1.

An architect is working on a new VMware vSphere design and notes the following
information during interviews with stakeholders
• The company has previously worked with multiple VMware partners.
• The company has an internal security policy that is referenced in long running
contracts.
• The company has an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) with VMware.
• The company has a multi-year cloud subscription agreement.

Which of these is a business factor that will impact this design?

o The company has an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) with VMware.

o The company has an internal security policy that is referenced in long running contracts.
o The company has previously worked with multiple VMware partners.
o The company has a multi-year cloud subscription agreement.

Ans: A or D

2. An architect is reviewing the information gathered from an initial requirements

gathering workshop.

The following requirements have been identified:

* REQ001 - The architecture must support tracking of administrative logons and actions.

* REQ002 - The architecture must support class three (three nines or 99.9%) system
availability.

* REQ003 - The architecture must report on system usage in terms of CPU, memory,
storage and network.

* REQ004 - The architecture must provide for system recovery point objective (RPO) of two
hours.

* REQ005 - The architecture must provide access to a precision time protocol (PTP) for time
synchronization.

Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as business (formerly functional)
requirements? (Choose two.)

▪ The architecture must provide access to a precision time protocol (PTP) for time
synchronization.
▪ The architecture must provide for system recovery point objective (RPO) of two hours.
▪ The architecture must support tracking of administrative logons and actions.
▪ The architecture must support class three (three nines or 99.99) system availability
▪ The architecture must report on system usage in terms of CPU, memory, storage
and network.

Ans: C & E
 3. 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.
• All ESXi hosts must have four paths to the storage array.
• VCPU to pCPU ratio may not exceed 5:1.

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

▪ All ESXi hosts must have four paths to the storage array.
▪ Capacity planning will ensure that the environment does not exceed 70% of peak-
average utilization on deployment.
▪ Additional ESXi hosts will be added to the cluster when CPU or memory utilization exceeds
70% for 3 consecutive business days.
▪ VCPU to pCPU ratio may not exceed 5:1.
▪ Path Selection policy will be set to round robin and set to switch paths with every SCSI
command.
▪ CPU purchases will favor clock speed and last level cache over cores per socket.

Ans: B,D & F

4. An architect is discussing the design of a vSphere solution with a customer. The

following requirements have been defined for the solution:
▪ The solution must provide data encryption at rest.
▪ The solution must provide the ability to reduce the amount of storage
consumed from duplicate data.
▪ The solution must minimize the amount of resources consumed by the
encryption process

The architect has made a design decision that VM Encryption will be used to meet these
requirements.

Which two implications should the architect include in the design in relation to this design
decision? (Choose two.)

▪ Encryption is a CPU-intensive feature. Resource Pools should be used to assign shares to

the encrypted VMs.
▪ Encryption is a CPU-intensive feature. The ESXi hosts should use the AES-NI BIOS
setting to improve the performance of encryption and reduce CPU utilization.
▪ Encryption is a memory-intensive feature. The ESXi hosts should use the AES-NI BIOS
setting to improve the performance of encryption and reduce memory utilization.
 ▪ When data is encrypted by the storage device, the effectiveness of de-duplication on the
storage will be unaffected.
▪ When data is encrypted by the ESXi host, the effectiveness of de-duplication on the
storage may be reduced.
Ans: B & E
5. What are two benefits of the VMware Validated Solutions? (Choose two.)
▪ Provide prescriptive runbooks to deploy VMware solutions.
▪ Deploy technical validated implementations on VMware Cloud Foundation.
▪ Provide faster time to value for VMware Cloud Foundation.
▪ Provide comprehensive manual deployment guidance and day 2 operational
practices.
▪ Provide best practice design guidance.

Ans: A & E
6. An architect is designing a new vSphere-based solution for a customer.
During a requirements gathering workshop, the following information is provided:

• The solution must have a primary and secondary (isolated) environment.

• The solution must support orchestration to address application dependencies.
• The isolated environment must be able to scale on demand in case of a DR
scenario.
• The solution is managed through a single interface.

Which solution should the architect include in this design?

O Site Recovery Manager with dedicated hardware

O vSAN stretched cluster

O Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AWS

O A dedicated fault domain

Ans: C
7. An architect is tasked with creating a design for a vSphere-based solution.

Reviewing requirements with the security team, the architect makes the following
design decision:

• ESXi hosts in the environment will enable shell sandbox for SSH connections and the local
ESXi shell

What is an implication of the design decision to enable shell sandboxing?

O Only administrative accounts can access the sandbox shell

O All commands executed in the sandbox shell will be logged

O Only certain commands can be executed in the sandboxed shell

O The vSphere 8 hosts will operate in strict lockdown mode

Ans: C
8. An architect is reviewing the information provided by a customer for a new vSphere
solution design. The customer has stated that some of the virtual machines (VMs) that
will be hosted on the new solution handle credit card information from their users as
part of an online payment application, and that some of the information will need to be
stored temporarily to allow transactions to be completed. Therefore, the solution must
be designed to be able to mask or hash the stored information as they will need to
show compliance against common industry standards tu contain references to the
requirements for handling sensitive information.

Which design quality is being requested by the customer?

