2V0-21.20: Professional VMware vSphere 7.x

Question 1 of 112

1

Which trusted infrastructure component is missing and represented by the area labeled `A`?

Select one of the following:

Key Management Server
vSphere Virtual Machine Encryption
Key Provider Service
Attestation Service

Explanation

Question 2 of 112

1

What are two supported ESXi boot options? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

NFS
iSCSI
vSAN
SAN
vSphere Virtual Volumes

Explanation

Question 3 of 112

1

An administrator receives an escalation to investigate a low disk space alarm on a datastore. The administrator discovers that a snapshot has been accidentally taken on a production, write-intensive database server. The snapshot has grown to nearly 1 TB in size in less than an hour and continues growing every second.
Which behavior should the administrator expect while deleting the snapshot?

Select one of the following:

ESXi will create a virtual RAM disk to cache ongoing database write activity; performance impact will be limited.
ESXi will commit the snapshot delta disk into the base disk; ongoing database write activity could result in long stun times.
ESXi will merge the snapshot delta disk into the base disk; the virtual machine will be briefly stunned.
ESXi will instantly switch from the base disk to the snapshot delta disk with no performance impact.

Explanation

Question 4 of 112

1

Which two storage technologies can an administrator use to deploy the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Fibre Channel storage
vSAN storage
Virtual Volumes storage
NFS storage
iSCSI storage

Explanation

Question 5 of 112

1

An administrator runs a two-node vSphere cluster, which contains two domain controller virtual machines (VMs). The administrator wants to ensure that VMs run on separate hosts without interfering with normal maintenance operations.
How should the administrator configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)?

Select one of the following:

Create a 'Must run Virtual Machines to Hosts' anti-affinity rule.
Create a 'Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines' anti-affinity rule.
Create a 'Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines' dependency rule.
Create a 'Should run Virtual Machines to Hosts' anti-affinity rule.

Explanation

Question 6 of 112

1

Which TCP/IP stack can support management traffic, vSphere vMotion, IP storage and vSphere Fault Tolerance?

Select one of the following:

VXLAN TCP/IP stack
Provisioning TCP/IP stack
Default TCP/IP stack
vSphere vMotion TCP/IP stack

Explanation

Question 7 of 112

1

What is the effective role the test1 account has on the Finance01 virtual machine?

Select one of the following:

No access
Administrator
Read-only
Virtual machine user

Explanation

Question 8 of 112

1

A recently deployed set of test virtual machines are impacting the performance of a company development team project datastore. The shared cache server appears to be suffering from storage congestion.
Storage I/O Control is already enabled on all company datastores.
Which two steps should the administrator take to improve the performance of the cache server? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Update the storage provider for the existing array.
Create a claim rule to control the storage path.
Configure the path selection policy.
Configure storage shares per virtual machine
Configure storage limits per virtual machine.

Explanation

Question 9 of 112

1

A single host is manually configured to company standards.
Which option would an administrator select to capture this configuration for future use?

Select one of the following:

Extract Host Profile
Reset Host Customizations
Attach Host Profile
Import Host Profile

Explanation

Question 10 of 112

1

What is the minimum CPU core requirement for successful installation, or upgrade, or ESXi on a host?

Select one of the following:

8
1
32
2

Explanation

Question 11 of 112

1

What is the server virtualization product that combines the ESXi hypervisor and the vCenter Server?

Select one of the following:

NSX
vRealize Operations Manager
vSphere
vSAN

Explanation

Question 12 of 112

1

An IT department is experiencing random hardware failures that are costing the company money. The CIO is looking for technical support beyond traditional break/fix with enhanced visibility and proactive insights into the environment at no additional cost.
Which VMware service meets the needs of the CIO?

Select one of the following:

VMware Global Support Services
VMware Premier Support
VMware Skyline
vRealize Operations Manager

Explanation

Question 13 of 112

1

Which two vSphere features enable remote site availability? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Proactive High Availability
vSphere Fault Tolerance
Cross vCenter Migration
vSphere vMotion
vSphere Replication

Explanation

Question 14 of 112

1

Which two statements are true regarding the state of the virtual machine (VM) if an administrator clicks the `Delete All` option? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

The VM state will match Snap-C.
No snapshots will remain on the VM.
Snap-A will be intact on the VM.
The VM state will match Snap-B.
The VM state will match Snap-A.

Explanation

Question 15 of 112

1

An administrator wants to be able to log in to the vSphere Client and view the inventories of two vCenter Server instances.
What must the administrator do to meet this requirement?

Select one of the following:

Configure Enhanced Linked Mode on each vCenter Server instance after deployment is complete.
Connect each vCenter Server instance to the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain during deployment
Connect each vCenter Server instance to the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain using the vSphere Client.
Configure the vCenter Server Management Interface to view both vCenter Server instances.

