VCP-VVF Practice Test 37 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A vSphere Foundation cluster has Proactive HA configured with a provider such as Dell OpenManage or HPE OneView. An ESXi host reports a degraded hardware status warning for a redundant power supply. How does Proactive HA respond to this event?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Proactive HA generates a recommendation or automatically migrates VMs off the degraded host based on the cluster automation setting.. Proactive HA evaluates vendor-supplied health sensors and acts according to the configured automation level, such as migrating VMs off the degraded host.

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Proactive HA isolates the host from the management network using firewall rules.

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Proactive HA immediately powers off the host to prevent electrical damage.

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Proactive HA triggers vSphere HA to perform a hard restart of the host.

Question 2

An administrator is managing a vSphere cluster with strict licensing compliance rules. A specific virtual machine must be restricted to run on only two designated ESXi hosts out of a six-host cluster. Which construct should the administrator configure?

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A VM-Host affinity rule specifying a Host Group containing the two designated hosts.. Virtual Machine-to-Host affinity rules (using 'Should run on' or 'Must run on' rules with datastores or host groups) restrict VM placement to specific hosts.

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A storage DRS anti-affinity rule on the virtual machine disks.

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A DRS resource pool share allocation set to restrict CPU scheduling.

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An Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) baseline targeting those two hosts.

Question 3

An administrator is configuring a vSphere Foundation cluster and notices that virtual machines are migrating too frequently between ESXi hosts due to minor load fluctuations. Which DRS advanced option should the administrator adjust to reduce the sensitivity of migration recommendations?

Accepted Answer

Set the DRS Migration Threshold slider to a less aggressive level (e.g., Priority 1 instead of Priority 5).. The 'Cost of migration / DRS aggressiveness' setting (or 'Metric' threshold) controls how aggressively DRS migrates VMs based on load imbalances.

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Increase the memory overcommit ratio to 300%.

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Set the VM/Host affinity rule state to 'Disabled'.

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Disable vSphere HA datastore heartbeating for the cluster.

Question 4

Which THREE factors influence vSphere HA virtual machine restart priority?

Accepted Answer

Virtual Machine restart priority settings. HA uses the restart priority setting, the presence of specific dependencies, and host capacity availability.

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Virtual Machine disk size

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VMware vSphere Distributed Switch port speed

Question 5

An administrator is configuring a Resource Pool hierarchy in a vSphere Foundation cluster. A child resource pool is set to 'Expandable Reservation'. When does this setting take effect during resource contention?

Accepted Answer

When the child resource pool exhausts its own reservation and the parent has unreserved resources available.. Expandable Reservation allows a child resource pool to borrow unreserved resources from its parent resource pool when its own reservation is exhausted.

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When the parent resource pool runs out of physical memory and triggers vSphere HA.

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When virtual machines inside the child pool are powered off.

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When Storage DRS initiates a datastore migration.

Question 6

An administrator wants to migrate a running virtual machine from one vCenter Server to another vCenter Server across different data centers without downtime. Which type of migration should be initiated in the vSphere Client?

Accepted Answer

Cross-vCenter vMotion. Cross-vCenter vMotion allows migrating running VMs between different vCenter instances.

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Cold Migration

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Storage vMotion

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Standard vMotion

Question 7

An administrator is troubleshooting a VM storage performance issue and observes high disk latency. The datastore is backed by an all-flash array. Which vSphere feature can the administrator enable on the cluster to automatically distribute I/O load across multiple datastores when latency thresholds are breached?

Accepted Answer

Storage DRS (SDRS). Storage DRS monitors storage latency and space utilization, automatically migrating VMDKs across datastores in a datastore cluster to balance load.

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Storage vMotion

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Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

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Storage Distributed Power Management (DPM)

Question 8

An administrator is configuring vSphere HA admission control in a cluster using the 'Percentage of cluster resources reserved' policy. The cluster has 4 hosts with identical capacity, and the administrator sets the failure tolerance to 1 host (FTT = 1). What percentage should the administrator configure for CPU and memory reserves?

