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VCP-DCV 2023 2V0-21.23 Practice Questions

VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2023 (vSphere 8.x)

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Question 1

Following a merger with another company, an administrator is tasked with configuring an identity source for VMware vCenter so that all vSphere administrators can authenticate using their existing Active Directory accounts. Each company has user accounts in their own Active Directory forests.

The following additional information has been provided:

The corporate policy states that only Windows-based machine accounts are allowed in Active Directory.

Which action should the administrator take to configure vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) to meet this requirement?

Configure SSO to use Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication) as the identity source.
Configure SSO to use Active Directory over LDAP as the identity source.
Configure SSO to use OpenLDAP as the identity source.
Join the vCenter Server Appliance to the LDAP domain.

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Question 2

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.)

Add the virtual machine template to the subscribed content library.
Create a new published content library at the primary site.
Create a new published content library in each secondary site.
Create a new subscribed content library in each secondary site.
Add the virtual machine template to the published content library.
Configure each subscribed content library to download content immediately.
Configure the subscribed content library to download content when needed.

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Question 3

An administrator is responsible for the management of a VMware vCenter instance that is currently experiencing performance issues. The administrator quickly identifies that the CPU and memory utilization of vCenter is consistently over 80%. Upon further analysis, it seems that the the vpxd process is contributing significantly to the performance issue.

A combination of which four steps should the administrator take to resolve the performance issues and ensure that a similar issue can be rectified without requiring downtime to vCenter moving forward? (Choose four.)

Gracefully shut down vCenter using the vSphere Client.
Add additional CPU and memory to the vCenter Server Appliance.
Enable Memory Hot Add on the vCenter virtual machine.
Power on the vCenter Server Appliance using the vSphere Client.
Enable CPU Hot Add on the vCenter virtual machine.
Enable CPU and Memory Hot Add on the vCenter virtual machine.
Power on the vCenter Server Appliance using the vSphere Host Client.

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Question 4

A vSphere cluster has the following configuration:

Virtual machines (VMs) are running Production and Test workloads
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is enabled
There are no resource pools in the cluster

Performance monitoring data shows that the Production workload VMs are not receiving their fully allocated memory when the vSphere cluster is fully utilized.

A combination of which two steps could the administrator perform to ensure that the Production VMs are always guaranteed the full allocation of memory? (Choose two.)

Assign a memory reservation value to the resource pool containing the Production VMs.
Create a child resource pool for the Test VMs.
Create a parent resource pool for the Production VMs.
Create a sibling resource pool for each of the Production and Test VMs.
Assign a custom memory share value to the resource pool containing the Production VMs.

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Question 5

An administrator enables Secure Boot on an ESXi host. On booting the ESXi host, the following error message appears:

Fatal error: 39 (Secure Boot Failed)

What is the cause of this issue?

The administrator attempted to boot with a bootloader that is unsigned or has been tampered with.
The Trusted Platform Module chip has failed.
A package (VIB or driver) has been tampered with.
The kernel has been tampered with.

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Question 6

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.)

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.
VM1 must be manually migrated to another host within the cluster using vSphere Storage vMotion before esx01 is placed into maintenance mode.
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.
VM1 must be manually live migrated to another host within the cluster using vSphere vMotion before esx01 is placed into maintenance mode.
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.

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