VCP Technology & Digital Tools 4

Question 1

Which vSphere feature provides zero-downtime protection for VMs by maintaining a continuous mirror of a running VM on a secondary host?

Accepted Answer

vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)

Answer

vSphere Fault Tolerance maintains a live shadow VM on a secondary host that continuously mirrors the primary VM's execution state, providing zero RPO and zero RTO protection.

Question 2

A vSphere admin uses PowerCLI to script infrastructure tasks. What is PowerCLI built upon?

Accepted Answer

Windows PowerShell and .NET Framework

Answer

VMware PowerCLI is a collection of PowerShell modules built on the .NET Framework that provide cmdlets for managing vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and other VMware products.

Question 3

What is the role of the vSphere vCenter Server in a VMware infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

Centralized management platform for ESXi hosts and VMs

Answer

vCenter Server is the centralized management platform that provides a single pane of glass for managing multiple ESXi hosts, VMs, clusters, and advanced features like DRS, HA, and vMotion.

Question 4

Which VMware feature enables administrators to enforce compliance and desired-state configuration across ESXi hosts using baseline profiles?

Accepted Answer

vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)

Answer

vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) manages the lifecycle of ESXi hosts using image-based or baseline-based remediation to enforce compliance across the cluster.

Question 5

Which vSphere storage technology allows administrators to pool local flash and HDD storage across ESXi hosts to create a shared datastore?

Accepted Answer

vSAN (Virtual SAN)

Answer

VMware vSAN aggregates local storage devices (SSDs and HDDs) from multiple ESXi hosts into a distributed, shared datastore managed through storage policies.

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