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QUESTION NO: 1

You received an email from your cloud team's senior technical architect asking you to implement

snapshots in your cloud where it makes sense to do so. You ask the architect to clarify where in

your cloud it would make the most sense to use snapshots. Which of the following is the most

likely answer they would give you?

A. Catalogs: To back out any unauthorized changes

B. Production web servers: To provide a backup of each day's changes

C. Development VMs: To roll back code updates

D. vApps: To roll back to their original deployment state

Answer: C

Reference: http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/definition/VMware-snapshot

QUESTION NO: 2

You are asked to explain to your company's technical staff the vCloud feature used to logically

group users and resources so that each department can have its own virtual datacenter. Which of

the following are you describing to your staff?

A. Organizations

B. Clusters

C. Folders

D. Pods

Answer: A

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-Architecting-vCloud-WP.pdf

QUESTION NO: 3

You have Site Recovery Manager (SRM) in place to protect critical vCloud servers in the event of

a disaster. Over lunch, a manager asks you why SRM is configured to protect only the vCloud

servers and not the actual department workload VMs. What do you tell her?

A. The workload VMs are on fenced networks, which can't be failed over.

B. SRM can't fail over the workload VMs, but it is a simple matter to restart them once the vCloudservers have failed over.

C. Workload VM failover is implied when you failover the vCloud infrastructure servers.

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D. vCloud workloads can be migrated with vCloud Director once it has failed over and so are not

required to be protected with SRM.

Answer: C

Reference: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/02/13/vcloud-director-infrastructure-resiliency-

solution/

QUESTION NO: 4

An administrator is considering a private cloud solution. The existing environment contains a

number of print servers and a systems monitoring server. These applications are considered

which type of workload?

A. Elastic

B. Infrastructure

C. Transient

D. Management

Answer: B

Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 5

Your company has just undertaken a new research project where network security is critical. As

you are configuring your private cloud to support this new project, which vCloud Networking and

Security feature will you be setting up to provide the required security?

A. NAT

B. Private VLANC. Endpoint

D. Firewall

Answer: D

Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/06/vcloud-networking-and-security-5-1-app-

firewall-best-practices.html

QUESTION NO: 6

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You have been asked to install and verify network security for the multiple tenants in your public

cloud. Which of the following will you primarily work with to secure your tenants?

A. vCloud Networking and Security

B. vSphere Distributed Switch

C. vShield Zones

D. vCloud Security Server

Answer: A

Reference: https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vcns/vmware-vcloud-networking-and-

security-overview.pdf (page 2)z

QUESTION NO: 7

Your manager is concerned that, even in the cloud, provisioning hundreds or thousands of VMs

will result in a lot of redundant storage use. You explain that you can minimize the use of

redundant storage with vCloud by making use of which of the following features?

A. Snapshots

B. Fast Provisioning

C. Templates

D. Storage DRS

Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 8

You need a solution for your burst utilization without paying for unused capacity during non-peak

hours. Which vCloud product will solve this problem?

A. vCloud APIs

B. vCloud Automation Center

C. vCloud Networking and Security

D. vCloud Connector

Answer: DReference: http://cloud.idglabs.net/?p=1860

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QUESTION NO: 9

You're concerned a physical host outage will impact running VMs in your cloud environment.

Which of the following vSphere features will help recover from a failed ESXi host?

A. vSphere High Availability

B. vMotion

C. Storage vMotion

D. Distributed Resource Scheduler

Answer: A

Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-

vcenter-server-51-availability-guide.pdf (page 9, see drs and vmotion integration, last sentence)

QUESTION NO: 10

You have been tasked with setting up various automation features in your private cloud. You know

that vCloud Automation Center is going to be the perfect tool for the job. What are the available

purchase options for vCloud Automation Center?

A. It is available with vSphere or vCloud Enterprise.

B. It is available on a stand-alone basis or with vCloud Enterprise.

C. It is only available on a stand-alone basis.

D. It is only available with vCloud Enterprise.

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/in/products/vcloud-automation-center/pricing.html

QUESTION NO: 11

As part of setting up your company's disaster recovery plan, the technical project manager has

identified the need to synchronize storage used by your cloud VMs to the remote disaster recovery

site. Which of the following will you use to setup storage synchronization?

A. vCloud Connector

B. vSphere Replication

C. Datastore Clusters

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D. vCloud Automation Center

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/business-continuity/disaster-recovery

QUESTION NO: 12

Your manager asks you to explain the relationship between vCloud Director and vSphere. How do

you explain this to him?

A. vCloud does not leverage ESXi or vCenter

B. vCloud leverages ESXi, but not vCenter

C. vCloud leverages ESXi and vCenter

D. vCloud leverages vCenter, but not ESXi

Answer: C

Explanation:

vCloud leverages ESXi and vCenter (vCenter is required to administrate your virtual infrastructure,

certain tasks will have to be done first in vCenter, such as creating a HA/DRS cluster, configuring

the distributed virtual switch, adding hosts, etc. vCloud Director will talk to your vCenter servers.

To create a cloud you’ll need both vCenter and vCD.)

QUESTION NO: 13

You work at a small, but rapidly expanding chain of retail stores. You have a private cloud in place

which works well most of the year, but to manage the annual holiday peak load on your Internet

store, you have decided to utilize a hybrid cloud as needed. Which two components are requiredwhen deploying a hybrid cloud environment? (Choose two.)

