During an installation of Security Server, a message displays that the pairing password has expired. Where must a new password be configured?

During an installation of Security Server, a message displays that the pairing password has expired.
Where must a new password be configured? 

A. View Connection Server
B. Active Directory
C. View Administrator
D. View Security Server






Answer: C

Which attribute is required when configuring a View Security Server Pairing Password?

Which attribute is required when configuring a View Security Server Pairing Password? 

A. Password complexity value
B. Password expiration value
C. Password length value
D. Password timeout value







Answer: D

An administrator is installing a View Security Server and is required to specify a PCoIP external URL. Which is a valid example of a PCoIP external URL?

An administrator is installing a View Security Server and is required to specify a PCoIP external URL.
Which is a valid example of a PCoIP external URL? 

A. https://10.10.10.100:443
B. https://10.10.10.100:4172
C. https://view.domain.com:443
D. https://view.domain.com:4172







Answer: B

An administrator would like to add a View Security Server to add external access to the environment. Which View component must be installed and configured prior to installation of the View Security Server?

An administrator would like to add a View Security Server to add external access to the environment.
Which View component must be installed and configured prior to installation of the View Security Server? 

A. View Agent Server
B. View Connection Server
C. View Replica Server
D. View Transfer Server






Answer: B

An administrator is creating a new virtual machine for use as a View Transfer Server. Which SCSI controller should be selected?

An administrator is creating a new virtual machine for use as a View Transfer Server.
Which SCSI controller should be selected? 

A. Buslogic Parallel
B. LSI Logic Parallel
C. LSI Logic SAS
D. VMware Paravirtual






Answer: C

Which TCP port must be open on the firewall of the View Transfer Server?

Which TCP port must be open on the firewall of the View Transfer Server? 

A. 443
B. 21
C. 389
D. 4172







Answer: A

How many disks can a View Transfer Server concurrently transfer?

How many disks can a View Transfer Server concurrently transfer? 

A. 15
B. 60
C. 4
D. 30






Answer: B

An administrator is adding a replicated instance of View Connection Server to the environment silently. Which MSI property would be used to identify the instance being replicated?

An administrator is adding a replicated instance of View Connection Server to the environment silently.
Which MSI property would be used to identify the instance being replicated? 

A. ADAM_PRIMARY_INSTANCE
B. ADAM_PRIMARY_NAME
C. VDM_INSTANCE_NAME
D. VDM_SERVER_INSTANCE







Answer: B

What is the minimum required level of privileges required to install the View Connection Server?

What is the minimum required level of privileges required to install the View Connection Server? 

A. Domain User
B. Domain Administrator
C. Local Power User
D. Local Administrator






Answer: D

An Administrator is upgrading to View Connection Server 5.x from a previous release. Which component is omitted from installation automatically during an upgrade?

An Administrator is upgrading to View Connection Server 5.x from a previous release.
Which component is omitted from installation automatically during an upgrade? 

A. VMware Message Bus Component
B. VMware Script Host
C. VMware PCoIP Secure Gateway
D. VMware VDMDS






Answer: D

When planning for an upgrade from ESX4 to ESXi5 what will be the effect of upgrading a 1TB VMFS3 datastore with a 2MB block size to VMFS5?

When planning for an upgrade from ESX4 to ESXi5 what will be the effect of upgrading a 1TB VMFS3 datastore with a 2MB block size to VMFS5? 

A. Thick virtual disks can be expanded to a maximum of 2TB.
B. Thick virtual disks can be expanded to a maximum of 512GB.
C. Thin virtual disks can be expanded to a maximum of 512GB.
D. Thin virtual disks can be expanded to a maximum of 2TB.







Answer: D

A virtual machine needs to add a 4TB disk. The storage administrator has already created and presented a 4TB LUN to the ESXi host. A 500GB VMFS5 datastore already exists on the host. What is the next step a vSphere administrator would take to successfully provision the data disk?

A virtual machine needs to add a 4TB disk. The storage administrator has already created and presented a 4TB LUN to the ESXi host. A 500GB VMFS5 datastore already exists on the host.
What is the next step a vSphere administrator would take to successfully provision the data disk? 

A. Create a virtual compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 4TB LUN.
B. Create a physical compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 4TB LUN.
C. Expand the VMFS volume to 4T
B. Create a physical compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 4TB LUN.
D. Expand the VMFS volume to 4T
B. Create a virtual compatibility mode RDM mapping to the 4TB LUN.








