A user has submitted a trouble ticket complaining that the email server VM has become very sluggish. After looking at the logs, the vSphere administrator suspects the iSCSI network is experiencing congestion. What esxtop statistic should the administrator examine in order to validate that the guest OS is experiencing performance degradation?

A user has submitted a trouble ticket complaining that the email server VM has become very sluggish. After looking at the logs, the vSphere administrator suspects the iSCSI network is experiencing congestion.
What esxtop statistic should the administrator examine in order to validate that the guest OS is experiencing performance degradation? 

A. GAVG/wr
B. %ACTV
C. PATH
D. PKTRXMUL/s







Answer: A

Which action should an administrator take to increase the size of a VMFS5 datastore from 2TB to 32TB?

Which action should an administrator take to increase the size of a VMFS5 datastore from 2TB to 32TB? 

A. Dynamically expand the original LUN and add a second share for the NFS datastore
B. Dynamically expand the original LUN and increase the size of the VMFS datastore
C. Dynamically expand the original LUN and add extents to the VMFS datastore
D. Dynamically expand the original LUN and add extents to the NFS datastore







Answer: B

A vSphere administrator installs an ESXi host and creates a virtual machine, then installs vCenter Server. Upon connecting to the environment, the administrator notices that several inventory views appear to be missing from the Navigation Bar as shown in the Exhibit. Which condition would result in this behavior?

A vSphere administrator installs an ESXi host and creates a virtual machine, then installs vCenter Server. Upon connecting to the environment, the administrator notices that several inventory views appear to be missing from the Navigation Bar as shown in the Exhibit.
Which condition would result in this behavior? 

A. The vSphere administrator is logged directly into the ESXi host.
B. The vSphere administrator is logged directly into the vCenter Server.
C. The vSphere administrator has limited permissions on the ESXi host.
D. The vSphere administrator has limited permissions on the vCenter Server.







Answer: A

A vSphere administrator notices that hosts are not powering off when the total cluster load is low on a cluster configured with Dynamic Power Management. What condition could cause this behavior?

A vSphere administrator notices that hosts are not powering off when the total cluster load is low on a cluster configured with Dynamic Power Management.
What condition could cause this behavior? 

A. The DRS migration threshold is set to the most conservative setting.
B. The DRS migration threshold is set to the most aggressive setting.
C. The DPM migration threshold is set to the most conservative setting.
D. The DPM migration threshold is set to the most aggressive setting..







Answer: A

Which information can the administrator use to identify iSCSI nodes?

Which information can the administrator use to identify iSCSI nodes? 

A. MAC address
B. IQN
C. WWN
D. LUN ID








Answer: B

Which statement is true regarding the licensing of vCenter Server?

Which statement is true regarding the licensing of vCenter Server? 

A. The license for vCenter Server must be provided at the time of installation.
B. Changing the license assigned to vCenter Server requires a restart of the vCenter Server service.
C. Virtual machines can still be powered on if the vCenter Server license expires.
D. Licensing for a single vCenter Server installation is determined by the number of managed virtual machines.







Answer: C

An administrator is planning a new vSphere deployment using shared storage. The solution must support: * vMotion * Storage vMotion * Fault Tolerant virtual machines * VAAI primitives * RDM disks Which storage type will meet these requirements?

An administrator is planning a new vSphere deployment using shared storage. The solution must support:
* vMotion
* Storage vMotion
* Fault Tolerant virtual machines
* VAAI primitives
* RDM disks
Which storage type will meet these requirements? 

A. CIFS
B. iSCSI
C. NFS
D. vSAN






Answer: B

A system administrator needs to control the allocation of memory and CPU resources to an organization's Finance team. The vSphere environment is built on a single cluster of ESXi hosts. Which feature can be used to accomplish this task?

A system administrator needs to control the allocation of memory and CPU resources to an organization's Finance team. The vSphere environment is built on a single cluster of ESXi hosts.
Which feature can be used to accomplish this task? 

A. Resource Pool Reservations
B. DRS set to Fully Automated
C. Virtual Machine Shares
D. DRS Virtual Machine Groups







Answer: A

Which condition would prevent an administrator from unmounting a VMFS datastore?

