Q1. An administrator needs to migrate a legacy physical application server to a virtual machine

within a vSphere 6 cluster. As part of the conversion, the administrator must reduce the size of the virtual disks.

What action should the administrator take to create a virtual machine with smaller virtual disks than the original physical server?

A. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume- based cloning at the disk level.

B. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the block level.

C. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume- based cloning at the file level.

D. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level.

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Q2. Which two features are deprecated in Network I/O Control 3 (NIOC3)? (Choose two.)

A. Class Of Service (COS) Tagging

B. Bandwidth Allocation

C. User-defined network resource pools

D. Admission control

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Q3. An administrator has recently configured HA on a cluster. After reviewing the summary tab on one of the hosts, the warning in Exhibit 1 is displayed:

The administrator proceeds to view the management network port group data shown in Exhibit 2:

The administrator then views the management network vSwitch as shown in Exhibit 3:

Based on the exhibits, which two steps should be taken to ensure redundancy on the management network? (Choose two.)

A. Move vmnic1 to Standby adapters.

B. Add an additional vmknic to the Network Adapters and move it to Active adapters.

C. Set the advanced HA configuration parameter das.ignoreRedundantNetWarning to True.

D. Uncheck the Override Failover Checkbox on the management network port group.

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Q4. What are two likely causes for a DRS cluster to become unbalanced? (Choose two.)

A. Migration threshold is too low.

B. Affinity rules are preventing virtual machines from being moved.

A. C. A device is mounted to a virtual machine preventing vMotion.

D. Migration cost is too low.

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Q5. Attempting to update an ESXi 6.x host using the following command: esxcli software vib update -d update.zip

Generates the following error:

Could not download from depot at /tmp/index.xml, skipping (('/tmp/index.xml', '', "[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/index.xml'>")) url =

/tmp/index.xml

What action should be taken to correct the problem?

A. Add the full file path to the command.

B. Use the update option instead of install.

C. Use the switch -d instead of -v.

D. Replace esxcli with esxupdate.

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Q6. What are two ways to view the DNS settings for an ESXi 6.x host? (Choose two.)

A. Use the vicfg-dns command from the vSphere Management Appliance.

B. View the /etc/resolv.conf file on the ESXi host.

C. Use vicfg-dns command on the ESXi host.

D. View the /etc/dns.conf file on the ESXi host.

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Q7. An administrator is troubleshooting a performance problem with a virtual machine (VM). The VM and ESXi host configuration is as follows:

✑ The application which runs within the virtual machine is highly sensitive to memory latency, but has low processor utilization.

✑ The virtual machine has 6 vCPUs.

✑ The ESXi host CPU topology has 2 Physical CPU Sockets, each with 8 Logical CPUs.

✑ The ESXi host CPU has Hyper Threading enabled.

The administrator would like to improve CPU performance for this VM. Other VMs on the host have no performance issues. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the issue?

A. Set the Advanced Parameter numa.vcpu.preferHT = TRUE in the virtual machine configuration file.

B. Set the Advanced Parameter numa.vcpu.preferHT = FALSE in the virtual machine configuration file.

C. Set the Advanced Parameter numa.PreferHT = 1 in the ESXi host configuration file.

D. Set the Advanced Parameter numa.PreferHT = 0 in the ESXi host configuration file.

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Q8. Which two statements are true regarding Storage Multipathing Plug-Ins? (Choose two.)

A. The default Path Selection Policy is VMW_PSP_MRU for iSCSI or FC devices.

B. The default Path Selection Policy is VMW_PSP_FIXED for iSCSI or FC devices.

C. VMW_PSP_MRU is typically selected for ALUA arrays by default.

D. VMW_PSP_FIXED is typically selected for ALUA arrays by default.

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Q9. A vSphere Web Client task fails while creating a VMFS datastore on a disk with these characteristics:

✑ The disk was formatted with an Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table

✑ The disk was not erased

✑ The disk is visible in the vSphere Web Client

What action needs to be performed to resolve the issue?

A. Delete the partitions manually with partedUtil.

B. Create a VMFS3 file system first, then upgrade it.

C. Create a VMFS5 file system with the command esxcli storage filesystem add.

D. Delete the data with the vmkfstools command.

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Q10. An administrator notices that there is an all paths down (APD) event occurring for the software FCoE storage.

What is a likely cause?

A. Spanning Tree Protocol is enabled on the network ports.

B. Spanning Tree Protocol is disabled on the network ports.

C. Spanning Tree Protocol is enabled on the storage processors.

D. Spanning Tree Protocol is disabled on the storage processors.

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