O Performance

O Manageability

O Recoverability

O Security

Ans: D
9. An architect is documenting the design for a new multi-site vSphere solution. The
customer has informed the architect that the workloads hosted on the solution are
managed by application teams, who must perform a number of steps to return the
application to service following a failover of the workloads to the secondary site. These
steps are defined as the Work Recovery Time (WRT). The customer has provided the
architect with the following information about the workloads:

* Critical workloads have a WRT of 12 hours

* Production workloads have a WRT of 24 hours
* Development workloads have a WRT of 24 hours
* All workloads have an RPO of 4 hours
* Critical workloads have an RTO of 1 hour
* Production workloads have an RTO of 12 hours
* Development workloads have an RTO of 24 hours

The customer has also confirmed that the Disaster Recovery solution will not begin the
recovery of the development workloads until all critical and production workloads have been
recovered at
the secondary site.

What would the architect document as the maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) for each type
of workload in the design?

1. * Critical Workloads: 13 hours

* Production Workloads: 36 hours
* Development Workloads: 48 hours

2. * Critical Workloads: 16 hours

* Production Workloads: 28 hours
* Development Workloads: 28 hours

3. * Critical Workloads: 13 hours

* Production Workloads: 36 hours
* Development Workloads: 60 hours

4. * Critical Workloads: 12 hours

* Production Workloads: 24 hours
* Development Workloads: 24 hours
Ans: C
10. What is an example of an availability design quality?

▪ A vSphere cluster is configured to stage patches on ESXi hosts before applying them.

▪ A vSphere cluster is configured to use a dedicated network adapter for vMotion traffic.

▪ A vSphere cluster is configured to support an N+1 level of redundancy.

▪ A vSphere cluster is configured to support a maximum tolerated downtime of one hour.

Ans: C

11. 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

1. * 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

2. * 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

3. * 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

4. * 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

Ans: B
12. 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 B

• 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 spread 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 (Vendor A) servers will be deployed to the primary site and both
the Intel-based and AMD-based servers (Vendor B) will be deployed to the secondary site.
Which assumption should the architect make to support the lifecycle management of vSphere
8?

O The different processor architectures will be located in the same cluster to support vSphere
Lifecycle Manager image-based remediation.
O The different processor architectures across both sites will remediate against a single vSphere
Lifecycle Manager image
O The different processor architectures across both sites will remediate against a shared vSphere
Lifecycle Manager baseline
O The different processor architecture within a single site will remediate against a single
vSphere Lifecycle Manager image
Ans: D
13. An architect is documenting the design for a new vSphere cluster. The customer
provides the following information:
* All ESXi hosts will use hardware from the same vendor.
* All ESXi hosts will be monitored for hardware related issues using the vendor's
monitoring tooling
* the vendor's monitoring tooling provides a plugin for vCenter to allow the hardware
status to be visible
The customer also informs the architect of the following requirements:

• Workloads must be automatically relocated to other hosts in the event that a host hardware
is marked as degraded.
• Workloads must be automatically restarted on other hosts in the event of a host failure

What should the architect include in the design to meet these requirements?

1.* vSphere HA will be enabled and set to Power off and Restart VMs in response to a host isolation.
* Proactive HA will be enabled with an Automation Level of Automated.

2.* vSphere HA will be enabled and set to Power off and Restart VMs in response to a host isolation.
* VM Monitoring will be enabled with a setting of VM Monitoring.

3.* vSphere HA will be enabled and set to restart VMs in response to a host failure.
 * Proactive HA will be enabled with an Automation Level of Automated.

4.* vSphere HA will be enabled and set to restart VMs in response to a host failure.
* VM Monitoring will be enabled with a setting of VM and Application Monitoring.
Ans: C

14. An architect is discussing recoverability considerations for a new vSphere solution as

part of a requirements workshop. The customer has informed the architect that the
company policy is to not perform backups of ESXi hosts due to their selected backup
software not supporting the ESXi software. In the past, when hosts have experienced
failures, the hosts have been reinstalled from the VMware provided ESXi image and
manually configured by an administrator. The customer asks the architect to design a
solution that will reduce the manual effort required by the administrator to return a
failed host to service.

What could the architect include in the design to meet the customer's request?

O Configure ESXi hosts with RAID1 boot volumes

O Configure a host profile per cluster

O Use the ESXI command line to perform backups of the ESXI hosts to a central location

O Create a custom iso image of ESXi and update it each time VMware releases a new update

Ans: B
15. An architect is designing a solution for a customer to meet the following business
objectives:
* Pass compliance audits
* Reuse compute hardware
* Grow by 10% per year
* Move to a subscription-based consumption model

Which business objective translates as a conceptual model constraint?

O Grow by 10% per year

O Move to a subscription-based consumption model

O Pass compliance audits

O Reuse compute hardware

Ans: D
 16. An architect is tasked with designing a new workload domain in an existing VMware
Cloud Foundation environment. The customer requirement is to physically separate
the NSX host overlay network traffic from other management network flows.

Which design decision should the architect make to meet this requirement?

▪ Deploy the new workload domain using SDDC Manager.

▪ Deploy the new workload domain with NSX Federation.

▪ Deploy the new workload domain using multiple physical adapters.

▪ Deploy the new workload domain using API.

Ans:C
17. During a workshop for a design project, the following information is shared:

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and partners to
promote collaboration.
• Maintain high standards of quality and professionalism in all aspects of the project.
• Build a strong foundation for future projects, including cloud infrastructures.
• Ensure project timelines and milestones are met by effectively managing resources
and priorities.