A. vFabric Hyperic

B. vCloud Connector

C. vCenter Operations Management Suite

D. vCloud Director

Answer: B,D

Reference: http://download3.vmware.com/vcloud_assets/Doc/PDF/MovingCloudWorkloads-vCC.pdf

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QUESTION NO: 14

You have successfully completed the initial deployment of your company's cloud. Now

management wants to make sure everything continues to run well and that you are meeting all of

your SLAs. Which vCloud Suite software component will best help you do this?

A. vCenter Automation Center

B. vCloud Management Assistant

C. vSphere Management Assistant Appliance

D. vCenter Operations Management Suite

Answer: D

Explanation: http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2011/04/26/get-started-with-vcenter-

operations.aspx

QUESTION NO: 15

An administrator is deciding on a hybrid cloud solution based on a given set of requirements. The

requirements include a single virtual datacenter with logically isolated resources and multi-tenancy

capability. Which service option would satisfy the given requirements?

A. Virtual Private Cloud Service option

B. Dedicated Cloud Service option

C. vCloud Public Service option

D. vCloud Private Service option

Answer: A

Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vchs/index.jsp?topic=%2FGUID-FD4D5E84-1AB8-4A1B-

8C3F-769176FCD154%2FGUID-375065F3-110A-4B84-99FA-FB8467361960.html (see virtual

private cloud service option)

QUESTION NO: 16

Your development team has informed you that they frequently run tests which require three VMs

and take two days to run. When the tests are complete, there is no further need to keep the VMs

or the resources they have been consuming. Which of the following products would best help youmanage the requirements of this test environment?

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A. vCloud Director

B. vFabric Suite

C. vCenter Orchestrator


Answer: D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/management/vmw-vcloud-automation-center-faq.pdf

QUESTION NO: 17

You work in a large enterprise environment where provisioning VMs and vApp Templates is a

relatively frequent operation. The provisioning operation is taking longer than you'd like and you

are looking for ways to speed it up across the entire enterprise. What vCloud Director feature willreduce deployment time for VMs and vApp Templates in your enterprise cloud?

A. vSphere APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)

B. Storage vMotion

C. Fast Provisioning

D. Storage I/O Control

Answer: C

Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/11/linked-clones-part-1-fast-provisioning-in-vcloud-director-15.html

QUESTION NO: 18

Your manager wants you to setup a more dynamic set of alarms, more responsive to the workload

changes in the cloud environment. To accomplish this, which of the following vCenter Operations

Manager alarms features would you use?

A. Self-Adjusting Alerts

B. Dynamic Alerts

C. Dynamic Thresholds

D. Smart Alerts

Answer: D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vcenter/VMware-vCenter-Operations-DS-EN.pdf

(Search for smart alerts)

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QUESTION NO: 19

One of your clients is a college training environment where they would like to have computer

science class lab servers deployed for student use at the beginning of a class term then

automatically reclaim the unused resources at the end of the class term. Which software featurewould allow you to do this?

A. vCloud Director quotas

B. vCenter Orchestrator leases

C. vCloud Automation Center leases

D. vCloud Automation Center quotas

Answer: C

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcac-51-whats-new-guide.pdf (page 23, see theparagraph after the note)

QUESTION NO: 20

Your manager wants you to make sure your cloud environment is performing well and is not

exhibiting any serious problems. Which vCenter Operations Manager Super Metric do you use to

help analyze workload, anomalies and faults?

A. Health

B. Status

C. Risk

D. Performance

Answer: A

Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/management/2012/01/vmware-vcenter-operations-management-suite-50-now-available.html (see the bulleted point under the image)

QUESTION NO: 21

If you are trying to find out if you have a load-based performance issue, which of the following

metrics is significant in a virtual environment but, generally, not in a physical environment?

A. Physical RAM over-commitment, as VMware's hypervisor has technologies for dealing with this

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B. Physical CPU over-commitment, because of the VMkernel SMP scheduler

C. Idle VMs (when compared to their equivalent idle physical servers in a physical environment)

D. Application network throughput to a remote office

Answer: C

Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 22

Your manager, although not a network expert, knows the network group has informed her that

your current company infrastructure is nearly out of VLANs for deploying additional networks. You

are already growing to the point where this is going to soon become a serious issue. How would

you explain to your manager how vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) solves this problem?

A. vCNS uses specialized network hardware to extend the network capabilities in vCenter

B. vCNS extends vCenter Standard Switches to support VXLANs

C. vCNS uses virtual appliances to build software defined networks

D. vCNS increases the maximum number of supported VLANs

Answer: C


security-overview.pdf (page 3, architecture)

QUESTION NO: 23

Your company has identified a standard, consistent configuration for the VMs which will be

deployed in your private cloud. Senior IT staff realizes there are circumstances that, from time to

time, require minor deviations from these standard VMs by certain users. Which of the following

allows users to deploy standard VMs without approval and also allows you to set a policy whichspecifies when an approval process is required?

A. vCenter Orchestrator


C. vCloud Director

D. vCloud Connector

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-automation-center/features/policy-governance-engine.html

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QUESTION NO: 24

Your company has decided to use server, storage and network equipment from a cloud provider

where you have the ability to configure the services and virtual machines in this environment to

best accomplish your business goals. Which type of service are you using?

A. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

B. Data Processing as a Service (DPaaS)

C. Platform as a Service (PaaS)

D. Software as a Service (SaaS)

Answer: A

Reference: http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/Infrastructure-as-a-Service-IaaS

QUESTION NO: 25

Your organization has decided it needs to use a hybrid cloud. During the weekly staff meeting, a

colleague asks why the decision to use a hybrid cloud was chosen. What do you tell them?

A. You are a small company and do not want to deal with your own datacenter and equipment

B. Your development team periodically enters high demand test cycles

C. You have multiple physical sites all using their own local datacenters

D. You have a mixture of physical and virtual servers

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.interoute.com/cloud-article/what-hybrid-cloud

QUESTION NO: 26

Change control wants to ensure all VM templates and vApp templates deployed in either cloud

come from a single unified media source. Which of the following are you going to utilize to

implement this change control policy?

A. vCloud Connector: Stretch Deploy

B. vCloud Connector: Content Sync

C. vCloud Connector: Unified View

D. vCloud Connector: Datacenter Extension

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Answer: B

Reference:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&extern

alId=2041911

QUESTION NO: 27

An administrator is considering a private cloud solution. The solution must allow for a 3 tiered

service model for development servers, application servers and business critical servers. What

component of a VMware private cloud solution can be used to meet this requirement?

A. Organizations

B. Service CatalogsC. Virtual Datacenters

D. Allocation Models

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/services/VMware-On-Demand-Services-

Whitepaper.pdf (page 3, on-demand services)

QUESTION NO: 28

Before you begin the rollout of your private cloud, the technical project leader wants to ensure you

have the vSphere components required by vCloud Director in place first. Which two vSphere

components are required by vCloud? (Choose two.)

A. ESXi hypervisor

B. vCenter ServerC. vSphere Data Protection

D. vCenter Orchestrator

Answer: A,B

Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vcd-

51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vcloud.install.doc_51%2FGUID-C258BED7-9664-4DFE-

B812-100281D4D460.html

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QUESTION NO: 29

Your manager wants to know why traditional usage metering tools are less effective in your private

cloud. Which two statements are accurate responses? (Choose two.)

A. You want to improve the efficiency of your virtual environment.

B. Traditional monitoring tools won't work in a cloud environment.C. Resource usage is shared in a virtual environment.

D. Traditional metering tools don't work in VMs.

Answer: C,D

Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 30

As part of the rollout of cloud computing at your company, the technical design team has identified

the need for two private clouds bridged to a public cloud. Which product would allow you to

oversee your two private clouds and the bridged public cloud?

A. vCloud Director

B. vCloud Connector

C. vCloud Networking & Security

D. vFabric Suite

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-connector/

QUESTION NO: 31

You have been hired to assist in the implementing and maintaining your company's private cloud.

Which product will you use as the primary web-based interface for managing your private cloud?

A. vCloud Networking and Security

B. vCenter Server

C. vCloud Director

D. vCloud Connector

Answer: CReference: http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/VMware-vCloud-Director-evaluation-guide-

Five-use-cases-to-consider

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QUESTION NO: 32

Management has decided it makes business sense for your company to move to a hybrid cloud

environment but has the concern that once you have made the move, managing your many VMs

across the various clouds will require multiple logins with multiple interfaces. Which product wouldyou describe to management to reassure them that you have a single pane of glass style

operational interface for all of the VMs in this hybrid cloud environment?

A. vCenter Server

B. vCloud Connector

C. vCloud Director

D. vFabric Suite

Answer: BReference: http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/infrastructure/vmware-offers-hybrid-

cloud-management-co/229203097

QUESTION NO: 33

Your small startup does not have a budget for capital equipment. What type of cloud would initially

best suit your needs?

A. Private cloud

B. Public cloud

C. Organization cloud

D. Hybrid cloud

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.aerohive.com/pdfs/Aerohive-Whitepaper-Public-or-Private-Cloud.pdf (page2, see public cloud service overview)

QUESTION NO: 34

As your company is growing, you will soon need to open a branch office in a remote city. You

would like to give your colleagues there the same access to your company's cloud you have at thecorporate office. What vCloud Networking and Security feature will provide this site-to-site

encrypted level of security you need?

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A. Load Balancing

B. VPN

C. Firewall

D. NAT

Answer: B

Reference:http://download3.vmware.com/vcat/vcat31_documentation_center/index.html#page/Architecting%

20a%20vCloud/3a%20Architecting%20a%20VMware%20vCloud.2.143.html

QUESTION NO: 35

You would like to stretch your private cloud network to the public cloud. Which product will allowyou to do this?

A. vFabric Suite Standard Edition

B. vCloud Connector Core Edition

C. vCloud Connector Advanced Edition

D. vFabric Suite Advanced Edition

Answer: C

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-connector/

QUESTION NO: 36

You have just been hired to oversee the rollout of a cloud environment at your new company. You

decide to build two clouds: One for development & test and the other for production. Which

product will allow you to move the workloads from the development cloud to the production cloud?

A. vFabric Suite

B. vCloud Connector

C. vCloud Networking & Security

D. vCloud Director

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmware-vcloud-connector-technical-brief.pdf (page 3,

introduction)

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QUESTION NO: 37

Management is concerned that keeping track of chargeable costs may overwhelm Chargeback's

ability to keep up in a rapidly growing environment. You assure them Chargeback will be able to

handle this growth due to which of the following architectural components?

