50 VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation 5.2 Administrator Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

An administrator is planning the management connectivity for multiple ESXi hosts in a vSphere cluster. Which network requirement is essential for vSphere HA to reliably detect host isolation conditions?

A virtual machine needs access to a physical USB security dongle connected to an ESXi host. The VM must keep access even after vMotion to another host in the cluster. Which approach best meets this requirement?

An administrator needs to quickly verify whether a host is contributing CPU Ready time that is impacting a specific VM’s performance. Which metric is the most appropriate to check first?

A vSphere administrator wants to ensure only authorized administrators can modify distributed virtual switch (VDS) networking while allowing helpdesk users to view port group information. What is the best practice approach?

An administrator is adding a new ESXi host to vCenter Server. The host shows as 'Not responding' shortly after being added. Other hosts are healthy. Which action is the most likely to resolve the issue?

A cluster experiences frequent DRS migrations during business hours, causing concerns about application performance stability. The administrator wants to reduce migration frequency while still allowing balancing over time. What is the best configuration change?

A VM was restored from backup into the same cluster. After power-on, users report the VM has no network connectivity. The port group is correct, and other VMs on the same port group are working. Which is the MOST likely cause?

An administrator is designing shared storage access for a vSphere cluster. Which statement best describes why consistent datastore presentation to all hosts is important?

A security audit requires that administrators authenticate using a centralized identity source and that access can be revoked immediately when a user leaves the company. Which solution best meets this requirement for vCenter access?

A cluster uses vSphere HA and DRS. During a planned maintenance, the administrator places a host into Maintenance Mode, but several VMs fail to evacuate with an error indicating insufficient resources. The cluster appears lightly utilized overall. Which configuration issue is the MOST likely cause?

An administrator needs to verify which ESXi host is providing storage path connectivity issues for a shared VMFS datastore. Where in the vSphere Client should the administrator look first to quickly identify path state (Active/Standby/Dead) per host?

A new VM fails to power on with an error indicating insufficient capacity on the datastore, even though the datastore shows plenty of free space. The VM was created with a thick-provisioned disk. What is the most likely explanation?

An administrator wants to ensure that only a specific group can create and manage VM snapshots, while other VM operators can still power on/off and console into VMs. Which approach best follows vSphere best practices?

After deploying a new ESXi host, it does not appear in vCenter inventory when added by FQDN, but adding it by IP address works. Other hosts resolve the same FQDN correctly. What is the most likely cause?

A cluster is experiencing high CPU Ready time on multiple VMs during business hours. Which action most directly reduces CPU Ready without adding new hardware?

An administrator needs to ensure that a critical VM can restart on another host after an ESXi host failure. The VM is currently on local storage of that host. What must be changed to meet the requirement?

A company wants to separate traffic types on a vSphere Distributed Switch: Management, vMotion, and VM traffic. They also want consistent policy enforcement across all hosts. What is the recommended design approach?

A VM is protected by a backup solution that uses VMware APIs for Data Protection (VADP). Backups are failing with errors about changed block tracking (CBT). Which remediation is most appropriate and least disruptive as a first step?

An administrator configures a VM override to ensure it always receives higher CPU priority than other VMs during contention. Which mechanism should be used to guarantee this behavior in a predictable way across the cluster?

A security team requires that ESXi hosts be configured so administrators cannot directly log in using the root account over SSH, but they still need emergency break-glass access through the console if vCenter is unavailable. Which approach best meets the requirement?

An administrator needs to ensure ESXi host log files are preserved even if the host reboots. The hosts currently use local scratch on a small boot device that may fill up. What is the recommended approach?

A VM must be prevented from communicating with other VMs on the same port group, but it must still reach the default gateway. Which vSphere feature should be used on the port group to meet this requirement?

An administrator wants to quickly determine whether a datastore performance issue is caused by latency on the storage device or by contention in the ESXi host queue. Which metric pairing best helps differentiate these causes?

A vSphere administrator needs to allow a helpdesk group to power on/off VMs and reset guest OS passwords using guest operations, but they must not be able to modify VM hardware. What is the best practice approach?

A cluster uses vSphere DRS in fully automated mode. A business-critical VM must remain on its current host due to a third-party licensing restriction tied to host hardware. What should the administrator configure?

