Free 2V0-21.23 Sample Questions — VMware vSphere 8.x Professional

What are three options an administrator can configure after creating a vSphere Namespace? (Choose three.)

• A. Backup schedule
• B. Certificates
• C. Storage policies
• D. Update policies
• E. Permissions
• F. Resource and Object limits

An administrator needs to provide encryption for workloads within an existing vSphere cluster. The following requirements must be met: Workloads should be encrypted at rest. Encrypted workloads must automatically be encrypted during transit. Encryption should not require any specific hardware. What should the administrator configure to meet these requirements?

• A. Encrypted vSphere vMotion
• B. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot
• C. Host Encryption
• D. VM Encryption

An administrator is tasked with configuring vSphere Trust Authority. The administrator has completed the following steps: Set up the workstation - Enabled the Trust Authority Administrator Enabled the Trust Authority State Collected information about the ESXi hosts and vCenter to be trusted Which step does the administrator need to complete next?

• A. Import the Trusted Host information to the Trust Authority Cluster
• B. Import the Trusted Cluster information to the Trusted Hosts
• C. Create the Key Provider on the Trusted Cluster
• D. Import the Trusted Host information to the Trusted Cluster

The vCenter inventory contains a virtual machine (VM) template called Linux-01. The adminis-trator wants to install a software patch into Linux-01 while allowing users to continue to access Linux-01 to deploy VMs. Which series of steps should the administrator take to accomplish this task?

• A. 1. Verify that Linux-01 is in a content library. 2. Clone Linux-01 3. Convert the clone to a VM. 4. Install the software patch
• B. 1. Convert Linux-01 to a VM 2. Install the software patch. 3. Convert the VM back to a VM template. 4. Add Linux-01 to the content library
• C. 1. Verify that Linux-01 is in a content library. 2. Check out Linux-01. 3. Install the software patch. 4. Check in Linux-01
• D. 1. Clone Linux-01. 2. Convert the clone to a VM. 3. Install the software patch. 4. Convert the VM back to a template

An administrator has mapped three vSphere zones to three vSphere clusters. Which two statements are true for this vSphere with Tanzu zonal Supervisor enablement? (Choose two.)

• A. One Supervisor will be created in a specific zone
• B. One Supervisor will be created across all zones
• C. Three Supervisors will be created in Linked Mode
• D. Individual vSphere Namespaces will be placed into a specific zone
• E. Individual vSphere Namespaces will be spread across all zones

An administrator is tasked with configuring certificates for a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) based on the following requirements: All certificates should use certificates trusted by the Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA). The solution should minimize the ongoing management overhead of replacing certificates. Which three actions should the administrator take to ensure that the solution meets corporate policy? (Choose three.)

• A. Replace the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) certificate with a self-signed certificate generated from the VMCA
• B. Replace the machine SSL certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise CA
• C. Replace the machine SSL certificates with trusted certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)
• D. Replace the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) certificate with a custom certificate generated from the Enterprise CA
• E. Replace the solution user certificates with custom certificates generated from the Enterprise CA
• F. Replace the solution user certificates with trusted certificates generated from the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)

Which three vSphere features are still supported for Windows-based virtual machines when enabling vSphere’s virtualization-based security feature? (Choose three.)

• A. vSphere vMotion
• B. PCI passthrough
• C. vSphere High Availability (HA)
• D. vSphere Fault Tolerance
• E. vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS)
• F. Hot Add of CPU or memory

An administrator is investigating reports of users experiencing difficulties logging into a VMware vCenter instance using LDAP accounts. Which service should the administrator check as part of troubleshooting?

• A. vSphere Authentication Proxy Service
• B. Lookup Service
• C. Identity Management Service
• D. VMware Authentication Framework Daemon

An administrator decides to restore VMware vCenter from a file-based backup following a failed upgrade. Which interface should the administrator use to complete the restore?

• A. Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
• B. vCenter Management Interface (VAMI)
• C. vSphere Client
• D. vCenter GUI Installer

An administrator creates a new corporate virtual machine (VM) template every month to include all of the latest patches. The administrator needs to ensure that the new VM template is synchronized from the primary data center site (London) to two secondary data center sites (Tokyo and New York). The administrator is aware that datastore space is limited within the secondary data center sites. The administrator needs to ensure that the VM template is available in the secondary sites the first time a new virtual machine is requested. Which four steps should the administrator take to meet these requirements? (Choose four.)

