2V0-21.23 Exam Questions
111 real 2V0-21.23 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 1 of 3.
- Question #1Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator is creating a content library to manage VM templates and ISO images. The administrator wants to password-protect the images and templates and share them with a rem...
Content LibraryPublished LibraryAuthenticationRemote Sharing - Question #2Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
An administrator is responsible for the management of a VMware vCenter instance that is currently experiencing performance issues. The administrator quickly identifies that the CPU...
vCenter PerformanceCPU/Memory Hot AddvCenter TroubleshootingResource Management - Question #3Installing, Configuring, and Setup
An administrator successfully installs VMware ESXi onto the first host of a new vSphere cluster but makes no additional configuration changes. When attempting to log into the vSphe...
ESXi Network ConfigurationManagement NetworkDNS ResolutionVLAN ID - Question #4Architecture and Technologies
When configuring vCenter High Availability (HA), which two statements are true regarding the active, passive, and witness nodes? (Choose two.)
vCenter HANetwork LatencyNetwork Adapter Speed - Question #5Planning and Designing
An administrator is deploying a new all flash vSAN cluster based on the vSAN Original Storage Architecture (OSA). What is the minimum supported network throughput in Gb/s for each...
vSANAll-Flash vSANNetwork ThroughputvSAN OSA - Question #6Troubleshooting and Repairing
An administrator enables Secure Boot on an ESXi host. On booting the ESXi host, the following error message appears: Fatal error: 39 (Secure Boot Failed) What is the cause of this...
Secure BootESXi SecurityBootloader IntegrityKernel Tampering - Question #7Administrative and Operational Tasks
To keep virtual machines (VMs) up and running at all times in a vSphere cluster, an administrator would like VMs to be migrated automatically when the host hardware health status b...
Proactive HAHardware Health MonitoringVM MigrationvSphere HA - Question #8Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator wants to allow a DevOps engineer the ability to delete Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) cluster objects in a vSphere Namespace. Which role would provide the minimum req...
Tanzu Kubernetes GridvSphere NamespaceRBACPermissions - Question #9Administrative and Operational Tasks
A group of new virtual machines have been deployed using thin-provisioned disks due to the limited storage space available in an environment. The storage team has expressed concern...
Thin ProvisioningStorage MonitoringCustom AlarmsDatastore Management - Question #10Administrative and Operational Tasks
What are three options an administrator can configure after creating a vSphere Namespace? (Choose three.)
vSphere NamespaceTanzuStorage PoliciesPermissionsResource Limits - Question #11Installing, Configuring, and Setup
A VMkernel port is labelled PROD01 and uses the default TCP/IP stack. Currently, this VMkernel port is configured for supporting live virtual machine (VM) migrations. Which configu...
VMkernel PortvMotionTCP/IP StackNetwork Isolation - Question #12Administrative and Operational Tasks
After adding a new vSphere ESXi host with identical hardware configuration to an existing vSphere cluster, which task would an administrator complete prior to checking the complian...
Host ProfilesESXi Configuration ManagementCluster ManagementCompliance - Question #13Planning and Designing
An administrator is tasked with deploying a new on-premises software-defined data center (SDDC) that will contain a total of eight VMware vCenter instances. The following requireme...
vCenter Enhanced Linked ModeSingle Sign-OnvCenter DeploymentSDDC Architecture - Question #14Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator has Windows virtual machines (VMs) and VMware Tools is installed in each VM. The administrator performs a status check of VMware Tools using vSphere Lifecycle Mana...
VMware ToolsvSphere Lifecycle ManagerVMware Tools StatusVM Management - Question #15Architecture and Technologies
Which three features are only available when using vSphere Distributed Switches instead of vSphere Standard Switches? (Choose three.)
vSphere Distributed SwitchvSphere Standard SwitchNetwork FeaturesPort MirroringNetflow - Question #16Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
An administrator is configuring vSphere Lifecycle Manager to install patches to a vSphere cluster. The cluster runs workload virtual machines (VMs) that are incompatible with vSphe...
vSphere Lifecycle ManagerHost PatchingQuick BootDowntime ReductionVM Power States - Question #17Planning and Designing
An administrator creates a new corporate virtual machine (VM) template every month to include all of the latest patches. The administrator needs to ensure that the new VM template...
