VMware VCDX Compute Infrastructure Design

1. What is vSphere Fault Tolerance primarily designed for?

Automatic VM restart on host failure

Zero-downtime protection via continuous VM replication

Load balancing across clusters

Storage redundancy management

2. What is the maximum cluster size supported in vSphere 8.0?

32 ESXi hosts

64 ESXi hosts

96 ESXi hosts

128 ESXi hosts

3. Which vSphere feature automatically adjusts VM memory based on workload?

Memory Ballooning

Dynamic Memory Scaling

Transparent Page Sharing

Memory Reservation

4. In VCDX design, what does RTO stand for?

Recovery Time Objective

Resource Throughput Optimization

Redundant Transfer Operation

Real-time Orchestration

5. What is the primary benefit of vSphere Storage vMotion in infrastructure design?

Migrate VM storage without downtime

Increase network bandwidth

Reduce CPU cycles

Simplify backup procedures

6. Which metric is most important when designing for VM consolidation?

Peak CPU and memory utilization

VM disk size only

Network port speed

Backup window duration

7. In vSphere, what does the admission control policy prevent?

Unauthorized user access

Cluster from running more VMs than it can restart

Network traffic overload

Storage snapshot creation

8. What is the purpose of VM-to-VM affinity rules in vSphere DRS?

Control which VMs run on same or different hosts

Manage VM snapshot schedules

Allocate storage resources

Configure network VLANs

9. Which vSphere resource pool setting limits VM CPU usage?

Memory Limit

CPU Limit

Network Limit

Storage Limit

10. In a VCDX compute design, what factor determines VM placement affinity rules?

License expiration dates

Business requirements and workload dependencies

Physical server rack location only

Random cluster assignment

11. What is the primary purpose of VMware DRS in a vSphere cluster?

Automatically balance VM workloads across ESXi hosts based on resource utilization

Manage physical network bandwidth allocation

Provide disaster recovery for virtual machines

Control VM snapshot retention policies

12. Which VMware tool optimizes VM performance by analyzing resource usage patterns?

VRealize Operations

VSphere Client

VMotion Manager

Cluster Analyzer

13. In VMware vSphere, what is the primary function of the ESXi hypervisor?

Manage network switches

Abstract physical hardware and run multiple VMs

Provide backup services

Monitor external firewalls

14. What does CPU overcommitment in vSphere refer to?

Running more vCPUs than physical cores available

Allocating RAM beyond physical memory

Exceeding network bandwidth limits

Storage capacity overage

15. Which vSphere feature allows zero-downtime VM migration between hosts?

Storage vMotion

VMotion

Fault Tolerance

High Availability

16. What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required for a vSphere HA cluster?

1 host

2 hosts

3 hosts

4 hosts

17. Which memory management technique reduces physical memory overhead in vSphere?

Transparent Page Sharing

Memory Compression

Memory Ballooning

All of the above

18. What is the maximum number of vCPUs supported per VM in vSphere 8.0?

64 vCPUs

128 vCPUs

256 vCPUs

512 vCPUs

19. In vSphere, what does NUMA stand for?

Network Unified Memory Architecture

Non-Uniform Memory Access

Nested Unified Multi-core Allocation

Network Unit Memory Arrangement

20. Which VMware HA feature restarts failed VMs on surviving hosts?