Following a recent acquisition, an architect needs to merge IT assets into its current data center. The combined vSphere environment will need to run the newly acquired company’s virtual machines.Network integration work has already been completed and the current environment has capacity to host all virtual machines. The Operations team needs to identify which virtual machines belong to the acquired company and report on their usage.How should the architect merge the company’s assets and virtual machines?

Migrate and apply vSphere tags to the acquired company’s virtual machines

Leave the newly acquired company’s assets in its current place

Lift and shift the acquired assets into the data center

Migrate the acquired company’s virtual machines into the existing vSphere environment

Migrate and apply vSphere tags to the acquired company’s virtual machines

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) at an organization raises concerns that their virtual infrastructure environment is vulnerable. Recently, a security-related issue with a virtual machine caused all management services to become unavailable. No budget is available in the short term for additional platform investment. An architect is asked to review the current environment and make recommendations to mitigate concerns.A virtualization administrator has provided the following details:There is a single four node cluster of ESXi serversThere are two, Layer 2, physical network switches connecting resources The data center network is presented as a single /16 subnet Given the information provided, which functional requirement should the architect include in the design to mitigate the COOs concerns?

The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate VLANs

The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to new physical network switches

The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate distributed virtual switches (DVS)

The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate VLANs

The virtual infrastructure environment must connect management services to a vSphere standard switch (VSS)

An architect is tasked with designing a greenfield VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution that will be used to deliver a private cloud service for a customer.During the initial meeting with the service owner and business sponsor, the customer has provided the following information to help inform the design:The solution must initially support the concurrent running of 300 production and 600 development virtual machines.The production environment should be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers.The development environment must be vSphere-based but does not have to be deployed onpremises.The two data centers are connected to each other through multiple diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency links.The customer’s server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be based on blade architecture only.The service owner has said that is important to ensure that neither the availability target of 99.5% nor the resource capacity is affected when the operations team completes maintenance activities, such as the monthly software patching and ad-hoc hardware break/fix.All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service. The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is four hours.The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is 24 hours.Given the information from the customer, which two would be classified as assumptions within the design? (Choose two.)

The backup service has sufficient capacity for the new requirements

The clusters will have a minimum redundancy of N+1

The backup service will store data in a secure facility

The backup service has sufficient capacity for the new requirements

The customer will update their hardware standard to support rack mount servers

All virtual machines will be deployed with the same resource profile for production and development

The clusters will have a minimum redundancy of N+1

During a requirements gathering workshop to design a physical to virtual migration, the customer provides the following information:There is no physical firewall in the data center with no anticipated plans for a future network refresh.Leveraging the virtual infrastructure to mitigate the lack of network security must be addressed in the design.All physical servers to be migrated exist on the same VLAN.Which recommendation should the architect make to address the customer requirement with regard to virtual networking?

Enable traffic filtering and markingUse allow or drop actions

Split the virtual machines into several VLANsUse tag actions

Create port groups with different names and same VLAN IDsEnable traffic shaping for ingress and egress traffic

Enable traffic filtering and markingUse allow or drop actions

Disable traffic filtering and marking Use tag actions

A customer has a database cluster with 40/60 read/write ratio and a high IOPs requirement with no contention on an all-flash vSAN cluster.Which two storage settings should be configured for best performance? (Choose two.)

Deduplication and Compression disabled

Deduplication and Compression enabled

There is a request for approved virtual machine applications through a new vSphere platform’s integrated automation portal. The platform was built following all provided company security guidelines and has been assessed against Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) regulations.The platform has the following characteristics: vRealize Operations is being used to monitor all clusters.There is a dedicated ESXi cluster, supporting all management services.All network traffic is via distributed virtual switches (DVS).There is a dedicated ESXi cluster for all line-of-business applications.Network traffic is serviced by NSX-T.There is a dedicated ESXi cluster for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).Network traffic is serviced by NSX-T.The application owner is requesting approval to install a new service that must be protected as per the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.Which additional non-functional requirement should the architect include in the design to support the new service?

