Q:

Which of the following are built-in VMware vSphere capabilities for reducing downtime, that other
  products just don’t offer?
 
A:
Hot-add virtuall CPU, hot-add virtual memory, hot-add or hot-extended virtual disks

Storage live migration

VM-level fault tolerance

All of the above

Q:
Which virtualization management solution can best provide dynamic cluster-level load balancing with
  logical resource pools?
 
A:
VMware vSphere 4 + vCenter, using DRS and VMware logical resource pools

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager with Pro Tips

Oracle VM with acquired capabilities from Sun xVM product

Citrix XenServer 5.5 + Essentials

Q:
  Which of the following is NOT part of the five core areas of VMware differentiation:
 
A:
Most Proven Foundation

Management Support for Multiple Hypervisors

Comprehensive Virtualization Management

Proven and Trusted Solution

Complete Platform for Applications

Integrates with Infrastructure

Q:
Which proof-points can help you demonstrate that VMware’s technology is the most proven and
  trusted virtualization platform? (Select all that apply)
 
A:
VMware’s software is being used by over 170,000 customers across the world

Customer can achieve a positive ROI in as little as 6-9 months

>94% of VMware vSphere customers use it in their production datacenters

Over two thirds of VMware’s customers set VMware virtual machines as the default for new production servers

Q:
  To demonstrate VMware broad hardware support, which of the following statements is accurate?
 
A:
vSphere offers extensive hardware support: >1000 servers, >500 storage controllers, and >300 network
I/O cards
vSphere offers extensive hardware support: >500 servers, >500 storage controllers, and >500 network I/O
cards
C. vSphere offers extensive hardware support: >500 servers, > 300 storage controllers, and >300 network I/O
cards
vSphere offers extensive hardware support: >250 servers, >100 storage controllers, and >100 network I/O
cards

Q:
When looking at the cost of a virtualization solution, you should focus on which of the following?
  (Choose all that apply)
 
A:
The cost of the virtualization software licenses

The cost of the virtualization management software

The number of physical servers (hosts) required to run the required number of virtual machines, related to VM
density
The storage, networking, power, cooling, and space costs to deploy the required number of physical hosts

The cost of the guest operating system licenses for the virtual machines

Q:
Which of the following will help you to best differentiate VMware from competitors when the issue of
  cost is raised?
 
A:
Scalability when running multiple virtual machines, which leads to lower cost-per-application

VMware’s ESXi architecture, with no reliance on a general purpose OS

 The VMware vCenter family of products and its integration with leading third-party management tools

VMware vSphere’s direct driver model

Q:
  Why is it important to differentiate VMware’s solution beyond generic virtualization benefits?
 
A:
Virtualization is no longer of interest to technology-savvy clients
Many other commodity virtualization vendors have entered the market, all claiming to do what VMware
does
People tend not to trust virtualization, so we must sell based on VMware’s brand equity

VMware is trailing the competition in terms of market share

Q:
Which of these VMware vCenter family capabilities does the Microsoft System Center family also
  provide? (Select 2 best answers):
 
A:
Basic VM management

Performance monitoring

Chargeback / showback tracking

Dynamic load balancing, logical resource pools

Q:
Which of the following statements regarding VMware’s disaster recovery solution (for when an entire
  datacenter goes down) is correct?
 
A:
VMware DRS helps to deliver the right resources at the right time

VMFS Cluster File Systems handle VM provisioning in the event of a disaster.

VMware HA can auto-restart VMs on another host in case of VM failure

vCenter Site Recovery Manager automates the recovery process and eliminates the complexity of
 managing and testing recovery plans

Q:
Which of the following are customer benefits from the large management ecosystem around VMware’s
  products and the broad availability of VMware APIs? (Select all that apply)
 
A:
Ability to manage both physical and virtual through the customer’s existing systems management framework
Better business agility by replacing existing physical management tools with VMware’s tools for physical
management
Hundreds of third party management tools to choose from that integrate with VMware products

Customers can pay for a lifetime subscription for access to VMware APIs

Q:

  Which of the following is a true statement?

 
A:

Currently, most virtualization has been limited to lab environments.

VMware solutions have been deployed to over 100,000 production environments.

Microsoft Hyper-V has an advantage over vSphere since customers are more familiar with deploying Windows
in production environments.

VMware is currently in use by almost 30% of the Fortune 100 companies; the remainder has identified viable
scenarios that prevent production virtualization.

