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

An administrator is asked to explain the primary purpose of vCenter Server in a vSphere environment. Which statement best describes vCenter Server?

A virtual machine’s OS disk must be placed on shared storage so it can be migrated between hosts without downtime. Which vSphere feature requires shared storage to move a running VM between hosts?

An administrator needs to place multiple ESXi hosts into a single logical container to simplify inventory organization and apply permissions consistently. Which object should be used?

A VM is experiencing poor performance. The administrator suspects memory contention on the ESXi host. Which ESXi memory metric is the BEST indicator of active memory reclamation due to contention?

An administrator wants to ensure that only a specific group can power off virtual machines in a production folder, while allowing a broader group to view VM settings. What is the recommended approach?

A company needs to deploy several VMs from a standard “golden image” and keep deployment consistent across multiple clusters. Which feature best supports this requirement?

A cluster is configured with DRS in fully automated mode. During business hours, administrators notice some VMs frequently move between hosts, causing operational concern. Which change is most appropriate to reduce unnecessary migrations while still benefiting from DRS?

An administrator is troubleshooting intermittent datastore latency. Which tool/view provides the MOST direct visibility into storage performance metrics and alerts at the ESXi host level?

A cluster must tolerate the failure of one ESXi host while ensuring VMs can restart with sufficient capacity. Which pair of configurations MOST directly helps achieve this goal?

A VM cannot be migrated with vMotion. The error indicates the VM is using a feature that prevents live migration. Which VM configuration is MOST likely to block vMotion in a typical environment?

An administrator needs to prevent a support engineer from making any configuration changes in vCenter Server while still allowing them to view inventory, tasks, events, and performance data. Which role best meets this requirement?

A vSphere administrator wants to ensure that new VMs are automatically connected to the correct VLAN regardless of which ESXi host they run on. Which vSphere component should be used to provide consistent networking across hosts?

A vCenter Server alert indicates a datastore is running low on free space. What is the most appropriate first action for an administrator to take?

A cluster experiences intermittent VM latency during backup windows. The administrator suspects datastore contention. Which vSphere tool or view is the best place to confirm storage latency at the host and datastore level?

An administrator is deploying a new VM and wants the VM to inherit standardized settings (guest OS options, virtual hardware, tools settings) and ensure consistent configuration. Which approach is recommended?

After enabling a new cluster policy, several VMs are no longer allowed to run on a specific ESXi host because it does not meet a CPU feature requirement. Which feature is most likely enforcing this compatibility rule?

A security team requires that administrative access to ESXi hosts be limited and centrally controlled. They also want to ensure administrators do not need to maintain local ESXi user accounts. Which approach best meets this requirement?

A VM running a database is experiencing CPU ready time spikes. The ESXi host shows high CPU utilization and multiple VMs are competing for CPU. Which action is most likely to reduce CPU contention for the database VM without adding new hardware?

A company requires that if an ESXi host fails, VMs restart automatically on surviving hosts, and the solution must avoid a single point of failure for management. Which design best satisfies these requirements?

An administrator migrates a VM's networking from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch. After the change, the VM loses connectivity, but other VMs on the same distributed port group work. The VM is configured with a static IP and the VLAN is correct. What is the most likely cause?

An administrator needs to verify that a vCenter Server instance can manage multiple ESXi hosts and provide centralized inventory and permissions. Which component provides this functionality?

A VM’s operations team wants a safe way to test a software update and quickly revert if it fails, without restoring from backup. Which feature best meets this requirement?

An administrator wants to quickly determine whether a host is experiencing CPU contention. Which metric in vSphere performance charts is the most direct indicator of CPU contention on an ESXi host?

A company is using a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS). A new host was added to a cluster and VMs on that host cannot communicate on any port groups. The physical uplinks are connected and show link. Which action most likely resolves the issue?

An administrator is asked to limit a test VM so it cannot consume more than 2 GHz of CPU on a host, even if additional CPU resources are available. Which configuration should be used?

A security team requires that administrators use corporate credentials and enforce centralized password policies when logging into vCenter Server. Which approach best meets this requirement?