The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machines must be monitored using the vRealize Operations Compliance Pack for Payment Card Industry.

The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machines must be assessed against Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard compliance.

The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machines must be assessed for SOX compliance.

The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machine network traffic must be routed via NSX-T.

The vSphere hosting platform and all PCI application virtual machines must be monitored using the vRealize Operations Compliance Pack for Payment Card Industry.

An architect is tasked with recommending a solution for a company that is running out of VLANs.Currently the company is running two separate data centers based on vSphere including an Enterprise Plus license. In the first data center, the problem was solved by using VMware NSX and overlay network. In the second data center, there is currently no VMware NSX implementation in place and no budget for additional licenses.What should the architect recommend as a potential solution to provide support for additional VLANs?

Separate Distributed Virtual Switches (DVS)

A customer requests a review of its current vSphere platform design.The following information is noted:There are three different workload profiles for the virtual machines:Tier-1 virtual machines operate resource-intensive applications and require dedicated allocations for CPU and RAM.Tier-2 virtual machines operate internet-facing applications and require access to externally facing networks.Tier-3 virtual machines operate platform management tools such as vCenter Server and have different lifecycle management requirements.Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines are all hosted on a single large vSphere cluster.The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has raised concerns that hosting externally facing applications alongside management tools does not meet internal compliance standards.The Operations team has raised concerns about Tier-1 virtual machines negatively impacting the performance of vCenter Server.The Operations lead has stated that management changes have consistently been rejected by application teams.As a result of the review, which recommendation should the architect make regarding the design of this platform?

Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines onto dedicated clusters

Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines using dedicated distributed virtual switches(DVS)

Separate Tier-2 virtual machines onto a dedicated cluster

Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines onto dedicated clusters

Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines using resource pools and shares

A customer provides the following list of requirements for their vSphere platform:REQ01 The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure.REQ02 The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days.REQ03 All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes.REQ04 The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts.REQ05 The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines.Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure

The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days

The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure

The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts

The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines

All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes

The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days

Refer to the exhibit. During a requirements gathering workshop, the architect shares the following diagram:What should the architect recommend for guaranteed throughput for each service?

Use explicit failover order with pNIC0 as Active for ESXi Management and VM Network Use explicit failover order with pNIC1 as Active for backup network Use explicit failover order with pNIC2 as Active for vMotion Use explicit failover order with pNIC3 as Active for replication

Use the Route Based on IP Hash for ESXi management and VM network Use the Route Based on IP Hash for backup network Use the Route Based on the Originating Virtual Port for vMotion Use failover with pNIC3 as Active for replication

Create a link aggregation group (LAG) for vDS_01Use the Route Based on Physical NIC Load for vMotion Use the Route Based on Physical NIC Load for replication

Use the Route Based on IP Hash for ESXi management and VM network Use failover with pNIC1 as Active for backup network Create a link aggregation group (LAG) for vDS_02

A new vSphere platform is being created. The platform will host virtual machines that will run management services and line-of-business applications.What should the architect consider when designing the number and type of clusters required?

The level of isolation required between virtual machine classifications

Auditing requirements for the virtual machines

The level of isolation required between virtual machine classifications

An architect is creating a network design for a new vSphere environment.Based on customer requirements, the environment must support the following types of traffic:Management vMotion vSAN Fault Tolerance Virtual machine traffic, which cannot be impacted by other types of traffic Which design recommendation can the architect make for a resilient infrastructure with vSphere network service tiering?

