VCP Test Exam Questions

You have a Windows 2003 Server virtual machine (VM) that is experiencing performance problems. Task Manager displays the following information:
CPU Usage: 85%
Memory Available: 3 GB
Network Utilization: 25%
vCenter Server displays this additional information:
ESXi host CPU Utilization: 60%
VMkernel Swap Activity: None
Average Network Usage: 900 Mbps
What is the most likely cause for the performance problems?

A. The VM is CPU constrained.
B. The ESXi host NIC is being over utilized.
C. The ESXi host is CPU constrained.
D. The ESXi host needs more memory installed.

An administrator determines that a virtual machine configured for the Development port group lost network connectivity when it was migrated with vMotion from one ESXi 5.x host to another. The administrator notices that machines configured for the Production port group are not experiencing the issue. The hosts have port groups with the following network configuration:
Host A:Production (VLAN 100) Development
Host B:Production (VLAN 100) Development (VLAN 200)
Which two conditions would explain the loss of network connectivity for the virtual machine? (Choose two.) 
A. The configured VLAN for Production on Host A is incorrect.
B. The configured VLAN for Development on Host B is incorrect.
C. An improper native VLAN is configured on the uplinks to Host A.
D. An improper native VLAN is configured on the uplinks to Host B.

Which vSwitch or vSwitch port group policy setting allows a virtual machine to listen to traffic other than that which is specifically destined for the given VM?
Traffic Shaping
Promiscuous Mode
MAC Address Changes
Forged Transmits

VMware vSphere can be evaluated prior to purchase. What is the maximum number of days the evaluation can be used before a license must be purchased?
30
60
90
120

What would cause the proportional share mechanism to be invoked?
A. the sum of reservations exceeds the physical resources
B. CPU ready time exceeds a threshold
C. More than 1 virtual machine is running
D. there is resource contention

A vSphere 5 implementation contains two ESXi hosts, ESXi01 and ESXi02. A virtual machine, VM21a on ESXi01 is connected to a vSphere Standard Switch (vSS) in a port group called Production. The vSS is connected to an uplink on the 10.1.20.0/24 network. ESXi02 is configured with a vSS connected to an uplink on the 10.1.30.0/24 network. A port group called Engineering exists on this switch.Which two statements are true about this configuration? (Choose two.) 
A. Broadcasts from the Production port group can be received on the Engineering port group.
B. Broadcasts from the Production port group can not be received on the Engineering port group.
C. The virtual machine can be vMotion migrated to the target host.
D. The virtual machine can not be vMotion migrated to the target host.

Which VMware solution provides rich, personalized virtual desktops to Thin Clients and repurposed PCs with all the benefits of centralized desktop management?

VMware Workstation
VMware Fusion
Horizon Workspace
Horizon View

An administrator finds that an ESXi host cannot be managed by vCenter Server.Which three logs can be reviewed using the DCUI? (Choose three.)
The ESXi shell logs
The HA agent logs
The management agent log
The vmkernel log
The VMware ESXi Observation log

What are the iSCSI discovery methods that are supported by ESXi hosts?
Static Targets, Dynamic Targets
Static Discovery, SendTargets
Static Discovery, FindTargets
Dynamic Discovery, FindTargets

If you do not want to have remove targets discovered through Dynamic Discovery, what options do you have?

An administrator has a mixture of Intel-based ESX Hosts in a DRS cluster where the CPUs are compatible in every way except that some support the NX/XD feature and some do not.Which two actions will minimize the effect of these differences? (Choose two.) 

a. Mask the NX/XD bit in the processor section of the Configuration tab on the ESXi hosts
b. Mask the NX/XD bit on every virtual machine in the cluster
c. Enable Enhanced VMotion Compatibility
d. Enable Rapid Virtualization Indexing

Which feature allows a running virtual machine to be moved from one ESXi host to another without interruption?
Storage VMotion
HA
Cold Migration
VMotion

Which two actions have no effect on the amount of physical memory resources used for virtualization overhead? (Choose two.) 
Installing a 64-bit versus 32-bit operating system.
Increasing the amount of RAM in the virtual machine.
Increasing the number of virtual CPUs in the virtual machine.
Increasing the memory shares for the virtual machine.

What protocol is used by an ESXi host to communicate with NAS devices?
iSCSI
CIFS
NFS
SMB

To prevent non-ESXi hosts from seeing VMFS datastores, which would be the most efficent place to configure LUN masking?

An administrator would like to set up Host Profiles in a vSphere architecture. Using the vSphere Client, the administrator connects to vCenter Server and navigates to Management, then begins to build a new Host Profile but is unable to save the profile.
Why is the administrator unable to save the completed profile?
A. The Host Profiles service is stopped and must be restarted to access this option
B. No DRS/HA Cluster has been defined, and Host Profiles must be applied to a cluster.
C. No ESXi hosts have been added to vCenter Server, and this option will not be available until at least one host is managed
D. The administrator does not have the proper vSphere edition so this feature is not licensed

A company has been utilizing templates in its environment. It is running a 10-node ESXi 5.x Cluster and DRS has not been configured. Several virtual machines have been deployed from this template and successfully powered on, but a newly deployed virtual machine will not power on. There appears to be adequate CPU and Memory resources available on the host.Which three things can be done to allow more virtual machines to be deployed into the cluster from this template? (Choose three.)

A. Deploy the virtual machine to a different host using the same datastore
B. Enable DRS on the cluster to balance the virtual load out across hosts
C. Increase the virtual machine memory reservation
D. Move the swap file to a different location
E. Select a different datastore for the virtual machine

You are running into disk contention problems on a VMFS datastore. Which two actions will resolve this problem? (Choose two.)
A. Adjust disk shares for each ESXi host accessing this datastore.
B. Adjust disk shares for all virtual machines accessing this datastore from the same ESXi host
C. Move some of the virtual machines from this VMFS datastore to another datastore on the same LUN.
D. Move some of the virtual machines from this VMFS datastore to another datastore on a different LUN.

