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Question 1

Single choice

An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The solution will be used to host workloads that have multiple dependencies. The customer provides the following information regarding the workloads:

Workload 1: Self-Service Portal

Workload 2: Database

Workload 3: Identity Broker

Workload 4: Reporting Tool

Workload 5: Management Tool

Application A is formed of workloads 1 and 2 and has a dependency on workload 3

Application B is formed of workloads 2 and 4 and has a dependency on workload 3

Application C is formed of workload 5 and has a dependency on workload 4

How should the architect document the vSphere HA requirements to ensure that all of the applications can be recovered in the event of a host failure while observing the dependencies?

A.

Set vSphere HA to Restart VMs in response to a Host Failure Set the Restart Priority of workload 3 to High
Set the Restart Priority of workload 4 to Medium Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1, 2 and 5 to Low

B.

Set vSphere HA to Shut Down and Restart VMs in response to a Host Isolation Set the Restart Priority of workloads 3 and 4 to High
Set the Restart Priority of workload 5 to Medium Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1 and 2 to Low

C.

Set vSphere HA to Restart VMs in response to a Host Failure Set the Restart Priority of workloads 3 and 4 to High
Set the Restart Priority of workload 5 to Medium Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1 and 2 to Low

D.

Set vSphere HA to Shut Down and Restart VMs in response to a Host Isolation Set the Restart Priority of workload 3 to High
Set the Restart Priority of workloads 4 and 5 to Medium Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1 and 2 to
Low

Question 2

Single choice

An architect is updating the design for a vSphere environment.

During a workshop focused on security, the following has been identified:

It has been determined that any configuration of ESXi hosts can only be completed via VMware vCenter

The Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) service must be disabled on ESXi hosts

The SSH service must be disabled on ESXi hosts Based on the information from the workshop, which element does the architect need to include in the design?

A.

Strict Lockdown Mode

B.

Normal Lockdown Mode

C.

Normal Lockdown Mode with a defined Exception User list

D.

Strict Lockdown Mode with a defined Exception User list

Question 3

Multiple choice

An architect is responsible for the lifecycle management design for a brownfield vSphere-based solution.

The following information has been provided during initial meetings around the new solution:

Existing heterogeneous server hardware will be used to provide the hosting platform.

The available hardware is:

-- 10 servers that contain 2 x 20-Core Intel Xeon processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor A -- 10 servers that contain 2 x 24-Core Intel Xeon processors and 768 GB RAM from Vendor A -- 20 servers that contain 2 x 16-Core AMD EPYC processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor B
-- 10 servers that contain 1 x 24-Core AMD EPYC processors and 256 GB RAM from Vendor C

All of the hardware is currently listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).

All existing server hardware has 36 months vendor support remaining.

The requirements from the customer are:

REQ001 - The solution must support the hosting of 5,000 workloads across two physical sites.
REQ002 - The solution should minimize the number of clusters.
REQ003 - The solution must ensure that there is no impact to service when completing upgrades.

Given the resource requirements needed for the solution, the architect has calculated that all of the existing servers will be required to provide sufficient resources for the new environment. The Intel-based servers will be deployed to the primary site and the AMD-based servers will be deployed to the secondary site.

Which four additional design decisions should the architect make to ensure all requirements can be met? (Choose four.)

A.

The solution will create an Intel-based 20-node vSphere cluster in the primary site and an AMD-based 30-node vSphere cluster in the secondary site.

B.

The solution will use VMware SDDC Manager to perform lifecycle management of the solution.

C.

The solution will ensure each vSphere cluster supports a minimum of N + 1 redundancy.

D.

The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager images to update and upgrade vSphere ESXi hosts in the secondary site.

E.

The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager baselines to perform patching and upgrading of vSphere ESXi hosts in the secondary site.

F.

The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager images to update and upgrade vSphere ESXi hosts in the primary site.

G.

The solution will ensure each vSphere cluster is configured with Distributed Power Management (DPM).

Question 4

Multiple choice

Following a review of security requirements, an architect has confirmed the following requirements:

REQ001- A clustered firewall solution must be placed at the perimeter of the hosting platform, and all ingress and egress network traffic will route via this device.
REQ002- A distributed firewall solution must secure traffic for all virtualized workloads.
REQ003- All virtualized workload, hypervisor, firewall and any management component system events must be monitored by security administrators.
REQ004- The hosting platforms security information and event management (SIEM) system must be scalable to 20,000 events per second.
REQ005- The hosting platforms storage must be configured with data-at-rest encryption.
REQ006- The hosting platform limits access to authorized users.

Which three requirements would be classified as technical (formerly non-functional) requirements? (Choose three.)

A.

A clustered firewall solution must be placed at the perimeter of the hosting platform, and all ingress and egress network traffic will route via this device.

B.

A distributed firewall solution must secure traffic for all virtualized workloads.

C.

The hosting platforms security information and event management (SIEM) system must be scalable to
20,000 events per second.

D.

The hosting platforms storage must be configured with data-at-rest encryption.

E.

The hosting platform limits access to authorized users.

F.

