1. What is the purpose of vSphere High Availability (HA)?
To ensure VM uptime during host failures
To migrate VMs between data centers
To provide backup and restore solutions
To monitor network traffic
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✅ Correct Answer: To ensure VM uptime during host failures
2. Which component is responsible for managing vSphere clusters?
vCenter Server
ESXi Host
NSX Manager
VMware Workstation
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✅ Correct Answer: vCenter Server
3. What does vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) do?
Balances workloads across multiple ESXi hosts
Provides backup solutions for VMs
Manages storage arrays in the datacenter
Monitors network bandwidth
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✅ Correct Answer: Balances workloads across multiple ESXi hosts
4. Which feature allows vSphere to perform live migration of virtual machines between hosts?
vMotion
Fault Tolerance
Storage DRS
vCenter Server
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✅ Correct Answer: vMotion
5. What is the purpose of VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)?
Provides continuous availability by creating a live shadow VM
Backs up virtual machines during host failures
Distributes resource workloads across ESXi hosts
Manages storage resources in a datacenter
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✅ Correct Answer: Provides continuous availability by creating a live shadow VM
6. Which vSphere feature helps to automate the creation of virtual machines?
vSphere Auto Deploy
vSphere DRS
vSphere HA
vSphere vMotion
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✅ Correct Answer: vSphere Auto Deploy
7. Which vSphere component is responsible for managing virtual networking?
vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS)
vCenter Server
VMware Workstation
vSphere HA
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✅ Correct Answer: vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS)
8. What does VMware vSphere Snapshot allow you to do?
Capture the state and data of a virtual machine at a specific point in time
Replicate virtual machines across datacenters
Manage and configure virtual machine settings
Encrypt virtual machine data
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✅ Correct Answer: Capture the state and data of a virtual machine at a specific point in time
9. What is the role of VMware vCenter Server in a vSphere environment?
Centralized management of ESXi hosts and virtual machines
Backup and restore of virtual machine data
Providing network security for the datacenter
Managing cloud-based workloads
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✅ Correct Answer: Centralized management of ESXi hosts and virtual machines
10. Which feature in vSphere allows you to perform the migration of virtual machines without downtime?
vMotion
Fault Tolerance
HA Failover
Storage vMotion
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✅ Correct Answer: vMotion
11. What is the main purpose of vSphere vCenter Operations Manager?
Performance monitoring and management of virtual environments
Storage management across multiple datastores
Network monitoring and configuration
Automated backup and restore of virtual machines
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✅ Correct Answer: Performance monitoring and management of virtual environments
12. What is vSphere Storage DRS used for?
Automates storage load balancing across datastores
Manages backup and restore for virtual machine data
Ensures data availability during host failures
Encrypts virtual machine storage
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✅ Correct Answer: Automates storage load balancing across datastores
13. Which vSphere feature helps optimize virtual machine resource allocation across multiple hosts?
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Storage vMotion
vSphere Auto Deploy
Fault Tolerance
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✅ Correct Answer: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
The VMware Professional VSphere 7x certification is a globally recognized credential for IT professionals.
This practice test helps you prepare by covering key topics like hardware, networking, troubleshooting, and security.
