Mastering VMware vSphere 5: Chapter 7 page 373-374

Question 43
What protocol is used by an ESXi host to communicate with NAS devices?
A. SMB
B. CIFS
C. iSCSI
D. NFS

Answer: D
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf (page 16)
Mastering VMware vSphere 5 (page 26-27 + 324)


Question 42
A company runs several instances of an application that requires large amounts of memory.Which three metrics are checked to diagnose a memory bottleneck at the ESXi host level? (Choose three)
A. MEMSZ
B. MEMCTL
C. SWAP
D. ZIP
E. MCILTGT

Answer: A,B,C

Reference:
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp (Memory Panel)
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-resource-management-guide.pdf (Chapter 6)

Question 41
What is the maximum VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per host ?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 10

Answer: C

References:
Table 5.  Networking Maximums, Page 6 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf

Question 40
After an upgrade from ESX/ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0, your monitoring department are reporting that they have stopped receiving Syslog data from all of the ESXi hosts. What could be the problem?
A. Tech Support Mode is disable by default after an upgrade to ESXi 5.0 stopping all traffic on all ports
B. Custom ports that were opened by using the ESX/ESXi 4.1 esxcfg-firewall command do not get copied during the upgrade to ESXi 5.0.
C. ESXi 5.0 cannot send logs to Syslog servers.
D. Custom ports that were opened by using the ESX/ESXi 4.1 esxcfg-firewall command do not remain open after the upgrade to ESXi 5.0

Answer: D

Reference: 
VMware vSphere 5.0 What’s New page 34 (!OBS! WRONG BOOK)


Question 39
What is the Maximum USB 3.0 devices per virtual machine?
A. 1
B. 3
C. 20
D. 10

Answer: A

References:
Table 1.  Virtual Machine Maximums, Page 1 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf


Question 38
A user attempts a remote SSH connection to a newly installed ESXi 5.x host to execute some commands. The SSH connection attempts fails, through the user is able to receive a ICMP ping back from the host.Which two connections might cause the issue? (Choose two)
A. The shell timeout is set to low.
B. The ParentRootLogin option is set to False.
C. The SSH service is disabled on the host by default.
D. The Esxi firewall blocks the SSH protocol by default.

Answer: A,C
Reference:
Mastering VMware vSphere 5.0 Chapter 8 page 417 (Controlling Remote CLI ACCESS VIA SSH)
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-security-guide.pdf (Page 19,32 + Chapter 3)

Question 37
What is the maximum FC LUNs per host?
A. 128
B. 256
C. 512
D. 1024

Answer: B

Reference:
Storage Maximums, Table 4 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf 

Question 36
What is the Maximum VMFS-5 block size (non upgraded VMFS-3 volume) ?
A. 1MB
B. 2MB
C. 4MB
D. 8MB

Answer: A

Reference:
Mastering VMware vSphere 5. Chaper 6 page 286.
Table 4.  Storage Maximums, Page 4 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf

Question 35
Which feature of vSphere 5 can be used to reduce virtual machine memory overhead?
A. Memory Reservations
B. Swap to Host
C. SplitRX
D. VMX Swap

Answer: D

Reference:
Mastering VMware vSphere 5.0 Chapter 11 (Examining Memory Overhead but nothing about VMX Swap)
Overhead Memory on Virtual Machines, page 30 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-resource-management-guide.pdf

Question 34
An administrator is considering deploying a new storage array for a vSphere 5 implementation. If the array supports the vStorage APIs for array integration (VAAI), which two tasks can be performed directly by the array? (Choose two)
A. creating VMFS datastores
B. cloning virtual machines and templates
C. migrating virtual machines using Storage vMotion
D. creating NFS datastores

Answer: A,D
Mastering VMware vSphere 5.0 Chapter 6 Page 362



Question 33
What is the Maximum static port groups per vCenter?
A. 5000
B. 256
C. 500
D. 3000

