3V0-22.21N Advanced Deploy VMware vSphere 7.x Practice Questions
Prepare for 3V0-22.21N with more than an answer.
- Exam fee
- $250 USD
- Time limit
- 205 minutes
- Questions on the exam
- 17
- Passing score
- 300
- Level
- Advanced Professional
- Valid for
- 2 years (certification version year-based)
Domains covered on the exam 7
- Architecture and Technologies
- Products and Solutions
- Planning and Designing
- Installing, Configuring, and Setup25%
- Performance-tuning, Optimization, and Upgrades10%
- Troubleshooting and Repairing30%
- Administrative and Operational Tasks35%
- 1
A vSphere administrator needs to configure a vDS (vSphere Distributed Switch) to allow a virtual machine to inspect all traffic traversing a specific VLAN for intrusion detection purposes.
Which feature should be configured to copy packets from a source VLAN to the destination port where the IDS appliance is connected?
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Correct answer: B
Port Mirroring (specifically Distributed Port Mirroring on a VDS) allows you to mirror traffic from specific ports or VLANs to a destination port where a monitoring appliance (like an IDS) is connected.
- 2
You are preparing to enable vSphere HA on a new cluster. The management network uses a standard switch (vSS) with two physical uplinks. You want to ensure that heartbeats can still be exchanged even if the management network is completely partitioned.
What configuration should you implement to provide a secondary heartbeat mechanism?
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Correct answer: C
Heartbeat Datastores provide a secondary communication channel. If the management network fails (network isolation/partition), the hosts communicate via the storage layer to determine if a host has failed or is just isolated. 2-5 datastores are recommended.
- 3
While investigating a purple screen of death (PSOD) on an ESXi host, you notice the error 'PCPU 0 locked up'. The dump file has been saved to the configured dump collector.
Which command line utility on the ESXi host or vCenter Appliance would you use to extract the VMkernel log from the generating vm-support bundle for further analysis?
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Correct answer: B
The vm-support tool generates a .tgz (tarball) file. To analyze logs like vmkernel.log, you simply extract (unzip/untar) the bundle. There isn't a special extraction command beyond standard archive tools (tar/gunzip).
- 4
You are designing a vSphere 7.x environment for a financial institution that requires strict resource isolation for its 'High Frequency Trading' (HFT) workloads. These VMs require exclusive access to physical CPU cores to minimize latency.
Which combination of settings must you configure to satisfy this requirement? (Select TWO)
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Correct answer: A, C
Setting Latency Sensitivity to 'High' requires the VM to have a 100% CPU memory reservation. This setting advises the ESXi scheduler to bypass the virtualization layer's CPU scheduling overhead and give the VM exclusive access to the physical core.
For Latency Sensitivity 'High' to function effectively and grant exclusive core access, the virtual machine must have a 100% CPU reservation configured.
- 5
An administrator is configuring a vSphere HA cluster. The requirement is to ensure that if the management network fails on a host, the virtual machines continue running on that host but the host is isolated from the cluster logic to prevent split-brain scenarios. The storage network is fully redundant and separate.
Which Isolation Response setting meets this specific requirement?
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Correct answer: C
The 'Disabled' setting ensures that when a host becomes isolated (management network loss but storage heartbeats might still be active or simply essentially isolated), the VMs remain running on the host. This is the recommended setting when storage infrastructure is redundant and independent of the management network, avoiding unnecessary VM restarts.
- 6
You are deploying a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 7.0. You need to configure the appliance to use an external identity source. The organization uses Microsoft Active Directory.
Which identity source type supports Windows Integrated Authentication (WIA) assuming the VCSA is joined to the domain?
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Correct answer: D
Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication) is the identity source type that allows users to log in using their Windows session credentials without re-entering them, provided the VCSA is joined to the AD domain.
