1. Which Single Sign-On deployment mode should an administrator use for two 5.

x vCenter Servers
configured with linked mode?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Multisite Single Sign-On.

Basic Single Sign-On with vCenter Server Heartbeat
Basic Single Sign-On
Single Sign-On with Linked Mode

Ans:A
2. To avoid unnecessary planned downtime, what is the minimum version of VMware Tools that, if
installed, will decrease the need for virtual machine reboots following VMware Tools upgrades?
A.
B.
C.
D.

5.1
5.2
5.0
4.1

Ans:A
3. Which VLAN configuration requires switch connectivity defined as an access port?
A.
B.
C.
D.

External Switch Tagging

Private VLAN
Virtual Guest Tagging
Virtual Switch Tagging

Ans:A
4. An administrator needs to create and provision new virtual machines from a master image that
cannot be edited or powered on. Which type of resource is most appropriate for the administrator to
perform the task?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Template
Full Clone
Snapshot
Linked Clone

Ans:A
5. A vSphere administrator needs to configure a virtual machine to meet a guaranteed CPU
performance profile. Which configuration setting could the administrator choose?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Set the CPU Reservation to 500MHz

Set the CPU Limit to High
Set the CPU Shares to 500MHz
Set the CPU Guarantee to High

Ans:A
6. A vSphere administrator needs a way of sending noncritical ESXi events to a remote server. Due to
budget constraints, no additional costs should be incurred.Which tool will best meet this
requirement?
A.
B.
C.

vSphere Syslog Collector

vSphere ESXi Dump Collector
vSphere vCenter Log Insight

D.

vSphere Management Appliance

Ans:A
7. An administrator needs to modify a virtual machine alert to increase the threshold value of the
trigger. Once connected to the vCenter Server, the administrator navigates to the virtual machine to
make the change. However, the administrator is unable to edit the alarm. What is the reason that this
alarm cannot be edited?
A.
B.
C.
D.

The alarm was not defined on this inventory object.

The administrator is not the owner of this inventory object.
The alarm was not created by the administrator.
The alarm has not been acknowledged.

Ans:A
8. An administrator using vCenter Operations Manager is viewing the health of an ESXi host in the
environment. There have NOT been any reported outages or issues with the ESXi host, but the
administrator needs to determine if the host is behaving normall. Which minor badge should the
administrator investigate to determine this information?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Anomalies
Stress
Health
Faults

Ans:A
9. Which minor badge scores are used to calculate the Health score in vCenter Operations Manager?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Workload, Anomalies, Faults

Time remaining, Capacity remaining, Stress
Stress, Faults, Risk
Reclaimable Waste, Density

Ans:A
10. A small company wants to use VMware products for its production systems. The system
administrator needs to recommend a solution that will deliver High Availability to the company's
production applications. What is minimum vSphere offering that will support this requirement?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vSphere Essentials Plus

vSphere Essentials
vSphere Hypervisor
vSphere Standard

Ans:A
11. A developer needs to create a multi-tier development stack for a home lab.
Which vSphere product will support the architecture required for the least software cost?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

vSphere Hypervisor
vSphere Essentials
VMware Player
VMware Workstation

12. An administrator is unable to login to vCenter Server when using the vSphere web client. The
administrator successfully accessed vCenter Server using the client earlier the same day.
What is the most appropriate first step the administrator should take to resolve this issue?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Verify the vCenter Single Sign-On service is running on the vCenter Server
Verify the web browser being used has Adobe Flash plugin version 11.5 or later
Verify the vSphere Web Server service is running on the vCenter Server
Verify the administrator has permissions configured in vCenter Server

Ans:A
13. What is a valid plug-in status for a plug-in that has been added to a vSphere client?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Disabled
Unknown
Stopped
Installed

Ans:A
14. Immediately after installing ESXi, an administrator observes that the Configure Lockdown Mode
option is grayed out in the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI).
What is the most likely explanation?
A.
B.
C.
D.

The host has not yet been added to a vCenter Server.

The BIOS on the host does not have NX/XD enabled.
The ESXi host is running in evaluation mode.
The host requires a reboot before this feature is available.

Ans:A
15. An administrator is installing ESXi on several hosts attached to iSCSI storage.
Why would the administrator detach the host from the IP storage network prior to installation?
A.
B.
C.
D.

