VCP-550 Online Practice Questions and Answers

While testing a Fault Tolerance setup on a virtual machine, a system administrator notices that the DRS automation level of the virtual machine has been automatically set to Disabled.

The administrator needs to enable DRS to migrate the Fault Tolerance virtual machine to balance the cluster's CPU and memory loads.

What should the administrator do?

A. Enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) in the vSphere cluster.

B. Move the virtual machine to a VMFS 5 datastore built on shared storage.

C. Manually change the DRS automation level of the virtual machine to Enabled.

D. Move the secondary virtual machine to a host with a Fault Tolerance VMkernel port.

An administrator is creating a vApp for a multi-tiered application and needs to configure custom startup actions for each virtual machine. What should the administrator do to enable this functionality?

A. Verify that VMware Tools is installed on each virtual machine in the vApp.

B. Ensure all virtual machines in the vApp are running hardware version 8 or later.

C. Configure custom startup actions on the virtual machines, then add them to the vApp.

D. Deploy a vSphere Management Assistant in the cluster and enable the vApp plug-in.

An administrator is installing ESXi 5.x to a local SAS drive. The installation stops on a purple screen and shows the error:

The system has found a problem on your machine and cannot continue. Could not populate the filesystem: Admission check failed

Which action should the administrator take to resolve this issue?

A. Upgrade the ESXi host to meet the minimum hardware requirement for installation.

B. Disable the network interface cards (NICs) to ensure that third-party drivers do not interfere with installation.

C. Enable hardware Virtualization Technology in the ESXi host BIOS.

D. Disable the Host Bus Adapters (HBA) to ensure the installation targets the local disk.

A vSphere administrator is configuring a fully automated DRS cluster and determines that DRS is not balancing virtual machine workloads. What condition could cause this behavior?

A. vMotion is not properly configured on the hosts in the cluster.

B. HA is not properly configured on the hosts in the cluster.

C. The DRS threshold is configured on the most aggressive setting.

D. Some of the virtual machines have been disabled from DRS.

An administrator needs to know the estimated time remaining on a virtual machine that is hosting a critical accounting application given current assigned resources such as memory, CPU, and disk. When an administrator selects the virtual machine in the vCenter Operations Manager console, which major badge should the administrator investigate to determine this information?

A. Risk

B. Health

C. Efficiency

D. Time Remaining

An organization has a cluster of 6 ESXi hosts. Security policy requires that all administrative activity occurs through vCenter Server and not directly on the hosts. Which action should a system administrator take to enforce this policy?

A. Use the vSphere client to right-click on the cluster and select Enable lockdown mode on the ESXi hosts in the cluster.

B. Use the vSphere client to navigate to the Security Profile of each ESXi host and enable lockdown mode.

C. Connect to the DCUI of each ESXi host and navigate the menus to the Troubleshooting Options and enable lockdown mode.

D. Connect to the ESXi shell on each host and type the command service lockdown start.

An administrator is migrating 135 virtual machines from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed switch. The migration reports an error and only some of the virtual machines are transferred. What is causing the error to occur?

A. The vSphere Distributed Switch was created with a single, default port group.

B. The switch has become disconnected from an ESXi host.

C. The port group on the vSphere Distributed Switch was not configured with an Elastic port binding.

D. The virtual machine that failed to transfer did not have a network adapter.

The load is high on a HA/DRS cluster. DPM is enabled. A vSphere administrator determines that hosts are NOT powering on automatically to support the load. Which configuration would result in this condition?

A. VM-to-VM or VM-to-Host DRS rules have been configured that restrict where some VMs can be moved.

B. DPM has been set to the most Conservative threshold.

C. Some of the virtual machines have been removed from HA consideration by the vSphere administrator.

D. DRS is set to Manual Automation.