VCAP-DCV Design 2022 3V0-21.21 Practice Exam Questions

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

It focuses on functional requirements with C-level stakeholders

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

It might require multiple rounds of stakeholder interviews

It builds stakeholder consensus

It is a non-iterative process

2. A customer is deploying a new cluster and wants to be able to patch and update two hosts in parallel. The cluster must be able to maintain N+1 resiliency across the remaining hosts while patching activities are performed. The current expected utilization of the platform requires a minimum of two hosts to support all of the virtual machines.

What is the minimum number of hosts the customer will require in the cluster in order to meet the required resiliency level?

Five

Six

Four

Seven

3. 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.)

NVIDIA vGPU

AMD MxGPU

vSphere DirectPath I/O

vSGA

vSphere Bitfusion

4. 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?

The number of 10 GbE capable ports in the vSAN ReadyNode

The use of vSAN ReadyNodes

The existing network is 10 GbE capable

The use of NVMe drives for cache and capacity

5. A customer requests a review of its current vSphere platform design.

The following information is noted:

✑ There are three different workload profiles for the virtual machines:

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✑ Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines are all hosted on a single large vSphere cluster.

✑ The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has raised concerns that hosting externally facing applications alongside management tools does not meet internal compliance standards.

✑ The Operations team has raised concerns about Tier-1 virtual machines negatively impacting the performance of vCenter Server.

✑ The Operations lead has stated that management changes have consistently been rejected by application teams.

As a result of the review, which recommendation should the architect make regarding the design of this platform?

Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines using dedicated distributed virtual switches (DVS)

Separate Tier-2 virtual machines onto a dedicated cluster

Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines onto dedicated clusters

Separate Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines using resource pools and shares

6. 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.)

The solution must use VM-VM anti-affinity rules

The solution must use vSphere DRS in manual mode

The solution must use a vRealize Orchestrator workflow for VM placement

The solution must use VM-Host affinity rules

The solution must use vSphere VM and host DRS groups

7. 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?

Data-in-transit encryption

OS-level encryption

Encrypted backups

Array-based encryption

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

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

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

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

Administrators must monitor the network traffic of the desired systems.

9. An architect is designing storage for a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:

✑ Asynchronous replication is required between two sites.

✑ The impact on the storage layer should not impact the performance of the compute layer.

✑ Each application tier will require different replication attributes.

✑ Virtual machine live migration across compute and storage must be supported.

✑ Virtual machine aware back up will be leveraged.

✑ Operational management overhead should be minimized.

✑ Operational automation should be supported.

Which storage design recommendations would meet the requirements?

Two new Fibre Channel storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site. Each application tier will be initially provisioned a new LU

Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.

Two new vSphere clusters enabled with vSAN will be deployed, one at either site. vSAN will be used to provide policy-based management for each application tier. vSphere Replication will be used to replicate the virtual machine data in an asynchronous configuration.

Two new ISCSI storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site. Each application tier will be initially provisioned a new LU

Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.

Two new storage arrays will be deployed, one at either site. vSphere Volumes (vVOLs) will be used to provide policy-based management for each application tier. Data replication will be offloaded to the new arrays.

10. 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?

15 minutes

60 minutes

105 minutes

90 minutes

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11. 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.)

Use vSAN native support for WSFC

Use NFS 4.1 shares for quorum and shared disk

Use raw device mapping (RDM)

Use the SMB 2.1 protocol for sharing disks

Run WSFC on vSAN iSCSI Target Service

12. 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.)

Enable and tag traffic on the backup distributed port group

Add a new two-port 10 GbE NIC per ESXi host

Replace the existing NIC with a two-port 25 GbE NIC per ESXi host

Match the Class of Service (CoS) and Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) values to the physical network

Create a new virtual switch using the 1 GbE uplinks

13. 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.)

Use Route Based on Physical NIC Load.

Use Network I/O Control with Shares.

Use Network I/O Control with Reservation.

Use Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

Use Network I/O Control with Limits.

14. An architect is designing a new vSphere environment with the following resources:

✑ 600 vCPU

✑ 5,760 GB RAM

Average resource usage is:

✑ 60 vCPU

✑ 1,152 GB RAM

The design must meet the following requirements:

✑ The environment has the ability to burst by 25%.

✑ Each host can schedule 36 vCPUs and has 512 GB RAM.

✑ Management overhead is 20%.

What is the minimum number of hosts required to meet the design requirements?

Three

Five

Four

Two

15. Refer to the exhibit.

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

The customer wants database application level availability to always take precedence .

What should the architect recommend to meet the customer’s requirement?

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

Enable Fault Tolerance.

Enable Sphere HA and maintain the default settings.

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

16. An architect is tasked with planning the design of a new vSphere environment. When commissioned, this environment will be used to migrate an existing set of virtual machines.

An inventory of the existing infrastructure, including configured vCPU, RAM and storage sizes has been provided.

In order for each virtual machine to be migrated, which two data sources with peak and average utilization data are required for sizing? (Choose two.)

%Ready

Disk Write latency

CPU

Ballooned memory

IOPS

17. 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.)

The project should use the existing storage devices within the data center

Sites must support a network latency of less than 12 ms round-trip time (RTT)

The solution must allow data replication between sites

There is no budget specifically assigned for disaster recovery

There must not be a single point of failure for the virtual infrastructure

18. An architect is finalizing the design for a new vCenter Server High Availability deployment.

What is one thing the architect must document in the design?

The load balancing algorithm used by the Management Distributed Virtual Switches (DVS)

The SSH configuration settings for the vCenter Server’s active node

The vCenter Management Network IPv4 addresses for the witness node vCenter Server

The details of each of the vCenter Server licenses for active, passive and witness nodes

19. 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?

Request an isolated network segment to use and dedicate it to Auto Deploy functions

Ask the business to expand the engineering environment to service the virtual environment as well

Request a common shared network with flexible security measures to accommodate different auto deployment options

Deploy each ESXi host individually and document it to satisfy security requirements

20. Refer to the exhibit.

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

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?

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

Enable Fault Tolerance

Achieve application availability with snapshots

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

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21. An architect is designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) that will consist of 100 branch sites connected to a single VMware vCenter Server within the primary data center. To allow for the use of existing automation scripts, there is a requirement to replicate the names of the virtual distributed port groups across all sites. The procurement team purchases licensing and there is no further budget allocated.

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

A new vCenter Server will be deployed for each branch site

A new host and cluster folder will be created for each branch site

The automation script will be updated to reflect unique naming for each site

A new virtual data center will be created for each branch site

22. 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.)

IOPs limits enabled

RAID 1

Deduplication and Compression disabled

RAID 5/6

Deduplication and Compression enabled