Sunday, 1 January 2017

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.

Thursday, 15 December 2016

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.

Wednesday, 10 August 2016

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

Tuesday, 26 July 2016

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

Friday, 1 July 2016

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

Thursday, 16 June 2016

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

Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Microsoft Azure beats Amazon and Google in Forrester Wave for Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions

In the latest report from Forrester Wave for large volumes of cloud Hadoop data solutions, has joined Microsoft Azure beat Google and Amazon Web Services. After evaluation of 37 criteria, Forrester acknowledged Microsoft Azure as a leader in Big Data Hadoop cloud solutions.

We are pleased to see Microsoft as evidenced in the large volumes of cloud Forrester Wave Data Hadoop, "said Matt Morgan, vice president of products and marketing alliance Hortonworks." The engineering teams Hortonworks and Microsoft worked hand in hand in the manufacture azure HDInsight the best platform for the deployment of the data platform. We hope to continue our strong partnership together to give our customers the best options for the Hadoop deployment on site in the cloud, or hybrid scenarios. " 

Microsoft specifically was called for a first cloud strategy is bearing fruit. Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Product Marketing, the platform of data that said the following in a recent post,
 
Our goal is to make a large processing and analysis easier and more accessible to bring large amounts of data data worldwide. We do this by following the intelligence Cortana, offering a solution for large volumes of data and analysis fully managed in the cloud. In Cortana Intelligence is the Azure data lake, including HDInsight a Hadoop managed service running Hortonworks Data Platform, Lake Details Analytics, a new integrated wireless Apache their big data jobs dynamically adapts the service, and Lake store data, a single repository data capture of any size, type and speed. We also provide images in Azure IaaS market deploying any distribution of Hadoop third (Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR).