Free Practice Questions for the VMware VCP-DCV 2020 2V0-21.20PSE Exam (2026 Updated)

A development team has a recurring need to rapidly replicate hundreds of virtual machines (VMs) for load testing.

Which method should the team use to deploy the VMs? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator wants to enable bandwidth allocation for workloads by using Network I/O Control.

What should the administrator configure to accomplish this? (Choose the best answer.)

What is a pre-requisite for configuring virtualization-based security (VBS)? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator is investigating the reason for a powered on virtual machine failing to migrate with the following error log message:

Which step should the administrator complete to resolve this error? (Choose the best answer.)

Which feature is a pre-requisite for configuring admission control on a cluster? (Choose the best answer.)

Which type of network adapter is designed to provide connectivity to hosts and handle the standard system traffic of vSphere vMotion? (Choose the best answer.)

What is the basic packaging for vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) and metadata in vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose the best answer.)

Which feature is a prerequisite for Proactive High Availability (HA)? (Choose the best answer.)

Which two statements are true regarding the use of firmware update packages in vSphere Lifecycle Manager? (Choose two.)

What is the default shutdown order of virtual machines (VMs) on a host? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator adds an additional host to a cluster and is attempting to remediate the configuration with a host profile.

Which option would the administrator select on the host before it can be remediated with an existing host profile? (Choose the best answer.)

ESXi provides VLAN support by assigning a VLAN ID to which component? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator is running a variety of vSphere 6.5 cluster configurations and is tasked with upgrading to vSphere 7.0.

Which two conditions could cause potential conflicts or outages to the virtual machines (VMs)? (Choose two.)

Which tool is used to monitor the vCenter Server Appliance resources? (Choose the best answer.)

What are two pre-requisites for enabling ESXi secure boot? (Choose two.)

An administrator receives an escalation to investigate a low disk space alarm on a datastore. The administrator discovers that a snapshot has been accidentally taken on a production, write-intensive database server. The snapshot has grown to nearly 1 TB in size in less than an hour and continues growing every second.

Which behavior should the administrator expect while deleting the snapshot? (Choose the best answer.)

Which privilege is required to run the esxtop utility? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator is tasked with upgrading an existing VMware vSphere 6.5 environment to version 7.0. There are existing VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastores in the environment.

Which two statements are true regarding this upgrade? (Choose two.)

Which step is required when adding an existing hard disk that is configured as a boot disk during virtual machine creation? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator is unable to manage certificates with the vSphere Client.

What is another supported option that can be used to manage certificates? (Choose the best answer.)

Which VMware feature should an administrator configure to help manage and delegate CPU and memory resources? (Choose the best answer.)

A company has a vSphere environment consisting of the following characteristics:

A content library named ‘CORP’ is published at corporate headquarters on a vCenter Server named ‘vcenterCorp’.

A regional data center contains a set of hosts managed by a vCenter Server named vcenterR1.

vcenterR1 subscribes to the CORP content library.

The administrator wants to create a new virtual machine image to use on vcenterR1. What are two possible ways the administrator can accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

Each logical port on a vSphere standard switch can be a member of how many port groups? (Choose the best answer.)

What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required to support vCenter High Availability? (Choose the best answer.)

Which virtual disk option allows a virtual machine to consume the minimum storage capacity? (Choose the best answer.)

Which local only host utility is used for primary, real-time performance monitoring in vSphere? (Choose the best answer.)

An administrator runs a two-node vSphere cluster, which contains two domain controller virtual machines (VMs). The administrator wants to ensure that VMs run on separate hosts without interfering with normal maintenance operations.

How should the administrator configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)? (Choose the best answer.)

Refer to the exhibit.

Which element is missing from this vCenter High Availability (HA) cluster? (Choose the best answer.)

Which feature can an administrator use for site availability with minimal effort and a low recovery point objective (RPO)? (Choose the best answer.)