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Exam VCAC510
VMware CertifiedAssociateCloud (VCA-Cloud)
Version: 8.1
Before you begin the rollout of your private cloud, the technical project leader wants to
ensure you have the vSphere components required by vCloud Director in place first. Which
two vSphere components are required by vCloud? (Choose two.)
A. ESXi hypervisor
B. vCenter Server
C. vSphere Data Protection
D. vCenter Orchestrator
Answer: A,B
Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vcd-
51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vcloud.install.doc_51%2FGUID-C258BED7-9664-
4DFE-B812-100281D4D460.html
Question No : 2
Your small startup does not have a budget for capital equipment. What type of cloud would
initially best suit your needs?
A. Private cloud
B. Public cloud
C. Organization cloud
D. Hybrid cloud
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.aerohive.com/pdfs/Aerohive-Whitepaper-Public-or-Private-Cloud.pdf
(page 2, see public cloud service overview)
Question No : 3
A colleague hears you have just completed vCloud training. She asks you to explain
vCenter Operations Manager and its relationship to the vCloud Suite. What do you tell her?
Answer: C
Reference: http://www.petri.co.il/vcenter-operations-manager-5-review.htm#
Question No : 4
Your manager tells you, "We need the ability to non-disruptively adjust our clients' resource
capacity based on their business growth." Which vCloud feature will you use to do this?
A. Organization vDC
B. Fast Provisioning
C. Service Catalog
D. vCloud APIs
Answer: A
Question No : 5
Management at your company has asked you to give a presentation outlining why you want
to move to a private cloud. As part of this presentation you are explaining vCloud Director
and its capabilities. Which of the following describes something vCloud Director can do for
your cloud project?
Answer: C
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-Architecting-vCloud-WP.pdf (page
15, vcloud director constructs)
Question No : 6
Your company has just undertaken a new research project where network security is
critical. As you are configuring your private cloud to support this new project, which vCloud
Networking and Security feature will you be setting up to provide the required security?
A. NAT
B. Private VLAN
C. Endpoint
D. Firewall
Answer: D
Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/06/vcloud-networking-and-security-5-1-
app-firewall-best-practices.html
Question No : 7
Your manager has just tasked you with examining your data center environment and
ensuring you are operating as efficiently as possible. Which option represents an Efficiency
challenge your company might face?
Answer: A
Question No : 8
After this morning's high-level, sales-oriented cloud seminar, your colleague is still unclear
Answer: B
Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vcd-
51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vcloud.api.doc_51%2FGUID-6DA11728-5405-4554-
BEFD-81E8F4D80161.html
Question No : 9
Your manager wants you to setup a more dynamic set of alarms, more responsive to the
workload changes in the cloud environment. To accomplish this, which of the following
vCenter Operations Manager alarms features would you use?
A. Self-Adjusting Alerts
B. Dynamic Alerts
C. Dynamic Thresholds
D. Smart Alerts
Answer: D
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vcenter/VMware-vCenter-Operations-DS-
EN.pdf (Search for smart alerts)
Question No : 10
You are talking with a potential customer about your cloud services. They are concerned
that, in the ever-changing cloud workload environment, monitoring performance and
reacting to problems based upon static alarm settings will not work. They want assurance
Answer: D
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcops-5-getting-started-guide.pdf (page 8)
Question No : 11
You need the ability to quickly react to business changes and acquisitions by deploying
virtual machines in a variety of cloud environments. Which vCloud product will solve this
problem?
A. vCloud Connector
B. vCloud Automation Center
C. vCloud Director
D. vCloud Networking and Security
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.viktorious.nl/2013/02/26/what-is-vcloud-automation-center/
Question No : 12
You need to deploy a consistently configured workload with multiple VMs. Another group in
your company has already defined just such a workload. Rather than recreate your own
workload definition, which feature would allow you to deploy the workload as defined by the
other group?
A. Auto Deploy
B. vCloud Catalog
C. vCenter Template
Answer: B
Reference:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC
&externalId=1026324
Question No : 13
Your customer needs to simplify network service deployment and reduce the amount of
time spent configuring their existing physical network infrastructure. How will VMware NSX
help your customer achieve these goals?
A. VMware NSX only utilizes virtual switches. The customer will have to install and
configure physical switches to carry virtual switch traffic.
B. VMware NSX provisions virtual ESXI servers to bypass the need for configuring the
physical switching infrastructure.
C. VMware NSX provisions network services in software, removing the need to configure
the physical network infrastructure.
D. VMware NSX removes the need for physical switches, reducing deployment time.
Answer: A
Question No : 14
A company has recently bought out a competitor and is now integrating them into their
existing architecture.
Which VMware component or feature will allow them to place newly-created virtual
machines on the best compute resources, regardless of whether those resources are at the
main site or the new branch location?
A. VXLAN
B. Load Balancer
C. Firewall
D. DHCP
Answer: A
Question No : 15
You are required by your company to deploy a multi-tier application. You must take into
account the CPU and Memory needs of the application while ensuring that the security of
each workload is protected using dynamic firewalls.
Which products allow you to deliver your vApp as required? (Choose two.)
A. vSphere Replication
B. VMware NSX
C. vCloud Automation Center
D. vCenter Server
Answer: B,C
Question No : 16
Your company has decided to use server, storage and networking equipment from a Public
Cloud service provider. Your agreement with the provider says that you will have complete
control over the virtual machine operating systems and will have the ability to configure
services and software to best accomplish your business goals.
Answer: C
Question No : 17
You have audited a customers private cloud and found that in the event of an outage, they
cannot recover virtual machines quickly enough as determined by their recovery time
objective. They do not have the budget to invest in building separate recovery site.
Answer: C
Question No : 18
Your company's cloud technical architect has decided to utilize vCloud Automation Center
to deploy applications and services within your private cloud. Which of the following can be
deployed with vCloud Automation Center?
A. Provider vDCs
B. Organization
C. vDCs vApps
D. Templates
Answer: D
Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/appdirector-
5.2/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.appdirector5.2.using.doc%2FGUID-FA1DAAB7-
2CB7-4BF2-822A-6B49380FF4B7.html 111
Question No : 19
You have just finished deploying your companys private cloud. Now, management wants
to make sure everything continues to run well and that you are meeting all of your Service-
Level Agreements. Which vCloud software component will best help you to do this?
Question No : 20
As a consultant at a public cloud provider, you must provide a way of delivering services
through a user interface that:
Answer: A
Question No : 21
Answer: A
Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vchs/index.jsp?topic=%2FGUID-FD4D5E84-1AB8-
4A1B-8C3F-769176FCD154%2FGUID-375065F3-110A-4B84-99FA-FB8467361960.html
(see virtual private cloud service option)
Your manager has been wondering why, in a cloud-based virtual environment, you cannot
continue to use the traditional management tools you have been using before you
transitioned to the cloud. How would you explain to your manager why you need to use a
management tool like vCenter Operations Manager?
A. All management functions in the cloud must run on a vCenter server as vCenter is
where performance data is collected
B. Traditional network management software cannot capture virtual network packets for
analysis
C. Virtual environments use resources differently than pure physical environments
D. Management agents written for physical environments will not work in virtual machines
Answer: C
Question No : 23
In planning for your upcoming transition to vCloud Director, your manager asks you if and
how you can leverage your existing vSphere 5.x installation. How to you advise your
manager?
A. vCloud Director installs a new vSphere infrastructure, but we can reuse the existing
shared storage
B. We can use the existing vSphere infrastructure but will have to reinstall vCenter
C. We should start with a fresh vSphere infrastructure dedicated to vCloud Director.
D. vCloud Director wipes out everything, including shared storage
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vCloud/VMware-vCloud-Director-51-
Evaluation-Guide.pdf
Question No : 24
You have been put in charge of configuring several new vApps in your private cloud. Your
company's security policy dictates users on one project not see the IP addresses used on
another project. Which vCloud Networking and Security feature would you setup to
A. VXLAN
B. VPN
C. Firewall
D. NAT
Answer: A
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-VXLAN-Deployment-
Guide.pdf
Question No : 25
You have been assigned as a mentor to a new hire within the virtualization group who has
asked to you to explain what Site Recovery Manager does. You tell her that after a disaster
or in anticipation of a disaster-type event, Site Recovery Manager:
A. Before the disaster event, SRM replicates specified VMs at the recovery site and powers
them on, so that it can switch control to the recovery site VMs after a disaster
B. Leverages vSphere Replication to move VMs offsite
C. Automatically reboots specified ESXi servers and VMs in place at your local datacenter
as the earliest opportunity
D. Moves your VMs to a public cloud provided by an approved third party provider
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.iland.com/blog/corinne-schmidt/vsphere-replication-iland-cloud-
removing-need-3rd-party-replication
Question No : 26
Your manager wants to move a virtual machine to VMwares vCloud Hybrid Service and
wants to know which storage option to utilize. The virtual machine is running a non-
business critical application and is currently located on your Tier 3 (Bronze) storage.
What is the most cost effective service option for the virtual machine?
Answer: B
Question No : 27
A company has experienced significant growth over the past year and needs a more
streamlined method of deploying large numbers virtual machines and virtual networks.
Which two components can be implemented within the companys virtual environment to
accomplish this task? (Choose two.)
A. NSX Manager
B. vCloud Automation Center
C. vSphere Standard Switching
D. vCenter operations Manager
Answer: A,B
Question No : 28
Your development team is using pre-configured and deployed web, database, and
application servers installed as virtual machines in your company cloud. Which type of
service are they using?
Answer: B
Reference: http://docs.hol.vmware.com/HOL-2013/HOL-SDC-1314_html_en/
Question No : 29
A. vCloud Connector
B. vCenter Orchestrator
C. vFabric Hyperic
D. vCloud Automation Center
Answer: B
Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/2013/04/vcenter-operations-integration-
with-vcenter-orchestrator-in-5-minutes-or-less.html
Question No : 30
Management has decided that it makes business sense for your company to move to a
hybrid cloud environment. They are concerned, however, that this may increase complexity
by requiring multiple logins into multiple interfaces.
Which product should your present to management to allow a single pane of glass
operations interface for all VMs within the hybrid cloud environment?
A. vCloud Connector
B. VMware NSX
C. vFabric Suite
D. vCenter Server
Answer: A
Question No : 31
Your manager tells you he wants the ability to roll back broken or unauthorized
configuration changes to a previous known good state. Which product will solve this
problem?
Answer: B
Reference: http://cloud.idglabs.net/?p=1873
Question No : 32
You and a new hire have been assigned the task of building out the Org vDC and Provider
vDC components of your company's new private cloud. You give the Org vDC part to the
new hire and she asks you: "What is this Org vDC thing I will be building?" How do you
describe an Org vDC to her?
Answer: B
Reference:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC
&externalId=1026339 (4th row of the table)
Question No : 33
Your manager is asking you to explain how Chargeback relates to other VMware software
components. How would you explain this to him?
A. Chargeback is integrated with vCloud components only as vCloud can provide both the
cloud- and vSphere-related data Chargeback needs.
B. Chargeback is integrated with vSphere only, collecting data from vCenter's database.
C. Chargeback is a standalone product, collecting all data itself and has no direct
interaction with any other VMware software products.
D. Chargeback is integrated with vCenter and vCloud components, vCenter for vSphere-
related data and vCloud for cloud-related data.
Question No : 34
You received an email from your cloud team's senior technical architect asking you to
implement snapshots in your cloud where it makes sense to do so. You ask the architect to
clarify where in your cloud it would make the most sense to use snapshots. Which of the
following is the most likely answer they would give you?
Answer: C
Reference: http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/definition/VMware-snapshot
Question No : 35
While giving a technical presentation on cloud concepts and components, you are asked to
define the Sortware-Defined Enterprise. How do you respond?