Explanation

Question 16 of 112

1

When deploying a vCenter Server Appliance, which two single sign-on (SSO)-related options are presented to an administrator? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Create a vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode group
Create a vCenter Single Sign-On domain
Join an existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain
Repoint to another domain
Reset Single Sign-On password

Explanation

Question 17 of 112

1

Which two statements are true regarding the use of firmware update packages in vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

A hardware support manager must be registered as a vCenter Server extension.
The firmware and drivers add-on are distributed through the official VMware online depot.
The firmware and drivers add-on can be used on clusters that are managed with baselines.
The firmware and drivers add-on can add or remove components from the ESXi base image
The firmware and drivers add-on is provided by a third-party vendor.

Explanation

Question 18 of 112

1

Which step is required when adding an existing hard disk that is configured as a boot disk during virtual machine creation?

Select one of the following:

Enable Secure Boot.
Select 'RDM Disk' from the 'Add New Device' drop-down menu.
Remove the existing disk before adding the boot disk.
Set the boot delay to at least 5,000 milliseconds.

Explanation

Question 19 of 112

1

An administrator needs to configure Proactive High Availability (HA) in a vSphere environment so that virtual machines (VMs) do not run on any partially degraded hosts. The administrator would also like to see the recommendations before VMs are migrated.
Which automation and remediation level should the administrator select?

Select one of the following:

Automation Level ג€" Manual Remediation Level ג€" Quarantine mode
Automation Level ג€" Automated Remediation Level ג€" Maintenance mode
Automation Level ג€" Manual Remediation Level ג€" Maintenance mode
Automation Level ג€" Automated Remediation Level ג€" Mixed mode

Explanation

Question 20 of 112

1

A new vSphere 7.0 environment is deployed with the following:
✑ A single vCenter Server
✑ Two vSAN clusters
✑ A vSAN default storage policy
Which statement is true regarding virtual disk availability in this environment?

Select one of the following:

Replicas will be placed on different disk groups but can be placed on the same host.
All stripes will be placed on different disk groups and cannot be placed on the same host.
Each virtual disk will have four replicas of data.
Each virtual disk will have two replicas of data.

Explanation

Question 21 of 112

1

An administrator is running a variety of vSphere 6.5 cluster configurations and is tasked with upgrading to vSphere 7.0.
Which two conditions could cause potential conflicts or outages to the virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

The use of a Windows vCenter Server system
Datastores attached to the hosts based on VMFS3
The upgrade of a vSphere Distributed Switch with VMs attached
The upgrade of an external platform services controller
The use of third-party custom vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) installed on the ESXi hosts

Explanation

Question 22 of 112

1

An administrator wants to implement virtual machine encryption.
Which component encrypts the virtual machine files?

Select one of the following:

Certificate
Data encryption key (DEK)
Key encryption key (KEK)
Key management server (KMS)

Explanation

Question 23 of 112

1

An administrator wants to ensure that when virtual machines (VMs) are powered on, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) places them on the best-suited host.
When the cluster becomes imbalanced, the administrator wants DRS to display recommendations for manual VM migration.
Which DRS automation level should the administrator select?

Select one of the following:

Manual
Partially automated
Fully automated
Disabled

Explanation

Question 24 of 112

1

Which two VMware features are supported in a virtual machine using Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) technology? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Fault tolerance
vSphere vMotion
VM encryption
Virtual machine suspend and resume
Storage I/O Control

Explanation

Question 25 of 112

1

Which feature is a pre-requisite for configuring admission control on a cluster?

Select one of the following:

vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
vSphere High Availability (HA)
vSphere Fault Tolerance
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Explanation

Question 26 of 112

1

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment.
Which statement is true regarding this upgrade?

Select one of the following:

An ESXi 7.0 host will NOT recognize a VMFS3 datastore.
VMFS3 is supported with ESXi 7.0 to store boot configurations only.
A VMFS5 datastore CANNOT be upgraded; a new VMFS6 datastore is required.
An ESXi 7.0 host can automatically upgrade a VMFS5 datastore.

Explanation

Question 27 of 112

1

An administrator can attach a baseline to which two inventory objects? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Resource pools
Data centers
Datastores
Templates
ESXi hosts

Explanation

Question 28 of 112

1

How many vSphere Trust Authority Clusters can a Trusted Cluster reference?

Select one of the following:

1
4
8
2

Explanation

Question 29 of 112

1

A company has a vSphere environment consisting of the following characteristics:
✑ A content library named 'CORP' is published at corporate headquarters on a vCenter Server named 'vcenterCorp'.
A regional data center contains a set of hosts managed by a vCenter Server named vcenterR1.