Answer: A
References:
Mastering VMware vSphere 5.0 Chapter 5 page 292 table 5.2
Table 5.  Networking Maximums, page 5 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf

Question 32
What is the Maximum Port groups per standard switch (VSS) ?
A. 256
B. 512
C. 128
D. 350

Answer: A

References:
Mastering VMware vSphere 5.0 Chapter 5 page 261 table 5.1
Table 5.  Networking Maximums, Page 5 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf

Question 31
An administrator is performing maintenance on a storage array used by a DRS cluster. The administrator wants to disable alarm actions for the cluster while the maintenance is taking place.What procedure will accomplish this task?
A. Go to the alarms tab for each ESXi host in the DRS cluster. Locate storage-related alarms. Right click and disable each alarm
B. Right-click the DRS cluster and select Alarm and Disable Alarm Actions
C. Right-click the datacenter containing the DRS cluster. Select Alarm Disable Alarm Actions
D. Go to the alarms tab for the datacenter containing DRS cluster. Locate the storage-related alarms. Right-click and disable each alarm.

Answer: D
Chaptert 13 Monitoring VMware vSphere Performance.

Question 30

What is the Maximun ESXi host remediations per VUM server?
A. 71
B. 75
C. 90
D. 24

Answer: A

References:
vCenter Update Manager Maximums Page: 8 Table 9.  http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf 

Question 29
A vSphere 5 environment has an ESXi 5 x host configured to boot from a Software iSCSI adapter. What is the expected outcome if the administrator attempts to disable the iSCSI Software adapter?
A. The adapter will be disabled, but is re-enabled the next time the host boots up.
B. The adapter will be disabled and the host will not boot the next time the host boots up
C. The adapter will not be disabled and the vSphere Client will return an error message
D. The adapter will be enabled, but the host will boot into troubleshooting mode the next time the host boots

Answer: A

References:
chapter 6 page 278 course literature.
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-installation-setup-guide.pdf page 45

Question 28
What is the Maximum VMFS-3 RDM size?
A. 2TB minus 512 bytes
B. 64TB
C. 2TB
D. 1TB

Answer: A
vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf Table 4.
page 285 in the course literature.

Question 27
What is the Maximum VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe decices per virtual machine?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 10

Answer: A

References:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf Page: 2

Question 26
What is the Maximum ESXi host scans per VUM server?
A. 75
B. 71
C. 24
D. 90

Answer: A

References:
vCenter Update Manager Maximums, Page: 8 Table 9. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf   

Question 25
What is the Maximum be2net 10Gb Ethernet ports (Emulex) per host?
A. 8
B. 2
C. 10
D. 12

Answer: A

References:
Networking Maximums,Page 5 Table 5. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r51/vsphere-51-configuration-maximums.pdf  

Question 24
Which new feature of vSphere 5 is used to create ESXi installation images with a customized set of updates, patches and drivers?
A. Auto Deploy
B. Host Profiles
C. esxcli
D. Image Builder

Answer: D

References:
Customizing Installations with ESXi Image Builder CLI, http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50%2FGUID-48AC6D6A-B936-4585-8720-A1F344E366F9.html


Question 23
What is the Maximum NICs that can be associated or port bound with the software iSCSI stack per server?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8

Answer: D

Referencers:
Storage Maximums, Page: 3 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf 

Question 22
You’ve been asked to make sure that you guarantee a certain level of capacity, performance, availability, redundancy for your virtual machines storage. What feature of vSphere 5 would you use to ensure you can meet that request?
A. Profiel-Driven Storage
B. VAAI
C. sDRS/vMotion
D. Capacity Planner

Answer: A

References: 
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf chapter 21, page 195.
Course literature page 12-13, 298-300.

Question 21
What are the two network load-balancing policies for a vNetwork Distributed Switch? (Choose two)
A. Route based on source destination MAC hash
B. Route using Round Robin
C. Route based on the originating virtual port ID
D. Route based on IP hash

Answer: A,C

References:
chapter 5 page 197,250 course literature.

