VCP2

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

A vSphere administrator is attempting to upgrade an ESXi host using vSphere Update Manager. The administrator has attached the baseline and remediated the host. Update Manager reports the remediation process has completed successfully. However, upon inspection the host is not upgraded. What is the most likely reason for this issue?

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?

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

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?

Which statement is true regarding the licensing of vCenter Server?

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?

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.)

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 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?

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 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?

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 vSphere administrator created a Virtual SAN and a relevant virtual machine Storage Policy. The administrator is unable to select this virtual machine Storage Policy when creating a new virtual machine. Based on the exhibit, why is the administrator unable to select this virtual machine Storage Policy?

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?

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 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 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?

An administrator is planning a vSphere Fault Tolerance implementation for 6 virtual machines. Which two virtual disk types are supported with FT? (Choose two.)

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

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?

Why would a vSphere administrator configure resource shares for a virtual machine?

A vSphere administrator has been using vSphere in evaluation mode and now wants to deploy an environment that provides the same features. Which edition of vSphere provides similar functionality to evaluation mode?

What two requirements must be met to create a fully automated Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster? (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.)

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 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.)

What is the purpose of configuring a VMkernel port for Fault Tolerance logging?

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?

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

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

A vSphere administrator manages a three host cluster with 20 VMs. The HA cluster is configured with the Host Failures the Cluster Tolerates admission control policy and all other settings are set to default values. The administrator determines that one of the VMs is not able to power on. After further inspection, it is determined that this VM cannot power on because of a very large CPU reservation. Which cluster advanced HA setting can the administrator modify to enable the virtual machine to power on?

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

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

An administrator needs to configure vFlash Read Cache to improve performance. What would benefit the most from enabling vFlash Read Cache?

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

The vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one ESXi 5.5 host to another ESXi 5.5 host. The virtual machine has a virtual disk that is stored in local storage. Assuming only the vSphere Essentials licensing is in place, which technique should the administrator use to accomplish the migration?

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 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?

Which information can the administrator use to identify iSCSI nodes?

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 vSphere administrator has configured a virtual machine alarm to trigger a warning when the condition Snapshot Size exceeds 1GB. Which action should the administrator configure on the alarm to automatically resolve the condition?

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 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?

What is indicated by the performance chart shown?

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

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?

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?

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

An application administrator reports application slowness when loading the application’s web portal. The virtual machine is currently connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch. The application owner requests information about the virtual machine’s network traffic. Which feature of a vSphere Distributed Switch should the administrator use to gather the needed
information?