VCP550 Practice Questions
100 real VCP550 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 2 of 2.
- Question #51Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
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...
VMFS upgradeVMFS3 to VMFS5datastore expansionGPT partition - Question #52Install and Configure vCenter Server
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...
vCenter Server Appliancesession timeoutwebclient.propertiessecurity hardening - Question #53Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
What are two features provided by VMFS5? (Choose two.)
VMFS5 featuresRDM supportstorage capacitydatastore extents - Question #54Install and Configure ESXi
During the installation of ESXi, a vmkernel interface can be configured with what capabilities?
vmkernel interfacemanagement trafficESXi installationnetwork configuration - Question #55Install and Configure vCenter Server
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...
Single Sign-OnSSO multi-sitereplicationLinked-Mode - Question #56Configure and Administer vSphere Networking
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...
port blockingvSphere Distributed Switchnetwork securityport group isolation - Question #57Administer Virtual Machines
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...
Failed Boot RecoveryVM boot optionsboot device failurevirtual machine BIOS - Question #58Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
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,...
Storage DRSvSphere Replicationfeature compatibilitystorage configuration - Question #59Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
Which condition would prevent an administrator from unmounting a VMFS datastore?
VMFS unmountStorage DRSdatastore managementprerequisites - Question #60Establish and Maintain Service Levels
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...
Resource Poolresource reservationCPU allocationmemory allocation - Question #61Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
An administrator is planning a new vSphere deployment using shared storage. The solution must support: - vMotion - Storage vMotion - Fault Tolerant virtual machines - VAAI primitiv...
shared storageiSCSIVAAIRDM - Question #62Install and Configure vCenter Server
Which statement is true regarding the licensing of vCenter Server?
vCenter licensinglicense expirationVM power state - Question #63Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
Which information can the administrator use to identify iSCSI nodes?
iSCSIIQNstorage identifiers - Question #64Establish and Maintain Service Levels
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...
DPMDRS migration thresholdcluster power management - Question #65Install and Configure ESXi
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...
vSphere ClientESXi direct connectioninventory views - Question #66Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
Which action should an administrator take to increase the size of a VMFS5 datastore from 2TB to 32TB?
VMFS5datastore expansionLUNextents - Question #67Monitor a vSphere Implementation
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...
esxtopGAVGiSCSI performancestorage latency - Question #68Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
An administrator needs to configure vFlash Read Cache to improve performance. What would benefit the most from enabling vFlash Read Cache?
vFlash Read Cacheread-intensive workloadsweb server VMs - Question #69Establish and Maintain Service Levels
Why would a vSphere administrator configure resource shares for a virtual machine?
resource sharesresource contentionDRS - Question #70Establish and Maintain Service Levels
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...
HA admission controlslot sizeCPU reservationdas.slotcpuinmhz - Question #71Establish and Maintain Service Levels
What two requirements must be met to create a fully automated Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster? (Choose two.)
DRS clustervMotionshared storagecluster requirements - Question #72Install and Configure vCenter Server
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...
vSphere editionsEnterprise Plusevaluation modelicensing - Question #73Configure and Administer vSphere Networking
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...
vDSNetFlownetwork monitoringtraffic analysis - Question #74Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
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...
vSANVM storage policycompute resource association - Question #75Configure and Administer vSphere Networking
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...
EtherChannelIP hash load balancingvSwitch uplinksNIC teaming - Question #76Administer Virtual Machines
An administrator is planning a vSphere Fault Tolerance implementation for 6 virtual machines. Which two virtual disk types are supported with FT? (Choose two.)
Fault ToleranceRDM virtual compatibilityeager zeroed thickFT disk support - Question #77Perform Basic Troubleshooting
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...
Update Managermaintenance moderemovable deviceremediation - Question #78Administer Virtual Machines
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...
vAppshutdown actionVM power management - Question #79Monitor a vSphere Implementation
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...
HA alarmshost disconnectionalarm configurationevent monitoring - Question #80Perform Basic Troubleshooting
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?
management agentshostdvpxaESXi troubleshooting - Question #81Configure and Administer vSphere Networking
Why is the network configuration shown in the exhibit impossible?
vSwitch configurationvmnic sharingvirtual switch designnetwork topology - Question #82Administer Virtual Machines
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...
VMXNET3Receive Side Scalingguest network adapterWindows VM - Question #83Configure and Administer vSphere Networking
The Edit Settings wizard reports a virtual machine is configured as follows: Which setting, if NOT configured, will prevent network connectivity?
VM network settingsnetwork labelport groupvirtual NIC configuration - Question #84Monitor a vSphere Implementation
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...
vCenter Operations ManagerVM sizingcapacity reportingVirtual Machine Optimization - Question #85Establish and Maintain Service Levels
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...
vSphere HAheartbeat datastorescluster configurationdatastore connectivity - Question #86Establish and Maintain Service Levels
Which two statements accurately describes step that are taken to recover a virtual machine using vSphere Replication? (Choose two.)
vSphere ReplicationVM recoverynetwork reconfigurationdisaster recovery - Question #87Monitor a vSphere Implementation
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...
vCenter Operations Managercapacity planningcluster capacityVM capacity report - Question #88Install and Configure ESXi
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...
DCUIESXi resetsystem configurationhost reprovisioning - Question #89Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
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...
software iSCSImultipathingVMkernel adaptersubnet mismatch - Question #90Configure and Administer vSphere Networking
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...
virtual switch portsport groupDRS migrationnetwork resource exhaustion - Question #91Establish and Maintain Service Levels
Which privilege should the administrator assign to allow a user to create baselines using Update Manager?
Update Managerbaseline privilegesRBACpatch management - Question #92Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
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...
disk sharesstorage I/Oresource contentionQoS - Question #93Administer Virtual Machines
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...
vApp IP allocationstatic IP poolIP policyvApp networking - Question #94Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
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...
iSCSI storageLUN visibilitystorage rescannew LUN discovery - Question #95Establish and Maintain Service Levels
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...
CPU sharesDRS clusterresource contentionVM performance - Question #96Configure and Administer vSphere Storage
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...
Virtual SANVSAN disk groupSSD configurationcontributing member - Question #97Install and Configure vCenter Server
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?
Single Sign-OnSSO multinodepartner hostvCenter installation - Question #98Monitor a vSphere Implementation
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...
vCenter Operations Managerhealth badgeworkload anomalyperformance monitoring - Question #99Perform Basic Troubleshooting
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...
LUN maskingstorage visibilitySAN zoninghost storage access - Question #100Administer Virtual Machines
A vApp is performing poorly and an administrator determines that the memory resources are low. How should the administrator resolve this issue?
vApp memoryresource reservationvApp configurationmemory management