Use Network I/O Control and ensure appropriate share value is defined for different types of traffic giving priority to the virtual machines traffic

Use different logical networks to ensure traffic is isolated with separate VLANs

Use Network I/O Control and ensure appropriate share value is defined for different types of traffic giving priority to the virtual machines traffic

Use two dedicated virtual switches with a single adapter each, dedicating one virtual switch for Management, vMotion, vSAN and Fault Tolerance traffic, and the second one for virtual machine traffic

Use a NIC teaming policy based on the physical NIC load

An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer based on the following information:The vSphere cluster will have three hosts only due to budget considerations.A database cluster (node majority) consisting of three virtual machines will be running on the vSphere cluster.Which two recommendations can the architect make so that the customer achieves the highest level of application availability while taking into consideration operational resiliency? (Choose two.)

Create VM-VM anti-affinity rules

Set das.respectvmvmantiaffinityrules to false

Create VM-VM anti-affinity rules

Set das.respectvmvmantiaffinityrules to false

Create VM-Host anti-affinity rules

Disable vSphere HA during maintenance

Set das.ignoreinsufficienthbdatastore to true

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement (REQ) and constraints (CON):REQ01: The customer is looking for a way to limit database virtual machine (VM) placement to save on CPU licensing costs.CON01: There is a single cluster with no budget to scale.CON02: All virtual machines must run on the consolidated cluster.Which two design decisions should the architect make to meet the customer requirement? (Choose two.)

The solution must use VM-Host affinity rules

The solution must use vSphere VM and host DRS groups

The solution must use VM-VM anti-affinity rules

The solution must use vSphere DRS in manual mode

The solution must use a vRealize Orchestrator workflow for VM placement

The solution must use VM-Host affinity rules

The solution must use vSphere VM and host DRS groups

Refer to the exhibit. During a requirements gathering workshop, a customer shares the following diagram regarding their availability service-level agreements (SLAs):The customer states that there is no application level availability for legacy applications.Which recommendation could the architect make to meet the customer’s high availability requirements for the legacy applications virtual machines?

Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Disabled

Achieve application availability with snapshots

Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Lowest

Which two statements are true about gathering functional business and application requirements?(Choose two.)

It might require multiple rounds of stakeholder interviews

It builds stakeholder consensus

It focuses on functional requirements with C-level stakeholders

It might require multiple rounds of stakeholder interviews

It builds stakeholder consensus

Which requirement would be classified as a functional requirement within the design documentation?

The system must be able to scale to support 500 concurrent virtual machines.

The system must perform virtual machine backups through an API.

Virtual machines must be patched within one month of the patch release date.

Virtual machines must be restarted within 30 minutes of a host failure.

The system must be able to scale to support 500 concurrent virtual machines.

An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer and learns that the customer has:A single vSphere clusterTwo storage arrays with different RAID capabilitiesWhich two design decisions should the architect make to maximize data availability and data performance for this customer? (Choose two.)

Use multiple datastores for heartbeat.

Use a minimum of three storage arrays.

An architect is planning the physical server configuration for a vSAN-based infrastructure.Which operations mode should a RAID controller support to minimize potential server downtime during physical disk failures?

RAID controller with Passthru mode

RAID controller with RAID 5 mode

RAID controller with RAID 10 mode

RAID controller with RAID 6 mode

The architect for a large enterprise is tasked with reviewing a proposed design created by a service partner. Which design elements are expected to be detailed within the physical design section of the documentation?

A design diagram illustrating the configuration and specific attributes, such as IP addresses

A list of requirements, constraints, and risks

A solution architecture diagram with the components and data flow

An entity relationship diagram describing upstream and downstream dependencies for specific service components

An organization's existing vSphere environments are configured for Enhanced Linked Mode. The DevOps team automates the creation of hardened virtual machine images for various operating systems. Their continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline runs a task at the end of a successful build, which uploads the Open Virtualization Format (OV) image to a sandbox content library, deploys a virtual machine from the image, and then destroys these objects after quality checks are complete.The following requirements have been noted:All content libraries and images must be centrally created and managed.All images must be capable of being updated.All images must be refreshed and available to subscribed libraries within 24 hours.All images must provide details of the image contents and versions.All images must be capable of being reverted to a previous version.All images must be capable of having the hardware and guest operating system customized during deployment.Which three recommendations should the architect make to design a content library solution that will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

Create a local content library in the primary vSphere environment and enable publishing.

