QUESTION 93
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?

QUESTION 94
An architect is designing a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
– The environment must support 800 virtual machines.
– The environment will be built initially using 200 hosts.
Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?

QUESTION 95
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?

QUESTION 96
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?

QUESTION 97
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?

QUESTION 98
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.)

QUESTION 99
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.)

QUESTION 100
The DevOps team at an organization is preparing to build and package virtual machine (VM) images that will be added to a content library for a new vSphere environment. Users will deploy virtual machines from the content library.
The solutions architect is gathering requirements to help the DevOps team decide between the use of VM templates versus Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates in the content library.
Which requirement would influence the design decision to use OVF templates in the content library?

QUESTION 101
Why are disaster recovery requirements essential for a vSphere design?

QUESTION 102
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?

QUESTION 103
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.)

QUESTION 104
A new real-time financial service application is being developed by the engineering team at a financial firm and will be released as a public Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. The solutions architect has designed and deployed a new vSphere environment and the supporting network infrastructure for hosting all public services. ESXi hosts are configured to use Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and a local stratum-1 network time server. Application provisioning and scaling will be managed by VMware vRealize Automation and can be run on Microsoft Windows or multiple distributions of Linux.
Which three recommendations should the architect include in the design to ensure that the service maintain timekeeping within an accuracy of one second- (Choose three.)

QUESTION 105
An architect is designing a solution based on the following information:
– Each ESXi host has a single physical NIC with two 10 Gbps ports.
– There is a performance-based service-level agreement (SLA) that guarantees 15 Gbps bandwidth for production virtual machines at all times.
– There is no budget to purchase additional hardware.
– The hardware replacement SLA is based on a delivery agreement of two business days.
Which recommendation for the configuration of vSphere High Availability (HA) should the architect include in the design?

QUESTION 106
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?

QUESTION 107
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?

QUESTION 108
Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as manageability non-functional requirements- (Choose two.)

QUESTION 109
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.)

QUESTION 110
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?

QUESTION 111
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?

QUESTION 112
An architect is reviewing the information gathered from an initial requirements gathering workshop.
The following requirements have been identified:
REQ001 – The architecture must support tracking of administrative logons and actions.
REQ002 – The architecture must support class three (three nines or 99.9%) system availability.
REQ003 – The architecture must report on system usage in terms of CPU, memory, storage and network.
REQ004 – The architecture must provide for system recovery point objective (RPO) of two hours.
REQ005 – The architecture must provide access to a precision time protocol (PTP) for time synchronization.
Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as business (formerly functional) requirements?
(Choose two.)

QUESTION 113
An architect is working on a security design for a shared storage environment. The storage array provides connectivity by the NFS protocol.
Which two design decisions could the architect include for this solution? (Choose two.)