• A. Create a new published content library at the primary site
• B. Add the virtual machine template to the subscribed content library
• C. Create a new published content library in each secondary site
• D. Create a new subscribed content library in each secondary site
• E. Configure the subscribed content library to download content when needed
• F. Configure each subscribed content library to download content immediately
• G. Add the virtual machine template to the published content library

An administrator is attempting to configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC) on five datastores within a vSphere environment. The administrator is being asked to determine why SIOC configuration completed successfully on only four of the datastores. What are two possible reasons why the configuration was not successful? (Choose two.)

• A. The datastore contains Raw Device Mappings (RDMs)
• B. SAS disks are used for the datastore
• C. The datastore has multiple extents
• D. The datastore is using ISCSI
• E. The administrator is using NFS storage

An administrator is adding a new ESXi host to an existing vSphere cluster. When selecting the cluster, the administrator is unable to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow to add and configure the additional host. What could be the root cause of this issue?

• A. The administrator has previously dismissed the Cluster Quickstart workflow
• B. The administrator must manually add the host to the cluster before using the Cluster Quickstart workflow
• C. The administrator has not been assigned the required permissions to use the Cluster Quickstart workflow
• D. The administrator must enable the Cluster Quickstart workflow option in VMware vCenter

An administrator is asked to configure a security policy at the port group level of a standard switch. The following requirements must be met: The security policy must apply to all virtual machines on portgroup-1. All traffic must be forwarded, regardless of the destination. Which security policy must the administrator configure?

• A. Forged transmits set to reject
• B. MAC address changes set to accept
• C. Promiscuous mode set to reject
• D. Promiscuous mode set to accept

An administrator is tasked with implementing a backup solution capable of backing up the Su-pervisor cluster, vSphere Pods, and persistent volumes. Which two solutions must be used to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

• A. VMware vCenter
• B. Standalone Velero and Restic
• C. NSX-T Manager
• D. vSphere Host Client
• E. Velero Plugin for vSphere

An administrator notices a performance issue in VMware vCenter. To try and understand more about the performance issue, the administrator needs to gather more information about the vCenter database to eliminate a potential disk space issue. Which two tools can the administrator use? (Choose two.)

• A. vCenter Management Interface (VAMI)
• B. Perfmon
• C. df
• D. esxtop
• E. vSphere Client

Which two datastore types store the components of a virtual machine as a set of objects? (Choose two.)

• A. VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
• B. VMware vSAN
• C. Network File System (NFS) 3
• D. vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
• E. Network File System (NFS) 4.1

An administrator is responsible for performing maintenance tasks on a vSphere cluster. The cluster has the following configuration: Identically configured vSphere ESXi hosts (esx01, esx02, esx03 and esx04) All workloads are deployed into a single VMFS datastore provided by the external storage array vSphere High Availability (HA) has not been enabled vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) has not been enabled Currently, a critical production application workload (VM1) is running on esx01. Given this scenario, which two actions are required to ensure VM1 continues to run when esx01 is placed into maintenance mode? (Choose two.)

• A. Fully automated DRS must be enabled on the cluster so that VM1 will be automatically migrated to another host within the cluster when esx01 is placed into maintenance mode
• B. VM1 must be manually shut down and cold migrated to another host within the cluster using vSphere vMotion before esx01 is placed into maintenance mode
• C. vSphere HA must be enabled on the cluster so that VM1 will be automatically migrated to another host within the cluster when esx01 is placed into maintenance mode
• D. VM1 must be manually live migrated to another host within the cluster using vSphere vMotion before esx01 is placed into maintenance mode
• E. VM1 must be manually migrated to another host within the cluster using vSphere Storage vMotion before esx01 is placed into maintenance mode

An administrator is tasked with installing VMware vCenter. The vCenter Server Appliance must support an environment of: 400 hosts 4000 virtual machines Which two resources must be allocated, at a minimum, to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. 16 vCPUs
• B. 30 GB Memory
• C. 4 vCPUs
• D. 8 vCPUs
• E. 20 GB Memory

An administrator is performing maintenance activities and discovers that a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore has a lot more used capacity than expected. The datastore contains 10 virtual machines (VMs) and, when the administrator reviews the contents of the associated datastore, discovers that five virtual machines have a snapshot file (-delta.vmdk files) that has not been modified in over 12 months. The administrator checks the Snapshot Manager within the vSphere Client and confirms that there are no snapshots visible. Which task should the administrator complete on the virtual machines to free up datastore space?

• A. Consolidate the snapshots for each VM
• B. Inflate the disk files for each VM
• C. Delete all snapshots for each VM
• D. Storage vMotion each VM to another datastore

Which step is completed during Stage 1 of the vCenter Server Appliance deployment?

• A. Join a vCenter Single Sign-On domain
• B. Create a new vCenter Single Sign-On domain
• C. Select the deployment size
• D. Configure SSH access