VCP-VVF Multiple Select — 30 Questions

Question 1

An enterprise architect is designing a backup and recovery architecture for vSphere Foundation 9.0 virtual machines. Which THREE data transport modes are supported by modern backup software leveraging VADP (vSphere APIs for Data Protection)? (Choose three.)

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HotAdd mode (attaching virtual disks to a backup proxy virtual machine). VADP supports multiple backup transport modes including HotAdd, SAN (Direct SAN access), and NBD/NBDSSL (Network Block Device).

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Analog modem dial-up SLIP protocol

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Bluetooth wireless PAN streaming

Question 2

An administrator is designing a vSphere Foundation 9.0 environment and needs to configure vCenter Server Single Sign-On (SSO) identity sources. Which THREE identity source types are natively supported by vCenter Server SSO? (Choose three.)

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Local OS users (local vpxuser / local system accounts). vCenter Server SSO supports Active Directory, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Open LDAP, and Local OS as identity sources.

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Anonymous guest web tokens via public web scrapers

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Local Bluetooth pairing with mobile smartphones

Question 3

An infrastructure architect is designing a high-performance vSphere Foundation 9.0 environment. Which THREE architectural configurations optimize virtual machine memory performance and reduce latency? (Choose three.)

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Reserving 100% of guest virtual machine memory to prevent swapping and ballooning overhead. Memory performance is optimized by avoiding memory overcommit (reserving 100%), keeping vCPUs and memory within single NUMA nodes, and configuring large memory pages (Huge Pages).

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Configuring aggressive memory overcommitment exceeding 300% on database nodes

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Disabling physical server RAM interleaving in the BIOS

Question 4

An enterprise architect is planning virtual machine resource controls in a vSphere Foundation 9.0 cluster. Which THREE parameters can be configured on a virtual machine's CPU or memory settings? (Choose three.)

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Shares. Virtual machine resource settings include Shares, Reservations, and Limits for both CPU and memory allocations.

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Physical Socket Count Multiplexing

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BIOS Voltage Scaling Factor

Question 5

An administrator is designing a vSphere Foundation 9.0 cluster and configuring vSphere HA response actions. Which TWO configurable actions can vSphere HA take when a host isolation event is detected (Host Isolation Response)? (Choose two.)

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Leave virtual machines powered on. When an ESXi host becomes isolated from the rest of the HA cluster network, it can be configured to Power off VMs, Shut down guest OS, or Leave VMs powered on.

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Reformat all attached datastores with VMFS-6

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Permanently decommission the ESXi motherboard

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Instantly migrate all VMs to public cloud AWS EC2 instances

Question 6

An enterprise architect is planning high availability for a vSphere Foundation 9.0 cluster. Which THREE methods does vSphere HA use to detect host failures? (Choose three.)

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Network heartbeats exchanged between Master and Slave ESXi hosts. vSphere HA detects host failures using network heartbeats sent between the Master and Slave hosts, datastore heartbeats for partitioned hosts, and storage reachability checks.

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Bluetooth proximity scans of administrator mobile phones

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Continuous ping checks sent to external public DNS servers like 8.8.8.8

Question 7

An infrastructure architect is planning disaster recovery and migration strategies in a vSphere Foundation 9.0 environment. Which THREE migration methods are natively supported by vCenter Server for moving running virtual machines? (Choose three.)

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Storage vMotion (migrating virtual disk files between datastores without downtime). vCenter Server natively supports vMotion (compute only), Storage vMotion (storage only), and Enhanced vMotion (both compute and storage simultaneously across clusters or vCenters).

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Physical unzipping of VMDK files via manual FTP client uploads

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Physical courier shipping of hard drives via postal mail services

Question 8

An administrator is planning a vSphere Foundation deployment and needs to configure vSphere High Availability (HA) in a cluster containing production virtual machines. Which TWO configuration steps or behaviors are associated with vSphere HA cluster design and operation? (Choose two)

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vSphere HA requires a minimum of two ESXi hosts in the cluster to provide failover capability.. vSphere HA requires at least two ESXi hosts to function properly for failover, and it relies on datastore heartbeating when network heartbeats are lost during a network partition.

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vSphere HA requires dedicated physical switches that support spanning tree protocol configuration.

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vSphere HA automatically migrates powered-on VMs using live vMotion when host CPU utilization exceeds 80%.

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Configuring Admission Control is optional and has no impact on virtual machine power-on operations.

Question 9

An administrator is designing a vSphere Foundation 9.0 standard virtual switch (vSwitch) topology and needs to configure security policies for a port group. Which TWO security settings are available by default on a vSwitch port group? (Choose two.)

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MAC Address Changes. The three configurable security settings on vSphere standard and distributed switch port groups are Promiscuous Mode, MAC Address Changes, and Forged Transmits.

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IP Source Guard Filtering

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Dynamic ARP Inspection Guard

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BPDU Filter Activation

Question 10

An administrator is designing a vSphere Foundation 9.0 cluster and configuring ESXi firewall settings. Which TWO network services have built-in firewall rules that can be enabled or disabled in ESXi Security Profiles? (Choose two.)

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NFS client. ESXi built-in firewall profiles manage access for services such as SSH, ESXi Shell, vMotion, and NFS client connections.

