A vCloud Automation Center Enterprise Administrator receives a report from a Provisioning Group Manager that requests must sometimes be approved two times. Why is this?

A vCloud Automation Center Enterprise Administrator receives a report from a Provisioning Group Manager that requests must sometimes be approved two times. Why is this? 







A. The blueprint includes a default group manager approval as well as a machine resources approval.
B. The blueprint and the build profile both specify that approval is required.
C. The blueprint includes a default group manager approval as well as a special security approval.
D. The Global Blueprint and the Reservation Policy both specify that approval is required.








Answer: A

Which vCloud Automation Center action will prevent passwords from being displayed in plain text when a virtual machine is provisioned from a blueprint?

Which vCloud Automation Center action will prevent passwords from being displayed in plain text when a virtual machine is provisioned from a blueprint? 






A. Click the Encryptcheck box on the appropriate build profile properties.
B. Click the Encrypt check box on the blueprint the virtual machine is provisioned from.
C. Set the Image.Network.Password property to Encrypt on the blueprint the virtual machine is provisioned from.
D. Set the Image.Network.Password property to Encrypt in the appropriate build profile.







Answer: A

An administrator creates a catalog named "DemoCat" containing vApps and media. Administrators in a separate instance of vCloud Director need access to the catalog objects, including changes. Which feature will allow the remote administrators to subscribe to the DemoCat catalog?

An administrator creates a catalog named "DemoCat" containing vApps and media. Administrators in a separate instance of vCloud Director need access to the catalog objects, including changes.
Which feature will allow the remote administrators to subscribe to the DemoCat catalog? 







A. Object Taxonomy
B. External Publishing
C. Catalog Sharing
D. Content Endpoints







Answer: B

An administrator is creating vCloud Automation Center Reservations as initial placeholders for Provisioning Groups. The administrator has specified Compute Resource, Name, Network Paths, Storage, and Provisioning Group settings to create the Reservations. Which additional setting must be specified to complete the task?

An administrator is creating vCloud Automation Center Reservations as initial placeholders for Provisioning Groups.
The administrator has specified Compute Resource, Name, Network Paths, Storage, and Provisioning Group settings to create the Reservations.
Which additional setting must be specified to complete the task? 





A. Priority
B. Memory
C. Resource Pool
D. Reservation Policy







Answer: A

An administrator attempts to delete an Org VDC, but the operation fails. The administrator has disabled the Org VDC, and all of the vApps contained in the Org VDC are powered off. What should the administrator do to ensure a successful delete operation?

An administrator attempts to delete an Org VDC, but the operation fails.
The administrator has disabled the Org VDC, and all of the vApps contained in the Org VDC are powered off.
What should the administrator do to ensure a successful delete operation? 






A. Delete any associated vCNS Edge device.
B. Delete any associated networks.
C. Change ownership of the Org VDC.
D. Disconnect the Org VDC from the Provider VDC.








Answer: B

Users need to provision a complex application that includes virtual, physical, and Cloud servers. What should the administrator do to allow the users to request all of the servers for this application in a single request?

Users need to provision a complex application that includes virtual, physical, and Cloud servers.
What should the administrator do to allow the users to request all of the servers for this application in a single request? 







A. Create a Blueprint for each machine that is part of the application.Create a multi-machine Blueprint and add each machine Blueprint from the applicable local Blueprints.Create a Provisioning Group for users in the department.
B. Create a Blueprint for each machine that is part of the application.Create a multi-machine Blueprint and add each machine Blueprint from the applicable global and local Blueprints.Create a Provisioning Group for users in the department.
C. Create a multi-machine local or global Blueprint specifying each machine that is part of the application. Create a Provisioning Group for users in the department.
D. Create a Provisioning Group for users in the department.






Answer: A

When vCloud Automation Center provisions a vSphere virtual machine from a Blueprint, how is the selection of storage paths prioritized?

When vCloud Automation Center provisions a vSphere virtual machine from a Blueprint, how is the selection of storage paths prioritized? 






A. The storage path with the highest priority number is selected for provisioning.
B. Storage paths are ordered by priority number (lowest to highest) before considering the space available.
C. Storage paths with sufficient space available are considered; then the highest priority number is selected.
D. Storage paths with sufficient space available are considered; then the lowest priority number is selected.






Answer: B

An administrator logged in with the Enterprise Administrator role needs to create a Network Profile, but the option does not appear in the vCloud Automation Center interface. What should the administrator enable to resolve the issue?

An administrator logged in with the Enterprise Administrator role needs to create a Network Profile, but the option does not appear in the vCloud Automation Center interface. What should the administrator enable to resolve the issue? 







A. Network Pools
B. the Static IP service
C. Network Proxy Agent
D. Network Distributed Execution Manager






Answer: B

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?

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? 







A. Migrate the virtual machine to a standard switch that has been configured for ingress traffic shaping
B. Configure the distributed switch to which the virtual machine is connected for ingress traffic shaping
C. Migrate the virtual machine to a different port group on the same distributed switch
D. Enable Network I/O Control on the standard switch to which the virtual machine is connected







Answer: B

What should the vCloud Director vApp owner do to connect a vApp Network to an existing OrgVDC Network?

What should the vCloud Director vApp owner do to connect a vApp Network to an existing OrgVDC Network? 






A. Add the OrgVDC Network to the vApp, then migrate the vApp Network.
B. Enable the Organization Administration controls to include the OrgVDC network.
C. Power off the vApp, then modify the connection from the Networking tab.
D. Add the OrgVDC Network specification to the vApp Network properties.








Answer: C

An administrator needs to create a Network Pool with the following requirements: - Provides optimum network performance - Network MTU must not exceed 1500 - vCloud Director creates port groups as needed Which Network Pool type should the administrator create?

An administrator needs to create a Network Pool with the following requirements:
- Provides optimum network performance
- Network MTU must not exceed 1500
- vCloud Director creates port groups as needed
Which Network Pool type should the administrator create? 







A. VLAN
B. VXLAN
C. vSphere Port Group-Backed
D. vCloud Network Isolation-Backed







Answer: A

An organization administrator previously imported a group from LDAP. The vCloud administrator deletes the LDAP group. How will the change affect the users in the LDAP group?

An organization administrator previously imported a group from LDAP. The vCloud administrator deletes the LDAP group.
How will the change affect the users in the LDAP group?








A. The users will be unable to log into vCloud Director.
B. The users' accounts will be converted to local accounts.
C. The users' accounts will be frozen.
D. The users' accounts will be converted to Organization accounts.








Answer: A

An administrator configures Cloud Registration to a vSphere Cloud type on the vCloud Connector node. Which value should the administrator use for the Cloud URL?

An administrator configures Cloud Registration to a vSphere Cloud type on the vCloud Connector node.
Which value should the administrator use for the Cloud URL? 







A. the IP address of the vCenter Server
B. the host name of the vCloud Connector Server
C. the IP address of vShield Manager
D. the host name of the vCloud Director cell








Answer: A

An administrator completes an upgrade of vCloud Director. What must the administrator do with the log4j.properties.rpmnew file if no changes are needed?

An administrator completes an upgrade of vCloud Director.
What must the administrator do with the log4j.properties.rpmnew file if no changes are needed? 








A. Copy the file to /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/etc/log4j.properties
B. Replace /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/log4j.properties with log4j.properties.rpmnew
C. Copy the file to /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/log4j.properties
D. Merge the file with the existing log4j.properties file








Answer: A

An administrator needs to enable a cluster to be used by vCloud Director. The cluster has the following configuration: Which change to the cluster must the administrator make?

An administrator needs to enable a cluster to be used by vCloud Director.
The cluster has the following configuration:
Which change to the cluster must the administrator make? 






A. Enable HA.
B. Add additional ESXi hosts to the cluster.
C. Enable DRS.
D. Configure a resource pool.






Answer: C

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 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. Delete Snapshot
B. Reset VM
C. Run a Command
D. Consolidate Snapshot







Answer: C

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

A user attempts a remote SSH connection to a newly-installed ESXi 5.x host to execute some commands. The SSH connection attempt fails, though the user is able to receive a ICMP ping back from the host. What must the administrator do to enable SSH.

A user attempts a remote SSH connection to a newly-installed ESXi 5.x host to execute some commands. The SSH connection attempt fails, though the user is able to receive a ICMP ping back from the host.
What must the administrator do to enable SSH. 








A. Enable root logon on the ESXi server.
B. Start the SSH service on the ESXi server.
C. Open the SSH port on the ESXi firewall.
D. Create a local user on the ESXi server.








Answer: B

A company has converted several physical machines to virtual machines but are seeing significant performance issues on the converted machines. The host is configured with sufficient memory and storage does not appear to be a bottleneck. Which metric can be checked to determine if CPU contention exists on an ESXi 5.x host?

A company has converted several physical machines to virtual machines but are seeing significant performance issues on the converted machines. The host is configured with sufficient memory and storage does not appear to be a bottleneck.
Which metric can be checked to determine if CPU contention exists on an ESXi 5.x host? 







A. CPU Usage (Mhz)
B. Active
C. Usage
D. Ready







Answer: D

An administrator wants to monitor the health status of an ESXi host. However, when the administrator clicks the Hardware Status tab in the vSphere Client the following error is displayed: This program cannot display the webpage What might cause this problem?

An administrator wants to monitor the health status of an ESXi host. However, when the administrator clicks the Hardware Status tab in the vSphere Client the following error is displayed:
This program cannot display the webpage
What might cause this problem? 





A. The VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices Service is not started.
B. The required plug-in is not enabled.
C. The VMware ESXi Management Webservices Service is not started
D. The name of the vCenter Server system could not be resolved.






Answer: A

Users have reported performance issues with an application running on a Windows VM. Performance analysis shows high CPU activity on the ESXi host but low CPU activity on the Windows VM. A high value in which overview graph and counter on the virtual machine's Performance tab would confirm the results of the performance analysis?

Users have reported performance issues with an application running on a Windows VM. Performance analysis shows high CPU activity on the ESXi host but low CPU activity on the Windows VM. A high value in which overview graph and counter on the virtual machine's Performance tab would confirm the results of the performance analysis? 







A. CPU (%) / Wait
B. CPU Usage (Mhz) / Wait
C. CPU Usage (Mhz) / Ready
D. CPU (%) / Ready








Answer: D

A database administrator has reported periodic poor performance on a particular virtual machine. The virtual machine administrator has noticed a significant drop in performance when utilized memory exceeds 1GB. What does this indicate and what could be checked next?

A database administrator has reported periodic poor performance on a particular virtual machine. The virtual machine administrator has noticed a significant drop in performance when utilized memory exceeds 1GB. What does this indicate and what could be checked next? 






A. The application problems are definitely due to a non-memory-related problem. CPU affinity settings should be checked for this virtual machine.
B. The application problems are definitely due to a non-memory-related problem. CPU utilization should be checked next, using Windows Task Manager.
C. The virtual machine might not have physical memory available. Compression and swap activity on the ESXi host should be checked next.
D. The virtual machine might not have physical memory available. Ensure the memory limit on the VM is set to 0 MB.







Answer: C

A user has permissions to create and manage alarms and tasks for a group of virtual machines. What happens if an administrator modifies permissions for the user so that they can no longer manage alarms?

A user has permissions to create and manage alarms and tasks for a group of virtual machines. What happens if an administrator modifies permissions for the user so that they can no longer manage alarms? 







A. The user can no longer create alarms, but can modify or delete the existing alarms.
B. The user can create alarms but can no longer modify or delete alarms.
C. The user can no longer create, modify or delete alarms.
D. The Alarms tab is dimmed in the vSphere Client and no alarm-related actions may be taken by the user.








Answer: B

A vSphere 5 implementation consists of a fully automated DRS cluster with two ESXi 5.x hosts with the following vNetwork Standard Switch configuration:

A vSphere 5 implementation consists of a fully automated DRS cluster with two ESXi 5.x hosts with the following vNetwork Standard Switch configuration: 

1. Switch A. three vmnics, one port group named sFTP-PG
2. Switch B. two vmnics, one port group named Web-PG
3. All vmnics are trunked to the same physical switch.
DRS has been configured with an anti-affinity rule for all virtual machines in the Web-PG so that no more than half of the virtual machines run on any given host. The virtual machines on WebPG are experiencing significant network latency. The network team has determined that a performance bottleneck is occurring at the ESXi host level.
Which solution will require the least amount of administrative work and the least amount of service interruption?





