Practice Exam 2V0-16.25: VCP - VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator

Question bank: 100 · timed mock exam: 135 min

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  • Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 62 questions
  • VMware vSphere Foundation Fundamentals 38 questions
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Question 1 VMware vSphere Foundation Fundamentals

While browsing a datastore, a junior administrator notices that a virtual machine that was recently converted to a template no longer has a .vmx file in its folder. Which file now plays the role of the configuration file for this template?

  1. The .vmsd file
  2. The .vmtx file
  3. The .nvram file
  4. The .vmxf file
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: B

When a virtual machine is converted to a template, a .vmtx file is created and replaces the .vmx configuration file.

Source: official documentation

Question 2 Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)

An engineer prepares a new vSphere Foundation deployment with the VCF Installer. Company policy requires a different root password on every ESX host, and the policy cannot be waived. How should the engineer proceed?

  1. Use the deployment wizard and let it auto-generate the ESX passwords
  2. Deploy by using a custom JSON specification file for the platform
  3. Use the deployment wizard and enter each host password separately
  4. Deploy VCF Operations first, then converge the hosts to vSphere Foundation
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Correct answer: B

The VCF Installer wizard requires all ESX hosts to share a common password; when hosts have different passwords, the deployment must use a JSON specification file.

Source: official documentation

Question 3 VMware vSphere Foundation Fundamentals

A hospital must replace a memory module in one ESX host during business hours. The electronic health record VMs on that host must keep running, and clinicians must not notice any interruption. Which vSphere capability addresses this planned maintenance?

  1. vSphere HA restarting the VMs on another host
  2. Storage vMotion of the VM disks to another datastore
  3. vMotion of the running VMs to other hosts
  4. Fault Tolerance enabled on each affected VM
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Correct answer: C

vMotion live-migrates running VMs with no disruption to users, which removes the need to schedule application downtime for planned server maintenance.

Source: official documentation

Question 4 Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)

A customer licenses vSphere Foundation 9.0 per core. The cluster has three ESX hosts, each with two physical CPUs of 12 cores. The product follows the standard minimum consumption rule. How many cores of license capacity does this cluster consume?

  1. 72 cores
  2. 48 cores
  3. 128 cores
  4. 96 cores
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Correct answer: D

CPUs with fewer than 16 cores consume 16 cores each. Three hosts with two CPUs give six CPUs, and six times 16 is 96 cores.

Source: official documentation

Question 5 VMware vSphere Foundation Fundamentals

In a vSphere HA and DRS cluster, host esx-07 is connected, not in maintenance mode, and has plenty of free CPU and memory. Nevertheless, operators cannot power on VMs on it, vMotion to it is refused, and DRS never places load on it. Which configuration best explains this behavior?

  1. The DRS automation level of the cluster is set to Manual
  2. HA admission control reserves a percentage of cluster resources
  3. The host isolation response of the cluster is set to power off
  4. esx-07 is a dedicated failover host in HA admission control
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: D

With dedicated failover hosts admission control, powering on VMs or migrating VMs with vMotion to a failover host is prevented, and DRS does not use the failover host for load balancing.

Source: official documentation

Question 6 Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)

A bank wants every browser and API connection to vCenter to present a certificate from its enterprise CA. Its policy forbids intermediate CAs, and the team wants to replace as few certificates as possible. Which certificate approach fits these constraints?

  1. Make VMCA an intermediate CA signed by the enterprise CA
  2. Replace every VMCA-signed certificate with custom certificates
  3. Use a hybrid approach: custom machine SSL, VMCA for solution users
  4. Keep all default VMCA-signed certificates and trust the VMCA root
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: C

The hybrid approach replaces the machine SSL certificates with custom certificates to secure all SSL traffic while VMCA keeps provisioning solution user certificates; it minimizes the number of certificates to replace and suits companies that do not allow intermediate CAs.

Source: official documentation

Question 7 VMware vSphere Foundation Fundamentals

A retailer publishes a content library of about 200 VM templates from its headquarters vCenter. A small store site with very little datastore capacity needs a subscribed library but will only ever deploy three or four of those templates. How should the subscribed library be configured?

  1. Download all library content immediately after the subscription is created
  2. Download library content only when needed, syncing metadata first
  3. Add the needed templates directly to the subscribed library by import
  4. Create a local library at the store and clone every template into it
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Correct answer: B

When the subscribed library downloads content only when needed, synchronization brings only the item metadata and does not download item contents, which saves storage space; only the items actually used are downloaded.

Source: official documentation

Question 8 Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)

A weekly capacity report is scheduled in VCF Operations with the Email report check box selected and recipients listed. The generated reports appear every Monday in VCF Operations, but nobody ever receives an email. What is the most likely cause?

  1. Outbound Alert Settings have not been configured in VCF Operations
  2. The schedule recurrence should be Daily for email delivery to work
  3. The report start time was not set on a 15-minute boundary
  4. The report template was not first shared with the recipients' group
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: A

Sending email reports requires Outbound Alert Settings to be configured; without them, reports are generated but not emailed.

Source: official documentation

Question 9 VMware vSphere Foundation Fundamentals

A company runs encrypted VMs in a small cluster installed in a branch office with weak physical security. The security team is worried that a stolen host could hold encryption keys, and it accepts that encrypted VMs depend on a reachable key server. Which key provider should the administrator configure?

  1. A standard key provider backed by an external key server
  2. The vSphere Native Key Provider for the branch cluster
  3. The vSphere Native Key Provider limited to hosts with a TPM
  4. The vSphere Native Key Provider with key persistence turned on
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Correct answer: A

For physical security concerns, the documentation recommends a standard key provider, which requires the key server to be available for encrypted VMs to function.

Source: official documentation

Question 10 Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)

A capacity planner asks for a VCF Operations view that uses the last six months of datastore usage to project when the datastores will run out of space. Which view type should the administrator create?

  1. A distribution view
  2. A trend view
  3. A summary view
  4. A list view
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: B

Trend views use historic data to generate trends and forecasts for resource use and availability.

Source: official documentation

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