Which condition would prevent an administrator from unmounting a VMFS datastore? 

A. The datastore is being managed by Storage DRS.
B. The datastore contains vCenter Server templates.
C. The datastore is mounted by multiple hosts.
D. The storage backing the datastore is detached.








Answer: A

An administrator is using vSphere Replication to replicate a number of virtual machines to a recovery site. The administrator plans on enabling Storage DRS on the production site, which is running vSphere 5.5. What changes must be made in order to support this configuration?

An administrator is using vSphere Replication to replicate a number of virtual machines to a recovery site. The administrator plans on enabling Storage DRS on the production site, which is running vSphere 5.5. What changes must be made in order to support this configuration? 

A. Storage DRS can be added to the existing configuration without any configuration changes
B. Disable Storage DRS on the virtual machines utilizing vSphere Replication
C. Change the Recovery Point Objective for the replicated virtual machines to support the additional synchronization time
D. Storage DRS cannot be used in conjunction with vSphere Replication







Answer: A

A server administrator reports that a virtual machine has displayed the following message twice in the past 12 months: No boot device found Which virtual machine boot option should the administrator configure to resolve this issue?

A server administrator reports that a virtual machine has displayed the following message twice in the past 12 months:
No boot device found
Which virtual machine boot option should the administrator configure to resolve this issue? 

A. Failed Boot Recovery
B. Force BIOS Setup
C. Boot Delay
D. Network Boot Retry








Answer: A

A network auditing team has observed activity from a virtual machine that may be an organization policy security breach. The vSphere administrator needs to stop network traffic from the virtual machine. Which step should the administrator take?

A network auditing team has observed activity from a virtual machine that may be an organization policy security breach. The vSphere administrator needs to stop network traffic from the virtual machine.
Which step should the administrator take? 

A. Enable Port Blocking on the vSphere Standard Switches in the organization and block the port on which the virtual machine is connected.
B. Enable Port Blocking on each vSphere Standard Switch portgroup in the organization, then block the port on which the virtual machine is connected.
C. Enable Port Blocking on each vSphere Distributed Switch portgroup in the organization, then block the port on which the virtual machine is connected.
D. Enable Port Blocking on the vSphere Distributed Switches in the organization and block the port on which the virtual machine is connected.






Answer: C

As part of a multisite Single Sign-On (SSO) deployment what two steps are required to ensure that a change to one Single Sign-On instance is propagated to the other instances? (Choose two.)

As part of a multisite Single Sign-On (SSO) deployment what two steps are required to ensure that a change to one Single Sign-On instance is propagated to the other instances? (Choose two.)

A. Schedule a Replication Task on the primary instance
B. Select the first instance during the installation of subsequent instances
C. During the installation of each instance choose Linked-Mode
D. Enable Synchronize to Active Directory on each instance







Answer: A,C

During the installation of ESXi, a vmkernel interface can be configured with what capabilities?

During the installation of ESXi, a vmkernel interface can be configured with what capabilities? 

A. Management traffic
B. Management traffic and vMotion
C. Management traffic, vMotion and Fault Tolerance logging
D. Management traffic, vMotion, Fault Tolerance logging and IP storage








Answer: A

What are two features provided by VMFS5? (Choose two.)

What are two features provided by VMFS5? (Choose two.) 

A. Support for greater than 2TB storage devices for only VMFS and Physical RDMs
B. Support for up to 32 extents
C. Support for greater than 2TB storage devices for VMFS, Physical and Virtual RDMs
D. Support for up to 64 extents








Answer: B,C

To comply with security requirements, an administrator with a vCenter Server Appliance needs to force logoff of the vSphere web client after 10 minutes of inactivity. What should the administrator do to meet the requirement?

To comply with security requirements, an administrator with a vCenter Server Appliance needs to force logoff of the vSphere web client after 10 minutes of inactivity.
What should the administrator do to meet the requirement? 

