NEW QUESTION 1
An architect is designing a new greenfield environment with 600 ESXi hosts in an automated fashion. The engineering department already has a PXE Boot server, TFTP server, and DHCP server set up with an NFS mount for their current Linux servers.
The architect must be able to demonstrate and meet a security requirement to have all infrastructure processes separated.
Which recommendation should the architect make for the ESXi host deployment?

• A. Request an isolated network segment to use and dedicate it to Auto Deploy functions
• B. Ask the business to expand the engineering environment to service the virtual environment as well
• C. Request a common shared network with flexible security measures to accommodate different auto deployment options
• D. Deploy each ESXi host individually and document it to satisfy security requirements

Answer: A

Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.esxi.install.doc/GUID-8DAC6FEE-0441-4072

NEW QUESTION 2
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 on-premises.
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.)

• A. The backup service will store data in a secure facility
• B. The backup service has sufficient capacity for the new requirements
• C. The customer will update their hardware standard to support rack mount servers
• D. All virtual machines will be deployed with the same resource profile for production and development
• E. The clusters will have a minimum redundancy of N+1

Answer: BE

NEW QUESTION 3
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.
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. All business application virtual machines can be deployed into a single cluster within the primary data center.
• B. Each distribution hub should be configured with a backup device.
• C. The wide area network has sufficient bandwidth to support centralized management.
• D. Each cluster will have a minimum of four hosts.

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4
An architect is finalizing the design for a new vCenter Server High Availability deployment. What is one thing the architect must document in the design?

• A. The load balancing algorithm used by the Management Distributed Virtual Switches (DVS)
• B. The SSH configuration settings for the vCenter Server’s active node
• C. The vCenter Management Network IPv4 addresses for the witness node vCenter Server
• D. The details of each of the vCenter Server licenses for active, passive and witness nodes

Answer: C

Explanation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc/GUID-9B176C8A-4EEE-4A

NEW QUESTION 5
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.)

• A. There will be an increase in management overhead.
• B. Identical hardware must be procured for all hosts.
• C. There will be a reduction in performance.
• D. The patching cycles will affect both clusters at the same time.
• E. There will be additional licensing and cost requirements for both clusters.

Answer: DE

NEW QUESTION 6
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 database tier breaches a single NUMA node boundary for the benchmarking cluster
• B. The database tier breaches a single NUMA node boundary for the development cluster
• C. The development cluster can support a lower %Ready time per vCPU
• D. The development cluster has more available RAM per host

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 7
The storage team at an organization is planning to migrate from an older Fibre Channel storage environment to a new environment using IP-based storage.
Which two switch features or characteristics are appropriate for IP storage networks? (Choose two.)

• A. Fabric extending devices
• B. Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• C. 2:1 or greater bandwidth oversubscription for 10 GbE switches
• D. Non-blocking switch
• E. Deep or ultra buffered switches

Answer: DE

Explanation:
https://www.arista.com/en/solutions/ip-storage-network-infrastructures

NEW QUESTION 8
Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as manageability non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. ESXi clusters must scale when compute resources are sustained above 70% for five business days
• B. vSphere Fault Tolerance must be supported to improve application uptime
• C. ESXi host updates must be installed within one week of release
• D. The vSphere environment must support administrator password rotation
• E. ESXi clusters must scale to 500 concurrent virtual machines

Answer: AC

NEW QUESTION 9
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 10
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. Data-in-transit encryption
• B. OS-level encryption
• C. Encrypted backups
• D. Array-based encryption

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
A Cloud Service Provider wants to introduce backup as a service for a customer’s vSphere-based virtual machines.
The following information is noted:
All top-of-rack (ToR) switches are 10 GbE and fully populated
The backup traffic must not impact existing services
Which two recommendations should the architect make to help the customer incorporate the service? (Choose two.)

• A. Enable and tag traffic on the backup distributed port group
• B. Add a new two-port 10 GbE NIC per ESXi host
• C. Replace the existing NIC with a two-port 25 GbE NIC per ESXi host
• D. Match the Class of Service (CoS) and Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) values to the physical network
• E. Create a new virtual switch using the 1 GbE uplinks

Answer: AB

NEW QUESTION 12
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.)

• A. IOPs limits enabled
• B. RAID 1
• C. Deduplication and Compression disabled
• D. RAID 5/6
• E. Deduplication and Compression enabled

Answer: AB

NEW QUESTION 13
In a meeting to discuss the minimum viable product (MVP) deployment of a new customer-facing application, the key stakeholder shares details of the application components and the application administrators share details of performance and integrity tests for the application.
The application will be made up of the following components:
A web server
-Steps to confirm the web server is operating correctly will take 15 minutes after the application server is online.
An application server
-Steps to confirm application server integrity will take 15 minutes after the database is online.
A database server
-The database server will be managed by a database administrator, with an agreed service-level agreement (SLA) to restore and validate database services within one hour.
The existing VMware infrastructure offers a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 minutes and recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes through a combination of backups and replication.
In the event of an outage impacting all three application components, how long will it take for the application to recover and complete all checks?

• A. 15 minutes
• B. 60 minutes
• C. 105 minutes
• D. 90 minutes

Answer: C

Explanation:
15 restore VMs + 60 restore and test DB + 15 test app server + 15 test web server

NEW QUESTION 14
An architect is designing a new VMware solution for a customer that has a number of different resource
profiles.
The following are the business requirements for the design:
The solution must support virtual machines with the following storage profiles:
-Write-intensive
-Backup
-Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) archive
The solution must support migration of virtual machine disks between storage profiles.
The WORM archive data must be located at an isolated secure site.
The backup storage array must only be connected to a backup media server.
All data should be recoverable from backup.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet the business requirements?

• A. The solution will leverage a single storage array for the WORM archive and write-intensive storage profiles
• B. The solution will leverage the same array for the backup and write-intensive storage profiles
• C. The solution will leverage a different array for each storage profile
• D. The solution will leverage a single storage array for all storage profiles

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 15
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?

• A. Split the virtual machines into several VLANs Use tag actions
• B. Create port groups with different names and same VLAN IDs Enable traffic shaping for ingress and egress traffic
• C. Enable traffic filtering and marking Use allow or drop actions
• D. Disable traffic filtering and marking Use tag actions

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 16
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 17
Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a recoverability non-functional requirement?

• A. The platform must be integrated with existing change control policies.
• B. The platform must be able to support a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of 30 minutes.
• C. Maintenance windows must be scheduled to take place monthly during an established overnight period.
• D. The platform must be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the exception of scheduled downtime.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 18
An organization’s data scientists are executing a plan to use machine learning (ML). They must have access to graphical processing unit (GPU) capabilities to execute their computational models when needed. The solutions architect needs to design a solution to ensure that GPUs can be shared by multiple virtual machines. Which two solutions should the architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. NVIDIA vGPU
• B. AMD MxGPU
• C. vSphere DirectPath I/O
• D. vSGA
• E. vSphere Bitfusion

Answer: AE

Explanation:
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2018/07/using-gpus-with-virtual-machines-on-vsphere-part-1-overview.html

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