VCP550D Exam Questions

An organization is designing a new vSphere cluster to support a new product implementation. The following challenges have been identified by the vSphere administration team: - The...

Users accessing the WinXP virtual machine shown in the exhibit report intermittent connectivity to the corporate network. The configuration is as follows: - This virtual machine ru...

An administrator needs to deploy a vSphere solution containing a number of hosts and a vSphere Distributed Switch. Which steps should the administrator take to accomplish this?

An administrator is migrating 135 virtual machines from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed switch. The migration reports an error and only some of the virtual machi...

A vSphere administrator needs to perform packet tracing from a Linux virtual machine. The virtual machine is attached to a vSphere Standard Switch configured with several VLANs. Wh...

Which configuration will block communication between two virtual machines on the same DMZ network?

An administrator has configured multi-pathing using an Fiber Channel array in an active- active configuration. What is the expected behavior of an ESXi host when a failed preferred...

An administrator is deploying vSphere using a NAS device as the shared storage system. The administrator has already created a VMkernel port, enabled the NFS client, and configured...

An administrator is considering using NPIV to assign WWNs to virtual machines. Virtual machine portability is a major concern. Why would NPIV be inappropriate for this deployment?

An administrator of a secure environment needs to add an iSCSI target to a new ESXi host using the vSphere client. The administrator has configured discovery and performed a rescan...

Which field should an administrator add to a Virtual SAN Disk Group under the Device Backing settings to monitor the health of disks in the Disk Group?

An administrator has created a Virtual SAN Cluster using Automatic Mode Disk Groups. There is very little storage space left in the cluster. The administrator has access to an iSCS...

A vSphere administrator needs to place an ESXi host in maintenance mode to replace a hardware component. This host is a member of a Virtual SAN cluster that uses Automatic Mode Dis...

An administrator is attempting to deploy a virtual machine from an existing template, but deploy Virtual Machine from this template menu option is unavailable. What are two reasons...

Which two features secure the VMkernel? (Choose two)

Which two settings are required by the deployment wizard when installing the VMware vCenter Server Appliance? (Choose two)

Which predefined vCenter Server role can perform tasks on ESXi host objects?

When deploying two sibling resource pools (RP1 and RP2), an administrator needs to make all resources in RP1 available to virtual machines in RP2. Which configuration should the ad...

Which controller is recommended for high disk I/O workloads?

An administrator needs to migrate a company's physical servers to virtual servers and deploy into the ESXi 5.x cluster. During the process of converting to a virtual machine, the a...

Which steps should an administrator take to migrate existing ESXi 5.x virtual machines to a storage over-subscription model?

An administrator needs to manage a virtual machine that cannot be accessed directly from an external network. Which solution should the administrator choose?

A vSphere administrator deleted a vApp from disk. A second administrator needs the virtual machines that were contained in the vApp. What should the first administrator do to make...

A vSphere Administrator has a multi-tier application deployed in a vApp. The administrator needs to rapidly deploy copies of the multi-tier application to various departmental infr...

The bandwidth between two sites is too slow to transfer large virtual machine files. The administrator needs to export a virtual machine to OVF to reduce the size of the transfer....

A system administrator is deploying a Windows virtual machine from a template and needs the IP address to be customized automatically. How should the administrator configure the IP...

An administrator needs to establish that a database server is entitled to twice the CPU resources than a web server during CPU resource contention. Which settings should the admini...

What should an administrator do to identify compliance for virtual machine storage performance?

During a physical network reconfiguration, an ESXi host briefly lost connection to the management network. High Availability (HA) began powering off the virtual machines residing o...

A vSphere administrator needs to increase the capacity of an existing Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) datastore cluster. The storage administrator has provisioned two...

Which vSphere feature creates a copy of a virtual machine that can be stored locally within a cluster or at another site, and provides the ability to rapidly restore a virtual mach...

An administrator is attempting to use Update Manager to patch a cluster of ESXi 5.x hosts. The administrator needs to stage the patches for a scheduled update after hours. When ver...

The administrator has deployed a third-party virtual appliance in the organization's vSphere environment and needs to use Update Manager to maintain the third-party appliance. How...

For security reasons, SSH and the ESXi Shell have been disabled on a standalone ESXi 5.x host. A vSphere administrator accesses the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to examine...

An administrator needs to export system logs for an ESXi 5.5 host to determine the root cause for a host performance issue. This host supports manifest-driven exports of system log...

An ESXi 5.x host disconnects within 60 seconds after the administrator adds it to the vCenter Server inventory. The administrator determines that the issue could be related to a ne...

An administrator adds an ESXi 5.x host to the inventory of a vCenter Server that is configured with a vSphere Distributed Switch. The vSphere Web Client indicates that the host is...

An ESXi host's networking is configured as shown. The virtual machine named Fileserver01 is unable to ping anything on an external network: Which condition would explain this behav...

An administrator receives notice of a large number of ARP table issues. The issues began after a maintenance window 36 hours ago. The issue did not exist prior to the maintenance w...

A security audit has revealed that a virtual machine on vSwitch1 is receiving all traffic sent to the virtual switch, violating corporate policy. The vSphere administrator examines...

A vSphere administrator attempts to manually vMotion a virtual machine but receives error messages related to the Shared Storage datastore shown in the exhibit. The administrator u...

A SAN administrator recently installed a storage encryption switch on the Fibre Channel Fabric. Shortly after the deployment, several new VMFS5 datastores recently created were dis...

An administrator is using esxtop to troubleshoot a storage performance issue. Which parameter should the administrator check to monitor any storage-related vSphere overhead?

An error occurs while building a new virtual machine with a thin provisioned virtual disk size of 20GB. The datastore has 35GB of free space. The datastore is overcommitted by 95GB...

A vSphere administrator enables and configures a Software iSCSI Initiator, and configures an iSCSI vmkernel portgroup with Port Binding. The SAN administrator creates a few LUNs on...

A vSphere administrator configures a preferred heartbeat datastore in an HA/DRS cluster configuration. The vCenter Server identifies an alternative preferred datastore. Why would v...

The load is high on a HA/DRS cluster. DPM is enabled. A vSphere administrator determines that hosts are NOT powering on automatically to support the load. Which configuration would...

A virtual machine fails to migrate during a Storage DRS event. What could cause this issue?

The load on a Fully Automated HA/DRS cluster is critically unbalanced. What condition could cause this issue?

A vSphere administrator determines that more metrics are available for viewing in the realtime view than are available in the daily view for a virtual machine. What is the reason f...