A VM is experiencing intermittent network packet loss. The administrator suspects a duplex mismatch or errors on the physical uplink. Where should the administrator check first to validate this at the vSphere layer?

An administrator wants to provide continuous availability for a single critical VM so that if a host fails, the VM continues running with minimal interruption and no reliance on a restart process. Which feature should be used?

A host has two VMkernel adapters: one intended for vMotion and one for management. vMotion operations fail with a message indicating no compatible network was found. Both VMkernel adapters have valid IP addresses and can ping their respective gateways. What is the most likely cause?

A cluster uses vSphere HA. After a host failure, several VMs do not restart due to insufficient capacity on remaining hosts. The business requires that a defined set of critical VMs must always be able to restart during a failure. Which configuration best addresses this requirement?

An administrator wants to quickly confirm whether a VM is using VMware Tools features (such as clean shutdown and time synchronization) and whether those features are likely to work. Where in vSphere Client should they check first?

An administrator needs to give a helpdesk team the ability to power on/off VMs and open the console, but not change VM hardware or host configuration. Which approach is the BEST fit?

A VM cannot be powered on. The error indicates that the VM's configuration file is locked. What is the MOST likely cause?

An administrator wants to ensure that management traffic and VM traffic are separated without purchasing additional physical NICs. Which vSphere approach best meets this requirement?

A cluster experiences occasional performance issues. The administrator wants to identify whether CPU contention is occurring on specific hosts. Which host metric is the MOST direct indicator of CPU contention in vSphere?

An administrator is configuring vSphere HA and wants to avoid a single point of failure for management connectivity on each host. Which configuration best supports this goal?

A VM is experiencing high disk latency. The administrator wants to determine whether the latency is originating from the guest OS, the VMkernel, or the storage device. Which vSphere feature/view is the BEST starting point for this analysis?

An administrator must ensure that only a specific set of VMs can communicate with each other on a distributed port group, while other VMs on the same port group must be isolated. Which solution best meets this requirement at the virtual network layer?

A host shows high memory usage, but many VMs are not actively using the memory allocated to them. The administrator wants to improve consolidation safely. Which action aligns with best practices for reducing wasted memory without immediately changing VM configured memory?

A vCenter Server becomes unreachable. ESXi hosts and VMs continue running, but an administrator needs to understand what cluster-level feature will NOT function until vCenter is restored. Which feature is impacted?

An administrator needs to quickly determine which ESXi host a specific virtual machine is currently running on using the vSphere Client. What is the simplest way to view this information?

An administrator wants to prevent VM administrators from taking snapshots, while still allowing them to power on/off and console into their VMs. Which approach best meets the requirement?

A junior administrator is asked to verify whether the vCenter Server is managing an ESXi host. Which indicator confirms that an ESXi host is connected and managed by vCenter?

A VM has intermittent performance issues. The administrator suspects CPU contention on the ESXi host. Which metric is most directly associated with CPU contention for a VM?

An administrator is implementing a distributed virtual switch (vDS). A new ESXi host is added to the cluster and must connect to the same port groups as other hosts. What must be done to allow the host to use the vDS for VM networking?

After enabling EVC on a cluster, some VMs fail to power on with a CPU feature compatibility error. The cluster contains hosts from different CPU generations. What is the most likely cause?

A company wants to ensure that vSphere administrators use a central identity source and that user access can be revoked in one place. Which configuration best meets this requirement?

An administrator is troubleshooting why vMotion fails between two hosts. Both hosts show 'Connected' in vCenter. Which requirement must be satisfied for successful vMotion?

A cluster is configured with vSphere HA. During a host isolation event, several VMs were powered off unexpectedly. The administrator needs to prevent VMs from being powered off during future host isolation events while still allowing HA restarts if a host actually fails. Which setting should be adjusted?

An administrator is designing datastore access for a cluster where some hosts must NOT see a particular datastore due to licensing restrictions. What is the best way to enforce this at the vSphere layer while still using shared storage for the cluster?