Which of these would be classified as a business outcome of the project?

▪ Maintain high standards of quality and professionalism in all aspects of the project.

▪ Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and partners to promote
collaboration.

▪ Ensure project timelines and milestones are met by effectively managing resources and
priorities.

▪ Build a strong foundation for future projects, including cloud infrastructures.

Ans:D

18. What is an example of a performance design quality?

▪ The solution must support applications with 1,000 transactions per second (TPS).

▪ The solution must support applications with a maximum tolerabie downtime (MTD) of four
hours.
 ▪ The solution must provide 40 physical CPU cores and 20 TB of physical memory.

▪ The solution must scale to meet spikes in CPU demand.

Ans:A

19. An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The following information has been
gathered during the design workshops with the customer:

* The solution will be deployed into two availability zones (AZs)

* The solution will be configured as a single stretched cluster with shared storage
across the two AZs
* Production and Development workloads will run across both AZs
* The cluster is configured as N+1

The architect needs to ensure that, in the event of a host failure during maintenance of
another host in the cluster, only the Production workloads are recovered

What should the architect include in the design to meet this requirement?

* Configure vSphere HA VM Monitoring to VM Monitoring only

• Set the VM monitoring sensitivity to Preset of High

* Configure vSphere HA Host Failure Response to Restart VMs

• Set the Development VMs to Disabled as the Restart Priority

* Configure vSphere HA Host Failure Response to Restart VMs

• Set the cluster default Restart VM Restart Priority to Highest

* Configure vSphere HA VM Monitoring to VM and Application Monitoring

• Set the VM monitoring sensitivity to Custom
Ans:B

20. An architect is tasked with an application migration to a new VMware Cloud platform.
The application service owner needs assistance from the architect to identify the
technical requirements of the application.
The following has been made available following initial discussions:

* A VMware Aria Operations report containing current resource usage

* The output from a planning session including a roadmap for planned service growth

• A service dependency map from the company's IT operations management tool

* The desired consolidation ratio for the target platform is 10:1

• The applications hosting budget is reducing by 10%

Which two contain the technical requirements of the application? (Choose two.)
 • A service dependancy map from the companies IT operations management tool
• A VMware Aria Operations report containing current resource usage
• The desired consolidation ratio for the target platform is 10:1
• The applications hosting budget is reducing by 10%
• The output from a planning session including a roadmap for planned service growth

Ans:A & B

21. An architect is designing the virtual networking components of a vSphere-based

solution that will provide an environment for the development of a new latency
sensitive stock trading application.
The following information was identified within the initial meeting with the customer:

* The customer has vCenter Standard and vSphere Standard licenses left over from a
previous project.

• The customer's CFO has approved budget for additional purchases, if required.

The following requirements were also identified during the meeting:

* The solution must support 500 development workloads concurrently running in the
secondary site.

* The solution must support the ability to complete all vSphere Operational Management
centrally.

• The solution must ensure business-critical applications are not impacted by vSphere
system-level operations.

Given the requirements, the architect has decided on a single 20-node cluster for
development

Which three additional design decisions should the architect make to meet these
requirements? (Choose three.)

• The solution will configure Traffic Shaping policies to restrict network bandwidth on ingress
and egress.
• The solution will deploy VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus on all hosts within the cluster
• The solution will deploy a single VMware Standard Switch that will be configured identically
on each host.
• The solution will deploy a single vSphere Distributed Switch with each host connected
to it
• The solution will configure Network I/0 control to ensure that system-level bandwidth
does not impact workload network traffic
• The solution will deploy VMware vSphere Standard on all hosts within the cluster.
Ans:B,D & E
 22. An architect is designing a new vSphere architecture and notes the following
information during the design process.
* 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?
1. * vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 2 uplinks
* Port group name "pg_mgmt_43"
uplink = vmnico
teaming policy = active/passive
Port group name "pg_VM_100"
* uplink = vmnic1
teaming policy = active/passive
2. vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks
* Port group name "pg_mgmt_43"
* uplink = vmnico, vmnic1
teaming policy active/passive
Port group name "pg_VM_100"
• uplink vmnic2, vmnic3
teaming policy = active/passive
3. * 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
4. * vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks
• Port group name "pg_mgmt_43"
uplink vmnic0, vmnic2
teaming policy active/active
• Port group name "pg _VM_100"
uplink vmnic1, vmnic3
teaming policy active/active

Ans:C
 23. 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 of the requirements would be classified as business (formerly functional)

requirements? (Choose three.)

• All virtualized workload, hypervisor, firewall and any management component system
events must be monitored by security administrators
• The hosting platforms storage must be configured with data-at-rest encryption.
• The hosting platforms security information and event management (SIEM) system must be
scalable to 20,000 events per second.
• 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.
• The hosting platform limits access to authorized users.
• A distributed firewall solution must secure traffic for all virtualized workloads.

Ans:D,E & F
24. An architect is responsible for the design of a greenfield vSphere-based solution for
hosting a new web-based application. The customer has provided the following high-
level information.

* The solution will host a highly transactional web application that is spread across multiple
workloads within a vSphere cluster

The workloads should be distributed evenly across the hosts to maximize the performance
and availability of the web application.