Question 20
When you are configuring the vSwitch NIC teaming policy, what happens when the Notify Switches option is set to yes?
A. The physical switch is notified when the virtual NIC link state changes.
B. The physical switch is notified when the location of a virtual NIC changes.
C. The virtual switch is notified when the location of a physical NIC changes.
D. The virtual switch is notified when the physical NIC link state changes.

Answer: B

References:
chapter 5 page 203 course literature.

Question 19
Which of the following is no longer available with vSphere 5?
A. vCenter
B. vSphere Client
C. PowerCLI
D. ESX

Answer: D
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vSphere-5-Upgrade-Best-Practices-Guide.pdf, page 29

Question 18
After an upgrade from ESXi4.0 to ESXi5.0 you are unable to putty your hosts. What could have caused this?
A. The SH port in ESXi 5.0 has changed to 443 for added security.
B. SSH is not available with ESXi5.0, it is only available with ESX5.0
C. SSH is always disabled after an upgrade or clean installation.
D. SSH configuration is not migrated for ESX 4.x hosts or ESXi 4.0 hosts. For these hosts, SSH access is disabled during the upgrade or migration process.

Answer: D
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vSphere-5-Upgrade-Best-Practices-Guide.pdf, page 133

Question 17
Which of the following is not a supported location for a host diagnostic partition?
A. Private local storage
B. Private SAN storage
C. Shared SAN storage
D. Shared local storage

Answer: D
vSphere Storage pdf Page 133

Question 16
A new LUN has been presented to two ESXi hosts: ESXiA and ESXiB. The LUN can be seen from both servers.A vSphere Client attached to ESXiB is used to create a BMFS datastore on the LUN.The new datastore is visible on ESXiB but not ESXiA.Which step must be taken to make the datastore visible to ESXiA?
A. Perform a rescan operation on ESXiB.
B. Reboot ESXiA.
C. Perform a rescan operation on ESXiA
D. Modify LUN masking settings on the the storage array.

Answer: C
vSphere Storage pdf Page 47, middle

Question 15
What is the maximum number of total FC paths on a server?
A. 512
B. 1024
C. 128
D. 255

Answer: B
Configuration pdf Maximum Page 4

Question 14
What is the maximum software iSCSI targets?
A. 128
B. 265
C. 64
D. 62

Answer: B
Configuration pdf Maximum Page 3

Question 13
What is the Maximum VMware Tools scans per VUM server?
A. 75
B. 70
C. 90
D. 24

Answer: A
Configuration pdf Maximum Page 8

Question 12 
What is the Maximum Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP) ?
A. 8
B. 4
C. 16
D. 32

Answer: D 
Configuration pdf Maximum Page 1

Question 11
In the vSphere Client, the Resource Allocation tab for virtual machines displays host memory and guest memory. Which two statements best describe these terms?(Choose two)
A. Guest memory is the amount of physical memory that has been allocated to a virtual machine
B. Host memory is the amount of physical memory that has been allocated to a virtual machine.
C. Guest memory is the memory usage of a virtual machine.
D. Host memory is the memory usage of a virtual machine.

Answer: B,C

Question 10
In the vSphere Client, the Resource Allocation tab for virtual machines displays host memory and guest memory. Which two statements best describe these terms?(Choose two)
A. Guest memory is the amount of physical memory that has been allocated to a virtual machine
B. Host memory is the amount of physical memory that has been allocated to a virtual machine.
C. Guest memory is the memory usage of a virtual machine.
D. Host memory is the memory usage of a virtual machine.