It decreases the time the installer needs to search for available disk drives.
It allows the installation of a generic VAAI component for IP storage.
It prevents ESXi from installing vSphere Flash Cache to the IP storage.
It is required when installing ESXi onto a physical server that utilizes IP storage.

Ans:A

16. During the installation of ESXi 5.5, the following error message is reported: Hardware
Virtualization is not a feature of the CPU, or is not enabled in the BIOS. Which condition would
generate this message?
A.
B.
C.
D.

LAHF/SAHF is not enabled in the BIOS.

NX/XD is not enabled in the BIOS.
SSE3 is not enabled in the BIOS.
Hyperthreading is not enabled in the BIOS.

Ans:A
17. What is the minimum virtual machine compatibility setting required for a virtual machine to run
on a vSphere 5.5 host?
A.

ESXi 3.5 and later

B.
C.
D.

ESXi 5.1 and later

ESXi 3.0 and later
ESXi 4.1 and later

Ans:A
18. During an upgrade, the ESXi 5.x installer finds an existing version of ESXi and a VMFS3 volume. No
virtual machines exist on the host or VMFS3 volume. The requirement is to upgrade to VMFS5.
Which option should be chosen to meet this requirement?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Install ESXi and overwrite the VMFS datastore

Upgrade ESXi and preserve the VMFS datastore
Install ESXi and preserve the VMFS datastore
Upgrade ESXi and overwrite the VMFS datastore

Ans:A
19. What happens to the status of users already logged into ESXi Shell when a vSphere administrator
enables lockdown mode?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Users remain logged in and can run commands, except to disable lockdown mode.
Users remain logged in and can run commands, including disabling lockdown mode.
Users are immediately logged out of ESXi Shell.
Users are logged out after a timeout specified by the vSphere administrator.

Ans:A
20. An administrator determines that a vSphere Standard Switch is dropping all inbound frames to a
specific virtual machine. The behavior appeared in the last two days. Which configuration setting, if
changed during this timeframe, would result in this behavior?
A.
B.
C.
D.

MAC address changes

Forged Transmit
Traffic Shaping
Jumbo Frames

Ans:A
21. A security team is validating policy settings in a vSphere environment.By default, which security
policy is set to reject on a vSphere Standard Switch?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Promiscuous mode
MAC address change
Forged transmit
Use explicit failover

Ans:A
22. A vSphere administrator upgrades a version 5.1.0 vSphere Distributed Switch to version 5.5.0.
Another vSphere administrator, unaware of this change, tries to add an ESXi version 5.1.0 host to the
switch and fails.
What is causing this addition of the ESXi host to fail?
A.
B.
C.
D.

The upgraded switch supports version 5.5 ESXi hosts only

The upgraded switch must be set up for backwards compatibility.
The switch failed to upgrade properly.
A version 5.5 ESXi host must be added to the switch before the 5.1 host.

Ans:A
23. A vSphere administrator is administering a vSphere Distributed Switch port group using the
vSphere Web Client. The port group was configured using Static binding, but the number of ports
must increase as virtual machines are added to the port group. Which port allocation setting should
the administrator use to achieve this goal?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Elastic
Dynamic
Fixed
Manual

Ans:A
24. Which feature requires an administrator to configure an RDM with Virtual Compatibility Mode?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Virtual Machine Snapshots

vMotion
High Availability
N-port ID Virtualization

Ans:A
25. What should an administrator do to configure multi-pathing using software iSCSI?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Bind the VMkernel ports to the software iSCSI initiator

Configure Zoning between the hosts and SAN switches
Configure NIC teaming on the associated uplinks
Ensure jumbo frames are enabled end-to-end

Ans:A
26. Which statement is true about the hardware configuration for ESXi hosts participating in a virtual
SAN?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Each host must have at least one Solid State Drive (SSD).
The hosts must have identical hardware.
The hosts must have network attached storage.
Each host must have a RAID Controller.

Ans:A
27. A customer needs a datastore to be seen across multiple vSphere clusters with applications inside
of the virtual machines that must detect the physical characteristics of the storage device.
Which type of virtual disk meets this requirement?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

A raw device mapped disk in physical compatibility mode

A virtual disk on a VMFS datastore
A raw device mapped disk in virtual compatibility mode
A virtual disk on an NFS datastore

28. An administrator is creating a new VMFS volume and needs to make it available to all hosts within
a datacenter using the Web Client. What should the administrator scan for in order to meet this
requirement?
A.
B.
C.
D.

