VCP550 Exam Questions

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

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...

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 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.)

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...

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...

The vSphere administrator needs to remove the Production virtual machine port group from an ESXi host. The ESXi host's Networking Configuration tab is shown in the exhibit. After d...

An administrator determines that when a host residing in a High Availability (HA) cluster fails, the virtual machines fail to restart on a remaining host, or will only restart afte...

What is portrayed in the performance chart?

A vSphere administrator can create an alarm on which two objects? (Choose two.)

An administrator needs to modify a virtual machine alert to increase the threshold value of the trigger. Once connected to the vCenter Server, the administrator navigates to the vi...

An administrator using vCenter Operations Manager is viewing the health of an ESXi host in the environment. There have NOT been any reported outages or issues with the ESXi host, b...

Which minor badge scores are used to calculate the Health score in vCenter Operations Manager?

A small company wants to use VMware products for its production systems. The system administrator needs to recommend a solution that will deliver High Availability to the company's...

A developer needs to create a multi-tier development stack for a home lab. Which vSphere product will support the architecture required for the least software cost?

An administrator is unable to login to vCenter Server when using the vSphere web client. The administrator successfully accessed vCenter Server using the client earlier the same da...

What is a valid plug-in status for a plug-in that has been added to a vSphere client?

An administrator is evaluating whether to deploy vCenter Server on a Windows server or on a vCenter Server appliance. The administrator has the following requirements: - A web brow...

Immediately after installing ESXi, an administrator observes that the Configure Lockdown Mode option is grayed out in the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI). What is the most lik...

An administrator is installing ESXi on several hosts attached to iSCSI storage. Why would the administrator detach the host from the IP storage network prior to installation?

During the installation of ESXi 5.5, the following error message is reported: Hardware Virtualization is not a feature of the CPU, or is not enabled in the BIOS. Which condition wo...

What is the minimum virtual machine compatibility setting required for a virtual machine to run on a vSphere 5.5 host?

An administrator is deploying vSphere 5.5. The administrator creates a vSphere Distributed Switch, then uses Auto Deploy to deploy several ESXi hosts. After the hosts are deployed,...

A virtual machine is receiving a large number of network packets, which is affecting the performance of other virtual machines connected to the same virtual network. What should th...

A virtual machine is unable to communicate with another virtual machine. Both virtual machines are connected to the Production port group on the same virtual switch and are running...

Which two statements are true regarding a new vSphere deployment that is using software FCoE boot from SAN? (Choose two.)

Which feature requires an administrator to configure an RDM with Virtual Compatibility Mode?

A virtual machine has the following configuration: - Thin provisioned virtual disks - The VMFS datastore on which it resides is on a thin provisioned LUN. - The storage array is VA...

What should an administrator do to configure multi-pathing using software iSCSI?

A vSphere administrator observes a problem with the Virtual SAN Cluster Setting as shown: Which action should the administrator take on the vmkernel portgroup on all hosts used by...

Which statement is true about the hardware configuration for ESXi hosts participating in a virtual SAN?

An administrator has configured a vSphere 5.5 test environment to evaluate the Virtual SAN feature using Automatic Mode Disk Groups. The administrator needs to disable the Virtual...

A vSphere administrator has created a Virtual SAN Cluster with Automatic Mode Disk Groups. The cluster includes three ESXi hosts contributing one SSD and six SAS disks each. The ad...

A customer needs a datastore to be seen across multiple vSphere clusters with applications inside of the virtual machines that must detect the physical characteristics of the stora...

A vSphere administrator is performing maintenance on a group of ESXi 5.5 hosts when an error message displays indicating that the ramdisk is full. The two hosts reporting the probl...

An administrator creates an ESXi cluster using vSphere Auto Deploy. The ESXi hosts are configured to get a management IP address from a DHCP server. The administrator needs to trou...

A vSphere administrator assigns VLAN 3389 to the Production port group on the VCP_DCV_Example vSphere Distributed Switch. After the change, users report a loss of connectivity to t...

Why would an administrator be unable to locate an IP address for a vSphere vmnic uplink?

Which database platform is embedded within the vApp architecture of vCenter Operations Manager?

An administrator attempts to delete a Storage Policy and receives an error. Which two object types, if assigned a Storage Policy, would prevent the Storage Policy from being delete...

An administrator has configured hardware acceleration for a Fibre Channel storage array. After a recent maintenance event, the administrator finds that cloning and migration operat...

A VMFS5 datastore shows several errors, which suggests file system corruption. Which tool could a vSphere administrator use to check the VMFS file system?

A Windows Server 2008 virtual machine with the following configuration receives an Out of Space condition indicator: - The virtual machine uses thin provisioned virtual disks. - Th...

An administrator receives the following error message: Unmanaged I/O workload detected on shared datastore. Which vSphere feature is the likely source of this error?

A vSphere administrator is configuring a fully automated DRS cluster and determines that DRS is not balancing virtual machine workloads. What condition could cause this behavior?

An organization has a HA/DRS cluster containing a mixture of ESXi 4.1 and 5.5 hosts in the cluster. An ESXi 5.5 host has failed and HA attempted but failed to restart the virtual m...