Advanced Design VMware vSphere 7.x

Q61. 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.

Hint answer: D

Q62. 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

Hint answer: C

Q63. 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

Hint answer: D

Q64. 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.

Hint answer: A

Q65. 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

Hint answer: D

Q66. A customer defines a requirement to minimize the vMotion migration time during a maintenance period. The servers being used are equipped with eight 1 GbE network adapters.
Per the defined logical network configuration, there are two network adapters each used for:
✑ Management traffic
✑ vMotion traffic
✑ iSCSI traffic
✑ Virtual machine traffic
Which design decision should the architect make to meet the customer requirement?

A. Use Network I/O Control to define a reservation for vMotion traffic.
B. Implement Multi-NIC vMotion by adding additional vMotion VMkernels.
C. Configure a dedicated TCP/IP stack for vMotion traffic.
D. Combine vMotion and Management traffic to make use of four adapters.

Hint answer: B

Q67. 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

Hint answer: C

Q68. 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).

Hint answer: C

Q69. 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

Hint answer: B

Q70. A Cloud Service Provider wants to introduce backup as a service for a customer’s vSphere-based virtual machines.
The following information is noted:
✑ They have a single four-port (2 ֳ— 10 GbE and 2 ֳ— 1 GbE) NIC per ESXi host
✑ All top-of-rack (ToR) switches are 10 GbE and fully populated
✑ The backup traffic must not impact existing services
Which two recommendations should the architect make to help the customer incorporate the service? (Choose two.)

A. Enable and tag traffic on the backup distributed port group
B. Add a new two-port 10 GbE NIC per ESXi host
C. Replace the existing NIC with a two-port 25 GbE NIC per ESXi host
D. Match the Class of Service (CoS) and Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) values to the physical network
E. Create a new virtual switch using the 1 GbE uplinks

Hint answer: A D

Q71. 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

Hint answer: A

Q72. 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

Hint answer: C

Q73. 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

Hint answer: A

Q74. 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%

Hint answer: B D

Q75. 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

Hint answer: A

Q76. There is a request for approved virtual machine applications through a new vSphere platform’s integrated automation portal. The platform was built following all provided company security guidelines and has been assessed against Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) regulations.
The platform has the following characteristics:
✑ vRealize Operations is being used to monitor all clusters.
✑ There is a dedicated ESXi cluster, supporting all management services.
– All network traffic is via distributed virtual switches (DVS).
✑ There is a dedicated ESXi cluster for all line-of-business applications.
– Network traffic is serviced by NSX-T.
✑ There is a dedicated ESXi cluster for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
– Network traffic is serviced by NSX-T.
The application owner is requesting approval to install a new service that must be protected as per the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.
Which additional non-functional requirement should the architect include in the design to support the new service?

A. The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machines must be assessed against Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard compliance.
B. The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machines must be assessed for SOX compliance.
C. The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machine network traffic must be routed via NSX-T.
D. The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machines must be monitored using the vRealize Operations Compliance Pack for Payment Card Industry.

Hint answer: D

Q77. 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.

Hint answer: A D

Q78. 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

Hint answer: C

Q79. An architect is preparing a design for a customer. Based on requirements, the architect recommends an HCI-based infrastructure with all-flash architecture. During the assessment, it is confirmed that the network throughput generated by virtual machines does not exceed 150 Mb/s.
What is the minimum number and type of network adapters in each server that the architect can recommend to ensure requirements are met and there is no single point of failure?

A. Two 1 GbE network adapters per server
B. Four 1 GbE network adapters per server
C. Four 10 GbE network adapters per server
D. Two 10 GbE network adapters per server

Hint answer: D

Q80. 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

Hint answer: A

Q81. 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)

Hint answer: C

Q82. 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.

Hint answer: B

Q83. 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

Hint answer: A

Q84. 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

Hint answer: C D

Q85. 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

Hint answer: C

Q86. 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

Hint answer: A B

Q87. 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.
C

Q88. 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

Hint answer: B

Q89. 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

Hint answer: A E

Q90. 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

Hint answer: C E

Q91. 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

Hint answer: B E

Q92. 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

Hint answer: D

Q93. 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

Hint answer: B

Q94. 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.

Hint answer: A B

Q95. 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

Hint answer: A E

Q96. An architect is preparing a design for a company planning digital transformation. During the requirements gathering workshop, the following requirements (REQ) and constraints (CON) are identified:
✑ REQ01 The platform must host different types of workloads including applications that must be compliant with internal security standard.
✑ REQ02 The infrastructure must initially run 100 virtual machines.
✑ REQ03 Ten of the virtual machines must be compliant with internal security standard.
✑ REQ04 The internal security standard specifies logical network separation for in-scope applications.
✑ CON01 The customer has already purchased the licenses as part of another project.
✑ CON02 The customer has five physical servers that must be reused.
Additionally, based on resource requirements, four physical servers will be enough to run all workloads.
Which recommendation should the architect make to meet requirements while minimizing project costs?

A. Use Network I/O Control to ensure the internal security zone has higher share value
B. Purchase additional servers and plan separate, isolated clusters for workloads that must be compliant with internal security
C. Use a single cluster and ensure that different security zones are separated at least with dedicated VLANs and firewall
D. Use a single cluster and configure DRS anti-affinity rules to ensure internal security compliant virtual machines cannot migrate between ESXi hosts.

Hint answer: C

Q97. 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

Hint answer: B

Q98. 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).

Hint answer: D

Q99. 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

Hint answer: D

Q100. 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

Hint answer: C

Q101. 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

Hint answer: C

Q102. 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

Hint answer: D E

Q103. An architect is planning the physical server configuration for a vSAN-based infrastructure.
Which operations mode should a RAID controller support to minimize potential server downtime during physical disk failures?

A. RAID controller with Passthru mode
B. RAID controller with RAID 5 mode
C. RAID controller with RAID 10 mode
D. RAID controller with RAID 6 mode

Hint answer: A

Q104. A customer requires the use of data encryption to ensure data is not accessible when a drive is removed from the primary storage platform. However, there is also a requirement to use deduplication and compression against all workloads in order to conserve space.
Which solution meets the customer requirements?

A. Data-in-transit encryption
B. OS-level encryption
C. Encrypted backups
D. Array-based encryption

Hint answer: D

Q105. A VMware Service Provider is tasked with delivering a solution for continuous availability for a subset of Tier 1 virtual machines (VMs) and vApps running in their vSAN environment. The VMs make up a mission-critical application and there can be no data loss in the event of an outage at their primary data center. In the event of a regional outage, they have established a 10-minute recovery point objective (RPO). Failover/failback to the third site must be automated.
They have the following in place:
✑ Two local data centers (primary and secondary) connected with 100 Gb dedicated fiber
– 2ms round-trip time (RTT) latency between the sites
✑ A third data center located on another power grid
– 70ms latency between the primary and secondary data centers
✑ Matching storage arrays at all locations
Which two solutions could be used to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Site Recovery Manager
B. Snapshots
C. vSAN Metro Cluster
D. vSphere Data Protection
E. vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)

Hint answer: A C

Q106. 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

Hint answer: A

Q107. 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

Hint answer: A