2V0-16.25 vSphere Foundation 9.0 Administrator Practice Questions
Prepare for 2V0-16.25 with more than an answer.
- Exam fee
- $250 USD
- Time limit
- 135 minutes
- Questions on the exam
- 60
- Passing score
- 300 (scale 100-500)
- Level
- Professional
- Valid for
- 2 years
Domains covered on the exam 5
- IT Architectures, Technologies, Standards10%
- VMware vSphere Foundation Fundamentals25%
- Plan and Design the VMware by Broadcom Solution10%
- Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware vSphere Foundation45%
- Troubleshoot and Optimize the VMware Solution10%
- 1
Which component in the vSphere 9.0 architecture is responsible for authenticating users and managing Single Sign-On (SSO) tokens across the environment?
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Correct answer: A
vCenter SSO is the authentication broker. It allows vSphere components to communicate via a secure token exchange mechanism and integrates with external identity sources like Active Directory, LDAP, or OIDC providers.
- 2
In a vSphere environment, what is the primary purpose of a Resource Pool?
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Correct answer: C
Resource Pools allow administrators to divide and manage resources (CPU/Memory) hierarchically. They are used to guarantee resources (Reservations), limit usage (Limits), and prioritize access during contention (Shares). They should not be used merely as organizational folders.
- 3
Which storage protocol supports multipathing natively at the hypervisor level without requiring additional PSP (Path Selection Policy) configuration for load balancing in most modern arrays?
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Correct answer: D
NFS 4.1 introduces native multipathing capabilities (Session Trunking) that allow ESXi to use multiple IP paths to the storage array simultaneously for load balancing and redundancy, unlike NFS 3 which required LACP for similar link aggregation.
- 4
A consultant is designing a vSAN cluster for a remote office with only 2 physical hosts available. To ensure data availability in case of a host failure, what specific component must be deployed outside the cluster?
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Correct answer: D
In a 2-Node vSAN cluster (often used for ROBO), a vSAN Witness Appliance must be deployed in a separate location (typically the main data center). It stores witness components (metadata) to establish a quorum and determine which node has the valid data during a failure scenario.
- 5
When integrating VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) with vSphere 9.0, what is the primary business value provided to the administrator?
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Correct answer: C
Aria Operations provides intelligent operations management. It analyzes telemetry data to forecast capacity needs (Capacity Planning), optimize performance through workload placement (Optimization), and suggest fixes for issues (Remediation).
- 6
An architect is designing a private cloud infrastructure using VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0. The organization requires a solution that completely abstracts the physical storage layer while providing policy-based management centered on the virtual machine rather than the LUN. Which storage technology standard within the VVF stack primarily enables this architectural shift?
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Correct answer: C
vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) is the integration and management framework that virtualizes SAN/NAS arrays, enabling a more efficient operational model that is optimized for virtualized environments. It moves management from the LUN level to the VM level using Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM).
- 7
A financial institution must adhere to strict regulatory standards requiring that all management traffic between the vCenter Server and ESXi hosts be encrypted using modern protocols. Which industry standard protocol does vSphere 9.0 enforce by default for these management connections?
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Correct answer: C
vSphere 9.0 enforces the use of TLS 1.2 or higher for all encrypted management traffic. Older protocols like SSLv3 and TLS 1.0/1.1 are disabled by default to comply with modern security standards and regulatory requirements.
- 8
In the context of the VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) offering, which statement correctly defines the licensing and consumption model compared to legacy perpetual socket-based licensing?
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Correct answer: B
VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) has transitioned to a subscription-based model licensed on a 'per Core' basis. There is a minimum requirement of 16 cores per CPU for licensing purposes, regardless of the actual physical core count if it is lower.
