During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement that is pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment:
✑ The Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) for all Tier 1 applications is one hour.
Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

A. Manageability

B. Performance

C. Availability

D. Recoverability

An architect is designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) that will consist of 100 branch sites connected to a single VMware vCenter Server within the primary data center. To allow for the use of existing automation scripts, there is a requirement to replicate the names of the virtual distributed port groups across all sites. The procurement team purchases licensing and there is no further budget allocated.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet this requirement?

A. A new vCenter Server will be deployed for each branch site

B. A new host and cluster folder will be created for each branch site

C. The automation script will be updated to reflect unique naming for each site

D. A new virtual data center will be created for each branch site

An architect is designing a new backup solution for a vSphere platform that has been recently upgraded to vSphere 7.
The architect wants the backup solution to perform the following:
✑ Full virtual machine image backup and restore
✑ Incremental virtual machine image backup and restore
✑ File level backup and restore within both Windows and Linux virtual machines
✑ LAN-free backup
Which functional requirement should the architect include in the design of the new backup solution?

A. The backup solution must leverage the VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) framework.

B. The backup solution must leverage virtual machine snapshots.

C. The backup solution must leverage VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection.

D. The backup solution must leverage VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP).

An architect is designing a VMware solution for a customer based on the following information:
✑ The solution must use investments in existing storage array that supports both block and file storage.
✑ The solution must support the ability to migrate workloads between hosts within a cluster.
✑ The solution must support resource management priorities.
✑ The solution must support the ability to connect virtual machines directly to LUNs.
✑ The solution should use existing IPv4 based network infrastructure.
✑ There is no budget for additional physical hardware.
Which two design decisions could the architect make to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel (FC)

B. The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS 3

C. The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

D. The ESXi hosts will leverage iSCSI

E. The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS 4.1

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer's Chief Information Security Office (CISO) provides the following requirements that are pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment:
✑ All operating system critical patches must be installed within 24 hours of release.
✑ All virtual machine templates must be updated every three months in line with company policy.
Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

A. Security

B. Manageability

C. Recoverability

D. Availability

What is a benefit of using a scale-out method for handling vSphere cluster growth?

A. An increase in the recovery time objective (RTO) for the cluster

B. Faster to reach the limit of virtual machines per host

C. An overall reduction in the license costs for the cluster

D. Less potential impact to virtual machines during a single host failure

An architect is tasked with recommending a solution for a company that is running out of VLANs. Currently the company is running two separate data centers based on vSphere including an Enterprise Plus license. In the first data center, the problem was solved by using VMware NSX and overlay network. In the second data center, there is currently no VMware NSX implementation in place and no budget for additional licenses.
What should the architect recommend as a potential solution to provide support for additional VLANs?

A. Separate Distributed Virtual Switches (DVS)

B. Private VLANs (PVLAN)

C. Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT)

D. vSwitch VLAN Tagging (VST)

An architect is designing a new greenfield environment that will install ESXi on local disks. There is a requirement to streamline initial and future installations of
ESXi hosts.
Which configuration option should the architect recommend for installing ESXi hosts to meet these requirements?

A. Installation with kick start script

B. Auto Deploy with stateless caching mode

C. Manual installation using boot from SAN

D. Auto Deploy with stateful install mode

An architect is designing a solution for an environment with two types of resource profiles that must be virtualized. The first type consists of Tier 1 virtual machines that are disk I/O intensive, but do NOT require high CPU or memory. The second type consists of Tier 2 virtual machines that require a lower CPU and memory allocation and have minimal disk I/O.
Which design recommendation should the architect make for distributing the resource profiles?

A. Separate the two resource profiles into two clusters. The Tier 1 cluster will have fast storage while the Tier 2 cluster will not.

B. Run both resource profiles on the same cluster with the same host hardware platform.

C. Separate the two resource profiles into two clusters. The Tier 2 cluster will have faster CPU and more memory while the Tier 1 cluster will have slower CPU and less memory but more disk space.