Question No : 36
A. Elastic
B. Infrastructure
C. Transient
D. Management
Answer: B
Question No : 37
Change control wants to ensure all VM templates and vApp templates deployed in either
cloud come from a single unified media source. Which of the following are you going to
utilize to implement this change control policy?
Answer: B
Reference:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC
&externalId=2041911
Question No : 38
Your development team has informed you that they frequently run tests which require three
VMs and take two days to run. When the tests are complete, there is no further need to
A. vCloud Director
B. vFabric Suite
C. vCenter Orchestrator
D. vCloud Automation Center
Answer: D
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/management/vmw-vcloud-automation-center-
faq.pdf
Question No : 39
You are talking with a potential customer about your cloud services. They are concerned
that, in the ever-changing cloud workload environment, monitoring performance and
reacting to problems based on static alarm settings will not work. They want assurance
their workloads will be properly monitored in the cloud based on their environments
realtime data.
Which vCenter Operations Manager alarm feature will best address this concern?
A. Self-Learning Analytics
B. Adaptive Alarms
C. Dynamic Thresholds
D. Auto Reactive Alarms
Answer: C
Question No : 40
You work at a small ISP and need to provide multiple virtual datacenters for your multi-
tenancy environment. Which of the following would you do to build a multi-tenancy
environment?
Answer: B
Reference:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC
&externalId=1026339
Question No : 41
Your IT director had asked about the types of infrastructure platforms that vCloud
Automation Center can deliver services across. Which three platform types will you include
in your response? (Choose three.)
A. Cloud
B. Provider
C. Physical
D. Organization
E. Virtual
Answer: A,C,E
Question No : 42
Management has decided it makes business sense for your company to move to a hybrid
cloud environment but has the concern that once you have made the move, managing your
many VMs across the various clouds will require multiple logins with multiple interfaces.
Which product would you describe to management to reassure them that you have a single
pane of glass style operational interface for all of the VMs in this hybrid cloud environment?
A. vCenter Server
B. vCloud Connector
C. vCloud Director
D. vFabric Suite
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/infrastructure/vmware-offers-
hybrid-cloud-management-co/229203097
Question No : 43
You are developing a workflow for your Test and Development environment and need to
run a script that will generate a work order ticket.
Which VMware Cloud product provides out of the box plug-ins to assist you in completing
this task?
A. vSphere HA
B. vCenter Orchestrator
C. vCenter Operations Manager
D. vCloud Connector
Answer: B
Question No : 44
Your development group wants to automate the configuration, deployment and subsequent
updating of a multi-tier app they are developing. Which of the following products will allow
development to do this?
A. vFabric Hyperic
B. vFabric Application Director
C. vCloud Connector
D. vCloud Director
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vCloud-Suite-Pricing-Packaging-
Whitepaper.pdf (page 5)
Question No : 45
As your company is growing, you will soon need to open a branch office in a remote city.
You would like to give your colleagues there the same access to your company's cloud you
A. Load Balancing
B. VPN
C. Firewall
D. NAT
Answer: B
Reference:
http://download3.vmware.com/vcat/vcat31_documentation_center/index.html#page/Archite
cting%20a%20vCloud/3a%20Architecting%20a%20VMware%20vCloud.2.143.html
Question No : 46
You work at a small, but rapidly expanding chain of retail stores. You have a private cloud
in place which works well most of the year, but to manage the annual holiday peak load on
your Internet store, you have decided to utilize a hybrid cloud as needed. Which two
components are required when deploying a hybrid cloud environment? (Choose two.)
A. vFabric Hyperic
B. vCloud Connector
C. vCenter Operations Management Suite
D. vCloud Director
Answer: B,D
Reference:
http://download3.vmware.com/vcloud_assets/Doc/PDF/MovingCloudWorkloads-vCC.pdf
Question No : 47
You have several vApps you need to deploy which process sensitive company information.
In order to protect the entire network where each of these vApps runs, which vCloud
Networking and Security feature would you utilize?
Answer: B
Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/05/using-app-firewall-with-vxlan-
networks.html
Question No : 48
If you are trying to find out if you have a load-based performance issue, which of the
following metrics is significant in a virtual environment but, generally, not in a physical
environment?
Answer: C
Question No : 49
Your consulting firm has asked you to advise a large enterprise client which has not yet
moved to a cloud infrastructure. This client is running the majority of their servers in a
virtualized vSphere environment and, initially, wants to know why they should deploy a
private cloud.
Which of the following would be a compelling reason for the client to make the jump to the
cloud?
Question No : 50
Before your company transitioned to the cloud, one of the recurring problems you had with
virtualization was VM creep; the tendency to deploy VMs on request which, eventually,
became all but unused, needlessly consuming compute and storage resources. What
product can be used to help eliminate this VM creep problem?
Answer: C
Explanation: http://www.pivotal.io/products/vfabric
Question No : 51
A newly-hired member of your team asks you to explain Site Recovery manager to her.
You tell her that after a disaster or in anticipation of a disaster-related event, Site Recovery
Manager takes which action?
A. SRM automatically reboots specified ESXi servers and VMs in place at your local
datacenter as the earliest opportunity.
B. SRM moves your VMs to a public cloud provided by an approved third party provider.
C. SRM leverages vSphere Replication to automate the failover of VMs to another physical
location.
D. Before the disaster event, SRM replicates specified VMs at the recovery site and powers
them on, so that it can switch control to the recovery site VMs after a disaster.
Answer: C
You have been tasked with automating the recurring deployment of a multi-tier application
with varying virtual hardware requirements. Which vFabric feature will you use to create a
deployment plan which can be reused?
A. Blueprint
B. Road Map
C. Deployment Guide
D. App Template
Answer: A
Reference:
http://pubs.vmware.com/vfabric52/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vfabric.appdirector.1.0/ap
pdirector.html (5th bullet)
Question No : 53
You have a virtual machine with large amounts of data that you wish to protect by
replicating the data to VMwares vCloud Hybrid Service Disaster Recovery Service. You
are concerned about the amount of data that you initially have to transfer across the
network before beginning replication.
