VMware VCP-550 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

  • Exam Code/Number: VCP-550
  • Exam Name/Title: VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 Exam
  • Certification Provider: VMware
  • Corresponding Certification: VMware Certified Professional
  • Exam Questions: 267
  • Updated On: May 26, 2026
A vSphere administrator needs to reconfigure the Distributed Power Management (DPM) threshold to be more aggressive.
Where should the administrator edit the settings of DPM in the vSphere Web Client?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
A system administrator is deploying a Windows virtual machine from a template and needs the IP address to be customized automatically.
How should the administrator configure the IP address?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
A vSphere administrator needs to temporarily disable DRS on a cluster containing a resource pool hierarchy.
Which procedure should the administrator follow to preserve the resource pool hierarchy while DRS is disabled?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
Which two features are different between VDP and VDPA? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: C,D Vote an answer
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A vSphere administrator attempts to manually vMotion a virtual machine but receives error
messages related to the Shared Storage datastore shown in the exhibit.
The administrator uses the vSphere Web Client and locates the datastore settings shown:
Which action should the administrator take to resolve these errors?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
What action should an administrator take to store ESXi 5.x host system logs centrally?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
A vSphere administrator determines that more metrics are available for viewing in the realtime view than are available in the daily view for a virtual machine.
What is the reason for this discrepancy in the number of available metrics?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
An administrator is building a new vSphere Standard Switch with two active uplinks. The physical switch ports for these uplinks are placed in an etherchannel.
Which load balancing policy should the administrator use to support the etherchannel configuration?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A vSphere administrator installs an ESXi host and creates a virtual machine, then installs vCenter Server. Upon connecting to the environment, the administrator notices that several inventory views appear to be missing from the Navigation Bar as shown in the Exhibit.
Which condition would result in this behavior?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
A vSphere administrator manages a three host cluster with 20 VMs. The HA cluster is configured with the Host Failures the Cluster Tolerates admission control policy and all other settings are set to default values. The administrator determines that one of the VMs is not able to power on. After further inspection, it is determined that this VM cannot power on because of a very large CPU reservation.
Which cluster advanced HA setting can the administrator modify to enable the virtual machine to power on?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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