Vcp Study Guide

Front 1

When creating a Raw Device Map (RDM) for use with a virtual machine, which of the following is the maximum available size?

Back 1

2TB minus 512B

Front 2

Your boss wants you to install vSphere 4 server on two HP C-class Blades. Each blade has two dual core CPU's. How many vSphere processor licenses will be needed for this setup?

Back 2

4

Front 3

A VM using VMDirectPath I/O cannot be VMotioned?

Back 3

True

Front 4

What is the minimum amount of disk space required for vCenter Server?

Back 4

2GB

Front 5

When is it required to use 64Bit CPU's to run vCenter Server?

Back 5

When you have 200-300 hosts

Front 6

Which ports does VMware Update Manager use?

Back 6

8084, 9084, 9087

Front 7

What are the Automation Levels on a DRS Cluster?

Back 7

Manual, Partially Automated, Automated

Front 8

The VMXNET 3 adapter is only supported on which virtual machine hardware version?

Back 8

Version 7

Front 9

Fault Tolerance supports thin provisioned disks?

Back 9

False

Front 10

What is the minimum amount of memory recommended for a vCenter 4 server?

Back 10

3GB

Front 11

Which new vSphere feature has the following key features;
• Disk-based backup and recovery
• Data de-duplication
• Full and incremental backup of virtual machine
• VSS support
• Image level and individual file restore

Back 11

vSphere Data Recovery

Front 12

Host certificate checking is enabled by default and SSL certificates are used to encrypt network traffic.

Back 12

True

Front 13

What is the minimum amount of RAM required for vCenter Server?

Back 13

3GB

Front 14

What is the name of the new high performance paravirtualized adapter available on vSphere 4?

Back 14

VMXNET 3

Front 15

Which of the following actions would be LEAST likely to reduce resource contention?

Back 15

Disable transparent memory page sharing

Front 16

In order for changes to a Host's Firewall to be committed, what command must be used?

Back 16

service mgmt-vmware restart

Front 17

What is the maximum amount of vNIC's that a vSphere Guest can have?

Back 17

10

Front 18

VMware vSphere can be evaluated prior to purchase. What is the maximum number of days the evaluation can be used before a license must be purchased?

Back 18

60 Days

Front 19

What is the minimum number of network adapters required for an ESX4 Host?

Back 19

1

Front 20

Which ports need to be available on vCenter system?

Back 20

80, 389, 443, 636

Front 21

What are the two iSCSI discovery methods that are supported by ESX Server?

Back 21

Static Discovery, SendTargets

Front 22

The /boot partition requires how much free space?

Back 22

1.25GB

Front 23

SMP is supported on FT protected machines?

Back 23

False

Front 24

What is the maximum amount of Floppy Devices per Virtual Machine?

Back 24

2

Front 25

To close a Port on a Host's Firewall, what command is used?

Back 25

esxcfg-firewall -c

Front 26

VMware Data Recovery uses Microsoft Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Which of the follow OS' does not support VSS?

Back 26

Windows XP, 32 Bit

Front 27

What is the maximum amount of vCPU's that can be configured on a Virtual Machine if you could use any OS and any Licencing Edition?

Back 27

8

Front 28

Using VMware Data Recovery, backing up a VM created on a ESX3.5 host will take longer than a VM created on a ESX4 host?

Back 28

True

Front 29

What is the maximum number of Primary Nodes in an HA Cluster?

Back 29

5

Front 30

Which two users are assigned the Administrator role at the ESX Server level by default?

Back 30

root, vpxuser

Front 31

What command is used to list the services controlled by the firewall?

Back 31

esxcfg-firewall -s

Front 32

What is the minimum CPU speed required for vCenter Server?

Back 32

2GHz

Front 33

In vSphere 4 what is the Maximum amount of ports supported on a vSwitch?

Back 33

4088

Front 34

vSphere 4 Client minimum requirements are;

Back 34

266MHz CPU, 200MB RAM, 1GB HDD space

Front 35

What is the minimum supported amount of RAM for an ESX4 Host?

Back 35

2GB

Front 36

A memory reservation defines:

Back 36

the amount of physical memory that is guaranteed to the VM

Front 37

Which of the following Ports is not required to be available for vCenter Server?

Back 37

25

Front 38

It is recommended you don't install vCenter on a Domain Controller?

Back 38

True

Front 39

What is the recommended size for the /home partition?

