Deck 5: Service Levels

Question 1

What is the feature of a vSphere cluster that detects failure and provides for rapid recovery of virtual machines?

A)HA
B)DRS
C)EVC

Answer 1

HA

Question 2

What is the feature of a vSphere cluster that manages hosts as an aggregated pool of resources?

A)HA
B)DRS
C)EVC

Answer 2

DRS

Question 3

What is the feature of a vSphere cluster that masks certain CPU instruction sets to allow migration of virtual machines between hosts with differing instruction sets?

A)HA
B)DRS
C)EVC

Answer 3

EVC

Question 4

What three pieces of information are you asked for when first adding an ESX/i host to a cluster?

A)Host name
B)ESX version
C)Username
D)Password
E)Target network

Question 5

What is the advanced VMware HA setting that allows you to specify an additional IP address to be used in place of the default gateway of the console network in host isolation situations?

A)das.failuredetectiontime
B)das.failuredetectioninterval
C)das.isolationaddress

Question 6

When referring to the default VM monitoring settings in VMware HA, what are the values of a high sensitivity?

A)Failure Interval 30 seconds, Reset Period 1 hour
B)Failure Interval 60 seconds, Reset Period 6 hours
C)Failure Interval 90 seconds, Reset Period 10 days
D)Failure Interval 120 seconds, Reset Period 1 week

Question 7

VMware Distributed Power Management uses one of three power management protocols - Wake-On-LAN (WOL), Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) or Hewlett-Packard Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) - to bring a host out of standby mode. There is an order of preference as to which is used if all three are available. Please choose the correct order of preference.

A)WOL, IPMI then ILO
B)IPMI, WOL then ILO
C)ILO, IPMI then WOL
D)IPMI, ILO then WOL

Question 8

What is the recommended location for a virtual machine's swap file?

A)The same directory as the virtual machine
B)In the datastore specified by the host
C)In physical memory

Question 9

John, a VMware administrator, is attempting to power on a virtual machine but is receiving an error saying, "Insufficient resources to satisfy configured failover level for HA." John has checked the resource utilization on the hosts and there appear to be more than sufficient resources left to power on this machine. What could be the cause of this error?

A)The virtual machine has three network cards configured, and this creates an artificially high overhead.
B)The virtual machine was previously powered on in a cluster with more resources and therefore expected the same level of resource.
C)A virtual machine in the cluster has an extremely high CPU and memory reservation.
D)A virtual machine in the cluster has an extremely low CPU and memory reservation.

Question 10

If you receive the error message "Insufficient resources to satisfy configured failover level for HA" when attempting to power on a virtual machine, what temporary solution will allow the virtual machine to power on regardless of the actual root cause of the message?

A)Disable admission control.
B)Enable admission control.
C)Disable DRS.
D)Disable EVC.

Question 11

What DRS automation level should you choose if you want DRS to automatically place virtual machines at power on and make suggestions for migrations from one host to another to optimize resource usage?

A)Fully automatic
B)Partially automatic
C)Manually automated
D)Partially automated

Question 12

What is the VMware technology that allows hosts to be powered off during periods of low activity to save on power and cooling expense?

A)VMware Power Down
B)VMware Distributed Power Management
C)VMware Distributed Power Down
D)VMware Save Power

Question 13

What VMware technology allows for a greater level of availability than VMware HA?

A)Microsoft Clustering
B)VMware Fault Tolerance
C)VMware DRS
D)VMware zones

Question 14

What happens when the host that the primary fault-tolerant machine runs on fails and the primary fault-tolerant virtual machines goes offline?

A)The secondary copy is powered on.
B)The secondary copy comes online, and you are prompted to create a new fault tolerant copy.
C)The secondary copy becomes the primary, and a new secondary copy is immediately created to provide continuing redundancy.
D)The secondary copy becomes the primary, and a new secondary copy is immediately created to provide continuing redundancy. The new copy is created on the same host as the new primary.

Question 15

Which two options below are possible use cases for VMware Fault Tolerance?

A)For custom applications that have no other way of clustering
B)When using Linux virtual machine, as Linux doesn't support clustering
C)When using Windows server 2008, as clustering is experimental
D)Where high availability is required but a custom clustering solution is deemed too complicated to configure

Question 16

John, a VMware administrator, is trying to enable fault tolerance for a virtual machine but is unable to do so. What is a possible reason for this?