Content LibraryPublished LibrarySubscribed LibraryContent SynchronizationStorage Optimization - Question #18Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator is tasked with migrating a single virtual machine (VM) from an existing VMware vCenter to a secure environment where corporate security policy requires that all VM...
VM EncryptionvMotionKey Management ServervCenter Migration - Question #19Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator is tasked with providing users access to objects within an existing VMware vCenter instance. The vCenter inventory has a single data center with one management vSp...
RBACGlobal PermissionsvCenter PermissionsCustom Roles - Question #20Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator has a requirement to revert a running virtual machine to a previous snapshot after a failed attempt to upgrade an application. When the administrator originally to...
VM SnapshotsRevert SnapshotSnapshot MemoryQuiescing - Question #21Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
An administrator is planning to upgrade a VMware vCenter instance to version 8. It is currently integrated with the following solutions: - VMware Aria Automation - VMware Cloud Dir...
vCenter upgradeUpdate PlannerinteroperabilityAria Suite - Question #22Troubleshooting and Repairing
An administrator decides to restore VMware vCenter from a file-based backup following a failed upgrade. Which interface should the administrator use to complete the restore?
vCenter restorefile-based backupVAMIGUI Installer - Question #23Installing, Configuring, and Setup
An administrator needs to provide encryption for workloads within an existing vSphere cluster. The following requirements must be met: - Workloads should be encrypted at rest. - En...
VM encryptionat rest encryptionin transit encryptionsecurity - Question #24Troubleshooting and Repairing
After a number of outages within a production VMware software-defined data center, an administrator is tasked with identifying a solution to meet the following requirements: - Redu...
VMware Skylineproactive supportlog bundlesoutage prevention - Question #25Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator is responsible for performing maintenance tasks on a vSphere cluster. The cluster has the following configuration: - Identically configured vSphere ESXi hosts (esx...
vMotionDRShost maintenanceVM migration - Question #26Architecture and Technologies
An administrator needs better performance and near-zero CPU utilization from the ESXi hosts for networking functions and processing. The administrator creates a new vSphere Distrib...
DPUnetwork offloadsvSphere Distributed Services Engineperformance optimization - Question #27Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator needs to perform maintenance on a datastore that is running the vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) virtual machines (VMs). Which feature can the administrator use in...
vCLSRetreat Modedatastore maintenancevSphere Cluster Services - Question #28Architecture and Technologies
What is the role of vSphere Distributed Services Engine?
vSphere Distributed Services EngineDPUhardware accelerationinfrastructure performance - Question #29Administrative and Operational Tasks
A vSphere cluster has the following vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) group configuration: - Virtual machine (VM) group named DB - Host groups named PROD11 and PROD55 Th...
DRS VM/Host rulesaffinity rulespreferential rulehost groups - Question #30Installing, Configuring, and Setup
An administrator is asked to configure a security policy at the port group level of a standard switch. The following requirements must be met: - The security policy must apply to a...
standard switchport group securitypromiscuous modenetwork configuration - Question #31Troubleshooting and Repairing
Refer to the exhibit. After updating a predefined alarm on VMware vCenter, an administrator enables email notifications as shown in the attached alarm; however, notifications are N...
vCenter alarmsemail notificationsmail server settingsvSphere Client - Question #32Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator creates a virtual machine that contains the latest company-approved software, tools and security updates. Company policy requires that only full clones are allowed...
