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

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Advanced Design VMware vSphere 7.x Questions and Answers

Question 1

Refer to the exhibit.

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer shares the following diagram regarding their availability service-level agreements (SLAs):

Question # 1

The customer wants database application level availability to always take precedence. What should the architect recommend to meet the customer’s requirement?

Options:

A.

Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Highest.

B.

Enable Fault Tolerance.

C.

Enable Sphere HA and maintain the default settings.

D.

Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Lowest.

Question 2

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

Options:

A.

The platform must be integrated with existing change control policies.

B.

The platform must be able to support a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of 30 minutes.

C.

Maintenance windows must be scheduled to take place monthly during an established overnight period.

D.

The platform must be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the exception of scheduled downtime.

Question 3

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?

Options:

A.

Stateless vSphere Auto Deploy

B.

Stateful vSphere Auto Deploy

C.

Scripted installation

D.

Interactive installation

Question 4

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?

Options:

A.

Maximum tolerable downtime

B.

Predicted platform growth

C.

Auditing requirements for the virtual machines

D.

The level of isolation required between virtual machine classifications

Question 5

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?

Options:

A.

Deploy a vCenter server for the management cluster.

Deploy a vCenter Server for all remaining clusters. Create a shared SSO domain for each physical site.

B.

Deploy a vCenter Server for the management cluster.

Deploy a vCenter Server for all remaining clusters.

Create a shared SSO domain across all physical sites.

C.

Deploy a vCenter Server for the management cluster with a dedicated SSO domain.

Deploy a vCenter Server for all remaining clusters and use a dedicated SSO domain for each physical site.

D.

Deploy a vCenter Server for the management cluster with a dedicated SSO domain.

Deploy a vCenter Server for all remaining clusters and use a dedicated SSO domain into a single physical site.

Question 6

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?

Options:

A.

Configure vSphere HA

Configure % based admission control Configure two isolation addresses

Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

B.

Configure vSphere HA

Set das.IgnoreRedundantNetWarning to true

Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

C.

Configure vSphere HA

Configure two existing data stores for heartbeat

Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

D.

Configure Proactive HA Automation Level: Automated

Remediation: Maintenance mode for all failures

Consider an OEM with NIC failure conditions in their Proactive HA plugin

Question 7

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.)

Options:

A.

Clone virtual machines as VM templates to the published content library

B.

Create a subscribed library from the published library and synchronize Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates on-demand

C.

Create a subscription and publish VM templates to a subscribed content library

D.

Create a subscribed library from the published library and synchronize Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates automatically

E.

Clone virtual machines as Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates to the published content library

F.

Update the role for the DevOps team with new privileges

Question 8

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?

Options:

A.

Manageability

B.

Performance

C.

Availability

D.

Recoverability

Question 9

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?

Options:

A.

Separate Distributed Virtual Switches (DVS)

B.

Private VLANs (PVLAN)

C.

Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT)

D.

vSwitch VLAN Tagging (VST)

Question 10

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?

Options:

A.

Performance

B.

Manageability

C.

Recoverability

D.

Availability

Question 11

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?

Options:

A.

Leave the newly acquired company’s assets in its current place

B.

Lift and shift the acquired assets into the data center

C.

Migrate the acquired company’s virtual machines into the existing vSphere environment

D.

Migrate and apply vSphere tags to the acquired company’s virtual machines

Question 12

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement:

  • A new vSphere platform must be designed securely and all interfaces must be protected against potential snooping.

How should this non-functional security requirement be documented?

Options:

A.

Interfaces must be audited.

B.

Encrypted channels must be used for all communications.

C.

Unauthorized access to interfaces must be reported within 15 minutes.

D.

Communications must be through Private VLANs (PVLAN).

Question 13

An architect is designing an environment for a retail customer. The design will use a single small vCenter Server Appliance and a cluster of eight ESXi hosts at a remote site. There is a single 10 GbE connected network at the remote site to support all management services. It is not possible to create additional management networks at the remote site. Virtual machine backups at the site will be dependent on the vCenter Server being available.

Which design decision should the architect make to maximize availability for backups?