Answer: B,C
resource management pdf page 26 top, administration pdf page 14

Question 9
What is the Maximum ephemeral port groups per vCenter?
A. 256
B. 5000
C. 30000
D. 4088

Answer: A

References:
ephemeral port groups, Page 5. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf

Question 8
An administrator receives a complaint that a virtual machine is performing poorly. The user attributes the issue to poor storage performance. If the storage array is the bottleneck, which two counters would be higher than normal? (Choose two)
A. Average device latency per command, in milliseconds(DAVG per cmd)
B. Average ESXi VMKernel latency per command, in milliseconds (KAVG per cmd)
C. Average virtual machine operating system latency per command, in milliseconds (GAVG per cmd)
D.Number of SCSI reservation conflicts per second (CONS per second)

Answer: A, D

Question 7
What is the Maximum Fault Tolerance protected virtual machines per ESXi host?
A. 4
B. 512
C. 256
D. 32

Answer: A
References:
Fault Tolerance maximums, Page 2. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r51/vsphere-51-configuration-maximums.pdf

What is the Maximum VMware Tools upgrades per ESXi host?
A. 100
B. 70
C. 90
D. 24

Answer: D
References:
VMware vCenter Update Manager, Page 7. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf


What is the traffic shaping adjustment?
A. Minimum bandwidth adjusted in kbps
B. Peak bandwidth adjusted in Mbps
C. Burst time in seconds D. Burst size in KB

Answer: A


What is the Maximum hosts connect to vCenter Orchestrator?
A. 10
B. 100
C. 1000
D. 512

Answer: C

References: 
Mastering VMware vSphere 5.Chapter 14

Using the vSphere Client from a remote PC, an administrator wants to connect a virtual machine and burn a DVD.
What is true about this scenario?

A. The host device must be used. The virtual machine must be configured for Host Device and Passthrough IDE mode.
B. The remote client device can be used. The virtual machine must be configured for Host Device and Emulate IDE mode.
C. The host device must be used. The virtual machine must be configured for Host device and Emulate IDE mode.
D. The remote client device can be used. The virtual machine must be configured for Host Device and Passthrough IDE mode.

Answer: A


What is the Maximum concurrent vMotion operations per host (10Gb/s network)?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8
Answer: D

References:
Table 5.  Networking Maximums, Page 5 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf

What is the maximum concurrent vMotion operations per host(1Gb/s network)?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8
Answer: C

References:
Table 5.  Networking Maximums, Page 5 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf

Please Ignore These Questions 51 -- 80


Question 0
Which are a vmware commandline product?
A. vmkfstool
B. esxcli
C. VMware Tools
D. SSH
E. vCenter Converter
F. PowerCLI

Answer: A, F (B is a ESXi commandline(ssh) command)

An existing vSphere environment will be upgraded to vSphere 5. The current implementation utilizes ESX 4.1 and the new implementation will ESXi 5.x In which thwo ways will the new ESXi 5.x implementation differ from the ESX 4.1 implementation? (Choose two) A. VMware ESXi 5.x does not provide a host-based firewall. B. VMware ESXi 5.x can boot from additional sources, such as USB drive. C. VMware ESXi 5.x does not provide local command-line management capabilities. D. VMware ESXi 5.x can support virtual machine with larger resource configurations

Answer: B, D Lowe: VMware:

A) Page 36 from vSphere Security - ESXi 5.0.pdf
B) Page 28 from vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-installation-setup-guide.pdf
C) Page 9 from vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-command-line-interface-getting-started-guide.pdf
D) See all "Maximums" for ESX4 and ESXi 5  ((Example: Max CPU 4 -> 5))

What are the two benefits of compatibility mode for RDMs, as compared to physical compatibility mode? (choose two) A. Allows the use of SAN-aware applications B. Allows for cloning C. Allows for the use of array-based snapshots D. Allows for template creation of the related virtual machine

Answer: B, D Lowe: VMware: Page 39 from the vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-virtual-machine-admin-guide.pdf


In "Manage Path"-window the Policy "Path Selection" = "Most Recently Used (VMware)" is choosen. The four paths have the respective status as "Active (I/O)", "Stand by", "Active" and "Stand by".

Based on the information, what is the reason that none of the paths are marked preferred? A. A preferred path has been selected, but the Refres button must be pressed to reflect the change. B. A preferred path cannot be selected. C. A preferred path has not been choosen. D. A preferred path has not been choosen becouse insufficient Active paths exist.

