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NEW QUESTION 44
An architect is preparing a design for a company planning digital transformation. During the requirements gathering workshop, the following requirements (REQ) and constraints (CON) are identified:
REQ01 The platform must host different types of workloads including applications that must be compliant with internal security standard.
REQ02 The infrastructure must initially run 100 virtual machines.
REQ03 Ten of the virtual machines must be compliant with internal security standard.
REQ04 The internal security standard specifies logical network separation for in-scope applications.
CON01 The customer has already purchased the licenses as part of another project.
CON02 The customer has five physical servers that must be reused.
Additionally, based on resource requirements, four physical servers will be enough to run all workloads. Which recommendation should the architect make to meet requirements while minimizing project costs?
- A. Purchase additional servers and plan separate, isolated clusters for workloads that must be compliant with internal security
- B. Use a single cluster and configure DRS anti-affinity rules to ensure internal security compliant virtual machines cannot migrate between ESXi hosts.
- C. Use a single cluster and ensure that different security zones are separated at least with dedicated VLANs and firewall
- D. Use Network I/O Control to ensure the internal security zone has higher share value
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 45
An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer and learns that the customer has:
A single vSphere cluster
Two storage arrays with different RAID capabilities
Which two design decisions should the architect make to maximize data availability and data performance for this customer? (Choose two.)
- A. Use VM to host DRS rules.
- B. Use multiple datastores for heartbeat.
- C. Use Storage DRS.
- D. Use a minimum of three storage arrays.
- E. Use VMDK anti-affinity rules.
Answer: B,C
NEW QUESTION 46
An architect is tasked with designing a greenfield VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution that will be used to deliver a private cloud service for a customer.
During the initial meeting with the service owner and business sponsor, the customer has provided the following information to help inform the design:
The solution must support the concurrent running of 1,000 virtual machines The production environment must be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers All virtual machines must be capable of running in either data center.
The two data centers are currently connected to each other through a single but diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency link.
The link between the two data centers is capable of supporting a round-trip time (RTT) of 150 ms The existing server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be deployed using vSAN ReadyNodes The service owner has stated that it is critical to ensure the availability target of 99.9% All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is five minutes The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is four hours Which two elements represent risks to the successful delivery of this solution? (Choose two.)
- A. The use of only two data centers
- B. The network connectivity between data center sites
- C. The use of vSAN ReadyNodes
- D. The RTT on the link between the two data centers
- E. The use of the existing backup service
Answer: D,E
NEW QUESTION 47
During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer's Chief Information Security Office (CISO) provides the following requirements that are pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment:
* All operating system critical patches must be installed within 24 hours of release.
* All virtual machine templates must be updated every three months in line with company policy.
Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?
- A. Manageability
- B. Availability
- C. Recoverability
- D. Security
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION 48
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?
- A. Auto Deploy with stateful install mode
- B. Auto Deploy with stateless caching mode
- C. Manual installation using boot from SAN
- D. Installation with kick start script
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 49
A customer requires the use of data encryption to ensure data is not accessible when a drive is removed from the primary storage platform. However, there is also a requirement to use deduplication and compression against all workloads in order to conserve space.
Which solution meets the customer requirements?
- A. OS-level encryption
- B. Data-in-transit encryption
- C. Array-based encryption
- D. Encrypted backups
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 50
Which two statements are true about gathering functional business and application requirements? (Choose two.)
- A. It focuses on functional requirements with C-level stakeholders
- B. It leverages a single set of Question:s for all stakeholders
- C. It builds stakeholder consensus
- D. It might require multiple rounds of stakeholder interviews
- E. It is a non-iterative process
Answer: A,D
NEW QUESTION 51
Which design decision must be included in a design to allow for the deployment of a minimum supported configuration of vCenter High Availability (HA)?
