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.)

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?

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?

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?

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

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?

Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a recoverability non-functional requirement?

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?

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?

A new vSphere platform is being created. The platform will host virtual machines that will run management services and line-of-business applications.

What should the architect consider when designing the number and type of clusters required?

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?

An architect is designing a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution based on the following customer requirements:

• The solution must initially support 1,000 virtual machines
• The solution must scale to support the concurrent running of up to 5,000 virtual machines
• The production environment should be delivered across two data centers
• The solution should have a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of four hours
• The solution should have a monthly service availability target of 99.8%

Which two assumptions could the architect make based on the information from the customer to help size the solution? (Choose two.)

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?

Following a recent acquisition, the architect learns that both companies use vSphere on-premise and will need to combine the data centers into one. The acquired company's licenses will not be renewed for cost-savings related to the acquisition. All consumed vSphere licenses must have active support to support line-of-business operations. The merged environment must maintain 25% spare capacity. The architect has a small budget remaining unallocated for hardware.

The architect has calculated that the current vSphere environment can absorb the acquired company's virtual machines but the cluster will run at 90% memory utilization and at 50% CPU utilization.

Which design decision can the architect make to incorporate the new company's virtual machines into the combined vSphere environment?

Which two statements are true about gathering functional business and application requirements? (Choose two.)

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

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.)

As part of a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirements for the design of a new greenfield virtual infrastructure:

• Some applications have a latency that must be less than 5 minutes.
• The solution must be able to support a workload growth rate of 10% per year.

Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

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?

An architect has 50 ESXi hosts to deploy and DHCP servers are not allowed on any network. Which automated host deployment method should the architect use?

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?

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.)

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?