VCP-DCV Practice Test 2

A vSphere administrator needs to enable Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) in an existing vSphere environment:

 The environment contains a High Availability (HA) cluster with eight ESXi hosts.
 Six ESXi hosts are not in a cluster.
 DRS should be used on as many hosts as possible.
 Initial placement of virtual machines should be automatically performed.
 Migration recommendations should be provided, but not performed without approval.

Which procedure should the administrator perform to accomplish this task?

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 needs to reconfigure the Distributed Power Management (DPM) threshold to be more aggressive. Where should the administrator edit the settings of DPM in the vSphere Web Client?

Which two statements are true regarding a new vSphere deployment that is using software FCoE boot from SAN? (Choose two.)

A VMware administrator needs to simplify the placement of virtual machines. The administrator also needs to balance I/O load and space utilization automatically. Which combination of features should the administrator use to achieve this?

The vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one host to another. The virtual machine .vswp file resides in local storage. Which two techniques can the administrator use to migrate the virtual machine? (Choose two.)

A vSphere administrator needs to enable Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine. When performing a Storage vMotion migration, which setting should the vSphere administrator change in the virtual machine’s disk format to ensure it meets Fault Tolerance requirements?

An organization’s wants to ensure that if a host in a High Availability (HA) cluster fails, critical virtual machines resume operation even if there are insufficient resources to continue to run all virtual machines in the cluster. Which HA setting should be configured to ensure the cluster operates as expected?

An administrator needs to configure a Linux virtual machine template to support guest customization. The administrator has installed VMware Tools. Which additional component is necessary to enable Linux guest OS customization?

A vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine to another datastore and host without disrupting virtual machine users. Which technique should the vSphere administrator use?

A system administrator has an application installed on a physical machine that is licensed to the MAC address of the physical NIC. This system needs to be virtualized. What two methods could an administrator use to ensure the license will function in the virtual machine? (Choose two.)

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 creating a new VMFS volume and needs to make it available to all hosts within a datacenter using the Web Client. What should the administrator scan for in order to meet this requirement?

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 vSphere administrator has created a Virtual SAN Cluster with Automatic Mode Disk Groups. The cluster includes three ESXi hosts contributing one SSD and six SAS disks each. The administrator has four new ESXi hosts that boot from a fiber channel array and have no local disks attached.
These four new hosts need additional shared storage but there is insufficient space on the fiber channel array. The hardware budget is limited. What can the administrator do to provide the needed storage for the lowest cost?

A vSphere administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tier application. Every time the vApp is started, the virtual machines perform a file system check. Which action should the administrator take to resolve this issue?

Which tool should an administrator use to modify vSphere Data Protection (VDP) backup jobs?

Which statement is true about the hardware configuration for ESXi hosts participating in a virtual SAN?

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 administrator needs to temporarily disable DRS on a cluster containing a resource pool hierarchy. Which procedure should the administrator follow to preserve the resource pool hierarchy while DRS is disabled?

An administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tiered application and needs to configure custom startup actions for each virtual machine. What should the administrator do to enable this functionality?

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?

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

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

A virtual machine has the following configuration:

 Thin provisioned virtual disks
 The VMFS datastore on which it resides is on a thin provisioned LUN.
 The storage array is VAAI-enabled.

What is the behavior of the virtual machine when it encounters an out-of-space condition?

A customer needs a datastore to be seen across multiple vSphere clusters with applications inside of the virtual machines that must detect the physical characteristics of the storage device. Which type of virtual disk meets this requirement?

Which feature requires an administrator to configure an RDM with Virtual Compatibility Mode?

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 vSphere administrator needs the ability to adjust the amount of guaranteed physical CPU and Memory resources to a virtual machine without incurring application downtime. Which actions must the administrator perform?

The current block size of a datastore in VMFS3 is 4MB. An administrator needs to upgrade the datastore to VMFS5 and wants to change it to 1MB block size. Which action should the administrator take?

Which statement is accurate when choosing the storage controller for a virtual machine using the Create New Virtual Machine wizard in custom mode?

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 needs to prevent two virtual machines from running on the same host at any time. Which DRS rule should the administrator apply?

An administrator needs to use guest OS clustering in a vSphere environment that uses a Fibre
Channel SAN. The clustering software does NOT have a SCSI target or a SCSI command pass-through requirement. Which VMware storage type should the administrator use?

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?

What should an administrator do to configure multi-pathing using software iSCSI?

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 VMware administrator needs to export a vApp and create a self-contained package that has a single file. Which format should the administrator use?

An administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager to perform orchestrated upgrades of ESXi hosts and virtual machines. The vSphere management components reside in a secure environment that does not have direct access to the Internet. How would Update Manager be configured in this environment while maintaining the organization’s security requirements?

A customer needs to size a single backup appliance for backing up 3TB of data. There is no requirement for guest level backups of SQL and Exchange. What is the minimum VMware Data Protection solution and sizing that would fulfill the stated requirements?

An administrator has configured a vSphere 5.5 test environment to evaluate the Virtual SAN feature using Automatic Mode Disk Groups. The administrator needs to disable the Virtual SAN cluster while preserving the virtual machines running on that cluster. The administrator has already installed a vSphere 5.5 Client on a Windows 7 desktop and also has access to the vSphere 5.5 Web Client. What should the administrator do to disable the Virtual SAN?

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 has created a Virtual Flash Read Cache and needs to add a total 2TB of capacity to the cache. The administrator has a total of six SSD disks to add, but is unable to add one of the disks. What is a likely cause of the problem?

A virtual machine is receiving a large number of network packets, which is affecting the performance of other virtual machines connected to the same virtual network. What should the vSphere administrator do to resolve the issue?

Which two CPU features enable the use of 64-bit virtual machines? (Choose two.)

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 is deploying a virtual machine from a template. Assuming all of the inventory objects below exist in the implementation, what is the highest level in the vCenter Server hierarchy to which a virtual machine can be deployed?

A DRS cluster has been created with the following specifications:

 All mission critical virtual machines are in the root resource pool.
 All other virtual machines are placed into two child pools based on medium or low priority.
 The two child pools contain adequate resources needed by the medium and low priority virtual machines.
 The two child pools are reserving 35% of the total available resources of the cluster.

What is the advantage of leaving the mission critical virtual machines in the root resource pool?

A virtual machine is unable to communicate with another virtual machine. Both virtual machines are connected to the Production port group on the same virtual switch and are running on the same host. Which configuration is causing the inability of the virtual machines to communicate?

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.)