VMFS
Physical RDM
Virtual RDM
NFS

Ans:A
29. An administrator is creating a new VMFS volume and needs to make it available to all hosts within
a datacenter using the Web Client. What should the administrator scan for in order to meet this
requirement?
A.
B.
C.
D.

New Storage Devices and VMFS Volumes

New Storage Devices and LUNs
New VMFS Volumes and Datastores
New VMFS Volumes and LUNs

Ans:A
30. An administrator is deploying a virtual machine from a template.
Assuming the entire inventory objects below exist in the implementation, what is the highest level in
the vCenter Server hierarchy to which a virtual machine can be deployed?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Cluster
Datacenter
Datacenter
Host

Ans:A
31. A VMware administrator needs to simplify the placement of virtual machines. The administrator
also needs to balance I/O load and space utilization automatically. Which combination of features
should the administrator use to achieve this?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Create a Datastore Cluster and enable Storage DRS on the cluster

Create a Datastore Cluster and enable Storage I/O Control on each datastore
Enable Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control on each datastore
Enable Storage I/O Control on each datastore and configure Storage vMotion

Ans:A
32. An administrator needs to configure a Linux virtual machine template to support guest
customization. The administrator has installed VMware Tools.
Which additional component is necessary to enable Linux guest OS customization?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Perl
bash
Python
Sysprep

Ans:A
33. A VMware administrator needs to export a vApp and create a self-contained package that has a
single file.Which format should the administrator use?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Export as OVA
Export as OVF
Export as ZIP
Export as ISO

Ans:A
34. An administrator needs to prevent two virtual machines from running on the same host at any
time. Which DRS rule should the administrator apply?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vm-to-vm anti-affinity
vm-to-vm affinity
vm-to-host affinity
vm-to-host anti-affinity

Ans:A
35. A vSphere administrator needs to reconfigure the Distributed Power Management (DPM)
threshold to be more aggressive. Where should the administrator edit the settings of DPM in the
vSphere Web Client?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Cluster settings
DPM plug-in settings
ESXi host power settings
vCenter Service Status

Ans:A
36. An administrator has created a Virtual Flash Read Cache and needs to add a total 2TB of capacity
to the cache. The administrator has a total of six SSD disks to add, but is unable to add one of the
disks. What is a likely cause of the problem?
A.
B.
C.
D.

The SSD device size is greater than 4TB.

The SSD device size is less than 256GB.
The SSD device is a local disk.
The SSD device contains existing data.

Ans:A
37. Which tool should an administrator use to modify vSphere Data Protection (VDP) backup jobs?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vSphere Web Client

vSphere Client using the VDP plugin
VAMI on the VDP Appliance
vSphere Management Appliance

Ans:A
38. An administrator notices that a virtual machine fails to start when right-clicking on the VM in the
inventory and clicking Power -> Power On. Which log file should the administrator check first to
determine why the virtual machine will not start?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

vmkernel.log
messages
vpxa.log
fdm.log

39. Why would an administrator be unable to locate an IP address for a vSphere vmnic uplink?
A.
B.
C.
D.

IP addresses are defined at the virtual nic level, not the vmnic level.
ESXi host vmnics communicate with physical switches on layer 3.
ESXi hosts use NAT translation to mask the actual vmnic IP address.
The IP address of the vmnic is not shown in the vSphere Client.

Ans:A
40. Which database platform is embedded within the vApp architecture of vCenter Operations
Manager?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vPostgres
MySQL
IBM DB2 Express
Oracle 11g Express

Ans:A
41. During the installation of ESXi, a vmkernel interface can be configured with what capabilities?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Management traffic
Management traffic and vMotion
Management traffic, vMotion and Fault Tolerance logging
Management traffic, vMotion, Fault Tolerance logging and IP storage

Ans:A
42. 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.
B.
C.
D.

Failed Boot Recovery

Force BIOS Setup
Boot Delay
Network Boot Retry

Ans:A
43. Which information can the administrator use to identify iSCSI nodes?
A.
B.
C.
D.

