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

A vSphere administrator needs to ensure that virtual machines are automatically distributed across hosts in a DRS cluster while maintaining an anti-affinity rule between two critical VMs. The administrator notices that DRS is not migrating VMs as expected. What is the most likely cause?

An administrator is configuring a vSphere cluster with 8 hosts. Each host has 256GB of RAM and the cluster will run approximately 120 VMs. The administrator wants to enable HA with admission control to ensure failover capacity. Which admission control policy would be most appropriate for a scenario where the organization wants to guarantee resources even if two hosts fail simultaneously?

A vSphere administrator needs to deploy a new ESXi host and integrate it with existing shared storage. The storage array supports multiple protocols. The organization requires that the storage traffic be isolated on a dedicated network with authentication and that the storage be bootable. Which storage protocol combination and configuration approach best meets these requirements?

An administrator observes that VMs in a cluster are experiencing performance degradation. Upon investigation, the administrator notices that memory ballooning is active on multiple VMs and some hosts show memory contention. The cluster has DRS enabled in fully automated mode. What is the best approach to resolve this issue?

A company is implementing vSphere security hardening following best practices. The security team requires that all administrative access to ESXi hosts be logged and that direct root SSH access be minimized. What combination of configurations best meets these requirements?

An administrator is configuring networking for a new vSphere cluster. The environment requires separation of different traffic types: management, vMotion, VM traffic, and storage (iSCSI). The physical switches support VLANs but the organization wants to minimize the number of physical NICs required. How should the administrator configure the networking using best practices?

During a planned maintenance window, an administrator needs to update ESXi hosts in a production cluster running critical VMs. The cluster has HA and DRS enabled. What is the recommended sequence of steps to perform the maintenance with minimal risk and downtime?

A vSphere administrator notices that a VM is consistently showing high CPU ready time values (averaging 15-20%) but the CPU usage is only at 40%. The VM has 4 vCPUs assigned. The ESXi host has 16 physical cores and is running 25 VMs. What is the most likely cause and solution?

An organization is designing a new vSphere cluster and must ensure that VMs remain available even during host failures. The cluster will have 6 hosts and must survive 2 simultaneous host failures while maintaining performance. Which combination of features and configurations should be implemented?

A vSphere administrator has deployed a new VM from a template. The template was created from a VM with a 100GB thick-provisioned disk on a VMFS datastore. The new VM will be deployed to an NFS datastore with thin provisioning support. After deployment, the administrator notices the VM is consuming 100GB on the NFS datastore immediately. What explains this behavior and how can it be corrected for future deployments?