VMware VCP550 Question Answer

A security team is validating policy settings in a vSphere environment. By default, which security policy is set to reject on a vSphere Standard Switch?

A. Promiscuous mode
B. MAC address changes
C. Forged transmit
D. Use explicit failover

Answer: A
 

A vSphere administrator upgrades a version 5.1.0 vSphere Distributed Switch to version 5.5.0. Another vSphere administrator, unaware of this change, tries to add an ESXi version 5.1.0 host to the switch and fails. What is causing this addition of the ESXi host to fail?

A. The upgraded switch supports version 5.5 ESXi hosts only.
B. The upgraded switch must be set up for backwards compatibility.
C. The switch failed to upgrade properly.
D. A version 5.5 ESXi host must be added to the switch before the 5.1 host.

Answer: A

VMware VCP550 Question Answer

An administrator determines that a vSphere Standard Switch is dropping all inbound frames to a specific virtual machine. The behavior appeared in the last two days. Which configuration setting, if changed during this timeframe, would result in this behavior?

A. MAC address changes
B. Forged Transmit
C. Traffic Shaping
D. Jumbo Frames

Answer: A


Which two network settings are available on a vSphere Standard Switch? (Choose two.)

A. Ingress traffic shaping
B. Egress traffic shaping
C. Private Virtual Local Area Networks (PVLAN)
D. Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN)

Answer: BD

VMware Acquires Seattle-Based Cloud Security Startup CloudCoreo

VMware, a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, announced the acquisition of CloudCoreo. While the company has not divulged financial details about the acquisition of the cloud security company, it said it will provide the CloudCoreo security platform as an individual service.

The start-up platform monitors the entire cloud infrastructure stack, which includes hosts, application settings and cloud services, and identifies the risks or misconfigurations at the time of deployment. VMware says that this allows DevOps and security teams to resolve any problems before violations and violations of the compliance policy occur.

In an official blog post, Milin Desai, general manager of cloud services at VMware, said: "As part of VMware, CloudCoreo will allow us to expand our support model of consistent operations in any cloud. the best cloud for the needs of each individual application, while optimizing security and compliance, and we will offer customers the best option to develop any type of application your business needs and implement in any cloud, without increasing complexity or risk to the company. "

The news of the acquisition of CloudCoreo by VMware, which adds another aspect of the cloud's management capacity to the latter's portfolio, follows the launch of its SaaS product range. The company also presented its first AppDefense, the pure gaming security product, which scans and monitors applications running in local data centers and in the cloud in search of anomalous behavior in August of last year. The company also announced new security software based on the cloud, developed in conjunction with Carbon Black, which automates the detection and repair of threats in December 2017.

CloudCoreo, founded in July 2016, will complement VMware's cloud services portfolio to enable customers to secure their conventional and modern applications in a multi-cloud environment. However, it is not yet clear if the 10-employee CloudCoreo team will move to the Bellevue office of VMware or one of the other six offices in Colorado, California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Virginia and Texas.

VMware VCP550 Question Answer

During an upgrade, the ESXi 5.x installer finds an existing version of ESXi and a VMFS3 volume. No virtual machines exist on the host or VMFS3 volume. The
requirement is to upgrade to VMFS5.
Which option should be chosen to meet this requirement?

A. Upgrade ESXi and preserve the VMFS datastore
B. Install ESXi and preserve the VMFS datastore
C. Install ESXi and overwrite the VMFS datastore
D. Upgrade ESXi and overwrite the VMFS datastore

Answer: C


What happens to the status of users already logged into ESXi Shell when a vSphere administrator enables lockdown mode?

A. Users remain logged in and can run commands, except to disable lockdown mode.
B. Users remain logged in and can run commands, including disabling lockdown mode.
C. Users are immediately logged out of ESXi Shell.
D. Users are logged out after a timeout specified by the vSphere administrator.

Answer: A

VMware VCP550 Question Answer

What is the minimum virtual machine compatibility setting required for a virtual machine to run on a vSphere 5.5 host?

A. ESXi 5.1 and later
B. ESXi 3.0 and later
C. ESXi 4.1 and later
D. ESXi 3.5 and later

Answer: D


Which is the simplest baseline group combination an administrator could create to upgrade hosts, VMware tools, and virtual machine hardware to the latest
versions using Update Manager?