A. Edit: /var/lib/vmware/vsphere-client/webclient.properties, modify session.timeout=10
B. Edit: /opt/vmware/vsphere-client/webclient.properties, modify session.timeout=600
C. Edit: /var/lib/vmware/vsphere-client/webclient.properties modify session.timeout=600
D. Edit: /opt/vmware/vsphere-client/webclient.properties, modify session.timeout=10





Answer: A

A vSphere administrator needs to upgrade a single extent VMFS3 datastore to VMFS5 and expand it to 4TB in size. The storage administrator has already expanded the underlying LUN to 4TB. Which steps should the vSphere administrator take?

A vSphere administrator needs to upgrade a single extent VMFS3 datastore to VMFS5 and expand it to 4TB in size. The storage administrator has already expanded the underlying LUN to 4TB.
Which steps should the vSphere administrator take? 

A. Expand the VMFS3 datastore to 4TB and then upgrade to VMFS5
B. Upgrade the datastore to VMFS5, manually change the partition scheme to GPT, and then expand the datastore to 4TB
C. Upgrade the datastore to VMFS5 and then expand it to 4TB
D. Change the block size of the VMFS3 datastore to 1MB, upgrade the datastore to VMFS5, and expand it to 4TB






Answer: C

An application server has been added to an existing multi-tier application contained in a vApp. Shortly after a planned maintenance event, users are unable to access the application. What does the vSphere administrator need to change to ensure the application can be accessed?

An application server has been added to an existing multi-tier application contained in a vApp. Shortly after a planned maintenance event, users are unable to access the application.
What does the vSphere administrator need to change to ensure the application can be accessed? 

A. The startup order of the vApp
B. The shutdown option to power off the virtual machines
C. The IP Allocation policy to DHCP
D. The Memory Shares to High






Answer: A

An administrator needs to know the estimated time remaining on a virtual machine that is hosting a critical accounting application given current assigned resources such as memory, CPU, and disk. When an administrator selects the virtual machine in the vCenter Operations Manager console, which major badge should the administrator investigate to determine this information?

An administrator needs to know the estimated time remaining on a virtual machine that is hosting a critical accounting application given current assigned resources such as memory, CPU, and disk.
When an administrator selects the virtual machine in the vCenter Operations Manager console, which major badge should the administrator investigate to determine this information? 

A. Risk
B. Health
C. Efficiency
D. Time Remaining






Answer: A

The virtual machine Fileserver01 shown in the exhibit can not ping anything on the Internet. Why is Fileserver01 unable to connect to the Internet?

The virtual machine Fileserver01 shown in the exhibit can not ping anything on the Internet.
Why is Fileserver01 unable to connect to the Internet? 

A. Fileserver01 does not have a reachable IP address.



B. Fileserver01 is not on the Production network.



C. The virtual nic for Fileserver01 has a speed or duplex mismatch.



D. The vSwitch1 virtual switch does not have an attached vmnic adapter.






Answer: A

An administrator using vCenter Operations Manager notices an increase in resource consumption by virtual machines over a period of time. The administrator needs to understand how adding more hosts or increasing resources in existing hosts will address the growing resource requirements of the virtual machines. Which vCenter Operations Manager feature can provide this information?

An administrator using vCenter Operations Manager notices an increase in resource consumption by virtual machines over a period of time. The administrator needs to understand how adding more hosts or increasing resources in existing hosts will address the growing resource requirements of the virtual machines.
Which vCenter Operations Manager feature can provide this information? 

A. Host or Cluster Capacity Optimization Report
B. What-if Scenarios
C. Density and Reclaimable Waste badges
D. Virtual Machine Optimization Report






Answer: B

An administrator needs to configure an alarm that notifies administrators if an application is impacted by overcommitment of memory resources. The environment consists of 100 virtual machines running on 5 ESXi hosts that are configured in a fully automated HA/DRS cluster. The cluster is configured with a parent resource pool and Production and Development child pools. Where should the administrator set the alarm to meet the requirement?

An administrator needs to configure an alarm that notifies administrators if an application is impacted by overcommitment of memory resources. The environment consists of 100 virtual machines running on 5 ESXi hosts that are configured in a fully automated HA/DRS cluster. The cluster is configured with a parent resource pool and Production and Development child pools.
Where should the administrator set the alarm to meet the requirement? 

