2V0-21.20 Practice Questions
140 real 2V0-21.20 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 1 of 3.
- Question #1Installing, Configuring, and Setup
An administrator would like to make virtual machine templates and ISO images available to all vCenter Server instances in the data center. Which feature should the administrator us...
Content LibrariesVM TemplatesISO ImagesvCenter Server - Question #2Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
Which virtual disk option allows a virtual machine to consume the minimum storage capacity?
Thin provisioningVirtual disk typesStorage efficiencyvSphere - Question #3Installing, Configuring, and Setup
When deploying a vCenter Server Appliance, which two single sign-on (SSO)-related options are presented to an administrator? (Choose two.)
vCenter SSOVCSA DeploymentIdentity ManagementvCenter Domain - Question #4Architectures and Technologies
An administrator wants to implement virtual machine encryption. Which component encrypts the virtual machine files?
VM encryptionDEKkey managementencryption components - Question #5Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator is unable to manage certificates with the vSphere Client. What is another supported option that can be used to manage certificates?
vSphere certificatesCLI administrationvCenter Server - Question #6Administrative and Operational Tasks
A virtual machine with a single 100 GB virtual machine disk file has a single 20 GB snapshot. The virtual machine is powered off. How much additional free space on the datastore is...
Snapshot consolidationDatastore space managementVirtual disk operationsVMware storage - Question #7Section 2 – Products and Solutions
What is the server virtualization product that combines the ESXi hypervisor and the vCenter Server?
vSphereESXivCenter Server - Question #8Troubleshooting and Repairing
Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is consistently receiving an alarm regarding a CPU performance issue; however, there is NO CPU issue identified. What can the administrator d...
VM CPU Ready TimeAlarm configurationCPU performanceThreshold logic - Question #9Administrative and Operational Tasks
A single host is manually configured to company standards. Which option would an administrator select to capture this configuration for future use?
Host ProfileConfiguration managementvSphereHost customization - Question #10Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
Refer to the exhibit. What does the %RDY for the Win1 virtual machine indicate?
CPU Ready TimeCPU ContentionPerformance MetricsvSphere - Question #11Architectures and Technologies
Which two vSphere features enable remote site availability? (Choose two.)
vSphere ReplicationCross vCenter MigrationDisaster RecoveryRemote Availability - Question #12Administrative and Operational Tasks
What is a pre-requisite for increasing datastore capacity?
Datastore capacityStorage provisioningVMware datastoresVMFS - Question #13Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment. Which statement is true...
VMFS datastore upgradevSphere 7.0VMFS5 to VMFS6datastore compatibility - Question #14Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
An administrator is running a variety of vSphere 6.5 cluster configurations and is tasked with upgrading to vSphere 7.0. Which two conditions could cause potential conflicts or out...
vSphere 7.0 upgradeCustom VIBsDistributed Switch compatibilityUpgrade compatibility - Question #15Installing, Configuring, and Setup
Which resource pool setting is used to specify the relative priority or importance as high, normal or low?
Resource pool sharesvSphere resource allocationRelative priority - Question #16Section 5 – Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
A vSphere environment is configured with 1 Gigabit Ethernet for vSphere vMotion. The application team is complaining that when they try to migrate a powered-on virtual machine, the...
vMotion optimizationvSphere networkingNetwork bandwidthLink Aggregation - Question #17Architectures and Technologies
Which TCP/IP stack can support management traffic, vSphere vMotion, IP storage and vSphere Fault Tolerance?
TCP/IP stacksvMotionIP storageFault Tolerance - Question #18Administrative and Operational Tasks
An IT department is decommissioning a storage array and tasks an administrator with removing a datastore from ESXi hosts. What is a prerequisite for unmounting the datastore?
Storage DRSDatastore ManagementESXiDatastore Unmounting - Question #19Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
A recently deployed set of test virtual machines are impacting the performance of a company development team project datastore. The shared cache server appears to be suffering from...
Storage I/O ControlStorage SharesStorage LimitsDatastore Optimization - Question #20VMware Products and Solutions
Which solution can be used to automatically deploy a fully configured VMware software-defined data center (SDDC)?
VMware Cloud FoundationSDDCautomated deployment - Question #21Troubleshooting and Repairing
An administrator is troubleshooting a recent failure and finds the following error messages: Which action has failed, thus resulting in these errors?
VM SnapshotTroubleshootingVM OperationsError Diagnostics - Question #22Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator adds an additional host to a cluster and is attempting to remediate the configuration with a host profile. Which option would the administrator select on the host...
Host ProfilesProfile AttachmentHost RemediationCluster Configuration - Question #23Architectures and Technologies
A new vSphere 7.0 environment is deployed with the following: - A single vCenter Server - Two vSAN clusters - A vSAN default storage policy Which statement is true regarding virtua...
vSAN storage policyFault toleranceData replicationReplica placement - Question #24Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing VMware vSphere 6.5 environment to version 7.0. There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment. Which two sta...
vSphere upgradeVMFS compatibilityVMFS3ESXi 7.0 - Question #25Section 5 – Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
What is a requirement of Storage I/O Control?
Storage I/O ControlvCenter ServerSIOCstorage management - Question #26Section 1 – Architecture and Technologies
Which two storage technologies can an administrator use to deploy the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)? (Choose two.)
