VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation 5.2 Administrator Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A vSphere administrator is designing a cluster that requires VM workloads to be distributed across hosts based on CPU and memory utilization. The cluster contains hosts with different CPU architectures. Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) has been enabled. What is the primary reason for enabling EVC in this scenario?

An administrator is configuring storage for a vSphere cluster and needs to determine which datastore type to use. The environment requires support for Storage DRS, thin provisioning, and the ability to grow the datastore without downtime. Which datastore type should the administrator choose?

A virtual machine is experiencing performance issues. The administrator notices that the VM has a CPU Ready value consistently above 10% and the host CPU usage is at 85%. What action should the administrator take first to resolve this issue?

An organization needs to implement a backup strategy for their vSphere environment. They want to perform image-level backups without impacting VM performance and need application-consistent backups for their database servers. Which technology combination should they use?

A vSphere administrator configures a DRS cluster with four hosts. Two VMs have a 'must run on separate hosts' VM-VM affinity rule configured. During maintenance mode on one host, DRS cannot migrate one of these VMs. What is the most likely cause?

An administrator needs to configure memory management for a cluster hosting VMs with varying workload patterns. Some VMs have memory-intensive applications that cannot tolerate performance degradation. Which combination of memory management settings should be implemented?

A company has implemented vSphere HA on a five-host cluster. During a recent host failure, some low-priority VMs did not restart while high-priority VMs restarted successfully. The cluster had sufficient resources. What configuration explains this behavior?

An administrator is troubleshooting network connectivity issues for VMs on a distributed virtual switch. VMs on the same VLAN cannot communicate with each other, but can communicate with external resources. What is the most likely cause?

A vSphere cluster is experiencing storage performance issues. The administrator observes that several VMs have high storage latency values (>50ms) and the datastore shows high queue depth. Which combination of actions would best address this issue?

An administrator needs to secure a vSphere environment following the principle of least privilege. They need to grant a team the ability to manage VMs within a specific resource pool but prevent them from modifying host or cluster settings. What is the best approach?