A. Migrate Web-PG to Switch A and sFTP-PG to Switch B on each host
B. Move a vmnic from Switch A to Switch B on each host
C. Convert the three Switch Bs to a single vNetwork Distributed Switch
D. Use vMotion to redistribute some of the VMs in Web-PG to a different ESXi host








Answer: B

An administrator is performing maintenance on a storage array used by a ESXi host. The administrator wants to disable alarm actions for the host while the maintenance is taking place. What procedure will accomplish this task?

An administrator is performing maintenance on a storage array used by a ESXi host. The administrator wants to disable alarm actions for the host while the maintenance is taking place. What procedure will accomplish this task? 







A. Right-click and disable each alarm.
B. Right-click the DRS cluster and select Alarm and Disable Alarm Actions.
C. Right-click the ESXi host and select Alarm and Disable Alarm Actions.
D. Go to the Alarms tab for the Datacenter containing the DRS cluster. Locate the storage-related alarms. Right-click and disable each alarm.






Answer: C

An administrator is setting up vMotion in a vSphere environment. A migration is run to test the configuration, but fails. What could the administrator do to resolve the issue?

An administrator is setting up vMotion in a vSphere environment. A migration is run to test the configuration, but fails. What could the administrator do to resolve the issue? 







A. Ensure the VMkernel port group is configured for Management Traffic.
B. Enable VMkernel port group for the vSphere cluster.
C. Ensure the VMotion enabled adaptors configured for the same subnet.
D. Use a vDS instead of a standard switch.







Answer: C

An administrator is unable to connect a vSphere Client to an ESXi host. Which option can be selected from the direct console to restore connectivity without disrupting running virtual machines?

An administrator is unable to connect a vSphere Client to an ESXi host. Which option can be selected from the direct console to restore connectivity without disrupting running virtual machines? 







A. Restore the Standard Switch from the ESXi host.
B. Restart the Management Agents from the vSphere client.
C. Restart the Management Agent from the ESXi host.
D. Disable the Management Network from the vSphere client.








Answer: C

An administrator is configuring a stretched HA cluster. The administrator wishes to restrict the failover of VMs to certain hosts within a given site. Which additional vSphere feature satisfies this requirement?

An administrator is configuring a stretched HA cluster. The administrator wishes to restrict the failover of VMs to certain hosts within a given site. Which additional vSphere feature satisfies this requirement? 







A. vSphere Distributed Switch
B. Distributed Resource Scheduler
C. Datastore Clusters
D. Host Profiles






Answer: B

An administrator is creating a virtual machine that will be running Windows 2008 Enterprise (64- bit). The application to be installed in the virtual machine requires eight vCPUs to run effectively. During installation, the only available options are one, two, three, or four vCPUs. What condition explains the available vCPU selections?

An administrator is creating a virtual machine that will be running Windows 2008 Enterprise (64- bit). The application to be installed in the virtual machine requires eight vCPUs to run effectively. During installation, the only available options are one, two, three, or four vCPUs. What condition explains the available vCPU selections? 







A. The virtual machine hardware version is 8.
B. The guest operating system for the virtual machine is 64-bit.
C. The ESXi host has two non hyperthreaded dual-core CPUs.
D. The ESXi host has two hyperthreaded dual-core CPUs.






Answer: C

What is the size of a virtual machine .vswp file?

What is the size of a virtual machine .vswp file? 







A. The virtual machine .vswp file is equal to twice the amount of available memory configured for the virtual machine when 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) configured for the virtual machine when it was created.
C. The virtual machine .vswp file is set to the amount of memory allocated minus any memory reservation.
D. The virtual machine .vswp file is equal to the amount of available memory in the ESXi server.







Answer: C

A network administrator has discovered a failure that has affected connectivity on the management network cutting the cluster in half. As a result, each half of the ESXi 5.x hosts in a vSphere HA cluster is able to communicate with each other but not the other half. The cluster was configured with default settings. What happens as a result of the failure?

A network administrator has discovered a failure that has affected connectivity on the management network cutting the cluster in half. As a result, each half of the ESXi 5.x hosts in a vSphere HA cluster is able to communicate with each other but not the other half. 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 and hosts in the cluster are unaffected.
C. The VMs are unaffected, a second master will be elected.
D. The VMs will be powered down on all hosts in the cluster.







