NO.35 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?

NO.36 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.)

NO.37 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.)

NO.38 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.)

NO.39 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?

NO.40 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?

NO.41 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?

NO.42 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.)

NO.43 A customer provides the following list of requirements for their vSphere platform:
REQ01 The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure.
REQ02 The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days.
REQ03 All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes.
REQ04 The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts.
REQ05 The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines.
Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

NO.44 An architect is designing a new backup solution for a vSphere platform that has been recently upgraded to vSphere 7.
The architect wants the backup solution to perform the following:
Full virtual machine image backup and restore
Incremental virtual machine image backup and restore
File level backup and restore within both Windows and Linux virtual machines LAN-free backup Which functional requirement should the architect include in the design of the new backup solution?

NO.45 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?

NO.46 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.)

NO.47 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?

NO.48 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.)

NO.49 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?

NO.50 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?

NO.51 An architect is designing a series of new vSphere environments for an organization. The environments will be deployed in their US-East and US-West region data centers. Each data center may have one or more dedicated vSphere environments. Only the vSphere environments within a data center will be configured with Enhanced Linked Mode. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has authorized the use of VMware vRealize Automation Cloud for automation. The build team creates standardized virtual machine images for various operating systems in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and publishes the latest version on an as-needed basis to an internal HTTPS-accessible repository.
The architect must design a content library topology that meets the following requirements:
A localized content library must be available in each data center.
Each content library must be updated when an image is updated and released by the build team.
The cloud automation platform must be able to consume the latest approved content library images.
It must leverage the existing build team processes.
What should the architect recommend to meet the requirements?

NO.52 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.)

NO.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.)

NO.54 What is a benefit of using a scale-out method for handling vSphere cluster growth?

NO.55 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?

NO.56 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?