VCP-550 Online Practice Questions and Answers

An administrator attempts to install vCenter Single Sign-On Server. The installer returns an error message indicating that the installation failed. Prior to the installation, all setup prerequisites were met. The administrator has generated a vCenter Server Single Sign-On support bundle.

Which two files should the administrator analyze to determine the cause of the failure? (Choose two.)

A. Server\utils\logs\imsTrace.log

B. Server\utils\logs\install.txt

C. %TEMP%\utils\logs\vminst.log

D. %TEMP%\vminst.log

A vSphere administrator is unable to vMotion a virtual machine between two hosts. An error message indicates that the USB device is not accessible on the target host. What is causing this issue?

A. The USB device was not enabled for vMotion when it was added to the virtual machine.

B. ESXi does not support vMotion with a USB device attached to the virtual machine.

C. The VMkernel port for vMotion is not enabled for USB traffic.

D. The virtual machine has the wrong USB controller installed.

An administrator using vCenter Operations Manager is viewing the health of an ESXi host in the environment. There have NOT been any reported outages or issues with the ESXi host, but the administrator needs to determine if the host is behaving normally.

Which minor badge should the administrator investigate to determine this information?

A. Faults

B. Anomalies

C. Stress

D. Health

During an upgrade, the ESXi 5.x installer finds an existing version of ESXi and a VMFS3 volume. No virtual machines exist on the host or VMFS3 volume. The requirement is to upgrade to VMFS5.

Which option should be chosen to meet this requirement?

A. Upgrade ESXi and preserve the VMFS datastore

B. Install ESXi and preserve the VMFS datastore

C. Install ESXi and overwrite the VMFS datastore

D. Upgrade ESXi and overwrite the VMFS datastore

A vSphere administrator upgrades a version 5.1.0 vSphere Distributed Switch to version 5.5.0. Another vSphere administrator, unaware of this change, tries to add an ESXi version

5.1.0 host to the switch and fails.

What is causing this addition of the ESXi host to fail?

A. The upgraded switch supports version 5.5 ESXi hosts only.

B. The upgraded switch must be set up for backwards compatibility.

C. The switch failed to upgrade properly.

D. A version 5.5 ESXi host must be added to the switch before the 5.1 host.

An administrator needs to use guest OS clustering in a vSphere environment that uses a Fibre Channel SAN. The clustering software does NOT have a SCSI target or a SCSI command pass-through requirement.

Which VMware storage type should the administrator use?

A. Physical RDM

B. VMFS

C. Virtual RDM

D. NFS

A vSphere administrator needs to reconfigure the Distributed Power Management (DPM) threshold to be more aggressive. Where should the administrator edit the settings of DPM in the vSphere Web Client?

A. DPM plug-in settings

B. Cluster settings

C. ESXi host power settings

D. vCenter Service Status

A large medical institution needs to centralize malware and anti-virus scanning in its environment. Which vSphere component will satisfy this requirement?

A. vShield Endpoint

B. vCloud Network and Security

C. vSphere Data Protection Advanced

D. vCenter Operations Manager

An administrator is considering using NPIV to assign WWNs to virtual machines. Virtual machine portability is a major concern. Why would NPIV be inappropriate for this deployment?

A. Virtual machines using NPIV must use DirectPath I/O.

B. Storage vMotion is not supported using NPIV.

C. vMotion is not supported using NPIV.

D. Enabling NPIV requires SR-IOV supported hardware.

Which steps should an administrator take to migrate existing ESXi 5.x virtual machines to a storage over-subscription model?

A. Right-click the .vmdk file, and click Deflate.

B. Right-click the .vmdk file, and click Compress.

C. Right-click the virtual machine, click Migrate, select the same datastore, and select Thin Provision.

D. Right-click the virtual machine, click Migrate, select a different datastore, and select Thin Provision.