A. On each virtual machine
B. On each host
C. On the Production resource pool
D. On the cluster







Answer: D

What action should an administrator take to store ESXi 5.x host system logs centrally?

What action should an administrator take to store ESXi 5.x host system logs centrally? 

A. Configure vCenter Server to automatically export log files to a syslog server at regular intervals.
B. Configure vCenter Server to send all log information to a syslog server.
C. Configure each ESXi host to send all log information to a syslog server.
D. Configure the syslog server to import log files from each ESXi host at regular intervals.








Answer: C

A vSphere administrator receives a request to capture the state of a virtual machine six times a day. Which procedure will satisfy the requirement with the least amount of administrator intervention?

A vSphere administrator receives a request to capture the state of a virtual machine six times a day.
Which procedure will satisfy the requirement with the least amount of administrator intervention? 

A. Use the vSphere web client to configure a scheduled task to take a snapshot every four hours.
B. Use the vSphere web client to configure a scheduled workflow to take a snapshot every four hours.
C. Use the vSphere web client to manually initiate a snapshot of the virtual machine every four hours.
D. Use the vSphere web client to schedule an automated snapshot every four hours using Snapshot Manager.








Answer: A

An administrator needs to use performance information from Windows virtual machines to better understand their effect on the vSphere 5.x hosts on which they run. What must the administrator do to collect this information?

An administrator needs to use performance information from Windows virtual machines to better understand their effect on the vSphere 5.x hosts on which they run.
What must the administrator do to collect this information? 

A. Install VMware Tools with the PERFMON counters enabled in the Advanced option of the installer.
B. Install VMware Tools. Add counters in the PERFMON utility.
C. Install VMware Tools. Edit the VMware Tools settings to enable the VM-specific counters.
D. Install VMware Tools. Install the PERFMON plug-in for VMware Tools.







Answer: B

What action should the vSphere administrator take to allow for a new vApp to be created in the cluster?

What action should the vSphere administrator take to allow for a new vApp to be created in the cluster? 

A. Enable Distributed Resource Scheduling on the cluster
B. Create a Resource Pool in the cluster, and create the vApp in the Resource Pool
C. Enable High Availability on the cluster
D. Create a new Datacenter, and create the vApp in the new Datacenter







Answer: A

Which two precautions should a vSphere administrator take before increasing the size of a VMFS datastore? (Choose two.)

Which two precautions should a vSphere administrator take before increasing the size of a VMFS datastore? (Choose two.) 

A. Unmount the datastore
B. Perform a rescan to ensure that all hosts see the most current storage
C. Quiesce I/O on all disks involved
D. Shut down all virtual machines stored in the datastore





Answer: B,C

An administrator needs to deploy several virtual machines. Storage contention between the virtual machines should be managed by the VMkernel. Some of the virtual machines will use MSCS and should be highly available across the ESXi 5.5 hosts. Which two storage options meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

An administrator needs to deploy several virtual machines. Storage contention between the virtual machines should be managed by the VMkernel. Some of the virtual machines will use MSCS and should be highly available across the ESXi 5.5 hosts.
Which two storage options meet these requirements? (Choose two.) 

A. iSCSI
B. NFS
C. Fibre Channel
D. vSAN







Answer: A,C

Which VLAN configuration requires switch connectivity defined as an access port?

Which VLAN configuration requires switch connectivity defined as an access port? 

A. Private VLAN
B. External Switch Tagging
C. Virtual Guest Tagging
D. Virtual Switch Tagging





Answer: B

A vSphere administrator finds a HA/DRS cluster status has turned RED indicating a degraded state. What is the likely reason for the indication?

A vSphere administrator finds a HA/DRS cluster status has turned RED indicating a degraded state.
What is the likely reason for the indication? 

A. The cluster enabled for HA has lost resources and is unable to fulfill its failover requirements.
B. The cluster does not have enough resources to satisfy the reservations of all resource pools and virtual machines.
C. Incompatible CPU generations between hosts are preventing DRS migrations.
D. The cluster is currently electing a Master host and is unavailable to perform HA functions.








Answer: A

Which two Identity Sources are available to add for vCenter Single Sign-On authentication? (Choose two.)

Which two Identity Sources are available to add for vCenter Single Sign-On authentication? (Choose two.) 

A. LocalOS
B. OpenLDAP
C. NIS as an LDAP Server
D. VCMSDS






Answer: A,B

Which condition will cause a HA/DRS cluster to display a yellow health indicator?

Which condition will cause a HA/DRS cluster to display a yellow health indicator? 

A. There are insufficient resources to satisfy the cluster's requirements.
B. A virtual machine has failed and cannot be restarted in the cluster.
C. Virtual machine I/O activity in the cluster has reached or exceeded a critical level.
D. One or more hosts in the cluster has entered maintenance mode.








Answer: A

An organization has a HA/DRS cluster containing a mixture of ESXi 4.1 and 5.5 hosts in the cluster. An ESXi 5.5 host has failed and HA attempted but failed to restart the virtual machines on another host. HA admission control is disabled. What condition could result in this behavior?

An organization has a HA/DRS cluster containing a mixture of ESXi 4.1 and 5.5 hosts in the cluster. An ESXi 5.5 host has failed and HA attempted but failed to restart the virtual machines on another host. HA admission control is disabled.
What condition could result in this behavior? 

A. A virtual machine has an incompatible hardware version
B. Insufficient resources exist on the remaining ESXi hosts
C. vMotion migration is not supported between ESXi 5.5 and 4.1 hosts
D. HA failover is not supported between ESXi 5.5 and 4.1 hosts






Answer: A

A vSphere administrator is configuring a fully automated DRS cluster and determines that DRS is not balancing virtual machine workloads. What condition could cause this behavior?

A vSphere administrator is configuring a fully automated DRS cluster and determines that DRS is not balancing virtual machine workloads.
What condition could cause this behavior? 

A. vMotion is not properly configured on the hosts in the cluster.
B. HA is not properly configured on the hosts in the cluster.
C. The DRS threshold is configured on the most aggressive setting.
D. Some of the virtual machines have been disabled from DRS.






Answer: A

An administrator receives the following error message: Unmanaged I/O workload detected on shared datastore. Which vSphere feature is the likely source of this error?

An administrator receives the following error message:
Unmanaged I/O workload detected on shared datastore.
Which vSphere feature is the likely source of this error? 

A. Network I/O control
B. Storage I/O control
C. Storage DRS
D. HA datastore heartbeats






Answer: B

A Windows Server 2008 virtual machine with the following configuration receives an Out of Space condition indicator: * The virtual machine uses thin provisioned virtual disks. * The VMFS5 datastore on which the virtual machine's files reside is on a thin provisioned LUN. * 30% of the VMFS datastore content is no longer needed. * The storage array supports VASA and VAAI. Which action should the vSphere administrator take to resolve the Out of Space problem without requesting additional space on the storage array?

A Windows Server 2008 virtual machine with the following configuration receives an Out of Space condition indicator:
* The virtual machine uses thin provisioned virtual disks.
* The VMFS5 datastore on which the virtual machine's files reside is on a thin provisioned LUN.
* 30% of the VMFS datastore content is no longer needed.
* The storage array supports VASA and VAAI.
Which action should the vSphere administrator take to resolve the Out of Space problem without requesting additional space on the storage array? 

A. Delete unneeded files on the VMFS datastore and then use vmkfstools to reclaim deleted blocks.
B. Delete unneeded files on the VMFS datastore, right-click the datastore in vSphere Web Client, and then select the Reclaim Deleted Blocks option.
C. Delete some files from the guest OS and defrag its file system.
D. Delete some files from the guest OS and use vmkfstools to reclaim the deleted blocks.








Answer: A

A VMFS5 datastore shows several errors, which suggests file system corruption. Which tool could a vSphere administrator use to check the VMFS file system?

A VMFS5 datastore shows several errors, which suggests file system corruption.
Which tool could a vSphere administrator use to check the VMFS file system? 

A. vSphere On-disk Metadata Analyzer (VOMA)
B. VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant (VIMA)
C. vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
D. VMware vSphere Health Check Analyzer (VHCA)






Answer: A

To avoid unnecessary planned downtime, what is the minimum version of VMware Tools that, if installed, will decrease the need for virtual machine reboots following VMware Tools upgrades?

