An architect is responsible for the availability design of a solution.
The following information has been provided:
Virtual machines (VMs) run 8 or less vCPUs
All hosts have a minimum of two NICs per vSphere distributed switch (VDS) connected to separate physical switches
All hosts have a minimum of two host bus adapters (HBAs) connected to separate physical switches
Which three options maximize VM availability in the event of an ESXi host failure? (Choose three.)
An architect is responsible for extending the hosting design for a customer. The customer has a mission-critical 3-node application which is load balanced in an active/active/passive configuration. The application administrator requests that the virtual infrastructure team be responsible for maintaining platform level availability. An organizational policy exists to mandate the highest possible availability for mission-critical applications.
Based on the resource requirements, the architect has made the following design decision:
The target vSphere cluster contains three VMware ESXi host servers
A combination of which additional four physical design decisions should the architect make to maximize availability of the application? (Choose four.)
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 designing a backup solution.
Which two statements should be included in the logical design for this solution? (Choose two.)
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?
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 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?
An architect is creating a design for a new vSphere solution to meet the following business requirement:
REQ001 - Reduce operational expenditure
Which design decision could the architect include in the logical design to satisfy this requirement?
An architect is designing a new vSphere-based solution for a customer.
During a requirements gathering workshop, the following information is provided:
The solutions must provide a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes.
The solution must have a primary and secondary site.
The solution must support orchestration to address application dependencies.
Which two solutions should the architect include in the design to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
An architect is responsible for the lifecycle management design for a brownfield vSphere-based solution.
The following information has been provided during initial meetings around the new solution:
Existing heterogeneous server hardware will be used to provide the hosting platform.
The available hardware is:
-- 10 servers that contain 2 x 20-Core Intel Xeon processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor A
-- 10 servers that contain 2 x 24-Core Intel Xeon processors and 768 GB RAM from Vendor A
-- 20 servers that contain 2 x 16-Core AMD EPYC processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor B
-- 10 servers that contain 1 x 24-Core AMD EPYC processors and 256 GB RAM from Vendor C
All of the hardware is currently listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).
All existing server hardware has 36 months vendor support remaining.
The requirements from the customer are:
REQ001 - The solution must support the hosting of 5,000 workloads across two physical sites.
REQ002 - The solution should minimize the number of clusters.
REQ003 - The solution must ensure that there is no impact to service when completing upgrades.
Given the resource requirements needed for the solution, the architect has calculated that all of the existing servers will be required to provide sufficient resources for the new environment. The Intel-based servers will be deployed to the primary site and the AMD-based servers will be
deployed to the secondary site.
Which four additional design decisions should the architect make to ensure all requirements can be met? (Choose four.)
TESTED 02 Aug 2025
