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Q1. 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
Q2. 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.
Q3. 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.
Q4. An architect is designing a series of new vSphere environments for an organization. The environments will be deployed in their US-East and US-West region data centers. Each data center may have one or more dedicated vSphere environments. Only the vSphere environments within a data center will be configured with
Enhanced Linked Mode. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has authorized the use of VMware vRealize Automation Cloud for automation. The build team creates standardized virtual machine images for various operating systems in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and publishes the latest version on an as-needed basis to an internal HTTPS-accessible repository.
The architect must design a content library topology that meets the following requirements:
✑ A localized content library must be available in each data center.
Each content library must be updated when an image is updated and released by the build team.
✑ The cloud automation platform must be able to consume the latest approved content library images.
✑ It must leverage the existing build team processes.
What should the architect recommend to meet the requirements?
A. Work with the build team to create a local content library for each vSphere environment. Import the OVF images when new image are published to the repository.
B. Create a local content library for the primary vSphere environment in each data center. Create a subscribed content library for each additional vSphere environment in each data center. Configure the content library to download content automatically.
C. Work with the build team to automate a JSON-based manifest to the repository when changes occur in the repository. Create a subscribed content library for each vSphere environment. Configure the content library to download content when needed.
D. Work with the build team to automate a JSON-based manifest to the repository when changes occur in the repository. Create a subscribed content library for each vSphere environment. Configure the content library to download content automatically.
Q5. 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 automatically restarted in the event of host failure regardless of available resources
✑ 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.
Q6. 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
Q7. 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
Q8. 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
Q9. 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
Q10. 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)
Q11. 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
Q12. 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%
Q13. 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.
Q14. 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.
Q15. 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