The architect has made various design decisions, including:

• The solution will deploy vSphere distributed switches for all virtual networking.

Which network load balancing method should the architect document in the physical design
to meet the requirements?

O Route Based on Source MAC Hash

O Route Based on Originating Virtual Port

O Route Based on Physical NIC Load

O Route Based on IP Hash

Ans:C

25. An architect is creating the design for a vSphere platform that will be used as the target
for a migration from multiple legacy vSphere platforms that are being
decommissioned. The customer has provided the following information:

* Each legacy platform has its own set of virtual machine templates stored in OVF format.

• All of the templates need to be migrated to the new platform.

After migration, the templates should be centralized into a single location.

The templates must be accessible to all clusters in the new platform vCenter instance

Any new templates added to the central location must be automatically available to all
clusters.

• Administrators must be able to deploy new virtual machines directly from the template
instances.

The customer also confirmed that after the migrations are complete, the new platform will be
the only vSphere solution available

Which design choice should the architect evaluate in the logical design for the storage and
management of virtual machine templates?

• Use a local content library

• Use a subscribed content library

• Use a shared datastore on each vSphere cluster

• Use a dedicated datastore on each vSphere cluster

Ans: A

26. 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?
• The hosting platform must be manageable from assets located in the third site.
• The maximum RTT (round-trip time) latency between the primary and secondary site
must be less than 150 milliseconds.
• Each location must scale to support a minimum of 35TB storage.
• The hosting platform must support long distance vMotion between the primary and
secondary site.
Ans: B

27. An architect is reviewing the information provided by a customer for a new vsphere
solution design. The customer requests that the solution use multiple network
connections for the 550 management network to increase resilience.
Which design quality is being requested by the customer?

• Manageability

• Performance

• Recoverability

• Availability
Ans:D

28. An architect is holding a design workshop with a customer for a new solution. The
customer states that the new solution needs to provide the following capabilities
* Automated deployment and lifecycle management of the vSphere platform.
Self-Service deployment of virtual machines and other objects from a central catalog
Monitoring, logging and analytic tooling to provide visibility and troubleshooting of the
whole solution
* Support deployment via infrastructure-as-code methods for the additional management
components
The customer also requests that the solution be as cost-effective as possible while still
delivering a fast time to value for the organization
Which design approach should the architect recommend to meet these requirements?

• Use VMware Cloud Foundation for the vSphere solution and a custom design for the
additional components
• Use a custom design for the vSphere solution and VMware Validated Solutions for the
additional components
• Use VMware Validated Designs for the vSphere solution and VMware Validated Solutions for
the additional components
• Use VMware Cloud Foundation for the vSphere solution and VMware Validated
Solutions for the additional components
 Ans:D
29. An architect is designing a new vSphere-based solution for a customer.
During a requirements gathering workshop, the following information is provided:
* The solution must have a primary and secondary site.
• The solution must support a maximum of 1,000 concurrent workloads.
* The profile of the workloads are as follows:
* Production Workloads
300 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM
400 x Medium: 2 vCPU, 6 GB RAM
100 x Large: 4 VCPU, 8 GB RAM
* Development Workloads
200 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM
* The corporate security policy states that, during normal operations, production workloads
must be physically segregated from development works
All production workloads are split evenly across the primary and secondary site.
• All development workloads run only within the secondary site.
• In the event of a disaster affecting workloads in the primary site, the secondary site must be
capable of running all production and development workloads
* The vCPU to physical core ratio should be a maximum of 10:1 for production workloads and
20:1 for development workloads
• The solution should provide a minimum of N+1 resiliency at each component level
• The target physical host hardware platform has already been defined by the company's
hardware standards and therefore each hast has the following configuration
2 x 24 physical cores
768 GB RAM
2 x 100 GB SSD drives
6 x 10 GbE network cards
What is the minimum number of hosts required to meet the requirements?

• 14
• 8
• 10
• 12
Ans:A

30. An architect is responsible for designing the upgrade of a brownfield vSphere-based

solution for a financial services customer. The customer has a requirement to host a
mission critical, latency
sensitive stock trading application.
During initial meetings with the customer, the following information is provided:
* The solution is currently running vSphere 7.0 U3
* All vSphere distributed switches (VDS) are at version 7.0.0
• The customer has provisioned new hardware with dedicated AMD Data Processing
Units (DPU)
 • The mission critical application must not be adversely affected by other workloads
running in the environment
The architect has made the following design decisions:
The solution will upgrade the existing VMware vCenter Server to version 8.0
The solution will upgrade all existing VMware ESXI hosts to version 8.0
* The solution will deploy VMware ESXI 8.0 for all new host servers
Which three additional design decisions should the architect make to ensure that the new
hardware can be used to support the latency-sensitive application ? (Choose three).
• The solution will upgrade all existing vSphere distributed switches to version 8.0.0.
• The solution will configure network offloads compatibility to support DPUS.
• The solution will deploy new vSphere distributed switches (8.0.0) and connect the new
DPU-enabled hosts.
• The solution will configure the hosts to use Network Time Protocol (NTP).
• The solution will deploy all DPU-enabled VMware ESXI hosts into a dedicated VMware
vSphere cluster
• The solution will deploy new vSphere distributed switches (7.0.3) and connect the new
DPU-enabled hosts
Ans: A,B &C