A)All hosts are the same patch level.
B)VMware HA is enabled.
C)Only two hosts have processors from the same compatible processor group.
D)Certificate checking is not enabled.

Question 17

Which of the following features are not supported for a fault-tolerant virtual machine? Select three.

A)Storage vMotion
B)vMotion
C)Snapshots
D)DRS

Question 18

John, a VMware administrator, is trying to enable fault tolerance for a virtual machine but is unable to do so. Which of the following options are possible reasons for this failure? Select three

A)The virtual machine has a single CPU.
B)The virtual machine has two CPUs.
C)The virtual machine has a physical mode Raw Device Mapped disk.
D)The virtual machine is using a paravirtualised network card.

Question 19

All prerequisites for fault tolerance have been met. How do you enable fault tolerance for a virtual machine?

A)Right-click a virtual machine and select Fault Tolerance > Turn On Fault Tolerance.
B)Right-click a host select Fault Tolerance > Turn On Fault Tolerance. Then choose the virtual machine.
C)Right-click a cluster select Fault Tolerance > Turn On Fault Tolerance. Then choose the virtual machine.
D)Right-click a virtual machine and tick the Fault Tolerance box.

Question 20

What can be done to increase the performance of a fault-tolerant pair of virtual machines?

A)Increase the bandwidth available for logging by replacing the 1Gb NIC with a 10Gb NIC.
B)Increase the bandwidth available for logging by replacing the 100Mbps NIC with a 1Gb NIC.
C)Increase the CPU count to 2 for each virtual machine.
D)Put both fault tolerant machines on the same host.

Question 21

Resource pools can contain other resource pools.

Question 22

What is the term used to refer to resource pools and virtual machines at the same level?

A)Parents
B)Children
C)Siblings
D)Brothers
E)Sisters

Question 23

What are two use cases for a resource pool?

A)To allow control of resources of a host or cluster
B)To allow control of migration order
C)To control the startup order of virtual machines
D)Management of sets of virtual machines running multi-tiered services

Question 24

Select two values that can be assigned to the memory shares value of a resource pool.

A)Low
B)Based on parent
C)Based on child
D)Custom

Question 25

You power on a virtual machine in a resource pool, and the reservations of the virtual machines combined are larger than the reservation of the resource pool. The resource pool can use resources from its parent or ancestors if the ___________________ check box is selected. Fill in the blank using a term from below.

A)Shares
B)Limits
C)Reservation
D)Expandable Reservation

Question 26

Sarah, a VMware administrator, is trying to migrate a virtual machine to a new host and new datastore at the same time, but the option to do so is greyed out. What is the reason for this?

A)The virtual machine has insufficient memory assigned to it.
B)The virtual machine is Windows 2000.
C)The virtual machine is powered on.
D)The virtual machine is powered off.

Question 27

It is impossible to migrate a virtual machine to a new datastore unless it is powered off.

Question 28

What is the minimum speed of the network card assigned to the vMotion network?

A)10 Gbps
B)100 Mbps
C)1 Gbps
D)16 Mbps

Question 29

Which of the following would prevent you from snapshotting a virtual machine? Select two.

A)The virtual machine has a raw disk.
B)The host only has two physical CPUs.
C)The virtual machine is configured for bus sharing.
D)The virtual machine has a virtual mode RDM disk.

Question 30

What three pieces of information does VMware Data Recovery ask for when mounting a network share?

A)Size of folder
B)URL
C)Type of network destination
D)Username
E)Password

Question 31

When creating a backup job with VMware Data Recovery, which retention policies are allowed? Select three.

A)Few
B)Many
C)More
D)Several

Question 32

What is the minimum version of virtual machine hardware that supports Change Block Tracking in VMware Data Recovery?

A)7
B)4
C)3
D)9

Question 33

When restoring a virtual machine with VMware Data Recovery, you can select a new name and datastore for the restored machine.

Question 34

Choose an option below to complete the statement following statement:
You should complete a _____________ to confirm that backup is proceeding as expected and that a restore operation would complete correctly.

A)Backup Rehearsal
B)Failover test
C)Restore Rehearsal
D)Backup Test