VCP vSphere 4 Practice Exam

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Posted by Simon Long Jun 15, 2009

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I have produced this practice exam to help me learn the latest features and configuration maximums available VMware vSphere 4.

Please feel free to use it as much as you like. If you think an answer to a question is incorrect or you would like to contribute some questions to the exam please feel free to Contact Me. If you want to be notified whenever questions are added to the practice exam Follow Me on Twitter.

Please be aware that this exam is still in Beta, many questions are under review.

Any feedback would be gratefully received, so Contact Me

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http://www.vReference.com Forbes Guthrie

Hi Simon,
you might want to grab my documentation notes from here: http://www.vreference.com/vsphere4-notes/

They’re fairly terse, and I’m sure you could create loads of questions from them. I’ll be updating them tomorrow, with all the main documents covered, so might want to wait until then.

Also, is it possible to add in Back buttons to the quiz?

And lastly, it might be useful to add a “learning” option, where the answers are given on the page.

Great idea, and I’m sure lots of people will find it useful. Thanks, Forbes.
http://www.simonlong.co.uk Simon Long

Thanks for the kind comments Forbes, i’ll make sure i check out your documents tomorrow.

I’m pretty sure i could fix up a Back button, but i’m not sure about the “learning” option, i’ll have to see if its possible.

Thanks again

Simon
Jelle Kalf

Simon,

I’ve found that I’ve continuously answered 1 question wrong on your exam, because it’s different from the vSphere config maximum pdf. Please take a look at it and perhaps fix it where needed.

In your exam it states that you’re allowed 2 floppy drives per vm. In the vsp_40_config_max.pdf from the vmware site it states that a VM is only allowed to have 1.

otherwise, great exam material.

Jelle Kalf
http://www.simonlong.co.uk Simon Long

Hi Jelle, i’ve checked in this Config Max document: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf

And it says that you can have 2 Floppy devices per VM (BIOS is configured for one floppy device)

It does also say that you can only have 1 Floppy Controller per VM.

I have made sure i worded the question to ensure that it means Devices not Controller.

Thanks for the great feeback
Jelle Kalf

Thanks, you’re totally right.
http://practiceexamblog.com James

Great content! Practice exams are very useful! Thanks for the info.

James
Karl

Thanks for sharing and taking the time to post VCP4 information.
Oloremo

Hello.

First of all – thanks for this test!
But why only 30 questions? As I know it will be around 70…
http://www.simonlong.co.uk Simon Long

Hi Oloremo, I am hoping to add more questions. I’ve been a little busy with revising for the VCP4 Beta exam. Now thats done, i’ll get working on some more questions and a few modifications to the exam software.

Simon
Bas

Hi Simon,

Thanks for putting so much effort in this. It’s a realy helpful resource for practicing the VCP4 exam.

I’ve two minor comments.

- You forgot to mention the unit (GB) for the / partition question

- Quote
“Which new vSphere feature has the following key features;
Disk-based backup and recovery
Data de-duplication
File level full and incremental backup
VSS support
Image level and individual file restore”

The right answer is vSphere Data Recovery
but VDR doesn’t support File level backup only disk based.

Bas
http://www.simonlong.co.uk Simon Long

Hi Bas, thanks very much for the great feedback. I have amended the GB’s missing from the root partition question.

I have double checked the VDR question. I found the information for this question from this page: http://www.vmware.com/products/data-recovery/features.html

And according to that page, VDR does image level and individual file restore.

Regards

Simon
Bas

Hi Simon,

I fully agree about the restore part. But I would be careful with the backup part to call it “File level full and incremental backup”. You can’t use VDR to select some files and backup them.

Bas
Andy

I just finished the VCP4 exam and your practice content definitely helped me prepare. I just wanted to comment for those that have never taken a VCP exam that this vSphere content was only a small portion of the exam I just took. I recognized a lot of questions from the old exam. Also, anyone know exactly how the new scoring system works? I noticed that a passing score is now a “300.”
CCarroz

Andy,
Would you mind elaborating on “this vSphere content was only a small portion of the exam”? I have never taken a VCP exam before but will be taking the new test in the next week or so. Any guidance you have is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

C
Kbhagat

Just took the test in San Francisco – Vmwrold 2009

- DRS/HA Questions
- Host Profiles in Clusters / complaince
- Host update util questions
- Update Manager how to on Esxhosts / vms’
- Resources pools – reservations
- FC/iScsi path/ multi pathing / round robin questions
- Memory Management – MMU etc
- Using Consolidation tools
- vcenter linking / HA
- What are default plug-in for Vcenter
- Couple of quxtions on Vcetner convertro…

Not too many question on MAX and Mins at all…
That all i remember —-

Passing is 300 out of 500 – i got 306….but its a pass
85 Questions total –

good luck to all….
http://www.telemorphix.net Dan Gould

I took my exam on 2nd September and passed. As with the post above from Kbhagat, not many max/min questions (only had one I think, around vCenter), some VM troubleshooting ones around performance and network throughput. None on multipath, but some on NFS and iSCSI, some on resource pools and resource reservations.

Good luck everyone
Joe Dalton

I took the Test today 7.September.09. The Test is very heavy and contents Questions as above discribed. I pass with 317 from 500. I’m feeling much uncomfortable with this Score but the important Thing is that I pass. I’m a VCP 4 now.

I wish many luck to all other taking the Test

Regards

Joe
http://malaysiavm.com Craig

I pass mine on last Friday. My Score at 319. Not an easy test but I am happy with the score. Good luck too you all.
Colin Tyrrell

Hi,
my exam is on Oct 1st.
I think I’m more nervous after reading the above notes!!
But thanks for the sample exam Simon; it’s helping.

Later,
Colin
http://www.simonlong.co.uk Simon Long

Best of luck Colin, Lets us know how it went and if you have any tips.

Cheers
Simon
http://www.americanrecordablemedia.com/ DVD Duplicator

Wish I could pass.

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