✑ vcenterR1 subscribes to the CORP content library.
The administrator wants to create a new virtual machine image to use on vcenterR1.
What are two possible ways the administrator can accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Configure vcenterR1 to download all library content immediately.
Upload the new image to the CORP library on vcenterR1.
Publish the CORP content library on vcenterR1.
Upload the new image to the CORP library on vcenterCorp.
Upload the new image to a local content library on vcenterR1.

Explanation

Question 30 of 112

1

A vSphere environment is configured with 1 Gigabit Ethernet for vSphere vMotion. The application team is complaining that when they try to migrate a powered-on virtual machine, the progress is slow and unsuccessful the majority of the time.
Which two recommendations should the administrator make to improve vSphere vMotion performance? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Use at least two port groups.
Use vSphere Storage I/O Control (SIOC).
Use 10 Gigabit Ethernet or above.
Use Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on the port group.
Disable vSphere Fault Tolerance.

Explanation

Question 31 of 112

1

Which virtual disk option allows a virtual machine to consume the minimum storage capacity?

Select one of the following:

Independent persistent
Lazy-zeroed thick-provisioned
Eager-zeroed thick-provisioned
Thin-provisioned

Explanation

Question 32 of 112

1

In a vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster, which condition can be detected by datastore heartbeating?

Select one of the following:

Fault tolerance virtual machine (VM) failover
Network isolation
Virtual machine (VM) disk failure
Datastore All Paths Down (APD) event

Explanation

Question 33 of 112

1

Which solution can be used to automatically deploy a fully configured VMware software-defined data center (SDDC)?

Select one of the following:

vCenter Server
vRealize Suite
vSphere Lifecycle Manager
VMware Cloud Foundation

Explanation

Question 34 of 112

1

vCenter Server experiences a catastrophic failure and the administrator must restore from a vCenter Server backup stored on an FTP server.
What must the administrator do to restore vCenter Server?

Select one of the following:

Use the vSphere Client to deploy the appliance onto an ESXi host and restore the vCenter Server data from the backup
Use the vCenter Server Management Interface to restore the vCenter Server data, and power on the appliance.
Use the vCenter Server GUI installer to deploy a vCenter Server instance and use the vSphere Client to restore vCenter Server data from the backup.
Use the vCenter Server GUI installer to deploy a vCenter Server instance and restore the vCenter Server data from the backup.

Explanation

Question 35 of 112

1

ESXi provides VLAN support by assigning a VLAN ID to which component?

Select one of the following:

Virtual standard switch
Physical network interface card (NIC)
Virtual distributed switch
Port group

Explanation

Question 36 of 112

1

An administrator adds an additional host to a cluster and is attempting to remediate the configuration with a host profile.
Which option would the administrator select on the host before it can be remediated with an existing host profile?

Select one of the following:

Export Host Customizations
Export Host Profile
Attach Host Profile
Copy Settings from Host

Explanation

Question 37 of 112

1

An administrator would like to make virtual machine templates and ISO images available to all vCenter Server instances in the data center.
Which feature should the administrator use to achieve this goal?

Select one of the following:

Host profiles
Content libraries
Storage policies
Resource pools

Explanation

Question 38 of 112

1

An administrator enables email notifications as shown in the attached alarm. However, notifications are NOT being sent.
Where must the mail server settings be configured to resolve this issue?

Select one of the following:

In vCenter Server General settings in the vSphere Client.
In the alarm rule definitions
In the ESXi host system config for the cluster node hosting the vCenter Server Appliance
In Administration settings in the vCenter Server Management Interface

Explanation

Question 39 of 112

1

An administrator is troubleshooting a recent failure and finds the following error messages:

Which action has failed, thus resulting in these errors?

Select one of the following:

Virtual machine power off
Virtual machine snapshot
Virtual machine migration
Virtual machine reconfiguration

Explanation

Question 40 of 112

1

What are two functions of vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Update ESXi hosts in a cluster using baselines
Upgrade VMware Tools and virtual machine hardware
Run vCenter Server interoperability reports
Run vCenter Server upgrade pre-checks
Update standalone ESXi hosts using images

Explanation

Question 41 of 112

1

An administrator runs third-party software in a virtual machine (VM). The third-party licensing agreement requires payment of a license fee for each host to which the VM migrates.
How can the administrator configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to minimize licensing costs?

Select one of the following:

Create a 'Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines' dependency rule.
Create a 'Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines' affinity rule.
Create a 'Should run Virtual Machines to Hosts' anti-affinity rule.
Create a 'Must run Virtual Machines to Hosts' affinity rule.

Explanation

Question 42 of 112

1

Refer to the exhibit.