Answer: B Lowe: VMware: Page 163 from vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf


Question 51

Which of the following are valid version of a dvSwitch? Select 3 A

4.0 B

5.0 C

3.5 D

3.x E

4.1.0 Answer: A B E


Question 52

Which of the following is a default role in ESXi 5? A

No Access B

Read Only C

Root D

Resource Pool Administrator E

Administrator Answer: A B E


Question 53

A VM is in a Private VLAN with 10 other VMs and is able to communicate with them all. Which Private VLAN is this VM most likely on? A

VLAN 0 (default VLAN) B

Community C

Isolated D

VLAN 4095 E

Promiscuous Answer: E


Question 54

What happens to the resource pools on a standalone ESXi host when it is added to a cluster? A

If a %shares value has been set on the resource pool, the overall shares are recalculated. If a custom share has been set, the values are maintained. B

vCenter strips the host of all its' resource pools. C

The hosts resource pools are maintained, but put into the clusters root resource pool D

You are presented with an option to either keep the resource pools or remove them Answer: B


Question 55

What are three valid categories for a patch? A

General B

BugFix C

Moderate D

Security E

Enhancement Answer: B D E


Question 56

What information does a vMotion map display? Select 3 A

Datastores that the VM resides on as well as their connection information to the hosts. B

Configured Network speeds of the vSwitch uplinks C

Current CPU usage of hosts D

Networks that the VM is attached to E

WOL Status Answer: A C D


Question 57

What is the maximum number of concurrent backup jobs that VDR can perform? A

8 B

2 C

10 D

4 Answer: A


Question 58

What are three options to increase the amount of free space on a VMFS datastore? A

Bond together multiple datastores B

Storage vMotion some VMs off of the datastore to another C

Add an extent to the datastore D

Increase the size of the datastore E

Convert the VMFS datastore to an RDM Answer: B C D


Question 59

Which of the following are valid options when creating a VMKernel port group? Select 3. A

vMotion B

iSCSI C

Fault Tolerance D

NFS E

Management Answer: A C E


Question 60

What options allows you to download the patches from the Update Manager to the host without installing them? A

Remediating B

Soft Remediate C

Prepare D

Staging Answer: D


Question 61

Which network port binding option is no longer available in vSphere 5? A

Automatic B

Static C

Ephemeral D

Dynamic Answer: D


Question 62

Which of the following are valid HA Adminission control policies? Select 2 A

Host Failures Cluster Tolerates B

Custom reserved host resources C

Percentage of Cluster resources reserved D

Reserved Slot Size per VM E

Percentage of Cluster resources free Answer: A C


Question 63 What is the maximum number of VMFS 5 datastores that can be attached to an ESXi host? A

256 B

1024 C

512 D

128 Answer: A


Question 64

Which of the following are advantages of zoning? Select 3. A

Reduces the number of targets and LUNS that are presented to a host. B

Limits which LUNS a host can see. C

Prevents non-ESXi hosts from seeing a VMFS datastore. D

Can be used to separate environments as well (test and production). Answer: A C D


Question 65

What are three requirements of a DRS cluster? A

All hosts must be configured with the same admission control policy. B

All volumes on the host need to be specified with the same name C

All hosts need to be attached to shared storage. D

All hosts must be running the same version of vSphere E

All processors must be from the same vendor class and family Answer: B C E


Question 66

An administrator is deploying a new cluster and wishes to use the vCenter Server Appliance for their management. Which of the following would prevent the administrator from using the vCSA? A

The administrator wishes to use an external Oracle database. B

The cluster contains 9 hosts. C

The administrator wishes to use an external MSSQL database. D

The cluster contains a host running ESX 4.0 Answer: B C


Question 67

Which load balancing policy requires the upstream physical switch to be configured with etherchannel? A

Route based on MAC Hash B

Route based on IP Hash C

Route based on Physical NIC Load D

Route based on virtual port id E

Round Robin Answer: B


Question 68

Which metric shows the amount of guest physical memory reclaimed by the balloon driver? A

