What are two features of vSphere 6.

x that help address the availability challenges

that organizations face? (Choose two.) - Provide advanced availability protection |
Virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications

What are two functionalities of vSphere vMotion? - Avoids virtual machine downtime
and migrates virtual machines from one ESXi host to another

The storage protocol reduces the total number of network ports used in the network
environment? - Fibre Channel over Ethernet

In a virtualized data center, which vCenter Server capability centrally stores virtual
machines and templates? - Virtual Volumes

An administrator is asked to explain the features of vRealize Suite to extend the

boundaries of existing data center and manage the cloud with a single interface,
respond with two statements. - Provides policy-based provisioning and role-based
allocation of IT resources.

Provides operational analytics that provide rapid discovery and root-cause analysis
of IT issues.

The component of an all-flash storage architecture which provides data persistence.

- Solid State Drive (SSD)

Which two issues do organizations hope to solve with Data Center Virtualization?
(Choose two.) - High operating expenses & Increased CPU utilization

Which storage feature allows common management across storage tiers and
dynamic storage classes in the Software-Defined Data Center? - Storage Policy-
Based Management

Which vSphere 6.x feature enables you to mitigate the effects of storage latency
during peak load periods in a virtualized data center? - iSCSI
What is the minimum number of virtual NICs that you can configure for a virtual
machine? - Zero

Why does iSCSI use hardware and software initiators? - To initiate connectivity to
hardware and software components

An administrator is working in a bank that has a highly regulated, secure

environment. The bank faces an increasing number of clients, and the administrator
is needing to monitor the environment and report any changes. - Realize Operations
Manager

Which vSphere 6.x feature allocates available resources among the virtual machines
based on pre-defined rules? - Distributed Resource Scheduler

A network administrator wants reduce the network clutter in his infrastructure and
decides to use virtual switches. How can virtual switches help reduce network
clutter? - By reducing the number of physical network cables plugged into hosts.

A consultant is meeting the COO of a new client to help the company consider
implementing data center virtualization. The COO asks the consultant to explain the
benefits of virtualization. - It provides unlimited storage, It delivers high application
availability & it helps reduce capital and operating expenditures.

Under what two conditions does Distributed Power Management bring powered-off
hosts back online? (Choose two.) - At the pre-defined time & When virtual machine
requirements increase.

A company has recently incurred financial loss, due to a crashed server that
resulted in the loss of critical data.

Which two vSphere 6.x features should this company implement to protect against
losing critical data due to physical server failure? (Choose two.) - High Availability &
Fault Tolerance
In what two situations would an administrator use Storage vMotion? (Choose two.) -
To select separate locations for the virtual machine disk files & To migrate virtual
machines from one datastore to another.

How does fault tolerance provide continuous availability? - By creating and

maintaining a secondary virtual machine that is identical to primary machine.

A network administrator notices that a few virtual machines run slowly every
morning. To troubleshoot the issue the administrator needs to analyze the total
traffic sent I virtual machines. - Port Mirroring

What does Storage DRS do to determine if a particular disk device is overburdened?

- Monitors disk I/O latency on the shared storage devices.

Which feature of vSphere networking restricts the inbound and outbound network
bandwidth of a group of virtual machines? - Traffic Shaping

Which two features would an administrator use to1 migrate virtual machines across
a WAN to another site? (Choose two.) - Storage vMotion & Long Distance vMotion

What is the name of the logical volume that vSphere 6.x uses to store virtual
machines files? - Datastore

Which two statements are true about local storage? (Choose two.) - It requires a
compatible Host Bus Adapter in the host & It's direct-attached storage.

Which three components does vRealize Suite provide high availability and BC/DR
for? - Clusters, Servers and Applications
Which three statements are true regarding VMware NSX? (Choose three.) - Can
handle data across virtual switches, Is independent of the underlying network
hardware & Has the ability to be deployed on any IP network.

What can an administrator do if they does not want Storage DRS to perform all
storage balancing functions? - Disable Storage DRS

A company has recently reported a financial loss and has identified that a major
part of their expenses is the maintaining and managing of their virtualized network
in the data center.

The company needs a solution that would help cut down on their operating
expenditures.