Which two migration methods can an administrator use to move virtual machines from the SA-Dev cluster to the SA-Compute cluster? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Cold migration of compute resource only
Cold migration of storage only
Hot migration of compute resource and storage resource
Hot migration of compute resource only
Cold migration of compute resource and storage resource

Explanation

Question 43 of 112

1

There are two vSphere clusters in a company environment. One cluster is hosting development workloads and another is hosting production workloads. Both vSphere clusters are managed by the same vCenter Server. The application team would like to move a new virtual machine from the development to production cluster with no downtime.
Which feature would allow non-disruptive movement between these two clusters?

Select one of the following:

Cross vCenter Migration
vSphere High Availability
vSphere vMotion
vSphere Replication

Explanation

Question 44 of 112

1

An administrator is trying to configure vCenter Single Sign-On from the vSphere Client but does NOT have permission.
Which role is required in order to configure vCenter Single Sign-On?

Select one of the following:

vCenter Single Sign-On Administrator
vCenter Administrator
vCenter Server Appliance Root
vCenter Power User

Explanation

Question 45 of 112

1

An administrator is unable to manage certificates with the vSphere Client.
What is another supported option that can be used to manage certificates?

Select one of the following:

vCenter Server Management Interface
Command Line Interface
vRealize Operations Manager
Cloud Builder

Explanation

Question 46 of 112

1

What is a minimum disk controller requirement for VMware vSAN?

Select one of the following:

disk controller in JBOD mode
A disk controller in pass-through or RAID 1 mode
A disk controller in pass-through or RAID 5 mode
A disk controller in pass-through or RAID 0 mode

Explanation

Question 47 of 112

1

A virtual machine with a single 100 GB virtual machine disk file has a single 20 GB snapshot. The virtual machine is powered off.
How much additional free space on the datastore is required to delete the snapshot, committing the snapshot delta disk to the base disk?

Select one of the following:

0 GB
100 GB
20 GB
120 GB

Explanation

Question 48 of 112

1

An administrator wants to configure vCenter Server High Availability so that each node is located in a different data center.
Which requirement must be met?

Select one of the following:

Each node must be configured with at least three network adapters.
Network latency between the nodes must be less than 10 milliseconds.
All nodes must be located on a vSAN datastore in each data center.
A vCenter Server license must be assigned to each node.

Explanation

Question 49 of 112

1

What is a pre-requisite for increasing datastore capacity?

Select one of the following:

The backing device for the datastore has enough free space.
The datastore is managed by Storage DRS (SDRS).
The datastore is 100% full.
There are NO powered-on virtual machines on the datastore.

Explanation

Question 50 of 112

1

Which privilege is required to run the esxtop utility?

Select one of the following:

Root user
vStatsUser
vStatsAdmin
Administrator

Explanation

Question 51 of 112

1

An administrator is asked to take a snapshot of a virtual machine prior to an application upgrade. The virtual machine has one standard virtual machine disk
(VMDK) and one physical mode raw device mapping (RDM) attached.
Which statement is true with regard to taking this snapshot?

Select one of the following:

The administrator will be unable to snapshot the RDM.
The administrator will be able to snapshot the standard VMDK in independent persistent mode.
The administrator will be able to snapshot the RDM in independent persistent mode.
The administrator will be able to snapshot both disks.

Explanation

Question 52 of 112

1

Which local only host utility is used for primary, real-time performance monitoring in vSphere?

Select one of the following:

resxtop
top
esxtop
vSphere Command-Line Interface (CLI)

Explanation

Question 53 of 112

1

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing VMware vSphere 6.5 environment to version 7.0

There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment.

Which two statements are true regarding this upgrade? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

VMFS5 is no longer supported with ESXi 7.0.
VMFS3 is no longer supported with ESXi 7.0. Most Voted
An ESXi 7.0 host can automatically upgrade a VMFS5 datastore.
An ESXi 7.0 host will automatically upgrade a VMFS3 datastore when discovered
VMFS3 datastore cannot be upgraded; a new VMFS6 datastore is required

Explanation

Question 54 of 112

1

What is a requirement of Storage I/O Control? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Storage connected through Fibre Channel
Management by a single vCenter Server
Datastores with multiple extents
Automated storage tiering capabilities.

Explanation

Question 55 of 112

1

Which feature can an administrator use for site availability with minimal effort and a low recovery point objective (RPO)? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

vSphere vMotion
vSphere High Availability
vSphere Replication
vSphere Fault Tolerance.

Explanation

Question 56 of 112

1

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0

The current configuration is using an external Platform Services Controller.

Which two statements are true regarding this upgrade? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

The external Platform Services Controller needs to be converged into an embedded vCenter Server Appliance.
The external Platform Services Controller needs to be decommissioned following the deployment of the new vCenter Server Appliance.
The external Platform Services Controller backup can be restored to a new embedded vCenter Server Appliance.
The external Platform Services Controller needs to be upgraded after the vCenter Server Appliance.
The external Platform Services Controller needs to be powered down while a new vCenter Server Appliance is deployed.

