VCP550 Practice Questions

A vSphere administrator needs to upgrade a single extent VMFS3 datastore to VMFS5 and expand it to 4TB in size. The storage administrator has already expanded the underlying LUN to...

To comply with security requirements, an administrator with a vCenter Server Appliance needs to force logoff of the vSphere web client after 10 minutes of inactivity. What should t...

What are two features provided by VMFS5? (Choose two.)

During the installation of ESXi, a vmkernel interface can be configured with what capabilities?

As part of a multisite Single Sign-On (SSO) deployment what two steps are required to ensure that a change to one Single Sign-On instance is propagated to the other instances? (Cho...

A network auditing team has observed activity from a virtual machine that may be an organization policy security breach. The vSphere administrator needs to stop network traffic fro...

A server administrator reports that a virtual machine has displayed the following message twice in the past 12 months: No boot device found Which virtual machine boot option should...

An administrator is using vSphere Replication to replicate a number of virtual machines to a recovery site. The administrator plans on enabling Storage DRS on the production site,...

Which condition would prevent an administrator from unmounting a VMFS datastore?

A system administrator needs to control the allocation of memory and CPU resources to an organization's Finance team. The vSphere environment is built on a single cluster of ESXi h...

An administrator is planning a new vSphere deployment using shared storage. The solution must support: - vMotion - Storage vMotion - Fault Tolerant virtual machines - VAAI primitiv...

Which statement is true regarding the licensing of vCenter Server?

Which information can the administrator use to identify iSCSI nodes?

A vSphere administrator notices that hosts are not powering off when the total cluster load is low on a cluster configured with Dynamic Power Management. What condition could cause...

A vSphere administrator installs an ESXi host and creates a virtual machine, then installs vCenter Server. Upon connecting to the environment, the administrator notices that severa...

Which action should an administrator take to increase the size of a VMFS5 datastore from 2TB to 32TB?

A user has submitted a trouble ticket complaining that the email server VM has become very sluggish. After looking at the logs, the vSphere administrator suspects the iSCSI network...

An administrator needs to configure vFlash Read Cache to improve performance. What would benefit the most from enabling vFlash Read Cache?

Why would a vSphere administrator configure resource shares for a virtual machine?

A vSphere administrator manages a three host cluster with 20 VMs. The HA cluster is configured with the Host Failures the Cluster Tolerates admission control policy and all other s...

What two requirements must be met to create a fully automated Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster? (Choose two.)

A vSphere administrator has been using vSphere in evaluation mode and now wants to deploy an environment that provides the same features. Which edition of vSphere provides similar...

An application administrator reports application slowness when loading the application's web portal. The virtual machine is currently connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch. The...

A vSphere administrator created a Virtual SAN and a relevant virtual machine Storage Policy. The administrator is unable to select this virtual machine Storage Policy when creating...

The administrator needs to modify the problematic configuration shown in the exhibit to meet the following requirements: 1. Uplink ports must connect to a 2-port Etherchannel conne...

An administrator is planning a vSphere Fault Tolerance implementation for 6 virtual machines. Which two virtual disk types are supported with FT? (Choose two.)

When a vSphere administrator attempts to remediate a host with Update Manager, the host is unable to enter maintenance mode. Which condition is likely preventing the host from ente...

While shutting down a vApp for maintenance, a vSphere administrator determines that one of the virtual machines stays powered on. The administrator manually powers off the virtual...

An administrator needs to create an alarm to monitor when a specific ESXi host in an HA/DRS cluster becomes disconnected from other vSphere components like HA agents or the vCenter...

An ESXi 5.x host is unable to connect to a vCenter 5.x server. Which commands should an administrator use to restart the management agents on the host?

Why is the network configuration shown in the exhibit impossible?

An administrator is unable to configure Receive Side Scaling on the vmnic driver in a Windows 2008 R2 guest. Based on the exhibit, what would need to be modified to enable this opt...

The Edit Settings wizard reports a virtual machine is configured as follows: Which setting, if NOT configured, will prevent network connectivity?

An administrator needs to provide a report that will help managers better understand how all of their virtual machines are sized. Which report within vCenter Operations Manager sho...

The following error displays during the final step of the configuration for a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster attached to five datastores: The number of heartbeat datastores...

Which two statements accurately describes step that are taken to recover a virtual machine using vSphere Replication? (Choose two.)

An administrator needs to provide a report that shows how many virtual machines can be added to an existing vSphere environment. Which report within vCenter Operations Manager meet...

An administrator is re-provisioning an ESXi host and moving it to another datacenter. Which DCUI option should the administrator use to revert the system configuration to the defau...

Using the vSphere Web Client to display Software iSCSI Initiator properties reveals that one of two configured paths is Not Used. The ESXi syslog events are as shown: What is the r...

A number of virtual machines in a vSphere 5.5 DRS cluster are connected to the same virtual switch port group. After several of these VMs are migrated to another host, an administr...

Which privilege should the administrator assign to allow a user to create baselines using Update Manager?

A VMware administrator determines that a low priority virtual machine is negatively affecting the disk I/O performance of a higher priority virtual machine. The virtual machines ar...

An administrator needs to create an IP allocation policy for a multi-tiered application running in a vApp. The IP addresses should be allocated automatically by vCenter Server, but...

A new LUN has been created on an iSCSI array and assigned to an ESXi 5.x server . However, when the administrator logs in to the vSphere Web Client the LUN is not visible. Other LU...

An administrator decreases the CPU share value for two virtual machines in a DRS cluster from 1000 to 100 shares. The DRS cluster contains more resources than both virtual machines...

A vSphere administrator needs to add more space to an existing 3-node Virtual SAN cluster. The attempts to add the new host to the cluster as a contributing member have failed. How...

An administrator is preparing to install an additional Single Sign-On node on a stand-alone server. What information is required during the installation routine?

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

A new LUN from an existing storage array is presented to a vSphere cluster. A vSphere administrator determines that the LUN is visible on all but one ESXi host in the cluster. The...

A vApp is performing poorly and an administrator determines that the memory resources are low. How should the administrator resolve this issue?