Accepted Answer

25 percent. To tolerate 1 host failure in a 4-host cluster of identical hosts, 25% of compute resources must be reserved (1 out of 4 hosts = 25%).

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100 percent

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50 percent

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20 percent

Question 9

An administrator needs to create a virtual machine snapshot. Which TWO items are stored as part of a standard snapshot containing memory state? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

The virtual machine memory state saved in a .vmsn file.. A snapshot with memory captures the .vmsd, .vmdk delta files, .vmsn state file, and nvram settings.

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The vCenter Server database backup dump.

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The ESXi host physical BIOS firmware image.

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The physical PCI passthrough device configuration.

Question 10

An administrator is reviewing advanced DRS settings and behavior in a vSphere Foundation cluster. Which THREE factors does DRS evaluate when calculating migration and placement recommendations? (Choose three.)

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Configured VM-Host and VM-VM affinity or anti-affinity rules.. DRS evaluates CPU load, memory utilization, network load (if net-aware DRS is enabled), and affinity rules.

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Physical switch port VLAN tagging and trunk configurations.

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Datastore capacity free space thresholds.

Question 11

An administrator needs to configure a new VMware vSphere 9 cluster to ensure high availability for virtual machines in the event of a host failure. Which feature should be enabled in the vSphere Cluster settings to automatically restart VMs on surviving hosts?

Accepted Answer

vSphere HA. vSphere High Availability (HA) monitors ESXi hosts and automatically restarts virtual machines on other available hosts in the cluster if a host failure is detected.

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vSphere Distributed Switch

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Storage vMotion

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vSphere DRS

Question 12

An administrator needs to enforce uniform configuration settings across 20 ESXi hosts in a vSphere Foundation 9 cluster to prevent configuration drift. Which vSphere tool provides compliance checking and automated remediation of host settings?

Accepted Answer

vSphere Host Profiles. Host Profiles capture the configuration of a reference ESXi host and allow administrators to apply it to other hosts or clusters for compliance monitoring and drift remediation.

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vCenter Update Planner

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vSphere Lifecycle Manager

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vRealize Log Insight

Question 13

A vSphere Foundation administrator needs to configure Network I/O Control (NIOC) version 3 on a vSphere Distributed Switch to guarantee a specific bandwidth percentage for fault tolerance (FT) traffic during periods of high network utilization. Where must this share and reservation configuration be applied?

Accepted Answer

Under the Resource Allocation tab for System Traffic on the vSphere Distributed Switch.. On a vSphere Distributed Switch using NIOC v3, system traffic reservations and shares are configured at the VDS resource allocation level for system traffic types.

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Inside the ESXi host firewall rule set configuration.

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Inside the advanced properties of each individual virtual machine network adapter.

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Within the physical switch CLI uplink configuration.

Question 14

An administrator is configuring vSphere Trust Authority within a vSphere Foundation architecture to protect encrypted virtual machines. Which THREE components are core architectural elements of vSphere Trust Authority? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Key Provider to securely manage and store encryption keys. vSphere Trust Authority utilizes Trust Providers, Attestation Hosts, and Key Providers to ensure secure key release only to verified, trusted ESXi hosts.

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vRealize Orchestrator plugin for automated snapshot generation

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Software-defined load balancer for distributing vMotion packets

Question 15

An administrator needs to modify the hardware configuration of a running virtual machine, specifically adding more vCPUs, without causing downtime. Which vSphere feature makes this possible when supported by the guest operating system?

Accepted Answer

Hot-Plug / Hot-Add CPU and Memory. Hot-add capabilities allow administrators to add virtual hardware resources such as CPUs and memory to a running virtual machine without requiring a power cycle, provided the guest OS supports it.

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vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)

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Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

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Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)