A company is planning to deploy a new vSphere cluster and wants to ensure that all hosts have the same ESXi version, drivers, and firmware. They also want to automate the deployment and ongoing updates. Which vSphere feature should they use?

vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) with image-based management.

Host Profiles for ESXi version and driver management.

Manual installation of ESXi and drivers on each host.

vSphere Update Manager (VUM) with baselines for firmware updates.

Which event can trigger a host profile compliance alarm?

A virtual machine being powered on

A host being added to a cluster

A host becoming non-compliant with its attached host profile

What does checking cluster compliance against a vLCM image reveal?

Whether the cluster is highly available

Whether the cluster has the correct number of hosts

Whether the hosts in the cluster match the desired ESXi version and components

Whether the cluster has enough storage capacity

An organization wants to standardize all ESXi hosts in a cluster to a specific ESXi version and include a particular driver for their storage adapter. They want to manage this centrally. What should the administrator use?

Create a baseline with the ESXi version and driver, then attach it to the cluster.

Use a host profile to specify the ESXi version and driver, then apply it to the cluster.

Manually upgrade each host and install the driver, then verify with a compliance check.

Create a vLCM image with the desired ESXi version and the storage driver, then attach it to the cluster.

Which task is performed by vSphere Lifecycle Manager?

Creating virtual machine snapshots

Configuring vSAN storage policies

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Domain 6Objective 4

Host and Cluster Management VCP-DCV Practice Questions (Page 4)

Part of the Administrative and Operational Tasks domain, which makes up ~20% of our current practice bank. VMware does not publish an official question count, but from its 135-minute exam (~55–90 total, ~11–18 in this domain), expect 2–4 from this objective — we provide 48 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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19 Concepts in This Objective

Host Profiles Overview
Creating Host Profiles
Editing Host Profiles
Attaching and Detaching Host Profiles
Applying Host Profiles
Checking Host Compliance
Remediating Hosts with Host Profiles
Managing Host Profile Compliance Alarms
vSphere Lifecycle Manager Overview
Managing vLCM Baselines
Attaching Baselines to Clusters and Hosts
Scanning Hosts for Compliance
Remediating Hosts with Baselines
Managing vLCM Images
Attaching vLCM Images to Clusters
Checking Cluster Image Compliance
Remediating Clusters with vLCM Images
Handling vLCM Image and Baseline Conflicts
vLCM and vSAN Cluster Considerations

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A company is planning to deploy a new vSphere cluster and wants to ensure that all hosts have the same ESXi version, drivers, and firmware. They also want to automate the deployment and ongoing updates. Which vSphere feature should they use?
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An organization wants to standardize all ESXi hosts in a cluster to a specific ESXi version and include a particular driver for their storage adapter. They want to manage this centrally. What should the administrator use?
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