A. Statistic ModulesB. Data Collectors

C. Data Collection Appliances

D. Chargeback Plug-ins

Answer: B

Reference:


alId=2033009

QUESTION NO: 38

Management has decided they want a better understanding of the typical workloads in your

environment and what cost savings might be realized due to underused equipment. Which of the

following components would you use to help determine your normal cloud workload and how

underutilized your current equipment is?

A. vFabric Hyperic

B. vCloud Connector

C. vCenter Operations Manager

D. vCloud Director

Answer: C

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/support/vcops/doc/vcops-57-vapp-release-notes.html

QUESTION NO: 39

You are supporting several different organizations within your company, each of which needs to

be on a separate, isolated network. Which of the following will vCloud Director use to configure

network separation between different organizations in your company?

A. vCloud ConnectorB. vCenter Operations Manager


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D. vFabric Hyperic

Answer: C

Reference:

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_10Q3_WP_vCloud_Director_Security.pdf (page

8)

QUESTION NO: 40

You have several vApps you need to deploy which process sensitive company information. In

order to protect the entire network where each of these vApps runs, which vCloud Networking and

Security feature would you utilize?

A. NetFlow

B. Firewall

C. VLAN

D. VXLAN

Answer: B

Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/05/using-app-firewall-with-vxlan-networks.html

QUESTION NO: 41

You have installed and configured Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to protect your private cloud

infrastructure. Your manager wants assurances that the plan you have put in place will actually

work. How would you go about testing your Site Recovery Manager setup?

A. Tell SRM to initiate an HA failover test.B. Execute a non-disruptive SRM recovery test.

C. Tell SRM's to simulate moving your workloads using vCloud Connector.

D. Tell SRM to vMotion protected VMs to the recovery site.

Answer: B

Reference: http://info.vmware.com/content/enterprise-NA-vcentersiterecovery-17668 (See non

disruptive testing)

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QUESTION NO: 42

Your clients want multiple tiers of service, with some workloads protected against disasters. Which

vCloud feature will you use to do this?

A. Fast Provisioning

B. vCloud APIsC. Provider vDC

D. Service Catalog

Answer: C

Reference: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-

bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=877/ENUSZG12-

0375&appname=STG_BC_FRFR_ANNO (Search for service catalog)

QUESTION NO: 43

You want to be able to do a detailed analysis of a custom web application in your private cloud.

Which of the following vCloud-related products will best help you with this?

A. vCloud Connector

B. vCenter Server

C. vCenter Operations Manager

D. vFabric Hyperic

Answer: D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/vfabric-hyperic/

QUESTION NO: 44

You have been asked to give a high-level presentation to management and technical staff at your

company on the vCloud Suite. As you are describing the various components of the vCloud Suite,

what type of service would you describe the vFabric Suite as providing?

A. SaaS - Software as a Service

B. IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service

C. AaaS - Application as a ServiceD. PaaS - Platform as a Service

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Answer: D

Reference: http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/feature/Where-VMwares-vFabric-Suite-stacks-up-

in-cloud-application-services

QUESTION NO: 45

As the QA department wants to ensure their tests are always run on "clean" servers, the QA

department's workflow is typically: Create a VM, run a test, destroy the VM. Given that nobody

outside the small QA group needs to contact these test servers, which vCloud Networking and

Security feature will allow you to easily allocate IP addresses to the QA test servers on the fly?

A. Firewall

B. NAT

C. DHCP

D. VPN

Answer: C

Reference: http://www.virtual-blog.com/2012/12/how-to-configure-dhcp-server-using-vcloud-

networking-and-security-edge-device-vshield/

QUESTION NO: 46

The users in your department are accessing their day-to-day applications (and their data) over the

network using a web browser. What type of service are they utilizing?

A. Software as a Service (SaaS)

B. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

C. Data Processing as a Service (DPaaS)D. Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Answer: A

Reference: http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/Software-as-a-Service

QUESTION NO: 47

You have been tasked with automating the recurring deployment of a multi-tier application with

varying virtual hardware requirements. Which vFabric feature will you use to create a deployment

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plan which can be reused?

A. Blueprint

B. Road Map

C. Deployment Guide

D. App Template

Answer: A

Reference:

http://pubs.vmware.com/vfabric52/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vfabric.appdirector.1.0/appdirecto

r.html (5th bullet)

QUESTION NO: 48

An administrator is considering a hybrid cloud solution and is determining how to get virtual

machines from a private cloud into the public cloud. Which two tools can be used to accomplish

this? (Choose two.)

A. vSphere Replication

B. vCloud Connector

C. Offline Data Transfer service

D. vMotion Migration

Answer: B,C

Reference: https://www.vmware.com/support/hybridcloud/doc/hybridcloud_25_rel_notes.html (See

new features)

QUESTION NO: 49

You work at a small startup company which currently has all of its IT services hosted in a public

cloud provided by a VMware vCloud Service Provider. Management wants to create an in-house

private cloud and needs to determine which services make the most financial sense to transfer to

your private cloud. You need to see use and cost metrics broken down by various services (db,

web, etc.) in the public cloud. Which of the following will allow you to do this?

A. vCenter Operations Manager

B. vCenter Chargeback ManagerC. vCloud Automation Center

D. vCenter Server

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Answer: B

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-chargeback/

QUESTION NO: 50

You have been asked to give a high-level technical presentation outlining your company's new

cloud project. During the question and answer session, one of the attendees asks you: "What is a

Provider vDC?" What do you tell them?