- A. A vSphere cluster will consist of more than three nodes
- B. The deployed vCenter Server will be Tiny
- C. A new subnet will be provisioned for vCenter HA services
- D. The vCenter HA network will support a latency of less than 50 ms
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 52
An architect is preparing a design for a company planning digital transformation. During the requirements gathering workshop, the following requirements (REQ) and constraints (CON) are identified:
* REQ01 The platform must host different types of workloads including applications that must be compliant with internal security standard.
* REQ02 The infrastructure must initially run 100 virtual machines.
* REQ03 Ten of the virtual machines must be compliant with internal security standard.
* REQ04 The internal security standard specifies logical network separation for in-scope applications.
* CON01 The customer has already purchased the licenses as part of another project.
* CON02 The customer has five physical servers that must be reused.
Additionally, based on resource requirements, four physical servers will be enough to run all workloads.
Which recommendation should the architect make to meet requirements while minimizing project costs?
- A. Purchase additional servers and plan separate, isolated clusters for workloads that must be compliant with internal security
- B. Use a single cluster and ensure that different security zones are separated at least with dedicated VLANs and firewall
- C. Use a single cluster and configure DRS anti-affinity rules to ensure internal security compliant virtual machines cannot migrate between ESXi hosts.
- D. Use Network I/O Control to ensure the internal security zone has higher share value
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 53
An architect is designing a VMware solution for a customer based on the following information:
The solution must use investments in existing storage array that supports both block and file storage.
The solution must support the ability to migrate workloads between hosts within a cluster.
The solution must support resource management priorities.
The solution must support the ability to connect virtual machines directly to LUNs.
The solution should use existing IPv4 based network infrastructure.
There is no budget for additional physical hardware.
Which two design decisions could the architect make to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
- A. The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS 3
- B. The ESXi hosts will leverage iSCSI
- C. The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel (FC)
- D. The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS 4.1
- E. The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Answer: B,D
NEW QUESTION 54
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?
- A. Enable Fault Tolerance.
- B. Enable Sphere HA and maintain the default settings.
- C. Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Highest.
- D. Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Lowest.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 55
An architect is designing a VMware solution for a customer to meet the following requirements:
The solution must use investments in existing storage array that supports both block and file storage.
The solution must support the ability to migrate workloads between hosts within a cluster.
The solution must support resource management priorities.
The solution must support the ability to connect virtual machines directly to LUNs.
The solution should use existing 32G fabric infrastructure.
There is no budget for additional physical hardware.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet these requirements?
- A. The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
- B. The ESXi hosts will leverage NFS.
- C. The ESXi hosts will leverage iSCSI.
- D. The ESXi hosts will leverage Fibre Channel (FC).
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 56
An architect is tasked with reviewing the design of a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) for a software development company. The platform is used to developing applications and services. It is important that the customer be able to accurately benchmark performance of developed applications.
The platform has recently commissioned new hosts to update the development cluster.
The development cluster host configuration is:
* 4 ESXi hosts with 2 sockets × 16 cores
* 512 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
* There is no resource contention
The benchmarking cluster host configuration is:
* 8 ESXi hosts with 2 sockets × 8 cores
* 256 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
* There is no resource contention
The customer is developing an application that includes a database virtual machine. The application developer states that the database virtual machine performs as required only when allocated 8 vCPUs 256 GB RAM. The database virtual machine performance meets the required levels when run from the development cluster.
Performance benchmarking for the database virtual machine yields highly variable results when run from the benchmarking cluster. The application cannot be released without reliable performance benchmarking data.
What is a possible reason for the difference in performance test results between the development and benchmarking clusters?
- A. The development cluster has more available RAM per host
- B. The database tier breaches a single NUMA node boundary for the development cluster
- C. The database tier breaches a single NUMA node boundary for the benchmarking cluster
- D. The development cluster can support a lower %Ready time per vCPU
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 57
An architect is designing the expansion of an existing vSphere 7 environment. The customer is requesting a design for a new cluster to support the anticipated future business growth. The requirements specified for the existing environment design must be considered when designing the new cluster.