IQN
MAC address
WWN
LUN ID

Ans:A
44. An administrator needs to configure vFlash Read Cache to improve performance.
What would benefit the most from enabling vFlash Read Cache?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

Web Server virtual machines

Virtual machines replicated with vSphere Replication
Database virtual machines
Virtual machines migrated using Storage vMotion

45. 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.
B.
C.
D.

Enterprise Plus
Enterprise
Standard
Essentials

Ans:A
46. 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.
B.
C.
D.

Run a Command
Delete Snapshot
Reset VM
Consolidate Snapshot

Ans:A
47. When a vSphere administrator attempts to remediate a host with Update Manager, the host is
unable to enter maintenance mode. Which condition is likely preventing the host from entering
maintenance mode?
A.
B.
C.
D.

A virtual machine on the host has a removable device connected.

A virtual machine on the host is configured to use Fault Tolerance.
A virtual machine is powered off and cannot be migrated to another host.
A virtual machine is configured with a local .vswp file.

Ans:A
48. An administrator needs to provide a report that will help managers better understand how all of
their virtual machines are sized. Which report within vCenter Operations Manager should the
administrator provide?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Virtual Machine Optimization Report

Undersized Virtual Machines Report
Configured Host or Cluster Capacity Report
Virtual Machine Capacity Overview Report

Ans:A
49. An administrator needs to provide a report that shows how many virtual machines can be added
to an existing vSphere environment. Which report within vCenter Operations Manager meets this
requirement?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

Cluster or Host Capacity Inventory Report

Configured Host Capacity Report
Virtual Machine Capacity Overview Report
Virtual Machine Optimization Report

50. Which privilege should the administrator assign to allow a user to create baselines using Update
Manager?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Manage baseline
Attach baseline
Stage baseline
Configure baseline

Ans:A
51. An administrator is preparing to install an additional Single Sign-On node on a stand-alone server.
What information is required during the installation routine?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Partner Host Name

Active Directory domain name and credentials
System DSN
Lookup Service URL

Ans:A
52. Which Web service is installed during the vCenter Server installation?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Tomcat Web server

Tomcat Web server
WEBrick
LiteSpeed Web server

Ans:A
53. A large medical institution needs to centralize malware and anti-virus scanning in its environment.
Which vSphere component will satisfy this requirement?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vShield Endpoint
vCloud Network and Security
vSphere Data Protection Advanced
vCenter Operations Manager

Ans:A
54. What is the correct order to install vCenter Server 5.x components?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vCenter Single Sign-On, Inventory Service, vCenter Server

vCenter Server, vCenter Single Sign-On, Inventory Service
vCenter Server, Inventory Service, vCenter Single Sign-On
vCenter Single Sign-On, vCenter Server, Inventory Service

Ans:A
55. What is not a supported method for increasing the availability of a vCenter Server virtual
machine?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

vSphere Fault Tolerance

vSphere High Availability
vCenter Server Heartbeat
Site Recovery Manager

56. Which installation method is not available for a new deployment of ESXi 5.x?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Update Manager installation

Update Manager installation
Scripted installation
Auto Deploy installation

Ans:A
57. Which VMware Tools upgrade method minimizes the need for scheduled downtime?
A.

Configure the virtual machines to check for and install updates at each reboot cycle

B. Use vCenter Server to select and upgrade virtual machines

C.
D.

Use vSphere PowerCLI and create a script to upgrade the virtual machines
Use Update Manager to perform an orchestrated upgrade of virtual machines

Ans:A
58. Before upgrading from vCenter 4.x to 5.x, an administrator runs the vCenter Host Agent PreUpgrade Checker. The Checker reports an issue.
What would cause the vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker to report an issue?
A.
B.
C.
D.

The file system is not intact.

The .NET framework 3.5 is installed.
The host network card is only 1 Gbps.
The VMFS file system is version 4.0.

Ans:A
59. An administrator needs to implement trusted SSL certificates for all vCenter 5.5 components.
Which component needs an SSL certificate?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Update Manager
Auto Deploy
ESXi Dump Collector
Network Syslog Collector

Ans:A
60. A vSphere administrator needs to add redundancy to an ESXi 5.x management network on a
vSphere Standard Switch. Which method should the administrator use to create redundant
management networks?
A.

Configure the management network vSwitch with two active uplinks

B. Configure an additional management portgroup on the same vSwitch

C.
D.

Create a second management network on a second vSwitch in the same subnet

Create a second management network on the same vSwitch in the same subnet

Ans:A
61. What is a characteristic of Virtual SAN?
A.
B.
C.
D.

