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

A customer provides the following list of requirements for their vSphere platform:
✑ REQ01 The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure.
✑ REQ02 The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days.
✑ REQ03 All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes.
✑ REQ04 The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts.
✑ REQ05 The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines.
Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

A. The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure

B. The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts

C. The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines

D. All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes

E. The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days

An architect is creating a network design for a new vSphere environment.
Based on customer requirements, the environment must support the following types of traffic:
✑ Management
✑ vMotion
✑ vSAN
✑ Fault Tolerance
✑ Virtual machine traffic, which cannot be impacted by other types of traffic
Which design recommendation can the architect make for a resilient infrastructure with vSphere network service tiering?

A. Use different logical networks to ensure traffic is isolated with separate VLANs

B. Use Network I/O Control and ensure appropriate share value is defined for different types of traffic giving priority to the virtual machines traffic

C. Use two dedicated virtual switches with a single adapter each, dedicating one virtual switch for Management, vMotion, vSAN and Fault Tolerance traffic, and the second one for virtual machine traffic

D. Use a NIC teaming policy based on the physical NIC load

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).

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 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 architect is finalizing the design for a new vSphere platform based on the following information:
✑ All Windows virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster for licensing purposes.
✑ All Linux virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster for licensing purposes.
✑ All management virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster.
✑ A total of ten physical sites will be used to host virtual machines.
✑ In the event of one physical datacenter becoming unavailable, the manageability of the virtual infrastructure in the remaining data centers should not be impacted.
✑ Access to configure the management virtual machines via vCenter Server must be controlled through the management Active Directory domain.
✑ Access to configure the Windows and Linux virtual machines must be controlled through the resource Active Directory domain.
✑ The management and resource Active Directory domains are part of separate Active Directory forests and do not have any trusts between them.
The design will use Active Directory with Integrated Windows Authentication.
 
How should the architect document the vCenter Server configuration for this design?

A. Deploy a vCenter server for the management cluster. Deploy a vCenter Server for all remaining clusters. Create a shared SSO domain for each physical site.

B. Deploy a vCenter Server for the management cluster. Deploy a vCenter Server for all remaining clusters. Create a shared SSO domain across all physical sites.

C. Deploy a vCenter Server for the management cluster with a dedicated SSO domain. Deploy a vCenter Server for all remaining clusters and use a dedicated SSO domain for each physical site.

D. Deploy a vCenter Server for the management cluster with a dedicated SSO domain. Deploy a vCenter Server for all remaining clusters and use a dedicated SSO domain into a single physical site.

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

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 is designing a new vSphere cluster. The requirement is to provide a total of 96 CPU cores and 1.5 TB RAM across all hosts.
The following information has been provided:
✑ Two different physical hardware profiles are available for the ESXi hosts in the cluster.
- Profile 1: 16 CPU cores and 256 GB RAM
- Profile 2: 32 CPU cores and 512 GB RAM
✑ Profile 2 is twice as expensive to purchase as Profile 1.
Which two aspects should the architect consider when selecting the hardware profile? (Choose two.)

A. The manufacturer and model of the CPUs in the hosts

B. The amount of capacity available for failover of virtual machines within the cluster

C. The downtime allowed for virtual machines that will be running within the cluster

D. The cost to procure and maintain the hardware

E. The number of virtual machines that will be running within the cluster

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

Refer to the exhibit.
During a requirements gathering workshop, the architect shares the following diagram:
 
What should the architect recommend for guaranteed throughput for each service?

A. Use explicit failover order with pNIC0 as Active for ESXi Management and VM Network Use explicit failover order with pNIC1 as Active for backup network Use explicit failover order with pNIC2 as Active for vMotion Use explicit failover order with pNIC3 as Active for replication

B. Use the Route Based on IP Hash for ESXi management and VM network Use the Route Based on IP Hash for backup network Use the Route Based on the Originating Virtual Port for vMotion Use failover with pNIC3 as Active for replication

C. Create a link aggregation group (LAG) for vDS_01 Use the Route Based on Physical NIC Load for vMotion Use the Route Based on Physical NIC Load for replication

D. Use the Route Based on IP Hash for ESXi management and VM network Use failover with pNIC1 as Active for backup network Create a link aggregation group (LAG) for vDS_02

An architect is tasked with designing a greenfield VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution that will be used to deliver a private cloud service for a customer.
During the initial meeting with the service owner and business sponsor, the customer has provided the following information to help inform the design:
✑ The solution must support the concurrent running of 1,000 virtual machines
✑ The production environment must be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers
✑ All virtual machines must be capable of running in either data center.
✑ The two data centers are currently connected to each other through a single but diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency link.
✑ The link between the two data centers is capable of supporting a round-trip time (RTT) of 150 ms
✑ The existing server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be deployed using vSAN ReadyNodes
✑ The service owner has stated that it is critical to ensure the availability target of 99.9%
✑ All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service
✑ The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is five minutes
✑ The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is four hours
Which two elements represent risks to the successful delivery of this solution? (Choose two.)

