VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support Practice Exam 2025: Latest Questions

An administrator is asked to explain what vCenter Server provides in a vSphere environment. Which capability is a primary function of vCenter Server?

A user reports they cannot power on a VM and sees an error indicating there is no more space on the datastore. What is the most appropriate first action?

An administrator needs to safely apply guest OS updates inside a critical VM and wants the ability to quickly revert if the updates cause issues. Which vSphere feature best meets this requirement?

A VM connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) loses network connectivity immediately after the administrator changes its port group assignment. Other VMs on the original port group still have connectivity. What is the most likely cause?

After a host reboot, several VMs show an alarm: "VMware Tools is not running". The guest OS network is working, but administrators cannot gracefully shut down the VMs from vCenter. What is the best next step?

A cluster uses vSphere HA. One ESXi host loses management network connectivity to vCenter, but VMs on that host continue running. vCenter shows the host as "Not Responding". Which HA behavior is most likely if the host still has storage and network connectivity for the VMs?

Users report intermittent packet loss to VMs on one ESXi host. The physical switch shows no errors. On the ESXi host, the vSwitch NIC team has two uplinks but one vmnic frequently flaps. What is the most appropriate troubleshooting step on the ESXi side?

A VM migration with vMotion fails with an error indicating incompatible networking. The destination host is in the same cluster. Which condition most commonly causes this?

An administrator suspects a storage path failure is causing occasional VM freezes. The environment uses shared storage with multipathing. Which approach best helps confirm and isolate a path-related issue on an ESXi host?

A VM running a database workload experiences sudden write latency increases. The datastore is on shared storage and other VMs are unaffected. The administrator discovers the VM has multiple snapshots, including an old snapshot chain. What is the best practice action to reduce risk and improve performance?

An administrator wants to quickly verify whether a vCenter Server is managing any ESXi hosts and to view inventory objects. Which interface is best suited for this task?

A support engineer needs to confirm whether VMware Tools is installed and running on a virtual machine without logging into the guest OS. Where should they check?

A VM cannot be powered on and displays an error indicating it is "locked" or "already in use." What is the most likely cause?

A VM experiences intermittent connectivity. The physical switch team reports that the port is configured for a specific VLAN. In vSphere, the VM is connected to a port group on a vSphere Standard Switch. Which configuration most directly determines the VLAN used by the VM's traffic?

A user reports that a VM is running but cannot be reached over the network. The vSphere Client shows the VM's virtual NIC is connected and the correct port group is selected. What is the best next step to isolate whether the issue is inside the guest OS?

An administrator needs to deploy multiple VMs with identical settings and wants a repeatable, supportable process that avoids manual reconfiguration each time. Which approach is recommended?

A VM is failing to power on due to insufficient space on the datastore. The datastore appears nearly full, but the VM uses thin-provisioned disks. Which condition most likely explains the power-on failure?

A host shows degraded storage performance and the administrator suspects a pathing issue to the shared storage array. Which ESXi feature is specifically responsible for selecting and managing storage paths for a device?

After a power event, several VMs restart on different hosts as expected, but one critical VM does not restart automatically. vSphere HA is enabled on the cluster and other VMs restarted successfully. Which configuration is the most likely reason this VM did not restart?

A VM connected to a Distributed Port Group is unable to communicate, and you suspect the traffic is being blocked by a misconfigured security setting. Which vSphere feature is most likely to block traffic when set incorrectly at the port group level?

A virtual machine fails to power on after being moved to a different datastore. The error indicates that the VM "cannot open the disk" and references a missing file. Which action is the MOST appropriate first step to identify the root cause?

An administrator needs to ensure that VM-to-VM traffic on the same VLAN remains local to a host when possible to reduce physical network utilization, without changing the VLAN design. Which vSphere feature best supports this goal?

A VM uses an application that requires consistent time for authentication tokens. The administrator notices periodic time drift in the guest OS. Which action is considered a best practice to maintain accurate time in the VM?

After a host reboot, several VMs lose network connectivity. The VMs are connected to a distributed port group. The host shows the distributed switch as present, but the VMs' vNICs display as disconnected until the admin reconnects them manually. Which issue is the MOST likely cause?

A team is designing a small vSphere environment and wants to minimize the blast radius of a single component failure while keeping management simple. Which design choice best aligns with this goal?