VCP550D Exam Questions

A host in a 4-node HA\DRS cluster has failed. HA initiates restart tasks for the virtual machines on the remaining hosts in the cluster but half of them fail to restart. What is th...

An administrator needs to install vSphere Update Manager using an external SQL Server 2008 R2 database. The administrator has created the database successfully, but cannot establis...

While troubleshooting a crash event on an ESXi 5.x host, an administrator determines the log files related to the event are NOT present. Which action should the administrator take...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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

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 LUN...

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?

Which information does the CPU Ready counter provide to a vSphere administrator?

Which Web service is installed during the vCenter Server installation?

A vSphere administrator has a 4 host DRS cluster with plans to grow to 8 hosts. During a vMotion migration, the following error is displayed: What action could be taken to resolve...

A large aerospace company utilizes a mission critical application requiring a large database server with 16 vCPUs and 500GB of RAM. Because of the critical nature of the applicatio...

A large medical institution needs to centralize malware and anti-virus scanning in its environment. Which vSphere component will satisfy this requirement?

An administrator is setting up a new vSphere environment for application development with health monitoring and capacity management. The administrator has purchased three servers f...

What is the correct order to install vCenter Server 5.x components?

What is not a supported method for increasing the availability of a vCenter Server virtual machine?

An administrator has deployed vSphere Data Protection and wants to configure several virtual machine backup jobs. When using the vSphere client on a Windows 7 desktop, the administ...

An administrator needs to continue using ESXi after the 60-day evaluation period expires. The administrator has obtained a valid license from VMware. Which step must the administra...

How should a vSphere administrator disable memory compression?

Which installation method is not available for a new deployment of ESXi 5.x?

Which VMware Tools upgrade method minimizes the need for scheduled downtime?

Before upgrading from vCenter 4.x to 5.x, an administrator runs the vCenter Host Agent Pre- Upgrade Checker. The Checker reports an issue. What would cause the vCenter Host Agent P...

An organization has a cluster of 6 ESXi hosts. Security policy requires that all administrative activity occurs through vCenter Server and not directly on the hosts. Which action s...

An administrator needs to join several ESXi hosts in the environment to the corporate Active Directory instance. The container and path for the OU is Servers\VMware. The FQDN of th...

An administrator needs to implement trusted SSL certificates for all vCenter 5.5 components. Which component needs an SSL certificate?

The oncall system administrator has made a change on the ESXi host requiring a restart of the management network. Lockdown mode is enabled. Which action should the administrator ta...

A vSphere administrator has created a vSphere Standard Switch with one virtual machine port group and one physical uplink. The administrator needs to ensure that the virtual machin...

A vSphere administrator needs to add redundancy to an ESXi 5.x management network on a vSphere Standard Switch. Which method should the administrator use to create redundant manage...

An administrator is building a new vSphere Standard Switch with two active uplinks. The physical switch ports for these uplinks are placed in an etherchannel. Which load balancing...

Which two traffic types can be enabled on the VMkernel adapters of an ESXi 5.5 host using the vSphere Web Client? (Choose two.)