The existing design has the following requirements:
REQ01 The environment has an availability target of 99.5% for all infrastructure.
REQ02 The recovery time objective (RTO) for Tier 1 virtual machines is one hour.
REQ03 Windows and Linux virtual machines must reside on separate clusters.
REQ04 Access to the management cluster within the environment must be controlled.
Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a functional requirement?
- A. Windows and Linux virtual machines must reside on separate clusters
- B. The environment has an availability target of 99.5% for all infrastructure
- C. Access to the management cluster within the environment must be controlled
- D. The recovery time objective (RTO) for Tier 1 virtual machines is one hour
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 58
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?
- A. The wide area network has sufficient bandwidth to support centralized management.
- B. Each cluster will have a minimum of four hosts.
- C. Each distribution hub should be configured with a backup device.
- D. All business application virtual machines can be deployed into a single cluster within the primary data center.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 59
As part of a new hybrid cloud initiative for a large financial company, the customer technical team is presenting an overview of the current state of the infrastructure and their vision for a new solution.
The project team captures notes during the presentation and adds them to the discovery documentation.
Which of the listed statements is a design constraint?
- A. The applications are created in-house with in-guest recovery protection
- B. The maximum tolerable data loss is 10 minutes
- C. The existing storage is out of maintenance
- D. The two data center locations have a network latency of 8 ms round-trip time (RTT)
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 60
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?
- A. Two 10 GbE network adapters per server
- B. Four 10 GbE network adapters per server
- C. Four 1 GbE network adapters per server
- D. Two 1 GbE network adapters per server
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 61
An architect makes the design decision to install ESXi on embedded and resilient 8 GB SD cards.
What is the impact of this design decision?
- A. The size of the SD cards is too small and the installation will fail
- B. Host profiles must be used for this kind of installation
- C. Scratch partition would need to be created on the external storage
- D. The vSphere Auto Deploy feature must be enabled on vCenter Server
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 62
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 servers
There 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?
- A. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect management services to a vSphere standard switch (VSS)
- B. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate VLANs
- C. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate distributed virtual switches (DVS)
- D. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to new physical network switches
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 63
Application owners require support of a Microsoft Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC).
Their current environment consists of the following components:
vSphere 7.0 and vSAN 7.0
External array supporting NFS 3.0/4.1, Server Message Block (SMB) 2.1
10 GbE storage connectivity for all devices
The solution architect is tasked with coming up with a solution to meet this requirement while utilizing their existing investments.
Which two recommendations could the architect make? (Choose two.)
- A. Use the SMB 2.1 protocol for sharing disks
- B. Use vSAN native support for WSFC
- C. Use NFS 4.1 shares for quorum and shared disk
- D. Use raw device mapping (RDM)
- E. Run WSFC on vSAN iSCSI Target Service
Answer: A,B
NEW QUESTION 64
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?
- A. Communications must be through Private VLANs (PVLAN).
- B. Interfaces must be audited.
- C. Unauthorized access to interfaces must be reported within 15 minutes.
- D. Encrypted channels must be used for all communications.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 65
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 RAM
Profile 2 is twice as expensive to purchase as Profile 1.
Which two aspects should the architect consider when selecting the hardware profile? (Choose two.)
- A. The downtime allowed for virtual machines that will be running within the cluster
- B. The manufacturer and model of the CPUs in the hosts
- C. The amount of capacity available for failover of virtual machines within the cluster
- D. The number of virtual machines that will be running within the cluster
- E. The cost to procure and maintain the hardware
Answer: C,D
NEW QUESTION 66
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?
- A. vCenter Server High Availability will be configured.
- B. The cluster will be configured to use vSphere DRS in fully automated mode.
- C. The vCenter Server Appliance will be protected with vSphere Fault Tolerance.
- D. The cluster will be configured with vSphere HA and set to restart virtual machines based on guest operating system heartbeat monitoring.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 67
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