VMware Certified Professional on VI4 - VCP-410 Exam Questions [2026]

QUESTION NO: 1
An administrator is configuring a VMware HA Cluster for three ESXi Hosts and their resident virtual machines. The HA cluster will be configured to support a single host failure and resource reservations must be enforced during a failover event. Assuming default settings, how does HA determine the current failover capacity?

A. Using the highest CPU Reservation and Memory Reservation values of any given virtual machine in the cluster B. Using an average of the total CPU Reservation and Available Memory values of all virtual machines in the cluster C. Using an average of the total CPU Reservation and Memory Reservation values of all virtual machines in the cluster D. Using the highest CPU Reservation and the Available Memory values for any given virtual machine in the cluster

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 2
A VMFS datastore with several running virtual machines is nearing 100% capacity. An administrator intends to grow the datastore so that existing VMs will have room for re-sizing, thin provisioning and snapshots. Which action can be taken to provide additional capacity for these functions?

A. Add an Extent to the existing VMFS Datastore from the Datastore Inventory view in vCenter Server. B. Use VMFS Volume Grow from the Datastore Inventory view in vCenter Server. C. Add an Extent to the existing VMFS Datastore from the Configuration tab of an ESXi host. D. Use VMFS Volume Grow from the Configuration tab of an ESXi host with visibility to the applicable VMFS datastore.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 3
In vSphere, a bound physical NIC can be configured to transmit and receive Jumbo Frames. What is the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) for Jumbo Frames in vSphere?

A. 5500 B. 5000 C. 9000 D. 9500

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 4
Which of the following are valid reasons for deploying vCenter Server in a virtual machine (Choose Three)?

A. vCenter Server must be deployed as a virtual machine to back it up using vCenter Data Recovery B. vCenter Server must be deployed as a virtual machine to support failover using Site Recovery Manager C. vCenter Server must be deployed as virtual machines to join a Linked Mode group D. vCenter Server must be deployed as a virtual machine to be migrated using vMotion E. vCenter Server must be deployed as a virtual machine to be protected by High Availability

Correct Answer: A,D,E

QUESTION NO: 5
The default ESX service console firewall (Choose Two):

A. is configured for high security B. allows all traffic unless specifically blocked C. blocks all traffic unless specifically allowed D. is configured for medium security

Correct Answer: A,C

QUESTION NO: 6
An administrator is upgrading an ESX 3.5 host. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM and a local VMFS datastore on a masked, SAN-attached LUN. Which of the following could cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful?

A. The existing VMFS datastore resides on a SAN-attached LUN. B. The existing VMFS datastore has 6GB of free space. C. The ESX host has 1 processor. D. The ESX host has 4GB RAM.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 7
Networking policies, such as traffic shaping and security, can be configured on the following vSphere elements:

A. On the physical network interface and the vSwitch B. On the port group and the physical network interface C. On the port group and the vSwitch D. On the vSwitch and the attached virtual machine

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 8
When you delete a NFS datastore from an ESX/ESXi Host, which of the following occurs (Choose Two)?

A. The datastore is only removed from that specific ESX/ESXi Host B. The datastore and all virtual machines are removed from the storage device C. The datastore and all virtual machines will remain on the storage device D. The datastore is removed from all connected ESX/ESXi Hosts

Correct Answer: A,C

QUESTION NO: 9
Which of the following network policies is only available with vNetwork Distributed Switches?

A. VLAN Policy B. Traffic Shaping Policy C. Port Blocking Policy D. Security Policy

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 10
Which of the following methods can be used to migrate a virtual machine from a vNetwork Standard Switch to a vNetwork Distributed Switch (Choose Two)?

A. Edit the Virtual Adapter settings for the ESXi host and select a dvPort group from the list. B. Select the VM from a list of virtual machines using the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking option. C. Edit the Network Adapter settings for the VM and select a dvPort group from the list. D. Migrate the port group containing the VM from a vNetwork Standard Switch using the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking option.

Correct Answer: B,C

QUESTION NO: 11
Which of the following storage resources are created only during an ESX 4.x installation (Choose Two)?

A. swap B. scratch C. VMFS datastore D. vmkcore

Correct Answer: A,D

QUESTION NO: 12
Users are complaining that they cannot access their files located on a file server virtual machine. The vSphere Client shows a triggered alarm stating disk latency is beyond the default threshold for the datastore where the file server VM is located. The Path Selection Policy has been set by the ESX host to Fixed with default path settings.
Which of the following two options could be used to increase performance of the file server VM (Choose Two)?

A. Change the Path Selection Policy to Most Recently Used (MRU) B. Change the Path Selection Policy to RoundRobin C. Use Storage vMotion to move the file server VM toa datastore with lower latency D. Use disk shares to increase the priority for the datastore housing the file server VM

Correct Answer: B,C