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The VCP-DCV exam has 70 questions and runs 2 hours 15 minutes.
These 10 free VCP-DCV questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A vSphere cluster contains four hosts with Intel processors. Two newly purchased hosts with AMD processors are added to the same cluster, and the administrator needs vMotion to work between all six hosts. What should the administrator do?
Correct answer: C - Place the AMD hosts in a separate cluster, as EVC cannot span CPU vendors
Beginning with vSphere 7.0, DRS evaluates a cluster differently than in earlier releases. On what basis does DRS now decide to migrate a virtual machine?
Correct answer: A - A per-VM score reflecting how well each VM's resource demand is being met
An administrator applies a traffic shaping policy to a vSphere Standard Switch port group to limit both inbound and outbound bandwidth for a noisy virtual machine. Outbound traffic is limited correctly, but inbound traffic remains unrestricted. What explains this behavior?
Correct answer: D - Traffic shaping on a standard switch applies to outbound traffic only
An organization runs a vSAN 8 cluster using the Original Storage Architecture (OSA) and wants to move to the Express Storage Architecture (ESA) to gain improved RAID-5 performance. Which statement accurately describes the migration path?
Correct answer: B - The cluster must be rebuilt, as no in-place OSA-to-ESA conversion exists
A security policy requires several virtual machines to be configured with a virtual TPM. The organization does not operate a third-party key management server, and its ESXi hosts have no physical TPM chips installed. What is required to meet this requirement?
Correct answer: C - Configure the vCenter Native Key Provider, which needs no external KMS
An administrator needs to move a datastore from VMFS-5 to VMFS-6 in order to gain automatic space reclamation. Which approach is supported?
Correct answer: A - Evacuate the VMs, create a new VMFS-6 datastore, and migrate them back
A company must replicate 40 virtual machines between two sites. Each site uses storage arrays from a different vendor, and each virtual machine requires its own recovery point objective. Which replication approach meets these requirements?
Correct answer: D - vSphere Replication, which operates per VM and is storage independent
An administrator must migrate an ESXi host's management VMkernel adapter and its single physical uplink from a standard switch to a distributed switch. Which approach avoids losing host connectivity to vCenter?
Correct answer: B - Migrate the physical uplink and the VMkernel adapter in the same operation
A cluster uses vSphere HA with the Slot Policy admission control setting. Most virtual machines have no reservations, but one virtual machine is configured with a 32 GB memory reservation. What effect does this virtual machine have on the cluster?
Correct answer: C - The slot size grows to accommodate it, reducing the total slot count
An enterprise requires that every vCenter certificate chain to its internal root certificate authority, with as little ongoing certificate replacement work as possible. Which certificate configuration should be implemented?
Correct answer: A - Configure VMCA as a subordinate CA signed by the enterprise root authority
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