A. The use of only two data centers

B. The network connectivity between data center sites

C. The use of vSAN ReadyNodes

D. The RTT on the link between the two data centers

E. The use of the existing backup service

Refer to the exhibit.
During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer shares the following diagram regarding their availability service-level agreements (SLAs):
 
The customer wants database application level availability to always take precedence.
What should the architect recommend to meet the customer's requirement?

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

B. Enable Fault Tolerance.

C. Enable Sphere HA and maintain the default settings.

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

An architect is designing a new vSphere platform to meet a list of requirements from the security team.
Which two requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Migration of virtual machines between hosts must be encrypted

B. Log information must be verbose to support incident resolution

C. Critical events generated within the platform must be logged to an external Syslog service

D. Data integrity must be ensured

E. A common content library must be maintained across all data centers

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 statements are true about gathering functional business and application requirements? (Choose two.)

A. It focuses on functional requirements with C-level stakeholders

B. It leverages a single set of questions for all stakeholders

C. It might require multiple rounds of stakeholder interviews

D. It builds stakeholder consensus

E. It is a non-iterative process

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

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 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.

During a requirements gathering workshop to design a physical to virtual migration, the customer provides the following information:
✑ There is no physical firewall in the data center with no anticipated plans for a future network refresh.
✑ Leveraging the virtual infrastructure to mitigate the lack of network security must be addressed in the design.
✑ All physical servers to be migrated exist on the same VLAN.
Which recommendation should the architect make to address the customer requirement with regard to virtual networking?
A.
✑ Split the virtual machines into several VLANs
✑ Use tag actions
B.
✑ Create port groups with different names and same VLAN IDs
✑ Enable traffic shaping for ingress and egress traffic
C.
✑ Enable traffic filtering and marking
✑ Use allow or drop actions
D.
Disable traffic filtering and marking
 
✑ Use tag actions

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 VMware solution for a customer to meet the following requirements:
✑ 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 32G fabric infrastructure.
✑ There is no budget for additional physical hardware.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet these requirements?

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

B. The ESXi hosts will leverage iSCSI.

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

D. The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS.

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

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).

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.

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 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

In a meeting to discuss the minimum viable product (MVP) deployment of a new customer-facing application, the key stakeholder shares details of the application components and the application administrators share details of performance and integrity tests for the application.
The application will be made up of the following components:
A web server -
 
- Steps to confirm the web server is operating correctly will take 15 minutes after the application server is online.
✑ An application server
- Steps to confirm application server integrity will take 15 minutes after the database is online.
✑ A database server
- The database server will be managed by a database administrator, with an agreed service-level agreement (SLA) to restore and validate database services within one hour.
The existing VMware infrastructure offers a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 minutes and recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes through a combination of backups and replication.
In the event of an outage impacting all three application components, how long will it take for the application to recover and complete all checks?

A. 15 minutes

B. 60 minutes

C. 105 minutes

D. 90 minutes

An architect is designing the expansion of an existing vSphere 7 environment. The customer is requesting a design for a new cluster to support the anticipated future business growth. The requirements specified for the existing environment design must be considered when designing the new cluster.
The existing design has the following requirements:
✑ REQ01 The environment has an availability target of 99.5% for all infrastructure.
✑ REQ02 The recovery time objective (RTO) for Tier 1 virtual machines is one hour.
✑ REQ03 Windows and Linux virtual machines must reside on separate clusters.
✑ REQ04 Access to the management cluster within the environment must be controlled.
Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a functional requirement?

A. The environment has an availability target of 99.5% for all infrastructure

B. The recovery time objective (RTO) for Tier 1 virtual machines is one hour

C. Access to the management cluster within the environment must be controlled

D. Windows and Linux virtual machines must reside on separate clusters

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 tasked with expanding an existing VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution so that it can be used to deliver a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service off-shore development activities.
The production environment is currently delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers. The two data centers are currently connected to each other through multiple diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency links. The current operations management components are deployed to a dedicated management cluster that is configured with N+1 redundancy. The current VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) has a monthly availability target of 99.5%, which includes all management components.
The customer requires that the new solution scale to support the concurrent running of 500 persistent virtual desktops. The virtual desktops must not share the same virtual infrastructure as existing virtual machines, but can be managed using the same VMware operations management components. Any new VDI service management components must be installed into the management cluster. There is no requirement to back up the virtual desktops because all relevant user data is stored centrally. The VDI service is providing business critical services and must have an availability target of 99.9%.
Given the information from the customer, which two assumptions would the architect include in the design? (Choose two.)