Answer: B

An administrator is configuring an ESXi host with two dual-port Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs. The FC storage array has four active storage processor ports. Zoning is configured on both fabrics, with ESXi HBA ports and the array ports in the same zone. There are two LUNs with VMFS datastores configured. Using Round Robin multipathing, what is the maximum number of paths that can be used to send data to the VMFS datastores at any given time?

An administrator is configuring an ESXi host with two dual-port Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs. The FC storage array has four active storage processor ports. Zoning is configured on both fabrics, with ESXi HBA ports and the array ports in the same zone. There are two LUNs with VMFS datastores configured.
Using Round Robin multipathing, what is the maximum number of paths that can be used to send data to the VMFS datastores at any given time? 

A. 2
B. 3
C. 1
D. 4






Answer: A

When designing a storage infrastructure to support ESXi 5 hosts what limit will be reached first?

When designing a storage infrastructure to support ESXi 5 hosts what limit will be reached first? 

A. Maximum number of NFS datastores
B. Maximum number of iSCSI LUNs
C. Maximum number of paths to an iSCSI RDM
D. Maximum number of iSCSI paths on a host







Answer: C

An administrator decides to implement a Fixed multipathing policy for an ESXi host with four available paths to one VMFS datastore. After the policy has been enabled for the datastore, how many paths will have an active status by default?

An administrator decides to implement a Fixed multipathing policy for an ESXi host with four available paths to one VMFS datastore.
After the policy has been enabled for the datastore, how many paths will have an active status by default? 

A. 4
B. 3
C. 1
D. 2







Answer: A

When PSA is coordinating the VMware NMP and any installed third-party MPPs, the MPPs perform which task?

When PSA is coordinating the VMware NMP and any installed third-party MPPs, the MPPs perform which task? 

A. Implement logical device bandwidth sharing
B. Handle I/O queueing to the logical devices
C. Provide logical device and physical path I/O statistics
D. Manage physical path claiming and unclaiming







Answer: D

How does a hardware FCoE Adapter appear to an ESXi host?

How does a hardware FCoE Adapter appear to an ESXi host? 

A. As an uplink adapter attached to a vSphere Distributed Switch.
B. As a hardware FCoE Adapter.
C. As an enabled FCoE software initiator.
D. As a Fibre Channel Adapter.






Answer: D

A vSphere 5 environment has an ESXi 5.x host configured to boot from a hardware independent iSCSI adapter. What is the expected outcome if the administrator attempts to disable the iSCSI HBA in the vSphere client?

A vSphere 5 environment has an ESXi 5.x host configured to boot from a hardware independent iSCSI adapter.
What is the expected outcome if the administrator attempts to disable the iSCSI HBA in the vSphere client? 

A. The adapter will be disabled, but is re-enabled the next time the host boots up.
B. The adapter will be disabled and the host will not boot the next time the host boots up.
C. A hardware independent iSCSI adapter cannot be disabled from the vSphere Client.
D. The adapter will be enabled, but the host will boot into troubleshooting mode the next time the host boots up.







Answer: C

How can you verify vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) is enabled?

How can you verify vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) is enabled? 

A. "VAAI" listed on the Hard Disk properties page for any VMDK stored on a compliant array
B. "Hardware Acceleration" listed on the Hard Disk properties page for any VMDK stored on a compliant array
C. "VAAI" column for any datastore created on a compliant array
D. "Hardware Acceleration" column for any datastore created on a compliant array





Answer: C

Which are the correct parameters to specify when adding an iSCSI target to an ESXi Host using the Static Discovery tab?

Which are the correct parameters to specify when adding an iSCSI target to an ESXi Host using the Static Discovery tab? 

A. iSCSI server ip address, port 902
B. iSCSI server ip address, port 3260
C. iSCSI server ip address, port 902, iSCSI target name
D. iSCSI server ip address, port 3260, iSCSI target name




Answer: D

Which is the most secure method of connecting to an iSCSI storage array using an independent hardware iSCSI adapter?

Which is the most secure method of connecting to an iSCSI storage array using an independent hardware iSCSI adapter? 

A. One-way CHAP
B. Mutual CHAP
C. Per-target CHAP
D. Per-subnet CHAP






Answer: A

A new LUN has been provisioned to all hosts in a vSphere 5 cluster. On one host a new VMFS datastore has been created. How will the new datastore be discovered by the other ESXi 5 hosts?

A new LUN has been provisioned to all hosts in a vSphere 5 cluster. On one host a new VMFS datastore has been created. How will the new datastore be discovered by the other ESXi 5 hosts?

A. A rescan of all host bus adapters is periodically performed by ESXi hosts to detect new VMFS datastores.
B. New VMFS volumes are automatically added to members of a cluster by vCenter 5.
C. A manual refresh is required on each ESXi 5 hosts to discover new VMFS datastores.
D. A refresh of all host bus adapters is periodically performed by ESXi hosts to detect new VMFS datastores.








Answer: C

When an explicit failover order has been configured on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks, what determines which uplink is used when a failover event occurs?

When an explicit failover order has been configured on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks, what determines which uplink is used when a failover event occurs? 

A. The first available uplink that reports a positive link state
B. The reported uptime for the surviving uplinks
C. The next available uplink on the list
D. The uplink with the shortest route








Answer: C

When would an administrator configure the explicit failover option for a portgroup created on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks?

When would an administrator configure the explicit failover option for a portgroup created on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks? 

A. To manually configure load balancing for the portgroup
B. To share uplinks between vSwitches
C. When configuring iSCSI Software Initiator multipathing
D. If the physical switch does not support etherchannel or 802.3ad








Answer: C

What would be a valid reason to enable traffic shaping?

What would be a valid reason to enable traffic shaping? 

A. Limiting the bandwidth of a FTP server
B. Restricting the load on a IDS server
C. Limiting the bandwidth used by an independent hardware iSCSI adapter
D. Improving the performance of a CPU-intensive application server






Answer: A

An administrator is creating a vSphere Standard Switch with virtual machine and VMkernel networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch and wants to make sure multiple sessions for a virtual machine can utilize both uplinks. Which load-balancing policy will guarantee this requirement is met, even if additional management or virtual machine traffic is added to the switch in the future?

An administrator is creating a vSphere Standard Switch with virtual machine and VMkernel networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch and wants to make sure multiple sessions for a virtual machine can utilize both uplinks.
Which load-balancing policy will guarantee this requirement is met, even if additional management or virtual machine traffic is added to the switch in the future? 

A. Route based on IP hash
B. Route based on source MAC hash
C. Route based on the originating port ID
D. Use explicit failover.







Answer: A

What failure will beacon probing identify in vSphere networking?

What failure will beacon probing identify in vSphere networking? 

A. An improper VLAN configuration on a physical switch port
B. A disconnected network cable
C. A VMkernel IP mismatch affecting vMotion or HA traffic
D. Jumbo frames improperly configured on an iSCSI target







Answer: A

Which vSwitch or vSwitch port group policy setting allows packets to be received by a virtual machine with different destination MAC addresses than the configured MAC address?

Which vSwitch or vSwitch port group policy setting allows packets to be received by a virtual machine with different destination MAC addresses than the configured MAC address? 

A. Promiscuous mode
B. Traffic shaping
C. Forged transmits
D. MAC address changes







Answer: D

When creating a dvPort group, which port binding option assigns a port to a virtual machine when the virtual machine is first powered on?

When creating a dvPort group, which port binding option assigns a port to a virtual machine when the virtual machine is first powered on? 

A. Static binding
B. Flexible
C. Ephemeral
D. Dynamic binding







Answer: D

Which is an important benefit provided by VLANs?

Which is an important benefit provided by VLANs? 

A. Reduced hardware requirements
B. Increased broadcast traffic
C. Fault tolerance
D. Increased security on a network segment








Answer: A

Which statement describes the functionality of traffic shaping on a vSphere Standard Switch?

Which statement describes the functionality of traffic shaping on a vSphere Standard Switch? 

A. vSphere Standard Switches support only egress traffic shaping.
B. vSphere Standard Switches support both ingress and egress traffic shaping.
C. vSphere Standard Switches support best-effort traffic shaping based on quality of service (QoS).
D. vSphere Standard Switches support only ingress traffic shaping.








Answer: A

Which network settings are only available with vSphere Distributed Switches?

Which network settings are only available with vSphere Distributed Switches? 

A. Jumbo Frames
B. PVLAN
C. Load Balancing
D. Promiscuous Mode







Answer: B

Which type of port on a secondary private VLAN can communicate with promiscuous ports and other ports that share its VLAN tag?

Which type of port on a secondary private VLAN can communicate with promiscuous ports and other ports that share its VLAN tag? 

A. Isolated
B. Promiscuous
C. Community
D. Trunked






Answer: C

Networking policies for a vSphere Standard Switch, such as traffic shaping and security, can be overridden on which vSphere elements?

Networking policies for a vSphere Standard Switch, such as traffic shaping and security, can be overridden on which vSphere elements? 

