VCP550 Online Practice Questions and Answers

An administrator using vCenter Operations Manager is viewing the health of an ESXi host in the environment. There have NOT been any reported outages or issues with the ESXi host, but the administrator needs to determine if the host is behaving normally.

Which minor badge should the administrator investigate to determine this information?

A. Faults

B. Anomalies

C. Stress

D. Health

The vSphere administrator is configuring directory services for an ESXi host: -- Exhibit -

-- Exhibit -What should the vSphere administrator do to configure the host to use CAM services?

A. Check the Use vSphere Authentication Proxy checkbox.

B. Set Select Directory Service Type to CAM services.

C. Specify CAM$ for the Domain.

D. Set Trusted Domains to cam\name.tld where name.tld is the domain that the host is joining.

An administrator needs to use guest OS clustering in a vSphere environment that uses a Fibre Channel SAN. The clustering software does NOT have a SCSI target or a SCSI command pass-through requirement.

Which VMware storage type should the administrator use?

A. Physical RDM

B. VMFS

C. Virtual RDM

D. NFS

A customer needs to size a single backup appliance for backing up 3TB of data. There is no requirement for guest level backups of SQL and Exchange. What is the minimum VMware Data Protection solution and sizing that would fulfill the stated requirements?

A. VMware Data Protection Advanced with a 4TB backup appliance

B. VMware Data Protection with a 4TB backup appliance

C. VMware Data Protection Advanced with a 3TB backup appliance

D. VMware Data Protection with a 3TB backup appliance

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

A. vCenter Single Sign-On, Inventory Service, vCenter Server

B. vCenter Server, vCenter Single Sign-On, Inventory Service

C. vCenter Server, Inventory Service, vCenter Single Sign-On

D. vCenter Single Sign-On, vCenter Server, Inventory Service

Which two steps can an administrator take to upgrade an existing VMFS2 datastore to VMFS5? (Choose two.)

A. Attach the VMFS2 datastore to an ESX 3.x host and upgrade it to VMFS3

B. Attach the VMFS2 datastore to the vSphere 5 host and upgrade it to VMFS3

C. Upgrade the datastore from VMFS3 to VMFS5 on a vSphere 5 host

D. Upgrade the ESX host attached to the storage to vSphere 5

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-- Exhibit -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 behavior?

A. The vSwitch1 virtual switch does not have an attached vmnic adapter.

B. The Fileserver01 virtual machine is not running.

C. vSwitch0 is configured to reject MAC address spoofing.

D. vmk0 is using a non-routable IP address.

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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

window.

Which change was made to the port group that is causing the ARP table issue?

A. Notify Switches was changed to No.

B. Uplink 2 was changed from Standby to Active.

C. Failback was changed to Yes.

D. Network failure detection was changed to Link status only.

A vSphere administrator configures a preferred heartbeat datastore in an HA/DRS cluster configuration. The vCenter Server identifies an alternative preferred datastore. Why would vCenter Server identify an alternative preferred datastore over the administrator's preference?

A. The selected datastore contains powered-on virtual machines.

B. The selected datastore is formatted with a 1 MB block size.

C. The selected datastore is an NFS datastore.

D. The selected datastore is not accessible to all of the hosts.

Which default alarm definition will send a notification trap if the redundant storage path is lost?

A. Cannot connect to storage

B. Datastore removed from host

C. Host storage status

D. Hardware health changed