Free 2V0-16.25 Practice Test Questions 2026

The security team has requested that high-sensitivity workloads be protected using Confidential Computing in your VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0 environment.

These workloads handle regulated data that must be isolated from the hypervisor and other tenants, even when running on the same ESX host.

The vSphere administrator is responsible for ensuring that only trusted hosts are used and that virtual machines are configured with hardware-enforced memory isolation.

Which two configurations must you implement to support Confidential Computing for these workloads? (Choose two.)

A. Create virtual machines with hardware version 22 and set the Confidential Computing flag.

B. Use TPM 2.0 on the guest OS to generate attestation reports for VM launch.

C. Enable AMD SEV-SNP or Intel TDX support in the host BIOS and confirm compatibility in vSphere.

D. Configure Encrypted vMotion with "Required" mode for the VM.

E. Enable vSphere Trust Authority and set the Confidential Computing flag.

An administrator must configure identity access for VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) to allow admin accounts from the enterprise Active Directory domain corp.local to log in using domain credentials. Security requires authentication to use the default Active Directory protocol, without federation.

Which configuration step is required to enable Active Directory users to authenticate to vCenter?

A. Add the domain controller certificate to the Trusted Root store in vCenter.

B. Configure Identity Federation using SAML with corp.local.

C. Configure a trusted identity provider using OpenID Connect (OIDC).

D. Add Active Directory over LDAP as an identity source.

The operations team is tasked with the preparation of a weekly health status overview of a VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) environment to senior management with the following requirements:

It should be sent every Monday morning.

It must include KPIs related to cluster health, storage usage, and virtual machine (VM) growth trends.

1 Operational overhead should be minimized.

Which two actions must the administrator perform to satisfy these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Create a custom dashboard with the required KPIs.

B. Configure the scheduler to send the report via e-mail weekly.

C. Export the built-in Cluster Summary report via FTP.

D. Create a custom View with the KPIs and add it to a new Report Template.

E. Export the desired metrics from the Metrics Explorer to CSV.

An administrator is tasked with adding a 96-core VMware ESX host to a VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0 vCenter cluster. The vCenter has been previously licensed for 1024 cores and the existing hosts equal 960 cores. The administrator adds the host to the vCenter cluster and places the cluster back into production.

What issue will occur if the administrator performs no additional actions to this vCenter?

A. The new ESX host will operate in evaluation mode until more capacity is added to the license to license the host. If the host is not licensed when the evaluation period expires, the host will be limited to 64 cores until 32 cores or greater is added to the license.

B. The new ESX host has been limited to 64 cores until more capacity is added to the license to license the host. Once 32 cores or greater is added to the license, the full 96 cores of the new host will be useable.

C. The new ESX host will operate in evaluation mode until more capacity is added to the license to license the host. If the host is not licensed when the evaluation period expires, it is disconnected from the vCenter instance.

D. No issue will occur. The new host was added to the vCenter cluster successfully and will operate for the valid period of the applied license.

During a recent audit, it was determined that a group of users may have been compromised. These users should not have access to any VMware vCenter resources while an investigation is underway. All the affected users have been placed into a SUSPECT_USERS group.

Which step is required to ensure that the suspect users will never have access to resources in vCenter?

A. Assign the SUSPECT_USERS group the No access role to the vCenter Object and check propagate.

B. Assign the SUSPECT_USERS group the Administrator role to the vCenter Object and uncheck propagate.

C. Disconnect the vCenter from Active Directory.

D. Assign the SUSPECT_USERS group the Read-only role to the vCenter Object and check propagate.

An administrator has been tasked to share resources in the cluster between the Quality Assurance (QA) Department and Marketing Department. The following information has been provided:

In the case of contention, the QA Department must not lose any performance.

When the QA Department is not using all of its allocated resources, the Marketing Department requires the ability to consume them.

The administrator has set up resource pools for the QA Department (RP-QA) and Marketing Department (RP-MKT).

How should the resource shares be configured for each pool?

A. Set both Resource Pools to Fixed.

B. Set RP-QA to Fixed and RP-MKT to Scalable.

C. Set RP-QA to Scalable and RP-MKT to Fixed.

D. It is not possible to satisfy the requirements of both departments.

An administrator is tasked with deploying a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations for Logs appliance into vSphere Foundation.

After downloading the .ova, which component does the administrator use to deploy the file?

A. VCF Fleet Management

B. vSphere Client

C. VCF Automation

D. VCF Operations

An administrator has licensed vSphere components in Connected mode and then switched to Disconnected mode to meet the company security restrictions, which cannot be violated.

What must the administrator do to ensure the VMware vSphere Foundation license remains valid?

A. Switch to Connected mode, validate that VCF Operations has downloaded a new license file from VCF Business Services console, and then switch to Disconnected mode at least once every 365 days.

B. Manually exchange a registration and license file between the VCF Operations instance and the VCF Business Services console at least once every 180 days.

C. Nothing. The license is perpetual.

D. Provide an internet connection to VCF Operations, then download a new license file from the VCF Business Services console at least once every 180 days.

An administrator is tasked with developing an automated, repeatable process to:

Connect to the corporate Active Directory and create a Windows computer object in a defined Organizational Unit.

Connect to the target vCenter and create a Windows VM from a template.

Power on the VM and join it to the corporate domain.

Which VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) component is best suited for this task?

A. vSphere Supervisor

B. VCF Operations

C. VCF CLI

D. VCF Operations Orchestrator

An administrator is tasked to install a new VMware ESX host to an existing cluster. When the installation is completed, the host is not able to be reached from the vCenter.

When testing the host's management network, the default gateway, primary DNS, and secondary DNS are all unreachable, and the host name cannot be resolved. The VLAN for the management network is set correctly and the adapters are all connected.

What is the first step in troubleshooting this connectivity issue?

A. Verify the correct TCP/IP information is configured.

B. Verify the DVS configuration in vCenter.

C. Reinstall ESX on the host.

D. Disconnect and reconnect the physical network cable.

A virtual machine (VM) owner has requested to move a VM from one cluster to another.

The following information has been provided:

The VM cannot have downtime during the transfer.

The same network is present on both clusters.

The datastore that the VM is currently on is not present in the destination cluster.

What step should the administrator perform to move the VM?

A. Perform a vMotion of the VM to the new cluster.

B. Backup the VM and restore it to the new cluster.

C. Perform a vMotion with Storage vMotion to the new cluster.

D. Inform the owner the VM cannot be moved to the new cluster.

An administrator enables the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations orchestrator Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client service on a VCF Operations orchestrator appliance.

How many vSphere instances can be integrated in the vSphere Client through the VCF Operations orchestrator plug-in?

A. 8

B. 15

C. 1

D. 10