Sample Questions:
You have completed a vSphere deployment for your customer. They have a very critical application that they are concerned about minimizing data loss from a site-level disaster. Which technology offers a possible solution?
vSphere Replication
Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
vCenter Virtual Appliance (vCVA)
You are planning a large virtualization project and are concerned that a physical server will cause a prolonged outage until help desk calls are received and all VMs restarted. How can the restart of VMs after a failure be automated?
Fault Tolerance (FT)
High Availability (HA)
Data Protection
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
You are planning to perform hardware maintenance on one of your ESXi hosts. It is currently running several Virtual Machines that you do not wish to power off. Which vCenter feature will allow you to perform this maintenance without disrupting the VMs?
vMotion
High Availability
vSphere Replication
vSphere Distributed Switch
You work in a large datacenter with hundreds of ESXi hosts managed by a vCenter server. Your IT consultant has advised you to use Distributed Power Management (DPM). What does it do?
Automatically powers off ESXi hosts during non-peak hours.
Regulates the power usage of the virtual machines on each ESXi host.
Automatically powers off Virtual Machines during non-peak hours.
Regulates the power consumption of the ESXi host's processors.
You are the VMware Administrator for the local city government. When you arrive at your desk, you find that there are several alarms referring to an outage caused by an overnight driver update. When you ask your colleagues about the driver update, no one seems to know anything about it. Which solution will help in determining the problem?
A PowerShell script to gather hardware driver versioning information
vCenter Configuration Manager (vCCM)
The vCenter Virtual Appliance
vProtect
You are describing virtual machines to your manager. He asks you how virtual machines communicate on the network. Which of the following statements is true?
Virtual machines require special hardware network cards to communicate on the physical network.
Virtual machines are always directly connected to a physical network card in your ESXi host.
Virtual machines are unable to communicate on the physical network.
Virtual machines use virtual network cards from VMware to communicate on the physical network.
Your company has been watching the news and seen many examples of natural disasters, fires, acts of terrorism, etc. that have disrupted operations. They decide that they need a geographically separate data center to fail over to. They also have noticed that many times the IT staff are unavailable after the event and so ask for a solution that a corporate executive could use to fail over if IT is unavailable. What solution best fits these requirements?
Fault Tolerance (FT)
Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
vSphere Replication (VR)
Data Protection