Create and publish a new subscription to a new subscriber library for each target vSphere environment.

Deploy the OVF images to vSphere and clone as a VM template to a local content library.

Create a local content library in the primary vSphere environment and enable publishing.

Create and publish a new subscription to a new subscriber library for each target vSphere environment.

Deploy the OVF images to vSphere and clone as an OVF template to a local content library.

Deploy the OVF images to vSphere and clone as a VM template to a local content library.

Edit the Auto Sync Refresh Interval advanced setting for each subscribed library.

Add a new subscriber library from each vSphere environment.

What is a benefit of using a scale-out method for handling vSphere cluster growth?

Less potential impact to virtual machines during a single host failure

An increase in the recovery time objective (RTO) for the cluster

Faster to reach the limit of virtual machines per host

An overall reduction in the license costs for the cluster

Less potential impact to virtual machines during a single host failure

Refer to the exhibit. During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer shares the following diagram regarding their availability service-level agreements (SLAs):The customer wants database application level availability to always take precedence. What should the architect recommend to meet the customer’s requirement?

Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Highest.

Enable Sphere HA and maintain the default settings.

Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Lowest.

A architect is designing a new VMware software-designed data center (SDDC) using vSphere 7 to meet the following requirements:The SDDC must be deployed at two locations: primary and secondary. vSphere Replication must be used to replicate virtual machines between the two locations.Site Recovery Manager must be used to orchestrate disaster recovery (DR) activities.One single-sign on (SSO) domain must be used to authenticate access at both locations.Which design decision should the architect make to meet these requirements?

A vCenter Server Appliance will be deployed to each site.

A vCenter Server Appliance will be deployed to each site. Unique SSO domains will be created per site.

A vCenter Server will be installed on Windows virtual machines deployed to both sites.

A vCenter Server Appliance will be deployed to each site.

A vCenter Server Appliance will be deployed to the primary site only.

An architect is designing an environment for a retail customer. The design will use a single small vCenter Server Appliance and a cluster of eight ESXi hosts at a remote site. There is a single 10 GbE connected network at the remote site to support all management services. It is not possible to create additional management networks at the remote site. Virtual machine backups at the site will be dependent on the vCenter Server being available.Which design decision should the architect make to maximize availability for backups?

The vCenter Server Appliance will be protected with vSphere Fault Tolerance.

vCenter Server High Availability will be configured.

The vCenter Server Appliance will be protected with vSphere Fault Tolerance.

The cluster will be configured to use vSphere DRS in fully automated mode.

The cluster will be configured with vSphere HA and set to restart virtual machines based on guest operating system heartbeat monitoring.

An architect is designing a new vSphere cluster. The requirement is to provide a total of 96 CPU cores and 1.5 TB RAM across all hosts.The following information has been provided:Two different physical hardware profiles are available for the ESXi hosts in the cluster.- Profile 1: 16 CPU cores and 256 GB RAM- Profile 2: 32 CPU cores and 512 GB RAMProfile 2 is twice as expensive to purchase as Profile 1.Which two aspects should the architect consider when selecting the hardware profile? (Choose two.)

The amount of capacity available for failover of virtual machines within the cluster

The number of virtual machines that will be running within the cluster

The manufacturer and model of the CPUs in the hosts

The amount of capacity available for failover of virtual machines within the cluster

The downtime allowed for virtual machines that will be running within the cluster

The cost to procure and maintain the hardware

The number of virtual machines that will be running within the cluster

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement:A new vSphere platform must be designed securely and all interfaces must be protected against potential snooping.How should this non-functional security requirement be documented?

Communications must be through Private VLANs (PVLAN).

Encrypted channels must be used for all communications.

