VCAW510 Exam A contains 43 multiple choice questions covering various VMware Horizon View technologies and configurations. The questions address topics such as which tools can monitor network bandwidth usage, how Linked Clones are created, benefits of using PCoIP, and which feature can help track storage usage for planning. Correct answers are provided for each question.

1. VCAW510

2. Exam A
QUESTION 1
You are the VMware administrator for your company. Your company is very interested in maintaining a high
performance infrastructure. You would like to determine which of your users is currently consuming the most
network bandwidth. Which solution will allow you to gather this information?
A.
B.
C.
D.
View Administrator
vCenter Operations Manager for View
PowerShell scripts
vCenter Server
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 2
A business has some proprietary apps that they would like to provide on a USB key, so users can access the
application when their device is non-operational and they have no network access. Which Horizon solution
meets this business need?
A.
B.
C.
D.
VMware Horizon Mobile
Horizon View Client with Local Mode
VMware ThinApp
Horizon Workspace
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 3
Your supervisor asks you for a solution that can help reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy a new
Operating System on your physical and virtual desktops. Which solution provides a valid option?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Horizon View
Horizon Workspace
Horizon Mirage
vCenter Operations Manager for View
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 4
You are a VMware consultant and one of your clients is concerned about governmental regulations related to
their data security. Which of the following options can help in this situation?
A.
B.
C.
D.
vShield Endpoint
vCenter Operations Manager for View
Horizon Mirage
Horizon Workspace
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 5
A collegue asks you what role ThinApp provides for Horizon View. How should you respond?
A. ThinApp is used to provide patching and update processes for the virtual desktop
B. ThinApp is used to create a virtual sandbox to deploy applications to virtual desktops

3. C. ThinApp allows you to deploy virtual desktops in a minimal amount of disk space
D. ThinApp allows a virtual desktop to be deployed without local storage
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 6
Which statement reflects an Accessibility challenge that must be addressed for a new VMware Horizon
deployment?
A. Our existing storage device is already heavily used; we want to minimize the additional space required for
the new VDI system.
B. PCs cost so much to buy, maintain, and replace. It would be great to have a simple device that would last
for years and require little if any maintenance effort.
C. To further protect our data, we need to make sure that even if someone gets an authorized user's
credentials, they can't login with them.
D. Some users have graphics intensive jobs and need the highest quality and performance possible.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 7
What is a characteristic of a Linked Clone?
A.
B.
C.
D.
A Linked Clone can be created from a physical desktop.
A Linked Clone can be used to minimize patching and updating of the virtual desktop
A Linked Clone takes more creation Time than a Full Clone
A Linked Clone will consume more datastore space than a Full Clone
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 8
Which of the following describes a business environment where a VMware Horizon View solution using
floating pools could be used?
A.
B.
C.
D.
An engineering firm where users may need large amounts storage for CAD files
A legal firm where each user's data must be kept securely separated
A 24x7 call center where users share equipment and do not need unique user environments
A design business where users require high performance graphics capabilities
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 9
What is a dedicated desktop pool?
A.
B.
C.
D.
A pool
A pool
A pool
A pool
in which each user is assigned a specific virtual desktop
that is intended to be used by a single department
in which each desktop is assigned to a specific datastore
in which the configuration of each desktop cannot be changed
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 10
Which statement reflects an Application challenge that must be addressed for a new VMware Horizon
deployment?

4. A. We use AD extensively and need to leverage that environment to connect into the virtual desktop
infrastructure as easily as possible.
B. All of our PCs are the same, yet they need to be upgraded every few years and when a desktop fails. We
would like to minimize this maintenance cycle.
C. Employees in our call center need access to Internet and E-mail services. We'd like to make it as easy as
possible to deploy, patch and upgrade these services.
D. We want to minimize our licensing costs as we have 3 shifts per day that use the same equipment and
there is no need for a virtual desktop for each user.
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 11
You are asked by your supervisor for a solution to high maintenance and repair costs in your environment.
Which solution will help reduce physical hardware costs?
A.
B.
C.
D.
vCenter Operations Manager for View
Thin Clients
Horizon View Client
Horizon Mirage
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 12
You are the VMware administrator for your company. A fellow administrator asks you what role vCenter plays
in Horizon View. How will you respond?
A.
B.
C.
D.
vCenter is used to display client experience data through the performance charts
vCenter interacts with Horizon View to deploy and manage the virtual desktops
vCenter authenticates the View Composer component to allow for the creation of Linked Clone desktops
vCenter allows you to manage the ESXi hosts themselves, but not the virtual machines
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 13
Which vSphere monitoring application provides the most detailed performance data for Horizon View?
A.
B.
C.
D.
vCenter Orchestrator
vCenter Advanced performance charts
vCenter Configuration Manager
vCenter Operations Manager for View
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 14
You and a collegue are discussing your plans to use the VMware Horizon Suite to transform the end user
computing environment in your organization. You are asked to give examples of business challenges that
VMware end user computing products can help resolve. Which two statements can you use as examples?
(Choose two.)
A. VMware Horizon Mirage is a centralized desktop image management technology that supports layered
image management.
B. VMware Horizon View virtualizes user operating systems, applicatios and user data.
C. VMware Horizon View is a remote desktop solution that will allow you to move all desktops to a central

5. location.
D. VMware Horizon Workspace provides a centralized management console for administrators to manage
end user document workspaces.
Correct Answer: AC
QUESTION 15
Which feature utilizes snapshots to provide recovery for both physical snd virtual desktops?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Horizon Mirage
vCenter Operations Manager for View
Horizon View
vCenter
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 16
Which customer requirement would be met by a VMware Horizon deployment?
A. We are looking for an easy way to recover our user services in the event of unplanned downtime.
B. We need to centralize access to common services and provide a uniform, secure, easy to manage image
for employee access.
C. We want to reduce the amount of hardware in our datacenter by making more efficient use of the existing
hardware we have.
D. We need to centralize our management functionality and be able to quickly and efficiently monitor our
datacenter services.
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 17
You are interested in using Thin Clients in your new environment. Which statement is true concerning Thin
Clients?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Thin Clients provide more hardware capabilities than a comparable physical desktop
Thin Clients are powered by a rechargeable battery
Thin Clients do not have local PCI slots
Thin Clients have the same expansion slots as a physical desktop
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 18
Which of the following is true with floating pool desktops?
A. A user that is logged in to a floating pool
B. A user that is logged in to a floating pool
C. A user that is logged in to a floating pool
the desktop
D. A user that is logged in to a floating pool
configuration
desktop is not subject to group policy restrictions
has direct access to the View Administrator's console
desktop can view other's personal documents if they are saved to
desktop has the ability to modify the virtual desktop's
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 19
You are a VMware consultant. A client asks you to define the role of the View Client. Which statement

6. provides the best answer?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The View Client is used to login to vCenter and manage the virtual desktops
The View Client is used to login to View Administrator and access their virtual desktops
The View Client allows the administrator to remotely patch and update each virtual desktop
The View Client allows a client to access their virtual desktop and patch it locally
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 20
Which are two viable options for two factor user authentication with Horizon View? (Choose two.)
A.
B.
C.
D.
RADIUS server
Smart Card
AD credentials
Fingerprint Scanner
Correct Answer: AB
QUESTION 21
You are the VMware administrator for your company. You need to plan for long term storage usage. Which
tool would you use?
A.
B.
C.
D.
vCenter performance reports
vCenter Operations Manager for View
vSphere storage profiles
PowerShell scripts
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 22
A business has several hundred users with the need to access a wide variety of services. The business wants
to make sure they have all the licenses for all the programs they need, without paying for licenses that are not
needed. Which VMware Horizon solution meets this business need?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Horizon Workplace
Horizon Mirage
Horizon View Client with Local Mode
VMware ThinApp
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 23
Which two are benefits of using PCoIP as a display protocol? (Choose two.)
A.
B.
C.
D.
PCoIP allows an administrator to shadow end-users
PCoIP helps overcome network latency
PCoIP allows a single virtual desktop to be shared among multiple users
PCoIP encrypts all data from the client desktop to the virtual desktop
Correct Answer: BD
QUESTION 24

7. You are the VMware administrator for a company with a large number of traveling sales representatives who
travel to remote isolated areas. Which of the following features is specifically designed to support this
environment?
A.
B.
C.
D.
ThinApp repository
Local Mode
View Storage Accelerator
PCoIP
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 25
Which two operating systems are not supported as a platform for the View Client? (Choose two.)
A.
B.
C.
D.
Novell
Android
iOS
Unix
Correct Answer: AD
QUESTION 26
Which statement reflects a Security challenge that must be addressed for a new VMware Horizon
deployment?
A. We have a lot of our sales force that only rarely work in the office. We need a way to deploy new
applications to them and to keep them updated.
B. Some of our sales force do not live anywhere near one of our offices; for them we'd like to issue them a
laptop and manage the physical laptop remotely.
C. We want a simple, easy way to provision virtual desktops, determine who gets to use them, and specify
who can check them out for remote access.
D. We need a centralized way to store data that is under our company's control, not some cloud-based
service that is often used today that would be totally outside our control.
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 27
How can Persona Management improve virtual desktop performance?
A. Persona Management allows the VMware administrator to store all user documents and settings to a
VMFS datastore
B. Persona Management allows the user to store their desktop and settings to a USB device to improve
recovery
C. Persona Management downloads the user's settings and desktop on demand, rather than downloading the
entire configuration at logon time
D. Persona Management is used to save frequently used files to a local SSD device to improve read
performance
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 28
Which two are common end user computing application management challenges facing IT organizations?
(Choose two.)

8. A.
B.
C.
D.
Minimizing hardware lifecycle maintenance and refresh costs
Deploying application security patches to end user systems
Providing access to a consistent user environment across multiple devices
Enabling users to leverage their own devices to access corporate systems
Correct Answer: CD
QUESTION 29
How do virtual desktops locate the nearest printer to the user?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Printers are defined through GPO
Printers are selected for the user by the administrator
Printers are located through a pre-configured list that is stored on the ESXi physical host
Printers are randomly chosen per print job
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 30
You are a VMware consultant. You have a client that is mandated to comply with governmental regulations of
data security. Which solution will accomplish this goal?
A.
B.
C.
D.
vCenter Operations Manager for View
Horizon Mirage
View Administrator
Horizon Workspace
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 31
You are attending a planning meeting for a Horizon View deployment. Your manager asks you for a definition
of "Workforce Mobility". How should you respond?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Workforce Mobility is the process of granting everyone administrator level access to their virtual desktop
Workforce Mobility is the process of providing data access regardless of the client platform
Workforce Mobility is the process of replacing everyone's physical desktop every 3 years
Workforce Mobility is maintaining the licenses for each software package used within the environment
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 32
You are considering deploying Linked Clones in your environment. How are Linked Clones created?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Linked Clones are actually cloned on demand from a reference virtual machine.
Linked Clones are deployed from a special .ISO image
Linked Clones are deployed from a snapshot of a reference virtual machine
Linked Clones are actually created from scratch
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 33
You are the VMware administrator for your company. You would like to provide access to all of your
employees, but many have iPADs, Macs, and Android-based tablets. How can you provide access to each
user's virtual desktop from each of these platforms?

9. A.
B.
C.
D.
Horizon Workspace
vShield Endpoint
Horizon Mirage
View Client
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 34
A collegue asks you how the View Storage Accelerator can improve the functionality of Horizon View. How
should you answer?
A. The View Storage Accelerator allows multiple virtual desktops to share the same datastore without
corrupting data
B. The View Storage Accelerator is used to store frequently accessed data locally to improve latency
C. The View Storage Accelerator monitors response times and will read data from whichever datastore is
showing the lowest latency
D. The View Storage Accelerator acts as a local write cache that will improve the write performance of the
virtual desktop
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 35
Which of the following is true of floating desktop pools?
A. A virtual desktop in a floating pool
B. A virtual desktop in a floating pool
C. A virtual desktop in a floating pool
workload changes
D. A virtual desktop in a floating pool
can be accessed by multiple users at the same time
can be accessed by any single person from a list of approved users
has dynamic CPU and RAM allocations that can change as the
can only be accessed by using IE.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 36
You are the VMware administrator for your company. Your manager is concerned about licensing issues that
are plaguing your company. Which technology can help with your licensing issues?
A.
B.
C.
D.
View Administrator
Horizon Workspace
Horizon Mirage
Linked Clones
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 37
You are the VMware administrator for your company. You would like to use VoIP along with your virtual
desktops. Which of the following Horizon View features is specifically designed to support this option?
A.
B.
C.
D.
View Media Services for Integrated Unified Communications
ThinApp
View Composer
Horizon View Voice over IP (VoIP) Client

10. Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 38
Where is the user's data stored when using Linked Clones with dedicated pools?
A.
B.
C.
D.
On persistent disks
On the operating system disk
Within a RAM disk for improved performance
On the user's desktop
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 39
A collegue asks you how to manage Horizon View desktops. How should you respond?
A.
B.
C.
D.
You should always use vCenter to manage your virtual desktops
You should always use View Administrator to manage your virtual desktops
You can use either vCenter or View Administrator to manage your virtual desktops
You should use the PowerCLI command set to manage your virtual desktop
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 40
You are designing a Horizon View deployment. You have several departments which allow their users to work
from home several days a week. Which solution can help secure your user's access to their virtual desktops?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Horizon Workspace
Horizon Mirage
View Security Server
vShield Endpoint
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 41
A business has employees in a call center that need access to the same database and all call center
applications. The business wants to make it easy to deploy, patch and upgrade these applications. Which
VMware Horizon feature meets this business need?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Dedicated Pools
Linked Clones
Local Mode
Persona Management
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 42
You are planning a Horizon View deployment and need to track storage usage very closely in order to
proactively plan for a new storage. Which of the following feature can help you track storage usage?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Horizon Mirage
Horizon Workspace
vCenter Configuration Manager
vCenter Operations Manager for View

11. Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 43
You are experiencing a high amount of read I/O as shown on your storage array. Which Horizon View option
will help to minimize the I/O read from your array?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Horizon Mirage
Host caching
Endpoint
Local Mode
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 44
Which of these end user computing security challenges can be addressed by VMware Horizon View solutions?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Archival and encryption of unused user data
Prevention of phishing attacks against user systems
Encryption of data transmitted over the network for all users
Encryption of end user data stored on disk
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 45
A client has asked you to define the role of the View Security Server? How should you respond?
A.
B.
C.
D.
It maintains a list of certificates and revocation lists for the virtual desktops
It provides authentication for in-house users in security sensitive areas
It maintains secure connections between the internet and the Connection Server
It maintains secure connections between vCenter and Horizon View
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 46
How are fully provisioned desktops created for automated pools, whether floating or dedicated?
A.
B.
C.
D.
They are cloned from an existing desktop
They are deployed from an existing .ISO image
They are deployed fro, a pre-configured template
They are created from scratch
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 47
A business has a widely distributed sales force where many users do not live anywhere near a dedicated
office. The business wants to issue them a laptop and manage the physical laptop remotely. Which VMware
Horizon solution meets his business need?
A.
B.
C.
D.
VMware Horizon Mobile
Horizon Mirage
Horizon Worlspace
Horizon View Client with Local Mode

12. Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 48
You are the VMware administrator for your company. You would like to maximize the storage space used by
your virtual desktops. Which of the following is a benefit when using Linked Clones?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Linked Clones are designed to deduplicate data as it written by the user
Linked Clones can use the physical desktop to store client data
Linked Clones allow overcommitment of the datastores
Linked Clones are designed to compress data as it is written by the user
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 49
You are the VMware administrator for your company. A member of the Help Desk has asked if HA can be
used with Horizon View. How should you respond?
A. HA does not support virtual desktops deployed through Horizon View
B. HA will restart Horizon View desktops, but will restart them after all other virtual machines have been
restarted
C. HA will only restart Windows-based virtual desktops
D. HA will restart Horizon View virtual desktops as configured by the administrator
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 50
A collegue wants to know more about Persona Management. What should you tell him?
A. Persona Management actively maps drives and printers to the virtual desktop on demand
B. Persona Management allows an administrator to determine who has logged in to a specific desktop
C. Persona Management allows a user to have the same environment regardless of the virtual desktop that
they log in to
D. Persona Management is used to deploy a virtual desktop based on the user's requests
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 51
You are a VMware consultant. A client is concerned about being able to deploy updates to Executives as they
travel. Which solution will allow them to keep the Executives' physical devices updated while they travel?
A.
B.
C.
D.
View Administrator
vShield Endpoint
Horizon Mirage
Horizon Workspace
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 52
You are the VMware administrator for your company. A fellow administrator asks you which print drivers are
used with Horizon View virtual printing?
A. Print drivers that are downloaded from the VMware web site
B. Print drives are not required for use with virtual printing

13. C. Print drivers that are edited and updated using View Administrator
D. Print drivers that are on the client's physical device
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 53
You are the VMware administrator for your company. One of the System Admins has expressed concern over
a failed patching process that resulted in the re-imaging of a physical desktop. Which solution will help in this
situation?
A.
B.
C.
D.
ThinApp
Horizon Mirage
Horizon Workspace
Full Clones
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 54
How are Full Clone desktops updated`
A.
B.
C.
D.
Full
Full
Full
Full
Clone desktops can be updated manually or through using an application such as WSUS
Clone virtual desktops can only be updated through Update Manager
Clone virtual desktops are updated by using vCenter Operations Manager
Clone virtual desktops do not require patching or updating
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 55
You are the VMware administrator for your company. Your Sales Reps travel frequently, and you would like to
be able to manage their physical laptops remotely. Which solution will help in this situation?
A.
B.
C.
D.
View Client
Horizon Mirage
Horizon Workspace
View Administrator
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 56
You are a VMware consultant. You have a client that would like be able to remotely wipe data from corporate
user's Android mobile devices. Which solution will allow this?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Horizon Mirage
Horizon Workspace
Branch Reflector
Horizon Mobile
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 57
What is a difference between a dedicated pool desktop and a floating pool desktop?
A. A floating pool desktop is not assigned to a specific user

14. B. A dedicated pool desktop will not move from the host ESXi server
C. A dedicated pool desktop can be modified by the user if he or she has the permissions
D. A floating pool desktop is moved between ESXi servers automatically to equalize resources
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 58
You have just read about an appliance called vShield Endpoint. How can this option enhance your Horizon
View environment?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Endpoint is used to perform security scans to detect desktop vulnerabilities
Endpoint is used to offload antivirus and anti-malware processes
Endpoint is used to enhance desktop security by permitting the use of Biometrics for user authentication
Endpoint is used to deploy virtual firewalls between virtual machines
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 59
You are the VMware consultant for your company. You have been asked to help plan for anticipated storage
needs over the next 18 months. Which solution will help you plan?
A.
B.
C.
D.
vCenter Configuration Manager
vCenter Operations Manager for View
vCenter Server
Horizon Workspace
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 60
You are the VMware administrator for your company. A collegue has asked for a definition of a Full Clone.
Which of the following are true for a Full Clone?
A. A Full Clone is a virtual desktop that is deployed from an .ISO image stored in vCenter
B. A Full Clone is a virtual desktop that takes up the same datastore space as the original
C. A Full Clone is a virtual desktop that has the same IP address and hostname as the original virtual
machine
D. A Full Clone is a complete duplicate of another virtual desktop, but it takes up less space on the datastore
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 61
You have several users who use printers extensively. How can virtual desktops work with printers?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Virtual desktops can be configured to cache print jobs and print documents on a schedule
Virtual desktops can print to the nearest printer, regardless of the user's location
Printing from a virtual desktop requires a special driver that must be downloaded from VMware
The user must cut and paste the desired document to their physical devices and then print it
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 62
Xou are a VMware consultant and a client has asked what a virtual machine is. How should you answer?

15. A. A virtual machine is a set of programming APIs that rely on vendor-specific hardware.
B. A virtual machine is a defined subset of physical hardware that is statically assigned to a VM.
C. A virtual machine is a software implementation of a physical hardware that responds exactly like a
physical desktop.
D. A virtual machine is a virtual device that is vendor specific and only runs on hardware from that vendor.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 63
You are the VMware administrator for your company. You would like to view a list of the busiest virtual
machines. What is the easiest way to accomplish this?
A.
B.
C.
D.
PowerShell scripts
vCenter Operations Manager for View
vCenter Orchestrator
vCenter Configuration Manager
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 64
How are users granted access to their virtual desktoips?
A.
B.
C.
D.
They are authenticated from a list of allowed users located on the DC
They are authenticated through the vSphere Client
They are automatically authenticated by logging in to their physical desktop
They are authenticated through the View Client
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 65
You are concerned about the timeframe involved in deploying a View Client to each of your Client's physical
devices. Which feature will help?
A.
B.
C.
D.
vSphere Web Client
Configuring HTML access
View Client with Local Mode
Horizon Workspace
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 66
You are a VMware consultant. You have a client with several users that are contract accountants and must
have their virtual desktops with them when they are at a client's site. Which solution will help resolve this
issue?
A.
B.
C.
D.
View Client with Local Mode
View Administrator
Horizon Mirage
Linked Clones
Correct Answer: A