31. An architect is designing the datastore configuration of a new vSphere-based solution.

The following information was obtained during the initial meeting with the customer
There is currently 500 production and DMZ virtual machine workloads spread evenly
across the primary and secondary site.
The profile of the workloads (per site) is as follows:
DMZ:
75 x Small: 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 200 GB disk
* Production:
* 50 x Small: 1 VCPU, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB disk
100 x Medium: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 200 GB disk
• 25 x Large: 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB disk
The average IO Profile per workload is 70/30 read/write
• The solution should cater to 10% storage growth in the first year.
* The solution should cater to 15% virtual machine snapshot overhead.
• The storage team has confirmed
* A scalable external storage array has been deployed per site to support the storage
requirements.
The storage array will connect to all hosts using a dedicated Fibre Channel storage
area network fabric
* Usable storage capacity is available in 10 TB LUNS.
As many LUNs as required can be provided
* Every effort should be made to ensure the number of required LUNS is minimized.
• The security team has stated that all DMZ and production workloads must remain
logically isolated from each other
Given the information provided, which three design decisions should the architect make to
meet the requirements? (Choose three.)
• Each 10TB LUN will be configured as a VMFS datastore.
• Seven 10TB VMFS datastores will be configured on each site for all workloads.
• Six 10TB VMFS datastores will be configured on each site for all production workloads.
• Each 10TB LUN will be configured as an NFS datastore.
• Four 10TB VMFS datastores will be configured on each site for all production
workloads.
• Two 10TB VMFS datastores will be configured on each site for all DMZ workloads
Ans: A,E &F

32. An architect is designing a backup solution.

Which two statements should be included in the logical design for this solution? (Choose two.)

• The network that will be used for backups will be configured to use VLAN ID 1511.
• The company's existing backup solution will be unsupported by the third-party vendor in six
months
• The bkp-nfs-01 datastore will be used for backups.
• The database will be backed up using an API-based backup solution.
• The database must be backed up every day during the maintenance window of 1:00AM and
3:00AM
Ans: A&D
33. An architect is working on the design documentation for a new vSphere solution. The
architect has completed a conceptual model based on the following requirement:

* REQ001 - The solution must use shared storage

What could the architect include in the logical design to meet this requirement?

• The use of an HCI solution for a datastore

• The use of an all flash vSAN datastore
• The use of an NFS mount point, including the IP address of the NFS server it is hosted on
• The use of File Based Storage, including the list of permissions applied to the share

Ans: B

34. An architect is documenting the logical design for a new vSphere solution. The
following requirements have been provided by the customer for the design:
* The solution must be deployed in two locations: DC1 and DC2.
* The solution must limit the impact radius of accidental changes by administrators.
* The solution must meet a recovery time objective (RTO) of four (4) hours and recovery
point objective (RPO) of 24 hours.
• The solution must allow workloads to run in both DC1 and DC2 during normal operations.
The solution must allow workloads to be moved bi-directionally between DC1 and DC2
* The solution must use a hyper-converged infrastructure for the virtual machine storage.
The customer has also confirmed that the network connection between DC1 and DC2 has a 10
Gbps bandwidth and a maximum round trip latency of 4 ms.
The architect recommends the following design decision:
Use separate clusters in DC1 and DC2 to form a multi-region design
Which design implication should the architect include for this design decision?
• Using separate clusters is the only configuration available that supports the RTO of four (4)
hours.
• The network connection between DC1 and DC2 does not support the use of stretched
clusters.
• Sufficient capacity must be deployed in both DC1 and DC2 to support all running
virtual machines.
• Using separate clusters prevents an accidental change at the cluster level in DC1 from
Impacting DC2

Ans: C

35. During the creation of a vSphere-based design solution, an architect identifies the
following assumptions:
* The customer will be responsible for providing all 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.
When documenting each assumption within the design, which two corresponding pieces of
information must the architect also define? (Choose two)
• The storage hardware may not have capacity for future workload scale.
• Additional data center locations have been identified. Contracts will be signed to bring the
capacity online within 12 months.
• The data center does not have sufficient capacity to meet the requirements for workload
scale.
• Additional storage capacity can be procured to expand the solution in the future as
needed.
• The project sponsor is responsible for the data center capacity. The administrator is
accountable and the architect is informed
Ans: D&E

36. An architect is working on a security design for a shared storage environment. The
storage array provides connectivity by the NFS protocol.
Which two design decisions could the architect include for this solution? (Choose two.)

• Create dedicated volumes for sensitive data

• Create a dedicated Fibre Channel network
• Create a dedicated storage network
• Create a challenge handshake authentication protocol (CHAP) password to prevent
unauthorized access
 • Create a dedicated VLAN
Ans: A&E
37. An architect is responsible for the availability design of a solution.
The following information has been provided:
Virtual machines (VMs) run 8 or less vCPUs
* All hosts have a minimum of two NICs per vSphere distributed switch (VDS) connected
to separate physical switches
* All hosts have a minimum of two host bus adapters (HBAs) connected to separate
physical switches
Which three options maximize VM availability in the event of an ESXi host failure? (Choose
three.)

