01. A vSAN ESA cluster in a VI workload domain has six ESX hosts, each acting as its own fault domain. A new database VM must stay available through two simultaneous host failures, and the storage team wants the lowest capacity overhead that meets that requirement.
Which vSAN storage policy settings should the administrator create and assign to the VM?
a) Failure tolerance method RAID-1 (mirroring), Failures to tolerate 2
b) Failure tolerance method RAID-5/6, Failures to tolerate 1
c) Failure tolerance method RAID-5/6, Failures to tolerate 3
d) Failure tolerance method RAID-5/6, Failures to tolerate 2
02. An Enterprise Admin is onboarding a business unit as an NSX project. The business unit's segments need north-south routing through the existing Tier-0 gateway and Edge cluster in the default space. A Tier-1 gateway named t1-shared also exists in the default space. The business unit needs no stateful gateway services, and the environment does not use NSX Federation.
Which two actions provide the routing?
(Choose two.)
a) Allocate the default-space Tier-0 gateway and Edge cluster to the project
b) Connect the project's segments to the existing t1-shared Tier-1 gateway
c) Create a Tier-0 gateway inside the project on the allocated Edge cluster
d) Allocate t1-shared to the project, then attach the project segments to it
e) Create a Tier-1 gateway inside the project and connect it to that Tier-0
03. A team is building a new VI workload domain whose principal storage will be VMFS on Fibre Channel. Four new ESX hosts are racked and zoned to the array, and a VMFS LUN has been presented to them. No network pool exists yet for these hosts.
Which sequence completes the prerequisites and creates the workload domain?
a) Create a network pool, commission the hosts as VMFS on FC, mount the VMFS datastore on all four hosts, then create the new workload domain
b) Mount the VMFS datastore on all four hosts, create a network pool, commission the hosts as vSAN, then pick VMFS on FC in the domain wizard
c) Commission the hosts as VMFS on FC, create a network pool, mount the VMFS datastore on all four hosts, then create the new workload domain
d) Mount the VMFS datastore on all four hosts, create a network pool, commission the hosts as VMFS on FC, then create the workload domain
04. Contour is installed as a Supervisor Service on two Supervisors, sup-a and sup-b, managed by one vCenter. An administrator with the Manage Supervisor Services privilege downloads the service definition YAML for a newer Contour version, intending to upgrade only sup-b. In Supervisor Management > Services, Manage Service on the Contour card does not offer the newer version.
What should the administrator do first?
a) Upgrade sup-b from the Updates tab in Supervisor Management, then select the newer Contour version
b) Paste the newer service definition YAML into the YAML Service Config field while reinstalling the current version
c) Add the newer version to the Contour service by uploading its YAML, then select it with sup-b in Manage Service
d) Uninstall Contour from sup-b, then reopen Manage Service and install the newer version on it
05. VCF Operations lists twelve VMs from a finance cluster under Oversized VMs on the Rightsize tab. The application owner accepts the suggested CPU and memory reductions. Change control allows service interruption for these VMs only during the Sunday maintenance window, and the VMs must stay in the recommendation list until they are resized.
How should the administrator apply the reductions?
a) Select the VMs and use Resize VM(s) now, with no restart for a reduction
b) Select the VMs and use Schedule Action to resize them in the Sunday window
c) Change the risk level in the policy applied to the finance cluster
d) Select the VMs and use Exclude VM(s), then resize them in vCenter on Sunday
06. Last month an administrator manually built the Payroll Business Application in VCF Operations, dragging four web VMs into a Web tier and two database VMs into a DB tier. This week the application team deployed two more web VMs with the same naming pattern and vCenter tags. Payroll still shows only four VMs in its Web tier.
What explains this, and what should the administrator do?
a) Tier membership refreshes only after the next collection cycle, so wait for the cycle to complete and check again
b) Tiers select their members by tag, so give the new VMs a Payroll tag category instead of the web tags
c) Objects in a manually created tier are static, so edit Payroll and add the two new VMs to the Web tier
d) The new VMs have no policy association yet, so assign Payroll's policy to them and reopen the application
07. An administrator plans to set up centralized network connectivity for a workload domain, deploying a new NSX Edge cluster on vSphere cluster WLD-02. DNS records for the Edge nodes exist, the Edge management port group can reach NSX Manager, and the cluster has capacity for two Edge nodes. The Edge TEPs will reuse the host TEP VLAN. The ESX hosts in WLD-02 use a vSphere Distributed Switch but have never been configured for NSX.
Which prerequisite must the administrator complete before running the Edge cluster workflow?
a) Attach a transport node profile to the WLD-02 cluster, so that its ESX hosts are prepared for NSX
b) Create the Tier-0 gateway in NSX Manager first, so that the workflow can place the new Edge nodes under that existing gateway
c) Allocate a separate Edge TEP VLAN, since Edge TEPs cannot share the VLAN that the host TEPs use
d) Deploy one Edge node manually, then let the workflow clone it to build out the rest of the cluster
08. Users report that a reporting VM in a workload domain is slow. In esxtop on its ESX host, the VM shows %RDY of about 38%, %MLMTD of about 36% and %CSTP below 1%. Physical CPU utilization on the host is about 30%, and every other VM on the host shows %RDY below 2%.
What is the most likely cause of the VM's high ready time?
a) Co-scheduling delay from more vCPUs than the workload needs
b) Host-wide CPU contention from vCPUs overcommitted against physical cores
c) A CPU limit configured on the VM
d) Low CPU shares compared with the other VMs in its resource pool
09. In VCF 9.0, an administrator is adding an Operations data node to the VCF Operations cluster from the Components tab under Fleet Management Lifecycle. After triggering an inventory sync and entering the node details, the administrator clicks RUN PRECHECK, and the data validation is not successful.
What should the administrator do next?
a) Submit the add-node request, let the new node join the cluster, and perform the recommended actions afterwards
b) Perform the recommended actions, run the precheck again, and submit after it succeeds
c) Change the request to add a replica node instead, avoiding a certificate change on the cluster
d) Upgrade VCF Operations from the Components tab, then submit the request
10. Three weeks ago, while troubleshooting storage latency, an administrator raised every statistics collection interval on a workload domain vCenter instance to level 4. The storage issue has since been resolved. Memory use of the vpxd process has grown steadily, the vCenter database is filling faster than planned, and performance charts load slowly.
Which action addresses the cause while keeping long-term performance monitoring in place?
a) Lower the collection intervals back to level 1 or 2, the levels intended for long-term monitoring
b) Shorten how long each interval keeps its data, leaving the level at 4
c) Disable every statistics collection interval, ending all performance data storage
d) Add vCPU and memory to the vCenter appliance so vpxd can keep up with level 4