VCP5-DCV Exam Questions

A vSphere administrator has created a vSphere Standard Switch with one virtual machine port group and one physical uplink. The administrator needs to ensure that the virtual machin...

A vSphere administrator needs to add redundancy to an ESXi 5.x management network on a vSphere Standard Switch. Which method should the administrator use to create redundant manage...

An administrator is building a new vSphere Standard Switch with two active uplinks. The physical switch ports for these uplinks are placed in an etherchannel. Which load balancing...

Which two traffic types can be enabled on the VMkernel adapters of an ESXi 5.5 host using the vSphere Web Client? (Choose two.)

An organization is designing a new vSphere cluster to support a new product implementation. The following challenges have been identified by the vSphere administration team: - The...

Users accessing the WinXP virtual machine shown in the exhibit report intermittent connectivity to the corporate network. The configuration is as follows: - This virtual machine ru...

An administrator needs to deploy a vSphere solution containing a number of hosts and a vSphere Distributed Switch. Which steps should the administrator take to accomplish this?

An administrator is migrating 135 virtual machines from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed switch. The migration reports an error and only some of the virtual machi...

A vSphere administrator needs to perform packet tracing from a Linux virtual machine. The virtual machine is attached to a vSphere Standard Switch configured with several VLANs. Wh...

Which configuration will block communication between two virtual machines on the same DMZ network?

An administrator has configured multi-pathing using an Fiber Channel array in an active-active configuration. What is the expected behavior of an ESXi host when a failed preferred...

An administrator is deploying vSphere using a NAS device as the shared storage system. The administrator has already created a VMkernel port, enabled the NFS client, and configured...

An administrator is considering using NPIV to assign WWNs to virtual machines. Virtual machine portability is a major concern. Why would NPIV be inappropriate for this deployment?

An administrator of a secure environment needs to add an iSCSI target to a new ESXi host using the vSphere client. The administrator has configured discovery and performed a rescan...

An administrator has created a Virtual SAN Cluster using Automatic Mode Disk Groups. There is very little storage space left in the cluster. The administrator has access to an iSCS...

A vSphere administrator needs to place an ESXi host in maintenance mode to replace a hardware component. This host is a member of a Virtual SAN cluster that uses Automatic Mode Dis...

Which field should an administrator add to a Virtual SAN Disk Group under the Device Backing settings to monitor the health of disks in the Disk Group?

What is a characteristic of Virtual SAN?

Which two steps can an administrator take to upgrade an existing VMFS2 datastore to VMFS5? (Choose two.)

A customer needs to select an appropriate Path Selection Policy (PSP) for their storage array. There is no requirement for a preferred path. The policy should not select a new path...

An administrator needs to unmount a datastore that is also used for HA storage heartbeats. What is the least disruptive method for an administrator to perform this activity on a sl...

When deploying two sibling resource pools (RP1 and RP2), an administrator needs to make all resources in RP1 available to virtual machines in RP2. Which configuration should the ad...

Which controller is recommended for high disk I/O workloads?

An administrator needs to migrate a company's physical servers to virtual servers and deploy into the ESXi 5.x cluster. During the process of converting to a virtual machine, the a...

Which steps should an administrator take to migrate existing ESXi 5.x virtual machines to a storage over-subscription model?

An administrator needs to manage a virtual machine that cannot be accessed directly from an external network. Which solution should the administrator choose?

A vSphere administrator deleted a vApp from disk. A second administrator needs the virtual machines that were contained in the vApp. What should the first administrator do to make...

A vSphere Administrator has a multi-tier application deployed in a vApp. The administrator needs to rapidly deploy copies of the multi-tier application to various departmental infr...

The bandwidth between two sites is too slow to transfer large virtual machine files. The administrator needs to export a virtual machine to OVF to reduce the size of the transfer....

A system administrator is deploying a Windows virtual machine from a template and needs the IP address to be customized automatically. How should the administrator configure the IP...

An administrator needs to establish that a database server is entitled to twice the CPU resources than a web server during CPU resource contention. Which settings should the admini...

What should an administrator do to identify compliance for virtual machine storage performance?

During a physical network reconfiguration, an ESXi host briefly lost connection to the management network. High Availability (HA) began powering off the virtual machines residing o...

A vSphere administrator needs to increase the capacity of an existing Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) datastore cluster. The storage administrator has provisioned two...

A Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster is displaying a message that recommends the migration of virtual machines, even though the cluster is currently balanced. What is the...

Which workflow should the administrator follow to create a High Availability (HA) cluster?

A vSphere administrator attempts to move a powered on virtual machine into a resource pool that is configured in an HA/DRS cluster. The operation fails. What condition would cause...

An administrator removes a virtual machine from a resource pool and places it in the DRS root resource pool. Users report the performance of the application running on the virtual...

An application team is implementing a new solution in the virtualized environment. The application vendor states the application is memory intensive. The application is very unstab...

What will cause the validation of a vMotion migration to fail?

A vSphere administrator is attempting to migrate a virtual machine, but the progress bar for the migration remains at 10%. Which issue could be preventing the vMotion migration?

An administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one datastore to another, but the virtual machine has a snapshot. The virtual machine is running on an ESXi 5.x host. Which...

How is changed block tracking (CBT) used in a vSphere implementation?

Which vSphere feature creates a copy of a virtual machine that can be stored locally within a cluster or at another site, and provides the ability to rapidly restore a virtual mach...

An administrator is attempting to use Update Manager to patch a cluster of ESXi 5.x hosts. The administrator needs to stage the patches for a scheduled update after hours. When ver...

The administrator has deployed a third-party virtual appliance in the organization's vSphere environment and needs to use Update Manager to maintain the third-party appliance. How...

For security reasons, SSH and the ESXi Shell have been disabled on a standalone ESXi 5.x host. A vSphere administrator accesses the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to examine...

An administrator needs to export system logs for an ESXi 5.5 host to determine the root cause for a host performance issue. This host supports manifest-driven exports of system log...

An ESXi 5.x host disconnects within 60 seconds after the administrator adds it to the vCenter Server inventory. The administrator determines that the issue could be related to a ne...

An administrator adds an ESXi 5.x host to the inventory of a vCenter Server that is configured with a vSphere Distributed Switch. The vSphere Web Client indicates that the host is...