To avoid unnecessary planned downtime, what is the minimum version of VMware Tools that, if installed, will decrease the need for virtual machine reboots following VMware Tools upgrades? 

A. 5.5
B. 5.1
C. 5.0
D. 4.1







Answer: B

An administrator has configured hardware acceleration for a Fibre Channel storage array. After a recent maintenance event, the administrator finds that cloning and migration operations are taking excessively long to complete. Which two settings could cause hardware acceleration to become disabled? (Choose two.)

An administrator has configured hardware acceleration for a Fibre Channel storage array. After a recent maintenance event, the administrator finds that cloning and migration operations are taking excessively long to complete.
Which two settings could cause hardware acceleration to become disabled? (Choose two.) 

A. VAAI Plugin Name = VMW_VAAIP_SYM
B. VAAI Plugin Name = VMW_VAAIP_NETAPP
C. VMFS3.HardwareAcceleratedLocking = 0
D. Datamover.HardwareAcceleratedInit = 0







Answer: C,D

An administrator attempts to delete a Storage Policy and receives an error. Which two object types, if assigned a Storage Policy, would prevent the Storage Policy from being deleted? (Choose two.)

An administrator attempts to delete a Storage Policy and receives an error.
Which two object types, if assigned a Storage Policy, would prevent the Storage Policy from being deleted? (Choose two.) 

A. A virtual machine.
B. A virtual disk.
C. A datastore.
D. A datastore cluster.






Answer: A,B

Which database platform is embedded within the vApp architecture of vCenter Operations Manager?

Which database platform is embedded within the vApp architecture of vCenter Operations Manager? 

A. MySQL
B. IBM DB2 Express
C. Oracle 11g Express
D. vPostgres









Answer: D

Why would an administrator be unable to locate an IP address for a vSphere vmnic uplink?

Why would an administrator be unable to locate an IP address for a vSphere vmnic uplink? 

A. IP addresses are defined at the virtual nic level, not the vmnic level.
B. ESXi host vmnics communicate with physical switches on layer 3.
C. ESXi hosts use NAT translation to mask the actual vmnic IP address.
D. The IP address of the vmnic is not shown in the vSphere Client.







Answer: A

An administrator is upgrading a vSphere Distributed Switch. The existing switch is version 5.0 and the administrator wants to upgrade to the latest version possible. The environment contains several ESXi 5.1 hosts. Which two options are available to ensure that the upgraded switch will be compatible with these hosts? (Choose two.)

An administrator is upgrading a vSphere Distributed Switch. The existing switch is version 5.0 and the administrator wants to upgrade to the latest version possible. The environment contains several ESXi 5.1 hosts.
Which two options are available to ensure that the upgraded switch will be compatible with these hosts? (Choose two.) 

A. Upgrade the vSphere Distributed Switch to 5.5
B. Upgrade the ESXi 5.1 hosts to version 5.5, then upgrade the vSphere Distributed Switch to 5.5
C. Upgrade the vSphere Distributed Switch to 5.1
D. Upgrade the ESXi host switches to 5.5, then upgrade the vSphere Distributed Switch to 5.5








Answer: B,C

Immediately after installing an ESXi host, an administrator needs to examine the following log files: * /var/log/hostd.log * /var/log/vmkernel.log * /var/log/vpxa.log Which two connections would allow an administrator to examine these files? (Choose two.)

Immediately after installing an ESXi host, an administrator needs to examine the following log files:
* /var/log/hostd.log
* /var/log/vmkernel.log
* /var/log/vpxa.log
Which two connections would allow an administrator to examine these files? (Choose two.) 

A. Connecting to the Direct Console User Interface
B. Attaching a vSphere Client directly to the ESXi host
C. Attaching the vSphere Web Client directly to the ESXi host
D. Attaching the vSphere Client to the vCenter Server managing the ESXi host








Answer: A,B

A vSphere administrator assigns VLAN 3389 to the Production port group on the VCP_DCV_Example vSphere Distributed Switch. After the change, users report a loss of connectivity to their applications. Further analysis provides the following data: * The cluster has not had a ESXi host failure. * Application functioned normally prior to the change. * The loss of connectivity occurred immediately following the change. Which condition would cause this loss of connectivity?