It supports Virtual Machine Storage Policies.

It supports multiple Virtual SAN clusters for each host.
It supports native snapshots and SE Sparse disks.
It supports storage attached through USB, Fibre Channel, or iSCSI

Ans:A

62. A customer needs to select an appropriate Path Selection Policy (PSP) for their storage array. There

is no requirement for a preferred path. The policy should not select a new path unless the current one
fails. Which PSP meets the requirement?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Most Recently Used

Fixed
Round Robin
Asymmetric Logical Unit Access

Ans:A
63. Which controller is recommended for high disk I/O workloads?
A.
B.
C.
D.

VMware Paravirtual
BusLogic Parallel
BusLogic Parallel
LSI Logic SAS

Ans:A
64. What should an administrator do to identify compliance for virtual machine storage performance?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Create a Storage Policy and apply it to the virtual machine

Create Storage Capabilities and apply one or more capabilities to the virtual machine
Create a Storage Policy and apply it to the datastore containing the virtual machine
Create Storage Capabilities and apply one or more capabilities to the datastore containing the virtual machine

Ans:A
65. What will cause the validation of a vMotion migration to fail?
A.
B.
C.
D.

A virtual machine configured for CPU affinity

A virtual machine configured with a local .vswp file
A virtual machine configured to use NUMA
A virtual machine configured with a shared Raw-Device Mapped disk

Ans:A
66. How is changed block tracking (CBT) used in a vSphere implementation?
A.
B.
C.
D.

CBT is used by VMware Data Protection (VDP) to reduce time needed for backup jobs.
CBT is used by the VMkernel to reduce time needed for virtual machine copy operations.
CBT is used by vCenter Server to reduce the size of snapshots.
CBT is used by vSphere Replication for synchronous replication operations.

Ans:A
69. Which vSphere feature creates a copy of a virtual machine that can be stored locally within a
cluster or at another site, and provides the ability to rapidly restore a virtual machine within minutes?
A.
B.
C.

vSphere Replication
vSphere Data Protection
vSphere Snapshots

D.

vSphere Heartbeat

Ans:A
70. An administrator needs to export system logs for an ESXi 5.5 host to determine the root cause for
a host performance issue. This host supports manifest-driven exports of system logs.
Which manifest is selected by default during the export system log wizard?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Userworld
Hostworld
PerformanceSnapshot
HungVM

Ans:A
71. An ESXi 5.x host disconnects within 60 seconds after the administrator adds it to the vCenter
Server inventory. The administrator determines that the issue could be related to a networking
problem. Which networking port should the administrator check for connectivity from the host to
vCenter Server?
A.
B.
C.
D.

902
903
443
9443

Ans:A
72. An administrator is using esxtop to troubleshoot a storage performance issue. Which parameter
should the administrator check to monitor any storage-related vSphere overhead?
A.
B.
C.
D.

KAVG
DAVG
GAVG
CMDS

Ans:A
73. A vSphere administrator configures a preferred heartbeat datastore in an HA/DRS cluster
configuration. The vCenter Server identifies an alternative preferred datastore.
Why would vCenter Server identify an alternative preferred datastore over the administrator's
preference?
A.

The selected datastore is not accessible to all of the hosts.

B. The selected datastore contains powered-on virtual machines.

C.
D.

The selected datastore is formatted with a 1 MB block size.

The selected datastore is an NFS datastore.

Ans:A
74. A virtual machine fails to migrate during a Storage DRS event. What could cause this issue?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

Storage DRS is enabled for the datastore cluster but disabled for the virtual disks.
Storage DRS is enabled, but vMotion is disabled for the affected virtual machine.
The vMotion network used for Storage DRS is down for a host in the cluster.
Storage DRS is attempting to migrate the virtual machine between VMFS and NFS datastores.

75. The load on a Fully Automated HA/DRS cluster is critically unbalanced. What condition could
cause this issue?
A.
B.
C.
D.

DRS is disabled on one or more virtual machines.

The migration threshold is set to Moderate.
Storage vMotion is not enabled on the cluster.
Storage DRS is disabled on the datastore hosting the cluster's virtual machines.

