VMware VCP-DCV Data Center Virtualization (vSphere 8.x, 2V0-21.23)

Which VMware vSphere component provides centralized management for ESXi hosts and virtual machines?

• AVMware ESXi Host Client
• BVMware vCenter Server
• CVMware Aria Operations
• DVMware NSX Manager

What is the maximum number of vCPUs supported per virtual machine in vSphere 8.0?

• A64
• B128
• C256
• D768

Which vSphere feature provides continuous availability so a protected virtual machine keeps running with no downtime and no data loss if its ESXi host fails?

• AvMotion
• BHigh Availability (HA)
• CFault Tolerance (FT)
• DDistributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

What is the purpose of the VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine (DSE)?

• ATo pool local NVMe devices into a shared datastore
• BTo offload infrastructure services to DPUs
• CTo run Kubernetes control-plane VMs on each host
• DTo centralize NSX firewall rule authoring in vCenter

Which type of hypervisor runs directly on physical hardware without requiring a host operating system?

• AType 2 hypervisor
• BType 1 hypervisor
• CHosted hypervisor
• DContainer runtime

In a vSphere environment, what is the maximum supported RAM per virtual machine in vSphere 8.0?

• A4 TB
• B6 TB
• C12 TB
• D24 TB

Which vCenter Server deployment option provides automatic failover and built-in high availability?

• AA vCenter Server Appliance with a backup schedule
• BEnhanced Linked Mode across two vCenter instances
• CvCenter Server High Availability (VCHA)
• DA vCenter Server Appliance on a vSAN datastore

In vSphere 8, where do the services that once ran on a separate Platform Services Controller (SSO, licensing and certificate management) run?

• AOn a separate external PSC appliance
• BInside every vCenter Server Appliance
• COn each ESXi host's hostd service
• DOn a Windows server joined to the domain

Which of the following best describes the VMware ESXi VMkernel?

• AThe per-VM process that emulates virtual devices
• BThe kernel that schedules CPU, memory and I/O
• CThe Linux service console used to manage the host
• DThe agent that relays vCenter commands to the host

A new vCenter Server Appliance 8.0 must manage up to 500 ESXi hosts and 10,000 virtual machines. Which is the smallest deployment size that supports this inventory?

• ASmall
• BMedium
• CLarge
• DX-Large

What is the primary purpose of VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler)?

• ATo restart VMs on surviving hosts after a failure
• BTo balance CPU and memory demand across hosts
• CTo balance datastore space and I/O latency
• DTo prioritize traffic types on host uplinks

Which vSphere technology enables the live migration of a running virtual machine from one ESXi host to another without downtime?

• ACold Migration
• BStorage vMotion
• CvMotion
• DFault Tolerance

What is a key requirement for live-migrating a running VM with vMotion between two ESXi hosts?

• AIdentical CPU models and equal memory sizes on both hosts
• BCompatible CPUs and vMotion VMkernel adapters on both
• CHosts managed by two different vCenter instances
• DShared storage presented to both hosts in all cases

What term describes assigning more total vCPUs to the virtual machines on a host than the host has physical CPU cores?

• ACPU scheduling affinity
• BCPU overcommitment
• CLatency sensitivity
• DVirtual NUMA

What is the purpose of a Resource Pool in vSphere?

• ATo group hosts that share one EVC baseline mode
• BTo divide CPU and memory capacity hierarchically
• CTo group datastores for space and I/O load balancing
• DTo set VM-to-host placement rules

In DRS, what does the "Migration Threshold" setting control?

• AThe maximum number of VMs each host may run
• BHow aggressively DRS balances cluster load with vMotion
• CThe vMotion bandwidth reserved on each host
• DThe CPU usage percentage that triggers DRS alarms

What happens when a virtual machine's memory reservation is set equal to its configured memory?

• AThe VM's swap file becomes twice its configured memory
• BIts memory is guaranteed and is not ballooned or swapped
• CIts pages are compressed ahead of other VMs' pages
• DIt powers on even when no unreserved host memory remains

Which statement about Per-VM EVC in vSphere 8 is correct?

• AIt can be changed while the VM is powered on
• BIt requires virtual hardware version 8 or later
• CIt exposes new CPU features after vMotion
• DIts EVC mode is saved in the VM's configuration

What is the maximum number of hosts supported in a vSphere HA/DRS cluster in vSphere 8.0?