A. A Provider vDC is the environment where virtual machines are stored, deployed and operated.

B. A Provider vDC represents a pool of resources, defined for a particular SLA.

C. A Provider vDC is a subset of an Org vDC.

D. A Provider vDC is composed of resources from multiple vCenter servers.

Answer: B

Explanation: http://frankdenneman.nl/2010/09/24/provider-vdc-cluster-or-resource-pool/

QUESTION NO: 51

Your consulting firm has asked you to advise a large enterprise client which has not yet moved to

a cloud infrastructure. This client is running the majority of their servers in a virtualized vSphere

environment and, initially, wants to know why they should deploy a private cloud.

Which of the following would be a compelling reason for the client to make the jump to the cloud?

A. Simplified provisioning of workloads

B. vCloud Director will allow them to leverage vNetwork Distributed Switches

C. They will be able to place their mission-critical VMs under FT protection

D. They will be able to use storage clusters and Storage DRS

Answer: A

Reference:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/19350/talking_about_the_benefits_of_cloud_computing

QUESTION NO: 52

A colleague hears you have just completed vCloud training. She asks you to explain vCenter

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Operations Manager and its relationship to the vCloud Suite. What do you tell her?

A. vCenter Operations Manager is a cloud security and firewall service which helps prevent virus

and hacker attacks

B. vCenter Operations Manager is the main web-based management interface for vCloud

C. vCenter Operations Manager is an optional software component which helps with performance

analysis in the cloud

D. vCenter Operations Manager helps automate repetitive tasks in your private cloud

Answer: C

Reference: http://www.petri.co.il/vcenter-operations-manager-5-review.htm#

QUESTION NO: 53

The physical datacenter on which your current private cloud runs is nearing capacity. Which

product would allow you to temporarily move some of the workload to a leased public cloud?

A. vCloud Connector

B. Distributed Resource Scheduler

C. vFabric Suite

D. Site Recovery Manager

Answer: AReference: http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/features.html

QUESTION NO: 54

Your clients are very mobile and need a solution that provides connectivity flexibility without the

need to host their own internal VPN services. Which of the following products will solve this

problem?

A. vCloud Connector

B. vCenter Site Recovery Manager


D. vCenter Operations Manager

Answer: C


security-overview.pdf

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QUESTION NO: 55

You need the ability to quickly react to business changes and acquisitions by deploying virtual

machines in a variety of cloud environments. Which vCloud product will solve this problem?

A. vCloud Connector


C. vCloud Director

D. vCloud Networking and Security

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.viktorious.nl/2013/02/26/what-is-vcloud-automation-center/

QUESTION NO: 56

You and a new hire have been assigned the task of building out the Org vDC and Provider vDC

components of your company's new private cloud. You give the Org vDC part to the new hire and

she asks you: "What is this Org vDC thing I will be building?" How do you describe an Org vDC to

her?

A. An Org vDC is the source or parent of Provider vDCs

B. An Org vDC is a partitioned subset of a Provider vDC

C. An Org vDC is a collection of compute, memory and storage resources from one vCenter

D. An Org vDC can combine the resources from multiple vCenter Servers

Answer: B

Reference:


alId=1026339 (4th row of the table)

QUESTION NO: 57

Your manager wants a technical solution which will allow users access to the company's private

cloud where the VMs they create are tightly controlled and the deployment process is streamlined.

How would you advise your manager to solve this problem?

A. Use vCenter Orchestrator to set up a deployment workflow

B. Use vCloud Connector to move the VMs into the private cloud

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C. Use vCloud Automation Center to set up a deployment portal

D. Use vCenter Operations Suite to deploy VMs

Answer: C

Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vcenter-

orchestrator-51-install-config-guide.pdf (page 11)

QUESTION NO: 58

You have been assigned as a mentor to a new hire within the virtualization group who has asked

to you to explain what Site Recovery Manager does. You tell her that after a disaster or in

anticipation of a disaster-type event, Site Recovery Manager:

A. Before the disaster event, SRM replicates specified VMs at the recovery site and powers them

on, so that it can switch control to the recovery site VMs after a disaster

B. Leverages vSphere Replication to move VMs offsite

C. Automatically reboots specified ESXi servers and VMs in place at your local datacenter as the

earliest opportunity

D. Moves your VMs to a public cloud provided by an approved third party provider

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.iland.com/blog/corinne-schmidt/vsphere-replication-iland-cloud-removing-

need-3rd-party-replication

QUESTION NO: 59

In preparation for the deployment of your company's private cloud, you have delegated the task of

populating the catalog which will be used to deploy your Org vDCs. Which two objects will you put

into the catalog? (Choose two.)

A. Virtual Appliances

B. vApp Templates

C. VMs

D. Media

Answer: B,D

Explanation: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/11/linked-clones-part-1-fast-provisioning-in-

vcloud-director-15.html

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QUESTION NO: 60

Your manager wants to know which of the following environments will vFabric Hyperic be able to

monitor?

A. Cloud only

B. Virtual and cloudC. Physical and cloud

D. Physical, virtual or cloud

Answer: D

Reference:

http://pubs.vmware.com/vfabricHyperic50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vfabric.hyperic.5.0/vFabri

c_Hyperic_5.0.html (first para, second sentence)

QUESTION NO: 61

Your manager tells you, "We need the ability to non-disruptively adjust our clients' resource

capacity based on their business growth." Which vCloud feature will you use to do this?

