Q110. 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?

Q111. An architect will be taking over control of a former Linux server fleet and repurposing the hardware into a new vSphere cluster. The current environment is already connected to the network but the hosts do not have any local disks. Since the fleet hardware is uniform, the architect can use a single ESXi image. All hosts within the cluster have the same CPU and memory capacity.
Which ESXi deployment method should the architect use?

Q112. What is the purpose of creating a vCenter Server logical design?

Q113. 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?

Q114. 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?

Q115. 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.)

Q116. 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?

Q117. What does evaluating storage protocols in a given scenario involve?

Q118. What do capacity requirements for a vSphere design help determine?

Q119. Which requirement is concerned with the amount of data storage necessary to support the system?

Q120. 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?

Q121. Which aspect of a vSphere design is concerned with the availability of critical applications and services?

Q122. 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.)

Q123. Which aspect of a vSphere design focuses on the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive data?

Q124. A customer is deploying a new cluster and wants to be able to patch and update two hosts in parallel. The cluster must be able to maintain N+1 resiliency across the remaining hosts while patching activities are performed. The current expected utilization of the platform requires a minimum of two hosts to support all of the virtual machines.
What is the minimum number of hosts the customer will require in the cluster in order to meet the required resiliency level?

Q125. 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?

Q126. 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?

Q127. What are non-functional requirements in the context of a vSphere design?

Q128. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for an organization is concerned about the security posture of the operating system images that are used for the provisioning of their Software-as-a- Service (SaaS) applications. The organization is in a growth period. The organization is opening a new data center to launch its next phase of new SaaS-based solutions.
The DevOps team currently creates encrypted virtual machine (VM) templates that are used for various operating systems and adds these to the vSphere inventory. The DevOps team already uses a published content library and has been granted a role with the ability to add and delete library items.
The following requirements have been noted:
– Impacts to the DevOps team’s operational processes must be kept to a minimum.
– The DevOps team must be able to regularly check out a copy of the image for updates and check in a new version of the image.
– Images must be synchronized from the primary data center to the new data center.
Which three recommendations should the architect make to design a content library solution that will meet these requirements- (Choose three.)

Q129. How is the physical and virtual networking topology different in a vSphere environment?

Q130. 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.)

Q131. Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as performance non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

Q132. An architect is finalizing the design for a new vSphere platform based on the following information:
– All Windows virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster for licensing purposes.
– All Linux virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster for licensing purposes.
– All management virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster.
– A total of ten physical sites will be used to host virtual machines.
– In the event of one physical datacenter becoming unavailable, the manageability of the virtual infrastructure in the remaining data centers should not be impacted.
– Access to configure the management virtual machines via vCenter Server must be controlled through the management Active Directory domain.
– Access to configure the Windows and Linux virtual machines must be controlled through the resource Active Directory domain.
– The management and resource Active Directory domains are part of separate Active Directory forests and do not have any trusts between them.
– The design will use Active Directory with Integrated Windows Authentication.
How should the architect document the vCenter Server configuration for this design?

Q133. 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.)

Q134. Which requirement would be classified as a functional requirement within the application design documentation?