D. Run both resource profiles on the same cluster with host hardware that has fast CPU, large amounts of memory, and the fastest storage platform.

Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as performance non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

A. The vSphere platform must be able to provide a recovery time objective of 30 minutes

B. The vSphere platform must be able to provide a minimum throughput of 400 MB/s

C. The vSphere platform must be able to provide N+1 redundancy

D. The vSphere platform must be able to provide a maximum read latency of 15 ms

E. The vSphere platform must be able to provide a service-level agreement (SLA) of 99,9%

Following a recent acquisition, the architect learns that both companies use vSphere on-premise and will need to combine the data centers into one. The acquired company's licenses will not be renewed for cost-savings related to the acquisition. All consumed vSphere licenses must have active support to support line-of- business operations. The merged environment must maintain 25% spare capacity. The architect has a small budget remaining unallocated for hardware.
The architect has calculated that the current vSphere environment can absorb the acquired company's virtual machines but the cluster will run at 90% memory utilization and at 50% CPU utilization.
Which design decision can the architect make to incorporate the new company's virtual machines into the combined vSphere environment?

A. Migrate the acquired company’s virtual machines into the vSphere environment as it will currently fit.

B. Use the current budget to add memory to the cluster to increase each ESXi host’s capacity and add the new virtual machines.

C. Purchase extra hosts to add to the cluster in anticipation of adding the acquired company’s virtual machines.

D. Purchase new licenses for some of the acquired company’s ESXi hosts and add them to the cluster to hold the acquired company’s virtual machines.

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement:
A new vSphere platform must be designed securely and all interfaces must be protected against potential snooping.
 
How should this non-functional security requirement be documented?

A. Interfaces must be audited.

B. Encrypted channels must be used for all communications.

C. Unauthorized access to interfaces must be reported within 15 minutes.

D. Communications must be through Private VLANs (PVLAN).

Which requirement would be classified as a functional requirement within the application design documentation?

A. The application must be hosted with redundancy levels of N+1 or better.

B. Penetration testing must be executed quarterly with a pass rate of 80% or higher.

C. The application must be capable of handling 200 transactions per second.

D. Administrators must monitor the network traffic of the desired systems.

An architect is designing a new VMware solution for a customer that has a number of different resource profiles.
The following are the business requirements for the design:
✑ The solution must support virtual machines with the following storage profiles:
- Write-intensive
- Backup
- Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) archive
✑ The solution must support migration of virtual machine disks between storage profiles.
✑ The WORM archive data must be located at an isolated secure site.
✑ The backup storage array must only be connected to a backup media server.
✑ All data should be recoverable from backup.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet the business requirements?

A. The solution will leverage a single storage array for the WORM archive and write-intensive storage profiles

B. The solution will leverage the same array for the backup and write-intensive storage profiles

C. The solution will leverage a different array for each storage profile

D. The solution will leverage a single storage array for all storage profiles

An architect is tasked with designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) using VMware vSAN. The architect uses a storage assessment tool to determine the storage requirements for the new vSAN cluster. The new SDDC is going to be deployed into the existing data center and must be connected to a shared core network switch.
The architect decides to use vSAN ReadyNodes with the following configuration:
✑ Two disk groups with:
- Write Intensive NVMe 800 GB drive for cache
- Four 3.84 TB Mixed Use NVMe for capacity
✑ Four 10 GbE ports
Which element represents a risk that should be included in this design?

A. The number of 10 GbE capable ports in the vSAN ReadyNode

B. The use of vSAN ReadyNodes

C. The existing network is 10 GbE capable

D. The use of NVMe drives for cache and capacity

An architect is tasked with reviewing the design of a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) for a software development company. The platform is used to developing applications and services. It is important that the customer be able to accurately benchmark performance of developed applications.
The platform has recently commissioned new hosts to update the development cluster.
The development cluster host configuration is:
✑ 4 ESXi hosts with 2 sockets ֳ— 16 cores
✑ 512 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
✑ There is no resource contention
The benchmarking cluster host configuration is:
✑ 8 ESXi hosts with 2 sockets ֳ— 8 cores
✑ 256 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
✑ There is no resource contention
The customer is developing an application that includes a database virtual machine. The application developer states that the database virtual machine performs as required only when allocated 8 vCPUs 256 GB RAM. The database virtual machine performance meets the required levels when run from the development cluster. Performance benchmarking for the database virtual machine yields highly variable results when run from the benchmarking cluster. The application cannot be released without reliable performance benchmarking data.
What is a possible reason for the difference in performance test results between the development and benchmarking clusters?

A. The database tier breaches a single NUMA node boundary for the benchmarking cluster

B. The database tier breaches a single NUMA node boundary for the development cluster

C. The development cluster can support a lower %Ready time per vCPU

D. The development cluster has more available RAM per host

An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer based on the following information:
✑ The vSphere cluster will have three hosts only due to budget considerations.
✑ A database cluster (node majority) consisting of three virtual machines will be running on the vSphere cluster.
Which two recommendations can the architect make so that the customer achieves the highest level of application availability while taking into consideration operational resiliency? (Choose two.)

A. Create VM-VM anti-affinity rules

B. Set das.respectvmvmantiaffinityrules to false

C. Create VM-Host anti-affinity rules

D. Disable vSphere HA during maintenance

E. Set das.ignoreinsufficienthbdatastore to true

Which requirement would be classified as a functional requirement within the design documentation?

A. The system must perform virtual machine backups through an API.

B. Virtual machines must be patched within one month of the patch release date.

C. Virtual machines must be restarted within 30 minutes of a host failure.

D. The system must be able to scale to support 500 concurrent virtual machines.

A customer requests a review of its current vSphere platform design.
The following information is noted:
✑ There are three different workload profiles for the virtual machines:
- Tier-1 virtual machines operate resource-intensive applications and require dedicated allocations for CPU and RAM.
- Tier-2 virtual machines operate internet-facing applications and require access to externally facing networks.
- Tier-3 virtual machines operate platform management tools such as vCenter Server and have different lifecycle management requirements.
✑ Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines are all hosted on a single large vSphere cluster.
✑ The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has raised concerns that hosting externally facing applications alongside management tools does not meet internal compliance standards.
✑ The Operations team has raised concerns about Tier-1 virtual machines negatively impacting the performance of vCenter Server.
✑ The Operations lead has stated that management changes have consistently been rejected by application teams.
As a result of the review, which recommendation should the architect make regarding the design of this platform?

A. Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines using dedicated distributed virtual switches (DVS)

B. Separate Tier-2 virtual machines onto a dedicated cluster

C. Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines onto dedicated clusters

D. Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines using resource pools and shares

An architect is considering placement of virtual machines within an existing VMware software-defined data center (SDDC).
During the discovery phase, the following information is documented:
Cluster One -
Six ESXi hosts -
 
✑ vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1
✑ Proactive HA is enabled and set to automated
✑ Fully Automated vSphere DRS
✑ Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is enabled
Cluster Two -
✑ Eight ESXi hosts
✑ vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1
✑ Proactive HA is disabled
✑ Partially Automated vSphere DRS
✑ Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled
Cluster Three -
✑ Three ESXi hosts
✑ vSphere HA with admission control is disabled
✑ Proactive HA is not supported
✑ Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled
Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1
✑ Memory sharing techniques should not be used
✑ Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure if resources are available
✑ Automated initial virtual machine placement
Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2
✑ Memory sharing techniques should not be used
✑ Virtual machines should be protected from any host hardware failures
✑ Automated initial virtual machine placement
Which two recommendations should the architect make for placement of the virtual machines to meet resource profile requirements? (Choose two.)

A. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster One.

B. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1 should be placed on Cluster One.

C. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster Two.

D. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1 should be placed on Cluster Two.

E. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster Three.

An architect is designing a solution based on the following information:
✑ Each ESXi host has a single physical NIC with two 10 Gbps ports.
✑ There is a performance-based service-level agreement (SLA) that guarantees 15 Gbps bandwidth for production virtual machines at all times.
✑ There is no budget to purchase additional hardware.
✑ The hardware replacement SLA is based on a delivery agreement of two business days.
Which recommendation for the configuration of vSphere High Availability (HA) should the architect include in the design?

A. Configure vSphere HA Configure % based admission control Configure two isolation addresses Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

B. Configure vSphere HA Set das.IgnoreRedundantNetWarning to true Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

C. Configure vSphere HA Configure two existing data stores for heartbeat Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

D. Configure Proactive HA Automation Level: Automated Remediation: Maintenance mode for all failures Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

An architect is designing a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
✑ The environment must support 800 virtual machines.
✑ The environment will be built initially using 200 hosts.
Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?

A. Large

B. Small

C. X-Large

D. Medium

Which design decision must be included in a design to allow for the deployment of a minimum supported configuration of vCenter High Availability (HA)?

A. A new subnet will be provisioned for vCenter HA services

B. A vSphere cluster will consist of more than three nodes

C. The deployed vCenter Server will be Tiny

D. The vCenter HA network will support a latency of less than 50 ms

An architect is considering placement of virtual machines within an existing VMware software-defined data center (SDDC).
During the discovery phase, the following information is documented:
Cluster One -
✑ Six ESXi hosts
✑ vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1
✑ Proactive HA is enabled and set to automated
✑ Fully Automated vSphere DRS
✑ Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is enabled
Cluster Two -
✑ Eight ESXi hosts
✑ vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1
✑ Proactive HA is disabled
✑ Partially Automated vSphere DRS
✑ Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled
Cluster Three -
✑ Three ESXi hosts
✑ vSphere HA with admission control is disabled
✑ Proactive HA is not supported
✑ Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled
Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1
✑ Memory sharing techniques should not be used
✑ Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure if resources are available
✑ Automated initial virtual machine placement
Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2
✑ Memory sharing techniques can be used
✑ Virtual machines should be protected from any host hardware failures
✑ Automated initial virtual machine placement
Which two recommendations should the architect make for placement of the virtual machines to meet resource profile requirements? (Choose two.)

A. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster One.

B. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1 should be placed on Cluster One.

C. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster Two.

D. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1 should be placed on Cluster Two.

E. All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster Three.

During a transformation project kick-off meeting, an architect highlights specific areas on which to focus while developing the new conceptual design.
Which two of the listed statements are business requirements? (Choose two.)

A. The project should use the existing storage devices within the data center

B. Sites must support a network latency of less than 12 ms round-trip time (RTT)

C. The solution must allow data replication between sites

D. There is no budget specifically assigned for disaster recovery

E. There must not be a single point of failure for the virtual infrastructure

An architect is preparing a design for a company planning digital transformation. During the requirements gathering workshop, the following requirements (REQ) and constraints (CON) are identified:
✑ REQ01 The platform must host different types of workloads including applications that must be compliant with internal security standard.
✑ REQ02 The infrastructure must initially run 100 virtual machines.
REQ03 Ten of the virtual machines must be compliant with internal security standard.
 
✑ REQ04 The internal security standard specifies logical network separation for in-scope applications.
✑ CON01 The customer has already purchased the licenses as part of another project.
✑ CON02 The customer has five physical servers that must be reused.
Additionally, based on resource requirements, four physical servers will be enough to run all workloads.
Which recommendation should the architect make to meet requirements while minimizing project costs?

A. Use Network I/O Control to ensure the internal security zone has higher share value

B. Purchase additional servers and plan separate, isolated clusters for workloads that must be compliant with internal security standard

C. Use a single cluster and ensure that different security zones are separated at least with dedicated VLANs and firewall

D. Use a single cluster and configure DRS anti-affinity rules to ensure internal security compliant virtual machines cannot migrate between ESXi hosts.

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement (REQ) and constraints (CON):
✑ REQ01: The customer is looking for a way to limit database virtual machine (VM) placement to save on CPU licensing costs.
✑ CON01: There is a single cluster with no budget to scale.
✑ CON02: All virtual machines must run on the consolidated cluster.
Which two design decisions should the architect make to meet the customer requirement? (Choose two.)

A. The solution must use VM-VM anti-affinity rules

B. The solution must use vSphere DRS in manual mode

C. The solution must use a vRealize Orchestrator workflow for VM placement

D. The solution must use VM-Host affinity rules

E. The solution must use vSphere VM and host DRS groups

An architect is tasked with planning the design of a new vSphere environment. When commissioned, this environment will be used to migrate an existing set of virtual machines.
An inventory of the existing infrastructure, including configured vCPU, RAM and storage sizes has been provided.
In order for each virtual machine to be migrated, which two data sources with peak and average utilization data are required for sizing? (Choose two.)

A. %Ready

B. Disk Write latency

C. CPU

D. Ballooned memory

E. IOPS

As part of a new hybrid cloud initiative for a large financial company, the customer technical team is presenting an overview of the current state of the infrastructure and their vision for a new solution.
The project team captures notes during the presentation and adds them to the discovery documentation.
Which of the listed statements is a design constraint?

A. The applications are created in-house with in-guest recovery protection

B. The maximum tolerable data loss is 10 minutes

C. The two data center locations have a network latency of 8 ms round-trip time (RTT)

D. The existing storage is out of maintenance

An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer and learns that the customer has:
✑ A single vSphere cluster
✑ Two storage arrays with different RAID capabilities
Which two design decisions should the architect make to maximize data availability and data performance for this customer? (Choose two.)

A. Use Storage DRS.

B. Use VMDK anti-affinity rules.

C. Use multiple datastores for heartbeat.

D. Use a minimum of three storage arrays.

E. Use VM to host DRS rules.

A VMware Service Provider is tasked with delivering a solution for continuous availability for a subset of Tier 1 virtual machines (VMs) and vApps running in their vSAN environment. The VMs make up a mission-critical application and there can be no data loss in the event of an outage at their primary data center. In the event of a regional outage, they have established a 10-minute recovery point objective (RPO). Failover/failback to the third site must be automated.
They have the following in place:
✑ Two local data centers (primary and secondary) connected with 100 Gb dedicated fiber
- 2ms round-trip time (RTT) latency between the sites
✑ A third data center located on another power grid
- 70ms latency between the primary and secondary data centers
✑ Matching storage arrays at all locations
Which two solutions could be used to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Site Recovery Manager

B. Snapshots

C. vSAN Metro Cluster

D. vSphere Data Protection

E. vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)

As part of a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirements for the design of a new greenfield virtual infrastructure:
✑ Some applications have a latency that must be less than 5 minutes.
✑ The solution must be able to support a workload growth rate of 10% per year.
Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

A. Performance

B. Manageability

C. Recoverability

D. Availability

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following information:
✑ Each host has 2 ֳ— 10 GbE NIC
✑ EtherChannel is not currently configured
✑ No changes can be made to the physical network
✑ Network throughput must be prioritized for defined critical services
Which two recommendations should the architect make with regard to virtual networking? (Choose two.)

A. Use Route Based on Physical NIC Load.

B. Use Network I/O Control with Shares.

C. Use Network I/O Control with Reservation.

D. Use Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

E. Use Network I/O Control with Limits.

An architect is reviewing a physical storage design. The customer has specified that storage DRS will be used for ease of operational management for capacity and performance.
Which recommendation should the architect include in the design?