Unauthorized access to interfaces must be reported within 15 minutes.

Communications must be through Private VLANs (PVLAN).

An architect is designing a new backup solution for a vSphere platform that has been recently upgraded to vSphere 7.The architect wants the backup solution to perform the following:Full virtual machine image backup and restoreIncremental virtual machine image backup and restoreFile level backup and restore within both Windows and Linux virtual machines LAN-free backup Which functional requirement should the architect include in the design of the new backup solution?

The backup solution must leverage VMware vSphere Storage APIs - Data Protection.

The backup solution must leverage the VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) framework.

The backup solution must leverage virtual machine snapshots.

The backup solution must leverage VMware vSphere Storage APIs - Data Protection.

The backup solution must leverage VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP).

An architect is tasked with designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution for an online retail customer who has a primary and secondary data center as well as 10 distribution hubs.The customer has provided the following business requirements to help inform the design:The solution must support the running of up to 1,000 concurrent virtual machines across the primary and secondary data center.The solution must support the running of up to 20 concurrent virtual machines in each distribution hub.The solution must support the separation of management and lines-of-business application virtual machines.All management components (including directory services, backup, automation, operations and logging) must be deployed to the primary data center.All virtual infrastructure components must have redundancy of N+1.All sites are connected to each other using a wide area network that has multiple diversely routed links.The solution should support a monthly uptime target of 99.9%.The recovery time objective (RTO) for the solution must be four hours.The recovery point objective (RPO) for the solution must be 24 hours.Given the information from the customer, which assumption should the architect include in the design?

The wide area network has sufficient bandwidth to support centralized management.

All business application virtual machines can be deployed into a single cluster within the primary data center.

Each distribution hub should be configured with a backup device.

The wide area network has sufficient bandwidth to support centralized management.

Each cluster will have a minimum of four hosts.

Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a recoverability non-functional requirement?

The platform must be able to support a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of 30 minutes.

The platform must be integrated with existing change control policies.

The platform must be able to support a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of 30 minutes.

Maintenance windows must be scheduled to take place monthly during an established overnight period.

The platform must be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the exception of scheduled downtime.

A customer defines a requirement to minimize the vMotion migration time during a maintenance period. The servers being used are equipped with eight 1 GbE network adapters.Per the defined logical network configuration, there are two network adapters each used for:Management traffic vMotion traffic iSCSI traffic Virtual machine traffic Which design decision should the architect make to meet the customer requirement?

Implement Multi-NIC vMotion by adding additional vMotion VMkernels.

Use Network I/O Control to define a reservation for vMotion traffic.

Implement Multi-NIC vMotion by adding additional vMotion VMkernels.

Configure a dedicated TCP/IP stack for vMotion traffic.

Combine vMotion and Management traffic to make use of four adapters.

An architect is preparing a design for a customer. Based on requirements, the architect recommends an HCI- based infrastructure with all-flash architecture. During the assessment, it is confirmed that the network throughput generated by virtual machines does not exceed 150 Mb/s.What is the minimum number and type of network adapters in each server that the architect can recommend to ensure requirements are met and there is no single point of failure?

Two 10 GbE network adapters per server

Two 1 GbE network adapters per server

Four 1 GbE network adapters per server

Four 10 GbE network adapters per server

Two 10 GbE network adapters per server

An architect decides to separate virtual desktops and application servers into separate vSphere clusters to meet security and management requirements.What are two implications of this design decision? (Choose two.)

There will be an increase in management overhead.

There will be a reduction in performance.

There will be an increase in management overhead.

Identical hardware must be procured for all hosts.

There will be a reduction in performance.

The patching cycles will affect both clusters at the same time.

There will be additional licensing and cost requirements for both clusters.

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An architect is designing a new greenfield environment that will install ESXi on local disks. There is a requirement to streamline initial and future installations of ESXi hosts.

Which configuration option should the architect recommend for installing ESXi hosts to meet these requirements?

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