VMware VMWare Data Center Virtualization vSphere 5 VCAD510 Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  You have completed a vSphere deployment for your customer. They have a very critical application that they are concerned about minimizing data loss from a site-level disaster. Which technology offers a possible solution?

  A. vSphere Replication

  B. Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

  C. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

  D. vCenter Virtual Appliance (vCVA)

  Correct Answer: A

  

• Question 2:

  Your email server lives on a storage array, but performance is not adequate. You can't afford a new array or to replace the drives in the array, but need better performance for your email server which is searched frequently. Which feature will provide the needed performance boost?

  A. vFlash

  B. vSAN

  C. VSA

  D. Storage vMotion

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features-vmotion

• Question 3:

  You are planning to perform hardware maintenance on one of your ESXi hosts. It is currently running several Virtual Machines that you do not wish to power off. Which vCenter feature will allow you to perform this maintenance without disrupting the VMs?

  A. vMotion

  B. High Availability

  C. vSphere Replication

  D. vSphere Distributed Switch

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features-vmotion

• Question 4:

  You are planning a large virtualization project and are concerned that a physical server will cause a prolonged outage until help desk calls are received and all VMs restarted. How can the restart of VMs after a failure be automated?

  A. Fault Tolerance (FT)

  B. High Availability (HA)

  C. Data Protection

  D. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

  Correct Answer: B

  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-High-Availability-DS-EN.pdf

• Question 5:

  You work in a large datacenter with hundreds of ESXi hosts managed by a vCenter server. Your IT consultant has advised you to use Distributed Power Management (DPM). What does it do?

  A. Automatically powers off ESXi hosts during non-peak hours.

  B. Regulates the power usage of the virtual machines on each ESXi host.

  C. Automatically powers off Virtual Machines during non-peak hours.

  D. Regulates the power consumption of the ESXi host's processors.

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Distributed-Power-Management-vSphere.pdf

• Question 6:

  You are describing virtual machines to your manager. He asks you how virtual machines communicate on the network. Which of the following statements is true?

  A. Virtual machines require special hardware network cards to communicate on the physical network.

  B. Virtual machines are always directly connected to a physical network card in your ESXi host.

  C. Virtual machines are unable to communicate on the physical network.

  D. Virtual machines use virtual network cards from VMware to communicate on the physical network.

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/virtualization-coach/understanding-vmware-commonnetworking-terminology/ (see bridged networking)

• Question 7:

  What vCenter feature does Storage DRS use to automate the load balancing of virtual machine storage?

  A. vMotion

  B. High Availability

  C. Storage vMotion

  D. Fault Tolerance

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: http://labs.vmware.com/vmtj/storage-drs-automated-management-of-storage-devices-in-avirtualized-datacenter

• Question 8:

  You are the VMware Administrator for the local city government. When you arrive at your desk, you find that there are several alarms referring to an outage caused by an overnight driver update. When you ask your colleagues about the driver update, no one seems to know anything about it. Which solution will help in determining the problem?

  A. A PowerShell script to gather hardware driver versioning information

  B. vCenter Configuration Manager (vCCM)

  C. The vCenter Virtual Appliance

  D. vProtect

  Correct Answer: B

  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-configuration-manager/features.html

• Question 9:

  Your manager is concerned that there are too many physical servers to be managed by a single vCenter instance. What can you tell her to reassure her about the scalability of vCenter?

  A. vCenter can manage up to 1,000 physical servers and 10,000 virtual machines

  B. vCenter can manage up to 3,000 physical servers and 30,000 virtual machines

  C. vCenter is used only to manage an ESXi server on a one-to-one basis

  D. vCenter can manage up to 5,000 physical ESXi servers and 25,000 virtual machines

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server/features.html (see scalable and extensible platform)

• Question 10:

  You are planning to use shared storage for your evaluation of vSphere. Your colleague is describing a storage topology that can be built on a dedicated, 4Gbps, 8Gbps, or 16Gbps network composed of two fabrics for redundancy. What is the name of this type of shared storage?

  A. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

  B. Fibre Channel

  C. NFS

  D. iSCSI

  Correct Answer: B