Ans:A
76. A vSphere administrator determines that more metrics are available for viewing in the realtime
view than are available in the daily view for a virtual machine.
What is the reason for this discrepancy in the number of available metrics?
A.
B.
C.
D.

The default vCenter statistics level is being used.

The daily view does not contain all of the metrics that the realtime view does.
A vCenter statistics level of 4 is being used.
The daily view presents a different selection of metrics by default than presented by the realtime
view.

Ans:A
77. A VMware administrator determines that the active memory on an ESXi 5.x host is 20% and the
consumed memory is 90%. How much host memory is available to virtual machines?
A.
B.
C.
D.

80%
10%
70%
20%

Ans:A
78. The vSphere administrator needs to check the system health of an ESXi 5.x host using the vSphere
Web Client.Which option in the Monitor tab should the administrator use for the selected host?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Performance
Hardware Reports
Storage Status
Issue Log

Ans:A
79. I/O requests to disk storage on a SAN are called
A.
B.
C.
D.

Block I/Os
File I/Os
SAN I/Os
Disk I/Os

Ans:A
80. Which protocol can cause overload on a CPU of a managed device?
A.
B.
C.
D.

SNMP
Netflow
WCCP
IP SLA

Ans:A
81. Which proprietary trunking protocols can you use on a trunk link between two Cisco
switches?
A.
B.
C.
D.

ISL
ISL
802.1X
802.1Q

Ans:A
82. Which command is used to get the kernel version in Linux?
A.
B.
C.
D.

uname -r
kernel -r
uname -n
uname s

Ans:A
83. What type file system used in Linux OS?
A.
B.
C.
D.

XFS
NTFS
ReFS
JFS

Ans:A
84. Which of the following raid levels provides maximum usable disk space?
A.
B.
C.
D.

RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 6

Ans:A
85. Identify the Network storage devices
A.
B.
C.
D.

All of the above

Switch
RAID Arrays
Tape drives

Ans:A
86. NFS & CIFS are
A.
B.
C.
D.

File access protocols

Filesystems
Operating systems
Transport protocols

Ans:A

87. Which data storage technology offers the best performance?

A.
B.
C.
D.

SAN
NAS
DAS
None of the above

Ans:A
88. Router operates in which layer of OSI Model ?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Layer 3(Network Layer)

Layer 1 (Physical Layer)
ayer 4 (Transport Layer)
Layer 7 (Application Layer)

Ans:A
89. Which of the following IP address class is multicast ?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Class D
Class C
Class B
Class A

Ans:A
90. Which standard TCP port is assigned for contacting SSH servers?
A.
B.
C.
D.

port 22
port 21
port 23
port 24

Ans:A

91. Which one of the following authentication method is used by SSH?

A.
B.
C.
D.

all of the mentioned

public-key
host based
password

Ans:A
92. Which transmission media has the highest transmission speed in a network?
A.
B.
C.
D.

optical fiber
coaxial cable
twisted pair cable
electrical cable

Ans:A
93. MAC address is of
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

48 bits
24 bits
36 bits
42 bits

94. The maximum size of payload field in ethernet frame is

A.
B.
C.
D.

1500 bytes
1000 bytes
1200 bytes
1300 bytes

Ans:A
95. FTP server listens for connection on port number
A.
B.
C.
D.

21
20
23
22

Ans:A
96. ICMP is used in
A.
B.
C.
D.

Both a and b
Ping
Ifconfig
Traceroute

Ans:A
97. IPv6 doesnot use ______ type of address
A.
B.
C.
D.

Broadcast
Multicast
Any cast
None of the mentioned

Ans:A
98. CRC stands for
A.
B.
C.
D.

cyclic redundancy check

code repeat check
code redundancy check
cyclic repeat check

Ans:A
99. Which of the following is not a good reason for virtualization?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Reduced hardware costs

Power saving
Hardware consolidation
System recovery

Ans:A
100. Which VMware product allows for non-disruptive disaster recovery testing?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Site Recovery Manager

vCenter Operations Manager
vSphere Replication
vCenter Configuration Manager

Ans:A
101. vSphere. You explain that some devices are block-based, while others are file-based.
Which of the following is a file-based storage type?
A.
B.
C.
D.