What should the company do to solve this issue? - Increase the number of physical
servers.

After configuring Fault Tolerance for critical servers, an administrate notices that
protected virtual machines run slower than usual. What is the reason for
performance reduction of these virtual machines? - Hosts have lower bandwidth for
Fault Tolerance logging.

What are two advantages of Network I/O Control? (Choose two.) - Performs load-
based teaming & Enforces network bandwidth limit on the virtual distributed switch.

Which three vSphere 6.x features require a shared storage infrastructure to work
properly? (Choose three.) - Storage Policy Based Management, Fault Tolerance &
Dynamic Resource Scheduler

An administrator has finished configuring vSphere HA in their IT environment. Which

component does the administrator remove from the infrastructure to save cost? -
Dedicated standby hardware

Which statement about standard switches is true? - Bridges traffic internally

between virtual machines in the same port group.
Which vSphere 6.x feature would you choose for offsite disaster recovery? -
Dynamic Resource Scheduler

An IT administrator working in a space agency has just in installed some

applications that are critical for a satellite launch mission. The administrator wants
the applications to work irrespective of any operating system failure. - vSphere Fault
Tolerance

Which vSphere 6.x storage service provides array-based operations at the virtual
disk level? - Virtual Volumes

After creating virtual machine backups using vSphere Data Protection, you decide to
perform a simple verification of those backups. Which feature will you use for this? -
VMware Tools heartbeat

Mware vSphere 6.x empowers users with which two capabilities? (Choose two.) -
Provide advanced availability protection & Virtualize scale-up and scale-out
applications.

Which storage protocol allows administrators to reduce the total number of network
ports used in the network environment? - Virtual SAN

What are two features of a resource pool? (Choose two.) - Allocates available
resources among the virtual machines & Consolidates workloads to reduce the
power consumed by the cluster.

Which three vSphere 6.x features allow an administrator to perform effective

resource management? (Choose three.) - DRS, vMotion & Storage I/O Control

Which two features of vSphere 6.x help address scalability challenges in a data
center? (Choose two.) - Big Data Extensions & Long Distance vMotion
How does Storage Replication handle data replication without a dedicated link
between various storage sites? - By using storage vMotion.

Which two statements about virtual switches in vSphere 6.x virtual networking are
true? (Choose two) - Attaches virtual machines to the physical network & Performs
load balancing

Which feature helps in managing the power consumed by a cluster when virtual
machine usage is low? - Distributed Power Management

What is the network virtualization platform used by a vSphere 6.x Software-Defined

Data Center? - NSX

Which statement best defines the virtual machine hot-add feature?- - Administrators
can increase the capabilities of a virtual machine without powering it off.

Where does Fault Tolerance store the primary and secondary virtual machine files? -
BOTH shared and local storage

VMware vSphere 6.x provides which three capabilities? (Choose three.) - Manage
virtual machines with simple and intuitive tools, Perform live workload migrations &
Predictive analytics

Which feature of vSphere 6.x enables organizations to move virtual machines across
data centers? - Long Distance vMotion

What are two features of vSphere with Operations Management? (Choose two.) -
Enables proactive identification of system issues through predictive analysis, Allows
reclaiming overprovisioned capacity to increase resource utilization.
Which datastore type can be extended to span several physical storage extents,
including storage Area Network LUNs and local storage devices, in order to create a
datastore that fits the needs of your virtual machines? - VMFS Datastores

What are two advantages of using vSphere Data Protection In a data center?
(Choose two.) - Creates new virtual machines & Ensures minimum impact on
network bandwidth.

Which statement best defines virtualization? - The process of creating virtual

versions of physical components

Virtual Volumes virtualize-Storage Area Network and Network Attached Storage

devices into logical pools of capacity. - Virtual SAN Datastores

You work for a convenience store chain that has a full data center including shared
storage and many small stores. You want to make sure that data in the stores gets
copied to the main data center.

Which solution will meet these requirements? - vSphere Replication (VR)

Which VMware product allows for non-disruptive disaster recovery testing? - Site
Recovery Manager

Your manager wants to know how virtual machines are going to benefit the
organization. What two statements accurately explain what virtual machines do?
(Choose two.) - Provide higher up time than physical servers & Reduce the number
of physical servers.

