An administrator has been tasked with creating a vSphere Standard Switch (vSS) for an ESXi host with the following specifications:

1. 116 virtual machines will be connected to the switch,
2. The switch wall have four uplinks configured for port-based load balancing.
3. The switch will act as a secondary heartbeat network for HA.

Which two statements are true about this configuration? (Choose two)

A company runs several instances of an application that requires large amounts of memory. Which three metrics are checked to diagnose a memory bottleneck at the ESXi host level? (Choose three)

Which two features secure the VMkernel? (Choose two)

A datastore administrator has requested that a virtual disk attached to a virtual machine running an I/O intensive database application be fully provisioned.
The virtual disk was initially thin provisioned. Which two methods would accomplish this task? (Choose two)

A user attempts a remote SSH connection to a newly installed ESXi 5.x host to execute some commands. The SSH connection attempts fails, through the user is able to receive a ICMP ping back from the host.
Which two connections might cause the issue? (Choose two)

An administrator receives a complaint that a virtual machine is performing poorly. The user attributes the issue to poor storage performance.
If the storage array is the bottleneck, which two counters would be higher than normal?
(Choose two)

Under which two situations does the dead space reclamation feature VAAI Thin Provisioning offer the ability to reclaim blocks of a thin provisional LUN on a array? (Choose two)

Which resource management technique can be used to relieve a network bottleneck by a virtual machine with occasional high outbound network activity?

An existing vSphere environment will be upgraded to vSphere 5. The current implementation utilizes ESX 4.1 and the new implementations will ESXi 5.x. In which two ways will the new ESXi 5.x implementation differ from ESX 4.1 implementation? (Choose two)

What are two benefits of virtual compatibility mode for RDMs, as compared to physical compatibility mode? (Choose two)