A vSphere administrator assigns VLAN 3389 to the Production port group on the VCP_DCV_Example vSphere Distributed Switch. After the change, users report a loss of connectivity to their applications. Further analysis provides the following data:
* The cluster has not had a ESXi host failure.
* Application functioned normally prior to the change.
* The loss of connectivity occurred immediately following the change.
Which condition would cause this loss of connectivity? 

A. The physical switch ports used by the vmnics have not been configured with 802.1Q.
B. Maintenance Mode was initiated on one of the hosts in the cluster. Connectivity will resume after the virtual machines are migrated.
C. All uplinks were removed from the VCP_DCV_Example switch and added to another virtual switch.
D. A load balancing setting on the port group conflicts with the load balancing setting of the switch.







Answer: A

An administrator creates an ESXi cluster using vSphere Auto Deploy. The ESXi hosts are configured to get a management IP address from a DHCP server. The administrator needs to troubleshoot the management network on one of the hosts. Which DCUI option should the administrator use to renew the DHCP lease?

An administrator creates an ESXi cluster using vSphere Auto Deploy. The ESXi hosts are configured to get a management IP address from a DHCP server. The administrator needs to troubleshoot the management network on one of the hosts. Which DCUI option should the administrator use to renew the DHCP lease? 

A. Restart Management Network
B. Restore Network Settings
C. Test Management Network
D. Configure Management Network







Answer: A

A vSphere administrator is performing maintenance on a group of ESXi 5.5 hosts when an error message displays indicating that the ramdisk is full. The two hosts reporting the problem were deployed with Auto Deploy. What should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

A vSphere administrator is performing maintenance on a group of ESXi 5.5 hosts when an error message displays indicating that the ramdisk is full. The two hosts reporting the problem were deployed with Auto Deploy. What should the administrator do to resolve this issue? 

A. Redirect host logs to an NFS store
B. Disable the System Logs through the host DCUI
C. Decrease the maximum host log file size to 10240KB
D. Move the ramdisk to an SSD drive







Answer: A

An administrator notices that a virtual machine fails to start when right-clicking on the VM in the inventory and clicking Power -> Power On. Which log file should the administrator check first to determine why the virtual machine will not start?

An administrator notices that a virtual machine fails to start when right-clicking on the VM in the inventory and clicking Power -> Power On.
Which log file should the administrator check first to determine why the virtual machine will not start? 

A. vmkernel.log
B. messages
C. vpxa.log
D. fdm.log









Answer: A

An administrator is installing ESXi 5.x to a local SAS drive. The installation stops on a purple screen and shows the error: The system has found a problem on your machine and cannot continue. Could not populate the filesystem: Admission check failed Which action should the administrator take to resolve this issue?

An administrator is installing ESXi 5.x to a local SAS drive. The installation stops on a purple screen and shows the error:
The system has found a problem on your machine and cannot continue. Could not populate the filesystem: Admission check failed
Which action should the administrator take to resolve this issue? 

A. Upgrade the ESXi host to meet the minimum hardware requirement for installation.
B. Disable the network interface cards (NICs) to ensure that third-party drivers do not interfere with installation.
C. Enable hardware Virtualization Technology in the ESXi host BIOS.
D. Disable the Host Bus Adapters (HBA) to ensure the installation targets the local disk.








Answer: A

An administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager for the initial deployment of VMware Tools on a group of newly created virtual machines. When the administrator scans the objects for compliance, a compliance state of Incompatible is returned. How should the administrator resolve the issue?

An administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager for the initial deployment of VMware Tools on a group of newly created virtual machines.
When the administrator scans the objects for compliance, a compliance state of Incompatible is returned.
How should the administrator resolve the issue? 

A. Install VMware Tools manually on the new virtual machines.
B. Ensure the latest version of VMware Tools has been downloaded to the Update Manager repository.
C. Enable the Upgrade VMware Tools on Power Cycle option.
D. Create a separate baseline object for each guest OS type .







Answer: A