NEW QUESTION 1
An architect is designing a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution based on the following customer requirements:
The solution must initially support 1,000 virtual machines
The solution must scale to support the concurrent running of up to 5,000 virtual machines
The production environment should be delivered across two data centers
The solution should have a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of four hours
The solution should have a monthly service availability target of 99.8%
Which two assumptions could the architect make based on the information from the customer to help size the solution? (Choose two.)

• A. The number of vSphere hosts in a cluster
• B. The average resource utilization of a virtual machine
• C. The size (CPU/RAM/storage) of the average virtual machine
• D. The guest operating system for each virtual machine
• E. The size (CPU/RAM/storage) of the vSphere hosts

Answer: AE

NEW QUESTION 2
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 vCenter Server Appliance will be protected with vSphere Fault Tolerance.
• C. The cluster will be configured to use vSphere DRS in fully automated mode.
• D. The cluster will be configured with vSphere HA and set to restart virtual machines based on guest operating system heartbeat monitoring.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 3
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 Storage DRS.
• B. Use VMDK anti-affinity rules.
• C. Use multiple datastores for heartbeat.
• D. Use a minimum of three storage arrays.
• E. Use VM to host DRS rules.

Answer: AC

NEW QUESTION 4
Refer to the exhibit.

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer shares the following about their existing ESXi host virtual networking infrastructure:
The customer confirms that:
Each ESXi host has approximately 200 virtual machines.
They want to maximize the number of concurrent virtual machine migrations.
When placing a host in maintenance mode, it takes a long time to evacuate the virtual machines. Which two recommendations should the architect make in order to help the customer overcome their
challenge? (Choose two.)

• A. Configure the network to use MTU for the VMotion VMKernel to 1,600 bytes
• B. Configure the network to use MTU for the VMotion VMKernel to 9,000 bytes
• C. Create an additional standard switch with pNIC3 to use for vMotion
• D. Use the 3 pNICs and bundle them in a link aggregation group (LAG) configuration
• E. Use 10 GbE NICs instead of 1 GbE

Answer: CE

NEW QUESTION 5
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.)

• A. Create VM-VM anti-affinity rules
• B. Set das.respectvmvmantiaffinityrules to false
• C. Create VM-Host anti-affinity rules
• D. Disable vSphere HA during maintenance
• E. Set das.ignoreinsufficienthbdatastore to true

Answer: BC

NEW QUESTION 6
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?

• A. Use Network I/O Control to define a reservation for vMotion traffic.
• B. Implement Multi-NIC vMotion by adding additional vMotion VMkernels.
• C. Configure a dedicated TCP/IP stack for vMotion traffic.
• D. Combine vMotion and Management traffic to make use of four adapters.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 7
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.
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. Use Network I/O Control to ensure the internal security zone has higher share value
• B. Purchase additional servers and plan separate, isolated clusters for workloads that must be compliant with internal security
• C. Use a single cluster and ensure that different security zones are separated at least with dedicated VLANs and firewall
• D. Use a single cluster and configure DRS anti-affinity rules to ensure internal security compliant virtual machines cannot migrate between ESXi hosts.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8
An architect is designing a new vSphere platform for a customer to meet the following requirements:
The platform must be deployed into five physically separate sites.
The sites are spread across multiple regions.
Some sites require more than one vCenter Server.
The platform must provide an administrator with the ability to access virtual infrastructure components across all sites from a single management tool instance.
Which single sign-on (SSO) design recommendation will meet these requirements?

• A. Use an SSO domain across all vCenter Server instances
• B. Use an SSO domain per region
• C. Use an SSO domain per vCenter Server instance
• D. Use an SSO domain per site

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 9
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?

• A. Leave the newly acquired company’s assets in its current place
• B. Lift and shift the acquired assets into the data center
• C. Migrate the acquired company’s virtual machines into the existing vSphere environment
• D. Migrate and apply vSphere tags to the acquired company’s virtual machines

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
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 two data center locations have a network latency of 8 ms round-trip time (RTT)
• D. The existing storage is out of maintenance

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following information:
Each host has 2 × 10 GbE NIC
EtherChannel is not currently configured
No changes can be made to the physical network
Network throughput must be prioritized for defined critical services
Which two recommendations should the architect make with regard to virtual networking? (Choose two.)

• A. Use Route Based on Physical NIC Load.
• B. Use Network I/O Control with Shares.
• C. Use Network I/O Control with Reservation.
• D. Use Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).
• E. Use Network I/O Control with Limits.

Answer: AD

NEW QUESTION 12
A customer has six hosts available in a cluster. When running at full capacity, all virtual machines can be run on two hosts.
How many hosts can the customer place into maintenance mode at the same time while still providing N+2 resiliency to the cluster?

• A. Two
• B. Three
• C. One
• D. None

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 13
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. Security
• B. Manageability
• C. Recoverability
• D. Availability

Answer: A

Explanation:
This is lifecycle management function. The requirement is system critical patches, not system security patches.

NEW QUESTION 14
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 application virtual machines and management services to new physical network switches
• B. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate distributed virtual switches (DVS)
• C. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect application virtual machines and management services to separate VLANs
• D. The virtual infrastructure environment must connect management services to a vSphere standard switch (VSS)

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 15
An architect is designing storage for a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements: Asynchronous replication is required between two sites.
The impact on the storage layer should not impact the performance of the compute layer.
Each application tier will require different replication attributes.
Virtual machine live migration across compute and storage must be supported.
Virtual machine aware back up will be leveraged.
Operational management overhead should be minimized.
Operational automation should be supported.
Which storage design recommendations would meet the requirements?

• A. Two new Fibre Channel storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site.Each application tier will be initially provisioned a new LU
• B. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.
• C. Two new vSphere clusters enabled with vSAN will be deployed, one at either sit
• D. vSAN will be used to provide policy-based management for each application tier.vSphere Replication will be used to replicate the virtual machine data in an asynchronous configuration.
• E. Two new ISCSI storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site.Each application tier will be initially provisioned a new LU
• F. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.
• G. Two new storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site.vSphere Volumes (vVOLs) will be used to provide policy-based management for each application tie
• H. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 16
During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement that is pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment:
The Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) for all Tier 1 applications is one hour. Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

• A. Manageability
• B. Performance
• C. Availability
• D. Recoverability

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 17
Which requirement would be classified as a functional requirement within the application design documentation?

• A. The application must be hosted with redundancy levels of N+1 or better.
• B. Penetration testing must be executed quarterly with a pass rate of 80% or higher.
• C. The application must be capable of handling 200 transactions per second.
• D. Administrators must monitor the network traffic of the desired systems.

Answer: C

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