MCTLSZ B

MEMLTD C

%BAL D

SWTGT E

ZIP/s Answer: A


Question 69

An administrator is granted 'Resource Pool Administrator' rights on a resource pool (RP1). RP1 contains a child resource pool called RP2. Which of the following taks can the administrator perform? Select 3 A

Modify the memory limit of RP1 B

Create a new resource pool inside RP1 C

Turn on the expandable reservation option in RP1 D

Create a new resource pool inside of RP2 E

Modify the memory limit of RP2 Answer: B D E


Question 70

When performing a restore rehearsal with VDR a new VM is created with what appended to its' name? A

_1 B

Restore C

Restored D

Rehearsal Answer: D


Question 71

A Virtual Standard Switch can contain which of the following type of port groups? Select 2 A

Virtual Machine Port Group B

VMkernel Port Group C

Management Port Group D

vMotion Port Group E

Service Console Answer: A B


Question 72

In what ways does VMFS 5 differ from VMFS 3? Select 3 A

Different Partition Formats B

Support for more than 4 SCSI controllers per VM C

Standard block size D

Support for larger vmdk's E

Smaller subblock sizes Answer: A C E


Question 73

A user has created a scheduled task to Power Off a VM at 6 pm. Another administrator has since revoked the permissions that allow that user to change power settings on VMs. What will happen to the VM at 6pm? A

The scheduled task will be removed from vCenter. B

The scheduled task will be disabled, but remain inside vCenter. C

The scheduled task will run at 6 pm once, but after 24 hours the scheduled task will begin to fail. D

The scheduled task will fail. E

The VM will be powered off at 6pm Answer: E


Question 74

What enables hardware assisted locking (ATS) be used? A

When the array supports snapshots B

When your array supports hardware acceleration C

When the array supports replication D

When the array supports thin provisioning. Answer: B


Question 75

An administrator has an array setup utilizing Most Recently Used for a Path Selection Policy. There are two paths to the array, Path A and Path B. Path A was the active path but has since failed and data is now flowing through Path B. Which of the following is a true statement regarding the situation? A

Path A will be checked every 30 minutes for activity, when it is online, it will become the active path. B

If Path A has been marked as 'preferred' it will be used when it comes back online, if not, data will continue to flow through Path B. C

When Path A comes back online data will just continue to travel through Path B D

When Path A comes back online, it will then become the active path. Answer: C


Question 76

An administrator needs to delegate access to a group of VMs for a colleague. They setup a new user and grant them the 'Virtual Machine User' role on the VMs. Which of the following will the new user not be able to perform? Select 3. A

Mount an ISO to the VM B

Schedule a task to shutdown the VM C

Increase the amount of memory allocated to the VM D

Create a snapshot of the VM E

Change the network that the VM is connected to. Answer: C D E


Question 77

Distributed virtual switches require which level of vSphere lisensing? A

Enterprise Plus B

Enterprise and above C

Standard and above D

Advanced and above Answer: A


Question 78

Which of the following is VMwares recommendations to take when experiencing high latency times with your storage? Select 3

A Storage vMotion the VM to a new LUN with more spindles or increase the disks in the LUN in question B vMotion this VM to another host C Check the CPU usage of the VMs and increase the queue depth setting if needed. D Turn off any anti-virus on-demand scans E Set the datastore usage on disk alarm to trigger at 90% Answer: A C D


Question 79

Which vCenter logging level will display only Information, Error and Warning messages. A

Error B

Trivia C

Warning D

Info E

Verbose Answer: D


Question 80

Which of the following is true about lockdown mode? Select 3. A

All users are restricted with the exception of vpxa B

SSH can only be used if using authorized keys C

SSH cannot be used. D

vMA and PowerCLI commands will not work when run against a host. E

All users are restricted with the exception of vpxuser F

vMA commands will not work, PowerCLI commands will work as long as signed certificates are used.

Answer: B D E




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