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

- REQ001- A clustered firewall solution must be placed at the perimeter of the hosting platform, and all ingress and egress network traffic will route via this device.

- REQ002- A distributed firewall solution must secure traffic for all virtualized workloads.

- REQ003- All virtualized workload, hypervisor, firewall and any management component system events must be monitored by security administrators.

- REQ004- The hosting platforms security information and event management (SIEM) system must be scalable to 20,000 events per second.

- REQ005- The hosting platforms storage must be configured with data-at-rest encryption.

- REQ006- The hosting platform limits access to authorized users.

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

2. 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?

3. A company is expanding and will be deploying new vSphere environments in multiple new locations.

All environments use datastores backed by multiple storage technologies and vendors.

How can the architect create a design to efficiently and repeatedly distribute existing company virtual machine (VM) templates to multiple new locations?

4. An architect is documenting the design decisions for a new vSphere solution. The following design decision has been made:

Create a separate vSphere cluster for the management workloads

What could the architect include as justification for this design decision?

5. An architect is tasked with designing a repeatable edge hosting solution using VMware technologies that can be deployed to existing hotels across the world and operate independently of other locations.

During interviews with stakeholders, the architect notes the following information:

There are 123 hotels in total.

All hotels have a minimum of two 1 Gbps connections for guest Internet access.

The company operates hotels in four countries: Canada, USA, Cuba and Mexico.

The company is rebranding the hotels located in Mexico.

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

6. The following is a list of requirements from a discovery workshop for a new VMware hosting platform system design:

REQ001 - The architecture must support recoverability to the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) service.

REQ002 - The architecture must support high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT).

REQ003 - The architecture must support reducing existing energy consumption and carbon footprint.

REQ004 - The architecture must provide support for network virtualization using distributed virtual switches.

Which requirement would be classified as a business (formerly functional) requirement?

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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/passive 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 three 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.)

10. 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 that contain references to the requirements for handling sensitive information.

Which design quality is being requested by the customer?

11. Which four factors should an architect consider when calculating the number of hosts required for a new multi-site vSphere-based solution that utilizes external storage? (Choose four.)

12. An architect is designing a backup solution.

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

13. An architect is tasked with helping a customer develop a design that meets the following requirements:

Must have no single point of failure

Must include thorough standard operating procedure documentation

Must use VMXNET3 virtual network interface card

Must have 99.9% uptime Service Level Agreement

Must use the latest version of VMware vSphere

Which two are considered constraints? (Choose two.)

14. A company has the requirement to ensure 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 conceptual design to support this requirement?

15. 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.)

16. 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?

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

Which design quality is being referenced by the customer?

18. An architect is designing a new vSphere-based solution for a customer.

During a requirements gathering workshop, the following information is provided:

The solutions must provide a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes.

The solution must have a primary and secondary site.

The solution must support orchestration to address application dependencies.

Which two solutions should the architect include in the design to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

19. 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 the 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.

How many VMware vCenter instances will the architect need to include in the design to meet these requirements?

20. 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?

21. A company is expanding an existing vSphere deployment to meet new demands from the business.

The following requirements have been identified for the expanded infrastructure:

REQ001- It must support enhanced vMotion compatibility (EVC) mode for Intel "Nehalem"

Generation (Intel Xeon Core i7) 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?

22. An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The customer has provided the following information to describe how the solution will be used:

The solution will host development workloads

Administrators will utilize snapshots frequently, with snapshots sometimes retained for extended periods of time

Some of the workloads are sensitive to latency on the I/O of the storage

Storage for the workloads will be provided by a physical array

The physical array does not include a storage provider

All workloads must be hosted on the solution, there are no other vSphere environments available for use

Which design decision should the architect make to meet the needs of the customer?

23. An architect has been tasked with designing a greenfield hosting platform.

As part of a workshop, it is identified that the new solution must support the following:

Provide a centralized way to enforce virtual network security policy

Provide network security for both virtual machines and containerized applications

Deny network access between all workloads by default

Linked services should be connected to the same virtual port groups by default

Support for the security teams network monitoring solution

Which elements should the architect include in the design to meet the identified requirements?

24. An architect has made the following assumptions:

The customer will provide licensing for the vSphere platform.

The storage hardware has sufficient capacity for future workload scale.

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

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

25. 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.)

26. An architect is reviewing the security and compliance requirements for a new application that will be hosted on a vSphere 8 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.)

27. 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?

28. An architect is tasked with devising a vSphere design strategy that will allow the company to quickly scale global data center functionality when a new location is identified.

The following requirements must be met:

The solution must include VMware licensing costs.

The design must keep data locally to each specific location.

The design must utilize current company processes around vSphere.

Any new global location must be functional within one month of identification.

Which design strategy will meet these requirements?

29. An architect is designing a new vSphere-based solution for a customer.

During a requirement 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 workloads.

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 host 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?

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

31. As part of designing a greenfield vSphere-based hosting solution, an architect is responsible for defining a patch management solution for the virtual infrastructure.

During initial meetings with the customer, the following information is provided:

There are two geographically dispersed physical sites (primary and secondary) in scope for the solution.

The inter-site connectivity has been classified as low bandwidth and high latency.

The customer has the following requirements:

REQ001 - Only IT Security Team-approved versions of VMware Tools should be installed across all workloads within the infrastructure.

REQ002 - The solution should minimize traffic across the inter-site link.

REQ003 - Upgrades to the virtual infrastructure should continue in the event of a failure with either site.

A combination of which three design decisions could the architect make to ensure the requirements are met? (Choose three.)

32. An architect is conducting interviews to gather requirements for a new vSphere-based private cloud solution.

The following information has been provided by the customer:

The customer, after 10 years within an outsourced managed service contract, has decided to bring application hosting back in-house but lacks the VMware skills to support this.

The customer currently has 5,000 workloads under contract and managed by their partner.

The customer would like to keep IT infrastructure costs at a minimum.

The customer would like to ensure that the solution supports the company's green IT agenda by reducing their carbon footprint.

Which statement is classified as a business factor that would impact the design?

33. 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, including the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO):

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 production and development workloads are managed by the same team and 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.

Which three statements would the architect document as the maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)

for workloads within the design? (Choose three.)

34. 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?

35. An architect is designing a new vSphere 8 environment and needs to plan the migration of virtual machines from the source vSphere 7 infrastructure.

The following has been captured about the source infrastructure and project:

All virtual machines operate supported versions of Microsoft Windows All virtual machines have VMware Tools 11 or higher installed vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode is configured VMware PowerCLI is available in the environment No budget is available for discovery tooling

The architect must capture and review active services from inside running virtual machines to inform the migration design.

Considering the information available, which method can the architect use to acquire the information required?