QUESTION 17
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?

QUESTION 18
Which requirement would be classified as a functional requirement within the design documentation?

QUESTION 19
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.)

QUESTION 20
An architect is designing the expansion of an existing vSphere 7 environment. The customer is requesting a design for a new cluster to support the anticipated future business growth. The requirements specified for the existing environment design must be considered when designing the new cluster.
The existing design has the following requirements:
REQ01 The environment has an availability target of 99.5% for all infrastructure.
REQ02 The recovery time objective (RTO) for Tier 1 virtual machines is one hour.
REQ03 Windows and Linux virtual machines must reside on separate clusters.
REQ04 Access to the management cluster within the environment must be controlled.
Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a functional requirement?

QUESTION 21
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?

QUESTION 22
An architect is creating a network design for a new vSphere environment.
Based on customer requirements, the environment must support the following types of traffic:
Management
vMotion
vSAN
Fault Tolerance
Virtual machine traffic, which cannot be impacted by other types of traffic Which design recommendation can the architect make for a resilient infrastructure with vSphere network service tiering?

QUESTION 23
Which design decision must be included in a design to allow for the deployment of a minimum supported configuration of vCenter High Availability (HA)?

QUESTION 24
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?

QUESTION 25
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?

QUESTION 26
An architect is designing a new greenfield environment that will install ESXi on local disks. There is a requirement to streamline initial and future installations of ESXi hosts.
Which configuration option should the architect recommend for installing ESXi hosts to meet these requirements?

QUESTION 27
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?

QUESTION 28
A Cloud Service Provider wants to introduce backup as a service for a customer’s vSphere-based virtual machines.
The following information is noted:
They have a single four-port (2 * 10 GbE and 2 * 1 GbE) NIC per ESXi host 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.)

QUESTION 29
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?

QUESTION 30
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.)

QUESTION 31
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.)

QUESTION 32
During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following information:
Each host has 2 × 10 GbE NIC
EtherChannel is not currently configured
No changes can be made to the physical network
Network throughput must be prioritized for defined critical services
Which two recommendations should the architect make with regard to virtual networking? (Choose two.)

QUESTION 33
Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as performance non-functional requirements?
(Choose two.)

QUESTION 34
Following a recent acquisition, an architect needs to merge IT assets into its current data center. The combined vSphere environment will need to run the newly acquired company’s virtual machines.
Network integration work has already been completed and the current environment has capacity to host all virtual machines. The Operations team needs to identify which virtual machines belong to the acquired company and report on their usage.
How should the architect merge the company’s assets and virtual machines?

QUESTION 35
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?

QUESTION 36
An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer and learns that the customer has:
A single vSphere cluster
Two storage arrays with different RAID capabilities
Which two design decisions should the architect make to maximize data availability and data performance for this customer? (Choose two.)

QUESTION 37
Which design decision must be included in a design to allow for the deployment of a minimum supported configuration of vCenter High Availability (HA)?

QUESTION 38
An architect is tasked with designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) using VMware vSAN. The architect uses a storage assessment tool to determine the storage requirements for the new vSAN cluster. The new SDDC is going to be deployed into the existing data center and must be connected to a shared core network switch.
The architect decides to use vSAN ReadyNodes with the following configuration:
Two disk groups with:
Write Intensive NVMe 800 GB drive for cache
Four 3.84 TB Mixed Use NVMe for capacity
Four 10 GbE ports
Which element represents a risk that should be included in this design?

QUESTION 39
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.)

QUESTION 40
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?