A. On the virtual machine
B. On the physical switch
C. On the physical network interface
D. On the port group






Answer: D

Virtual machine VM1 is unable to communicate with virtual machine VM2. Both virtual machines are connected to a portgroup named Production on vSwitch1 on host ESXi01. Which statement could explain why?

Virtual machine VM1 is unable to communicate with virtual machine VM2. Both virtual machines are connected to a portgroup named Production on vSwitch1 on host ESXi01. Which statement could explain why? 

A. The only vmnic connected to vSwitch1 on ESXi01 is set to unused
B. The only vmnic connected to vSwitch1 on ESXi01 is set to standby
C. Load balancing settings on Production do not match vSwitch1
D. VM1 is configured for VGT, VM2 is configured for VST






Answer: D

In vSphere, a bound physical NIC can be configured to transmit and receive jumbo frames. What is the default maximum transmission unit (MTU) in vSphere?

In vSphere, a bound physical NIC can be configured to transmit and receive jumbo frames.
What is the default maximum transmission unit (MTU) in vSphere? 

A. 1500
B. 5500
C. 9000
D. 9500







Answer: A

A vSphere Standard Switch has been configured for IP-based load balancing using two uplinks. A new uplink is added to the vswitch. What additional configuration is required by default?

A vSphere Standard Switch has been configured for IP-based load balancing using two uplinks.
A new uplink is added to the vswitch.
What additional configuration is required by default?

A. The uplink is placed in standby mode until it is added to the active NIC team.
B. The uplink is considered active, but it will not participate in the active NIC team until assigned to a port group.
C. The physical switch must add the new port to the existing 802.3ad group.
D. The uplink is automatically marked as unused when it is added to IP-based NIC team.







Answer: C

When you are configuring the vSwitch NIC teaming policy, what happens when the Failback option is set to Yes?

When you are configuring the vSwitch NIC teaming policy, what happens when the Failback option is set to Yes? 

A. A failed uplink will be left inactive upon recovery until another uplink fails.
B. The physical switches are notified when a failover event occurs.
C. The physical switches are notified when a failback event occurs.
D. A failed uplink is returned to active duty immediately upon recovery.







Answer: D

Assuming that VLANs are not configured, what is true about traffic from a virtual machine connected to a port group on a vSphere Standard Switch with no uplinks?

Assuming that VLANs are not configured, what is true about traffic from a virtual machine connected to a port group on a vSphere Standard Switch with no uplinks? 

A. The virtual switch will drop the packets if no uplink is present.
B. Virtual machines on any vSphere Standard Switch on the same ESXi host can receive the traffic.
C. Virtual machines in any port group on the virtual switch can monitor all of the traffic.
D. vMotion will not migrate any Virtual machines connected to a port group on the virtual switch.







Answer: D

Which settings are required for virtual machine guest tagging for VLAN 100 in a vSphere 5 environment?

Which settings are required for virtual machine guest tagging for VLAN 100 in a vSphere 5 environment? 

A. Port Group configured for VLAN 100, physical switch configured as a VLAN trunk
B. Port Group configured for VLAN 4095, physical switch configured as a VLAN trunk
C. Port Group configured for VLAN 100, physical switch configured for VLAN 100
D. Port Group configured for VLAN 4095, physical switch configured for VLAN 100







Answer: B

A virtual machine, VM21, will be migrated between two ESXi 5.x hosts, labeled ESXi01 and ESXi02. Each host has two vSphere Standard Switches (vSS), configured as follows: 1. vSwitch0 has a portgroup labeled Management and a portgroup labeled vMotion. 2. The Management portgroup contains a vmkernel port tagged for management traffic. 3. The vMotion portgroup contains a vmkernel port tagged for vMotion traffic. 4. vSwitch0 on ESXi01 has a single uplink attached to the 10.1.20.0/24 network. 5. vSwitch0 on ESXi02 has a single uplink attached to the 10.1.20.0/24 network. 6. Each host has a vSwitch1 with a Production portgroup used by virtual machine traffic. 7. Each vSwitch1 has an uplink attached to the 10.1.40.0/24 network. What is true about migrating VM21 to the new host?

A virtual machine, VM21, will be migrated between two ESXi 5.x hosts, labeled ESXi01 and ESXi02. Each host has two vSphere Standard Switches (vSS), configured as follows:
1. vSwitch0 has a portgroup labeled Management and a portgroup labeled vMotion.
2. The Management portgroup contains a vmkernel port tagged for management traffic.
3. The vMotion portgroup contains a vmkernel port tagged for vMotion traffic.
4. vSwitch0 on ESXi01 has a single uplink attached to the 10.1.20.0/24 network.
5. vSwitch0 on ESXi02 has a single uplink attached to the 10.1.20.0/24 network.
6. Each host has a vSwitch1 with a Production portgroup used by virtual machine traffic.
7. Each vSwitch1 has an uplink attached to the 10.1.40.0/24 network.
What is true about migrating VM21 to the new host? 