An administrator is troubleshooting intermittent VM connectivity issues on a standard vSwitch. Only one VM is affected, and the physical switch shows frequent MAC flapping between two uplink ports. Which misconfiguration is the MOST likely cause on the ESXi side?

A company wants to separate management traffic from VM traffic using multiple TCP/IP stacks on ESXi. Which capability is provided by using a dedicated TCP/IP stack for vMotion?

An administrator notices that several VMs have unexpectedly high CPU Ready time during peak hours, but host CPU usage is not consistently high. Which action is MOST appropriate to confirm whether CPU co-scheduling constraints are contributing to the issue?

A VM is protected by vSphere HA. After a host failure, the VM restarts but the application remains unavailable because it requires a dependent service on another VM to be running first. Which configuration best addresses this requirement?

A vCenter Server manages multiple clusters. The security team requires all administrative actions to be attributable to individual users, and they want to prevent shared local accounts from being used to manage ESXi hosts. Which approach best meets this requirement?

An administrator wants to ensure that a host can always boot and run vSphere even if remote storage is temporarily unavailable. Which installation target best supports this requirement?

A team wants to reduce administrative overhead by enforcing a consistent virtual switch configuration and port group naming across all ESXi hosts in a cluster. Which approach is recommended?

An administrator wants to allow the helpdesk to power on/off virtual machines but not modify VM hardware settings or host configuration. Which vSphere feature best meets this requirement?

A VM is experiencing high read latency. Which metric in vSphere performance charts most directly indicates storage responsiveness issues seen by the VM?

An ESXi host has two physical NICs available for iSCSI storage traffic. The administrator wants redundancy and improved performance while maintaining standard best practices for iSCSI multipathing. What should be configured?

After enabling DRS in a cluster, an administrator wants the system to provide placement recommendations but not automatically migrate workloads. Which DRS automation level should be selected?

An administrator needs to apply a consistent advanced setting and NTP configuration across several ESXi hosts, and also be able to check compliance over time. Which solution best fits this requirement?

A VM intermittently loses network connectivity during large file transfers. The physical switch ports show no errors. The vSphere administrator suspects an MTU mismatch in the virtual networking path. Which action most directly validates end-to-end MTU for VMkernel-based traffic between hosts?

A cluster uses vSphere HA. After a host failure, several VMs fail to restart due to insufficient capacity on remaining hosts. The administrator wants to guarantee enough resources are reserved to tolerate the loss of one host. Which HA-related configuration addresses this requirement?

A security team requires that administrators authenticate to vCenter using corporate identity and that permissions are managed through directory groups. Which design best meets this requirement while reducing local account sprawl?

An administrator needs a quick way to provide a VM with an IP address, default gateway, and DNS settings automatically when the VM powers on. No guest customization or templates are required. Which vSphere feature best meets this requirement?

A vSphere administrator wants to reduce the risk of accidentally powering off a critical VM through the vSphere Client. Which action is the most appropriate preventive control?

A VM shows a high Ready (%RDY) value during business hours while CPU usage appears moderate. What does a high CPU Ready most commonly indicate?

A new ESXi host is added to vCenter Server but appears in the inventory with a warning that it is not compliant with the cluster configuration. The cluster uses Host Profiles. What is the recommended next step to bring the host into compliance?

An administrator is troubleshooting intermittent VM connectivity. The VM is connected to a distributed port group, and other VMs on the same port group are unaffected. Which setting is MOST likely to cause connectivity issues for only this VM if misconfigured?

A cluster uses vSphere HA. After a host failure, several VMs did not restart because the cluster reported insufficient failover capacity. Which configuration change most directly addresses this problem going forward?

An administrator needs to delegate the ability for a helpdesk team to open remote console sessions to VMs, but not to modify VM hardware, delete VMs, or change host/network settings. What is the BEST approach?

A VM is experiencing high storage latency during backups. The datastore is shared by many VMs. Which action is the BEST first step to identify whether the issue is caused by the backup workload saturating the datastore?

A security policy requires that only vCenter Server can manage ESXi hosts, and direct host client access should be restricted. Which ESXi feature best supports this requirement while still allowing administrators to perform management tasks through vCenter?

An administrator is designing networking for a cluster where management traffic, vMotion traffic, and VM traffic must be isolated. The environment uses a vSphere Distributed Switch. Which design is MOST aligned with best practices for traffic separation and resiliency?