Explanation

Question 57 of 112

1

Which resource pool setting is used to specify the relative priority or importance as high, normal or low? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Limits
Reservation type
Shares
Reservations.

Explanation

Question 58 of 112

1

What does the %RDY for the Win1 virtual machine indicate? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

High CPU wait time
Low CPU usage
High CPU contention
Low CPU contention.

Explanation

Question 59 of 112

1

An administrator is consistently receiving an alarm regarding a CPU performance issue; however, there is NO CPU issue identified.

What can the administrator do to make sure the alarm is triggered when there is an actual CPU performance issue? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Change "˜VM CPU Ready Time` to "˜VM Memory Usage.`
Change "˜Show as Critical` to "˜Show as Warning.`
Change "˜VM CPU Ready Time` to "˜VM CPU Usage.`
Change "˜is below` to "˜is above.`

Explanation

Question 60 of 112

1

An IT department is decommissioning a storage array and tasks an administrator with removing a datastore from ESXi hosts.

What is a prerequisite for unmounting the datastore? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

The datastore is NOT managed by Storage DRS.
The datastore is NOT being used by vSphere High Availability heartbeating
The datastore is NOT referenced by a host profile.
The datastore does NOT contain powered-off virtual machines.

Explanation

Question 61 of 112

1

vCenter High Availability (HA) protects vCenter Server against host and hardware failures.

What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required to enable this capability? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

5
7
1
3

Explanation

Question 62 of 112

1

Which step can an administrator take so that vSphere can access patch information if vCenter Server does NOT have Internet access? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Use a Web server on the vCenter Server machine to automate the transfer of files.
Install VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service on a Windows server.
Use an offline ISO file to import patches to the vSphere Lifecycle Manager depot manually.
Install VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service on a Linux server.

Explanation

Question 63 of 112

1

Which tool is used to monitor the vCenter Server Appliance resources? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

vimtop
esxtop
esxcli
vmstat

Explanation

Question 64 of 112

1

An administrator places a 300 GB virtual machine named "Finance1" on a 2 TB datastore containing other virtual machines.

After virtual machine placement, the datastore has 200 GB of free space.

The accounting department takes a nightly snapshot of Finance1, then deletes the previous snapshot.

The administrator is concerned about snapshots filling the datastore.

Which statement is true regarding snapshots? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

The snapshots on Finance1 cannot outgrow the datastore in less than 24 hours.
Any snapshot on Finance1 has the potential to fill the datastore to capacity.
vCenter Server will not allow snapshots to fill the datastore beyond 95%
The snapshots on Finance1 will be automatically committed if SEsparse format is used

Explanation

Question 65 of 112

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What are two pre-requisites for enabling ESXi secure boot? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

External Key Management Service
vCenter Server 7.0 or greater
Trusted Platform Module version 2.0
ESXi 6.5 or greater
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

Explanation

Question 66 of 112

1

An administrator wants to enable bandwidth allocation for workloads by using Network I/O Control.
What should the administrator configure to accomplish this? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Management traffic
Virtual machine traffic
Load-balancing
NIC teaming policy

Explanation

Question 67 of 112

1

Which type of network adapter is designed to provide connectivity to hosts and handle the standard system traffic of vSphere vMotion? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

VMkernel port
VXLAN virtual tunnel end point (VXLAN VTEP)
Virtual machine network interface card (VMNIC)
VM network

Explanation

Question 68 of 112

1

What can an administrator use to partition limited CPU and memory resources between two departments? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

vSphere distributed switch
vSphere High Availability
vCenter folders
Resource pools

Explanation

Question 69 of 112

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How does vSphere handle memory allocation during the instant clone process? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

The first child virtual machine serves as a memory snapshot for any subsequent child virtual machines.
An identical clone of the parent virtual machine's memory is created for each child virtual machine
Memory is shared among all child virtual machines using a delta disk.
A unique memory pool is created per child virtual machine using copy-on-write.

Explanation

Question 70 of 112

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Which profile must be attached to the ESXi cluster to prepare the host for NSX-T Data Center?

Select one of the following:

Transport Node Profile
Uplink Profile
Switching Profile
Host Profile

Explanation

Question 71 of 112

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A company has one corporate datacenter (C1) and one regional datacenter (R1). There is a vCenter Server in each location. An administrator wants a central library available to C1 and R1 for all templates and ISO images.
Which two steps must the administrator take to configure the content library feature to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Create a published content library on C1.
Create a local content library on R1.
Create a local content library on C1.
Create a subscribed content library on C1.
Create a subscribed content library on R1.

