VCP5-DCV Exam Questions

An ESXi host's networking is configured as shown. The virtual machine named Fileserver01 is unable to ping anything on an external network: Which condition would explain this behav...

A security audit has revealed that a virtual machine on vSwitch1 is receiving all traffic sent to the virtual switch, violating corporate policy. The vSphere administrator examines...

An administrator receives notice of a large number of ARP table issues. The issues began after a maintenance window 36 hours ago. The issue did not exist prior to the maintenance w...

A SAN administrator recently installed a storage encryption switch on the Fibre Channel Fabric. Shortly after the deployment, several new VMFS5 datastores recently created were dis...

A vSphere administrator attempts to manually vMotion a virtual machine but receives error messages related to the Shared Storage datastore shown in the exhibit. The administrator u...

An administrator is using esxtop to troubleshoot a storage performance issue. Which parameter should the administrator check to monitor any storage-related vSphere overhead?

An error occurs while building a new virtual machine with a thin provisioned virtual disk size of 20GB. The datastore has 35GB of free space. The datastore is overcommitted by 95GB...

A vSphere administrator enables and configures a Software iSCSI Initiator, and configures an iSCSI vmkernel portgroup with Port Binding. The SAN administrator creates a few LUNs on...

A vSphere administrator configures a preferred heartbeat datastore in an HA/DRS cluster configuration. The vCenter Server identifies an alternative preferred datastore. Why would v...

The load is high on a HA/DRS cluster. DPM is enabled. A vSphere administrator determines that hosts are NOT powering on automatically to support the load. Which configuration would...

A virtual machine fails to migrate during a Storage DRS event. What could cause this issue?

The load on a Fully Automated HA/DRS cluster is critically unbalanced. What condition could cause this issue?

A vSphere administrator determines that more metrics are available for viewing in the realtime view than are available in the daily view for a virtual machine. What is the reason f...

A VMware administrator determines that the active memory on an ESXi 5.x host is 20% and the consumed memory is 90%. How much host memory is available to virtual machines?

The vSphere administrator needs to check the system health of an ESXi 5.x host using the vSphere Web Client. Which option in the Monitor tab should the administrator use for the se...

A vSphere administrator needs to configure the environment to send a notification to a monitored email address every time a vSphere alarm is triggered. Which procedure should the a...

Which default alarm definition will send a notification trap if the redundant storage path is lost?

Time Remaining, Capacity Remaining, and Stress are minor badges of which major badge in vCenter Operations Manager?

The vCenter Operations Manager dashboard is showing Health issues associated with the selected virtual machine. There have been no availability or configuration issues with the vir...

Which minor badge items make up the Efficiency badge score for an ESXi host in vCenter Operations Manager?

In a vSphere HA cluster what is the maximum number of point-to-point communication links to the slaves each master maintains?

An administrator is planning a vSphere infrastructure with the following specific networking requirements: - The ability to shape inbound (RX) traffic - Support for Private VLANs (...

What two IT infrastructure components are virtualized by vSphere Essentials? (Choose two.)

An administrator attempts to install vCenter Single Sign-On Server. The installer returns an error message indicating that the installation failed. Prior to the installation, all s...

Which Single Sign-On deployment mode should an administrator use for two 5.x vCenter Servers configured with linked mode?

Which two statements below could explain why the vSphere Client is reporting N/A for hyperthreading? (Choose two.) The physical CPUs in the host do not support hyperthreading.

Immediately after installing an ESXi host, an administrator needs to examine the following log files: /var/log/hostd.log /var/log/vmkernel.log /var/log/vpxa.log Which two connectio...

An administrator is upgrading a vSphere Distributed Switch. The existing switch is version 5.0 and the administrator wants to upgrade to the latest version possible. The environmen...

To avoid unnecessary planned downtime, what is the minimum version of VMware Tools that, if installed, will decrease the need for virtual machine reboots following VMware Tools upg...

Which two Identity Sources are available to add for vCenter Single Sign-On authentication? (Choose two.)

Which VLAN configuration requires switch connectivity defined as an access port?

An administrator needs to deploy several virtual machines. Storage contention between the virtual machines should be managed by the VMkernel. Some of the virtual machines will use...

Which two precautions should a vSphere administrator take before increasing the size of a VMFS datastore? (Choose two.)

What action should the vSphere administrator take to allow for a new vApp to be created in the cluster?

A system administrator is unable to clone a windows 2008 server while connected directly to an ESXi host through vSphere Client. Which two methods can be used to complete the task?...

A vSphere administrator receives a report of an issue with a vApp. After connecting to the environment with the vSphere Client, the administrator does not see the vApp, but instead...

An administrator needs to create and provision new virtual machines from a master image that can not be edited or powered on. Which type of resource is most appropriate for the adm...

A vSphere administrator is unable to vMotion a virtual machine between two hosts. An error message indicates that the USB device is not accessible on the target host. What is causi...

A vSphere administrator needs to configure a virtual machine to meet a guaranteed CPU performance profile. Which configuration setting could the administrator choose?

An organization's datastores are configured in a fully automated Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) cluster. The vSphere administrator determines that virtual machines a...

A vSphere administrator enables Fault Tolerance on a powered off virtual machine that has the following configuration: - The virtual machine's single thin provisioned virtual disk...

While testing a Fault Tolerance setup on a virtual machine, a system administrator notices that the DRS automation level of the virtual machine has been automatically set to Disabl...

A vSphere administrator has misconfigured vMotion in such a way that vMotion migrations are failing. Based on the information shown, what is the cause of the problem?

A system administrator detects that a VDP Appliance that has been operational for 6 months has become inconsistent or unstable. Which action should the administrator take to recove...

Which two features are different between VDP and VDPA? (Choose two.)

An administrator must determine which Update Manager procedures can be performed using the vSphere Web Client, and which must be completed using the Windows vSphere client. Which t...

A vSphere administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager to perform orchestrated upgrades of virtual machines. Which two options are available for virtual machine remediation? (...

Which two are supported object types for Update Manager? (Choose two.)

A vSphere administrator needs a way of sending noncritical ESXi events to a remote server. Due to budget constraints, no additional costs should be incurred. Which tool will best m...

An administrator determines that traffic shaping does not appear to be working on Production, a virtual machine port group on vSwitch1. Traffic shaping is working on all other port...