What are two types of CHAP authentication supported by ESXi
A. Automatic
B. Unidirectional
C. Bidirectional
D. Dynamic

What types of CHAP authentication are supported with Hardware iSCSI. Identify all that apply
A. Unidrectional
B. Dynamic
C. Per-target CHAP
D. Bidirectional

With Unidirectional CHAP, which is true:
A. The Initiator authenticates the Target
B. Unidirectional CHAP is enabled by default
C. The Target authenticates the Initiator
D. Unidiretional CHAP has been replaced with Bidirectional CHAP

Identify the unique benefits afforded by Software iSCSI (select all that apply)
A. Automatic CHAP configuration
B. Bidirectional CHAP
C. Bidirectional and Unidirectional CHAP
D. Different credentials for each Target
E. Ability to not use CHAP unless rewquired by Target
F. Use CHAP - Ability to require a successful CHAP authentication

You have changed the iSCSI name of the hardware initiator. When is the new name recognized for iSCSI sessions?
A. Immediately for new and existing sessions
B. Only on HBA reboot for existing and new sessions
C. Immediately for new sessions and upon HBA reboot for existing sessions
D. Immediately for new sessions, only on subsequent login for existing sessions

An ESXi host is configured to access an iSCSI target using CHAP authentication.What happens to the access if CHAP is disabled on the ESXi host?
A. Access is removed on the next rescan
B. Access is unaffected until either the ESXi host or the iSCSI Array are restarted
C. Access is unaffected until the CHAP is disabled at the iSCSI target
D. Access is immediately removed

An administrator wants to restrict the ability of selected administrators to install plug-ins in their vSphere Client applications.Which action should the administrator perform?

A.  Modify permissions for the administrators and remove the CIM Interaction privilege.
B.  Modify permissions for the administrators and add the Disable Methods privilege.
C.  Modify permissions for the administrators and add the Validate Session privilege.
D.  Modify permissions for the administrators and remove the Register Extension privilege.

When is a 64-bit Windows Operating System required for the installation of vCenter Server?
A.  vCenter Server is not supported on 64-bit Windows operating systems
B.  When deploying vSphere 4.1 or later
C.  When the managed vSphere environment exceeds 200 ESX hosts
D.  When the managed vSphere environment exceeds 1000 virtual machines

What is a valid use case for the No Access role?
A. An administrator wants to prevent a user from launching the vSphere Client.
B.  An administrator wants to revoke permissions on an object that would otherwise be propagated
C.  An administrator wants to allow only the status of an object to be viewed, but provide no other access.
D.  An administrator wants to allow the state and details of an object to be viewed, but provide no other access.

An administrator finds that the Hardware Status tab is unavailable when an ESXi host is selected in vCenter Server.Which two steps could be taken to investigate the issue? (Choose two.)
A. Check to see if TCP port 5989 is open on the vCenter Server to allow CIM traffic
B. Check the status of the vCenter Hardware Service in vCenter Service Status
C. Check the status of the CIM Server service on the Security Profile of the host
D. Check to see if UDP port 5989 is open on the vCenter Server to allow CIM traffic.

Which two conditions will cause a vMotion validation check to fail? (Choose two.)

What is the connection type of the primary VLAN in a Private VLAN?

A storage array containing a VMFS datastore must be taken offline for maintenance.What can be done to avoid virtual machine downtime on VMs running in this datastore?

An administrator is setting up vMotion in a vSphere environment. A migration is run to test the configuration, but fails.On which vSphere component does vMotion need to be enabled?

Which CHAP authentication mechanisms are only available when using software and dependent hardware iSCSI adapters (Choose Two)
Per-subnet CHAP
Per-target CHAP
Bidrectional CHAP
Per IP CHAP

If the vCenter Virtual Appliance is named vcva.vclass.local what address will you type into a browser to manage it?

Name 4 views available when you run the vSphere Client against a vCenter server?

How many ports by default for a vSS?

What are the 3 security policies and what
are their defaults?

What port do you use for downloading a web client?

What port is used for connecting to vcenter?

What is lockdown mode?

What port/protocol does NTP use?

When would you want to use an RDM?

What is the difference between ovf and ova files?

Identify three network security policy exceptions and explain them:

Which of the following is a valid definition for burst size?
A. kbps
B. seconds
C. Mbps
D. kbytes

Which of the following is a valid definition for peak bandwidth size?
A. seconds
B. kbytes
C. Mbps
D. kbps

Which of the following is a valid definition for peak bandwidth size?
A. kbps
B. seconds
C. kbytes
D. Mbps

Idenitfy five NIC teaming policies

I need a deterministic load balancing policy, which one can I use?

Identify three load balancing methods?

Which capabilities can NFS support (identify all that apply):
A. Boot from SAN
B. vMotion
C. vSphere HA
D. DRS
E. RDM

Which capabilities can DASsupport (identify all that apply):
A. Boot from SAN
B. vMotion
C. vSphere HA
D. DRS
E. RDM

What five steps must be taken to configure iSCSI software intiator?

Storage DRS provides initial placement and load balancing recommendations. I/O load is evaluated by default every
A. 24 Hours
B. 8 Hours
C. 2 Hours
D. 6 Hours

By default, HA picks how many heartbeat datastores?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

When configuring resource allocation settings on a VDS switch, which two settings are available?
A. System network resource pools
B. System resource pools
C. User-defined resource pools
D. User-defined network resource pools.

What steps must you take to configure software iSCSI multipathing?