All virtualized workload, hypervisor, firewall and any management component system events must be monitored by security administrators.

Question 5

Multiple choice

What are two benefits of the VMware Validated Solutions? (Choose two.)

A.

Provide prescriptive runbooks to deploy VMware solutions

B.

Provide comprehensive manual deployment guidance and day 2 operational practices

C.

Provide best practice design guidance

D.

Provide faster time to value for VMware Cloud Foundation

E.

Deploy technical validated implementations on VMware Cloud Foundation

Question 6

Multiple choice

An architect is responsible for the following customer considerations in a hardware refresh:

Capacity planning will ensure that the environment does not exceed 70% of peak-average utilization on deployment.

CPU purchases will favor clock speed and last level cache over cores per socket.

Additional ESXi hosts will be added to the cluster when CPU or memory utilization exceeds 70% for 3 consecutive business days.

Path Selection policy will be set to round robin and set to switch paths with every SCSI command.

vCPU to pCPU ratio may not exceed 5:1.

What are three considerations when designing for performance? (Choose three.)

A.

Path Selection policy will be set to round robin and set to switch paths with every SCSI command.

B.

vCPU to pCPU ratio may not exceed 5:1.

C.

Capacity planning will ensure that the environment does not exceed 70% of peak-average utilization on deployment.

D.

All ESXi hosts must have four paths to the storage array.

E.

CPU purchases will favor clock speed and last level cache over cores per socket.

F.

Additional ESXi hosts will be added to the cluster when CPU or memory utilization exceeds 70% for 3 consecutive business days.

Question 7

Single choice

An architect is holding a requirements workshop with a customer for a new vSphere solution design. The customer states that the solution should make it easy to identify and apply patches or updates to ESXi hosts, including the ability to pre-stage the files on the ESXi hosts.

Which design quality is being referenced by the customer?

A.

Recoverability

B.

Manageability

C.

Performance

D.

Availability

Question 8

Single choice

An architect is designing a new hosting platform for a healthcare provider with proposed locations in three regional areas.

The following set of requirements have been provided by key stakeholders:

REQ001 - The hosting platform must support long distance vMotion between the primary and secondary site.

REQ002 - The maximum RTT (round-trip time) latency between the primary site and the secondary site must be less than 150 milliseconds.

REQ003 - The hosting platform must be manageable from assets located in the third site.

REQ004 - Each location must scale to support a minimum of 35TB storage.

Which requirement would be classified as a technical (formerly non-functional) requirement for the new hosting platform?

A.

Each location must scale to support a minimum of 35TB storaqe.

B.

The maximum RTT (round-trip time) latency between the primary and secondary site must be less than
150 milliseconds.

C.

The hosting platform must be manageable from assets located in the third site.

D.

The hosting platform must support long distance vMotion between the primary and secondary site.

Question 9

Multiple choice

An architect has made the following assumptions:

The customer will provide licensing for the vSphere platform.

The storage hardware has sufficient capacity for future workload scale.

The data center offers sufficient power, cooling and rack space for workload scale.

Which two risks must be documented in the design document in response to these assumptions? (Choose two.)

A.

The assumptions must be approved by the customer, architect and the architect's company.

B.

The storage may not have capacity to accommodate 20% year over year virtual machine growth.

C.

The licenses provided by the customer only have support entitlement for one year.

D.

The customer may not have an existing licensing subscription that covers features the architect intends to use.

E.

The customer may not have sufficient data center cooling, power, and physical rack space available.

Question 10

Single choice

An architect is designing a new vSphere architecture and notes the following information during the design workshops:

vSphere distributed switches (VDS) will be used for all vSphere clusters. Switch naming will be based on cluster name, resource type function and switch number.

Port group naming will be based on function, role and VLAN number range.

Each host has two physical network cards each with two NIC ports:

- Card A aligns to vmnic0 and vmnic1
- Card B aligns to vmnic2 and vmnic3

The architecture must provide resilient network connections.

Management Services will use VLAN ID 43.

Virtual machines access VLAN ID 100.

The vSphere infrastructure will use a hyper-converged storage architecture.

How should the architect document the VDS physical design based on the noted information?

A.

vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 2 uplinks Port group name "pg_mgmt_43"
- uplink = vmnic0
- teaming policy = active/passive
Port group name "pg_VM_100"
- uplink = vmnic1
- teaming policy = active/passive

B.

vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks Port group name "pg_mgmt_43"
- uplink = vmnic0, vmnic2
- teaming policy = active/passive
Port group name "pg_VM_100"
- uplink = vmnic1, vmnic3
- teaming policy = active/passive

C.

vSwitch
Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks Port group name "pg_mgmt_43"
- uplink = vmnic0, vmnic1
- teaming policy = active/passive
Port group name "pg_VM_100"
- uplink = vmnic2, vmnic3
- teaming policy = active/passive

D.

vSwitch
Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks Port group name "pg_mgmt"
- uplink = vmnic0, vmnic2
- teaming policy = active/passive
Port group name "pg_VM"
- uplink = vmnic1, vmnic3
- teaming policy = active/passive

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