A. One baseline group that contains the host upgrade baselines and one baseline group that contains the VM Hardware and VMware Tools upgrade baselines
B. One baseline group that contains the host upgrade and vCenter upgrade baselines
C. One baseline group that contains the host, VMware tools, and VM Hardware upgrade baselines
D. One baseline group that contains the Data Center upgrade baseline and one baseline group that contains the VM upgrade baseline

Answer: A

A closer look at VMware Workspace One Mobile Flows

What’s a “workflow” app? Is VMware getting into the app dev game? Find out here.
At VMworld 2017, we learned about Workspace One Mobile Flows, the VMware entry into the "workflow app" space.
Today, let's take a look at what a workflow application really is; what we know about the VMware offering; how VMware is working with partners; and why this is useful.

What is a workflow application?

A "workflow" application is a rather specific type of application, not for general file access, conversation or manipulation of content; is rather to perform discrete tasks based on events, time, location or other contextual entries. Tasks could be business decisions; small sets of dependent and recurring operations; or rapid data entry or retrieval. Generally, these are tasks that can be completed quickly, in a few seconds to a maximum of minutes. These applications can also be called micro-applications.

One of the features of workflow applications is to facilitate tasks involving other systems, integrating with email / chat, databases, CRM / HR / ERP, service tickets, etc. This is especially important on mobile devices, where switching back and forth between applications can be a pain.

Workflows are often presented in what is known as a "card" user interface essentially, a small snippet of an application that displays the information you need, along the inputs needed to take action on the information . Usually, a single card is not worth having its own standalone application, so they are inserted in other places, for example, inside or next to emails, in chat applications like Slack or in another application that show multiple workflow cards as needed.

Examples of workflow tasks include approving expense reports, assigning service tickets, displaying control panel alerts, or searching for values.


In VMware Things

VMware has been thinking about this concept at least as far back as AirWatch Connect 2016, where they showed proof of concept. It's like Siri, except that you can get to Salesforce, employee directories, maps, use the infrastructure of Workspace One, etc. "

Colin Steele took advantage of the announcement of Mobile Flows a few weeks before VMworld, and Mobile Flows appeared in the super session of EUC. I talked to Marshall Anne Busbee, the product manager, for more details.

Mobile Flows is now in the technical preview, with no general timetable available at this time; interested customers can sign up for the beta. It will be a payment supplement for Workspace One, with prices to be determined.

Like many similar products we have covered, it helps to think of mobile flows in three parts. You need a customer end where you can present the cards; you need some backend integrations to connect to all your registration systems; and you need a policy and logic engine in between.

With Mobile Flows, VMware Workspace One is obviously serving as the core, as it already has a policy and compliance engine, identity integrations, device and application visibility, Workspace One Intelligence data, integration with AirWatch mobile application management, and DLP features, and more. Some of these things will be available in mobile streams right away, others will take time, but you get the idea.

At the end of the client, they are pointing "everywhere", but for now, the cards will appear in the body of the email Boxer; are launching a Mobile Flows SDK, so you can make your own client deployments; and they will also make an example application that is a reference implementation of the SDK. In the future, VMware will be part of the Workspace One customers.

Thoughts

I've always liked the idea of ​​having some kind of simple application capabilities built into EMM platforms as a way to get companies to sink their fingers into the water for internal applications. We'll see how the price works, but hopefully VMware will get you started.

It is probably good that VMware is leveraging partners to enable all backend integrations with other enterprise applications, because that would be a great job to do on its own. (Of course, one of the things we are interested in is integration with Windows and existing web applications with Powwow and Capriza.)

It also makes a lot of sense to have the mobile flow logic engine in the one workspace, where all the information and policies for your EUC environment should already be. However, this leaves partners in more of a tactical integration role than a strategic role for customers. On the other hand, I do not see VMware wanting to become a complete mobile application development platform, so I think there will always be room for the partners.

Some examples of use cases could help you get started with some workflow ideas. We could talk a lot about what makes a good mobile application and what not, but with workflow applications, the key is not to think about "what great legacy application I want to convert to mobile" but "what specific task could benefit from be mobile? "

VMware VCP550 Question Answer

An administrator is installing ESXi on several hosts attached to iSCSI storage.
Why would the administrator detach the host from the IP storage network prior to installation?

A. It decreases the time the installer needs to search for available disk drives.
B. It allows the installation of a generic VAAI component for IP storage.
C. It prevents ESXi from installing vSphere Flash Cache to the IP storage.
D. It is required when installing ESXi onto a physical server that utilizes IP storage.

Answer: A


During the installation of ESXi 5.5, the following error message is reported:
Hardware Virtualization is not a feature of the CPU, or is not enabled in the BIOS.
Which condition would generate this message?

A. LAHF/SAHF is not enabled in the BIOS.
B. NX/XD is not enabled in the BIOS.
C. SSE3 is not enabled in the BIOS.
D. Hyperthreading is not enabled in the BIOS.

Answer: A