A. Organization vDC

B. Fast Provisioning

C. Service Catalog

D. vCloud APIs

Answer: A

Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 62

You need to deploy a consistently configured workload with multiple VMs. Another group in your

company has already defined just such a workload. Rather than recreate your own workload

definition, which feature would allow you to deploy the workload as defined by the other group?

A. Auto Deploy

B. vCloud CatalogC. vCenter Template

D. Org vDC

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Answer: B

Reference:


alId=1026324

QUESTION NO: 63

As part of your cloud deployment, your company has installed vFabric Hyperic. Which of the

following features do you get with vFabric Hyperic?

A. Automated application installation

B. Automated server discovery

C. Automated workload balancing between private and public clouds

D. Centralized reporting and monitoring of hybrid cloud environments

Answer: D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/il/products/vfabric-hyperic/features.html

QUESTION NO: 64

Your manager is asking you to explain how Chargeback relates to other VMware software

components. How would you explain this to him?

A. Chargeback is integrated with vCloud components only as vCloud can provide both the cloud-

and vSphere-related data Chargeback needs.

B. Chargeback is integrated with vSphere only, collecting data from vCenter's database.

C. Chargeback is a standalone product, collecting all data itself and has no direct interaction withany other VMware software products.

D. Chargeback is integrated with vCenter and vCloud components, vCenter for vSphere-related

data and vCloud for cloud-related data.

Answer: D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-Technote-Using-vCenter-

Chargeback-vCloud-Director.pdf

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QUESTION NO: 65

Your company is currently in the middle of transitioning to a private cloud, therefore your

datacenter has a combination of legacy physical servers, vCenter (e.g. non-cloud) VMs and cloud-

based VMs. You'd rather not have to deal with three separate interfaces for deploying and

managing the life-cycle of all three types of servers. Which of the following can you use to perform

life-cycle management for all of these servers during the transition period?

A. vFabric Suite

B. vCloud Director

C. vCenter


Answer: D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/management/vmw-vcloud-automation-center-faq.pdf

(first answer, page 1)

QUESTION NO: 66

You have a multi-tier application comprised of a web, database, and application servers. Which

product will allow you to move the Apache web server to the public cloud while maintaining the

same network settings and connectivity with the other two servers?

A. vCloud Networking & Security

B. vCenter

C. vCloud Connector

D. vFabric Suite

Answer: C

Reference: http://download3.vmware.com/vcloud_assets/Doc/PDF/MovingCloudWorkloads-

vCC.pdf

QUESTION NO: 67

Your company's management needs to be able to plan for next year's capital expense budget and

wants to know if and when the infrastructure components in your cloud will run out of capacity and

therefore need upgrading. You tell him you can get that information to him using vCenterOperations Manager. Which vCenter Operations Manager Super Metric badge would you look

under to see the time remaining and capacity remaining for your infrastructure components?

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A. Health

B. Performance

C. Efficiency

D. Risk

Answer: D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcops-5-getting-started-guide.pdf (page 30, address aproblem with a specific datastore, bullet #3)

QUESTION NO: 68

In planning for your upcoming transition to vCloud Director, your manager asks you if and how you

can leverage your existing vSphere 5.x installation. How to you advise your manager?

A. vCloud Director installs a new vSphere infrastructure, but we can reuse the existing shared

storage

B. We can use the existing vSphere infrastructure but will have to reinstall vCenter

C. We should start with a fresh vSphere infrastructure dedicated to vCloud Director.

D. vCloud Director wipes out everything, including shared storage

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vCloud/VMware-vCloud-Director-51-Evaluation-Guide.pdf

QUESTION NO: 69

Your manager has been wondering why, in a cloud-based virtual environment, you cannot

continue to use the traditional management tools you have been using before you transitioned tothe cloud. How would you explain to your manager why you need to use a management tool like

vCenter Operations Manager?

A. All management functions in the cloud must run on a vCenter server as vCenter is where

performance data is collected

B. Traditional network management software cannot capture virtual network packets for analysis

C. Virtual environments use resources differently than pure physical environments

D. Management agents written for physical environments will not work in virtual machines

Answer: C

Explanation:

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QUESTION NO: 70

While attending a vCloud overview seminar, the presenter is describing how vCloud leverages

many existing vSphere features in building clouds. What does vCloud Director use to provideCPU/RAM resource allocation and separation?

A. Resource Affinity

B. Organization vDC

C. VASA Service Class

D. Service Catalog

Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 71

Your company performs data processing which consists of running the same data processing

application against multiple data sets. This application, running in your company's private cloud,

can take several days to process a single dataset and there is the need to deploy more than one

instance of this workload. Which feature would help you deploy extra instances of this application

when needed?

A. Orchestrator

B. vCloud Template

C. vCloud Catalog

D. vCenter Template

Answer: A

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/orchestrator_pubs.html

QUESTION NO: 72

A college intern is asking you which of the vCenter Operations Manager's Super Metrics helpswith long-term analysis of your environment. What do you tell her?

