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Question 1mediummultiple choice
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A network engineer is deploying a new virtualized application on a VMware vSphere cluster. The application requires dedicated CPU cores to meet licensing requirements, and the engineer must ensure that no other virtual machine can use those cores. The cluster uses VMware ESXi 7.0. Which configuration should the engineer apply to the virtual machine?

Question 2mediummultiple choice
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An enterprise is migrating a legacy application from a physical server to a virtual machine on a KVM-based hypervisor. The application requires direct access to a PCIe network interface card for performance reasons. The engineer needs to provide the VM with dedicated hardware access while maintaining isolation from other VMs. Which technology should the engineer use?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A network engineer is troubleshooting performance issues on a VMware ESXi host running multiple VMs. The host has two physical CPUs, each with 8 cores (16 logical processors with Hyper-Threading enabled). One VM, configured with 8 vCPUs, experiences high CPU ready time. Other VMs on the host are idle. What is the most likely cause of the high CPU ready time?

Question 4hardmultiple choice
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A company is deploying a virtualized firewall on a VMware ESXi host. The firewall VM requires high network throughput and low latency. The engineer decides to use SR-IOV to assign a virtual function (VF) from a physical NIC to the VM. After configuration, the VM can communicate, but the host's management network becomes unreachable. What is the most likely cause?

Question 5easymultiple choice
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A network engineer is designing a disaster recovery solution using VMware vSphere. The engineer needs to replicate virtual machines from the primary site to a secondary site with minimal downtime. The application VMs are running on NFS datastores. The engineer plans to use vSphere Replication. What prerequisite must be met for vSphere Replication to work with NFS datastores?

Question 6mediummultiple choice
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An engineer is deploying a Linux virtual machine on a KVM hypervisor. The VM needs to be connected to a virtual network that provides isolation from other VMs on the same host but allows communication with the host and external networks. The engineer creates a Linux bridge and attaches the VM's tap interface to it. However, the VM cannot reach the external network. The host has a physical NIC (eth0) connected to the corporate network. What is the missing configuration step?

Question 7hardmultiple choice
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A network engineer is troubleshooting a VMware vSphere cluster where a VM with a large memory footprint (256 GB) is experiencing poor performance. The host has two NUMA nodes, each with 128 GB of memory. The VM is configured with 256 GB of memory and 4 vCPUs. Performance monitoring shows high memory latency and CPU ready time. What is the most likely cause?

Question 8easymultiple choice
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An engineer is configuring a virtual machine on a Microsoft Hyper-V host. The VM runs a legacy application that requires a static MAC address. The engineer sets the MAC address in the VM settings. After the VM starts, the application cannot communicate on the network. The engineer verifies that the MAC address is not duplicated on the network. What is the most likely cause?

Question 9mediummultiple choice
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A network engineer is migrating a physical server running a critical database to a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere cluster. The database requires high I/O performance and low latency. The engineer decides to use VMFS datastores with multiple extents to improve performance. After migration, the database performance is worse than on the physical server. What is the most likely reason?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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A company is deploying a multi-tenant data center using VMware vSphere. The architect must ensure that each tenant’s virtual machines (VMs) are isolated at Layer 2 while sharing the same physical NICs. Which design approach best meets this requirement?

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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An architect is designing a virtualized service chain for a campus network using NFV. The chain must include a firewall, WAN optimizer, and IPS. The architect needs to minimize latency by placing VNFs on the same hypervisor host. Which design consideration is most important?

Question 12easymultiple choice
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A network team is planning to migrate from a Type 2 hypervisor to a Type 1 hypervisor for their production VMs. They need to understand the architectural impact. Which statement correctly describes a key difference between Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors?

Question 13mediummultiple choice
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An enterprise is deploying a KVM-based virtualization platform for network functions. The architect must choose a networking model that allows VNFs to communicate with minimal overhead and supports VLAN trunking. Which virtual networking component should be used?

Question 14mediummultiple choice
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A data center architect is designing a virtualized environment for a latency-sensitive application. The application requires dedicated CPU cores and memory to avoid performance degradation. Which hypervisor feature should be configured to meet this requirement?

Question 15hardmultiple choice
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A company is deploying Cisco CSR1000v virtual routers in a KVM environment. The architect needs to ensure high availability by allowing VMs to move between physical hosts without service interruption. Which feature must be supported by the hypervisor and storage?

Question 16easymultiple choice
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An architect is designing a virtualized environment for network functions that require direct access to physical NICs for performance. The hypervisor must support PCI passthrough. Which hypervisor type is best suited for this requirement?

Question 17mediummultiple choice
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A network team is deploying a virtualized WAN optimization appliance. The appliance must be able to process traffic at line rate on a 10 Gbps link. The hypervisor host has multiple physical NICs. Which design choice will best ensure the VM can achieve the required throughput?

Question 18mediummultiple choice
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An architect is planning a virtualized infrastructure for a branch office that will host a Cisco ISRv router and a local DHCP server. The architect wants to minimize management overhead and ensure the VMs can be easily backed up. Which hypervisor deployment model is most appropriate?

Question 19mediummultiple choice
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Examine the following partial configuration on a Cisco IOS-XE device:

interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
 ip ospf hello-interval 5
 ip ospf dead-interval 20

!

What is the effect of this configuration?

Question 20mediummultiple choice
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Consider the following configuration snippet:

router bgp 65000

bgp router-id 192.168.1.1

neighbor 10.0.0.2 remote-as 65001
 neighbor 10.0.0.2 timers 10 30

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What is the effect of the 'timers 10 30' command under the BGP neighbor?

Question 21mediummultiple choice
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Given the following EIGRP configuration:

router eigrp 100
 network 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255

metric weights 0 1 1 1 0 0 !

What is the effect of the 'metric weights' command?

Question 22mediummultiple choice
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Review the following OSPF configuration:

router ospf 1
 network 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
 network 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 1

default-information originate always metric 20 metric-type 1 !

What is the effect of the 'default-information originate always metric 20 metric-type 1' command?

Question 23mediummultiple choice
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Examine the following configuration:

interface GigabitEthernet0/0
 ip address 172.16.1.1 255.255.255.0

ipv6 address 2001:db8:1::1/64 ipv6 ospf 100 area 0 !

What is missing from this configuration to enable OSPFv3 on this interface?

Question 24mediummultiple choice
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Consider the following BGP configuration:

router bgp 65000

bgp router-id 10.0.0.1

neighbor 10.0.0.2 remote-as 65001
 neighbor 10.0.0.2 route-map SET-MED out

! route-map SET-MED permit 10 set metric 50 !

What is the effect of this route-map on outbound updates to neighbor 10.0.0.2?

Question 25easymultiple choice
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What is the default OSPF hello interval on a broadcast multi-access network (e.g., Ethernet)?

Question 26mediummultiple choice
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Which BGP attribute is preferred when it has the lowest value?

Question 27easymultiple choice
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What is the maximum hop count for EIGRP?

Question 28mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of a VM live migration process in vSphere into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 29mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of deploying a virtual machine from a template in VMware vSphere into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 30mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of creating a virtual machine in VMware ESXi using the vSphere Client into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 31mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of vSphere VM snapshot creation and revert steps into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 32mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of NUMA-aware VM placement process into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 33mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of SR-IOV configuration for VM network bypass into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 34mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of KVM VM provisioning via virsh CLI into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 35mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of Docker container networking with bridge mode into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 36mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of vSphere VM snapshot creation and revert steps into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 37mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of NUMA-aware VM placement process into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 38mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of SR-IOV configuration for VM network bypass into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 39mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of KVM VM provisioning via virsh CLI into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 40mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps of Docker container networking with bridge mode into the correct order, from first to last.

Question 41mediummatching
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Drag and drop each hypervisor product on the left to its matching vendor on the right.

Question 42mediummatching
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Drag and drop each VM network mode on the left to its matching behavior description on the right.

Question 43mediummatching
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Drag and drop each container technology on the left to its matching orchestration tool on the right.

Question 44mediummatching
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Drag and drop each VM storage type on the left to its matching characteristic on the right.

Question 45mediummatching
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Drag and drop each CPU feature on the left to its matching virtualization purpose on the right.

Question 46mediummatching
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Drag and drop each hypervisor product on the left to its matching vendor on the right.

Question 47mediummatching
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Drag and drop each VM network mode on the left to its matching behavior on the right.

Question 48mediummatching
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Drag and drop each container technology on the left to its matching orchestration tool on the right.

Question 49mediummatching
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Drag and drop each VM storage type on the left to its matching characteristic on the right.

Question 50mediummatching
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Drag and drop each CPU feature on the left to its matching virtualization purpose on the right.

Question 51mediummulti select
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Which two statements about Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors are true? (Choose two.)

Question 52hardmulti select
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Which three statements about virtual machine (VM) resource allocation and overcommitment are true? (Choose three.)

Question 53mediummulti select
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Which two statements about virtual machine migration (vMotion and cold migration) are true? (Choose two.)

Question 54hardmulti select
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Which three statements about virtual networking and hypervisor switches are true? (Choose three.)

Question 55mediummulti select
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Which two statements about Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors are true? (Choose two.)

Question 56hardmulti select
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Which three statements about virtual machine (VM) resource allocation and overcommitment are true? (Choose three.)

Question 57mediummulti select
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Which two statements about virtual machine migration (vMotion/VMware) or live migration (Hyper-V) are true? (Choose two.)

Question 58hardmulti select
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Which three statements about hypervisor security and isolation are true? (Choose three.)

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