VCP550 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A system administrator is unable to clone a windows 2008 server while connected directly to an ESXi host through vSphere Client. Which two methods can be used to complete the task? (Choose two.)

A. Connect to vCenter Server and retry the operation.

B. Use VMware Converter to perform the operation.

C. Connect to the host using the Web Client and retry the operation.

D. Use VMware Configuration Manager to perform the operation.

Which two features are different between VDP and VDPA? (Choose two.)

A. Support for guest level backups of SQL and Exchange

B. Ability to perform file level recovery

C. Virtual machines supported per appliance

D. Support for image level backups

Which two network settings are available on a vSphere Standard Switch? (Choose two.)

A. Ingress traffic shaping

B. Egress traffic shaping

C. Private Virtual Local Area Networks (PVLAN)

D. Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN)

Why would an administrator be unable to locate an IP address for a vSphere vmnic uplink?

A. IP addresses are defined at the virtual nic level, not the vmnic level.

B. ESXi host vmnics communicate with physical switches on layer 3.

C. ESXi hosts use NAT translation to mask the actual vmnic IP address.

D. The IP address of the vmnic is not shown in the vSphere Client.

A server administrator reports that a virtual machine has displayed the following message twice in the past 12 months:

No boot device found

Which virtual machine boot option should the administrator configure to resolve this issue?

A. Failed Boot Recovery

B. Force BIOS Setup

C. Boot Delay

D. Network Boot Retry

A vSphere administrator has configured a virtual machine alarm to trigger a warning when the condition Snapshot Size exceeds 1GB. Which action should the administrator configure on the alarm to automatically resolve the condition?

A. Delete Snapshot

B. Reset VM

C. Run a Command

D. Consolidate Snapshot

An administrator is preparing to install an additional Single Sign-On node on a stand-alone server.

What information is required during the installation routine?

A. Active Directory domain name and credentials

B. System DSN

C. Partner Host Name

D. Lookup Service URL

A vApp is performing poorly and an administrator determines that the memory resources are low. How should the administrator resolve this issue?

A. Configure a memory reservation for the vApp.

B. Configure a memory reservation for each VM in the vApp.

C. Rebuild the vApp using the wizard and assign memory reservations to the vApp.

D. Rebuild the vApp using the wizard and assign memory reservations to each VM.

Which two steps can an administrator take to upgrade an existing VMFS2 datastore to VMFS5? (Choose two.)

A. Attach the VMFS2 datastore to an ESX 3.x host and upgrade it to VMFS3

B. Attach the VMFS2 datastore to the vSphere 5 host and upgrade it to VMFS3

C. Upgrade the datastore from VMFS3 to VMFS5 on a vSphere 5 host

D. Upgrade the ESX host attached to the storage to vSphere 5

During a physical network reconfiguration, an ESXi host briefly lost connection to the management network. High Availability (HA) began powering off the virtual machines residing on the affected host to be restarted on an unaffected host in the cluster.

Which setting should the administrator configure to prevent this behavior in the future?

A. Host isolation response

B. Host monitoring

C. VM monitoring

D. Admission control