• vSphere NIC Teaming policy: Route based on originating port ID set on the distributed
port group
• Dynamic Link Aggregation (LACP) configured on the distributed virtual switch
• vSphere Round Robin storage multi-pathing policy set on each ESXi host
• VMware Tools configured to automatically update on reboot for all virtual machines
• vSphere High Availability Restart Priority set to default at the cluster level
• vSphere Fault Tolerance configured on the virtual machines
Ans: A,C&F

38. An architect is designing a vSphere-based private cloud solution to support the

following customer requirements:
* The solution should support running 5,000 concurrent production compute workloads
across the primary and secondary sites.
• The solution should support running 1,000 development compute workloads within
the secondary site.
• The solution should support up to 50 management workloads across the primary and
secondary site.
* The solution must ensure the isolation of virtual infrastructure management
operations between management and compute workloads.
• The solution must ensure that hosting of any virtual infrastructure management workloads
does not impact the amount of capacity available for compute workloads
* The solution must ensure that all production compute workloads are physically isolated
from development compute workloads
The solution must ensure that the operational management of compute workloads in the
secondary site is possible in the event of a disaster affecting the primary site
A combination of which four design decisions should the architect make to support the
requirements? (Choose four.)
• The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance in the primary site management
domain for the virtual infrastructure management of production compute workloads
• The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance in each management domain for
the virtual infrastructure management of management workloads
 • The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance within the primary site management
domain for hosting all management virtual machines.
• The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance in the secondary site management
domain for the virtual infrastructure management of production and development compute
workloads.
• The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter instance in the primary site management
domain for virtual infrastructure management of production and development compute
workloads
• The solution will deploy a VMware vCenter Instance in the secondary site management
domain for the virtual infrastructure management of production compute workloads
• The solution will deploy a separate management domain within each site for hosting
local management workloads only.
Ans: A,B,F&G
39. An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The customer has stated that the
solution will be used to host different types of applications, some of which have
special considerations. The customer has provided the following information in
relation to the special considerations:
• The applications are sensitive to the time it takes for CPUs to be accessible to process
instructions
The applications send and receive large amounts of data across the network
• The applications are sensitive to the time it takes for the data to be sent and received at
the destination
What could the architect include in the design for these considerations?

• Use vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) with affinity rules to keep the virtual
machines on the same ESXi hosts
• Use vSphere Distributed Services Engine with Network I/O Control on the distributed switch
• Use vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) with SmartNICs in the ESXi host
hardware
• Use vSphere Distributed Services Engine with Data Processing Units (DPUs) in the ESXi
host hardware
Ans: D
40. An architect is reviewing the security and compliance requirements for a new
application that will be hosted on a vSphere & environment.

The following information has been noted about the new application:
* The application stores and processes confidential data
• The supporting virtual infrastructure is shared with other departments
* No other application stores or processes confidential data
• The application virtual machines must be able to run on any ESXi host in the cluster
The storage layer is a iSCSI attached SAN
• Data at Rest Encryption is in place for each presented LUN validated to FIPS 140-2
* No budget is available for additional infrastructure components or software
 • Application data must not be accessible outside of the application's virtual
machines
The architect has been tasked with providing a secure virtual machine design to host the
application.
Which three design elements must the architect include to meet the requirements? (Choose
three.)

• A new encrypted ISCSI LUN

• The vSphere Native Key Provider
• Virtual Machine Encryption
• VMware vSAN
• External Key Management Service (KMS) provider
• A new local VMFS volume
Ans: A,B&C
41. A company has a requirement that all production applications must have a maximum
tolerable downtime (MTD) of one hour per month.
Which statement would be included in the conceptual design to support this
requirement?

O Server hardware has been allocated for the production applications.

O Production applications will run in a dedicated Tier 2 cluster

O vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) will not be enabled for the production applications.

O vSphere HA Host Failure Response will be set to Restart VMs.

Ans: D

42. A company will be replacing the external storage array that is currently providing
storage to the vSphere environment. The architect must design a storage architecture
for existing and future workloads. Company policy requires storage separation of
workloads by departments.
Which design decision should the architect make to satisfy the requirement and scale for
additional departments?

• Use one storage volume per existing department and extend current volumes for new
departments.
• Use N+1 storage volumes for current and future workloads.
• Use storage volumes based on applications.
• Use one storage volume per department and create new volumes for new
departments.
Ans: D
43. Refer to the exhibit

Assess

Design

Requirements

Deploy

Validate

An architect is assigned a new project to design a VMware hybrid cloud solution

The project is following a proven design methodology following the V-Model of systems
engineering and verification. The selected methodology follows these phases Access,
Design, Deploy and Validate
Which activity would be conducted during the Design phase?
• The architect conducts a series of group interviews with stakeholders
• The architect resolves configuration issues and addresses concerns
• The architect helps stakeholders learn the mechanics of the solution
• The architect defines the scope of the project
Ans: D
44. An architect is working with stakeholders to define requirements for architecting a new
VMware vSphere design
What are two strategies for engaging with stakeholders to achieve this goal? (Choose
two)
• The architect conducts workshops with the virtualization technical team to gather
deployment justifications.
• The architect conducts interviews focusing on business requirements to build the
architectural business case.
• The architect conducts workshops and interviews limited to those stakeholders identified in
the assessment phase of the project
• The architect conducts multiple rounds of interviews with stakeholders, iteratively refining
requirements.
• The architect conducts workshops with stakeholders to gather business and technical
requirements
Ans: B&E
 45. An architect is tasked with designing a new vSphere environment for a customer. The
new environment must:
Be standardized, repeatable, and consistent
* Contain the same common heterogenous components that run from commercial
hardware across an on-premises, edge, and broad hybrid cloud eco-system
• Provide intrinsic and intelligent security in every component from the hypervisor to
the storage, networking, and management layers
Which VMware solution will satisfy these requirements?
• VMware Validated Design
• VMware Validated Solutions
• VMware vSphere
• VMware Cloud Foundation
Ans: D
46. Which two vSphere cluster-related design details would an architect document in a
physical design? (Choose two.)