NFS
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Fibre Channel
iSCSI

Ans:A
102. Which vSphere feature allows for more efficient storage usage?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Thin Provisioning
Snapshots
Fast Provisioning
Storage vMotion

Ans:A
103. What is a scalability challenge that vSphere can address?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Automatic balancing of virtual machines after adding new physical servers

Change management processes are simplified
Automatic balancing of virtual machines after adding new physical servers
Users have self-service provisioning of virtual machine workloads

Ans:A
104. What does virtualization do?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Converts hardware into software

Converts software into hardware
Causes your servers to consume less power
Causes your servers to run lighter workloads

Ans:A
105. Which vSphere feature allows for rapid provisioning of virtual machines?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Templates
Thin Provisioning
Distributed Resource Scheduler
vNetwork Distributed Switches

Ans:A
106. 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?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vCenter Operations Manager

vCenter Site Recovery Manager
vCenter Update Manager
vCenter Configuration Manager

Ans:A
107. What is an availability challenge that vSphere can address?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Virtual machines can be proactively migrated when a server failure is imminent

Hardware maintenance can be performed at any time without application impact
More servers can be deployed to provide higher availability
Disaster recovery is greatly simplified

Ans:A
108. Which VMware product allows for the shared use of local storage?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vSphere Storage Appliance

Storage vMotion
vSphere Replication
Site Recovery Manager

Ans:A

109. What is a feature of vSphere?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Distributed Power Management

Distributed Resource Management
Distributed Power Scheduler
Distributed Resource Protection

Ans:A
110. Which vSphere feature allows hardware maintenance to be performed at any time without
impacting application availability?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vMotion
CPU Hotplug
Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
Cold migrations

Ans:A

111. Which of the following features is a benefit of shared storage within a VMware
environment?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Allows for the deployment of DRS and HA clusters

Allows storage to be deployed from a single vendor
Provides the ability to backup data more efficiently
Provides the ability to view the disk I/O more efficiently

Ans:A

112. What is a feature of vSphere?

A.
B.
C.
D.

vSphere Data Protection

vSphere Availability Protection
vSphere Data Scheduler
vSphere Resource Protection

Ans:A

113. Which vSphere feature is used to help achieve greater uptime SLAs?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Site Recovery Manager

Storage vMotion
Distributed Resource Scheduler
High Availability

Ans:A
114. Which VMware product will help identify mis-sized virtual machines?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vCenter Operations Manager

vCenter Service Manager
vCloud Director
vCenter Configuration Manager

Ans:A
115. Which vSphere feature allows an automated method for placing virtual machines on appropriate
storage?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler

Thin Provisioning
Storage vMotion
Storage Service Classes

Ans:A
116. What is a Management challenge that vSphere can address?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Legacy applications can be run on new hardware

Change management processes can be eliminated
CMDBs are automatically updated
IT processes can be automatically updated

Ans:A
117. What is an availability challenge that vSphere can address?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Non-disruptive virtual machine backups

Virtual machines can be patched anytime
Virtual machines are protected against power outages
Hardware upgrades can only be done after hours

Ans:A
118. Which of the following vSphere features do not use virtual networking?
A.
B.
C.
D.

VMware Remote Console

FCoE
iSCSI
vMotion

Ans:A
119. What is a management challenge that vSphere can address?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

Centralized management of many servers

Virtual machines require less administration
Remote offices need dedicated management
Regulatory compliance is more lenient in a virtual datacenter

120. What might you tell your boss to convince him to start datacenter virtualization?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Your users can self-provision servers

Servers will generate less heat
You will save on power
You can't physically touch virtual machines

Ans:A
121. Your boss is confused on the relationship between a Virtual Machine and a hypervisor.
Which statement best describes this relationship?
A.
B.
C.
D.

A Hypervisor is where VMs run.

There is no relationship between them, just marketing differences.
A VM and a hypervisor is the same thing.
A VM is where hypervisors run.

Ans:A
122. 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?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Fault Tolerance (FT)

High Availability (HA)
vMotion
vSphere Replication (VR)

Ans:A
123. The name of the Type 1 hypervisor used in VMware's product line is
A.
B.
C.
D.