Which feature can you utilize to minimize the amount of data you need to transfer before
beginning replication?
Answer: A
Question No : 54
During a discussion about Storage Service Classes, an intern asks what factors should be
considered when choosing one type of Storage Service Class over another.
Which two criteria should be considered when creating Storage Service Classes? (Choose
A. Level of Protection
B. Cost
C. Number of Platters
D. Operating System compatibility
Answer: A,B
Question No : 55
Your organization has decided to use a hybrid cloud. During the weekly staff meeting, a
colleague asks why the decision to use a hybrid cloud was made. Which scenarios best
show the use case for a hybrid cloud? (Choose two.)
A. You are a small company and do not want to deal with your own datacenter and
equipment
B. You want to periodically offload high demand development test cycles
C. You want to occasionally move data between different corporate private clouds
D. You have a mixture of physical and virtual servers
Answer: A,B
Question No : 56
Your manager is concerned that the creation of hundreds of identical VMs is needlessly
taking up too much storage space. You explain that this can be avoided by making use of
which vCloud feature?
A. Storage DRS
B. Snapshots
C. Templates
D. Linked Clones
Answer: D
Question No : 57
Which two products will help you achieve this task? (Choose Two)
Answer: A,C
Question No : 58
You manager has just returned from a sales-oriented cloud seminar and is still unclear on
the types of services users can request through the self-service catalog using vCloud
Automation Center.
Which three services will you include in your answer? (Choose three.)
Answer: A,B,C
Question No : 59
While attending a vCloud overview seminar, the presenter is describing how vCloud
leverages many existing vSphere features in building clouds. What does vCloud Director
use to provide CPU/RAM resource allocation and separation?
A. Resource Affinity
B. Organization vDC
C. VASA Service Class
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-Architecting-vCloud-WP.pdf
Question No : 60
Your manager asks you to set up your company's private cloud so that you can provide
various compute and storage service level offerings. What component in vCloud Director
would you configure to provide the different service level offerings?
A. Storage Clusters
B. vCenter Resource Pools
C. Provider vDC
D. Org vDC
Answer: C
Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vcd-51/topic/com.vmware.vcloud.api.doc_51/GUID-
6DA11728-5405-4554-BEFD-81E8F4D80161.html
Question No : 61
As part of setting up your company's disaster recovery plan, the technical project manager
has identified the need to synchronize storage used by your cloud VMs to the remote
disaster recovery site. Which of the following will you use to setup storage synchronization?
A. vCloud Connector
B. vSphere Replication
C. Datastore Clusters
D. vCloud Automation Center
Answer: C
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/business-continuity/disaster-recovery
Question No : 62
The users in your department are accessing their day-to-day applications (and their data)
over the network using a web browser. What type of service are they utilizing?
Answer: A
Reference: http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/Software-as-a-Service
Question No : 63
Your manager heard on a webinar that vCenter Operations Manager has the ability to
create custom groups so that he could better align performance and management
decisions with the business. Which two custom groups could you create? (Choose two.)
A. DRS/HA Cluster
B. Application
C. vCenter Datacenter
D. Line of business
Answer: B,D
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcops-56-getting-started-guide.pdf
Question No : 64
Your manager is planning next years capital expense budget and asks if its possible to
know when the infrastructure components in your cloud will run out of capacity and
therefore need upgrading. You tell him you can get that information using vCenter
Which vCenter Operations Manager Super Metric badge would you look under to see the
time remaining and capacity remaining for your infrastructure components?
A. Performance
B. Efficiency
C. Health
D. Risk
Answer: D
Question No : 65
Your manager, although not a network expert, knows the network group has informed her
that your current company infrastructure is nearly out of VLANs for deploying additional
networks. You are already growing to the point where this is going to soon become a
serious issue. How would you explain to your manager how vCloud Networking and
Security (vCNS) solves this problem?
A. vCNS uses specialized network hardware to extend the network capabilities in vCenter
B. vCNS extends vCenter Standard Switches to support VXLANs
C. vCNS uses virtual appliances to build software defined networks
D. vCNS increases the maximum number of supported VLANs
Answer: C
Reference: https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vcns/vmware-vcloud-networking-
and-security-overview.pdf (page 3, architecture)
Question No : 66
Your manager asks you to explain the relationship between vCloud Director and vSphere.
How do you explain this to him?
Answer: C
Explanation:
vCloud leverages ESXi and vCenter (vCenter is required to administrate your virtual
infrastructure, certain tasks will have to be done first in vCenter, such as creating a
HA/DRS cluster, configuring the distributed virtual switch, adding hosts, etc. vCloud
Director will talk to your vCenter servers. To create a cloud youll need both vCenter and
vCD.)
Question No : 67
You have Site Recovery Manager (SRM) in place to protect critical vCloud servers in the
event of a disaster. Over lunch, a manager asks you why SRM is configured to protect only
the vCloud servers and not the actual department workload VMs. What do you tell her?
A. The workload VMs are on fenced networks, which can't be failed over.
B. SRM can't fail over the workload VMs, but it is a simple matter to restart them once the
vCloud servers have failed over.
C. Workload VM failover is implied when you failover the vCloud infrastructure servers.
D. vCloud workloads can be migrated with vCloud Director once it has failed over and so
are not required to be protected with SRM.
Answer: C
Reference: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/02/13/vcloud-director-infrastructure-
resiliency-solution/
Question No : 68
Your company is considering deploying a Private Cloud using only physical infrastructure.
Which two benefits of using a Software-Defined Data Center vs. a physical Infrastructure
can you present to your company to convince them that a Software-Defined Data Center is
a better choice? (Choose two.)
A. No Cabling
Answer: B,C
Question No : 69
Your development group tells you they are having problems with a specific application, but
only when its running on Ubuntu. It works fine on all other operating systems. Which
product will best address this issue?
A. vCloud Connector
B. vFabric Hyperic
C. vFabric Application Director
D. vCenter Server
Answer: B
Question No : 70
Your company is migrating to a private cloud and currently has a combination of legacy
physical servers, vCenter (e.g. non-cloud) VMs and cloud-based VMs. Rather than having
to deal with three separate interfaces for deployment and lifecycle management, which
product can you use during the transition period?