Q:
Which of the following is a FALSE statement about products that have virtualization as a feature of a
  general-purpose OS
 
A:
Has a direct driver model with drivers directly in the hypervisor

Has a large disk footprint

Is potentially less secure

Performance and scalability may be impacted

Q:
What are some drawbacks to Hyper-V's use of third-party Windows drivers in the Hyper-V parent
  partition? (Select all that apply):
 
A:
Third-party drivers are the least reliable part of the Windows architecture
The Hyper-V parent partition does not give the drivers sufficient CPU and memory resources to handle I/O
loads from multiple VMs
Third-party device drivers must pass special Hyper-V testing scenarios to be qualified for Windows Server
2008
Use of third-party device drivers restricts the number of hardware devices supported with Hyper-V

Q:
  Which statement reflects VMware's position towards other management vendors?
 
A:
VMware is in the best position to manage VMware vSphere, so we have built vCenter management products to
be a very complete, but closed, platform
VMware vCenter Server is an open management framework and we rely on third-party management plug-ins
for all vCenter functionality
VMware only allows a few select vendors to build products to work with VMware vSphere
VMware has made vCenter the best tool for managing VMware vSphere, and we provide rich
integration support to enable management vendors to integrate their products with vCenter

Q:
Why should customers consider cost-per-application when selecting a virtualization solution? (Select
  all that apply)
 
A:
Because of binary translation, it is not uncommon for VMware customers to deploy 7-8 applications per virtual
machine.
Cost-per-applications takes into account a broader set of costs than just upfront virtualization software
licensing costs.
Windows licensing models tend to make high-density VM deployments cost prohibitive.
Looking at cost-per-server alone is a carryover from physical deployments and does not account for many VMs
running on one physical host.
Many applications can be deployed in a higher volume with virtualization, thus triggering hardware and support
discounts not previously available to many customers.
Q:
  Which is true about guest operating system support?
 
A:
VMware vSphere supports more Windows guest operating systems than any other hypervisor.

Both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V provide equal support for the most popular Linux distributions.
Microsoft Hyper-V guest OS enlightenments allow it to run unmodified off-the-shelf operating systems at near-
native performance.
Since they share the same virtualization architecture, Hyper-V and Xen support the same set of guest
operating systems.

Q:
  Which of these statements is FALSE regarding hypervisor comparisons?
 
A:
A smaller footprint is not desirable for security reasons
Patches to general purpose operating system-based hypervisors often are for components unrelated to
virtualization
If the virtualization platform does not support live migration, then there will be downtime to applications when
you have to patch the host
A smaller footprint reduces the attack surface for external threats

Q:
Which of the following is true regarding VMware’s architectural advantages over Xen and Microsoft’s
  hypervisors?
 
A:
With generic Windows OS drivers in the hypervisor, VMware vSphere can optimize performance via
management of CPU scheduling and memory resources.
VMware's ESXi architecture does not depend on a general purpose operating system, giving it
reliability advantages.
VMware vSphere's high performance is responsible for VMware’s support of a broad array of hardware
and operating systems.
VMware’s differentiation is based on the philosophy that virtualization is something that should be built into the
operating system.

Q:
  Which of the following is true regarding VMware’s reputation as a proven and trusted solution?
 
A:
 100% of the Fortune 100 and 96% of the Fortune Global 500 use VMware

Approximately 80% of the Fortune 1000 use VMware

65% of the Fortune 100 use VMware

Q:
  Name VMware’s disaster recovery / business continuity solution
 
A:
VMware vCenter Server

VMware vCenter Lab Manager

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

VMware vCenter Chargeback

VMware vCenter Capacity IQ

Q:
One way to differentiate VMware from the competition is by using customer examples. You can
  mention that an IT administrator at a large pharmaceutical company demonstrated that VMware ran for
how long without any unplanned down time?
 
A:
Two weeks

One month

One year

Over four years

Q:
Which virtualization platform today supports the Windows NT 4.0 operating system as a guest OS?
  (Select one):
 
A:
Microsoft Hyper-V

VMware vSphere

Both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere

Neither Microsoft Hyper-V nor VMware vSphere

Q:
   How many server models does VMware vSphere support? (Select one):
 
A:
Fewer than 100

Between 100 and 500

Between 500 and 1000

More than 1000

Q:
Which of the following will help you to best differentiate VMware’s reliability from that of Microsoft
  Hyper-V?
 
A:
Management capabilities of VMware vCenter Server

Dynamic load balancing across hosts of VMware DRS

VMware’s ESXi architecture, with no reliance on a general purpose OS

Automated disaster recovery of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager