VCP-550 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A vSphere administrator needs to enable Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) in an existing vSphere environment:

The environment contains a High Availability (HA) cluster with eight ESXi hosts.

Six ESXi hosts are not in a cluster.

DRS should be used on as many hosts as possible.

Initial placement of virtual machines should be automatically performed.

Migration recommendations should be provided, but not performed without approval. Which procedure should the administrator perform to accomplish this task?

A.

Select the datacenter and create a DRS cluster. Add the six remaining hosts to this cluster, then enable DRS. Edit the DRS settings and change the automation level to Partial.

B.

Select the existing HA cluster. Add the six remaining hosts to the cluster. Enable DRS, then edit the settings and change the automation level to Manual.

C.

Select the datacenter and create a DRS cluster. Add the six remaining hosts to this cluster, then enable DRS. Edit the DRS settings and change the automation level to Manual.

D.

Select the existing HA cluster. Add the six remaining hosts to the cluster. Enable DRS, then edit the settings and change the automation level to Partial.

An administrator needs to configure vFlash Read Cache to improve performance. What would benefit the most from enabling vFlash Read Cache?

A. Virtual machines replicated with vSphere Replication

B. Web Server virtual machines

C. Database virtual machines

D. Virtual machines migrated using Storage vMotion

What is the purpose of configuring a VMkernel port for Fault Tolerance logging?

A. The selected vmkernel port is used to send external inputs from a primary virtual machine to its secondary counterpart.

B. The selected vmkernel port is able to log Fault Tolerance events to a syslog server.

C. The selected vmkernel port is used to trigger a failover from the primary machine if a hardware crash occurs.

D. The selected vmkernel port is able to maintain a log of changes to the secondary virtual machine.

While shutting down a vApp for maintenance, a vSphere administrator determines that one of the virtual machines stays powered on. The administrator manually powers off the virtual machine inside the vApp. Which step should the administrator take to prevent the virtual machine from staying powered on in the future?

A. Change the Shutdown Action for the virtual machine to None

B. Change the Shutdown Action for the virtual machine to Power Off

C. Change the Shutdown Action for the virtual machine to Manual

D. Change the Shutdown Action for the virtual machine to Excluded

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-- Exhibit -Users accessing the WinXP virtual machine shown in the exhibit report intermittent connectivity to the corporate network.

The configuration is as follows:

This virtual machine runs in a DRS/HA cluster of two ESXi hosts.

The VCP_DCV_Example vSphere Distributed Switch was recently created.

The WinXP virtual machine was recently migrated from another vSphere Distributed Switch.

The WinXP virtual machine was able to connect prior to migration to this switch.

No changes to the VCP_DCV_Example switch have been made since creation.

Which step should the administrator take to resolve the WinXP virtual machine's intermittent connectivity to the corporate network?

A. Add the ESXi host to the switch where the virtual machine is currently running

B. Disable Port Blocking on the VCP_DCV_Example switch

C. Disable Port Blocking on the Production port group

D. Enable Network I/O Control on the switch to better balance I/O

A vSphere administrator needs to perform packet tracing from a Linux virtual machine. The virtual machine is attached to a vSphere Standard Switch configured with several VLANs. Which approach could the administrator use to configure the network to capture all traffic from the Linux virtual machine?

A. Configure the virtual switch with VLAN Trunking and specify each VLANs on the port group containing the virtual machine.

B. Configure a vSphere Distributed Switch with VLAN Trunking. Create a port group and configure it with Promiscuous Mode. Connect the virtual machine to that port group.

C. Configure the port group containing the virtual machine for Promiscuous Mode. Set the port group to use VLAN 1.

D. Configure a vSphere Distributed Switch with VLAN Trunking. Connect the virtual machine to the switch and enable Port Mirroring on the port group containing the virtual machine.

An administrator needs to unmount a datastore that is also used for HA storage heartbeats.

What is the least disruptive method for an administrator to perform this activity on a slave HA host?

A. On the Datastore Heartbeating tab, unmount the datastore normally and confirm a new datastore has been selected.

B. On the Datastore Heartbeating tab, specify an alternate datastore, then unmount the datastore normally.

C. Disable HA datastore heartbeats, then unmount the datastore.

D. Reduce the number of heartbeat datastores, then remove the datastore from the heartbeat list.

When deploying two sibling resource pools (RP1 and RP2), an administrator needs to make all resources in RP1 available to virtual machines in RP2. Which configuration should the administrator use to meet this requirement?

A. Set the Reservation of RP2 to 0

B. Set the Reservation of RP1 to 0

C. Set the Limit of RP1 to Unlimited

D. Set the Limit of RP2 to Unlimited

Which controller is recommended for high disk I/O workloads?

A. BusLogic Parallel

B. LSI Logic Parallel

C. LSI Logic SAS

D. VMware Paravirtual

The vSphere administrator needs to check the system health of an ESXi 5.x host using the vSphere Web Client. Which option in the Monitor tab should the administrator use for the selected host?

A. Performance

B. Hardware Reports

C. Storage Status

D. Issue Log