VM templatecustomization specificationfull cloneVM deployment - Question #33Architecture and Technologies
An administrator identifies a snapshot file named "Win10-000001-sesparse.vmdk" on a datastore. Which type of information can be determined about this datastore? (Choose the best an...
snapshot filesesparse.vmdkVMFS6datastore format - Question #34VMware Products and Solutions
Which feature can an administrator configure to have a copy of critical virtual machines in another cluster? (Choose the best answer.)
vSphere Replicationdisaster recoveryVM copymulti-cluster - Question #35Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator sees a virtual machine message that reads, "Consolidation is required" in the vSphere Client. Which action does ESXi take when the administrator completes snapshot...
snapshot consolidationdelta disksbase diskVM management - Question #36Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
During the staging of a patch on a vCenter Server Appliance, an error was encountered and the process stopped. An administrator resolved the root cause and is ready to continue wit...
vCenter patchingVAMIpatch stagingupgrade process - Question #37Troubleshooting and Repairing
An administrator is adding a new ESXi host to an existing vSphere cluster. When selecting the cluster, the administrator is unable to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow to add and...
Cluster QuickstartESXi host addworkflow issuevSphere Client - Question #38Architecture and Technologies
A company has two sites: Site A and Site B. The administrator would like to manage the VMware vCenter inventories in both sites from a single vSphere Client session. Which vCenter...
Enhanced Linked ModevCenter Single Sign-Onmulti-site managementvSphere Client - Question #39Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
An administrator plans to update the Supervisor cluster and has noticed some of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters are running an incompatible version. Which action must the admini...
Supervisor clusterTanzu Kubernetes Gridcluster updatecompatibility - Question #40Architecture and Technologies
Which three vSphere features are still supported for Windows-based virtual machines when enabling vSphere's virtualization-based security feature? (Choose three.)
VBSvirtualization-based securityVMware compatibilityvMotionHA - Question #41Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator wants to create virtual machine (VM) templates and store them in a content library. The administrator would like to use the content library to manage different ver...
VM templatesContent LibraryVersioningVM management - Question #42Installing, Configuring, and Setup
An administrator is tasked with configuring certificates for a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) based on the following requirements: - All certificates should use certifi...
Certificate managementVMCAEnterprise CAMachine SSL certificates - Question #43Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator wants to create a master copy of an existing virtual machine (VM) named "TestApp" and deploy VMs from this master copy whenever a user requests one. Which method c...
VM templatesVM cloningMaster imageVM deployment - Question #44Architecture and Technologies
Which feature is a prerequisite for Proactive High Availability (HA)? (Choose the best answer.)
Proactive HAvSphere HADRSPrerequisites - Question #45Administrative and Operational Tasks
A host profile is updated with a new password that urgently needs to be changed on all hosts attached to the host profile. Which option would an administrator select to complete th...
Host profilesHost complianceRemediationESXi host configuration - Question #46Administrative and Operational Tasks
An administrator manually configures a reference ESXi host that meets company security standards for vSphere environments. The administrator now needs to apply all of the security...
Host profilesESXi configurationSecurity standardsRemediation - Question #47Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades
After a recent unexplained peak in virtual machine (VM) CPU usage, an administrator is asked to monitor the VM performance for a recurrence of the issue. Which two tools can the ad...
VM performanceCPU usageMonitoring toolsvSphere Performance Charts - Question #48Installing, Configuring, and Setup
An administrator is tasked with configuring vSphere Trust Authority. The administrator has completed the following steps: - Set up the workstation - Enabled the Trust Authority Adm...
vSphere Trust AuthoritySecurityConfiguration workflowTrusted hosts - Question #49Administrative and Operational Tasks
Refer to the exhibit. An administrator set up the following configuration: - The distributed switch has three ESXi hosts, and each host has two 40 Gbps NICs. - The amount of bandwi...
vSphere Distributed SwitchNetwork I/O ControlNetwork resource poolBandwidth reservation - Question #50Troubleshooting and Repairing
A vSphere environment is experiencing intermittent short bursts of CPU contention, causing brief production outages for some of the virtual machines (VMs). To understand the cause...
CPU contentionPerformance monitoringReal-time statisticsesxtop