You are the VMware administrator for your local hospital. A fellow administrator has
asked what role a datastore plays in the environment. Which of the following is a
good definition of a datastore? - A datastore is where virtual machine's files are
stored
You are considering using virtual machines for your new corporate email servers.
You are giving examples to your manager of the benefits this will provide. Which two
examples are true? (Choose two.) - Virtual machines allow you to add components
such as network cards and hard disks while the VM is running & Virtual machines
automatically increase and decrease their allocated memory while running

You are explaining to your manager the different types of storage devices supported
in vSphere. You explain that some devices are block-based, while others are file-
based. - NFS

You work in a highly regulated, secure environment. You have been tasked with
finding a solution that will analyze the environment and report on any changes in
the environment to ensure you meet the compliance requirements in your industry.
- vCenter Configuration Manager

Which vSphere feature allows for more efficient storage usage? - Thin Provisioning

Your manager asks you: "What is the relationship between vMotion and VMware's
High Availability (HA) feature?" What do you tell him? - VMware's High Availability
(HA) feature uses vMotion to move the VMs after a failure.

What is a scalability challenge that vSphere can address? - Automatic balancing of

virtual machines after adding new physical servers

You have a vSphere cluster managed by vCenter. One of the VMs is running a critical
application that is very sensitive to unplanned or sudden reboots. You wish to
protect this VM from potential data loss. Which of the following features will help
you? - Fault Tolerance (FT)

you manage a cluster of ESXi hosts using vCenter Server. You notice that some ESXi
hosts are more heavily burdened than others. Which feature of vCenter server will
potentially help automate the load balancing of the ESXi hosts? - Distributed
Resource Scheduler (DRS)
You are a consultant and your newest client is concerned about the visibility of
performance and capacity related information to help them manage their new
VMware environment more efficiently. Which of the following will enable them to be
proactive in their monitoring? - vCenter Operations Manager (vC OPS)

You have a VMware environment and you have noticed that the storage capacity of
your datastores varies widely. You would like to maximize the storage environment
by balancing the space utilization across each of the datastores. Which of the
following is a viable solution? - Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS)

What does virtualization do? - Converts hardware into software

You are considering moving from an environment in which each physical server
hosts a single application, and each application is backed up on a specified
timeframe. The proposed environment will consist of virtual machines that perform
the role of their physical counterparts.

Your manager is trying to determine the best way to backup these applications once
the project is complete.

Which technology provides a backup solution for virtual machines? - vSphere Data
Protection (vDP)

Which vSphere feature allows for rapid provisioning of virtual machines? - Templates

Your management has asked you to project your anticipated virtual machine storage
needs over the next 18 months. Which technology would help provide the required
information? - vCenter Operations Manager

What is an availability challenge that vSphere can address? - Virtual machines can
be proactively migrated when a server failure is imminent

What are two benefits of datacenter virtualization? (Choose two.) - More efficient
use of resources & Same hardware footprint for every machine
Which VMware product allows for the shared use of local storage? - vSphere Storage
Appliance

Your company is planning to migrate your datacenter to a new location, but they
wish to minimize downtime during the transition. You are entirely virtualized at your
primary datacenter, and have been given funding to acquire new hardware for the
new datacenter. Which of the following products can help you migrate the VMs to
the new datacenter? - vCenter Site Recovery Manager

What is a feature of vSphere? - Distributed Power Management

Which vSphere feature allows hardware maintenance to be performed at any time

without impacting application availability? - vMotion

What is a virtual switch used to do? (Choose two.) - Replace physical switches to
save money & Connect VMs to the physical network

Which of the following features is a benefit of shared storage within a VMware

environment? - Allows for the deployment of DRS and HA clusters

Your organization has a cluster of ESXi hosts that all have local storage devices,
including Solid State Drives. You wish to take advantage of this storage for your
VMs, but you don't want to sacrifice the vSphere abilities granted by having shared
storage. Which of the following is an appropriate solution? - vSphere Storage
Appliance (VSA)

Your manager comes and asks you how the VMs will be able to connect to the
outside world. You explain that there are two ways to connect to the network in
vSphere. Which two options can be used for this purpose? (Choose two.) -
Distributed Switch & Standard Switch
You are discussing virtual networking with a colleague. She asks you which type of
virtual switch supports the advanced networking option called Port Mirroring. Which
of the following is the correct answer? - Distributed virtual switch

You are a consultant and you have been contacted to assist in the planning for a
new VMware environment. The client is concerned about the complete loss of a
datacenter and the loss of production time. What option can you offer them to help
resolve their concerns? - Site Recovery Manager

Which vSphere feature is used to help achieve greater uptime SLAs? - Site Recovery
Manager

Which VMware product will help identify mis-sized virtual machines? - vCenter
Operations Manager

You are explaining virtualization to your manager when he asks you to explain the
term "hypervisor". Which of the following statements best describes the function of
the hypervisor? - Software responsible for allocating hardware resources to a virtual
machine.

Due to recent budget cuts, your manager has asked you to produce a list of
inefficiently used resources in your vSphere environment. Which of the following
products will help you produce this list? - vCenter Operations Manager

You are installing a new vSphere environment- You have configured a dedicated 1GB
Ethernet network for your storage devices. Which two types of shared storage does
vSphere support in this configuration? (Choose two.) - NFS & iSCSI

An administrator has many tasks associated with managing hosts. What are two
examples? (Choose two.) - Creating security policies & Patching the hypervisor

You are on staff at a large medical center. You have multiple applications that are
required to run on Windows NT 4.0, and the base code cannot be upgraded, so you
are maintaining several legacy hardware servers. Which of the following can help in
this situation? - Create a Windows NT 4.0 virtual machine for each of the legacy
applications and run them on a VMware ESXi server.

You are meeting with fellow administrators and management about an upcoming
virtualization project.

The topic of vCenter is brought up and the discussion centers around the desire to
virtualize vCenter for host management.

Which of the following is a benefit of virtualizing vCenter? - vCenter can easily be

virtualized and HA can be used to restart the virtual machine if necessary

You are in an interview for a position as a VMware administrator. You have been
asked for a definition for virtual switch. Which of the following would be a good
definition? - A virtual switch allows VMs to communicate with each other and with
physical devices.

You are the administrator for your company's VMware deployment. You have noticed
that one of the datastores has two drives that are reporting excessive read errors.
You would like to replace these failing drives, but cannot take the virtual machines
offline at this point. Which technology would provide a solution to the problem? -
Storage vMotion

You work for a small company that can't afford to upgrade the entire environment at
once. Currently you have several small servers with internal storage on each. You
desire to automate the environment as much as possible (using vMotion, DRS, HA,
etc.) so you have time to work on other projects. Which of these choices will best
meet these goals? - Upgrade the network to 10 GbE.

Which vSphere feature allows an automated method for placing virtual machines on
appropriate storage? - Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler

What is a Management challenge that vSphere can address? - Legacy applications

can be run on new hardware
The network manager at your company is concerned about the performance on the
virtual network. You explain that virtual switches support many of the same
performance features that physical switches do. Which two performance-related
options do virtual switches support? (Choose two.) - LACP & Traffic Shaping

What is an availability challenge that vSphere can address? - Non-disruptive virtual

machine backups

Which of the following vSphere features do not use virtual networking? - VMware
Remote Console

Storage for vSphere broadly falls into two categories, block-based and file-based.
Which type of vSphere datastore is block-based? - VMFS

Your boss asks you to make sure your VMs are recoverable in the event of data
corruption or a major storage failure. Which feature do you tell him meets that
requirement? - Data Protection

When VMs are created, they are placed on a datastore. Which two types of
datastores are supported? (Choose two.) - NFS Datastore & VMFS Datastore

You are discussing vSphere features with your manager. He asks you: "What is
vFlash?" What do you tell him? - A tool that improves the disk performance of your
VMs.