Explanation

Question 72 of 112

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An administrator is utilizing Network I/O Control (NIOC) to allocate bandwidth utilization on a physical 10 Gbps adapter.
What is the maximum amount of bandwidth that can be reserved? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

2.5 Gbps
10 Gbps
5.0 Gbps
7.5 Gbps

Explanation

Question 73 of 112

1

Which vSphere feature provides for continuous local data center availability? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

vSphere Fault Tolerance
Cross vCenter Migration
vSphere Storage vMotion
vSphere Replication

Explanation

Question 74 of 112

1

An administrator is NOT able to enable ESXi secure boot.
What is a possible cause of this issue? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

The vCenter Server version is 7.0.
ESXi is using Trusted Platform Module version 1.2.
The ESXi version is 7.0
ESXi is using Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

Explanation

Question 75 of 112

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An administrator is configuring ESXi host behavior before and during the remediation process.
Which remediation setting is supported only on select hardware platforms? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

VM migration
HA admission control
Maintenance mode failures
Quick Boot

Explanation

Question 76 of 112

1

Which feature can be used to specify data services for virtual disks, such as caching or replication? (Choose the best answer.

Select one of the following:

Host profiles
Virtual machine storage policies
VM Customization Specification
Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Explanation

Question 77 of 112

1

Which two components are core to vSphere? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

ESXi
vSAN
vCenter Server
vRealize Network Insight
vRealize Operations Manager

Explanation

Question 78 of 112

1

Each logical port on a vSphere standard switch can be a member of how many port groups? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

4
3
1
2

Explanation

Question 79 of 112

1

An administrator is asked to deploy a virtual machine (VM) that can sniff packets for the Security team.
Which setting must be set to "accept" on the VM's port group? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Promiscuous mode
Forged transmits
MAC address changes
Traffic shaping

Explanation

Question 80 of 112

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An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. The environment consists of mounted NFS v3 datastores. The new design requires configuration of NFS v4.1 datastores.
Which statement is true regarding this upgrade? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

The NFS v3 datastores can be unmounted and remounted using NFS v4.1.
A new VMKernel port for NFS v4.1 needs to be created before the upgrade.
Following first boot, NFS v3 datastores are automatically converted to NFS v4.1 by ESXi 7.0
ESXi 7.0 does NOT support NFS v4.1.

Explanation

Question 81 of 112

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What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required to support vCenter High Availability? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

6
3
2
1

Explanation

Question 82 of 112

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What determines the default bandwidth share allocation for system traffic, such as vSphere Fault Tolerance and vSphere vMotion? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Physical network adapter
Network I/O Control version
Virtual machine hardware version
Load-balancing

Explanation

Question 83 of 112

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What is a pre-requisite for configuring virtualization-based security (VBS)? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Change the firmware type from UEFI to Legacy BIOS
Change the firmware type from Legacy BIOS to UEFI
Use Windows Server 2012
Use Windows Server 2008 R2

Explanation

Question 84 of 112

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Which action is supported over a VMkernel vMotion TCP/IP stack? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Hot migrations
Fault tolerance protection
Virtual machine cloning
Snapshot creation

Explanation

Question 85 of 112

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An administrator is investigating the reason for a powered on virtual machine failing to migrate with the following error log message:

Which step should the administrator complete to resolve this error? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Configure High Availability on the cluster.
Configure vSAN on the cluster.
Configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) on the cluster.
Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility on the cluster.

Explanation

Question 86 of 112

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An administrator is tasked with planning an upgrade of a VMware vSphere environment to version 7.0. The platform consists of 80 ESXi hosts, logically divided into 10 clusters. The tasks will be completed by another operations team within the company.
The hardware is consistent and a single embedded vCenter Server 6.7 appliance is managing the environment.
Which statement is true regarding a suitable upgrade approach? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

The vCenter Server can be upgraded using a pre-configured customized JSON template.
The ESXi hosts can only be upgraded using the Graphical User Interface Installe
Auto-deploy must be used to upgrade the large scale environment.
A new Platform Services Controller must be deployed first.

Explanation

Question 87 of 112

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An administrator has been tasked with mitigating datastore capacity issues without datastore expansion.
Which vSphere Storage vMotion migration option would achieve this mitigation? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Lazy-zeroed thick-provisioned
Thin-provisioned
Eager-zeroed thick-provisioned
Same as format source

Explanation

Question 88 of 112

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In a vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster, which action does vSphere HA take when the VM Monitoring service does NOT receive heartbeats from a virtual machine (VM) in the cluster? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

The VM is restarted on a different host in the cluster.
The VM is suspended on the same host in the cluster.
The VM is migrated to a different host in the cluster.
The VM is restarted on the same host in the cluster.

