Updated VMware VCAP6.5-DCV Design 3V0-624 Questions

1. A customer warns to virtualize an Oracle database with vSphere 6.5, but is concerned about its performance.

Which three design elements will ensure optimum performance? (Choose three.)

2. A development team must provide layer 2 network isolation between virtual machines that are in the same VLAN. The solutions architect must provide additional security between the virtual machines on the same subnet.

How can this be done without consuming more VLANs?

3. DRAG DROP

A company is outsourcing its support operations to an external service provider and plans to complete the project by April 1.

• The external Support engineers must have the ability to power cycle, create, and edit virtual machines settings within their assigned vSphere site.

• The company maintains three vCenter servers in Enhanced Linked Mode that are run as virtual machines in the supported infrastructure.

• The vCenter servers will be supposed by the external service provider.

• Each vCenter server is connected to its own local Platform Services Controller and MSSQL database server.

• The company will provide escalation support and physical access on a per request basis.

• 99.9% ESXi host uptime is required in this environment, but no SLA has been specified for the hosted applications.

Drag each statement to its appropriate concept.

4. A customer has requested a vSphere 6.5 deployment design that utilizes vCenter Server and the use of vMware-recommended best practices for securing vCenter Server.

Which three actions would satisfy these requirements? (Choose three.)

5. A database administrator is operating a virtual machine (VM) configured with 16 vCPU and 64GB of RAM.

A recent performance audit has indicated that this virtual machine is oversized and is using less than 60% of its configured CPU and memory capacity.

• The ESXi host that contains this VM has 2 physical processors with 10 cores per processor, and 128GB of RAM.

• This physical host’s architecture is split into two equal NUMA nodes.

Which vCPU and RAM configuration for the VM allows for the most resources, but also provides the performance benefit of local NUMA access?

6. When implementing update policies for the vSphere environment, which would be the VMware-recommended way to update the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) when an underlying operating system (OS) patch is released?

7. DRAG DROP

Sort the traffic by whether it can be encrypted natively by vSphere.

8. A solution architect has finished conducting interviews and gathering requirements for a company, and has determined that the logical requirements are:

• two data centers for high availability

• synchronous replication to meet the zero minute RPO

• separating management workloads from application workloads

• dedicated 10Gb uplink for each low latency server

• single management point for the entire environment

Which two actions would meet the design requirements? (Choose two.)

9. A solutions architect has made the following design decisions:

• Leverage existing hardware that is certified on earlier versions of vSphere but is NOT on HCL for ESXi 6.5.

• Upgrade vCenter Server to version 6.5.

• Configure separate clusters based on ESXi versions 5.5, 6.0, and 6.5 for newly purchased, certified hardware.

• The underlying CPU family is compatible.

• There is enough resources available to vMotion virtual machines (VMs)

Given this scenario, what is the correct statement about the ability to vMotion virtual machines between versions of ESXi?

10. DRAG DROP

According to VMware-recommended best practices, on which cluster should each of the services be placed?

11. DRAG DROP

A company would like to utilize its current infrastructure but wants to adopt virtualization to consolidate its environment. Currently, the infrastructure contains:

• server with 2 x 8 cores CPUs and 96G8 of memory

• backup LAN with a single physical switch

• production LAN

• sufficient datastore performance as determined by the storage team

Match the existing infrastructure component to its appropriate concept.

12. An organization’s security policy requires a design where the ESXi hosts will be manageable only through vCenter Server.

Which two security configurations will help meet this requirement? (Choose two)

13. A company is in the process of deploying a modern video-streaming application.

• The application is able to scale (expand and collapse) its steaming nodes in the form of CentOS 7.x 64bit virtual machines, based on demand.

• This IO-Intensive application has a high CPU demand and generates a significant number of disk operations (IOPS).

• To host the application, the company decided to implement a brand-new VMware cluster with vSphere 6.5

• The company would like a significant reduction in CPU utilization as well as a possible increase in throughput.

Which virtual disk adapter should be recommended for the company’s physical design?

14. A solution architect has been tasked with designing a new environment for a company’s growing needs, and has obtained this information:

• Uptime is critical during regular business hours when 95% of the transactions occur. Application uptime must be 99.9% during those hours.

• In a true Disaster, the business can withstand a day of data loss and half a day of downtime.

• The company is one year into a 5-year contact with the co-lo data center.

• The building that is currently occupied no hanger has any floor space available, but the company has 3 empty racks of space. The co-lo can provide up to 11KVA of power per rack.

• There are current contacts with Dell to provide servers and with Cisco to provide the network components.

• The network team has standardized on an end-to-end 10Gb network.

Based on this information, what are two requirements for the new design? (Choose two.)

15. A customer has storage arrays from two different storage vendors at two different sites. The customer warts to restore operations at the secondary site in the event of a disaster.

Which VMware technology must be used to meet this requirement?

