VCP550D Exam Questions

A VMware administrator needs to simplify the placement of virtual machines. The administrator also needs to balance I/O load and space utilization automatically. Which combination...

An administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tiered application and needs to configure custom startup actions for each virtual machine. What should the administrator do to enabl...

A vSphere administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tier application. Every time the vApp is started, the virtual machines perform a file system check. Which action should the a...

An administrator needs to configure a Linux virtual machine template to support guest customization. The administrator has installed VMware Tools. Which additional component is nec...

A VMware administrator needs to export a vApp and create a self-contained package that has a single file. Which format should the administrator use?

A vSphere administrator needs the ability to adjust the amount of guaranteed physical CPU and Memory resources to a virtual machine without incurring application downtime. Which ac...

A system administrator has an application installed on a physical machine that is licensed to the MAC address of the physical NIC. This system needs to be virtualized. What two met...

An administrator needs to prevent two virtual machines from running on the same host at any time. Which DRS rule should the administrator apply?

A vSphere administrator needs to enable Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) in an existing vSphere environment: - The environment contains a High Availability (HA) cluster with e...

An organization's wants to ensure that if a host in a High Availability (HA) cluster fails, critical virtual machines resume operation even if there are insufficient resources to c...

A vSphere administrator needs to reconfigure the Distributed Power Management (DPM) threshold to be more aggressive. Where should the administrator edit the settings of DPM in the...

An administrator has created a Virtual Flash Read Cache and needs to add a total 2TB of capacity to the cache. The administrator has a total of six SSD disks to add, but is unable...

A DRS cluster has been created with the following specifications: - All mission critical virtual machines are in the root resource pool. - All other virtual machines are placed int...

A vSphere administrator needs to temporarily disable DRS on a cluster containing a resource pool hierarchy. Which procedure should the administrator follow to preserve the resource...

A vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine to another datastore and host without disrupting virtual machine users. Which technique should the vSphere administrator...

A vSphere administrator needs to enable Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine. When performing a Storage vMotion migration, which setting should the vSphere administrator change in...

The vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one host to another. The virtual machine .vswp file resides in local storage. Which two techniques can the adminis...

A customer needs to size a single backup appliance for backing up 3TB of data. There is no requirement for guest level backups of SQL and Exchange. What is the minimum VMware Data...

Which tool should an administrator use to modify vSphere Data Protection (VDP) backup jobs?

An administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager to perform orchestrated upgrades of ESXi hosts and virtual machines. The vSphere management components reside in a secure envir...

An administrator needs to use vSphere Update Manager for the initial deployment of VMware Tools on a group of newly created virtual machines. When the administrator scans the objec...

An administrator is installing ESXi 5.x to a local SAS drive. The installation stops on a purple screen and shows the error: The system has found a problem on your machine and cann...

A vSphere administrator finds a HA/DRS cluster status has turned RED indicating a degraded state. What is the likely reason for the indication?

What is indicated by the performance chart shown?

An administrator needs to use performance information from Windows virtual machines to better understand their effect on the vSphere 5.x hosts on which they run. What must the admi...

A vSphere administrator receives a request to capture the state of a virtual machine six times a day. Which procedure will satisfy the requirement with the least amount of administ...

What action should an administrator take to store ESXi 5.x host system logs centrally?

An administrator needs to configure an alarm that notifies administrators if an application is impacted by overcommitment of memory resources. The environment consists of 100 virtu...

An administrator using vCenter Operations Manager notices an increase in resource consumption by virtual machines over a period of time. The administrator needs to understand how a...

The virtual machine Fileserver01 shown in the exhibit can not ping anything on the Internet. Why is Fileserver01 unable to connect to the Internet?

An administrator needs to know the estimated time remaining on a virtual machine that is hosting a critical accounting application given current assigned resources such as memory,...

An application server has been added to an existing multi-tier application contained in a vApp. Shortly after a planned maintenance event, users are unable to access the applicatio...

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 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...

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

What is the purpose of configuring a VMkernel port for Fault Tolerance logging?

A vSphere administrator has configured a virtual machine alarm to trigger a warning when the condition Snapshot Size exceeds 1GB. Which action should the administrator configure on...

A vSphere administrator is attempting to upgrade an ESXi host using vSphere Update Manager. The administrator has attached the baseline and remediated the host. Update Manager repo...

The vSphere administrator needs to migrate a virtual machine from one ESXi 5.5 host to another ESXi 5.5 host. The virtual machine has a virtual disk that is stored in local storage...

A vSphere administrator needs to add a CPU to a virtual machine, but upon editing the VM settings the option is grayed out. What would explain this behavior?