Back 39

512MB

Front 40

How is a Primary Host designated in an HA Cluster?

Back 40

If the Host is one of the first 5 Hosts to be added to an HA Cluster it will be a Primary Host

Front 41

What is the maximum size of a virtual machine’s SCSI disk if the VMFS datastore has been formatted with a 2MB block size?

Back 41

512GB - 512B

Front 42

What is the recommended size for the /var/log partition?

Back 42

2000MB

Front 43

To enable a service on a Host's Firewall, what command is used?

Back 43

esxcfg-firewall -e

Front 44

What is the maximum amount of LUNS that a vSphere Host can have?

Back 44

256

Front 45

To open a Port on a Host's Firewall, what command is used?

Back 45

esxcfg-firewall -o

Front 46

What is the maximum supported limit of RAM that a vSphere Host can have, regardless of Licence editions?

Back 46

1TB

Front 47

What is the name of the globally unique identifier assigned to each Fibre Channel Port?

Back 47

World Wide Name

Front 48

What is the recommended size for the /tmp partition?

Back 48

1024MB

Front 49

vCenter 4 Server minimum requirements are;

Back 49

2 x 2GHz CPU's, 3GB RAM, 2GB HDD space

Front 50

By default ESX4 is installed with which security settings?

Back 50

High with all outbound ports closed

Front 51

If you are planning on installing the Cisco Nexus 1000v Distributed Switch on your vSphere cluster, which Licensing package would you need to purchase?

Back 51

Enterprise Plus

Front 52

What is the maximum Raw Device Mapping (RDM) Size Supported on VMware vSphere 4 Host?

Back 52

2TB Minus 512B

Front 53

The VMKcore is used for storing core dumps for Debugging and Technical Support?

Back 53

True

Front 54

The Service Console must be installed on a VMFS partition?

Back 54

True

Front 55

What is the minimum number of CPU's required for vCenter Server?

Back 55

2

Front 56

Swap, var/log and all the other optional partitions are stored where?

Back 56

In a Virtual disk called esxconsole-/esxconsole.vmdk

Front 57

What is the maximum amount of RAM that a vSphere Guest can have?

Back 57

255GB

Front 58

Which of these databases does vCenter no longer support?

Back 58

Oracle 9i and Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Front 59

If you want to test VMware vSphere before purchasing, what is the length of the Evaluation period available?

Back 59

60 Days

Front 60

What is the maximum amount of Hosts per vSphere HA Cluster?

Back 60

32

Front 61

What is the maximum amount of Secondary Hosts in an HA Cluster?

Back 61

27

Front 62

ESX uses which Linux based firewall tool?

Back 62

IPTables

Front 63

What are the three default roles provided on an ESX Host?

Back 63

No Access, Read Only and Administrator

Front 64

Which Microsoft .NET Framework is required for the vSphere Client?

Back 64

.NET 3.0 SP1

Front 65

VMware HA provides which of the following?

Back 65

Automatic restart of virtual machines

Front 66

What is the maximum HBA's Supported on VMware vSphere 4 Host?

Back 66

8

Front 67

What is the maximum amount of characters that a vCenter server name should not exceed?

Back 67

15

Front 68

The vCenter system MUST belong to a DOMAIN.

Back 68

True

Front 69

What protocol is used by an ESX Server to communicate with NAS devices?

Back 69

NFS

Front 70

NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization) is not supported with Fault Tolerance?

Back 70

True

Front 71

To disable a service on a Host's Firewall, what command is used?

Back 71

esxcfg-firewall -d

Front 72

Distributed Power Management (DPM) requires which technology to be available on the NIC?

Back 72

WOL

Front 73

What is the recommend size of the esxconsole.vmdk?

Back 73

1200MB

Front 74

What is an HA Slot?

Back 74

A slot is a logical representation of the memory and CPU resources that satisfy the requirements for any powered-on virtual machine in the cluster.

Front 75

What are the 4 VM Restart Priority options available on an HA Cluster?

Back 75

Disabled, Low, Medium, High

Front 76

Which of the following formulas defines the amount of virtual machine memory that will always be composed of disk pages?

Back 76

Memory allocated -(minus) memory limit

Front 77

What command is used to list the current firewall rules on a Host?

Back 77

esxcfg-firewall -q

Front 78

ESX 4 Hosts will only run on;

Back 78

64bit CPU's only

Front 79

What are the 3 Host Isolation Reponse options available on an HA Cluster?