16. The ability to live-migrate all virtual machines between two clusters is a requirement in the customer’s design.

Which two clusters and EVC configurations will accomplish this? (Choose two)

17. Which two types of workloads are efficiently consolidated when virtualized? (Choose two.)

18. A company provides critical financial and statistical data for several major banks.

• The company ensures that the bank’s customer data is secure and that analytics data is available when needed.

• Customers rely on this data before making crucial business and financial decisions.

• Just a few minutes of downtime can result in loss of revenue and trust.

• To meet high-availability requirements, the company’s IT infrastructure components must be redundant.

• The company established three data centers across the globe and interconnected them with high-speed WAN links.

• Due to the rapid growth of its customers and their increasing demands, the compute, network, and storage were procured and managed by the company’s enterprise system administrators group.

What are its two key challenges? (Choose two)

19. A company has requested assistance with a new cross-site failover design to support business-critical applications.

• It has two sites when are very well-connected, and latency is less than 5ms round trip.

• The customer requires that its applications be restarted even in the event of a total site failure.

• The applications must be kept online even when migrated during maintenance.

• Storage arrays at either site support both synchronous and asynchronous replication.

Which two options are accurate application requirements for this scenario? (Choose two.)

20. A virtualization administrator has been tasked with migrating several business applications from physical to virtual. The administrator must also migrate the virtual machines from VMware Workstation to vSphere 6.5, using vCenter Converter Standalone 6.1.

In this scenario, when two source types are supported? (Choose two.)

21. DRAG DROP

In the vCenter HA configuration below, drag the two correct components to the blank boxes in this diagram. The same component may be used more twice. (Choose two.)

22. View the exhibit.

Referring to the exhibit, which appliance or device belongs in the square with the question mark?

23. DRAG DROP

Match the business statement to its appropriate concept.

24. A developer is tasked with building an application to process shipping requests. The developer is consulting the vSphere team to determine failover options and performance best practices.

• The development team is providing three physical ESXi hosts with 8 CPU cores and 256G8 of RAM per host.

• The developer does NOT know how many virtual machines they will require.

Which virtual machine (VM) sizing strategy will provide the highest level of uptime, individual VM performance, and failover capacity?

25. A company has requested a new vSphere 6.5 design that will allow it to finally break the 80% virtualization barrier by virtualizing its resource-intensive application.

• The application is highly available by design and includes application-aware clustering software capable of operating as a fully distributed system.

• The company’s Application Version 2.0 consists of 386 small applications and middleware with non-persistent storage and 24 database virtual machines at each data center.

• When coupled with a proper load balancing solution, this application can continue operating even with the loss of an entire data center, but the small applications and middleware tiers within a data center must exist within the same broadcast domain.

• The database tier is tightly controlled with a firewall policy that only allows middleware tier access, and is replicated to other sites using a dedicated circuit.

Which two application requirements apply to this scenario? (Choose two.)

26. DRAG DROP

A company is a leading provider for an online travel booking system with over a $1,000,000 turnover each day. The company warns to leverage VMware cloud solutions to consolidate, scale, and ensure high availability for all of its data centers.

Match each business requirement to its appropriate design concept.

27. A customer is using a vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) compatible storage array. The VASA provider is published as a virtual appliance.

To ensure recoverability, where must the VASA prowler and vCenter server virtual machines be stored?

28. A customer wants to make its data available with a RPO of 10 minutes. Replication to the second data center will be done using the network.

Which type of storage configuration should be used?

29. DRAG DROP

A leading steel manufacturer relies on SAP for purchase, sales, add invoice processing.

• It is planning to virtualize its severs to reduce CAPEX and OPEX.

• However, its CIO is concerned about the availability, performance, manageability, recoverability, and security for the SAP database and ERP instance.

Match the business requirement with the appropriate design concept.

30. After the vSAN iSCSI Target service is enabled, which statement about iSCSI networks is true?

31. A solution architect has finished conducting interviews and gathering requirements for a company, and has determined that the logical requirements are:

• two data centers for high availability

• synchronous replication to meet the zero minute RPO

• separating management workloads from application workloads

• dedicated 10Gb uplink for each low latency server

• single management port for the entire environment

Which two actions would meet the design requirements? (Choose two.)

32. A customer has requested a high availability option for its data center in the event of power failure and the loss of connectivity to a virtual machine.

Which three vSphere features support fault tolerance? (Choose three.)

33. DRAG DROP

A global financial company has requested assistance with a new cross-site failover design between two sites which will support business critical applications. Latency between the sites is less than 5ms round-trip.

The company requires:

• application must be restarted quickly in the event of a total site failure

• allow for planned migration during maintenance

• applications must be kept online even when migrated due to planned maintenance

Drag each statement to its correct concept:

34. DRAG DROP

A company has requested assistance with a new cross-site failover design between two sites which will support business-critical applications. Latency between the sites is less than 5ms round-trip.

The company requires:

• application must be restarted quickly in the event of a total site failure

• allow for planned migration during maintenance

• applications must be kept online even when migrated due to planned maintenance

Drag each statement to its correct concept.