A. vFabric Suite
B. vCloud Connector
C. vCenter Server
D. vCloud Automation Center
Answer: B
Question No : 71
The physical datacenter on which your current private cloud runs is nearing capacity.
Which product would allow you to temporarily move some of the workload to a leased
public cloud?
Answer: A
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/features.html
Question No : 72
Your manager is concerned that, even in the cloud, provisioning hundreds or thousands of
VMs will result in a lot of redundant storage use. You explain that you can minimize the use
of redundant storage with vCloud by making use of which of the following features?
A. Snapshots
B. Fast Provisioning
C. Templates
D. Storage DRS
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-Architecting-vCloud-WP.pdf
Question No : 73
Your company performs data processing which consists of running the same data
processing application against multiple data sets. This application, running in your
company's private cloud, can take several days to process a single dataset and there is the
need to deploy more than one instance of this workload. Which feature would help you
deploy extra instances of this application when needed?
A. Orchestrator
B. vCloud Template
C. vCloud Catalog
D. vCenter Template
Question No : 74
Your manager asks you to provide a lifecycle management solution for your cloud to
manage all your end-user resource requests. Which vCloud product will solve this
problem?
Answer: C
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vcloud/vmware-vcloud-automation-center-
datasheet.pdf (page 1)
Question No : 75
A college intern is asking you which of the vCenter Operations Manager's Super Metrics
helps with long-term analysis of your environment. What do you tell her?
A. Risk
B. Efficiency
C. Capacity
D. Health
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/vmware-esx-and-vsphere-
articles/performance-tuning/vmware-vcenter-operations-manager-part3.html
Question No : 76
Your clients want multiple tiers of service, with some workloads protected against disasters.
Which vCloud feature will you use to do this?
A. Fast Provisioning
B. vCloud APIs
C. Provider vDC
D. Service Catalog
Answer: C
Reference: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-
bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=877/ENUSZG12-
0375&appname=STG_BC_FRFR_ANNO (Search for service catalog)
Question No : 77
Your manager wants a technical solution which will allow users access to the company's
private cloud where the VMs they create are tightly controlled and the deployment process
is streamlined. How would you advise your manager to solve this problem?
Answer: C
Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vcenter-
orchestrator-51-install-config-guide.pdf (page 11)
Question No : 78
Management has decided they want a better understanding of the typical workloads in your
A. vFabric Hyperic
B. vCloud Connector
C. vCenter Operations Manager
D. vCloud Director
Answer: C
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/support/vcops/doc/vcops-57-vapp-release-notes.html
Question No : 79
Your management has decided to take advantage of a public cloud infrastructure. You
have selected a VMware public cloud partner and are ready to begin the move.
Which product or component will you use to move all of your vApps to the public cloud?
A. vCenter Orchestrator
B. vCenter Server
C. Site Recovery Manager
D. vCloud Connector
Answer: D
Question No : 80
You need to perform performance, capacity and configuration management of your newly
installed cloud. Which of the following products will best help you accomplish this?
A. vCloud Director
B. vFabric Hyperic
C. vCenter Server
D. vCenter Operations Manager
Answer: D
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/vcenter-operations-
Question No : 81
As a consultant, you are advising a large enterprise client that is evaluating moving to a
cloud infrastructure. This client is running the majority of their servers in a virtualized
vSphere environment and want you to explain the benefits of deploying a private cloud.
Which scenario would be a compelling reason for their client to make the jump to the
cloud?
Answer: D
Question No : 82
You have just been hired to oversee the rollout of a cloud environment at your new
company. You decide to build two clouds: One for development & test and the other for
production. Which product will allow you to move the workloads from the development
cloud to the production cloud?
A. vFabric Suite
B. vCloud Connector
C. vCloud Networking & Security
D. vCloud Director
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmware-vcloud-connector-technical-brief.pdf
(page 3, introduction)
Your company's cloud computing needs are likely to change over time. In order to begin
planning early, your manager wants to know which type of cloud environment vCloud
Director supports. Which three cloud types are supported? (Choose three.)
A. Hybrid Clouds
B. Private Clouds
C. Public Clouds
D. Open Clouds
E. Third Party Clouds
Answer: A,B,C
Reference: https://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2013/03/how-to-design-your-vcloud-director-
hybrid-cloud.html
Question No : 84
You are explaining to your manager how vCloud Director helps ensure that each
organization in your company has access to QA-approved VM images only. What vCloud
Director object only allows your users access to QA-approved VMs?
A. Org vDC
B. Configured datastore with VMs in OVF format
C. vCenter Template
D. Published Catalog
Answer: B
Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-4-esx-
vcenter/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vmadmin.doc_41/vsp_vm_guide/working_with_ovf_tem
plates/t_import_a_virtual_appliance.html
Question No : 85
You have been hired to assist in the implementing and maintaining your company's private
Answer: C
Reference: http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/VMware-vCloud-Director-evaluation-
guide-Five-use-cases-to-consider
Question No : 86
Your manager wants an explanation of why your company should move to a Software-
Defined Data Center architecture. As part of this presentation, you are describing policy-
driven automation.
Answer: A
Question No : 87
Your company operates a hybrid cloud environment and the change control group wants to
ensure all VM templates and App templates deployed in any of the private clouds come
from a single synchronized content catalog.
Answer: B
Question No : 88
Your manager heard on a webinar that vCenter Operations Manager has the ability to
create custom groups so that he could better align performance and management
decisions with the business.
Which options represent custom groups you could create for your manager? (Choose two.)
A. vCenter Datacenter
B. Line of business
C. Application
D. DRS/HA Cluster
Answer: B,C
Question No : 89
Your clients are very mobile and need a solution that provides connectivity flexibility without
the need to host their own internal VPN services. Which of the following products will solve
this problem?