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A. Risk

B. Efficiency

C. Capacity

D. Health

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/vmware-esx-and-vsphere-articles/performance-tuning/vmware-vcenter-operations-manager-part3.html

QUESTION NO: 73

Management at your company has asked you to give a presentation outlining why you want to

move to a private cloud. As part of this presentation you are explaining vCloud Director and itscapabilities. Which of the following describes something vCloud Director can do for your cloud

project?

A. Provide Fault Tolerance (FT) protection for your cloud workloads

B. Move workloads between a private and a public cloud

C. Allow multiple tenants to run on the same vSphere Cluster

D. Move your cloud to a remote site when disaster strikes

Answer: CReference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-Architecting-vCloud-WP.pdf (page 15,

vcloud director constructs)

QUESTION NO: 74

Your company's cloud computing needs are likely to change over time. In order to begin planningearly, your manager wants to know which type of cloud environment vCloud Director supports.

Which three cloud types are supported? (Choose three.)

A. Hybrid Clouds

B. Private Clouds

C. Public Clouds

D. Open Clouds

E. Third Party Clouds

Answer: A,B,C

Reference: https://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2013/03/how-to-design-your-vcloud-director-hybrid-

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cloud.html

QUESTION NO: 75

Your company is growing and your manager has asked you to build out a new virtual datacenter

with its appropriate Provider vDCs and Org vDCs. Which of the following products provides the

primary interface for constructing this software datacenter?

A. vSphere Web Client

B. vCloud Connector

C. vCloud Automation Center

D. vCloud Director

Answer: D

Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 76

You need to perform performance, capacity and configuration management of your newly installedcloud. Which of the following products will best help you accomplish this?

A. vCloud Director

B. vFabric Hyperic

C. vCenter Server

D. vCenter Operations Manager

Answer: D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/vcenter-operations-management/features.html

QUESTION NO: 77

You are talking with a potential customer about your cloud services. They are concerned that, in

the ever-changing cloud workload environment, monitoring performance and reacting to problems

based upon static alarm settings will not work. They want assurance their workloads will beproperly monitored in the cloud. To help with their concern, which vCenter Operations Manager

alarm feature would you explain to them?

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A. Auto Reactive Alarms

B. Adaptive Alarms

C. Self-Learning Analytics

D. Dynamic Thresholds

Answer: D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcops-5-getting-started-guide.pdf (page 8)

QUESTION NO: 78

Your development group wants to automate the configuration, deployment and subsequent

updating of a multi-tier app they are developing. Which of the following products will allow

development to do this?

A. vFabric Hyperic

B. vFabric Application Director

C. vCloud Connector

D. vCloud Director

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vCloud-Suite-Pricing-Packaging-Whitepaper.pdf

(page 5)

QUESTION NO: 79

Your manager has just returned from a conference on virtualization where she heard many

environments have a large number of their virtual machines over-provisioned. She wants to know

if this is the case here as well. What vCenter Operations Manager Super Metric would you use toidentify reclaimable waste?

A. Risk

B. Efficiency

C. Performance

D. Health

Answer: B

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcops-5-getting-started-guide.pdf (page 19)

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QUESTION NO: 80

Your manager asks you if your internal workload provisioning and management tools can be used

to manage and interoperate with your public cloud provider. You answer yes, by using which of the

following vCloud features?

A. Provider vDC

B. Self-Service Portal

C. Service Catalog

D. vCloud APIs

Answer: D

Reference: http://cloud.idglabs.net/?p=1874

QUESTION NO: 81

Before your company transitioned to the cloud, one of the recurring problems you had with

virtualization was VM creep; the tendency to deploy VMs on request which, eventually, became all

but unused, needlessly consuming compute and storage resources. What product can be used to

help eliminate this VM creep problem?

A. vCloud Automation Center

B. vCenter Orchestrator

C. vFabric Suite

D. Auto Deploy

Answer: C

Explanation: http://www.pivotal.io/products/vfabric

QUESTION NO: 82

At your company you have several research projects which require separate networks in your

cloud. Although the servers on these networks will require access to the rest of the company, it is

not required that any of the servers deployed on these networks have static or public IP

addresses. Which vCloud Networking and Security feature will allow you to reuse the same

subnet/IP address range on each of these networks without causing any IP address conflicts or

collisions?

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A. NAT

B. Fencing

C. Firewall

D. VPN

Answer: A

Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 83

Your manager tells you he wants the ability to roll back broken or unauthorized configuration

changes to a previous known good state. Which product will solve this problem?

A. vCloud Automation Center

B. vCenter Operations Manager

C. Snapshots

D. vCenter Chargeback

Answer: B

Reference: http://cloud.idglabs.net/?p=1873

QUESTION NO: 84

Your company is developing a new application and would like to have a several identical test

environments. Which of the following vCloud features would you utilize in making this environment

secure?

A. Fenced vApp networkB. vShield Endpoint

C. vCloud Connector

D. Fenced vSphere Distributed Switch

Answer: A

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-perf.pdf

QUESTION NO: 85

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Your manager has just completed an intense half-day seminar on cloud computing. Although she

has the big picture, there are details that are still not clear to her. She wants to know what vCloud

Automation Center can do. Which two statements would be accurate responses? (Choose two.)

A. It moves workloads to different storage and compute tiers based on utilization.

B. It lets you automate deployment of ESXi servers.

C. It is a vCenter plugin which automates deployment of templates to the cloud.

D. It reclaims unused VMs.

Answer: B,D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-automation-center/

QUESTION NO: 86

Your manager is requesting that you to find a way to automate the remediation of any vCenter

Operations Manager alert where practical. Which product can you use to automate the radiation of

alerts?