A. Create smaller datastores to balance space with Storage DRS

B. Use a larger number of storage profiles (varied disk speeds and RAID levels) to improve performance

C. Create larger datastores to balance space with Storage DRS

D. Create more datastores within each Storage DRS cluster to balance space and performance

Application owners require support of a Microsoft Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC).
Their current environment consists of the following components:
✑ vSphere 7.0 and vSAN 7.0
✑ External array supporting NFS 3.0/4.1, Server Message Block (SMB) 2.1
✑ 10 GbE storage connectivity for all devices
The solution architect is tasked with coming up with a solution to meet this requirement while utilizing their existing investments.
Which two recommendations could the architect make? (Choose two.)

A. Use vSAN native support for WSFC

B. Use NFS 4.1 shares for quorum and shared disk

C. Use raw device mapping (RDM)

D. Use the SMB 2.1 protocol for sharing disks

E. Run WSFC on vSAN iSCSI Target Service

A new vSphere platform is being created. The platform will host virtual machines that will run management services and line-of-business applications.
What should the architect consider when designing the number and type of clusters required?

A. Maximum tolerable downtime

B. Predicted platform growth

C. Auditing requirements for the virtual machines

D. The level of isolation required between virtual machine classifications

An architect is designing storage for a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
✑ Asynchronous replication is required between two sites.
✑ The impact on the storage layer should not impact the performance of the compute layer.
✑ Each application tier will require different replication attributes.
✑ Virtual machine live migration across compute and storage must be supported.
✑ Virtual machine aware back up will be leveraged.
✑ Operational management overhead should be minimized.
✑ Operational automation should be supported.
Which storage design recommendations would meet the requirements?

A. Two new Fibre Channel storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site. Each application tier will be initially provisioned a new LUN. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.

B. Two new vSphere clusters enabled with vSAN will be deployed, one at either site. vSAN will be used to provide policy-based management for each application tier. vSphere Replication will be used to replicate the virtual machine data in an asynchronous configuration.

C. Two new ISCSI storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site. Each application tier will be initially provisioned a new LUN. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.

D. Two new storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site. vSphere Volumes (vVOLs) will be used to provide policy-based management for each application tier. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.

An organization's data scientists are executing a plan to use machine learning (ML). They must have access to graphical processing unit (GPU) capabilities to execute their computational models when needed. The solutions architect needs to design a solution to ensure that GPUs can be shared by multiple virtual machines.
Which two solutions should the architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. NVIDIA vGPU

B. AMD MxGPU

C. vSphere DirectPath I/O

D. vSGA

E. vSphere Bitfusion

Refer to the exhibit.
During a requirements gathering workshop, a customer shares the following diagram regarding their availability service-level agreements (SLAs):
 
The customer states that there is no application level availability for legacy applications.
Which recommendation could the architect make to meet the customer's high availability requirements for the legacy applications virtual machines?

A. Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Disabled

B. Enable Fault Tolerance

C. Achieve application availability with snapshots

D. Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Lowest

Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as manageability non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

A. ESXi clusters must scale when compute resources are sustained above 70% for five business days

B. vSphere Fault Tolerance must be supported to improve application uptime

C. ESXi host updates must be installed within one week of release

D. The vSphere environment must support administrator password rotation

E. ESXi clusters must scale to 500 concurrent virtual machines

Following a company merger, there are two data centers running vSphere environments. Both data centers are leveraging separate Layer 3 vMotion networks.
Which requirement must be met in order to enable vMotion migration between these locations?

A. The vMotion service must be configured on the Management VMkernel adapter

B. A dedicated TCP/IP stack for vMotion with a dedicated gateway must be configured

C. A stretched vMotion network must be configured between data centers

D. Virtual machines must be powered off in order to migrate them between data centers

Following a recent acquisition, an architect needs to merge IT assets into its current data center. The combined vSphere environment will need to run the newly acquired company's virtual machines.
Network integration work has already been completed and the current environment has capacity to host all virtual machines. The Operations team needs to identify which virtual machines belong to the acquired company and report on their usage.
How should the architect merge the company's assets and virtual machines?

