VCAD510 Online Practice Questions and Answers

What is a scalability challenge that vSphere can address?

A. Change management processes are simplified

B. Automatic balancing of virtual machines after adding new physical servers

C. Easier disaster recovery processes

D. Users have self-service provisioning of virtual machine workloads

What is an availability challenge that vSphere can address?

A. Virtual machines can be proactively migrated when a server failure is imminent

B. Hardware maintenance can be performed at any time without application impact

C. More servers can be deployed to provide higher availability

D. Disaster recovery is greatly simplified

Storage for vSphere broadly falls into two categories, block-based and file-based. Which type of vSphere datastore is block-based?

A. NFS

B. VMFS

C. NTFS

D. EXT4

The name of the Type 1 hypervisor used in VMware's product line is:

A. vESX

B. vCenter

C. Workstation

D. ESXi

You have a single VMware ESXi host, and you do not have vCenter server installed to manage this host. Which two actions can be performed without the presence of vCenter? (Choose two.)

A. Clone a powered off virtual machine

B. Create a datastore on shared storage

C. Create a virtual machine

D. Set an alarm on a virtual machine

You are the VMware architect for Mason Public Library. This customer deployed a VMware environment several years ago, in the form of 3 stand-alone servers, each with 6 600GB internal SAS drives. The environment has been working well, but they are concerned about the ability to access their virtual machines in the event of a failure to one of their servers. They do not have the additional budget for a new shared storage array. Which of the following is a recommended option to help them achieve higher availability?

A. Power off each virtual machine and copy them to a single server

B. Deploy vCenter Server and deploy the vSphere Storage Appliance

C. Use Storage vMotion to move all of the VMs to a single server

D. Configure CPU affinity to increase CPU access for each virtual machine

Your systems administrator has recently expressed frustration while rolling back broken operating system patches on the physical servers in your environment. Which feature of a virtual machine could help mitigate the risk of installing patches in a VMs, by enabling you to roll back recent changes?

A. vCenter Update Manager

B. Templates

C. Snapshots

D. vCenter Operations Manager

You have been receiving complaints that the mail server has been slow. You investigate and determine that a print server in the same storage location is using much of the bandwidth to the storage array. Which

feature will allow you to increase the priority of the mail server so that it meets the SLA defined for it?

A. Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

B. Storage vMotion

C. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

D. vSphere Data Protection

You are converting your physical servers into virtual machines. One prospective virtual machine has an application that utilizes a 1.5 TB SAN LUN for data. You are concerned that this new virtual machine would take too long to convert to a virtual machine. How can you configure the storage of this virtual machine to minimize the conversion time required to copy the data across the network?

A. Place the new VM on a thin provisioned VMFS volume with other VMs

B. Place the new VM on a shared VMFS datastore with other VMs

C. Place the new VM on local storage available to only one ESXi host

D. Deploy the new VM with a raw device mapping (RDM)

Your company has been watching the news and seen many examples of natural disasters, fires, acts of terrorism, etc. that have disrupted operations. They decide that they need a geographically separate data center to fail over to. They also have noticed that many times the IT staff are unavailable after the event and so ask for a solution that a corporate executive could use to fail over if IT is unavailable. What solution best fits these requirements?

A. Fault Tolerance (FT)

B. Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

C. vSphere Replication (VR)

D. Data Protection