VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation 5.2 Administrator Practice Exam: Test Your Knowledge 2025

An administrator needs to enable vSphere High Availability (HA) on a cluster containing 8 ESXi hosts. What is the minimum number of hosts that must be available for the cluster to maintain quorum and continue protecting virtual machines?

A vSphere administrator is configuring a new distributed switch and needs to ensure that network traffic from different departments remains isolated. Which feature should be configured to achieve this requirement?

An administrator notices that a virtual machine is experiencing performance issues. Upon investigation, they discover the VM has a memory limit of 4 GB configured, but the guest OS reports frequent memory pressure. The ESXi host has 128 GB of available memory. What is the most appropriate action to resolve this issue?

What is the primary purpose of VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in a vSphere cluster?

An administrator is troubleshooting a failed vMotion operation. The error message indicates that the source and destination hosts are on incompatible CPU families. Which vSphere feature should be enabled to allow VMs to migrate between hosts with different CPU generations?

A company needs to ensure that critical production VMs always have access to storage resources during periods of high I/O contention. Which feature should be configured on the datastore to meet this requirement?

An administrator needs to create a new virtual machine that will run a database application requiring consistent low-latency access to storage. The environment uses both SSD and HDD-based datastores. Which storage policy capability should be configured to ensure the VM is placed on appropriate storage?

Which component in vSphere Foundation architecture is responsible for managing the lifecycle of ESXi hosts and providing centralized management for the virtual infrastructure?

An administrator needs to ensure that two specific virtual machines never run on the same ESXi host due to licensing restrictions. Which DRS feature should be configured?

A security team requires that all management traffic between vCenter Server and ESXi hosts be encrypted. Which protocol does vSphere use by default to secure this communication?

An administrator is configuring a new cluster and wants to ensure that virtual machines are distributed across hosts to minimize the impact of a host failure. However, they want to manually approve all VM migrations. Which DRS automation level should be configured?

A virtual machine running a critical application needs to be protected against host hardware failures with minimal downtime. The application cannot tolerate being offline for more than a few seconds. Which vSphere availability feature should be implemented?

An administrator is deploying a new vSphere environment and needs to select an appropriate datastore type for virtual machine storage. The organization requires support for features like thin provisioning, snapshots, and cloning. Which datastore type meets these requirements?

A company is experiencing network performance issues on their vSphere distributed switch. An administrator wants to monitor network utilization and identify which VMs are consuming the most bandwidth. Which feature provides visibility into per-VM network statistics on a distributed switch?

An administrator needs to upgrade ESXi hosts in a production cluster with minimal disruption to running workloads. Which approach represents the best practice for performing this maintenance?

A vSphere administrator notices that a host has become isolated from the network, but the host and its VMs are still running. The HA isolation response is set to 'Power off and restart VMs'. What condition must be met for HA to trigger the isolation response?

What is the primary benefit of using vSphere resource pools in a virtual infrastructure?

An administrator is configuring vSphere HA admission control to ensure that sufficient resources are available for failover. The cluster has 5 hosts, each with 64 GB of memory. If the 'Percentage of cluster resources reserved' policy is set to 40%, how much memory is reserved for failover and unavailable for powering on VMs?

A company wants to implement role-based access control for their vSphere environment. Different teams need different levels of access to specific virtual machines and hosts. What is the correct approach to implement this security model?

An administrator is troubleshooting poor VM performance and discovers that the ESXi host is experiencing memory pressure with active memory ballooning. What does this indicate about the host's memory state?