ESXi
vESX
vCenter
Workstation

Ans:A
124. Which VMware product assists in maintaining regulatory compliance?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vCenter Configuration Manager

ESXi
vCenter Server
vCenter Operations Manager

Ans:A

125. What vCenter feature does Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) use during the automated load
balancing of virtual machines?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

vMotion
High Availability
vSphere Replication
Fault Tolerance

126. Which vCenter feature allows for QoS?

A.
B.
C.
D.

vNetwork Distributed Switch

Network Traffic Shaping
Network vMotion
vNetwork Standard Switch

Ans:A
127. 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?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Datastores
VM Port Groups
Clusters
Data Centers

Ans:A
128. 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?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vMotion
Distributed Power Management (DPM)
High Availability (HA)
Fault Tolerance (FT)

Ans:A
129. 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?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vMotion
High Availability
vSphere Replication
vSphere Distributed Switch

Ans:A
130. 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?
A.
B.
C.
D.

High Availability (HA)

Fault Tolerance (FT)
Data Protection
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Ans:A
131. Which port is used for NSX REST API Requests?
A.
B.
C.
D.

443
80
5480
8443

Ans:A
132. Which Layer 2 bridge is supported by the Distributed Router?
A.
B.
C.
D.

VXLAN to VLAN bridge

VCD-NI to VLAN bridge
VXLAN to PVLAN bridge
VCD-NI to PVLAN bridge

Ans:A
133. Where are the distributed NSX firewall decisions logged?
A.
B.
C.
D.

ESXi host
NSX Manager
vCenter Server
NSX Edge

Ans:A
134. Which tool is used to detect rogue services?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Flow Monitoring
NSX Logical Firewall
NSX Logical Router
Activity Monitoring

Ans:A
135. Which routing protocol cannot be configured on an NSX edge device?
A.
B.
C.
D.

EIGRP
S-IS
OSPF
BGP

Ans:A

136. Which is not a valid Destination option for a General Logical Firewall rule?
A.
B.
C.
D.

MAC Set
Datacenter
Virtual App
Network

Ans:A
137. Which feature is not supported by the vSphere 5.5 Distributed Switch?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

IGMP snooping at layer 2

Multiple link aggregation groups
Differentiated Service Code Point (DSCP) QOS at layer3
Packet captures at the uplink, virtual switch port, or vNIC

138. Where is the net-vdr command used?

A.
B.
C.
D.

ESXi host
NSX Controller
NSX Edge
vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

Ans:A
139. What is the minimum number of vSphere Distributed Switches (vDS) that must be
configured before deploying VMware NSX for vSphere?
A.
B.
C.
D.

1
0
2
4

Ans:A
140. Which time frequency is not available when scheduling NSX backups?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Monthly
Hourly
Daily
Weekly

Ans:A
141. What is the earliest version of vCloud Network and Security (vCNS) that can be upgraded
to VMware NSX for vSphere 6.0?
A.
B.
C.
D.

vCNS 5.5
vCNS 6.0
vCNS 5.0
vCNS 5.1

Ans:A

142. Which port must be available for communication between the NSX Manager and vCenter
Server, ESXi hosts, and NSX appliances?
A.
B.
C.
D.

22
80
443
902

Ans:A
143.What is the default delay when the active NSX Edge instance fails before the standby
instance takes the active role?
A.
B.
C.
D.

15 seconds.
3 seconds
6 seconds.
45 seconds.

Ans:A
144. Which component could be used to automate the deployment of an NSX environment?
A.
B.
C.
D.

A Cloud Management Platform (CMP).

The NSX Controller
The NSX Manager.
The vSphere Distributed Switch wizard.

Ans:A
145. What is the packet size of the VXLAN standard test packet when using the Ping test on the
A.
B.
C.
D.

1550
1500
1575
1600

Ans:A
146. Which component provides for installation of NSX hypervisor kernel components and user
world agents?
A.
B.
C.
D.

NSX Manager
NSX Controller
NSX Edge Virtual Appliance
vCloud Automation Center

Ans:A
147.Which service cannot be included in a Security Policy using Service Composer?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Virtual Private Network Services

Endpoint Services
Firewall Rules
Network Introspection Services

Ans:A
148. What is the frequency of the heartbeat between the active and standby NSX Edge
instances when configured for HA?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Every 1 second.
Every 5second.
Every 1 8 second.
Every 5second.

Ans:A
149. What is the minimum MTU size recommended by VMware for the physical network when
deploying NSX for vSphere?
A.

1600

B.
C.
D.

1550
2148
9000

Ans:A
150. What is the maximum time span for viewing Flow Monitoring data?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Ans:A

2 weeks
2 hours
1 week
1 month