A. vCloud Connector

B. vCenter Orchestrator

C. vFabric Hyperic


Answer: B

Reference: http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/2013/04/vcenter-operations-integration-with-

vcenter-orchestrator-in-5-minutes-or-less.html

QUESTION NO: 87

You will be deploying a new vCloud vApp which needs storage with specific capabilities. In the

past, this had been accomplished by manually assigning your datastores to a service level such as

"Tier 1," "Tier 2," and so on. Your SAN infrastructure is large and complicated enough that you do

not want to do this manually as it is tedious and error prone. What technology helps eliminate a lot

of the manual work involved in defining tiered storage used in your cloud?

A. CatalogsB. Resource Pools

C. VASA

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D. Storage vMotion

Answer: C

Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 88

Your company's cloud technical architect has decided to utilize vCloud Automation Center to

deploy applications and services within your private cloud. Which of the following can be deployed

with vCloud Automation Center?

A. Provider vDCs

B. Organization

C. vDCs vApps

D. Templates

Answer: D

Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/appdirector-

5.2/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.appdirector5.2.using.doc%2FGUID-FA1DAAB7-2CB7-

4BF2-822A-6B49380FF4B7.html 111

QUESTION NO: 89

You are explaining to your manager how vCloud Director helps ensure that each organization in

your company has access to QA-approved VM images only. What vCloud Director object only

allows your users access to QA-approved VMs?

A. Org vDCB. Configured datastore with VMs in OVF format

C. vCenter Template

D. Published Catalog

Answer: B

Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-4-esx-

vcenter/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vmadmin.doc_41/vsp_vm_guide/working_with_ovf_templates/t

_import_a_virtual_appliance.html

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QUESTION NO: 90

Your manager asks you to provide a lifecycle management solution for your cloud to manage all

your end-user resource requests. Which vCloud product will solve this problem?

A. vCloud Operations Manager

B. vCloud Networking and SecurityC. vCloud Automation Center

D. vCloud Connector

Answer: C

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vcloud/vmware-vcloud-automation-center-

datasheet.pdf (page 1)

QUESTION NO: 91

Your development team is using pre-configured and deployed web, database, and application

servers installed as virtual machines in your company cloud. Which type of service are they using?

A. Software as a Service (SaaS)

B. Platform as a Service (PaaS)

C. Data Processing as a Service (DPaaS)

D. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Answer: B

Reference: http://docs.hol.vmware.com/HOL-2013/HOL-SDC-1314_html_en/

QUESTION NO: 92

Your manager has tasked you with setting up Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to protect your

private HA-enabled cloud. You have to decide which VMs SRM needs to protect and which (if any)

VMs SRM does not need to protect. Which VMs you would protect with SRM in this environment?

A. Only cloud management VMs

B. All user VMs and cloud management VMs in your cloud

C. Only mission-critical workload VMs in your cloudD. Only cloud management VMs and mission-critical workload VMs in your cloud

Answer: D

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Explanation:

QUESTION NO: 93

You have been put in charge of configuring several new vApps in your private cloud. Your

company's security policy dictates users on one project not see the IP addresses used on another

project. Which vCloud Networking and Security feature would you setup to configure this required

IP address isolation?

A. VXLAN

B. VPN

C. Firewall

D. NAT

Answer: A

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-VXLAN-Deployment-Guide.pdf

QUESTION NO: 94

You work at a small ISP and need to provide multiple virtual datacenters for your multi-tenancy

environment. Which of the following would you do to build a multi-tenancy environment?

A. Build multiple virtual datacenters using vFabric Suite

B. Build multiple Org vDCs using vCloud Director

C. Build multiple Provider vDCs using vCloud Connector

D. Build multiple External Networks using vCloud Director

Answer: BReference:


alId=1026339

QUESTION NO: 95

After this morning's high-level, sales-oriented cloud seminar, your colleague is still unclear on the

relationship between an Org vDC and a Provider vDC and asks you to help explain why you would

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set up multiple Provider vDCs. What would you tell him?

A. You want to implement hardware-based resource tiering

B. Multiple Provider vDCs are required for organizations which have multiple internal networks

C. Each Org vDC requires its own Provider vDC

D. Multiple Provider VDCs would allow for segmenting of identical sets of physical hardware

Answer: B

Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vcd-

51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vcloud.api.doc_51%2FGUID-6DA11728-5405-4554-BEFD-

81E8F4D80161.html

QUESTION NO: 96

Your manager heard on a webinar that vCenter Operations Manager has the ability to create

custom groups so that he could better align performance and management decisions with the

business. Which two custom groups could you create? (Choose two.)

A. DRS/HA Cluster

B. Application

C. vCenter Datacenter

D. Line of business

Answer: B,D

Reference: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcops-56-getting-started-guide.pdf

QUESTION NO: 97

Your manager asks you to set up your company's private cloud so that you can provide various

compute and storage service level offerings. What component in vCloud Director would you

configure to provide the different service level offerings?

A. Storage Clusters

B. vCenter Resource Pools

C. Provider vDC

D. Org vDC

Answer: C

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Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vcd-51/topic/com.vmware.vcloud.api.doc_51/GUID-

6DA11728-5405-4554-BEFD-81E8F4D80161.html

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