1.

Which of the following are supported methods for providing high availability for vCenter
Server? (Choose all that apply.)
A. vCenter in a VM protected with HA and DRS
B. vCenter in a VM protected with HA and FT
C. vCenter Server Heartbeat
D. Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS)

A, C. vCenter Server is supported in a VM protected with HA and DRS. VMware vCenter

Server Heartbeat is a VMware product and will be fully supported by VMware. For more
information,

2. You need to uninstall a vSphere Client plug-in. Which of the following is the proper way to
uninstall the plug-in?
A. Use the vSphere Client Plug-in Manager to disable it.
B. Use the add/remove or uninstall functionality included in Windows to uninstall the plug-in.
C. Use the vSphere Web Client to remove the plug-in.
D. None of these is correct.

B. vSphere Client plug-ins are Windows applications, so they are quite easily uninstalled by
using the native application uninstall functions in the Windows OS. For more information,

3. What is the minimum system requirement for memory in an ESXi 5 host?

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

B. ESXi 5 hosts require a minimum of 2GB of RAM. For more information,

4. vCenter Server 5 requires which of the following?

A. Compatible 32-bit Windows OS
B. Compatible 32-bit Linux OS
C. Compatible 64-bit Windows OS
D. Compatible 64-bit Linux OS

C. vCenter Server 5 requires a compatible 64-bit Windows OS, such as Windows 2008 R2.
For more information

5. What are the preferred methods for configuring and administering the ESXi firewall?
(Choose two.)
A. DCUI
B. vSphere Client
C. esxcli
D. esxcfg-firewall

B, C. There vSphere Client and the esxcli command are the preferred methods for configuring
the ESXi firewall.

6. Which vCenter Server Edition is no longer available in vSphere 5.0?

A. Essentials
B. Essentials Plus
C. Advanced
D. Enterprise Plus
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C. The Advanced edition is no longer available. Customers who were previously licensed
for the Advanced edition will be upgraded automatically to the Enterprise edition. For more
information
7. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is an example of which type of cloud
computing model?
A. Private
B. Public
C. Hybrid
D. Community

B. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is an example of a public cloud. In the
public cloud, you would pay for the consumption of resources from the third party delivering
those resources. For more information

8. Which of the following may be used to perform operations against an ESXi host that is in
lockdown mode?
A. vSphere CLI commands
B. vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)
C. vSphere Client connected directly to ESXi host
D. vSphere Client connected to vCenter Server managing the ESXi host in lockdown mode

D. All operations performed against an ESXi host in lockdown mode must originate from
the vCenter Server that is managing the ESXi host

9. What is the maximum number of ports in a vSwitch?

A. 4,084
B. 4,088
C. 4,095
D. 4,096

B. A vSwitch can have a maximum of 4,088 ports

10. You add a new NIC to a vSwitch used for virtual machine network traffic. What additional
actions must be taken before virtual machines will begin to use this NIC?
A. Refresh networking.
B. Reboot ESXi host.
C. Restart ESXi Management Network.
D. None of the above.

D. The addition of a vmnic to a vSwitch is a nondisruptive action, and virtual machine

network traffi c will begin to use this NIC immediately with no further action. For more
information

11. Which of the following are port binding types used in a dvSwitch? (Choose all that apply.)
A. Static binding
B. Dynamic binding
C. Persistent binding
D. Ephemeral binding

A, B, D. Static, dynamic, and ephemeral are the three types of port binding used in a
dvSwitch. For more information

12. Which load-balancing policy is available only in the dvSwitch?

A. Route Based On IP Hash
B. Route Based On Source MAC Hash
C. Route Based On Physical NIC Load
D. Use Explicit Failover Order

C. The Route Based On Physical NIC Load policy is available only when using a dvSwitch.
For more information
13. Supported storage adapters in ESXi include which of the following?
A. iSCSI
B. RAID
C. Fibre Channel
D. All of these

D. iSCSI, RAID, and Fibre Channel are all supported adapter classes used to provide storage
connectivity in ESXi.

14. Storage array thin provisioning can be configured through which feature of the vSphere
Client?
A. VMFS datastore properties
B. NFS datastore properties
C. Storage adapter properties
D. None of these

D. The confi guration of thin provisioning on storage devices is not supported in ESXi. You
will have to use the vendor’s management tools instead

15. What is the minimum memory requirement for ESXi hosts that will host a vSphere Storage
Appliance?
A. 2GB
B. 4GB
C. 6GB
D. 8GB\

C. ESXi hosts that will host a VSA appliance must have a minimum of 6GB of RAM. For
more information

16. When creating VMFS datastores, what is the relationship that should be maintained
between VMFS datastore and LUN?
A. 1-1
B. 1-2
C. 2-1
D. None of these

A. When creating VMFS datastores, it is important to maintain a one-to-one relationship

between each VMFS datastore and LUN

17. What is virtual machine hardware version introduced in vSphere 5?

A. 3
B. 4
C. 7
D. 8

D. Virtual machine hardware version 8 is the latest version. For more information, see
Chapter 6.

18. Disk shares can have which of the following values? (Choose all that apply.)
A. Custom
B. Default
C. High
D. Low

A, C, D. Shares may have the values of Low, Normal, High, and Custom. For more information,
See
19. You have a virtual machine that will be configured to use VMware FT. What is the appropriate
virtual disk type to choose for this virtual machine?
A. Flat
B. Thick
C. Thin
D. None of these
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B. A thick provisioned disk, which is also known as a Thick Provision Eager Zeroed disk,
is a VMDK fi le that is created and all of the space is provisioned and zeroed immediately.
This type of disk is required for VMware FT

20. To completely disable all time synchronization for a virtual machine, what must occur?
A. Disable the sync device driver.
B. Edit the VMX file.
C. Use the vSphere Client to configure time properties.
D. None of these.

B. To completely disable all the VMware Tools initiated time synchronization functionality for
a VM, the virtual machine’s VMX fi le must be modified.

21. Which of the following most accurately describes a virtual appliance?

A. Preconfigured and ready-to-use virtual machines that include an operating system and
applications
B. Preconfigured and ready-to-use virtual machines that cannot be modified
C. Preconfigured vApp
D. None of these

A. Virtual appliances are preconfigured and ready-to-use virtual machines that include an
operating system and applications.

22. What is the maximum number of vCPUs per VM in vSphere 5?

A. 8
B. 16
C. 32
D. 64
C. Thirty-two vCPUs is the maximum number of vCPUs supported in vSphere 5.

23. Which of the following is not a valid virtual machine file?

A. -flat.vmdk
B. -psf.vmdk
C. -ctk.vmdk
D. -00000#.vmdk

B. There is no -psf.vmdk fi le type

24. Which of the following terms is used to describe increasing the size of a VMDK while the
virtual machine is powered on?
A. Warm extend
B. Hot extend
C. Disk grow
D. Disk extend

B. The process of increasing the size of a VMDK while a VM is powered on is known as

hot extend.
25. VMware FT supports which of the following virtual machines? (Choose two.)
A. Windows Server 2008 with one vCPU
B. Windows Sever 2008 with two vCPUs
C. Windows Server 2000 with one vCPU
D. Windows Server 2000 with two vCPUs

A, C. Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2008 are both supported guest
operating systems for use with VMware FT, but only a single vCPU confi guration is
supported. For more information

26. Which of the following statements is true about individual virtual machine automation levels?
A. The automation level defined for the DRS cluster will override the individual virtual
machine automation level.
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B. The automation level defined for the individual virtual machine will override the automation
level defined for the DRS cluster.
C. The automation level defined for the individual virtual machine must match that of the
DRS cluster.
D. None of these.

B. Individual virtual machine automation level settings override the settings defi ned in the
DRS cluster

27. Which of the following objects can be part of the resource pool hierarchy? (Choose all that
apply.)
A. Virtual machines
B. vApps
C. Folders
D. Resource pools

A, B, D. Virtual machines, vApps, and other resource pools can all be members of the
resource pool hierarchy.

28. Which of the following can be used to provide application-level fault tolerance for a virtual
machine? (Choose all that apply.)
A. VMware FT
B. VMware HA
C. Microsoft Clustering Services
D. vCenter Server Linked Mode

29. You want to migrate a virtual machine to a new host and datastore in a single operation.
This option is grayed out in the Migrate Virtual Machine Wizard. What is the most likely
reason?
A. vCenter Server is not licensed for this operation.
B. The virtual machine is virtual hardware version 7.
C. The virtual machine is powered on.
D. The virtual machine is powered off.

C. To change a virtual machine’s host and datastore in one operation, the virtual machine
needs to be powered off.

30. VMware Data Recovery can back up to which of the following media types?
A. Tape only
B. Disk only
C. Tape and disk
D. Optical media
B. VMware Data Recovery is a disk-based backup solution.

31. A virtual infrastructure administrator has been asked to restore a virtual machine to
its previous configuration from a snapshot. Which of the following actions should she
take?
A. Delete
B. Delete All
C. Revert
D. Consolidate
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C. Revert will restore the virtual machine to its previous state.

32. vSphere Update Manager can be used to update which of the following? (Choose all that
apply.)
A. The VMware Tools
B. ESXi 5 hosts
C. Virtual machine hardware
D. ESX 3.5 hosts

A, B, C, D. vSphere Update Manager can update virtual machine hardware, the VMware
Tools, and ESX/ESXi 3.5 and newer hosts.

33. Which of the following commands can be used to test connectivity of a vMotion interface?
A. ping
B. vmkping
C. esxcli network
D. All of these

B. The vMotion interface is a VMkernel connection type, and the vmkping command can
be used to test its connectivity

34. Which of the following can be used to troubleshoot storage contention issues? (Choose all
that apply.)
A. esxtop
B. resxtop
C. The vSphere Client
D. Tools from your storage vendor

A, B, C, D. All of these tools can be used to troubleshoot storage contention issues. For
more information

35. Which of the following should be used for ESXi hosts that will participate in HA-enabled
clusters?
A. Static IP addresses
B. DHCP-assigned IP addresses
C. IPv6
D. vMotion

A. It is always a good idea to use static IP addresses for any server

36. Which of the following admission control policies in HA offers the most customization for
capacity in the cluster?

A. Host Failures The Cluster Tolerates.

B. Percentage Of Cluster Resources Reserved As Failover Spare Capacity.
C. Specify Failover Hosts.
D. None of these is correct.
B. Percentage Of Cluster Resources Reserved As Failover Spare Capacity allows the percentage
of CPU and memory resources to be reserved, making it the most customizable
option available.

37. When the vSphere Client is used and directly connected to an ESXi host, which of the following
tabs is used to view tasks and events?
A. Events
B. Tasks & Events
C. Scheduled Tasks
D. Logs
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A. When the vSphere Client is connected directly to an ESXi host, the Events tab is used to
view recent events. Tasks are possible only with vCenter Server.

38. Which of the following is used to control the vCenter Server services on the Windows host
that it is installed on?
A. services.exe
B. services.msc
C. services.cpl
D. services.chm

B. The Services MMC snap-in, or services.msc, is used to control services in Windows.

39. Overview charts are available for which of the following? (Choose all that apply.)
A. vSphere Client connected to ESXi host
B. vSphere Client connected to vCenter Server
C. vSphere Web Client
D. All of these

B. Overview charts are available only when the vSphere Client is connected to a vCenter
Server.

40. Which of the following are alarm-type monitors? (Choose all that apply.)
A. Datastore cluster
B. Datacenters
C. Datastores
D. Distributed port groups

A, B, C, D. All of these are alarm-type monitors.

Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)

1. The version of VMware Tools included with vSphere 5 is supported on virtual machines in
which vSphere versions? (Choose all that apply.)
A. ESX 2.x
B. ESX/ESXi 3.x
C. ESX/ESXi 4.x
D. ESX/ESXi 5

2. vCenter Server comes bundled with a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express edition database.
This bundled database is supported for up to how many hosts?
A. 5
B. 10
C. 20
D. Unlimited

3. When installing ESXi 5 interactively, the root user password is required to be how many
characters?
A. 6
B. 7
C. 8
D. 0

4. A separate license server is required to manage which of the following hosts?

A. ESXi 5
B. ESX/ESXi 4.x
C. ESX/ESXi 3.x
D. All of the above

5. You plan to install vCenter Server 5 in a virtual machine. The vCenter Server will use a
remote SQL database and will support 2 hosts and 15 virtual machines. How many vCPUs
should you start with when building this VM? (Choose two.)
A. One vCPU with two cores
B. Two vCPUs with one core
C. Three vCPUs with two cores
D. Four vCPUs with one core

6. You have a three-node ESXi cluster that has recently been upgraded to use vCenter
Server 5. After you upgrade the first host to ESXi 5, you notice the option to upgrade the
dvSwitch to version 5.0.0. What must you do to upgrade the dvSwitch?
A. Follow the upgrade procedure and upgrade the dvSwitch to the latest version.
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B. Upgrade one of the remaining two hosts to ESXi 5 and then follow the upgrade procedure
to upgrade the dvSwitch to the latest version.
C. Upgrade the remaining two hosts to ESXi 5 and then follow the upgrade procedure to
upgrade the dvSwitch to the latest version.
C. None of these are correct.

7. ESXi 5 can edit and run which virtual machine hardware versions? (Choose all that apply.)
A. 8
B. 7
C. 4
D. 3
8. What is the first item to be updated in the sequence of events in a vSphere upgrade?
A. vCenter Server
B. ESXi hosts
C. Update Manager
D. vSphere Client

9. What are two technologies that Auto Deploy relies on?

A. RDP
B. PXE
C. DHCP
D. SSL

10. ESXi 5 has a system requirement of a minimum of how many processor cores?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8

11. Which of the following can be used to apply license keys to an ESXi host? (Choose all that
apply.)
A. DCUI
B. ESXi Shell
C. vSphere Client
D. vSphere Web Client

12. Which advanced setting is used to enable/disable the memory compression cache?
A. Mem.BalancePeriod
B. Mem.MemZipEnable
C. Mem.ShareVmkEnable
D. Mem.MemZipMaxPct
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13. Which of the following can be used to configure DNS and routing settings for an ESXi
host? (Choose all that apply.)
A. vSphere Client
B. vSphere Web Client
C. Service Console
D. DCUI

14. You have a virtual machine administrator who has Linux installed on her laptop. She needs
to perform day-to-day operations of a Windows VM that she is responsible for. Which client
application should she use?
A. vSphere Client
B. vCenter Client
C. vSphere Web Client
D. vCenter Remote Client

15. Which of the following vCenter Server Support Tools are available for install from the
VMware vCenter installer? (Choose all that apply.)
A. VMware ESXi Dump Collector
B. VMware Syslog Collector
C. VMware Auto Deploy
D. VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy
16. VMware vCenter Server Standard is used in which of the following vSphere 5 Kits? (Choose
all that apply.)
A. Essentials Plus
B. Standard
C. Advanced
D. Enterprise Plus

17. What is the minimum disk space required for the vCenter Server Appliance?
A. 7GB
B. 25GB
C. 50GB
D. 80GB
18. You right-click a VM in an ESXi 5 host and the Upgrade Virtual Hardware option is not
available in the context menu. What are two possible reasons for this?
A. The VM is running VM version 8.
B. The VM is not running the latest VMware Tools version.
C. The VM is powered on.
D. The VM has an active snapshot.
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19. Which of the following is a requirement for using Update Manager to update an existing
ESX/ESXi host?
A. The ESXi host must use dynamic IP addressing.
B. Then ESXi host must use static IP addressing.
C. vCenter Server Appliance needs to be installed.
D. ESXi Dump Collector needs to be installed.

20. Which of the following utilities are supported for ESXi 5 upgrades from ESX/ESXi 4.x versions?
A. esxcli
B. esxupdate
C. vihostupdate
D. None of the above