VMware 3V0-21.21 Advanced Design VMware vSphere 7.x Exam Practice Test

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?

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement that is pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment:

• The Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) for all Tier 1 applications is one hour.

Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

An architect is designing a solution based on the following information:

• Each ESXi host has a single physical NIC with two 10 Gbps ports.
• There is a performance-based service-level agreement (SLA) that guarantees 15 Gbps bandwidth for production virtual machines at all times.
• There is no budget to purchase additional hardware.
• The hardware replacement SLA is based on a delivery agreement of two business days.

Which recommendation for the configuration of vSphere High Availability (HA) should the architect include in the design?

A customer defines a requirement to minimize the vMotion migration time during a maintenance period. The servers being used are equipped with eight 1 GbE network adapters.

Per the defined logical network configuration, there are two network adapters each used for:

• Management traffic
• vMotion traffic
• iSCSI traffic
• Virtual machine traffic

Which design decision should the architect make to meet the customer requirement?

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:

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• Four 10 GbE ports

Which element represents a risk that should be included in this design?

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.)

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

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.)

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?

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?

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.)

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 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?

A customer requires the use of data encryption to ensure data is not accessible when a drive is removed from the primary storage platform. However, there is also a requirement to use deduplication and compression against all workloads in order to conserve space.

Which solution meets the customer requirements?

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.)

During a transformation project kick-off meeting, an architect highlights specific areas on which to focus while developing the new conceptual design.

Which two of the listed statements are business requirements? (Choose two.)

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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?

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.)

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.)

A architect is designing a new VMware software-designed data center (SDDC) using vSphere 7 to meet the following requirements:

• The SDDC must be deployed at two locations: primary and secondary.
• vSphere Replication must be used to replicate virtual machines between the two locations.
• Site Recovery Manager must be used to orchestrate disaster recovery (DR) activities.
• One single-sign on (SSO) domain must be used to authenticate access at both locations.

Which design decision should the architect make to meet these requirements?