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

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.

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

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) at an organization raises concerns that their virtual infrastructure environment is vulnerable. Recently, a security-related issue with a virtual machine caused all management services to become unavailable. No budget is available in the short term for additional platform investment. An architect is asked to review the current environment and make recommendations to mitigate concerns.
A virtualization administrator has provided the following details:
✑ There is a single four node cluster of ESXi servers
✑ There are two, Layer 2, physical network switches connecting resources
✑ The data center network is presented as a single /16 subnet
Given the information provided, which functional requirement should the architect include in the design to mitigate the COOs concerns?

A. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to new physical network switches

B. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate distributed virtual switches (DVS)

C. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate VLANs

D. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect management services to a vSphere standard switch (VSS)

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 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 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

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

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 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)

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 tasked with designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution for an online retail customer who has a primary and secondary data center as well as 10 distribution hubs.
The customer has provided the following business requirements to help inform the design:
✑ The solution must support the running of up to 1,000 concurrent virtual machines across the primary and secondary data center.
✑ The solution must support the running of up to 20 concurrent virtual machines in each distribution hub.
✑ The solution must support the separation of management and lines-of-business application virtual machines.
✑ All management components (including directory services, backup, automation, operations and logging) must be deployed to the primary data center.
✑ All virtual infrastructure components must have redundancy of N+1.
✑ All sites are connected to each other using a wide area network that has multiple diversely routed links.
✑ The solution should support a monthly uptime target of 99.9%.
✑ The recovery time objective (RTO) for the solution must be four hours.
✑ The recovery point objective (RPO) for the solution must be 24 hours.
Given the information from the customer, which assumption should the architect include in the design?

A. All business application virtual machines can be deployed into a single cluster within the primary data center.

B. Each distribution hub should be configured with a backup device.

C. The wide area network has sufficient bandwidth to support centralized management.

D. Each cluster will have a minimum of four hosts.

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

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 initially support the concurrent running of 300 production and 600 development virtual machines.
✑ The production environment should be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers.
✑ The development environment must be vSphere-based but does not have to be deployed on-premises.
✑ The two data centers are connected to each other through multiple diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency links.
✑ The customer's server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be based on blade architecture only.
✑ The service owner has said that is important to ensure that neither the availability target of 99.5% nor the resource capacity is affected when the operations team completes maintenance activities, such as the monthly software patching and ad-hoc hardware break/fix.
✑ All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service.
✑ The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is four hours.
✑ The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is 24 hours.
Given the information from the customer, which two would be classified as assumptions within the design? (Choose two.)

A. The backup service will store data in a secure facility

B. The backup service has sufficient capacity for the new requirements

C. The customer will update their hardware standard to support rack mount servers

D. All virtual machines will be deployed with the same resource profile for production and development

E. The clusters will have a minimum redundancy of N+1

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 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

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.

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 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 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 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

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

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.

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 designing a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
✑ The environment must support 5,000 virtual machines.
✑ The environment will be built initially using 350 hosts.
Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?

A. Large

B. Small

C. Tiny

D. Medium

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.

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.

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

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 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.

A customer has a database cluster with 40/60 read/write ratio and a high IOPs requirement with no contention on an all-flash vSAN cluster.
Which two storage settings should be configured for best performance? (Choose two.)

A. IOPs limits enabled

B. RAID 1

C. Deduplication and Compression disabled

D. RAID 5/6

E. Deduplication and Compression enabled

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 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 has 50 ESXi hosts to deploy and DHCP servers are not allowed on any network.
Which automated host deployment method should the architect use?

A. Stateless vSphere Auto Deploy

B. Stateful vSphere Auto Deploy

C. Scripted installation

D. Interactive installation

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 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 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

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for an organization is concerned about the security posture of the operating system images that are used for the provisioning of their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The organization is in a growth period. The organization is opening a new data center to launch its next phase of new SaaS-based solutions.
The DevOps team currently creates encrypted virtual machine (VM) templates that are used for various operating systems and adds these to the vSphere inventory. The DevOps team already uses a published content library and has been granted a role with the ability to add and delete library items.
The following requirements have been noted:
✑ Impacts to the DevOps team's operational processes must be kept to a minimum.
✑ The DevOps team must be able to regularly check out a copy of the image for updates and check in a new version of the image.
✑ Images must be synchronized from the primary data center to the new data center.
Which three recommendations should the architect make to design a content library solution that will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

A. Clone virtual machines as VM templates to the published content library

B. Create a subscribed library from the published library and synchronize Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates on-demand

C. Create a subscription and publish VM templates to a subscribed content library

D. Create a subscribed library from the published library and synchronize Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates automatically

E. Clone virtual machines as Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates to the published content library

F. Update the role for the DevOps team with new privileges

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.

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.

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.

A new real-time financial service application is being developed by the engineering team at a financial firm and will be released as a public Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) offering. The solutions architect has designed and deployed a new vSphere environment and the supporting network infrastructure for hosting all public services. ESXi hosts are configured to use Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and a local stratum-1 network time server. Application provisioning and scaling will be managed by VMware vRealize Automation and can be run on Microsoft Windows or multiple distributions of Linux.
Which three recommendations should the architect include in the design to ensure that the service maintain timekeeping within an accuracy of one second?
(Choose three.)

A. Use Microsoft Windows Server as the guest operating system.

B. Configure the chrony time-sync agent on each virtual machine guest operating system.

C. Set the virtual hardware device to use Host System Time (NTP) for each virtual machine running the application.

D. Add a precision clock virtual device to each virtual machine running the application.

E. Use a Linux distribution as the guest operating system.

F. Add a virtual watchdog timer (VWDT) device to each virtual machine running the application.

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

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 a new vSphere platform for a customer to meet the following requirements:
✑ The platform must be deployed into five physically separate sites.
✑ The sites are spread across multiple regions.
✑ Some sites require more than one vCenter Server.
✑ The platform must provide an administrator with the ability to access virtual infrastructure components across all sites from a single management tool instance.
Which single sign-on (SSO) design recommendation will meet these requirements?

A. Use an SSO domain across all vCenter Server instances

B. Use an SSO domain per region

C. Use an SSO domain per vCenter Server instance

D. Use an SSO domain per site

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 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

Refer to the exhibit.
During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer shares the following about their existing ESXi host virtual networking infrastructure:
 
The customer confirms that:
✑ Each ESXi host has approximately 200 virtual machines.
✑ They want to maximize the number of concurrent virtual machine migrations.
✑ When placing a host in maintenance mode, it takes a long time to evacuate the virtual machines.
Which two recommendations should the architect make in order to help the customer overcome their challenge? (Choose two.)

A. Configure the network to use MTU for the VMotion VMKernel to 1,600 bytes

B. Configure the network to use MTU for the VMotion VMKernel to 9,000 bytes

C. Create an additional standard switch with pNIC3 to use for vMotion

D. Use the 3 pNICs and bundle them in a link aggregation group (LAG) configuration

E. Use 10 GbE NICs instead of 1 GbE

A customer has six hosts available in a cluster. When running at full capacity, all virtual machines can be run on two hosts.
How many hosts can the customer place into maintenance mode at the same time while still providing N+2 resiliency to the cluster?

A. Two

B. Three

C. One

D. None

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