What is a management challenge that vSphere can address? - Centralized

management of many servers

You are the VMware administrator for a community college. You have several virtual
machines that have very read-intensive workloads, and they are beginning to
indicate some disk latency during peak periods. You would like to decrease the
storage latency for these VMs. Which of the following would be a possible solution? -
Configure vFlash for each of the VMs
What might you tell your boss to convince him to start datacenter virtualization? -
Your users can self-provision servers

You are a VMware architect designing a solution for several applications that are not
cluster- aware, yet still must be constantly available. If these applications should
stop, the manufacturing processes will need to be restarted, losing several hours of
production. Which technology would provide a valid solution? - Fault Tolerance (FT)

You have a physical server that needs to have a fan replaced. You don't have a
maintenance window available for several days but don't want to risk a second
failure causing the server to crash.

Which feature allows you to move all the VMs to another host with no downtime to
the VMs? - vMotion

Your company is looking to improve IT management efficiency and wants an

automated platform to do the simple day-to-day tasks for best performance. Which
of the following features does vCenter provide to maximize performance? -
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Your boss is confused on the relationship between a Virtual Machine and a

hypervisor. - A Hypervisor is where VMs run.

You work for a chain of grocery stores. For performance reasons, you want to run
each store from VMs located at the store, but you can only afford one server per
store. You want to make sure that in the event the server fails that the store can run
from a VM at the corporate headquarters instead with minimal downtime. Which
solution provides this capability? - vSphere Replication

The solution that optimizes an organization's infrastructure for efficiency and

minimizes the risk of performance across both virtual and physical infrastructure. -
vRealize Operations Manager
You need to move the mail server to the new, faster storage, but the server can't be
taken offline to make the change. Which technology should be used? - Storage
vMotion

You have a critical application that cannot go down. What vCenter feature provides
the ability for the application to continue to run even if a host fails? - Fault Tolerance
(FT)

You have purchased additional storage for your storage array and want to load
balance the space and performance to utilize the new drives as simply as possible.
Which feature can be used to automatically move some of the VMs from the old
disks to the new disks? - Storage DRS

How does vCenter communicate with each other ESXi Server? - A vCenter agent is
added to each ESXi server as it is added to the vCenter inventory

You need more advanced monitoring and planning tools than vCenter can provide.
You decide to implement vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS) for this. vCOPS
provides which two pieces of information that will help in these areas: (Choose two.)
- health & risk

Which two VMware vSphere components provide automated uptime protection in a

software-defined data center (SDDC)? - High Availability and Fault Tolerance

You have a virtual machine that requires a software update. You have not yet tested
the update, so you need a back out plan. If the update fails you want to recover the
VM to its current state.

Which of the following features will help you do this in the least amount of time? -
Snapshots

You are explaining virtual networking to your colleague. During the discussion she
asks you how the VMs are able to talk to physical devices on the network. Which of
the following is true statement? - VMs are connected to virtual switches via VM port
Groups; virtual switches are connected to the physical network via uplink ports.
The executives in your company have been following recent events and decide that
they need a DR plan. They want an automated solution with the ability to non-
disruptively test it to ensure that it will work when there is a real disaster. Which
technology meets these requirements? - Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Several web server virtual machines in your environment are experiencing poor
performance. Upon further investigation you learn that one very active database
virtual machine is consuming most of your storage bandwidth. You would like to
restrict the storage performance of the database VM to increase the performance of
the web server VMs. Which of the following features will help you do this? - Storage
I/O Control

Your company is evaluating data center virtualization on a single ESXi host. You
intend to add additional hosts, and perhaps even create a cluster of ESXi hosts
configured for High Availability.

What software is required to create this cluster of ESXi hosts? - vCenter Server

You are the System Administrator for your organization and you have received an
SNMP alert that states that one of your ESXi servers has suffered a fan failure and
will automatically shut down in 2 minutes. This particular host is currently hosting a
virtual machine that is running an enterprise application that cannot be down for
any length of time.

Which vSphere technology could help in this situation? - Storage vMotion

Your organization would like to evaluate vSphere, but you are concerned that you
won't be able to take advantage of many of the features because you do not have a
shared storage infrastructure.

Which VMware feature could help you transform your local storage into usable
shared storage for your VMs? - vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)

The name of the Type 1 hypervisor used in VMware's product line is: - ESXi
Your company is very cyclical in nature, with periods of very high demand and
periods of very low demand. You've heard that Distributed Power Management
(DPM) may be helpful in saving money. What function does DPM perform? - Moves
VMs onto fewer servers during periods of low demand, shutting the others off and
waking them up when load increases.