Answer: C

An administrator wants to configure a DRS Migration Threshold that allows automated migration only when a host is placed into maintenance or to satisfy cluster constraints. What setting should be utilized?

An administrator wants to configure a DRS Migration Threshold that allows automated migration only when a host is placed into maintenance or to satisfy cluster contraints. What setting should be utilized? 







A. Priority 2
B. Priority 4
C. The most conservative setting
D. The default setting






Answer: C

When configuring memory for a virtual machine what is the Maximum recommended for best performance value based upon?

When configuring memory for a virtual machine what is the Maximum recommended for best performance value based upon? 





A. The amount of memory in the ESXi host
B. The threshold needed for the ESXi host to satisfy a reservation value
C. The maximum value the guest operating system supports
D. The maximum recommended by the OS manufacturer.







Answer: A

Why is converting a virtual machine to a template significantly faster than creating a clone of the virtual machine?

Why is converting a virtual machine to a template significantly faster than creating a clone of the virtual machine? 





A. Making a clone creates a linked-mode virtual disk.
B. Making a clone creates a full copy of the VMDK file.
C. Making a clone only creates a copy of the .vmx file.
D. The template conversion has low priority on the system CPU.








Answer: B

What function does Enhanced vMotion Compatibility provide?

What function does Enhanced vMotion Compatibility provide? 






A. The ability to enable Fault Tolerance on virtual machines that are not members of a cluster.
B. The ability to use vMotion to migrate virtual machines between ESXi hosts with different CPU vendors.
C. The ability to replace manual CPU identification masks with an automated process managed by the cluster.
D. The ability to use vMotion to migrate virtual machines between hosts with identical CPUs but different vSphere versions.







Answer: C

A new LUN has been provisioned to all hosts in a vSphere 5.x cluster. On one host a new VMFS datastore has been created. How will the new datastore be discovered by the other ESXi 5.x hosts?

A new LUN has been provisioned to all hosts in a vSphere 5.x cluster. On one host a new VMFS datastore has been created. How will the new datastore be discovered by the other ESXi 5.x hosts? 







A. A rescan of all host bus adapters is periodically performed by ESXi hosts to detect new VMFS datastores.
B. New VMFS volumes are automatically added to members of a cluster by vCenter Server.
C. A manual refresh is required on each ESXi host to discover new VMFS datastores.
D. A refresh of all host bus adapters is periodically performed by ESXi hosts to detect new VMFS datastores.








Answer: B

During peak operating hours, an administrator finds that a business-critical application running in a virtual machine is not performing as well as during normal hours. Which memory management method can be used to guarantee that the application performs well at all times?

During peak operating hours, an administrator finds that a business-critical application running in a virtual machine is not performing as well as during normal hours. Which memory management method can be used to guarantee that the application performs well at all times? 







A. Set a reservation equal to the average memory utilization of the virtual machine running the application.
B. level for all other virtual machines to low.
C. Check the "Reserve all guest memory" checkbox.
D. Set a reservation equal to the installed memory of the ESXi host running the application.








Answer: C

An administrator decides to implement a Fixed multipathing policy for an ESXi host with four available paths to one VMFS datastore. After the policy has been enabled for the datastore, how many paths will have an active status by default?

An administrator decides to implement a Fixed multipathing policy for an ESXi host with four available paths to one VMFS datastore. After the policy has been enabled for the datastore, how many paths will have an active status by default? 







A. 4
B. 3
C. 1
D. 2







Answer: A

Virtual machine VM1 is unable to communicate with virtual machine VM2. Both virtual machines are connected to a portgroup named Production on vSwitch1 on host ESXi01. Which statement could explain why?

Virtual machine VM1 is unable to communicate with virtual machine VM2. Both virtual machines are connected to a portgroup named Production on vSwitch1 on host ESXi01. Which statement could explain why? 







A. The only vmnic connected to vSwitch1 on ESXi01 is set to unused
B. The only vmnic connected to vSwitch1 on ESXi01 is set to standby
C. Load balancing settings on Production do not match vSwitch1
D. VM1 is configured to use virtual guest tagging (VGT), VM2 is configured to use virtual switch tagging (VST)






Answer: D