Following a review of security requirements, an architect has confirmed the following requirements:
REQ001- A clustered firewall solution must be placed at the perimeter of the hosting platform, and all ingress and egress network traffic will route via this device.
REQ002- A distributed firewall solution must secure traffic for all virtualized workloads.
REQ003- All virtualized workload, hypervisor, firewall and any management component system events must be monitored by security administrators.
REQ004- The hosting platforms security information and event management (SIEM) system must be scalable to 20,000 events per second.
REQ005- The hosting platforms storage must be configured with data-at-rest encryption.
REQ006- The hosting platform limits access to authorized users.
Which three requirements would be classified as technical (formerly non-functional) requirements? (Choose three.)
An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The following information has been gathered during the design workshops with the customer:
The solution will be deployed into two availability zones (AZs)
The solution will be configured as a single stretched cluster with shared storage across the two AZs
Production and Development workloads will run across both AZs
The cluster is configured as N + 1
The architect needs to ensure that, in the event of a host failure during maintenance of another host in the cluster, only the Production workloads are recovered.
What should the architect include in the design to meet this requirement?
During a workshop for a design project, the following information is shared:
Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and partners to promote collaboration.
Maintain high standards of quality and professionalism in all aspects of the project.
Build a strong foundation for future projects, including cloud infrastructures.
Ensure project timelines and milestones are met by effectively managing resources and priorities.
Which of these would be classified as a business outcome of the project?
An architect is documenting the design for a new multi-site vSphere solution. The customer has informed the architect that the workloads hosted on the solution are managed by application teams, who must perform a number of steps to return the application to service following a failover of the workloads to the secondary site. These steps are defined as the Work Recovery Time (WRT). The customer has provided the architect with the following information about the workloads:
Critical workloads have a WRT of 12 hours
Production workloads have a WRT of 24 hours
Development workloads have a WRT of 24 hours
All workloads have an RPO of 4 hours
Critical workloads have an RTO of 1 hour
Production workloads have an RTO of 12 hours
Development workloads have an RTO of 24 hours
The customer has also confirmed that the Disaster Recovery solution will not begin the recovery of the development workloads until all critical and production workloads have been recovered at the secondary site.
What would the architect document as the maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) for each type of workload in the design?
An architect is discussing recoverability considerations for a new vSphere solution as part of a requirements workshop. The customer has informed the architect that the company policy is to not perform backups of ESXi hosts due to their selected backup software not supporting the ESXi software. In the past, when hosts have experienced failures, the hosts have been reinstalled from the VMware provided ESXi image and manually configured by an administrator. The customer asks the architect to design a solution that will reduce the manual effort required by the administrator to return a failed host to service.
What could the architect include in the design to meet the customer's request?
An architect is holding a design workshop with a customer for a new solution. The customer states that the new solution needs to provide the following capabilities:
Automated deployment and lifecycle management of the vSphere platform
Self-Service deployment of virtual machines and other objects from a central catalog
Monitoring, logging and analytic tooling to provide visibility and troubleshooting of the whole solution
Support deployment via infrastructure-as-code methods for the additional management components
The customer also requests that the solution be as cost-effective as possible while still delivering a fast time to value for the organization.
Which design approach should the architect recommend to meet these requirements?
An architect is documenting the design for a new vSphere cluster. The customer provides the following information:
All ESXi hosts will use hardware from the same vendor
All ESXi hosts will be monitored for hardware related issues using the vendor's monitoring tooling
The vendor's monitoring tooling provides a plugin for vCenter to allow the hardware status to be visible
The customer also informs the architect of the following requirements:
Workloads must be automatically relocated to other hosts in the event that a host hardware is marked as degraded.
Workloads must be automatically restarted on other hosts in the event of a host failure.
What should the architect include in the design to meet these requirements?
A company will be replacing the external storage array that is currently providing storage to the vSphere environment. The architect must design a storage architecture for existing and future workloads. Company policy required storage separation of workloads by departments.
Which design decision should the architect make to satisfy the requirement and scale for additional departments?
An architect is responsible for the following customer considerations in a hardware refresh:
Capacity planning will ensure that the environment does not exceed 70% of peak-average utilization on deployment.
CPU purchases will favor clock speed and last level cache over cores per socket.
Additional ESXi hosts will be added to the cluster when CPU or memory utilization exceeds 70% for 3 consecutive business days.
Path Selection policy will be set to round robin and set to switch paths with every SCSI command.
vCPU to pCPU ratio may not exceed 5:1.
What are three considerations when designing for performance? (Choose three.)
An architect is designing a new hosting platform for a healthcare provider with proposed locations in three regional areas.
The following set of requirements have been provided by key stakeholders:
REQ001 - The hosting platform must support long distance vMotion between the primary and secondary site.
REQ002 - The maximum RTT (round-trip time) latency between the primary site and the secondary site must be less than 150 milliseconds.
REQ003 - The hosting platform must be manageable from assets located in the third site.
REQ004 - Each location must scale to support a minimum of 35TB storage.
Which requirement would be classified as a technical (formerly non-functional) requirement for the new hosting platform?
TESTED 30 Apr 2025
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