Explanation

Question 89 of 112

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What is the foundation of a software-defined data center (SDDC)? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

vRealize Operations Manager
vSphere
vSAN
NSX

Explanation

Question 90 of 112

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An administrator is deploying a vCenter Server Appliance and wants to join an existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain.
The administrator gathers the following information:
✑ FQDN of the vCenter Single Sign-On server to join
✑ Domain name of the vCenter Single Sign-On server being joined
✑ Password of the vCenter Single Sign-On server administrator account.
What other information is needed to join the existing vCenter Single Sign-On domain? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

vSphere Client port
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) port
Single Sign-On (SSO) port
HTTPS port

Explanation

Question 91 of 112

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An administrator wants to leverage the processor-specific technology that uses a security extension for securing virtual machines (VMs). This will allow user-level code to define private regions of memory called enclaves that are protected from external access.
What does the administrator need to configure to enable VMs to use this technology? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
Virtual Intel Software Guard Extensions (vSGX)
Advanced Encryption Standard-New Instructions (AES-NI)
Transparent Page Sharing (TPS)

Explanation

Question 92 of 112

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Which VMware feature should an administrator configure to help manage and delegate CPU and memory resources? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
Resource pools
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
vSphere High Availability (HA)

Explanation

Question 93 of 112

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Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator repeatedly encounters this error message while attempting to connect to vCenter Server.
What should the administrator do to address this error message? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Use a different browser.
Trust the VMware certificate authority (CA) root certificate
Restart the vCenter Server Appliance.
Reissue a new, unexpired certificate.

Explanation

Question 94 of 112

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Which two configuration tasks must be performed from the vCenter Server Management Interface? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Add administrator accounts.
Add a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server.
Add a vCenter Server license.
Enable SSH login.
Change the logging level.

Explanation

Question 95 of 112

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A development team has a recurring need to rapidly replicate hundreds of virtual machines (VMs) for load testing.
Which method should the team use to deploy the VMs? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Linked clones from a content library
Instant clones using the vSphere API
Full clones using vSphere Auto Deploy
Full clones from a template

Explanation

Question 96 of 112

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Refer to the exhibit.

Which element is missing from this vCenter High Availability (HA) cluster? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

A secondary witness node
The management interface on the passive node
The connection between the active and passive nodes
The management interface and connection on the witness node

Explanation

Question 97 of 112

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What are two minimum disk requirements for a vSAN hybrid disk group configuration? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

At least one magnetic data disk
At least one SATADOM device
At least two magnetic data disks
At least one flash device
At least two flash devices

Explanation

Question 98 of 112

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What is the basic packaging for vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) and metadata in vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Vendor add-on
Base image
Component
Baseline

Explanation

Question 99 of 112

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An administrator wants to create a master copy of an existing virtual machine (VM) named "TestApp" and deploy VMs from this master copy whenever a user requests one.
Which method can the administrator use to create a master copy of TestApp? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Deploy from an Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) template
Convert a template to a VM
Clone the VM to a template
Create a new VM

Explanation

Question 100 of 112

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Which feature is a prerequisite for Proactive High Availability (HA)? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

vCenter High Availability
vSAN Cluster
Predictive Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)
vSphere Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Explanation

Question 101 of 112

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A host profile is updated with a new password that urgently needs to be changed on all hosts attached to the host profile.
Which option would an administrator select to complete the password change? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Copy Settings from Host
Remediate
Check Host Profile Compliance
Edit Host Customizations

Explanation

Question 102 of 112

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Which two features are only supported by VMFS6 datastores? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Concurrent access to shared storage
On-disk locking
Dynamic expansion
4K native storage devices
Automatic space reclamation

Explanation

Question 103 of 112

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An administrator identifies a snapshot file named "Win10-000001-sesparse.vmdk" on a datastore.
Which type of information can be determined about this datastore? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

The datastore is formatted as VMFS3.
The datastore is formatted as VMFS6.
The datastore is a raw device mapping.
The datastore is a vSAN datastore.

Explanation

Question 104 of 112

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Which tool is used to monitor the free space in the vCenter Server database? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

esxtop
df
vimtop
vmstat

Explanation

Question 105 of 112

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Which two performance tools can be used to monitor virtual machines outside the guest operating system? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

vCenter Server performance charts
Task Manager
top
esxtop
Perfmon

Explanation

Question 106 of 112

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What is the default shutdown order of virtual machines (VMs) on a host? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Alphabetical based on VM names
Highest utilization to lowest utilization
Largest VM to smallest VM
Reverse of the startup order

Explanation

Question 107 of 112

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An administrator is investigating the reason for a virtual machine restarting. In the vmware.log file, the administrator finds the following error:

What is a likely cause of this virtual machine restart? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Guest operating system fault
User or API request to shut down guest operating system
High Availability
User or API request to restart guest operating system

Explanation

Question 108 of 112

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Which feature can an administrator configure to have a copy of critical virtual machines in another cluster? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

vSphere Storage vMotion
vSphere Fault Tolerance
vSphere Replication
Instant Clone

Explanation

Question 109 of 112

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An administrator sees a virtual machine message that reads, "Consolidation is required" in the vSphere Client.
Which action does ESXi take when the administrator completes snapshot consolidation? (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Collapses all snapshots in the current snapshot tree
Commits redundant delta disks to the base disk
Collapses all snapshots into a single snapshot
Deletes all snapshots without committing to the base disk

Explanation

Question 110 of 112

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Which two actions should an administrator take to ensure a VM has the highest networking bandwidth? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Configure traffic shaping
Configure LACP
Configure resource pools
Configure shares, reservations, and limits
Configure marking and filtering

Explanation

Question 111 of 112

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Which two infrastructure services are provided by the Platform Services Controller? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Auto Deploy
License Service
vCenter Single Sign-On
vSphere Syslog Collector
vSphere Web Client

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Quiz on 2V0-21.20: Professional VMware vSphere 7.x, created by mario alberto bellacetin villegas on 06/01/2023.

2V0-21.20: Professional VMware vSphere 7.x

Question 1 of 112

Which trusted infrastructure component is missing and represented by the area labeled `A`?

Select one of the following:

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Question 2 of 112

What are two supported ESXi boot options? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

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Question 3 of 112

Select one of the following:

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Question 4 of 112

Which two storage technologies can an administrator use to deploy the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

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Question 5 of 112

Select one of the following:

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Question 6 of 112

Which TCP/IP stack can support management traffic, vSphere vMotion, IP storage and vSphere Fault Tolerance?

Select one of the following:

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Question 7 of 112

What is the effective role the test1 account has on the Finance01 virtual machine?

Select one of the following:

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Question 8 of 112

Select one or more of the following:

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Question 9 of 112

A single host is manually configured to company standards. Which option would an administrator select to capture this configuration for future use?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 112

What is the minimum CPU core requirement for successful installation, or upgrade, or ESXi on a host?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 112

What is the server virtualization product that combines the ESXi hypervisor and the vCenter Server?

Select one of the following:

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Question 12 of 112

Select one of the following:

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Question 13 of 112

Which two vSphere features enable remote site availability? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

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Question 14 of 112

Which two statements are true regarding the state of the virtual machine (VM) if an administrator clicks the `Delete All` option? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

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Question 15 of 112

An administrator wants to be able to log in to the vSphere Client and view the inventories of two vCenter Server instances. What must the administrator do to meet this requirement?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 16 of 112

When deploying a vCenter Server Appliance, which two single sign-on (SSO)-related options are presented to an administrator? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

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Question 17 of 112

Which two statements are true regarding the use of firmware update packages in vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 18 of 112

Which step is required when adding an existing hard disk that is configured as a boot disk during virtual machine creation?

Select one of the following:

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Question 19 of 112

Select one of the following:

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Question 20 of 112

A new vSphere 7.0 environment is deployed with the following: ✑ A single vCenter Server ✑ Two vSAN clusters ✑ A vSAN default storage policy Which statement is true regarding virtual disk availability in this environment?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 21 of 112

An administrator is running a variety of vSphere 6.5 cluster configurations and is tasked with upgrading to vSphere 7.0. Which two conditions could cause potential conflicts or outages to the virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

A single host is manually configured to company standards.
Which option would an administrator select to capture this configuration for future use?

An administrator wants to be able to log in to the vSphere Client and view the inventories of two vCenter Server instances.
What must the administrator do to meet this requirement?

A new vSphere 7.0 environment is deployed with the following:
✑ A single vCenter Server
✑ Two vSAN clusters
✑ A vSAN default storage policy
Which statement is true regarding virtual disk availability in this environment?

An administrator is running a variety of vSphere 6.5 cluster configurations and is tasked with upgrading to vSphere 7.0.
Which two conditions could cause potential conflicts or outages to the virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)

An administrator wants to implement virtual machine encryption.
Which component encrypts the virtual machine files?

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment.
Which statement is true regarding this upgrade?

vCenter Server experiences a catastrophic failure and the administrator must restore from a vCenter Server backup stored on an FTP server.
What must the administrator do to restore vCenter Server?

An administrator adds an additional host to a cluster and is attempting to remediate the configuration with a host profile.
Which option would the administrator select on the host before it can be remediated with an existing host profile?

An administrator would like to make virtual machine templates and ISO images available to all vCenter Server instances in the data center.
Which feature should the administrator use to achieve this goal?