• The solution will deploy a dedicated VMware Management Cluster into the primary
site.
• The solution will set the das.isolationaddress advanced setting to 192.168.100.2.
• The solution will configure vSphere High Availability (HA).
• The solution will set the isolation.tools.diskShrink.disable advanced setting to true.
• The solution will set the das.usedefaultisolationaddress advanced setting to true.
Ans: A&C
47. An architect is designing an upgrade to an existing vSphere environment. The project
has been created to provide options for enabling growth and scalability, without
increasing the data center footprint. The CIO has also tasked the architect with
updating data protection operations, from the current agent-based backup approach
During a workshop with key stakeholders, the following information has been noted
* The existing vSphere environment uses an external fibre attached storage array for
the vSphere environment
• The storage array is connected via 4 Gbps fibre cards host bus adaptors (HBAs)
* The storage array does not support VMware Storage APIs-Data Protection (VADP)
• The architecture must support scaling virtual machines CPU, memory, and storage
* The environment will grow by an additional 20% virtual machines year over year
• Only two additional racks of equipment can be provisioned
Which design choice will meet these requirements?

• The architecture will extend the Fibre Channel external storage array, scaling out storage
and compute by buying additional storage or server capacity as required
• The architecture will be based on vSAN Ready Nodes, scaling out storage and compute
by buying additional hyper-converged servers as required
• The architecture will replace the Fibre Channel storage array with an updated model,
scaling out storage capacity as required
 • The architecture will be based on stretched VSAN Ready Nodes, scaling out storage and
compute by buying additional hyper-converged servers as required
Ans: B
48. A company has the requirement of ensuring that business-critical applications have
the necessary network bandwidth to function optimally and maintain a consistent
quality of service (QoS)
Which statement would be included in the logical design to support this requirement?

• Network resource pool named "bca-pool-02" is given a reservation quota of 5 Gbit/sec

• A distributed virtual switch will be created, and Network I/O Control will be enabled.
• The network infrastructure must ensure secure communications and efficiently use
available bandwidth.
• The distributed switch will use a minimum of 25 Gbps Ethernet.
Ans: B
49. An architect is tasked with updating the design of an existing vSphere-based solution
for a pharmaceutical’s customer. The update will include upgrade to VMware vCenter 8
and ware vSphere 8 and the creation of a new cluster that will be used for ongoing
research projects. The research project that is driving the need for an update includes
a number of applications that are latency-sensitive.
The customer has confirmed the following information during the initial workshop:
* The customer recently completed a right sizing exercise using VMware Aria Operations
that resulted in a number of ESXi hosts becoming available for use.
• Each of the servers is configured with:
2 x 20-core Intel Xeon CPU sockets
1024 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
• There is no additional budget for purchasing hardware.
After confirming the existing hardware is still listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility
List (HCL), the architect makes the following design decisions with regard to the workload
design and sockets per virtual machine
* The solution will support a maximum of 20 combined cores and sockets per
virtual machine
• The solution will support a maximum of 512 GB RAM per virtual machine.
What should the architect document as justification for these design decisions?

• The maximum supported configuration will ensure each virtual machine will exclusively
consume a whole CPU socket.
• The maximum supported configuration will ensure the virtual machines will adhere to
a single Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) node boundary
• The maximum supported configuration will ensure efficient use of RAM by sharing memory
pages between virtual machines.
• The maximum supported configuration will allow the creation of virtual machines that cross
NUMA node boundaries resulting in improved overall performance.
Ans: B
 50. An architect is designing a vSphere-based application hosting solution in a brownfield
site
The following information has been provided during the requirements gathering workshop:
The solution should support 5,000 compute workloads across two physical sites.
• The CFO has approved budget for the purchase of new server and network hardware
only.
• The existing storage array is currently Fibre Channel connected with 2 x 8 Gbps
interfaces to a dedicated Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric
• The existing storage array does not support integration with vSphere API for Storage
Awareness.
• The existing storage array can be configured to support NFS storage.
* The existing vSphere administration team will responsible for operational management
of the new solution.
Which storage technology should the architect recommend based on these requirements?
• Fibre Channel
• VMware vSAN
• vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
• ISCSI
Ans: B
51. A company is expanding an existing vSphere deployment to meet new demands from
the business. The following requirements have been identifled for the expanded
infrastructure
REQ001 - It must support enhanced vMotion compatibility (EVC) mode for Intel
"Nehalem" Generation (Intel Xeon Core (7) processors.
REQ002- It must be accessible via an API.
REQ003- It must support a variety of operating systems.
REQ004- It must notify administrators whenever a virtual machine is connected to
more than one network.
Which requirement would be classified as a technical (formerly non-functional) requirement?
• It must notify administrators whenever a virtual machine is connected to more than
one network.
• It must be accessible via an API.
• It must support a variety of operating systems.
• It must support enhanced Motion compatibility (EVC) mode for Intel "Nehalem" Generation
(Intel Xeon Core 17) process
Ans: A
52. An architect is responsible for extending the hosting design for a customer. The
customer has a mission-critical 3-node application which is load balanced in an
active/active/active configuration. The application administrator requests that the
virtual infrastructure team be responsible for maintaining platform level availability.
An organizational policy exists to mandate the highest possible availability for mission-
critical applications.
Based on the resource requirements, the architect has made the following design decision.
* The target vSphere cluster contains four VMware ESXi host servers
A combination of which additional four physical design decisions should the architect make to
maximize availability of the application? (Choose four)
• The solution will enable vSphere Fault Tolerance with vSphere HA virtual machine
component failure enabled.
• The solution will enable vSphere High Availability with restart priority set to "Highest"
for the application virtual machines
• The solution will create a host DRS group containing all hosts within the cluster
• The solution will create a virtual machine DRS group that contains all of the critical
application workloads
• The solution will create a VM-Host Affinity rule that specifies that workloads must run on
hosts in a group.
• The solution will create a VM-VM Affinity rule to keep virtual machines together.
• The solution will create a VM-VM Affinity rule to keep virtual machines separate.
Ans: A,B,D&G
53. What are two valid use cases for VMware Cloud Foundation remote clusters? (Choose
two.)