Which VMware product assists in maintaining regulatory compliance? - vCenter

Configuration Manager

After a recent change control problem, your management team is asking you to
implement a solution that will identify and monitor unauthorized changes that have
been made to your vSphere environment. Which of the following products can help
you monitor and detect non-compliant hosts? - vCenter Configuration Manager

You arrive at a customer site and find that the customer is considering a conversion
from physical to virtual servers. They are curious as to how they can perform
updates on their new virtual machines, and still minimize the possible impact to the
virtual machines. What VMware option will allow them to update their virtual
machines safely? - Virtual servers can use a snapshot to save the existing state of
the virtual operating system prior to the update.

Developers in your organization are concerned about moving away from physical
equipment to virtual machines as they don't understand what a VM is. You explain
that a VM is: - Similar to a physical computer, except many VMs can run on the
same hardware.

Your company needs the features provided in a distributed switch. You have been
tasked with finding the least expensive version of vSphere that meets the need.
Which edition meets these requirements? - Enterprise Plus Edition

You have a single VMware ESXi host, and you do not have vCenter server installed
to manage this host. Which two actions can be performed without the presence of
vCenter? (Choose two.) - Clone a powered off virtual machine & Create a virtual
machine
Your VMware environment was deployed by a contractor and you are taking over
management responsibilities. The contractor has configured a 5-node Distributed
Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster, and has deployed all of your virtual machines
within the cluster. Why was a DRS cluster chosen? - DRS can automatically load
balance the cluster to equalize resource utilization

You are planning to deploy a new VMware environment. The team leader of the
networking team has requested the ability to monitor virtual machine traffic in order
to maintain the physical network more efficiently. Which option provides this
capability? - Create a distributed port group and configure port mirroring

You are the VMware architect for Mason Public Library. This customer deployed a
VMware environment several years ago, in the form of 3 stand-alone servers, each
with 6 600GB internal SAS drives. The environment has been working well, but they
are concerned about the ability to access their virtual machines in the event of a
failure to one of their servers. They do not have the additional budget for a new
shared storage array. Which of the following is a recommended option to help them
achieve higher availability? - Deploy vCenter Server and deploy the vSphere
Storage Appliance

You are the CIO. The VP of manufacturing tells you that an old DOS application is
critical to the assembly line and that if it goes down, it takes 8 hours to restart the
assembly line. The CEO has told you that is unacceptable and has asked you to find
a solution that will prevent downtime. Which vSphere feature meets that
requirement? - Fault Tolerance (FT)

Your systems administrator has recently expressed frustration while rolling back
broken operating system patches on the physical servers in your environment.
Which feature of a virtual machine could help mitigate the risk of installing patches
in a VMs, by enabling you to roll back recent changes? - Snapshots

Your company has just purchased a new storage array to host your virtual machines
(VMs). You have connected the storage to each of your ESXi hosts and now wish to
move some of the running VMs to the new storage. Which vCenter feature would
help you do this non-disruptively? - Storage vMotion
You have a large virtual environment with workloads that vary widely throughout
the day. You want an automated system to quickly load balance as conditions
change. What vSphere feature performs this task? - Distributed Resource Scheduler
(DRS)

You are the administrator for a new VMware installation and you have an application
that is running within a virtual machine that creates a high amount of inbound
traffic. This traffic seems to be affecting other virtual machines on the same virtual
switch.

What can you do to reduce the impact to the peer virtual machines? - Use a
distributed switch with traffic shaping configured

What vCenter feature does Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) use during the
automated load balancing of virtual machines? - vMotion

Which two features require shared storage? (Choose two.) - High Availability (HA) &
Distributed Power Management (DPM)

In a meeting with your manager, you are asked to describe the difference between
vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication. Which of the following is a
feature provided only by vCenter Site Recovery Manager? - Non-disruptive disaster
recovery testing.