VMFS storageiSCSIFibre Channelblock storage - Question #27Section 4 – Installing, Configuring, and Setup
An administrator runs third-party software in a virtual machine (VM). The third-party licensing agreement requires payment of a license fee for each host to which the VM migrates....
DRS affinity rulesVM-to-Host affinityVM migration controllicensing - Question #28Installing, Configuring, and Setup
Which feature is a pre-requisite for configuring admission control on a cluster? (Choose the best answer.)
vSphere HAAdmission ControlCluster Configuration - Question #29Installing, Configuring, and Setup
An administrator runs a two-node vSphere cluster, which contains two domain controller virtual machines (VMs). The administrator wants to ensure that VMs run on separate hosts with...
DRS anti-affinity rulesvSphere VM placementDRS soft constraintscluster management - Question #30Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
Which local only host utility is used for primary, real-time performance monitoring in vSphere?
esxtopPerformance MonitoringvSphere Host ToolsReal-time Analysis - Question #31Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
Which tool is used to monitor the vCenter Server Appliance resources?
vimtopvCenter Server AppliancePerformance monitoring - Question #32Installing, Configuring, and Setup
An administrator wants to ensure that when virtual machines (VMs) are powered on. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) places them on the best-suited host. When the cluster becomes...
DRS Automation LevelsVM PlacementResource SchedulingCluster Load Balancing - Question #33Troubleshooting and Repairing
Refer to the exhibit. An administrator enables email notifications as shown in the attached alarm. However, notifications are NOT being sent. Where must the mail server settings be...
vCenter email notificationsMail server configurationAlarmsvSphere Client - Question #34VMware Products and Solutions
An IT department is experiencing random hardware failures that are costing the company money. The CIO is looking for technical support beyond traditional break/fix with enhanced vi...
VMware SkylineSupport ServicesProactive monitoringHardware health - Question #35Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator wants to be able to send vCenter Server log files to a remote syslog server and analyze logs using vRealize Log Insight. Which step must the administrator take to...
vCenter loggingRemote syslogvRealize Log InsightManagement Interface - Question #36Installing, Configuring, and Setup
What are two pre-requisites for enabling ESXi secure boot? (Choose two.)
ESXi Secure BootUEFIHardware Requirements - Question #37Architectures and Technologies
How does vSphere handle memory allocation during the instant clone process?
Instant CloneCopy-on-WriteMemory ManagementvSphere - Question #38Installing, Configuring, and Setup
An administrator wants to configure vCenter Server High Availability so that each node is located in a different data center. Which requirement must be met?
vCenter HAnetwork latencynode placementhigh availability - Question #39Administrative and Operational Tasks
A company has a vSphere environment consisting of the following characteristics: - A content library named 'CORP' is published at corporate headquarters on a vCenter Server named '...
Content Library SubscriptionvSphere Content LibrariesMulti-vCenter ManagementVM Image Distribution - Question #40Section 1 – Architecture and Technologies
Refer to the exhibit. Which trusted infrastructure component is missing and represented by the area labeled "A?"
Trusted InfrastructureKey Management ServervSphere EncryptionAttestation Architecture - Question #41Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator can attach a baseline to which two inventory objects? (Choose two.)
vSphere BaselinesInventory ObjectsPatch ManagementESXi Configuration - Question #42Section 7 – Administrative and Operational Tasks
Refer to the exhibit. Which two statements are true regarding the state of the virtual machine (VM) if an administrator clicks the "Delete AH" option? (Choose two.)
VM SnapshotsSnapshot ManagementSnapshot ConsolidationvSphere - Question #43Troubleshooting and Repairing
An administrator receives an escalation to investigate a low disk space alarm on a datastore. The administrator discovers that a snapshot has been accidentally taken on a productio...
VM SnapshotsDatastore managementStorage consolidationPerformance impact - Question #44Architectures and Technologies
How many vSphere Trust Authority Clusters can a Trusted Cluster reference?
vSphere Trust Authoritytrusted clustersecurity architecture - Question #45Installing, Configuring, and Setup
What is the minimum CPU core requirement for successful installation, or upgrade, of ESXi on a host?
ESXi installationCPU requirementsHardware specifications - Question #46Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator places a 300 GB virtual machine named "Finance1" on a 2 TB datastore containing other virtual machines. After virtual machine placement, the datastore has 200 GB o...
VM snapshotsDatastore capacityStorage managementvSphere - Question #47Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator is asked to take a snapshot of a virtual machine prior to an application upgrade. The virtual machine has one standard virtual machine disk (VMDK) and one physical...
VM snapshotRDMphysical mode RDMdisk limitations - Question #48Architectures and Technologies
What can an administrator use to partition limited CPU and memory resources between two departments?
resource poolsCPU allocationmemory allocationresource management - Question #49Installing, Configuring, and Setup
Which step is required when adding an existing hard disk that is configured as a boot disk during virtual machine creation?
VM creationboot diskhard disk configurationvirtual machine hardware - Question #50Administrative and Operational Tasks
Which two statements are true regarding the use of firmware update packages in vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose two.)
vSphere Lifecycle Managerfirmware updatehardware support managerdrivers add-on