General VMware MCQs

1. True or False? vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package.

2. VMware ESXi is a free hypervisor.

3. What is the process to relocate a virtual machine from one host to another?

4. What is the name of VMware's personal computer application for Windows?

5. The latest version of VMware vSphere is?

6. Ben is an administrator for AJAX company. Ben has to allocate 200GB of storage space to a VM, but there is only 180GB available on the SAN. Can the task can be completed?

7. Vitual Machine sharing is available in VMware Workstation 9.

8. What does 'FT' stand for?

9. True or False? It is possible to have multiple thin provisioned disk on a single storage array whose maximum combined size exceeds the total capacity of the array.

10. True or False? Vmware Tools are required to support VMXNET3 network card.

11. True or False ? Vmware vCenter is required to perform vMotion.

12. Which process will remove a VMFS datastore from a host, but not affect the data residing on it?

13. Virtualization is not:

14. What components or features, are required to enable VMware HA?

15. What is the name of the tool used to manage stand alone ESX/ESXi hosts?

16. What is the latest GA version of VMware ESXi?

17. Vmware ESXi is a:

18. What's the name of the tool to convert a physical machine to a virtual?

19. True or False? It is not possible to have more than one vCenter server.

20. Which of the following products is available for free from VMware?

21. VMware vCenter is managed by:

22. VMware vSphere uses _____ technology.

23. Ben is an administraor for AJAX company. He noticed that VM migrations are occuring too often. What steps are necessary to minimize such behavior?

24. What is the default port number used to access the vSphere web client?

25. What is the difference between HA and DRS?

26. What is a Resource Pool?

27. What is the process to move a VMDK file from one array to another?

28. What does EVC stand for?

29. What does DRS stand for?

30. What does 'VMFS' stand for?

31. What are the vNetwork distributed switches?

32. What does 'RDM' stand for?

33. Which file do holds vm configuration in vsphere

34. True or False? VDI stands for Virtual Data Interchange, which is the underlying technology used to allow 1 VM to transfer its data and reboot on another host.

35. True or False? VMware ESXi is a free and Open Source product.

36. True or False? If you have a host with 2 processors and 48GB of RAM, the lowest tier license you can buy is Enterprise.

37. When vMotioning VMs between servers with different CPUs, what do you have to ensure for this to work?

38. What is function of the Memory Balloon Driver?

39. In a fiber channel disk environment what is the correct terminology for disk device identifiers

40. In what editions of vSphere is vMotion included?

41. True or False? A thin provisioned disk will only utilize the amount of space defined by the size of hard drive.

42. True or False? VMware Fusion is a storage technology that provides enterprise grade SSD storage at native bus speeds.

43. Which of the following is not a supported storage protocol in VMware vCenter?

44. True or False? A .vmdk file stores only virtual disks characteristics. Actual data is stored in -flat.vmdk file

45. What license do you need to buy if you need only vMotion and your hosts have 48GB of RAM

46. Ben is an administraor for AJAX company. He received a request from management to install a business-critical application. SLA's require near zero down time for this application. Application requirements state that a single vCPU is required.

47. What does 'CDP' stand for?

48. What is a Host isolation response used for?

49. Through the Hot Add feature, you can increase resources allocated to a virtual machine without having to power it down as long as:

50. Define 'network traffic shaping':

51. When installing VMware Tools in Linux, how do you mount the installer?

52. On which layer of OSI model, does virtual switch work?

53. True or False? VMware vSphere is a hosted type of virtualization.

54. True or False vSphere Update Manager is a 64-bit application?

55. What is the port number to access vCenter Virtual Appliance VAMI interface?

56. What port does iSCSI target running on?

57. Minimum RAM required to install VMware Workstation 9 is

58. What does TPS stand for?

59. You are asked to design a highly redundant, highly available vSphere environment for your company. Your network engineers require the ability to manage and monitor your virtual switches via SSH and SNMP. How can you provide terminal access into your virtual distributed switch?

60. True or False? VMWare Server is a type 1 hypervisor.

61. You are asked to help troubleshoot a virtual data center that is suffering from poor performance. There are 4 ESXi hosts running vSphere Enterprise Plus, each has dual 8 core Xeon processors, 48GB of RAM and each has 8 local drives configured in a RAID6 + Hot Spare array and 6x 1Gbps NIC configured in an active/standby pairs for management, vMotion, and VM network traffic. Each hosts is running between 30-40 virtual machines. You check esxtop to try and determine the cause. PCPU UTIL (%) is 30% MEMCTL/MB is 0 DAVG/CMD is 30ms %DRPTX is 0 What is the likely cause of the performance problems?

62. What does 'PSA' stand for?

63. If you want to monitor your VMware Infrastructure from your iPad, what do you have to have running in your infrastructure?

64. What does VASA stand for?

65. True or False? The VMware Storage Appliance is the latest version of VMware VSAN that allows you to configure baremetal hosts as a storage device.

66. Which of the following CHAP settings is available only on Software and Dependent Hardware iSCSI initiators?

67. Define 'VM ready time':

68. What is the default storage path selection mechanism in vSphere 5.0?

69. Use of the bundled SQL Express database included with VMware vCenter is limited to

70. How many ESXi hosts are you allowed to have in VMware Essentials Plus 5.0?

71. True or False? Storage device canonical name is persistent across reboots.

72. How do you initiate vMotion on a VM being managed by vCenter 5.5 without shared storage?

73. What license can you buy if you have a host with 32GB of RAM and need Host Profiles?

74. Your ESXi boot-process hanged on “running usbarbitrator start”. What are your actions?

75. In a shared storage environment, when multiple hosts access the same VMFS datastore, specific locking mechanisms are used. These locking mechanism prevent multiple hosts from concurrently writing to the metadata and ensure that no data corruption occurs. What type of VMFS disk locking is supported for storage devices using hardware acceleration

76. What methods can you conduct a vMotion of a VMguest between two vSphere 5.1 VMhosts that are in different DRS clusters and using only Locally Attached Storage?

77. It is possible to disable SSO component in vCenter Server ?

78. Which file contains virtual machine configuration information?

79. A VM is experiencing processor performance issues. What performance statistic would you look at to see the VM had work to do but could get scheduled access on a physical CPU.

80. What is the CLI tool that can be used to monitor and collect cpu, memory, networking and storage performance statistics in real time from the ESXi console?

81. What is the maximum VMFS 5 volume size?

82. Which of the following components of VMware Storage APls is responsible for enabling compliant storage for communicating with vCenter and reporting storage topology, capability and state information?

83. Which of the following statements is/are correct about VMware vSphere replication? 1) VMware vSphere replication provides the ability of replicating virtual machines inside the cluster or to a remote site. 2) This solution can only be executed on a per virtual machine basis and it cannot be integrated.

84. Which of the following commands is used for changing the speed of an Ethernet Port?

85. Which of the following ports is used by a vCenter client and a web client for providing mouse keyboard screen (MKS) service from a virtual machine to an end user over the TCP/lP?

86. Which of the following statuses will be available on the cluster if there is no network redundancy on the service console port?

87. Which of the following storage types does NOT provide RDM support?

88. Which of the following types of iSCSI uses a built-in code in ESXi for running the iSCSI protocol over standard Ethernet cards?

89. Which of the following is responsible for migrating virtual machines between ESXi hosts without taking down the virtual machines or ESXi hosts?

90. Which of the following statements is correct about expanding the reservation using expandable reservations?

91. Which of the following features of a virtual switch is responsible for enabling the administrator to ensure availability of bandwidth for different types of network traff‌ic?

92. What is the function of a vmmemctl driver in VMware?

93. Which of the following functions is performed by the Admission Control feature of HA?

94. Which of the given answer options provides the following capabilities?1) Supporting server failover along with IP address reconfiguration.2) Providing support for disaster recovery SRM to a remote VMware service provider in the cloud.3) Providing centralized recovery plans that are directly managed within a vCenter Server.

95. Which of the following is the extension of a BIOS/EFI configuration f‌ile in a virtual machine?

96. Which of the following commands is used for locking a user out of the system after too many failed login attempts?

97. While monitoring sensitivity of virtual machines inside the vSphere Cluster, which of the given options should be selected it you want to satisfy the following conditions?1) The checks should be made at an interval of one minute.2) The virtual machine should reboot after each failure for the f‌irst three failures every 24 hours.

98. Which of the following is used for connecting port groups and VMKerneI ports to a physical network?

99. Which of the following commands should be used for managing available add-ons via command line using ESXI4?

100. Which of the following CPU allocation policies is/are benef‌icial when upgrading the ESXi l-lost's memory or CPU?

101. In order to monitor the storage performance of an ESXi server, such as for displaying the ESXi server‘s SCSI adapters. which of the following keys should be pressed after running the esxtop command?

102. Which of the following statements is correct about memory overcommitment?

103. Which of the given network adapters has the following features?1) It Offers NetOueue support.2) It Offers MSl/MSl-X interrupt delivery.3) It Offers IPv6 Offloads.

104. Which of the following f‌iles should be modif‌ied in order to prevent the addition or removal of unwanted devices in VMware‘?

105. Which of the following is the correct benef‌it of Raw Disk Mapping (RDM)?

106. Which of the following must be enabled before enabling resource pools on a cluster?

107. Which of the following is the correct difference between vNetwork Distributed Switches (vDS) and vNetwork Standard Switches (VSS)?

108. What is the function of Port 8000 in VMware systems?

109. Which of the following is the correct syntax for enabling a specif‌ic service, say SERVICENAME, in the f‌irewall?

110. Which of the following is the correct command for restarting the vCenter agent on your ESXi server?

111. Which of the following is the correct syntax of command for entering the maintenance mode?

112. In vSphere virtual machines, which Of the following servers has the VMware hypervisor installed on it?

113. Which of the following commands is used for adding or customizing ports?

114. Which of the following is responsible for the simultaneous execution of a set of threads or processes, for the purpose of achieving higher performance?

115. What is the maximum size of datastore offered by vSphere Data Protection Advanced (VDPA)?

116. Which of the following virtual hardware cannot be configured or removed from a virtual machine?

117. Which of the following is the default number Of Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) interfaces provided by Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE controller to a virtual machine?

118. While creating a network for the software iSCSl initiator, which of the following f‌ields is optional and is only required to be specif‌ied if VLANs are used in the network infrastructure?

119. Which of the following commands should be used with the esxcli system module command for displaying the ELF header information for the given VMkerneI module?

120. Which of the following types of storage uses 15,000 RPM drives?

121. Which of the following statements is NOT correct about a vSwitch used in a virtual machine?

122. Which of the following is responsible for monitoring all virtual machines in a cluster and managing their resources?

123. Which of the following SCSI controllers or Adapter types is used for high l/O VMs (over 2000 IOPS)?

124. Which of the following storage types provides you 2, 4 or 8 Gbps of throughput from your ESXi servers to the SAN?

125. Which of the following is/are the correct functions of esxcli storage nfs command?1) It is used for listing NFS exports.2) It is used for mounting NFS exports from the VMkernel.3) It is used for unmounting NFS exports from the VMkernel.

126. Which of the following is the correct function of esxupdate utility?

127. What is the function of the following command? vdf -h

128. Which of the following statements is correct about Network Adapter Order?

129. Choose True or False.If the VMware Disk Shrinking Option is left enabled then any user can resize the virtual machine's disk, regardless of their permission on the virtual machine.

130. While configuring iSCSI in Windows virtual machine, which of the following options must be selected for handling the behind-the-scenes communication of iSCSI traffic?

131. Choose True or False. The IP address on your host ESXi can be changed, if required.

132. Which of the following statements is/are correct about enabling or disabling the copy and paste option?

133. What will be the effect of vCenter Server Outage on ESXi host's Vl function, Maintenance mode?

134. Which of the following is the correct parameter used to disable the copy option?

135. Which of the given operation modes, which is/are used by layer 2 security policy of vSwitches and port groups, has/have the following characteristics? 1) This mode lets the virtual machine receive all the traff‌ic that passes by on the network. 2) This is a beneficial mode as it helps an administrator in tracking network activities. 3) It is an insecure operation mode.

136. Which of the following commands is used for viewing the ESXi server's CPU usage?

137. Which of the following components of a virtual machine provides access to virtual disks?

138. Which of the following features is correct about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)? 1) It allows the end users to eliminate cables inside their racks. 2) It can only support up to 10 GB of connection.

139. Which of the following statements is correct about hyper threading on virtual machines?

140. Which of the following is responsible for determining whether or not a virtual machine will balloon?

141. Which of the following must be installed with Storage Recovery Manager (SRM) to leverage it in conjunction with storage-based replication?

142. Which of the following commands prints the hardware information of an ESXi server?

143. Which of the following features, which is used for selecting network adapters, is responsible for allowing large frames of up to 64 KB. regardless of MTU size, by breaking down the frame into MTU- sized frames with adjusted headers?

144. Which of the following ports must be created within the network component of a vCenter server before enabling ESXi to communicate with an iSCSI device?

145. Which of the following statements is/are NOT correct about ballooning?

146. Which two of the following capabilities are offered by vSphere Data Protection (VDP)?

147. Which two of the following drivers are helpful for eff‌icient and fast communication between virtual machines on the same ESXi host?

148. Which two of the following are the drawbacks of NFS?