Which vCenter feature allows for QoS? - vNetwork Distributed Switch

You have been asked by your supervisor to define some virtualization terms for her.
She has asked about the difference between a bare-metal hypervisor and a host-
based hypervisor. What can you tell her? - The bare-metal hypervisor is installed
directly on the physical hardware, just like any other operating system

Which two types of storage require switches that use Ethernet? (Choose two.) - NFS
& iSCSI
Which feature will allow you to increase the priority of the mail server so that it
meets the SLA defined for it? - Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

You are designing your virtual network. Your network administrator has given you a
list of features that he hopes are supported by vSphere. Which of the following
features requires a distributed switch? - Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

You are converting your physical servers into virtual machines. One prospective
virtual machine has an application that utilizes a 1.5 TB SAN LUN for data. You are
concerned that this new virtual machine would take too long to convert to a virtual
machine. How can you configure the storage of this virtual machine to minimize the
conversion time required to copy the data across the network? - Deploy the new VM
with a raw device mapping (RDM)

A large hospital has called you to consult on their new VMware deployment. They
are concerned about the management for the new virtual networks. What can you
tell them about the virtual switches? - Standard switches can be managed through
vCenter, or by going directly to the ESXi host

What is a scalability challenge that vSphere can address? - CPUs and Memory can
be added to servers without an outage

You are explaining virtual machine storage to a colleague. She asks you where the
virtual machine files are stored. What are the storage containers called in vSphere?
- Datastores

You are planning to use shared storage for your evaluation of vSphere. Your
colleague is describing a storage topology that can be built on a dedicated, 4Gbps,
8Gbps, or 16Gbps network composed of two fabrics for redundancy. What is the
name of this type of shared storage? - Fibre Channel

Your manager is concerned that there are too many physical servers to be managed
by a single vCenter instance. What can you tell her to reassure her about the
scalability of vCenter? - vCenter can manage up to 1,000 physical servers and
10,000 virtual machines

You are planning to evaluate vSphere but you presently have no shared storage
devices. Which of the following vCenter features will function without shared
storage? - vMotion

You have deployed a virtual environment that is utilizing 7 physical servers and you
determine the average resource utilization during non-business hours is very low.
Your manager is concerned that the company is wasting money on power
consumption. Which technology can help reduce excess power consumption? -
Distributed Power Management (DPM)

Your company has been watching the news and seen many examples of natural
disasters, fires, acts of terrorism, etc. that have disrupted operations. They decide
that they need a geographically separate data center to fail over to. They also have
noticed that many times the IT staff are unavailable after the event and so ask for a
solution that a corporate executive could use to fail over if IT is unavailable. What
solution best fits these requirements? - Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

What vCenter feature does Storage DRS use to automate the load balancing of
virtual machine storage? - Storage vMotion

You are describing virtual machines to your manager. He asks you how virtual
machines communicate on the network. Which of the following statements is true? -
Virtual machines use virtual network cards from VMware to communicate on the
physical network.

You are the VMware Administrator for the local city government. When you arrive at
your desk, you find that there are several alarms referring to an outage caused by
an overnight driver update. When you ask your colleagues about the driver update,
no one seems to know anything about it. Which solution will help in determining the
problem? - vCenter Configuration Manager (vCCM)
You work in a large datacenter with hundreds of ESXi hosts managed by a vCenter
server. Your IT consultant has advised you to use Distributed Power Management
(DPM). What does it do? - Automatically powers off ESXi hosts during non-peak
hours.

You are planning to perform hardware maintenance on one of your ESXi hosts. It is
currently running several Virtual Machines that you do not wish to power off. Which
vCenter feature will allow you to perform this maintenance without disrupting the
VMs? - vMotion

Your email server lives on a storage array, but performance is not adequate. You
can't afford a new array or to replace the drives in the array, but need better
performance for your email server which is searched frequently. Which feature will
provide the needed performance boost? - vFlash

You are planning a large virtualization project and are concerned that a physical
server will cause a prolonged outage until help desk calls are received and all VMs
restarted. How can the restart of VMs after a failure be automated? - High
Availability (HA)

You have completed a vSphere deployment for your customer. They have a very
critical application that they are concerned about minimizing data loss from a site-
level disaster. Which technology offers a possible solution? - vSphere Replication