A. The existing virtual infrastructure has sufficient capacity to host the new VDI workloads

B. The existing operations monitoring tools have sufficient capacity to monitor the new VDI services

C. The existing management cluster has enough available capacity to host any VDI service management component

D. The management cluster has N+1 redundancy

E. The VDI service has a higher service-level agreement (SLA) than the operations management SLA

An architect is designing a new greenfield environment with 600 ESXi hosts in an automated fashion. The engineering department already has a PXE Boot server,
TFTP server, and DHCP server set up with an NFS mount for their current Linux servers.
The architect must be able to demonstrate and meet a security requirement to have all infrastructure processes separated.
Which recommendation should the architect make for the ESXi host deployment?

A. Request an isolated network segment to use and dedicate it to Auto Deploy functions

B. Ask the business to expand the engineering environment to service the virtual environment as well

C. Request a common shared network with flexible security measures to accommodate different auto deployment options

D. Deploy each ESXi host individually and document it to satisfy security requirements

The architect for a large enterprise is tasked with reviewing a proposed design created by a service partner.
Which design elements are expected to be detailed within the physical design section of the documentation?

A. A design diagram illustrating the configuration and specific attributes, such as IP addresses

B. A list of requirements, constraints, and risks

C. A solution architecture diagram with the components and data flow

D. An entity relationship diagram describing upstream and downstream dependencies for specific service components

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

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.

An architect is designing a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution based on the following customer requirements:
✑ The solution must initially support 1,000 virtual machines
✑ The solution must scale to support the concurrent running of up to 5,000 virtual machines
✑ The production environment should be delivered across two data centers
✑ The solution should have a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of four hours
✑ The solution should have a monthly service availability target of 99.8%
Which two assumptions could the architect make based on the information from the customer to help size the solution? (Choose two.)

A. The number of vSphere hosts in a cluster

B. The average resource utilization of a virtual machine

C. The size (CPU/RAM/storage) of the average virtual machine

D. The guest operating system for each virtual machine

E. The size (CPU/RAM/storage) of the vSphere hosts

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 customer is deploying a new cluster and wants to be able to patch and update two hosts in parallel. The cluster must be able to maintain N+1 resiliency across the remaining hosts while patching activities are performed. The current expected utilization of the platform requires a minimum of two hosts to support all of the virtual machines.
What is the minimum number of hosts the customer will require in the cluster in order to meet the required resiliency level?

A. Five

B. Six

C. Four

D. Seven

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

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

Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a recoverability non-functional requirement?

A. The platform must be integrated with existing change control policies.

B. The platform must be able to support a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of 30 minutes.

C. Maintenance windows must be scheduled to take place monthly during an established overnight period.

D. The platform must be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the exception of scheduled downtime.

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

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 organization's existing vSphere environments are configured for Enhanced Linked Mode. The DevOps team automates the creation of hardened virtual machine images for various operating systems. Their continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline runs a task at the end of a successful build, which uploads the Open Virtualization Format (OV) image to a sandbox content library, deploys a virtual machine from the image, and then destroys these objects after quality checks are complete.
The following requirements have been noted:
✑ All content libraries and images must be centrally created and managed.
✑ All images must be capable of being updated.
✑ All images must be refreshed and available to subscribed libraries within 24 hours.
✑ All images must provide details of the image contents and versions.
✑ All images must be capable of being reverted to a previous version.
✑ All images must be capable of having the hardware and guest operating system customized during deployment.
Which three recommendations should the architect make to design a content library solution that will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

A. Create a local content library in the primary vSphere environment and enable publishing.

B. Create and publish a new subscription to a new subscriber library for each target vSphere environment.

C. Deploy the OVF images to vSphere and clone as an OVF template to a local content library.

D. Deploy the OVF images to vSphere and clone as a VM template to a local content library.

E. Edit the Auto Sync Refresh Interval advanced setting for each subscribed library.

F. Add a new subscriber library from each vSphere environment.

An architect is designing a new vSphere environment with the following resources:
✑ 600 vCPU
✑ 5,760 GB RAM
Average resource usage is:
✑ 60 vCPU
✑ 1,152 GB RAM
The design must meet the following requirements:
✑ The environment has the ability to burst by 25%.
✑ Each host can schedule 36 vCPUs and has 512 GB RAM.
✑ Management overhead is 20%.
What is the minimum number of hosts required to meet the design requirements?

A. Three

B. Five

C. Four

D. Two

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 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

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

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.