Options:

A.

vCenter Server High Availability will be configured.

B.

The vCenter Server Appliance will be protected with vSphere Fault Tolerance.

C.

The cluster will be configured to use vSphere DRS in fully automated mode.

D.

The cluster will be configured with vSphere HA and set to restart virtual machines based on guest operating system heartbeat monitoring.

Question 14

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.)

Options:

A.

Fabric extending devices

B.

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

C.

2:1 or greater bandwidth oversubscription for 10 GbE switches

D.

Non-blocking switch

E.

Deep or ultra buffered switches

Question 15

Refer to the exhibit.

During a requirements gathering workshop, a customer shares the following diagram regarding their availability service-level agreements (SLAs):

Question # 15

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?

Options:

A.

Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Disabled

B.

Enable Fault Tolerance

C.

Achieve application availability with snapshots

D.

Enable vSphere HA and add a VM Override with VM Restart Priority set to Lowest

Question 16

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?

Options:

A.

RAID controller with Passthru mode

B.

RAID controller with RAID 5 mode

C.

RAID controller with RAID 10 mode

D.

RAID controller with RAID 6 mode

Question 17

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?

Options:

A.

Use Network I/O Control to define a reservation for vMotion traffic.

B.

Implement Multi-NIC vMotion by adding additional vMotion VMkernels.

C.

Configure a dedicated TCP/IP stack for vMotion traffic.

D.

Combine vMotion and Management traffic to make use of four adapters.

Question 18

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

Options:

A.

The application must be hosted with redundancy levels of N+1 or better.

B.

Penetration testing must be executed quarterly with a pass rate of 80% or higher.

C.

The application must be capable of handling 200 transactions per second.

D.

Administrators must monitor the network traffic of the desired systems.

Question 19

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.)

Options:

A.

Use Route Based on Physical NIC Load.

B.

Use Network I/O Control with Shares.

C.

Use Network I/O Control with Reservation.

D.

Use Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

E.

Use Network I/O Control with Limits.

Question 20

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement (REQ) and constraints (CON):

  • REQ01: The customer is looking for a way to limit database virtual machine (VM) placement to save on CPU licensing costs.
  • CON01: There is a single cluster with no budget to scale.
  • CON02: All virtual machines must run on the consolidated cluster.

Which two design decisions should the architect make to meet the customer requirement? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

The solution must use VM-VM anti-affinity rules

B.

The solution must use vSphere DRS in manual mode

C.

The solution must use a vRealize Orchestrator workflow for VM placement

D.

The solution must use VM-Host affinity rules

E.

The solution must use vSphere VM and host DRS groups

Question 21

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?

Options:

A.

Security

B.

Manageability

C.

Recoverability

D.

Availability

Question 22

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:

Question # 22

Which two recommendations should the architect make for placement of the virtual machines to meet resource profile requirements? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster One.

B.

All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1 should be placed on Cluster One.

C.

All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster Two.

D.

All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1 should be placed on Cluster Two.

E.

All virtual machines matching Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2 should be placed on Cluster Three.

Question 23

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.)

Options:

A.

IOPs limits enabled

B.

RAID 1

C.

Deduplication and Compression disabled

D.

RAID 5/6

E.

Deduplication and Compression enabled

Question 24

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

Options:

A.

It focuses on functional requirements with C-level stakeholders

B.

It leverages a single set of QUESTION NO:s for all stakeholders

C.

It might require multiple rounds of stakeholder interviews

D.

It builds stakeholder consensus

E.

It is a non-iterative process

Question 25

An architect is designing a new vSphere platform to meet a list of requirements from the security team.

Which two requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Migration of virtual machines between hosts must be encrypted

B.

Log information must be verbose to support incident resolution

C.

Critical events generated within the platform must be logged to an external Syslog service

D.

Data integrity must be ensured

E.

A common content library must be maintained across all data centers

Question 26

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?

Options:

A.

Two 1 GbE network adapters per server

B.

Four 1 GbE network adapters per server

C.

Four 10 GbE network adapters per server

D.

Two 10 GbE network adapters per server

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