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1. What is the purpose of creating a vCenter Server logical design?

2. What does gathering and analyzing non-functional requirements involve?

3. Which type of requirement focuses on the processing power and resources needed by the system?

4. 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?

5. An architect is designing a solution for an environment with a limited number of operating system licenses.

How should the architect design the virtual infrastructure to meet the operating system license requirements?

6. What is the primary function of vCenter Server in a vSphere environment?

7. 1.Following a recent acquisition, an architect needs to merge IT assets into its current data center. The combined vSphere environment will need to run the newly acquired company’s virtual machines.

Network integration work has already been completed and the current environment has capacity to host all virtual machines. The Operations team needs to identify which virtual machines belong to the acquired company and report on their usage.

How should the architect merge the company’s assets and virtual machines?

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. In a vSphere environment, what is the purpose of a virtual switch (vSwitch)?

11. 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.)

12. 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?

13. 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?

14. Which type of requirements describe specific tasks or operations that a system must perform?

15. In a vSphere environment, what is the purpose of a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity rule?

16. What does a network requirement specify?

17. 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?

18. Which vSphere feature allows an administrator to reduce the storage consumption of virtual machines by reclaiming blocks of unused storage space on a VMFS datastore?

19. Which of the following best describes the conceptual elements of a design?

20. What are non-functional requirements in the context of a vSphere design?

21. 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.)

22. What is the purpose of a virtual data center design?

23. 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.)

24. Why are disaster recovery requirements essential for a vSphere design?

25. Which of the following is an example of a non-functional requirement?

26. Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as manageability non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

27. What is the primary purpose of creating a vSphere cluster logical design?

28. 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.)

29. Which of the following is a primary architectural component of VMware vSphere 7.x that provides the abstraction of physical resources and enables virtual machine mobility?

30. How are workload and management clusters different?

31. During the troubleshooting process, a vSphere administrator identifies that a virtual machine has lost network connectivity.

Which log file should be checked on the ESXi host for network-related issues?

32. What do risks in the context of design refer to?

33. As part of a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirements for the design of a new greenfield virtual infrastructure:

- Some applications have a latency that must be less than 5 minutes.

- The solution must be able to support a workload growth rate of 10% per year.

Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

34. What is the minimum number of ESXi hosts required to create a vSphere vSAN cluster?

35. An application owner is concerned about their front-end web servers suffering an outage in the event of a host failure.

Which functional requirement could the architect include in the application design to mitigate this concern?

36. What do workload design requirements focus on?

37. 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?

38. 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?

39. 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 asneeded 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?

40. What are workload design requirements related to?

41. An architect is designing a solution based on the following information:

- Each ESXi host has a single physical NIC with two 10 Gbps ports.

- There is a performance-based service-level agreement (SLA) that guarantees 15 Gbps bandwidth for production virtual machines at all times.

- There is no budget to purchase additional hardware.

- The hardware replacement SLA is based on a delivery agreement of two business days.

Which recommendation for the configuration of vSphere High Availability (HA) should the architect include in the design?

42. Which requirement focuses on the uninterrupted operation of the vSphere environment during disruptions?

43. 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?

44. 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.)

45. What do logical elements in a design represent?

46. What are assumptions in the context of design?

47. What does determining compliance requirements for a vSphere design involve?

48. During a transformation project kick-off meeting, an architect highlights specific areas on which to focus while developing the new conceptual design.

Which two of the listed statements are business requirements? (Choose two.)

49. 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?

50. Which of the following is a functional requirement?

51. 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.)

52. When configuring a vSphere High Availability (HA) cluster, which network redundancy option is recommended to ensure the availability of HA functionality even during a single network link failure?

53. What is the main focus of determining disaster recovery requirements for a vSphere design?

54. 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.)

55. What does evaluating storage protocols in a given scenario involve?