• Transform virtual machines to vSphere with Tanzu containers.

• Provide resources for virtual machines at an edge location.
• Deploy a cluster within the same rack as the central VMware Cloud Foundation instance.
• Enable vSphere with Tanzu on a cluster deployed at a remote location.
• Provide disaster recovery for an existing workload domain.
Ans: B&E
54. A company has the business goal of automated, centralized, and efficient
management of the data center.
Which statement would be included in the conceptual design to support this business
goal?
• Place the management cluster and the compute cluster in the same rack.
• Store templates and ISO files on a dedicated Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore.
• Reduce the cost of providing IT services to the organization.
• Join all vCenter instances to a single vCenter Single Sign-On domain.
Ans: D
55. An architect is tasked with designing a solution to monitor the operational state of a
VMware Cloud Foundation environment through ad-hoc reporting and custom
dashboards, alerts and notifications.
Using VMware Validated Solutions, which validated solution can the architect leverage
to meet this requirement?
o Heath Reporting and Monitoring for VMware Cloud Foundation
o Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation
o Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation
o VMware Validated Design for VMware Cloud Foundation
Ans: B
 56. What is a use case for a VMware Cloud Foundation consolidated architecture model?

• Implement a dedicated management domain for high availability of management

workloads.
• Deploy an SDDC for a small-scale environment that can be extended later.
• Deploy a large-scale environment with multiple vCenter instances for workload isolation.
• Run customer workloads in separate virtual infrastructure workload domains for scalability
and autonomous licensing
Ans: B

57. An architect is creating a design for a new vSphere solution to meet the following
business requirement:
* REQ001 - Reduce operational expenditure
Which design decision could the architect include in the logical design to satisfy this
requirement?

• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager on all clusters.

• Use heterogeneous hardware for the hosts in all clusters.
• Use an N+1 design to define the required capacity on all clusters.
• Use vSphere Standard licenses on all clusters.
Ans: D

58. An architect is tasked with designing the VMware Validated Solutions in an existing
VMware Cloud Foundation environment.
The design must meet the following requirements:
* Must not allow logical networks to span physical network boundaries or locations
Must support static routing
What should the architect recommend based on these requirements?

• A dedicated distributed virtual switch and dedicated port groups

• Overlay-backed NSX segments
• VLAN-backed NSX segments
• A dedicated NSX segment configured manually
Ans: B

59. An architect will be updating an existing Sphere data center design.

The following information has been provided:
* The new design must carry over existing VLANs for workloads.
* The networking for storage must not share the data path with workload traffic.
* The new design must be able to add additional VLANS.
* The new design must reduce management overhead.
* The new replacement servers have two 100 GB network cards.
Which design will meet the requirements for existing workload networks and allow scaling of
additional networks?
 • One Sphere standard switch (VSS) configuration
• Workload and storage traffic on separate uplinks

• One Sphere distributed switch (VDS) configuration

• Workload and storage traffic on separate uplinks

• One Sphere distributed switch (VDS) configuration

• The VDS uses aggregated uplinks
• Workload and storage traffic on the aggregated uplinks

• Two Sphere distributed switches (VDS)

• Each VDS uses one uplink as active and the other uplink as passive
• Existing and new workload traffic on one VDS and storage traffic on the other VDS

60. An architect is designing the access management component of a vSphere-based

solution. During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer states that the
architecture must use a centralized user authentication solution.
The architect decides that an Open Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (OpenLDAP)
solution would meet the requirement. The security team intervenes and requires that the
soliton use the corporate Active Directory Domain Services solution.
At which point did the architect's design become constrained?

• When the customer provided the requirement for the use of a centralized user
authentication solution.
• When the architect finished documenting all of the requirements.
• When the customer required the use of the corporate Active Directory Domain Services
solution.
• When the architect made the design decision to use an OpenLDAP solution for user
authentication.