Back 79

Shut down, Power off, Leave powered on

Front 80

ESX uses one of the strongest block ciphers available, what is it?

Back 80

256 bit AES

Front 81

The default warning for password expiration on ESX is how many days?

Back 81

7

Front 82

By default ESX 4 Web Access is enabled;

Back 82

False

Front 83

What is the maximum amount of logical processors that a vSphere Host can have?

Back 83

64

Front 84

Which vSphere feature provides dynamic allocation of storage capacity?

Back 84

vStorage Thin Provisioning

Front 85

LUN masking is a process that makes a LUN available to some hosts and unavailable to other hosts.

Back 85

True

Front 86

What is the default size for the / (root) partition?

Back 86

5GB

Front 87

What is the minimum recommended space for swap?

Back 87

600MB

Front 88

SSH operates on which Port?

Back 88

22

Front 89

What is the Maximum VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per virtual machine?

Back 89

2

Front 90

What is the Maximum virtual machine Disk Size?

Back 90

2TB minus 512B

Front 91

What is the Maximum RAM per virtual machine?

Back 91

255GB

Front 92

What is the Maximum Floppy devices per virtual machine?

Back 92

2

Front 93

What is the Maximum Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP) ?

Back 93

8

Front 94

What is the Maximum Floppy controllers per virtual machine?

Back 94

1

Front 95

What is the Maximum Virtual SCSI adapters per virtual machine?

Back 95

4

Front 96

What is the Maximum IDE devices per virtual machine?

Back 96

4

Front 97

What is the Maximum Virtual NICs per virtual machine?

Back 97

10

Front 98

What is the Maximum Concurrent remote console connections to a virtual machine?

Back 98

40

Front 99

What is the Maximum VMDirectPath SCSI targets per virtual machine?

Back 99

60

Front 100

What is the Maximum Serial ports per virtual machine?

Back 100

4

Front 101

What is the Maximum Parallel ports per virtual machine?

Back 101

3

Front 102

What is the Maximum Virtual SCSI targets per virtual SCSI adapter?

Back 102

15

Front 103

What is the Maximum Virtual SCSI targets per virtual machine?

Back 103

60

Front 104

What is the Maximum IDE controllers per virtual machine?

Back 104

1

Front 105

What is the Maximum Virtual machine swap file size?

Back 105

255GB

Front 106

What is the maximum Hosts per vCenter Server if the vCenter Server is running on a 64-Bit OS ?

Back 106

300

Front 107

What is the maximum Hosts per vCenter Server if the vCenter Server is running on a 32-Bit OS ?

Back 107

200

Front 108

What is the maximum Hosts per datacenter?

Back 108

100

Front 109

What is the maximum Hosts in Linked‐mode environment?

Back 109

1000

Front 110

What is the maximum Linked vCenter Server systems?

Back 110

10

Front 111

What is the Maximum Port groups per standard switch?

Back 111

512

Front 112

What is the Maximum Virtual machines per host in HA cluster with 8 or fewer hosts?

Back 112

160

Front 113

What is the Maximum Number of virtual switch ports per standard switch?

Back 113

4088

Front 114

What is the Maximum Total paths on a host?

Back 114

1024

Front 115

What is the Default Number of NFS datastores (Maximum) ?

Back 115

8 (64)

Front 116

What is the Maximum HBAs per host?

Back 116

8

Front 117

What is the Maximum Virtual CPUs per physical core?

Back 117

25

Front 118

What is the Maximum VMFS Volume Size?

Back 118

64TB minus 16K

Front 119

What is the Maximum Distributed port groups per vCenter?

Back 119

512

Front 120

What is the Maximum Extents size?

Back 120

2TB minus 512B

Front 121

What is the Maximum Extents per volume?

Back 121

32

Front 122

What is the Maximum Virtual machines per host?

Back 122

320

Front 123

What is the Maximum Hosts per HA / DRS cluster?

Back 123

32

Front 124

What is the Maximum LUNs per host?

Back 124

256

Front 125

What is the Maximum Virtual CPU's per Host?

Back 125

512

Front 126

What is the Maximum e1000 NICs Ethernet ports (Intel PCI‐x NIC) ?

Back 126

32

Front 127

What is the Maximum LUN ID's?

Back 127

255

Front 128

What is the Maximum Distributed switches per vCenter?

Back 128

16

Front 129

What is the Maximum PCI VMDirectPath devices per host?

Back 129

8

Front 130

What is the Maximum Number of children per resource pool?

Back 130

1024

Front 131

What is the Maximum Hosts per distributed switch?

Back 131

64

Front 132

What is the Maximum Number of Resource Pools Per host?

Back 132

4096

Front 133

What is the Maximum Hosts per cluster?

Back 133

32

Front 134

What is the Maximum Targets per HBA?

Back 134

256

Front 135

What is the Maximum HBA ports?

Back 135

16

Front 136

What is the Maximum Number of resource pools per cluster?

Back 136

512

Front 137

What is the Maximum amount of Virtual machines per host in HA cluster with 9 or more hosts

Back 137

40

Front 138

What is the Maximum Logical processors per host?

Back 138

64

Front 139

What is the Maximum Failover hosts per cluster?

Back 139

4

Front 140

What is the Maximum Hosts per volume?

Back 140

64

Front 141

What is the Maximum iSCSI Paths to a LUN?

Back 141

8

Front 142

What is the Maximum Raw device mapping (RDM) size?

Back 142

2TB minus 512B

Front 143

What is the Maximum LUN Size?

Back 143

2TB minus 512B

Front 144

What is the Maximum Virtual machines per HA / DRS cluster?

Back 144

1280

Front 145

What is the Maximum RAM allocated to service console?

Back 145

800MB

Front 146

What is the Maximum Distributed virtual network switch ports per vCenter?

Back 146

6000

Front 147

What is the Maximum Volumes per host?

Back 147

256

Front 148

What is the Maximum Tree depth per resource pool in DRS cluster?

Back 148

10

Front 149

What is the Maximum Tree depth per resource pool?

Back 149

12

Front 150

Cardiogenic oscillations are seen more in what population

Back 150

pediatrics because heart takes up more space in chest cavity

Front 151

What is the Maximum Paths to a LUN?

Back 151

32

Front 152

What is the Maximum iSCSI Initiator ports per host?

Back 152

4

Front 153

What is the Maximum LUNs concurrently opened by all virtual machines?

Back 153

256

Front 154

What is the Maximum Virtual machines per host in DRS cluster?

Back 154

256

Front 155

What is the Maximum iSCSI Targets?

Back 155

256

Front 156

What is the Maximum Virtual machines per volume?

Back 156

256

Front 157

What is the Maximum Standard switches per host?

Back 157

248

Front 158

Which of the following are virtual adapters that are only available in VMware vSphere?

Back 158

-LSI Logic and BusLogic SCSI adapters
-Paravirtualized SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter

Front 159

Which of the following has no effect on the amount of physical memory resources used for virtualization overhead

Back 159

Increasing the memory shares for the virtual machine.

Front 160

Which statement is true about Stacked Graphs?

Back 160

Stacked Graphs are used for comparative purposes. When creating a stacked graph, only a single metric is allowed

Front 161

When defining a NIC team (bond) in ESX Server, it is possible to designate some of the physical NICs that make up the bond as "standby" NICs. Which statement most accurately describes the purpose of a standby NIC? A standby NIC:

Back 161

A standby NIC remains unused by the NIC team until a NIC failover event occurs. At that point the NIC becomes an active part of the NIC team. No action needs to be taken on the part of the administrator.

Front 162

At what level can blocking policies be applied on a vNetwork Distributed Switch (Choose Two)?

Back 162

Port blocking policies can only be applied to a vNetwork Distributed Switch. They can be applied to dvPorts/dvPort Groups and to dvUplinks/ dvUplink Groups
dvUplink

Front 163

An administrator must perform maintenance on a fibre channel switch connected to vmhba2 on an ESX host. The ESX host has been configured with the Fixed policy, and the preferred path will be impacted by the maintenance event. Which of the following steps is the least disruptive option that can be taken to prepare for the maintenance event?

Back 163

When maintenance must be performed on hardware connected to an ESX host, the path undergoing maintenance can be disabled using the vSphere Client for the duration of the maintenance event.

Front 164

Which of the following are valid map types that can be displayed using a vSphere Client connected to vCenter Server (Choose Two)?

Back 164

vSphere introduces Storage Maps, which help you visually represent and understand the relationships between an inventory object and all virtual and physical storage resources. This is in addition to Resource Maps, which are used to determine if the proper connectivity exists for VMotion migration.