I figured that after a good solid two plus years of administering as well as designing, configuring and deploying Vmware ESX that i should get of my rear and finally work on getting my VCP.  A good number for Vmware positions require it nowadays as its a pretty valuable certification, one of the few left other than Cisco.

Anyway, I have been taking a few practice tests and will be posting the questions that I either got wrong, or are pretty sure that I will not get correct if ever asked again.

 

_{Q: To disable a service on a Host's Firewall, what command is used?}

_{A: esxcfg-firewall -d}

_{Q: Which ports does VMware Update Manager use?}

_{A: 8084, 9084, 9087}

_{Q: What command is used to list the current firewall rules on a Host?}

_{A: esxcfg-firewall -q}

_{Q: Strongest block ciphers available to ESX4?}

_{A: 256 bit AES}

_{Q: The /boot partition requires how much free space?}

_{A: 1.25GB}

_{Q: What command is used to close a port in the firewall of an ESX host?}

_{A: esxcfg-firewall -c}

_{Q: vCenter 4 Server minimum requirements are?}

_{A: 2GHz CPU, 3GB RAM, 2GB HD}

_{Q: What is the maximum amount of characters that a vCenter server name should not exceed?}

_{A: 16}

_{A: Medium with some outbound ports closed}