VMware VCAD510 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

VMware VCAD510 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  You are planning to evaluate vSphere but you presently have no shared storage devices. Which of the following vCenter features will function without shared storage?

  A. vMotion
  B. Distributed Power Management (DPM)
  C. High Availability (HA)
  D. Fault Tolerance (FT)
  A. vMotion

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  Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/09/vmotion-without-shared-storage-requirement- does- it-have-a-name.html (third para)

• Question 32:

  Your organization has a cluster of ESXi hosts that all have local storage devices, including Solid State Drives. You wish to take advantage of this storage for your VMs, but you don't want to sacrifice the vSphere abilities granted by having shared storage. Which of the following is an appropriate solution?

  A. Use Storage DRS to create a cluster of the local datastores
  B. Use Storage vMotion to move the VMs to local datastores
  C. Implement Storage I/O Control on the local datastores
  D. vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)
  D. vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)

• Question 33:

  You have been asked by your supervisor to define some virtualization terms for her. She has asked about the difference between a bare-metal hypervisor and a host-based hypervisor. What can you tell her?

  A. The bare-metal hypervisor is installed directly on the physical hardware, just like any other operating system
  B. The host-based hypervisor is used to virtualize server operating systems and server-based applications only.
  C. The bare-metal hypervisor can only be used with 32-bit hardware
  D. The host-based hypervisor is used when you want to virtualize UNIX and Linux-based applications.
  A. The bare-metal hypervisor is installed directly on the physical hardware, just like any other operating system

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  Reference: http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/Understanding-hosted-and-bare-metal- virtualization-hypervisor-types

• Question 34:

  What is an availability challenge that vSphere can address?

  A. Virtual machines can be patched anytime
  B. Virtual machines are protected against power outages
  C. Hardware upgrades can only be done after hours
  D. Non-disruptive virtual machine backups
  D. Non-disruptive virtual machine backups

• Question 35:

  Your company is very cyclical in nature, with periods of very high demand and periods of very low demand. You've heard that Distributed Power Management (DPM) may be helpful in saving money. What function does DPM perform?

  A. Suspends idle VMs.
  B. Moves VMs onto fewer servers during periods of low demand, shutting the others off and waking them up when load increases.
  C. Reduces or raises clock speeds of the CPU to optimize energy usage.
  D. Reduces or raises clock speeds of memory to optimize energy usage.
  B. Moves VMs onto fewer servers during periods of low demand, shutting the others off and waking them up when load increases.

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

• Question 36:

  What is a scalability challenge that vSphere can address?

  A. Change management processes are simplified
  B. Automatic balancing of virtual machines after adding new physical servers
  C. Easier disaster recovery processes
  D. Users have self-service provisioning of virtual machine workloads
  B. Automatic balancing of virtual machines after adding new physical servers

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  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-51-Platform- (page 12) Technical-Whitepaper.pdf

• Question 37:

  Which vSphere feature allows for more efficient storage usage?

  A. Snapshots
  B. Fast Provisioning
  C. Thin Provisioning
  D. Storage vMotion
  C. Thin Provisioning

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  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Storage-with-VMware-vSphere.pdf

• Question 38:

  You have a single VMware ESXi host, and you do not have vCenter server installed to manage this host. Which two actions can be performed without the presence of vCenter? (Choose two.)

  A. Clone a powered off virtual machine
  B. Create a datastore on shared storage
  C. Create a virtual machine
  D. Set an alarm on a virtual machine
  A. Clone a powered off virtual machine
  C. Create a virtual machine

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  Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic= %2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.solutions.doc %2FGUID-91F2410C-DF89- 4F98-8112-CF0D00400E23.html

• Question 39:

  Due to recent budget cuts, your manager has asked you to produce a list of inefficiently used resources in your vSphere environment. Which of the following products will help you produce this list?

  A. vCenter Operations Manager
  B. vCenter Configuration Manager
  C. VMware Hyperic
  D. VMware Horizon View
  A. vCenter Operations Manager

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  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Essentials-Kits- (page 2, VMware vCenter operations manager foundation) DataSheet.pdf

• Question 40:

  You have a critical application that cannot go down. What vCenter feature provides the ability for the application to continue to run even if a host fails?

  A. High Availability (HA)
  B. Fault Tolerance (FT)
  C. vMotion
  D. vSphere Replication (VR)
  A. High Availability (HA)

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  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Server-WP-BestPractices.pdf (page 2, introduction)