VCP Storage Management & Availability

Question 1

Which VMware storage technology provides hyperconverged, software-defined storage using direct-attached disks in ESXi hosts?

Accepted Answer

vSAN

Answer

VMFS datastore

Answer

NFS datastore

Answer

Virtual Volumes (vVols)

Question 2

What is the purpose of VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) in a vSphere environment?

Accepted Answer

To enable multiple ESXi hosts to read and write to shared storage simultaneously

Answer

To provide NAS-based storage for virtual machines over NFS

Answer

To store vCenter configuration and inventory data

Answer

To compress and deduplicate VM disk files automatically

Question 3

Which storage format should be used for virtual machine disks that require the highest performance with no snapshot overhead?

Accepted Answer

Eager Zeroed Thick (EZT)

Answer

Thin Provisioned

Answer

Lazy Zeroed Thick (Flat)

Answer

Sparse Extent

Question 4

In vSphere, what is a 'snapshot' and what does it capture?

Accepted Answer

A point-in-time record of a VM's disk state, memory, and settings

Answer

A full backup copy of the VM stored on a separate datastore

Answer

A read-only clone of a virtual machine for testing

Answer

A scheduled backup of VMFS datastore metadata

Question 5

Which multipathing policy in vSphere sends I/O down a single active path and only switches to another if that path fails?

Accepted Answer

Most Recently Used (MRU)

Answer

Round Robin

Answer

Fixed

Answer

Least Queue Depth

Question 6

What is the maximum size of a VMFS6 datastore volume in vSphere?

Accepted Answer

64 TB

Answer

2 TB

Answer

128 TB

Answer

512 TB