QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS BY EXPERTS LATEST
STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027
What are the advantages for private cloud?
pg. 33 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>1. self-service provisioning
2. elasticity of resources
3. rapid and simplified provisioning
4. secured multi-tenancy
5. improved use of IT resources
6. better control of IT budgets
What are the advantages for public cloud?
pg. 34 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>1. customer management of IT
2. Rapid and flexible deployments
3. Efficient and cost effective deployments
4. Secure IT assets
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,5. Capital expenses converted to operating expenses
What are some use cases for hybrid cloud?
pg. 35 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>1. disaster recovery
2. quick provisioning
3. data archiving
4. traffic overflow
5. offsite backup
6. development / QA / test
What are some of the availability and features for an ESXi host?
pg. 50 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>1. available for purchase with vSphere or as a
free version that can be downloaded
2. high security
- memory hardening
- kernel module integrity
- trusted platform module (TPM)
3. small disk footprint
4. installable on HD, SAN LUNs, USB devices, SD cards, and diskless hosts
A virtual machine consist of what files?
pg. 69 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>1. a configuration file (.vmx)
,2. One or more virtual disk files (.vmdk)
3. a file containing the VM's BIO setting (.nvram)
4. VM's current log file (.log)
5. Swap files (.vswp)
6. snapshot description file (.vmsd)
How do you determine the maximum number of vCPU that you can assign to a
virtual machine?
pg. 75 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Depends on:
1. # of logical CPU's on the host
2. the host license
3. the type of installed guest OS
NOTE: a VM running on an ESXi 6 host can have up to 128 vCPUs
How do you determine the maximum memory size for a virtual machine ?
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, pg. 75 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Depends on:
1. host's physical memory
2. The virtual machine's compatibility setting
NOTE: max memory size of a VM with ESXi 6 compatibility running ESXi 6 is
4,080 GB
When creating a virtual disk, what are the types of virtual disk available?
pg. 78 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>1. Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed
- every block in a lazy zeroed thick provisioned disk is filled with a zero when data
is written to the block
2. Thick Provision Eager Zeroed
- every block in an eager zeroed thick provisioned disk is prefilled with a zero
3. Thin Provision
- uses only as much datastore space as the disk initially needs
What is the percentage of physical storage capacity that is typically used?
pg. 17 - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>5 to 10 %