• A32
• B64
• C96
• D128

What is VMware vSAN?

• AA Fibre Channel array appliance sold by VMware
• BStorage pooled from the hosts' local devices
• CAn appliance that replicates VMs to a second site
• DA protocol that carries SCSI commands over Ethernet

Which storage protocol allows block-level storage access over a standard Ethernet network?

• ANFS
• BSMB/CIFS
• CiSCSI
• DFTP

What is the purpose of VMFS (Virtual Machine File System)?

• AA file-level NAS protocol mounted by ESXi
• BA clustered file system for VM files on block storage
• CAn object store vSAN builds from local disks
• DA per-VM container that maps to an array volume

What are VMware Storage Policies used for?

• ATo set the path selection policy for each LUN
• BTo state the storage requirements a VM's disks need
• CTo throttle VM disk I/O when latency is high
• DTo schedule automatic UNMAP space reclamation on datastores

Excluding two-node and stretched clusters that use a witness host, how many hosts does a standard vSAN cluster need at minimum to protect objects with RAID-1 mirroring and failures to tolerate = 1?

• A2
• B3
• C4
• D5

What is the difference between thick provision eager zeroed and thick provision lazy zeroed disks?

• AEager zeroed allocates space on demand as data is written
• BEager zeroed writes zeros at creation; lazy zeroed on first write
• CLazy zeroed zeros blocks at creation; eager zeroed on first write
• DBoth zero all blocks at creation; only lazy reserves space

What are VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs)?

• AA VMFS datastore spanning several LUN extents on an array
• BArray storage managed per VM disk instead of per LUN
• CLocal host disks pooled into a single datastore
• DA raw LUN mapped directly to a single VM

Which technology enables moving a virtual machine's storage from one datastore to another while the VM is running?

• AvMotion
• BStorage vMotion
• CCold Migration
• DFault Tolerance

What is a VMware vSphere Standard Switch (vSS)?

• AA switch configured once in vCenter for many hosts
• BA virtual switch configured separately on each host
• CA VMkernel TCP/IP stack with its own gateway
• DAn NSX segment that spans hosts over an overlay

What is the primary advantage of a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) over a Standard Switch?

• AIt can be configured without any vCenter Server
• BOne vCenter-managed config shared by many hosts
• CFaster frame forwarding than a standard switch provides
• DIt runs without physical uplinks on each host

What is the purpose of a Port Group in vSphere networking?

• ATo bond several physical NICs into one LAG
• BTo apply VLAN, security and teaming policy to ports
• CTo give VMkernel services their own routing table
• DTo mirror traffic from selected ports to an analyzer port

Which vSphere networking feature allows prioritization of different traffic types (vMotion, management, VM traffic) to ensure quality of service?

• A802.1Q VLAN tagging
• BNetwork I/O Control (NIOC)
• CIngress/egress traffic shaping
• DLink aggregation (LACP)

What is the maximum number of virtual network adapters (vNICs) supported per virtual machine in vSphere 8.0?

• A4
• B8
• C10
• D32

What is a VMkernel port used for?

• AConnecting guest vNICs to a tagged VLAN on the switch
• BCarrying host services such as vMotion and vSAN
• CBonding uplinks into an EtherChannel
• DMirroring VM traffic to a monitoring port

In a vSphere Distributed Switch, what feature allows network traffic from a specific port to be copied to another port for analysis?

• AVLAN tagging
• BPort mirroring
• CLink aggregation
• DPrivate VLANs

What is VMware vSphere Single Sign-On (SSO)?

• AA directory that stores ESXi root passwords
• BA token service for one login across vCenter tools
• CA role that grants administrator rights everywhere
• DA certificate authority for host certificates

Which vSphere permission component defines what actions can be performed?

• ARole
• BUser/Group
• CObject
• DSession

What is the purpose of VM encryption in vSphere?

• ATo encrypt only guest network traffic in transit
• BTo protect VM files and disks at rest
• CTo encrypt data inside the guest file system
• DTo prevent snapshots of sensitive workloads

What is the Native Key Provider in vSphere 8?

• AAn external KMIP server cluster for vCenter
• BA key provider built into vCenter Server
• CThe key store used by the ESXi TPM only
• DThe trusted key provider of a vTA cluster