NO.28 An architect is designing a new vSphere cluster. The requirement is to provide a total of 96 CPU cores and 1.5 TB RAM across all hosts.
The following information has been provided:
1. Two different physical hardware profiles are available for the ESXi hosts in the cluster.
– Profile 1: 16 CPU cores and 256 GB RAM
– Profile 2: 32 CPU cores and 512 GB RAM
2. Profile 2 is twice as expensive to purchase as Profile 1.
Which two aspects should the architect consider when selecting the hardware profile? (Choose two.)

NO.29 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.30 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.31 An architect is considering placement of virtual machines within an existing VMware software-defined data center (SDDC).
During the discovery phase, the following information is documented:
Cluster One
– Six ESXi hosts
– vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1
– Proactive HA is enabled and set to automated |
– Fully Automated vSphere DRS
– Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is enabled
Cluster Two
– Eight ESXi hosts
– vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1
– Proactive HA is disabled
– Partially Automated vSphere DRS
– Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled
Cluster Three
– Three ESXi hosts
– vSphere HA with admission control is disabled
– Proactive HA is not supported
– Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled
Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1
– Memory sharing techniques should not be used
– Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure if resources are available Automated initial virtual machine placement Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2
– Memory sharing techniques should not be used
– Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure regardless of available resources
– Automated initial virtual machine placement.
Which two recommendations should the architect make for placement of the virtual machines to meet resource profile requirements? (Choose two.)

NO.32 Which vSphere feature is used to allocate CPU and memory resources dynamically among virtual machines within a cluster, based on predefined resource allocation rules?

NO.33 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?

NO.34 There is a request for approved virtual machine applications through a new vSphere platform’s integrated automation portal. The platform was built following all provided company security guidelines and has been assessed against Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) regulations.
The platform has the following characteristics:
– vRealize Operations is being used to monitor all clusters.
– There is a dedicated ESXi cluster, supporting all management services.
– All network traffic is via distributed virtual switches (DVS).
– There is a dedicated ESXi cluster for all line-of-business applications.
– Network traffic is serviced by NSX-T.
– There is a dedicated ESXi cluster for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
– Network traffic is serviced by NSX-T.
The application owner is requesting approval to install a new service that must be protected as per the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.
Which additional non-functional requirement should the architect include in the design to support the new service?

NO.35 During the upgrade process of VMware tools on virtual machines, what is the correct sequence to ensure smooth compatibility?

NO.36 What is the purpose of creating a vSphere storage logical design?

NO.37 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?

NO.38 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.39 A customer requests a review of its current vSphere platform design.
The following information is noted:
There are three different workload profiles for the virtual machines:
– Tier-1 virtual machines operate resource-intensive applications and require dedicated allocations for CPU and RAM.
– Tier-2 virtual machines operate internet-facing applications and require access to externally facing networks.
– Tier-3 virtual machines operate platform management tools such as vCenter Server and have different lifecycle management requirements.
– Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines are all hosted on a single large vSphere cluster.
– The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has raised concerns that hosting externally facing applications alongside management tools does not meet internal compliance standards.
– The Operations team has raised concerns about Tier-1 virtual machines negatively impacting the performance of vCenter Server.
– The Operations lead has stated that management changes have consistently been rejected by application teams.
As a result of the review, which recommendation should the architect make regarding the design of this platform?

NO.40 Refer to the exhibit. During a requirements gathering workshop, the architect shares the following diagram:
What should the architect recommend for guaranteed throughput for each service?

NO.41 Which of the following best describes the conceptual elements of a design?

NO.42 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.
– REQ04 The internal security standard specifies logical network separation for in-scope applications.
– 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?

NO.43 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.44 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?

NO.45 An architect is reviewing a physical storage design. The customer has specified that a new active-passive based storage array will be used to provide storage for the vSphere clusters.
Which configuration should for the architect recommended?

NO.46 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 asneeded 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.47 Which type of requirement focuses on the processing power and resources needed by the system?

NO.48 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?