VCP550D 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?...

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...

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

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 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?

Which is the simplest baseline group combination an administrator could create to upgrade hosts, VMware tools, and virtual machine hardware to the latest versions using Update Mana...

During an upgrade, the ESXi 5.x installer finds an existing version of ESXi and a VMFS3 volume. No virtual machines exist on the host or VMFS3 volume. The requirement is to upgrade...

The vSphere administrator attempts to connect to an ESXi host via an SSH client and receives the following security alert: The vSphere administrator needs to determine whether the...

What happens to the status of users already logged into ESXi Shell when a vSphere administrator enables lockdown mode?

The vSphere administrator is configuring directory services for an ESXi host: What should the vSphere administrator do to configure the host to use CAM services?

What are two benefits of virtual compatibility mode for RDMs, as compared to physical compatibility mode? (Choose two)

Which resource management technique can be used to relieve a network bottleneck by a virtual machine with occasional high outbound network activity?

Under which two situations does the dead space reclamation feature VAAI Thin Provisioning offer the ability to reclaim blocks of a thin provisional LUN on a array? (Choose two)

An administrator receives a complaint that a virtual machine is performing poorly. The user attributes the issue to poor storage performance. If the storage array is the bottleneck...

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...

A vSphere administrator creates a new vSphere Distributed Switch. The administrator receives notice from the service desk that a cluster of vSphere hosts has disconnected from vCen...

A vSphere administrator is administering a vSphere Distributed Switch port group using the vSphere Web Client. The port group was configured using Static binding, but the number of...

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...

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...

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

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...

The current block size of a datastore in VMFS3 is 4MB. An administrator needs to upgrade the datastore to VMFS5 and wants to change it to 1MB block size. Which action should the ad...

An administrator needs to use guest OS clustering in a vSphere environment that uses a Fibre Channel SAN. The clustering software does NOT have a SCSI target or a SCSI command pass...

Which two CPU features enable the use of 64-bit virtual machines? (Choose two.)

An administrator is creating a new VMFS volume and needs to make it available to all hosts within a datacenter using the Web Client. What should the administrator scan for in order...

An administrator is deploying a virtual machine from a template. Assuming all of the inventory objects below exist in the implementation, what is the highest level in the vCenter S...

Which statement is accurate when choosing the storage controller for a virtual machine using the Create New Virtual Machine wizard in custom mode?