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1. What is the primary purpose of configuring VM storage policies in a VMware vSphere environment?

2. How does vSphere High Availability (HA) respond if a host in the cluster becomes isolated from the network but remains powered on?

3. Which of the following is the default file system used for virtual machine datastores on block storage in VMware vSphere?

4. When commissioning new hosts in VMware Cloud Foundation, which three parameters must be provided? (Choose three.)

5. When planning disaster recovery for a VMware data center, which of the following best practices or tools can help create a robust DR strategy?

6. In a multi-tier application hosted on vSphere, the database VM consistently faces storage latency issues.

What is the most appropriate initial action?

7. In a vSphere environment, how can administrators enforce principle of least privilege?

8. An organization is integrating VMware vCenter with Active Directory (AD) to streamline user authentication. As part of this process, the administrator needs to add AD as an identity source in vCenter.

Which three steps must be performed to successfully add AD as an identity source? (Choose three.)

9. During a routine maintenance operation, an administrator needs to move a running VM from one host to another without downtime.

Which vSphere feature is used?

10. What is a symptom of an issue with vSphere HA?

11. A company plans to enhance its DevOps practices by implementing Kubernetes as part of VMware Cloud Foundation environment.

Which three steps should an administrator complete to achieve this integration? (Choose three.)

12. A vSphere administrator has been asked to encrypt data at rest in a software-defined storage environment.

Which native feature can achieve this?

13. An administrator needs to create a custom role in vCenter Server that is part of VMware Cloud Foundation environment to grant specific privileges to a group of users.

Which two actions should be taken to create this custom role? (Choose two.)

14. A VMware administrator wants to automate certain vCenter tasks.

Which tools or features can facilitate automated operations?

15. Which networking or security features within NSX might help enhance a vSphere environment?

16. Which feature within vCenter helps allocate I/O resources among VMs that share a datastore, preventing a single VM from dominating I/O?

17. Which vSphere feature ensures CPU compatibility across a cluster, allowing vMotion between hosts with different processor generations?

18. Which approach best minimizes downtime for a mission-critical VM during host patching in a DRS-enabled cluster?

19. When deploying vCenter Server, which of the following are considered best practices for DNS and authentication?

20. Which two operations can be completed in the SDDC Manager UI on an NSX Edge cluster after it has been deployed into a workload domain? (Choose two.)

21. While troubleshooting a vSphere HA c luster issue, an administrator observes that a host is in the Network Isolated state. The host is unable to ping the configured isolation address and cannot access any other vSphere HA agents.

Which step would resolve this issue while minimizing downtime for running virtual machines (VMs)?

22. An administrator is tasked with performing password rotation for VMware Cloud Foundation components managed by SDDC Manager.

Which action must be taken to complete this task?

23. A newly deployed ESXi host fails to join vCenter Server due to a certificate mismatch.

Which vSphere component or service most likely handles certificate management?

24. As part of the preparation for deploying VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, an administrator needs to create Application Virtual Networks (AVNs).

Which three steps are necessary to complete the configuration of AVNs? (Choose three.)

25. A Cloud Administrator has been tasked with verifying all of the prerequisites are in place prior to deploying VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

The following information has been provided for the Aria Suite Lifecycle implementation:

hostname: lcm

domain: vcf.company.com

IP address: 10.0.0.150/24

IP gateway: 10.0.0.1

Which two items must the Cloud Administrator ensure are available prior to deploying VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle? (Choose two.)

26. A VMware environment must comply with industry standards (e.g., ISO 27001).

Which of these align with compliance best practices?

27. Which option allows administrators to quickly revert to a consistent VM state prior to a major software installation or patching within the guest OS?

28. An administrator needs to ensure that specific virtual machines within a VMware Cloud Foundation environment use storage that can tolerate at least two host failures. As resources are limited, the configuration should use the available resources as efficiently as possible.

Which three steps should be performed to configure a storage policy that meets the requirements? (Choose three.)

29. An administrator is responsible for monitoring the logs of multiple vSphere components using VMware Aria Operations for Logs. They notice an increase in error logs for a specific ESXi host.

Which two steps should be taken to pinpoint the issue? (Choose two.)

30. The administrator of a VMware Cloud Foundation environment notices that log data from multiple components, including vSphere, NSX, and vSAN, is not being collected properly in Aria Operations for Logs.

What two steps should the administrator perform to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)

31. A VMware administrator wants to reduce the time spent on repetitive VM deployments.

Which approaches can they use?

32. An administrator needs to manage a large inventory of VMs spread across multiple data centers.

Which features in vCenter can help organize these objects effectively?

33. During a routine check, an administrator observes that several VMs are reporting high memory usage in VMware Aria Operations. They need to verify if the high memory usage is due to memory contention.

What actions should be taken in VMware Aria Operations to verify this?

34. Which step should an administrator take to optimize memory usage in a VM environment running multiple Windows Server VMs?

35. Which vSphere feature allows virtual machines to access block storage arrays directly through dedicated protocols like iSCSI at the guest OS level?

36. A Cloud Administrator has been tasked with verifying all of the prerequisites are in place prior to deploying VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

The following information has been provided for the Aria Suite Lifecycle implementation:

- hostname: lcm

- domain: vcf.company.com

- IP address: 10.0.0.150 /24 -

- IP gateway: 10.0.0.1 -

Which three items must the Cloud Administrator ensure are available prior to deploying VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle? (Choose three.)

37. An administrator needs to perform lifecycle management for their VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) components, including upgrading SDDC Manager.

Which three steps should be followed to upgrade VCF? (Choose three.)

38. An organization is implementing a downtime avoidance solution and wants to ensure continuous availability of applications across separate sites that are connected via a high bandwidth/low latency link.

Which two VMware Cloud Foundation components support this capability with stretched clusters? (Choose two.)

39. An administrator is tasked with migrating a set of virtual machines between data centers using HCX.

To minimize downtime and ensure data consistency, which two HCX migration options should be considered? (Choose two.)

40. An organization needs to perform maintenance on a specific host in a vSAN cluster. An administrator is required to put the host into maintenance mode whilst ensuring that all VMs in the cluster remain accessible.

Which three steps should the administrator take to correctly set a vSAN host into maintenance mode? (Choose three.)

41. After Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, which of the following is a likely focus for the VMware by Broadcom solution stack?

42. An organization is planning to manage a diverse set of databases across multiple VMware Cloud Foundation environments.

Which three capabilities of Data Services Manager would help in managing these databases efficiently? (Choose three.)

43. An ESXi host experiences repeated PSOD (Purple Screen of Death) events.

Which tool or method is most useful for diagnosing kernel-level issues?

44. Which vSphere feature reduces the time required to patch and update multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster by using a centralized repository and automated workflows?

45. Which methods can help encrypt or protect data stored within a VMware environment?

46. A VMware administrator notices that multiple VMs are experiencing high storage latency.

Which of the following is the most likely initial step in diagnosing the issue?

47. A production VM experiences frequent CPU saturation, and DRS suggests migrations to rebalance the cluster.

What is the first step to confirm if CPU resource constraints are valid?

48. Which three tools could identify and assist with troubleshooting a misconfigured vSAN network? (Choose three.)

49. Which is the appropriate first action to take to resolve dropped network packets on an ESXi host?

50. An administrator has deployed the VMware Cloud Builder appliance in preparation for the deployment of a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment. While performing the bring-up of the Management Domain, one of the tasks fails. The administrator is unable to identify the root cause of the failure and needs to generate a support bundle to send to VMware support.

Which tool should the administrator use to generate the support bundle for the failed bring-up?

51. An administrator needs to ensure that their VMware Cloud Foundation-based private cloud solution can support multi-tenancy for different departments within their organization.

What two configurations and components are necessary to achieve this? (Choose two.)

52. During a network reconfiguration, an administrator wants to minimize disruptions for critical VMs.

Which strategies support minimal downtime?

53. How do virtual machine (VM) storage policies in a VMware vSphere environment contribute to optimizing resource utilization, ensuring data availability, and meeting application-specific requirements?

54. Which feature of VMware Data Services Manager enhances database security and compliance?

55. 1.DRAG DROP

Put the following steps in the correct order to optimize resource allocation using Aria Operations.

56. An administrator is tasked with deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) instance.

The management domain is designed to be created with three virtual distributed switches (VDS) configured as follows:

- VDS1 - used for management and vMotion traffic

- VDS2 - used for vSAN traffic

- VDS3 - used for NSX Overlay traffic

What action would the administrator take to deploy the designed configuration?