A. vMotion would be supported in this configuration.
B. Storage vMotion would not be supported in this configuration.
C. vMotion would not be supported in this configuration.
D. Storage vMotion would be supported if the storage device supports VAAI.









Answer: A

An administrator is performing an upgrade on an ESXi host. Which step can be used to back up the host before the upgrade is performed?

An administrator is performing an upgrade on an ESXi host.
Which step can be used to back up the host before the upgrade is performed? 

A. Using the vSphere Client connected to vCenter, right-click the host and choose Host Backup.
B. Log into a vMA appliance and run vicfg-cfgbackup to save the ESXi host configuration.
C. Using the vSphere Client connected directly to the host, right-click the host and choose Host Backup.
D. Use PowerCLI to run the host-backup cmdlet to save the ESXi host configuration.






Answer: B

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to 4.0 using Update Manager. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS datastore on a private, SAN-attached LUN. What might cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful?

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to 4.0 using Update Manager. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS datastore on a private, SAN-attached LUN.
What might cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful? 

A. The ESXi host has 4GB RAM.
B. The ESXi host has one processor.
C. ESXi 3.5 is not supported for upgrade.
D. Update Manager cannot upgrade a previously upgraded host.






Answer: D

An administrator is performing upgrades to ESXi 5.0 from ESX 3.x and ESX 4.x hosts. What is true about this procedure?

An administrator is performing upgrades to ESXi 5.0 from ESX 3.x and ESX 4.x hosts.
What is true about this procedure? 

A. A direct, in-place upgrade can be performed only on ESX 4.1 and later hosts.
B. ESX 3.x hosts can be upgraded, but require an upgrade to 4.x before 5.0.
C. A direct, in-place upgrade can be performed only on ESX 4.5 and later hosts.
D. A direct, in-place upgrade can be performed only on ESX 3.5 and later hosts.







Answer: B

An administrator has deployed a vCenter Server to manage a virtual environment. The administrator has been asked to develop a plan for handling major upgrades to the application. What should be included in the upgrade plan?

An administrator has deployed a vCenter Server to manage a virtual environment. The administrator has been asked to develop a plan for handling major upgrades to the application.
What should be included in the upgrade plan? 

A. Utilize vCenter Configuration Manager to upgrade the vCenter Server in place
B. Install a new vCenter Server and import the information from the existing vCenter Server
C. Install a new vCenter Server over the existing vCenter Server as an in-place upgrade
D. Utilize Update Manager to upgrade the vCenter Server in place






Answer: C

What is the default VFAT scratch partition size for ESXi 5.x when installed on a USB drive?

What is the default VFAT scratch partition size for ESXi 5.x when installed on a USB drive? 

A. 600MB
B. 544MB
C. 4GB
D. none





Answer: D

Which tool defines the Image Profiles used with Auto Deploy?

Which tool defines the Image Profiles used with Auto Deploy? 

A. The vSphere PowerCLI add-deployrule cmdlet
B. The vSphere PowerCLI new-deployrule cmdlet
C. The vSphere CLI add-deployrule command
D. The vSphere CLI new-deployrule command






Answer: B

When would a license server be configured for vCenter Server 5.x?

When would a license server be configured for vCenter Server 5.x? 

A. When managing ESX 3.x servers
B. When the vCenter Server Appliance is used
C. Within the first 60 days
D. A standalone license server is installed by default








Answer: A

The VMware vCenter Server Appliance offers many features of the Windows application version. Which of the following features is only available on the Windows application version of vCenter?

The VMware vCenter Server Appliance offers many features of the Windows application version.
Which of the following features is only available on the Windows application version of vCenter? 

A. Host Profiles
B. Template and clone customization
C. Active Directory authentication
D. IPv6







Answer: D

The VMware vCenter Server Appliance has been deployed using default settings. What user name and password are used to log in to the administration interface to configure the appliance?

The VMware vCenter Server Appliance has been deployed using default settings.
What user name and password are used to log in to the administration interface to configure the appliance? 

A. The initial user name and password must be supplied on the first login attempt.
B. The initial user name and password must be supplied during deployment.
C. The initial user name is root and the password is blank.
D. The initial user name is root and the password is vmware.







Answer: D