An administrator attempts to install vCenter Single Sign-On Server. The installer returns an error message indicating that the installation failed. Prior to the installation, all setup prerequisites were met. The administrator has generated a vCenter Server Single Sign-On support bundle. Which two files should the administrator analyze to determine the cause of the failure? (Choose two.)

An administrator attempts to install vCenter Single Sign-On Server. The installer returns an error message indicating that the installation failed. Prior to the installation, all setup prerequisites were met. The administrator has generated a vCenter Server Single Sign-On support bundle. Which two files should the administrator analyze to determine the cause of the failure? (Choose two.) 







A. Server\utils\logs\imsTrace.log
B. Server\utils\logs\install.txt
C. %TEMP%\utils\logs\vminst.log
D. %TEMP%\vminst.log








Answer: A,D

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 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. The administrator did not enable the virtual machine Storage Policy per compute resource.
B. The ESXi Host license does not support virtual machine Storage Policies.
C. The vCenter Server license does not support virtual machine Storage Policies.
D. The administrator did not create a storage policy for the datastore selected for the virtual machine.







Answer: A

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?

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? 






A. NetFlow
B. Port Mirroring
C. Network I/O Control
D. Promiscuous Mode






Answer: A

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?

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? 







A. Enterprise Plus
B. Enterprise
C. Standard
D. Essentials





Answer: A

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?

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? 






A. Lower das.vmcpumaxmhz attribute value
B. Higher das.vmcpuminmhz attribute value
C. Lower das.slotcpuoutmhz attribute value
D. Higher das.slotcpuinmhz attribute value








Answer: D

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

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







A. Virtual machines replicated with vSphere Replication
B. Web Server virtual machines
C. Database virtual machines
D. Virtual machines migrated using Storage vMotion







Answer: B

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

Immediately after installing an ESXi host, an administrator needs to examine the following log files: 






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 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
H. 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 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

A Windows Server 2008 virtual machine with the following configuration receives an Out of Space condition indicator:

A Windows Server 2008 virtual machine with the following configuration receives an Out of Space condition indicator: 






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

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

bAn 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