VMware VMware Certifications VCAD510 Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  You are planning to evaluate vSphere but you presently have no shared storage devices. Which of the following vCenter features will function without shared storage?

  A. vMotion

  B. Distributed Power Management (DPM)

  C. High Availability (HA)

  D. Fault Tolerance (FT)

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/09/vmotion-without-shared-storage-requirement- does-it-have-a-name.html (third para)

• Question 12:

  You have deployed a virtual environment that is utilizing 7 physical servers and you determine the average resource utilization during non-business hours is very low. Your manager is concerned that the company is wasting money on power consumption. Which technology can help reduce excess power consumption?

  A. vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS)

  B. vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)

  C. A kick-start file

  D. Distributed Power Management (DPM)

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Distributed-Power-Management-vSphere.pdf

• Question 13:

  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?

  A. Fault Tolerance (FT)

  B. Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

  C. vSphere Replication (VR)

  D. Data Protection

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Replication-Overview.pdf

• Question 14:

  A large hospital has called you to consult on their new VMware deployment. They are concerned about the management for the new virtual networks. What can you tell them about the virtual switches?

  A. Standard switches can only be managed through the command line

  B. Distributed switches cannot be managed by using vCenter

  C. Standard switches can be managed through vCenter, or by going directly to the ESXi host

  D. Distributed switches can only managed through the physical ESXi server

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic= %2Fcom.vmware.vcli.examples.doc_50% 2Fcli_manage_networks.11.4.html

• Question 15:

  What is a scalability challenge that vSphere can address?

  A. Virtual machines require less administration

  B. Servers can be overclocked to provide extra processing speed

  C. CPUs and Memory can be added to servers without an outage

  D. Virtual networks have more capacity than physical networks

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/01/16/enabling-hot-add-by-default-cc- gabvirtualworld/

• Question 16:

  You are explaining virtual machine storage to a colleague. She asks you where the virtual machine files are stored. What are the storage containers called in vSphere?

  A. VM Port Groups

  B. Clusters

  C. Data Centers

  D. Datastores

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/01/16/enabling-hot-add-by-default-cc-gabvirtualworld/

• Question 17:

  You are designing your virtual network. Your network administrator has given you a list of features that he hopes are supported by vSphere. Which of the following features requires a distributed switch?

  A. Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

  B. VLAN tagging

  C. Jumbo Frames

  D. Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic= % 2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc%2FGUID-21FF6B4F-6651-462D-B955-69C0ADFFC6E6.html

• Question 18:

  You are converting your physical servers into virtual machines. One prospective virtual machine has an application that utilizes a 1.5 TB SAN LUN for data. You are concerned that this new virtual machine would take too long to convert to a virtual machine. How can you configure the storage of this virtual machine to minimize the conversion time required to copy the data across the network?

  A. Place the new VM on a thin provisioned VMFS volume with other VMs

  B. Place the new VM on a shared VMFS datastore with other VMs

  C. Place the new VM on local storage available to only one ESXi host

  D. Deploy the new VM with a raw device mapping (RDM)

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: http://www.vcritical.com/2009/10/responsible-thin-provisioning-in-vmware-vsphere/

• Question 19:

  Which two types of storage require switches that use Ethernet? (Choose two.)

  A. Fibre Channel

  B. NFS

  C. iSCSI

  D. InfiniBand

  Correct Answer: BC

  Reference: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2012/05/storage-protocol-basics-iscsi-nfs-fibre-channelfcoe/

• Question 20:

  You have been receiving complaints that the mail server has been slow. You investigate and determine that a print server in the same storage location is using much of the bandwidth to the storage array. Which

  feature will allow you to increase the priority of the mail server so that it meets the SLA defined for it?

  A. Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

  B. Storage vMotion

  C. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

  D. vSphere Data Protection

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/tip/vSphere-Storage-I-O-Control-What-it-does- andhow-to-configure-it