A. Leave the newly acquired company’s assets in its current place

B. Lift and shift the acquired assets into the data center

C. Migrate the acquired company’s virtual machines into the existing vSphere environment

D. Migrate and apply vSphere tags to the acquired company’s virtual machines

An architect is finalizing the design for a new vCenter Server High Availability deployment.
What is one thing the architect must document in the design?

A. The load balancing algorithm used by the Management Distributed Virtual Switches (DVS)

B. The SSH configuration settings for the vCenter Server’s active node

C. The vCenter Management Network IPv4 addresses for the witness node vCenter Server

D. The details of each of the vCenter Server licenses for active, passive and witness nodes

An architect makes the design decision to install ESXi on embedded and resilient 8 GB SD cards.
What is the impact of this design decision?

A. Host profiles must be used for this kind of installation

B. Scratch partition would need to be created on the external storage

C. The size of the SD cards is too small and the installation will fail

D. The vSphere Auto Deploy feature must be enabled on vCenter Server

An architect is planning the physical server configuration for a vSAN-based infrastructure.
Which operations mode should a RAID controller support to minimize potential server downtime during physical disk failures?

A. RAID controller with Passthru mode

B. RAID controller with RAID 5 mode

C. RAID controller with RAID 10 mode

D. RAID controller with RAID 6 mode

The storage team at an organization is planning to migrate from an older Fibre Channel storage environment to a new environment using IP-based storage.
Which two switch features or characteristics are appropriate for IP storage networks? (Choose two.)

A. Fabric extending devices

B. Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

C. 2:1 or greater bandwidth oversubscription for 10 GbE switches

D. Non-blocking switch

E. Deep or ultra buffered switches

An architect will be taking over control of a former Linux server fleet and repurposing the hardware into a new vSphere cluster. The current environment is already connected to the network but the hosts do not have any local disks. Since the fleet hardware is uniform, the architect can use a single ESXi image. All hosts within the cluster have the same CPU and memory capacity.
Which ESXi deployment method should the architect use?

A. Stateless cached vSphere Auto Deploy

B. Stateless vSphere Auto Deploy

C. Manual install of each ESXi host with an image from USB

D. Stateful vSphere Auto Deploy

An architect is designing an environment for a retail customer. The design will use a single small vCenter Server Appliance and a cluster of eight ESXi hosts at a remote site. There is a single 10 GbE connected network at the remote site to support all management services. It is not possible to create additional management networks at the remote site. Virtual machine backups at the site will be dependent on the vCenter Server being available.
Which design decision should the architect make to maximize availability for backups?

A. vCenter Server High Availability will be configured.

B. The vCenter Server Appliance will be protected with vSphere Fault Tolerance.

C. The cluster will be configured to use vSphere DRS in fully automated mode.

D. The cluster will be configured with vSphere HA and set to restart virtual machines based on guest operating system heartbeat monitoring.

An architect is reviewing a physical storage design. The customer has specified that a new active-passive based storage array will be used to provide storage for the vSphere clusters.
Which configuration should for the architect recommended?

A. VMW_SATP_LOCAL

B. VMW_PSP_MRU

C. VMW_SATP_DEFAULT_AA

D. VMW_PSP_FIXED

An architect decides to separate virtual desktops and application servers into separate vSphere clusters to meet security and management requirements.
What are two implications of this design decision? (Choose two.)

A. There will be an increase in management overhead.

B. Identical hardware must be procured for all hosts.

C. There will be a reduction in performance.

D. The patching cycles will affect both clusters at the same time.

E. There will be additional licensing and cost requirements for both clusters.