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Microsoft Active Directory Group Policy Editor

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Apple iOS App Store daemon

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Linux kernel compilation makefile service

Question 11

An infrastructure architect is designing a multi-site vSphere Foundation 9.0 environment with stretched clusters. Which THREE challenges or requirements must be accounted for in a stretched cluster design? (Choose three.)

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Redundant, high-bandwidth inter-site ISL (Inter-Switch Links) for vMotion and storage traffic.. Stretched clusters require strict RTT latency limits for storage, reliable witness placement, and redundant high-bandwidth inter-site networking.

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Complete elimination of all network gateways across the entire enterprise.

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Converting all virtual machine disks into read-only ISO files.

Question 12

An infrastructure architect is designing a vSphere Foundation 9.0 cluster and evaluating advanced storage policies for vSAN. Which THREE data services are native to vSAN and configurable via storage policies? (Choose three.)

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Deduplication and Compression. vSAN storage policies natively support data deduplication and compression, encryption (at rest), and checksum verification.

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Automated replacement of failed physical server chassis motherboards

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Automatic physical fibre channel cable weaving

Question 13

An enterprise architect is planning the deployment of vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) in a vSphere Foundation 9.0 cluster. Which THREE requirements or limitations apply to virtual machines configured with vSphere FT? (Choose three.)

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Compliance with maximum vCPU limits supported by the specific vSphere FT release. vSphere FT requires specific vCPU limits depending on the version, dedicated FT logging network adapters, and shared storage accessible by both hosts.

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Disabling all network redundancy across the cluster uplinks

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Hosting the primary VM exclusively on a local unshared USB drive

Question 14

An administrator is investigating a performance bottleneck in a vSphere Foundation 9.0 environment using VMware Aria Operations. Which THREE metric types or analytical tools should the administrator examine to diagnose capacity and performance issues across compute, storage, and networking? (Choose three.)

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The 'Troubleshooting' tab and metric correlation charts to compare latency, IOPS, ready time, and packet drops across objects.. Aria Operations provides badges for Health, Risk, and Efficiency, along with metric analysis for Demand, Capacity, and Stress across all resource tiers.

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The automated guest OS defragmentation schedule generator.

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The physical server BIOS flash utility built directly into Aria Operations.

Question 15

An administrator is configuring a cluster with vSphere DRS in a vSphere Foundation environment. Which TWO criteria can DRS use to balance virtual machine workloads across hosts? (Choose two.)

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CPU utilization. vSphere DRS primarily balances workloads based on real-time and historical CPU and memory utilization metrics.

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BIOS serial number uniqueness

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Assigned MAC address ranges

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Guest operating system disk partition type

Question 16

An administrator is managing resource allocation in a vSphere Foundation cluster using Resource Pools. Which THREE rules govern how shares, reservations, and limits operate within a Resource Pool hierarchy? (Choose three.)

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A reservation guarantees that a resource pool receives at least the specified amount of compute power regardless of total contention.. Resource pool shares are proportional, reservations guarantee minimums, and limits cap maximum consumption.

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Resource pool shares automatically scale down when virtual machines inside them are powered off.

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Limits take precedence over reservations, allowing reserved resources to be dropped if limits are set lower.

Question 17

An administrator wants to secure access to the vSphere Client. Which TWO authentication or authorization mechanisms are supported natively in vCenter Server? (Choose two.)

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Identity Providers such as Active Directory, OpenID Connect, and LDAP integrated via vCenter Single Sign-On.. vCenter supports Identity Providers (Active Directory, OpenID Connect) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).

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Public key infrastructure certificates stored exclusively on virtual machine guest operating systems.

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Local Linux root account SSH keys stored in ESXi pam.d modules.

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Physical hardware smart card readers attached to ESXi management ports.

Question 18

An administrator is preparing to install ESXi 9.0 in a vSphere Foundation environment. Which TWO hardware requirements must be verified before proceeding with the installation? (Choose two.)

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The processor must support 64-bit x86 execution with hardware virtualization (Intel VT-x or AMD-V) enabled in the BIOS.. ESXi requires a supported 64-bit x86 CPU with hardware virtualization enabled in BIOS, and a minimum boot device size.

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The system motherboard must contain an onboard Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 1.1.

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The graphics card must support DirectX 12 hardware acceleration.

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The server must have at least four independent physical Fibre Channel HBAs installed.

Question 19

An administrator is troubleshooting a storage migration (Storage vMotion) failure between two datastores in a vSphere Foundation 9.0 environment. Which THREE conditions or checks should be verified before attempting the migration again? (Choose three.)

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The destination datastore must have sufficient free capacity to accommodate the virtual machine's thick-provisioned or thin-provisioned footprint.. Storage vMotion requires destination datastore space, compatible host access to both source and destination datastores, network connectivity for disk data transfer over VMkernel migration/vMotion networks, and no unsupported disk formats (e.g., raw RDMs in physical compatibility mode without conversion).

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The virtual machine must be powered off for any Storage vMotion operation to succeed.

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The physical switch port channel must be reconfigured to trunk the new datastore LUN IDs.

Question 20

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.)

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%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)