VCP-DCV Practice Test 4

An administrator needs to implement trusted SSL certificates for all vCenter 5.5 components.
Which component needs an SSL certificate?

An administrator needs to migrate a company’s physical servers to virtual servers and deploy into the ESXi 5.x cluster. During the process of converting to a virtual machine, the administrator needs to reduce the size of the disks. Which method should the administrator use to meet this requirement?

A vSphere administrator has created a vSphere Standard Switch with one virtual machine port group and one physical uplink. The administrator needs to ensure that the virtual machines on this port group can communicate only with each other. What should the administrator do?

An administrator needs to create an IP allocation policy for a multi-tiered application running in a vApp. The IP addresses should be allocated automatically by vCenter Server, but should not be released even if a virtual machine is powered off. Which IP allocation model should the administrator use for the vApp?

An administrator has deployed vSphere Data Protection and wants to configure several virtual machine backup jobs. When using the vSphere client on a Windows 7 desktop, the administrator notices that there is no icon for vSphere Data Protection in the Solutions and Applications area of the vSphere client. What is the reason the administrator is unable to access vSphere Data Protection from the vSphere client on their desktop?

An administrator is migrating 135 virtual machines from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed switch. The migration reports an error and only some of the virtual machines are transferred. What is causing the error to occur?

An administrator needs to deploy a vSphere solution containing a number of hosts and a vSphere Distributed Switch. Which steps should the administrator take to accomplish this?

The oncall system administrator has made a change on the ESXi host requiring a restart of the management network. Lockdown mode is enabled. Which action should the administrator take to restart the management network?

Which installation method is not available for a new deployment of ESXi 5.x?

An organization is designing a new vSphere cluster to support a new product implementation.
The following challenges have been identified by the vSphere administration team:

 The organization has the vSphere Enterprise License.
 The network team needs to gather virtual machine network statistics over a long period of time.
 The network team needs the ability to quickly assess virtual machine traffic in the event of an attack.
 The network team has previously had problems implementing manual etherchannel configurations on their physical switches, resulting in production outages.
 The new cluster’s initial size is 15 hosts.

The organization is willing to upgrade to vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing if it addresses these challenges. Which three features of a version 5.5 vSphere Distributed Switch would address these challenges? (Choose three.)

An organization has a cluster of 6 ESXi hosts. Security policy requires that all administrative activity occurs through vCenter Server and not directly on the hosts. Which action should a system administrator take to enforce this policy?

An administrator is considering using NPIV to assign WWNs to virtual machines. Virtual machine portability is a major concern. Why would NPIV be inappropriate for this deployment?

An administrator is setting up a new vSphere environment for application development with health monitoring and capacity management. The administrator has purchased three servers for the initial install. The administrator is NOT planning to grow the environment and needs to keep costs as low as possible. Which vSphere kit should the administrator use to meet these requirements?

A customer needs to select an appropriate Path Selection Policy (PSP) for their storage array.
There is no requirement for a preferred path. The policy should not select a new path unless the current one fails. Which PSP meets the requirement?

A vApp is performing poorly and an administrator determines that the memory resources are low. How should the administrator resolve this issue?

How should a vSphere administrator disable memory compression?

An administrator has configured multi-pathing using an Fiber Channel array in an active-active configuration. What is the expected behavior of an ESXi host when a failed preferred path becomes available using the Fixed path selection policy for this array type?

An administrator is preparing to install an additional Single Sign-On node on a stand-alone server.
What information is required during the installation routine?

An administrator needs to unmount a datastore that is also used for HA storage heartbeats. What is the least disruptive method for an administrator to perform this activity on a slave HA host?

Which two traffic types can be enabled on the VMkernel adapters of an ESXi 5.5 host using the vSphere Web Client? (Choose two.)

An administrator needs to continue using ESXi after the 60-day evaluation period expires. The administrator has obtained a valid license from VMware. Which step must the administrator take to deploy the license?

An administrator has created a Virtual SAN Cluster using Automatic Mode Disk Groups. There is very little storage space left in the cluster. The administrator has access to an iSCSI storage array.
Which approach should the administrator take to expand the Virtual SAN Cluster?

What is a characteristic of Virtual SAN?

A vSphere administrator needs to place an ESXi host in maintenance mode to replace a hardware component. This host is a member of a Virtual SAN cluster that uses Automatic Mode Disk Groups. Availability of virtual machines running on this host is critical. HA and DRS are enabled on the Virtual SAN Cluster. Otherwise, the Virtual SAN cluster uses default values. Which action should the administrator take to automatically guarantee availability of virtual machines with the fastest migration time?