35. DRAG DROP

A customer is currently running a vCenter Server 5.5 environment with 48 identically-configured ESXi hosts.

• These ESXi hosts are divided into six 8-host HA/DRS clusters.

• The customer wants to upgrade to vSphete 6.5 and combine all of its ESXi hosts into a single 48-host HA/DRS cluster.

Place these actions in the correct order to accomplish this.

36. A company is implementing a new ESXi host cluster at its New York data center.

• The CIO has stated that the new ESXi cluster should be deigned with enough failover capacity to sustain two ESXi host failures.

• Six ESXi hosts have been approved for this workload.

• The ESXi hosts are to be purchased from Dell with these specifications:

• 2×10 core 2.2GHz Intel CPU

• 128 GB of memory

• The workload is defined as 150 employee desktop virtual machines each with 3GB RAM reserved.

• All virtual machines should be protected by vSphere High Availability

Which are two true statements regarding failover capacity? (Choose two.)

37. DRAG DROP

Drag each option to its appropriate concept.

38. A company is implementing a new cluster to support its end user desktop workloads.

• The workload is required to support 200 virtual machines.

• Each end-user desktop is configured with two vCPUs, 8GB of RAM, and 40GB of thick-provisioned disk space.

• The architect has expressed concerns that virtual machine swap files will till the 8.5TB datastore available to the cluster.

Which two strategies would address the architect’s concern? (Choose two.)

39. A company has developers located in Eastern Europe (EE) and a QA Department in Bermuda.

• The company is planning to create an environment based on a blueprint of 4-8 virtual machines for each of the developers and one for every QA project.

• The proposed configuration will allow each developer to work independently and be able to collapse and re-create the environment as needed.

• QA Teams will be able to recreate the environment that is required for a specific application.

• Individual virtual machines in the blueprint are being continually updated with newly available software packages.

• The company is planning to use the vSphere Content Library to store images and synchronize them between sites.

Which four supported configurations can the company implement? (Choose four.)

40. A company has requested that a new vSphere 6.5 design be created.

• The existing environment consists of 32 vSphere 6.0 hosts attached to an iSCSI storage array.

• The storage arrays contain external customer financial and medical records used by the company’s investment and medical services division.

The design must:

• protect the company’s existing data center investment

• expand to a second data center site

• introduce process automation

• expand to and fail over to public cloud

Which two non-functional requirements are applicable for this design? (Choose two.)

41. A customer is using blade servers with only one HBA.

Which two design concepts apply to this scenario? (Choose two.)

42. DRAG DROP

Categorize the tools as providing either Availability or Recoverability.

43. An architect is designing a vSphere 6.5 implementation.

• The customer requires Cross vCenter vMotion for the newly-created data centers in New York and Houston.

• Each data center will use different IP networks for management and vMotion.

When creating a vMotion network, which two statements are required in order to use Cross vCenter Server vMotion? (Choose two.)

44. A customer is virtualizing a mission-critical Microsoft SQL database and needs a configuration that provides optimal NUMA performance.

• There are two possible clusters that the database virtual machine could reside in: Cluster A is vSphere 6.0 and Cluster B is vSphere 6.5.

• All ESXi hosts contain dual Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 processors (ie: 2 socket, 10 cores per socket) and 256Gb RAM with vNUMA in its default configuration.

Given this scenario, which three statements are true? (Choose three.)

45. The customer has two sites that must operate independently of each other in the event of a WAN failure. During normal operations, administrators from each site must be able to manage the other site through the vSphere Web Client.

Which vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) and Platform Services Controller (PSC) diagram shows the VMware-recommended design that satisfies these requirements?

46. A solution architect has been tasked with designing a new environment that meets the needs of a growing company, and has obtained this information:

• The current capacity will be exhausted in 180 days, and the new infrastructure must be deployed and in production prior to that.

• The new servers have a 90-day delivery time.

• A data center for disaster recovery has been selected, and it is 20 miles away and connected by MPLS.

• The security team will continue to utilize its current investments and VM Encryption for the new environment.

• The backup team currently uses Data Domain, and reports show an 8:1 compression and deduplication ratio for backups.

Based on the information obtained, which two statements are risks for the new design? (Choose two.)

47. The hardware operations team is planning to purchase new ESXi hosts for the upcoming budget year and is requesting recommendations on the type of servers to purchase for a web application. The web application consists of hundreds of small virtual machines (1 vCPU and 8GB of RAM) that are members of a software cluster.

The solution should have these abilities:

• recover from ESXi host hardware failures

• zero downtime for a limited number of critical virtual machines (VMs)

• migrate running VMs between ESXi hosts without interruption to the operating system

• perform these functions using VMware ESXi servers, vCenter Server, and high-speed network interfaces

What are the three functional requirements and their associated VMware technologies? (Choose three.)

48. A company is designing a new vSphere cluster to support a mission-critical application.

• The application requires 100% availability and cannot be restarted to recover from an ESXi host failure.

• The application consists of a group of 16 virtual machines, each with 8 vCPU configured.

Which solution satisfies the availability requirements?