VCP5-DCV Sample Question

Question: 19

An administrator is troubleshooting an ESXi 5.x host and needs to export diagnostic information. The host is currently managed by a vCenter Server instance. Which two ways can the information be gathered using the vSphere Client? (Choose two.)

A. Select Home. Under Administration, click System Logs and click the Export System Logs button. Select the affected ESXi host. Select Select All. Select a location and click Finish.
B. In the vSphere Client, select the affected ESXi host. Right-click the host and select Export Diagnostic Data. Select a location and click OK.
C. Log in to the ESXi host locally, Select Export System Logs.
D. In the vSphere Client, select the affected ESXi host. Select File, Export and Export System Logs. Select Select All. Select a location and click Finish.

Answer: A,D

Explanation:

You can collect information by selecting Home. Under Adminstration, click System logs and click export system logs button. Select the affected ESXi host. Select Select All. Select a location and click Finish. To export system logs from the ESXi host, the alternative way is to select the affected ESXi host in vSphere client. Select File, Export and Export System Logs. Select Select All. Select a location and click Finish.

VCP5-DCV Sample Question

Question: 18

What are three use cases for vSphere Fault Tolerance? (Choose three.)

A. Provide guaranteed up time for a RDM enabled virtual machine
B. Provide efficient scheduled reliability for a payroll virtual machine
C. Provide guaranteed reliability for a development virtual machine with scheduled snapshots
D. Provide guaranteed reliability for a legacy Windows NT virtual machine
E. Ensure up time for a Linux virtual machine without making any changes to the OS

Answer: B,D,E

Explanation:

vSphere fault tolerance provides efficient scheduled reliability for a payroll virtual machine. It can also provide reliability for legacy Windows NT virtual machine. Along with that, it can ensure up time for a linux virtual machine without making any changes to the OS itself.

VCP5-DCV Sample Question

Question: 17

An administrator has created a virtual machine that will be accessed from a public kiosk.Management has requested that the virtual machine be reset to a known state once a week or on demand if requested.Which method is the simplest way to meet this requirement?

A. Configure the storage array to be vSphere aware and script routine array snapshot restores of the datastore.
B. Implement a 3rd party imaging server and PXE boot the virtual machine off a static image.
C. Set the VMDKs of the virtual machine to be Independent-Nonpersistent and schedule restarts of the virtual machine.
D. Create Nonpersistent disks for the virtual machine and set the guest OS to reboot once a week.

Answer : C

VCP5-DCV Sample Question

Question: 16

An administrator takes a vSphere snapshot of a virtual machine and applies an OS update.After confirming the update the administrator cannot enable Fault Tolerance on the virtual machine and suspects there are snapshots that have not been consolidated.Which two operations can the administrator perform to verify consolidation is needed? (Choose two.)

A. Expose the Needs Consolidation column in the virtual machines tab of the host.
B. Browse the datastore containing the vmdk files and look for files with the “-delta.vmdk” extension.
C. Expose the Needs Consolidation column in the virtual machine summary tab.
D. Select and run the vSphere Cluster HealthCheck from the right-click menu of the cluster object.

Answer : A,B

VCP5-DCV Sample Question

Question: 15

What are three true statements about quiescing virtual machine snapshots? (Choose three.)

A. vSphere snapshot quiescing only occurs on Windows guest OSes.
B. The quiescing operation is automatic with any snapshot.
C. The quiescing operation varies by guest OS.
D. Quiescing should occur before array-based snapshots to ensure consistency.
E. VMware Tools is required for quiescing to be successful.

Answer : C,D,E

VCP5-DCV Sample Question

Question: 14

An administrator is configuring Storage DRS in their environment. The Datastore cluster is composed of 4 VMFS3 volumes and 9 VMFS5 volumes. Storage DRS has been enabled, but is showing as disabled on several virtual machine disks in the datastore cluster. Which two conditions would cause this error to occur? (Choose two.)

A. The virtual machine is stored on a VMFS 3 volume.
B. One or more virtual machines have Persistent disks.
C. The virtual machine is stored on a NFS datastore.
D. The virtual machine is stored on a datastore with a 2mb block size.

Answer: A,B

VCP5-DCV Sample Question

Question No: 13

A user has permissions to create and manage alarms and tasks for a group of virtual machines.
What happens if an administrator modifies permissions for the user so that they can no longer manage alarms?

A. The user can no longer create alarms, but can modify or delete the existing alarms.
B. The user can create alarms but can no longer modify or delete alarms.
C. The user can no longer create, modify or delete alarms.
D. The Alarms tab is dimmed in the vSphere Client and no alarm-related actions may be taken by the user.

Correct Answer: B

VCP5-DCV Sample Question

Question No: 12

An administrator is enabling Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) in a DRS cluster. The administrator wants only hosts with the newest Intel processors added to the cluster. Which setting satisfies this requirement?

A. The baseline with the most CPUs listed
B. The baseline with the fewest CPUs listed
C. Any baseline that contains Future Intel processors
D. Create a new baseline and add only the latest processor family

Answer: D

VCP5-DCV Sample Question

Question No: 11

An administrator is configuring a stretched HA cluster. The administrator wishes to restrict the failover of VMs to certain hosts within a given site.
Which additional vSphere feature satisfies this requirement?

A. vSphere Distribited Switch
B. Distributed Resource Scheduler
C. Datastore Clusters
D. Host Folders

Answer: B

Section: (none)
Explanation

Explanation/Reference:
Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-4-esxvcenter/
index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vsphere.availability.doc_41/c_useha_works.html (see using VMware HA and DRS Together)