VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 Exam (VCP-550) Free Practice Test

Question 1

The oncall system administrator has made a change on the ESXi host requiring a restart of the management network. Lockdown mode is enabled.
Which action should the administrator take to restart the management network?

A. Use an SSH client to logon to the command line and run services mgmt-vmware restart.

B. Use the vSphere client to enable the DCUI and then logon to the ESXi Shell and use the menu to restart the management network.

C. Use the vSphere client to enable local authentication services, then logon directly to the ESXi Shell and run services mgmt-vmware restart.

D. Logon directly to the DCUI and use the menu to restart the management network.

Correct Answer: D

Question 2

An administrator needs to prevent two virtual machines from running on the same host at any time.
Which DRS rule should the administrator apply?

A. vm-to-vm affinity

B. vm-to-vm anti-affinity

C. vm-to-host anti-affinity

D. vm-to-host affinity

Correct Answer: B

Question 3

The vSphere administrator needs to check the system health of an ESXi 5.x host using the vSphere Web Client. Which option in the Monitor tab should the administrator use for the selected host?

A. Storage Status

B. Hardware Reports

C. Issue Log

D. Performance

Correct Answer: D

Question 4

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What is indicated by the performance chart shown?

A. Host memory is overcommitted.

B. Host is I/O constrained.

C. Guest is I/O constrained.

D. Guest memory is overcommitted.

Correct Answer: A

Question 5

A network auditing team has observed activity from a virtual machine that may be an organization policy security breach. The vSphere administrator needs to stop network traffic from the virtual machine.
Which step should the administrator take?

A. Enable Port Blocking on the vSphere Standard Switches in the organization and block the port on which the virtual machine is connected.

B. Enable Port Blocking on the vSphere Distributed Switches in the organization and block the port on which the virtual machine is connected.

C. Enable Port Blocking on each vSphere Standard Switch portgroup in the organization, then block the port on which the virtual machine is connected.

D. Enable Port Blocking on each vSphere Distributed Switch portgroup in the organization, then block the port on which the virtual machine is connected.

Correct Answer: D

Question 6

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 Advanced with a 3TB backup appliance

C. VMware Data Protection with a 4TB backup appliance

D. VMware Data Protection with a 3TB backup appliance

Correct Answer: A

Question 7

An administrator creates an ESXi cluster using vSphere Auto Deploy. The ESXi hosts are configured to get a management IP address from a DHCP server. The administrator needs to troubleshoot the management network on one of the hosts. Which DCUI option should the administrator use to renew the DHCP lease?

A. Test Management Network

B. Restart Management Network

C. Restore Network Settings

D. Configure Management Network

Correct Answer: B

Question 8

A virtual machine fails to migrate during a Storage DRS event.
What could cause this issue?

A. Storage DRS is enabled, but vMotion is disabled for the affected virtual machine.

B. Storage DRS is attempting to migrate the virtual machine between VMFS and NFS datastores.

C. The vMotion network used for Storage DRS is down for a host in the cluster.

D. Storage DRS is enabled for the datastore cluster but disabled for the virtual disks.

Correct Answer: D

Question 9

What is the purpose of configuring a VMkernel port for Fault Tolerance logging?

A. The selected vmkernel port is used to send external inputs from a primary virtual machine to its secondary counterpart.

B. The selected vmkernel port is used to trigger a failover from the primary machine if a hardware crash occurs.

C. The selected vmkernel port is able to maintain a log of changes to the secondary virtual machine.

D. The selected vmkernel port is able to log Fault Tolerance events to a syslog server.

Correct Answer: A

Question 10

What action should an administrator take to store ESXi 5.x host system logs centrally?

A. Configure the syslog server to import log files from each ESXi host at regular intervals.

B. Configure vCenter Server to send all log information to a syslog server.

C. Configure each ESXi host to send all log information to a syslog server.

D. Configure vCenter Server to automatically export log files to a syslog server at regular intervals.

Correct Answer: C

Question 11

A vSphere administrator receives a request to capture the state of a virtual machine six times a day.
Which procedure will satisfy the requirement with the least amount of administrator intervention?

A. Use the vSphere web client to schedule an automated snapshot every four hours using Snapshot Manager.

B. Use the vSphere web client to manually initiate a snapshot of the virtual machine every four hours.

C. Use the vSphere web client to configure a scheduled workflow to take a snapshot every four hours.

D. Use the vSphere web client to configure a scheduled task to take a snapshot every four hours.

Correct Answer: D

Question 12

What two IT infrastructure components are virtualized by vSphere Essentials? (Choose two.)

A. Management

B. Networks

C. Applications

D. Storage

Correct Answer: B,D

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