Quiz Puzzles: November 2016

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Acme Disposal Services is a large company which has many administrators. For auditing purposes, each administrator must use a unique account to access ESXi Standard hosts. Which two actions satisfy this requirement and require the least amount of administrative effort? (Choose two.)

Acme Disposal Services is a large company which has many administrators. For auditing purposes, each administrator must use a unique account to access ESXi Standard hosts.
Which two actions satisfy this requirement and require the least amount of administrative effort? (Choose two.)

A. Configure Authentication Services for Active Directory based authentication to the ESXi hosts
B. Configure a unique root level account for each administrator using the vSphere Client
C. Configure user accounts in a host profile, then apply the host profile to the ESXi hosts
D. Configure Active Directory group ESX Admins with each administrator's AD account

Answer: A,D

Acme Disposal Services is a large company which has many administrators. For auditing purposes, each administrator must use a unique account to access ESXi Standard hosts.Which two actions satisfy this requirement and require the least amount of administrative effort? (Choose two.)

For security reasons, an administrator removes a user from the Active Directory domain used by all ESXi hosts for authentication. At the time the user is removed they are actively logged into an ESXi 5.x host through the vSphere Client.What is true regarding this scenario?

An administrator is performing an upgrade on an ESXi host.Which step can be used to back up the host before the upgrade is performed?

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to 4.0 using Update Manager. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS datastore on a private, SAN-attached LUN. What might cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful?

Which three configuration settings will be migrated when upgrading a host from ESX 4.x Classic to ESXi 5.x? (Choose three.)

An administrator has deployed a vCenter Server to manage a virtual environment.The administrator has been asked to develop a plan for handling major upgrades to the application. What should be included in the upgrade plan?

An administrator plans to use an upgrade script to upgrade a number of ESXi 5.x hosts.What options are available for the kickstart file? (Choose two.)

An administrator plans to deploy ESXi 5.x on a blade server containing no local disks.What boot options are supported for use in place of local disks? (Choose three.)

Which tool defines the Image Profiles used with Auto Deploy?

An administrator is setting up vSphere Auto Deploy to deploy 25 ESXi 5.x hosts using the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA). What would be considered best practices for Auto Deploy? (Choose three.)

An administrator is deploying several ESXi 5.x hosts. Centralized logging with accurate timestamps is a requirement for the deployment. Which two operations ensure these requirements are met? (Choose two.)

What are two valid use cases for vCenter Server Linked Mode? (Choose two.)

What are two prerequisites for installing the vCenter Server application? (Choose two.)

Which three modules are optional components that can be added from the vCenter Server installer? (Choose three.)

What options must be configured in the vCenter Server settings before email alerts can be sent? (Choose two.)

Which two settings are required by the deployment wizard when installing the VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA)? (Choose two.)

An administrator is migrating a virtual machine in a DRS cluster. The migration fails the validation check because of a CPU incompatibility issue.Which items below could be causing this issue? (Choose two.)

What are three true statements about an integrity check in vCenter Data Recovery? (Choose three.)

An administrator is configuring admission control settings for a vSphere HA cluster. The administrator selects the option Allow VMs to Be Powered on Even if They Violate Availability Constraints. Which two events occur during an ESXi host failure? (Choose two.)

What happens to the total number of shares available to the children of a resource pool if a virtual machine is powered off inside the resource pool?

While building a VMware View environment one of the design requirements is keeping vCenter and View Composer always available. Which solution can be utilized to achieve this?

Which three files are valid virtual machine files that might be identified when examining a folder that contains a virtual machine template on a VMFS datastore? (Choose three.)

What are two reasons why a company would choose to use ESXi 5.x instead of using VMware Workstation 8? (Choose two.)

Which three features can be used in combination with network-attached storage (NAS)? (Choose three.)

Which two actions can be scheduled through the Scheduled Task wizard in the vSphere Client? (Choose two.)

When would an administrator configure the Explicit Failover option for a portgroup created on a virtual switch with multiple uplinks?

A user has permissions to create and manage alarms and tasks for a group of virtual machines.What happens if an administrator modifies permissions for the user so that they can no longer manage alarms?

An administrator has two ESXi 5.x hosts. Each host has two resource pools, Production and Test and a vApp named TestvApp01. What is true when these hosts are added to a DRS cluster?

Which two vCenter plug-ins are installed with a default vSphere Client installation? (Choose two.)

Which two statements are true regarding a mixed DRS cluster with Intel-based and AMD-based ESXi 5.x hosts? (Choose two.)

Which network settings are only available with vSphere Distributed Switches?

Which two VMware software components can be updated by Update Manager? (Choose two.)

How can vCenter maps be used outside of the vSphere client? (Choose two.)

Click the Exhibit button.Which change will eliminate the symptom in the performance chart shown in the exhibit?

Click the Exhibit button.Which statement is true about the network performance of the virtual machine in the exhibit?

What are two reasons creating a host profile could fail? (Choose two.)

Which memory conservation technique collaborates with the server to reclaim pages that are redundant in a virtual machine or virtual machines?

A user wants to receive an email notification when the virtual machine CPU usage enters a warning state and again when the condition enters a alarm state. Which two state changes must be selected to receive the appropriate notifications? (Choose two.)

What are possible valid uses for the default No Access role in vCenter? (Choose two.)

What are three reasons for deploying vCenter Server in a physical machine? (Choose three.)

Which two types of information can be obtained about a VMFS datastore using the Summary tab for a connected host in the vSphere Client? (Choose two.)

The storage administrator is preparing an action plan to upgrade a Fibre Channel storage array.The current plan will result in extended downtime for a VMFS LUN that is part of a SDRS cluster. What steps can be taken in a vSphere 5.x environment to minimize the impact of the downtime? (Choose two.)

When comparing software iSCSI initiators with independent hardware initiators, what are the additional CHAP security levels available for a software implementation? (Choose two.)

Acme Disposal Services is a large company which has many administrators. For auditing purposes, each administrator must use a unique account to access ESXi Standard hosts.
Which two actions satisfy this requirement and require the least amount of administrative effort? (Choose two.)

For security reasons, an administrator removes a user from the Active Directory domain used by all ESXi hosts for authentication. At the time the user is removed they are actively logged into an ESXi 5.x host through the vSphere Client.
What is true regarding this scenario?

An administrator is performing an upgrade on an ESXi host.
Which step can be used to back up the host before the upgrade is performed?

An administrator has deployed a vCenter Server to manage a virtual environment.
The administrator has been asked to develop a plan for handling major upgrades to the application. What should be included in the upgrade plan?

An administrator plans to use an upgrade script to upgrade a number of ESXi 5.x hosts.
What options are available for the kickstart file? (Choose two.)

An administrator plans to deploy ESXi 5.x on a blade server containing no local disks.
What boot options are supported for use in place of local disks? (Choose three.)

An administrator is migrating a virtual machine in a DRS cluster. The migration fails the validation check because of a CPU incompatibility issue.
Which items below could be causing this issue? (Choose two.)

A user has permissions to create and manage alarms and tasks for a group of virtual machines.
What happens if an administrator modifies permissions for the user so that they can no longer manage alarms?

Click the Exhibit button.
Which change will eliminate the symptom in the performance chart shown in the exhibit?

Click the Exhibit button.
Which statement is true about the network performance of the virtual machine in the exhibit?

The storage administrator is preparing an action plan to upgrade a Fibre Channel storage array.
The current plan will result in extended downtime for a VMFS LUN that is part of a SDRS cluster. What steps can be taken in a vSphere 5.x environment to minimize the impact of the downtime? (Choose two.)