A. vCloud Connector
B. vCenter Site Recovery Manager
C. vCloud Networking and Security
D. vCenter Operations Manager
Answer: C
Reference: https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vcns/vmware-vcloud-networking-
and-security-overview.pdf
Question No : 90
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In preparation for the deployment of your company's private cloud, you have delegated the
task of populating the catalog which will be used to deploy your Org vDCs. Which two
objects will you put into the catalog? (Choose two.)
A. Virtual Appliances
B. vApp Templates
C. VMs
D. Media
Answer: B,D
Explanation: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/11/linked-clones-part-1-fast-
provisioning-in-vcloud-director-15.html
Question No : 91
Your company maintains a standard, consistent configuration for the VMs which will be
deployed in your private cloud. Senior IT staff realizes some users and situations will
require minor deviations from this standard policy.
Which component allows users to deploy standard VMs without approval and also allows
you to set a policy that specifies when an approval process is required?
A. vCenter Orchestrator
B. vCloud Automation Center
C. vCloud Connector
D. vCenter Server
Answer: B
Question No : 92
A. Statistic Modules
B. Data Collectors
Answer: B
Reference:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC
&externalId=2033009
Question No : 93
As the QA department wants to ensure their tests are always run on "clean" servers, the
QA department's workflow is typically: Create a VM, run a test, destroy the VM. Given that
nobody outside the small QA group needs to contact these test servers, which vCloud
Networking and Security feature will allow you to easily allocate IP addresses to the QA
test servers on the fly?
A. Firewall
B. NAT
C. DHCP
D. VPN
Answer: C
Reference: http://www.virtual-blog.com/2012/12/how-to-configure-dhcp-server-using-
vcloud-networking-and-security-edge-device-vshield/
Question No : 94
As part of the rollout of cloud computing at your company, the technical design team has
identified the need for two private clouds bridged to a public cloud. Which product would
allow you to oversee your two private clouds and the bridged public cloud?
A. vCloud Director
B. vCloud Connector
C. vCloud Networking & Security
D. vFabric Suite
Question No : 95
You need a solution for your burst utilization without paying for unused capacity during non-
peak hours. Which vCloud product will solve this problem?
A. vCloud APIs
B. vCloud Automation Center
C. vCloud Networking and Security
D. vCloud Connector
Answer: D
Reference: http://cloud.idglabs.net/?p=1860
Question No : 96
Your organization has decided it needs to use a hybrid cloud. During the weekly staff
meeting, a colleague asks why the decision to use a hybrid cloud was chosen. What do
you tell them?
A. You are a small company and do not want to deal with your own datacenter and
equipment
B. Your development team periodically enters high demand test cycles
C. You have multiple physical sites all using their own local datacenters
D. You have a mixture of physical and virtual servers
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.interoute.com/cloud-article/what-hybrid-cloud
In planning for you upcoming transition to vCloud Automation Center, your manager asks if
you can leverage your existing vSphere 5.5 infrastructure to deploy services. How should
you respond?
A. We cannot use our existing vSphere infrastructure as vCloud Automation Center can
only utilize vCloud Hybrid service deployments
B. We can use our existing vSphere infrastructure, but must deploy a minimum of two
vCloud Automation Center endpoints
C. We can use our existing vSphere infrastructure but must reinstall vCenter
D. We can use our existing vSphere infrastructure to deploy vCloud Automation Center
Answer: C
Question No : 98
A colleague hears you have just completed vCloud training. She asks you to explain
vCenter Operations Manager and its relationship to the other VMware Cloud products.
What do you tell her?
A. vCenter Operations Manager is the main web-based management interface for vCloud.
B. vCenter Operations Manager is an optional software component which helps with
performance analysis in the cloud.
C. vCenter Operations Manager is a cloud security and firewall service which helps prevent
virus and hacker attacks.
D. vCenter Operations Manager helps automate repetitive tasks in your private cloud.
Answer: B
Question No : 99
Your manager has just completed an intense half-day seminar on cloud computing.
Although she has the big picture, there are details that are still not clear to her. She wants
to know what vCloud Automation Center can do. Which two statements would be accurate
responses? (Choose two.)
Answer: B,D
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-automation-center/
Question No : 100
You work at a small startup company which currently has all of its IT services hosted in a
public cloud provided by a VMware vCloud Service Provider. Management wants to create
an in-house private cloud and needs to determine which services make the most financial
sense to transfer to your private cloud. You need to see use and cost metrics broken down
by various services (db, web, etc.) in the public cloud. Which of the following will allow you
to do this?
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-chargeback/
Question No : 101
You have been asked to give a high-level technical presentation outlining your company's
new cloud project. During the question and answer session, one of the attendees asks you:
"What is a Provider vDC?" What do you tell them?
A. A Provider vDC is the environment where virtual machines are stored, deployed and
operated.
B. A Provider vDC represents a pool of resources, defined for a particular SLA.
C. A Provider vDC is a subset of an Org vDC.
D. A Provider vDC is composed of resources from multiple vCenter servers.
Question No : 102
You will be deploying a new vCloud vApp which needs storage with specific capabilities. In
the past, this had been accomplished by manually assigning your datastores to a service
level such as "Tier 1," "Tier 2," and so on. Your SAN infrastructure is large and complicated
enough that you do not want to do this manually as it is tedious and error prone. What
technology helps eliminate a lot of the manual work involved in defining tiered storage used
in your cloud?
A. Catalogs
B. Resource Pools
C. VASA
D. Storage vMotion
Answer: C
Question No : 103
Your company has identified a standard, consistent configuration for the VMs which will be
deployed in your private cloud. Senior IT staff realizes there are circumstances that, from
time to time, require minor deviations from these standard VMs by certain users. Which of
the following allows users to deploy standard VMs without approval and also allows you to
set a policy which specifies when an approval process is required?
A. vCenter Orchestrator
B. vCloud Automation Center
C. vCloud Director
D. vCloud Connector
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-automation-center/features/policy-
governance-engine.html
Question No : 104
As part of your cloud deployment, your company has installed vFabric Hyperic. Which of
the following features do you get with vFabric Hyperic?
Answer: D
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/il/products/vfabric-hyperic/features.html
Question No : 105
Your company has decided to use server, storage and network equipment from a cloud
provider where you have the ability to configure the services and virtual machines in this
environment to best accomplish your business goals. Which type of service are you using?
Answer: A
Reference: http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/Infrastructure-as-a-
Service-IaaS
Question No : 106
You want to be able to do a detailed analysis of a custom web application in your private
cloud. Which of the following vCloud-related products will best help you with this?
Answer: D
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/vfabric-hyperic/
Question No : 107
Your manager has tasked you with setting up Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to protect
your private HA-enabled cloud. You have to decide which VMs SRM needs to protect and
which (if any) VMs SRM does not need to protect. Which VMs you would protect with SRM
in this environment?
Answer: D
Question No : 108
You are an automation engineer for your companies private vCloud environment. While
you work on many projects, you are primarily responsible for automating workflows for the
provisioning, altering configurations, and decommissioning virtual workloads. Which
product is integrated with vCloud Automation Centers workflow engine that will allow you
to accomplish these tasks?
A. Powershell
B. vCenter Orchestrator
C. vCloud Connector
D. VMware NSX
Answer: B
You would like to extend the boundaries of your private cloud network to the public cloud.
Which product will allow you to do this?
Answer: B
Question No : 110
You are supporting several different organizations within your company, each of which
needs to be on a separate, isolated network. Which of the following will vCloud Director use
to configure network separation between different organizations in your company?
A. vCloud Connector
B. vCenter Operations Manager
C. vCloud Networking and Security
D. vFabric Hyperic
Answer: C
Reference:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_10Q3_WP_vCloud_Director_Security.pd
f (page 8)
Question No : 111
You need to protect your Private Cloud data and have decided to utilize Site Recovery
Manager for replication between sites. The storage arrays at each site are manufactured by
different vendors.
A. vCloud Connector
Answer: D
Question No : 112
Management is concerned with the rising costs of running services in your private cloud.
You need to compare your costs to similar offerings from other public cloud providers so
that you can gauge if you are remaining competitive.
A. VMware NSX
B. IT Business Management
C. vCenter Orchestrator
D. vCenter Server
Answer: B
Question No : 113
An administrator is considering a private cloud solution. The solution must allow for a 3
tiered service model for development servers, application servers and business critical
servers. What component of a VMware private cloud solution can be used to meet this
requirement?
A. Organizations
B. Service Catalogs
C. Virtual Datacenters
D. Allocation Models
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/services/VMware-On-Demand-Services-
Whitepaper.pdf (page 3, on-demand services)
Question No : 114
Your development team needs to create a deployment specification one time and then be
able to deploy the app many times across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
The app must also work seamlessly across a variety of hardware specifications.
Which vCloud Application Director feature will you use to create a deployment plan which
can be reused?
A. App Template
B. Road Map
C. Blueprint
D. Deployment Cuide
Answer: C
Question No : 115
You have been contracted to architect a vCloud solution for one of your clients. You decide
to build two clouds: one for development and one for production.
Which product will allow you to move workloads from the development cloud to the
production cloud?
A. vCloud Director
B. VMware NSX
C. vCloud Connector
D. vFabric Suite
Answer: C
Question No : 116
You manager wants to utilize the platform capabilities of a VMware partner application in
order to automate the delivery of network services in your environment. Which extensibility
feature can provide this functionality?
A. vCenter Hyperic
Answer: D
Question No : 117
You have a multi-tier application comprised of a web, database, and application servers.
Which product will allow you to move the Apache web server to the public cloud while
maintaining the same network settings and connectivity with the other two servers?
Answer: C
Reference:
http://download3.vmware.com/vcloud_assets/Doc/PDF/MovingCloudWorkloads-vCC.pdf
Question No : 118
Which solution will allow you to most easily virtualize the physical servers locally while
moving your existing virtual machines off-site to a cloud service provider, where they will be
protected against failure?
A. vCenter Orchestrator
B. vCloud Hybrid Service
C. vCloud Automation Center
D. vCenter Server
Answer: B
Question No : 119
Your manager wants you to make sure your cloud environment is performing well and is
not exhibiting any serious problems. Which vCenter Operations Manager Super Metric do
you use to help analyze workload, anomalies and faults?
A. Health
B. Status
C. Risk
D. Performance
Answer: A
Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/management/2012/01/vmware-vcenter-operations-
management-suite-50-now-available.html (see the bulleted point under the image)
Question No : 120
An administrator is considering a hybrid cloud solution and is determining how to get virtual
machines from a private cloud into the public cloud. Which two tools can be used to
accomplish this? (Choose two.)
A. vSphere Replication
B. vCloud Connector
C. Offline Data Transfer service
D. vMotion Migration
Answer: B,C
Reference:
https://www.vmware.com/support/hybridcloud/doc/hybridcloud_25_rel_notes.html (See new
features)
Question No : 121
Answer: C
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcac-51-whats-new-guide.pdf (page 23, see the
paragraph after the note)
Question No : 122
You have been tasked with setting up various automation features in your private cloud.
You know that vCloud Automation Center is going to be the perfect tool for the job. What
are the available purchase options for vCloud Automation Center?
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/in/products/vcloud-automation-center/pricing.html
Question No : 123
You are asked to explain to your company's technical staff the vCloud feature used to
logically group users and resources so that each department can have its own virtual
datacenter. Which of the following are you describing to your staff?
A. Organizations
Answer: A
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-Architecting-vCloud-WP.pdf
Question No : 124
Your manager has just returned from a conference on virtualization where she heard many
environments have a large number of their virtual machines over-provisioned. She wants to
know if this is the case here as well. What vCenter Operations Manager Super Metric
would you use to identify reclaimable waste?
A. Risk
B. Efficiency
C. Performance
D. Health
Answer: B
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcops-5-getting-started-guide.pdf (page 19)
Question No : 125
You have been asked to install and verify network security for the multiple tenants in your
public cloud. Which of the following will you primarily work with to secure your tenants?
Answer: A
Reference: https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vcns/vmware-vcloud-networking-
and-security-overview.pdf (page 2)z
Question No : 126
Your manager calls you into her office and explains that she has just come from a
virtualization management seminar. She knows that you have all of the companys critical
applications are installed directly on existing physical servers that would cause severe
issues in the event of failures and wants to mitigage any downtime due to hardware
problems. What type of challenge is your manager expressing concern with?
A. Efficiency
B. Availability
C. Elasticity
D. Management
Answer: B
Question No : 127
Your manager wants to know which of the following environments will vFabric Hyperic be
able to monitor?
A. Cloud only
B. Virtual and cloud
C. Physical and cloud
D. Physical, virtual or cloud
Answer: D
Reference:
http://pubs.vmware.com/vfabricHyperic50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vfabric.hyperic.5.0
/vFabric_Hyperic_5.0.html (first para, second sentence)
Question No : 128
You have successfully completed the initial deployment of your company's cloud. Now
management wants to make sure everything continues to run well and that you are meeting
Answer: D
Explanation: http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2011/04/26/get-started-with-vcenter-
operations.aspx
Question No : 129
Your company is currently in the middle of transitioning to a private cloud, therefore your
datacenter has a combination of legacy physical servers, vCenter (e.g. non-cloud) VMs and
cloud-based VMs. You'd rather not have to deal with three separate interfaces for
deploying and managing the life-cycle of all three types of servers. Which of the following
can you use to perform life-cycle management for all of these servers during the transition
period?
A. vFabric Suite
B. vCloud Director
C. vCenter
D. vCloud Automation Center
Answer: D
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/management/vmw-vcloud-automation-center-
faq.pdf (first answer, page 1)
Question No : 130
Your manager asks you if your internal workload provisioning and management tools can
be used to manage and interoperate with your public cloud provider. You answer yes, by
using which of the following vCloud features?
Answer: D
Reference: http://cloud.idglabs.net/?p=1874
Question No : 131
You have installed and configured Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to protect your private
cloud infrastructure. Your manager wants assurances that the plan you have put in place
will actually work. How would you go about testing your Site Recovery Manager setup?
Answer: B
Reference: http://info.vmware.com/content/enterprise-NA-vcentersiterecovery-17668 (See
non disruptive testing)
Question No : 132
Your manager wants to know why traditional usage metering tools are less effective in your
private cloud. Which two statements are accurate responses? (Choose two.)
Answer: C,D
You are deploying a new vApp which needs specific storage capabilities. In the past, you
manually assigned your datastores to a service level such as Tier 1 FC, Tier 2 SAS,
etc. Your storage infrastructure has grown very large and it has become tedious and error
prone manually identifying the various storage types and capabilities.
Which technology helps eliminate a lot of the manual work involved in keeping your storage
information up to date within your cloud?
A. VASA
B. Resource Pools
C. Storage vMotion
D. Catalogs
Answer: A
Question No : 134
You have been asked to give a high-level presentation to management and technical staff
at your company on the vCloud Suite. As you are describing the various components of the
vCloud Suite, what type of service would you describe the vFabric Suite as providing?
Answer: D
Reference: http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/feature/Where-VMwares-vFabric-Suite-
stacks-up-in-cloud-application-services
Question No : 135
A potential customer asks you to explain the benefits of using VMware NSX versus another
vendor and product that utilizes physical networking infrastructure.
Which two benefits of implementing VMware NSX would you include in your answer?
Answer: B,D
Question No : 136
You need a solution that allows moving some of your datacenters workload to a public
cloud during peak hours. You do not want to pay for unused capacity during non-peak
hours. Which vCloud product will solve this problem?
Answer: C
Question No : 137
An administrator maintains a three host cluster with a total of 12GHz of CPU and 48GB of
memory. The companys Finance and Engineering departments both have groups of virtual
machines that need to be guaranteed a certain percentage of these cluster resources.
Which VMware component or feature will most easily accomplish this task?
Answer: D
Question No : 138
A. Health
B. Performance
C. Efficiency
D. Risk
Answer: D
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcops-5-getting-started-guide.pdf (page 30,
address a problem with a specific datastore, bullet #3)
Question No : 139
Your company is growing and your manager has asked you to build out a new virtual
datacenter with its appropriate Provider vDCs and Org vDCs. Which of the following
products provides the primary interface for constructing this software datacenter?
Answer: D
Question No : 140
You would like to stretch your private cloud network to the public cloud. Which product will
allow you to do this?
Answer: C
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-connector/
Question No : 141
Your company is developing a new application and would like to have a several identical
test environments. Which of the following vCloud features would you utilize in making this
environment secure?
Answer: A
Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-perf.pdf
Question No : 142
At your company you have several research projects which require separate networks in
your cloud. Although the servers on these networks will require access to the rest of the
company, it is not required that any of the servers deployed on these networks have static
or public IP addresses. Which vCloud Networking and Security feature will allow you to
reuse the same subnet/IP address range on each of these networks without causing any IP
address conflicts or collisions?
A. NAT
B. Fencing
C. Firewall
D. VPN
Answer: A
You're concerned a physical host outage will impact running VMs in your cloud
environment. Which of the following vSphere features will help recover from a failed ESXi
host?
Answer: A
Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-
esxi-vcenter-server-51-availability-guide.pdf (page 9, see drs and vmotion integration, last
sentence)
Question No : 144
You work in a large enterprise environment where provisioning VMs and vApp Templates is
a relatively frequent operation. The provisioning operation is taking longer than you'd like
and you are looking for ways to speed it up across the entire enterprise. What vCloud
Director feature will reduce deployment time for VMs and vApp Templates in your
enterprise cloud?
Answer: C
Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/11/linked-clones-part-1-fast-
provisioning-in-vcloud-director-15.html
Question No : 145
What vCloud Automation Center feature can you tell the users in this group to alleviate
their concerns?
A. vApp blueprints
B. Resource reservations
C. Workflows
D. Linked Clones
Answer: A