Free 2V0-21.20 Sample Questions — Professional VMware vSphere 7.x

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Question 1

An administrator is utilizing Network I/O Control (NIOC) to allocate bandwidth utilization on a physical 10 Gbps adapter. What is the maximum amount of bandwidth that can be reserved?

  • A. 2.5 Gbps
  • B. 10 Gbps
  • C. 5.0 Gbps
  • D. 7.5 Gbps
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Correct Answer:
D. 7.5 Gbps
Question 2

An administrator can attach a baseline to which two inventory objects? (Choose two.)

  • A. Resource pools
  • B. Data centers
  • C. Datastores
  • D. Templates
  • E. ESXi hosts
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Data centers
  • E. ESXi hosts
Question 3

Which tool is used to monitor the vCenter Server Appliance resources?

  • A. vimtop
  • B. esxtop
  • C. esxcli
  • D. vmstat
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Correct Answer:
A. vimtop
Question 4

vCenter High Availability (HA) protects vCenter Server against host and hardware failures. What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required to enable this capability?

  • A. 5
  • B. 7
  • C. 1
  • D. 3
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Correct Answer:
D. 3
Question 5

An administrator is running a variety of vSphere 6.5 cluster configurations and is tasked with upgrading to vSphere 7.0. Which two conditions could cause potential conflicts or outages to the virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)

  • A. The use of a Windows vCenter Server system
  • B. Datastores attached to the hosts based on VMFS3
  • C. The upgrade of a vSphere Distributed Switch with VMs attached
  • D. The upgrade of an external platform services controller
  • E. The use of third-party custom vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) installed on the ESXi hosts
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Correct Answer:
  • C. The upgrade of a vSphere Distributed Switch with VMs attached
  • E. The use of third-party custom vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) installed on the ESXi hosts
Question 6

A vSphere environment is configured with 1 Gigabit Ethernet for vSphere vMotion. The application team is complaining that when they try to migrate a powered-on virtual machine, the progress is slow and unsuccessful the majority of the time. Which two recommendations should the administrator make to improve vSphere vMotion performance? (Choose two.)

  • A. Use at least two port groups
  • B. Use vSphere Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
  • C. Use 10 Gigabit Ethernet or above
  • D. Use Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on the port group
  • E. Disable vSphere Fault Tolerance
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Use at least two port groups
  • C. Use 10 Gigabit Ethernet or above
Question 7

Which feature is a prerequisite for Proactive High Availability (HA)?

  • A. vCenter High Availability
  • B. vSAN Cluster
  • C. Predictive Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)
  • D. vSphere Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)
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Correct Answer:
D. vSphere Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Question 8

Which resource pool setting is used to specify the relative priority or importance as high, normal or low?

  • A. Limits
  • B. Reservation type
  • C. Shares
  • D. Reservations
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Correct Answer:
C. Shares
Question 9

An administrator is trying to configure vCenter Single Sign-On from the vSphere Client but does NOT have permission. Which role is required in order to configure vCenter Single Sign-On?

  • A. vCenter Single Sign-On Administrator
  • B. vCenter Administrator
  • C. vCenter Server Appliance Root
  • D. vCenter Power User
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Correct Answer:
A. vCenter Single Sign-On Administrator
Question 10

Which virtual disk option allows a virtual machine to consume the minimum storage capacity?

  • A. Independent persistent
  • B. Lazy-zeroed thick-provisioned
  • C. Eager-zeroed thick-provisioned
  • D. Thin-provisioned
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Correct Answer:
D. Thin-provisioned
Question 11

What is a requirement of Storage I/O Control?

  • A. Storage connected through Fibre Channel
  • B. Management by a single vCenter Server
  • C. Datastores with multiple extents
  • D. Automated storage tiering capabilities
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Correct Answer:
B. Management by a single vCenter Server
Question 12

A new vSphere 7.0 environment is deployed with the following: ✑ A single vCenter Server ✑ Two vSAN clusters ✑ A vSAN default storage policy Which statement is true regarding virtual disk availability in this environment?

  • A. Replicas will be placed on different disk groups but can be placed on the same host
  • B. All stripes will be placed on different disk groups and cannot be placed on the same host
  • C. Each virtual disk will have four replicas of data
  • D. Each virtual disk will have two replicas of data
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Correct Answer:
D. Each virtual disk will have two replicas of data
Question 13

Which TCP/IP stack can support management traffic, vSphere vMotion, IP storage and vSphere Fault Tolerance?

  • A. VXLAN TCP/IP stack
  • B. Provisioning TCP/IP stack
  • C. Default TCP/IP stack
  • D. vSphere vMotion TCP/IP stack
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Correct Answer:
C. Default TCP/IP stack
Question 14

In a vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) cluster, which action does vSphere HA take when the VM Monitoring service does NOT receive heartbeats from a virtual machine (VM) in the cluster?

  • A. The VM is restarted on a different host in the cluster
  • B. The VM is suspended on the same host in the cluster
  • C. The VM is migrated to a different host in the cluster
  • D. The VM is restarted on the same host in the cluster
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Correct Answer:
D. The VM is restarted on the same host in the cluster
Question 15

What is the minimum CPU core requirement for successful installation, or upgrade, or ESXi on a host?

  • A. 8
  • B. 1
  • C. 32
  • D. 2
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Correct Answer:
D. 2
Question 16

What is a minimum disk controller requirement for VMware vSAN?

  • A. disk controller in JBOD mode
  • B. disk controller in pass-through or RAID 1 mode
  • C. disk controller in pass-through or RAID 5 mode
  • D. disk controller in pass-through or RAID 0 mode
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Correct Answer:
D. disk controller in pass-through or RAID 0 mode
Question 17

Which step is required when adding an existing hard disk that is configured as a boot disk during virtual machine creation?

  • A. Enable Secure Boot
  • B. Select 'RDM Disk' from the 'Add New Device' drop-down menu
  • C. Remove the existing disk before adding the boot disk
  • D. Set the boot delay to at least 5,000 milliseconds
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Correct Answer:
C. Remove the existing disk before adding the boot disk
Question 18

Which vSphere feature provides for continuous local data center availability?

  • A. vSphere Fault Tolerance
  • B. Cross vCenter Migration
  • C. vSphere Storage vMotion
  • D. vSphere Replication
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Correct Answer:
A. vSphere Fault Tolerance
Question 19

Which type of network adapter is designed to provide connectivity to hosts and handle the standard system traffic of vSphere vMotion?

  • A. VMkernel port
  • B. VXLAN virtual tunnel end point (VXLAN VTEP)
  • C. Virtual machine network interface card (VMNIC)
  • D. VM network
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Correct Answer:
A. VMkernel port
Question 20

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing vSphere environment to version 7.0. There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment. Which statement is true regarding this upgrade?

  • A. An ESXi 7.0 host will NOT recognize a VMFS3 datastore
  • B. VMFS3 is supported with ESXi 7.0 to store boot configurations only
  • C. VMFS5 datastore CANNOT be upgraded; a new VMFS6 datastore is required
  • D. An ESXi 7.0 host can automatically upgrade a VMFS5 datastore
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Correct Answer:
C. VMFS5 datastore CANNOT be upgraded; a new VMFS6 datastore is required

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