VCP-VVF Practice Test 9 — 10 Questions

Question 1

An administrator is troubleshooting high CPU usage on an ESXi host and suspects a runaway virtual machine. Using esxtop, which TWO columns in the CPU panel should the administrator examine to identify the specific VM consuming the most physical CPU resources? (Choose two.)

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

Accepted Answer

%RUN (Percentage of time scheduled on a physical CPU). In esxtop (CPU view), %USED and %CSTP or %RDY are used, but %USED and %RUN indicate active CPU consumption. Specifically, %USED represents physical CPU used, and %RUN represents CPU time scheduled on physical cores.

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SWCUR (Current swap usage)

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MCTLSZ (Ballooned memory size)

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DAVG (Device latency)

Question 2

An administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one datastore to another without changing compute resources. Which TWO migration methods can accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Storage vMotion. Storage vMotion or a Cross-Datastore migration wizard in the vSphere Client can move VM files between datastores.

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Enhanced vMotion Compatibility baseline adjustment

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Storage DRS manual recommendation application

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Standard vMotion

Question 3

An administrator is examining advanced memory management mechanisms in ESXi using esxtop. Which THREE memory reclamation techniques does ESXi utilize when physical host memory becomes constrained? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) to de-duplicate identical memory pages across virtual machines.. ESXi uses ballooning, transparent page sharing (TPS), guest memory swapping, and hypervisor swapping.

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Storage DRS datastore capacity migration.

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Automatic conversion of virtual machine hard disks from thin to thick provisioned.

Question 4

Which TWO of the following are valid methods to increase the storage capacity of an existing VMDK in vSphere?

Accepted Answer

Extend the partition within the guest operating system. You can increase the size of a disk in the VM settings, and then extend the partition within the guest OS.

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Change the Datastore type from VMFS to vSAN

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Add a new virtual disk to the VM

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Use vMotion to move the disk to a larger datastore

Question 5

An administrator is troubleshooting a vSAN 9.0 stretched cluster where the witness host has lost management connectivity to the primary site. The data sites remain operational. What is the expected immediate impact on the vSAN storage pools?

Accepted Answer

Storage remains available as long as the primary site and the witness maintain data path connectivity, but vSAN health alarms will trigger due to management loss.. In a vSAN stretched cluster, the witness host is required to maintain quorum when a site fails. A loss of management connectivity alone does not drop data paths if IP/vSAN traffic remains, but complete loss of the witness requires careful quorum evaluation. Assuming witness data path is severed, a 2-node or stretched cluster split-brain prevention kicks in. If the witness cannot communicate with one site, that site loses quorum unless overridden.

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All virtual machines on the affected site immediately power off to prevent split-brain.

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The vSAN cluster automatically falls back to a standard single-site cluster layout.

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The vSAN datastore becomes entirely read-only across all sites.

Question 6

An administrator is troubleshooting a storage performance issue on a vSAN 9.0 cluster. The vSAN performance service indicates high object read latency on a specific VMDK. Which command line utility executed on an ESXi host can be used to inspect individual vSAN disk group health and component status directly?

Accepted Answer

esxcli vsan storage list. 'esxcli vsan storage list' displays detailed storage pool and disk information, while 'esxcli vsan debug' or 'cmmds-tool' can inspect component status. Among standard esxcli namespaces, 'esxcli vsan storage' is standard for examining vSAN disk health.

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esxcli storage vmfs extent list

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esxcli vsan cluster get

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esxcli network ip route list

Question 7

An administrator is troubleshooting a virtual machine that is failing to migrate via vMotion. Which THREE conditions could cause a vMotion migration to fail validation checks? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

The source and destination hosts have incompatible CPU feature sets and EVC is not enabled.. vMotion validation checks CPU compatibility, storage accessibility, and network connectivity between source and destination hosts.

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The virtual machine has snapshot files older than 30 days.

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The virtual machine is configured with a memory limit lower than its allocated RAM.

Question 8

When reviewing vSphere HA settings, an administrator notices that host monitoring is disabled. What is the immediate functional consequence of disabling host monitoring in a vSphere HA cluster?

Accepted Answer

vSphere HA will not automatically detect host failures or restart virtual machines when a host goes down.. Disabling host monitoring stops ESXi hosts from exchanging heartbeats over the network. As a result, vSphere HA will not automatically detect host failures and trigger virtual machine restarts.

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vSphere DRS is automatically disabled across all cluster nodes.

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Virtual machine guest operating systems will experience unresponsiveness due to lack of VMware Tools heartbeats.

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ESXi management agents (sfcb and hostd) will restart every 60 seconds.

Question 9

An administrator is troubleshooting an issue where ESXi host syslog messages are not being forwarded to a remote syslog server. Which command or configuration interface should be checked to verify the local syslog target setting on the ESXi host?

Accepted Answer

esxcli system syslog config get. ESXi host syslog settings can be inspected and modified using 'esxcli system syslog config get'.

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esxcli vm kernel log list

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esxcli system account list

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esxcli network firewall get

Question 10

A vSphere Foundation administrator is configuring Proactive HA within a cluster backed by hardware vendor provider integrations. A hardware health sensor detects an impending memory degradation event on host ESXi-03. How does Proactive HA respond by default when configured in Automated mode?

Accepted Answer

It places the host into maintenance mode and uses DRS to evacuate virtual machines.. In Automated mode for Proactive HA, vSphere DRS automatically migrates VMs off the degraded host based on the severity of the provider health alert.

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It triggers an immediate HA host isolation response and restarts VMs on another node.

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It immediately powers off all virtual machines on the host to protect hardware state.

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It generates an SNMP trap and waits for manual administrator intervention.