57. Following an update to the Information Security policy, an administrator has been reviewing the status SSL certificates within the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution.

The new Information Security Policy states:

- All SSL certificates must be generated and signed from the shared Microsoft Certificate Authority (CA).

The administrator has discovered the following:

- All Aria Suite Components already use CA-signed Subject Alternate Name (SAN) SSL certificates.

- All other VCF-based SSL certificates are either self-signed or generated using the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA).

Which three steps must the administrator take to ensure the VCF solution remains compliant and managed by SDDC Manager? (Choose three.)

58. When installing ESXi hosts in a large-scale environment, which are best practices or beneficial approaches?

59. An administrator has a requirement to share the contents of a Content Library across multiple vCenter instances.

What steps should the administrator perform to meet this requirement?

60. DRAG DROP

Match each troubleshooting task with its relevant procedure or tool.

61. When troubleshooting an ESXi host that is intermittently disconnecting from vCenter, which actions might help identify the root cause?

62. In terms of planning for business continuity and disaster recovery for a VMware-based data center, which methods or products are typically used?

63. Which tasks can be performed using vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) in a vSphere 7 or later environment?

64. A specific VM is unable to communicate with other VMs in the same network. An administrator needs to identify and resolve the network connectivity issue.

What three steps should the administrator follow? (Choose three.)

65. The administrator of a VMware Cloud Foundation environment notices that log data from multiple components, including vSphere, NSX, and vSAN, is not being collected in Aria Operations for Logs.

What two steps should the administrator perform to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)

66. An administrator has been tasked with expanding an existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment by adding a new workload domain. The environment currently has one management domain and one VI workload domain.

What options are available to the administrator for deploying NSX in the second VI workload domain?

67. When configuring a new port group on a Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS), what is the purpose of setting a VLAN ID?

68. An administrator needs to track changes in VM hardware configuration over time for compliance.

Which vSphere feature can provide a historical record of modifications such as CPU, memory, or network interface changes?

69. An administrator needs to deploy a Kubernetes cluster on a vSphere IaaS control plane (formerly vSphere with Tanzu) to host a new application.

Which three steps should be followed to successfully deploy the Kubernetes cluster? (Choose three.)

70. An organization is looking to streamline its IT service delivery by automating the deployment of applications and infrastructure across its hybrid cloud environment.

Which VMware Aria Suite component should they use?

71. To mitigate performance issues caused by CPU overcommitment on specific ESXi hosts, an administrator can adjust which setting to ensure critical VMs receive priority?

72. An administrator notices intermittent network packet loss on VMs running latency-sensitive applications.

Which steps might help diagnose the issue?

73. In vSphere networking, which feature ensures network consistency and centralized management across multiple ESXi hosts?

74. An administrator needs to ensure that all ESXi hosts in a cluster have a consistent configuration.

Which three steps are necessary to achieve this? (Choose three.)

75. Which of the following methods would best optimize a virtual machine’s disk performance when using vSAN?

76. Which vSphere feature simplifies agentless antivirus and antimalware scanning in guest operating systems?

77. Which vSphere security guidelines or tools help protect sensitive virtual machines?

78. Which tool is most appropriate for analyzing detailed network performance metrics in a vSphere environment?

79. An administrator is managing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment. To support virtual machine backup using a third-party tool, the administrator has been tasked with assigning a service account (srvbackup01) access to the Production Virtual Machine (VM) folder and all child objects. The company security policy dictates that only the minimum required permissions must be assigned to service accounts to ensure they can function as designed.

Which three actions should the administrator take in the vSphere Client to complete the objective? (Choose three.)

80. Which of the following best describes the fundamental function of a hypervisor in a VMware vSphere environment?

81. An IT team needs to ensure compliance and security for various database workloads managed by Data Services Manager.

Which three features of Data Services Manager should be leveraged to achieve this? (Choose three.)

82. When designing a network for a VMware vSphere environment, which of the following should be considered to ensure optimal performance and security?

83. Which distributed switch feature can detect configurations that might cause a network mismatch, such as VLAN tagging errors or MTU inconsistencies?