VCAP5-DCD Online Practice Questions and Answers

Before the implementation phase of a project, all design choices should be ______________.

A. validated and justified to the business and project team members

B. documented, validated, and verified as vendor-based best practices

C. validated

A design choice guided by a best practice does not need to be justified.

A. True

B. False

A gap state analysis is a review of the items or tasks required to progress from the current environment to the vision.

A. True

B. False

VMware HA can protect application corruption issues by using VM monitoring functionality.

A. True

B. False

The use of VMware host profiles can aid in _____________.

A. configuration management

B. change management

C. both these answers are correct

You have been sent a query regarding a platform you have just designed and implemented. Following a maintenance window where VMware HA was disabled, the VMware HA settings were lost. How would you prevent this issue?

A. Back up the vCenter database and restore it if the problem reoccurs.

B. Instruct the team to use the Host monitoring tab functionality.

C. Instruct the team to use the VM monitoring tab functionality.

You are a VMware technical contact for an application development project. The system consists of a multitier application. In addition to you, the project team consists of three developers and a project manager. You are required to create various environments for different stages of the SDLC. The developers will be developing in silos on various hardware (laptops, Windows 7 desktops, vSphere hosted). Which of the following delivery methods would be the easiest to manage and deploy?

A. Create the virtual servers using an in-house template and export each VM and present the server OVFs to each developer for copying and importing.

B. Create servers for an environment and place them within a vApp object, export the vApp object as OVF files, and present the OVF files to the dev team for copying and importing.

C. Create servers for an environment and place them within a vApp object, export the vApp object as an OVF file, and present the file to the dev team for copying and importing.

During an upgrade of VMware vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.0, several virtual machines appeared to have lost network configuration. What is the possible cause of the issue?

A. DHCP server not available

B. Incorrect order of upgrade implementation steps

C. Incorrect drivers.

A validation plan can be used to gather further requirements.

A. True

B. False

What practice should not be considered when using IP-based storage?

A. Using an isolated network for storage

B. Using jumbo frames

C. Placing the storage network on the physical switch as the management network

D. Using a 10GbE network

You have a requirement to create a three-tiered application as part of a virtual machine's design. The requirement includes the ability to start up and shut down the tiers in a given order and to be able to ensure that the three-tiered application gets the resources it needs. Which would be the best option?

A. Put all the tiers in a resource pool and manage resources via the resource pool settings

B. Create a vApp and place the three tiers in it. Configure the startup/shutdown options and configure resources via the vApp

C. Ensure that all three tiers are on the same vSwitch and use the ESXi host VM startup and shutdown options

D. Manage the three tiers as three separate virtual machines

The ________ virtual machine scaling approach allows a VM to be created initially on a few metrics or highlevel requirements and scaled through the virtual machine's life cycle.

A. comprehensive

B. predictive

C. adaptive

D. literal

Which of the following could prevent a physical system from being converted to a virtual workload?

A. The physical system uses legacy operating systems, such as Windows

B. NT 4.

C. The application running on the physical server is not supported in a virtual platform.

D. The application has not been tested in a virtual platform.

A multitier website has an RTO of 4 hours and an RPO of 15 minutes. The database crashes at 5

A. m. and causes the website to be unavailable. Which of the following is true? (Select all that apply.)

B. The website must be restored by 5:15 p.m.

C. The website must be restored by 9 p.m.

D. At restore time, the data must be correct from at least from 4:45 p.m.

E. At restore time, the data must be from at least 1 p.m.

You have been asked to design a virtual machine for a new application developed in-house. The application will be load tested before it is finally made production ready. The application developers have created documentation based on data flow and entity dependency. The functionality of the application is critical to the business for a defined project with a client base of a maximum of 12,000 users. Which of the following scaling approaches would best suit this scenario?

A. Predictive

B. Adaptive