An administrator decreases the CPU share value for two virtual machines in a DRS cluster from
1000 to 100 shares. The DRS cluster contains more resources than both virtual machines can consume. The characteristics of the virtual machines are listed below:

 The second virtual machine is a clone of the first virtual machine.
 Both virtual machines are identical in every way.
 Both virtual machines are not attached to the IP network.
 Both virtual machines are powered on.

What impact on the virtual machines’ performance will be observed?

Which information does the CPU Ready counter provide to a vSphere administrator?

A new LUN has been created on an iSCSI array and assigned to an ESXi 5.x server. However, when the administrator logs in to the vSphere Web Client the LUN is not visible. Other LUNs on the iSCSI array are visible. What should the administrator do to resolve this issue?

When deploying two sibling resource pools (RP1 and RP2), an administrator needs to make all resources in RP1 available to virtual machines in RP2. Which configuration should the administrator use to meet this requirement?

Before upgrading from vCenter 4.x to 5.x, an administrator runs the vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker. The Checker reports an issue. What would cause the vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker to report an issue?

Which Web service is installed during the vCenter Server installation?

What is not a supported method for increasing the availability of a vCenter Server virtual machine?

Which field should an administrator add to a Virtual SAN Disk Group under the Device Backing settings to monitor the health of disks in the Disk Group?

An administrator needs to join several ESXi hosts in the environment to the corporate Active Directory instance. The container and path for the OU is ServersVMware. The FQDN of the local Active Directory is CORP.AD. Which option accurately shows the information an administrator would enter when configuring an ESXi host to join the domain and ensures the host is placed in the appropriate OU?

A large aerospace company utilizes a mission critical application requiring a large database server with 16 vCPUs and 500GB of RAM. Because of the critical nature of the application, the company also wants to leverage Reliable Memory Technology. What is the minimum edition of vSphere that will support this scenario?

An administrator of a secure environment needs to add an iSCSI target to a new ESXi host using the vSphere client. The administrator has configured discovery and performed a rescan operation, but the iSCSI target does NOT appear. Which action should the administrator take for the target to appear in the vSphere client?

A vSphere administrator needs to add more space to an existing 3-node Virtual SAN cluster. The attempts to add the new host to the cluster as a contributing member have failed. However, it can be added as a non-contributing member. The host was previously used in a single host configuration. The administrator recently upgraded the host from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 prior to adding it to the cluster. What is the reason for this failure?

Which steps should an administrator take to migrate existing ESXi 5.x virtual machines to a storage over-subscription model?

Which VMware Tools upgrade method minimizes the need for scheduled downtime?

Which configuration will block communication between two virtual machines on the same DMZ network?

A vSphere administrator needs to perform packet tracing from a Linux virtual machine. The virtual machine is attached to a vSphere Standard Switch configured with several VLANs. Which approach could the administrator use to configure the network to capture all traffic from the Linux virtual machine?

A new LUN from an existing storage array is presented to a vSphere cluster. A vSphere administrator determines that the LUN is visible on all but one ESXi host in the cluster. The affected host is able to see existing LUNs presented from the same storage array. What is the most likely cause?

Which controller is recommended for high disk I/O workloads?

A vSphere administrator needs to add redundancy to an ESXi 5.x management network on a vSphere Standard Switch. Which method should the administrator use to create redundant management networks?

A number of virtual machines in a vSphere 5.5 DRS cluster are connected to the same virtual switch port group. After several of these VMs are migrated to another host, an administrator notices that they have lost network connectivity. The Events tab in vCenter Server shows this error message:

Failed to initialize ethernet0.

The vmkernel log file on the host running the affected VMs contains this message:

Can’t connect device:’port group name': Out of resources.

Which caused this issue?

A large medical institution needs to centralize malware and anti-virus scanning in its environment. Which vSphere component will satisfy this requirement?

An administrator is deploying vSphere using a NAS device as the shared storage system. The administrator has already created a VMkernel port, enabled the NFS client, and configured a mount point accessible to the hosts. Which additional configuration is required before the datastore can be used to create virtual machines?

What is the correct order to install vCenter Server 5.x components?

An administrator is building a new vSphere Standard Switch with two active uplinks. The physical switch ports for these uplinks are placed in an etherchannel. Which load balancing policy should the administrator use to support the etherchannel configuration?

A VMware administrator determines that a low priority virtual machine is negatively affecting the disk I/O performance of a higher priority virtual machine. The virtual machines are hosted on the same datastore presented to the same ESXi host. Which configuration option should the VMware administrator use to resolve this issue?

Which two steps can an administrator take to upgrade an existing VMFS2 datastore to VMFS5?
(Choose two.)