VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Architect Exam Questions and Answers
During a security-focused design workshop for a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution, a key stakeholder described the current and potential future approach to user authentication within their organization. The following information was captured by an architect:
All users within the organization currently have Active Directory-backed user accounts.
A separate project is planned to evaluate the use of different 3rd-party identity solutions to enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on all user accounts.
The MFA project will only provide a recommendation on which identity solution the organization should implement.
The MFA project will need to request budget for any licenses that need to be procured for the recommended identity solution.
The new VCF environment may be deployed before the MFA project has completed and therefore must be able to integrate with both the current and any proposed future identity solutions.
Which TWO items should the architect include in their design documentation? (Choose TWO.)
During the requirements gathering workshop for a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based Private Cloud solution, the customer states that the solution must:
• Provide a single interface for monitoring all components of the solution.
• Minimize the effort required to maintain the solution to N-1 software versions.
When creating the design document, under which design quality should the architect classify these stated requirements?
An architect is updating a design document in preparation for an expansion of their organization's existing VCF environment. Following the completion of a capacity assessment, a new cluster will be deployed to support the hosting of future application deployments. Due to restrictions on the availability of budget for the project, the hardware for the additional cluster has already been procured and there is no additional budget available for future procurements. What should the architect include within the design documentation based on this approach?
An architect has been asked to recommend a solution for a mission-critical application running on a single virtual machine to ensure consistent performance. The virtual machine operates within a vSphere cluster of four ESXi hosts, sharing resources with other production virtual machines. There is no additional capacity available. What should the architect recommend?
Which Operating System (OS) is not supported by Aria Operations for OS and Application Monitoring?
When sizing a VMware Cloud Foundation VI Workload Domain, which three factors should be considered when calculating usable compute capacity? (Choose three.)
An organization is planning to expand their existing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment to meet an increased demand for new user-facing applications. The physical host hardware proposed for the expansion is a different model compared to the existing hosts, although it has been confirmed that both sets of hardware are compatible. The expansion needs to provide capacity for management tooling workloads dedicated to the applications, and it has been decided to deploy a new cluster within the management domain to host the workloads. What should the architect include within the logical design for this design decision?
During a design discussion, the VMware Cloud Foundation Architect was presented with a requirement to reduce power utilization across all workload domains including management. The architect has suggested to use vSphere Distributed Power Management (DPM) to satisfy this requirement. Which recommendation should the architect provide?
A company plans to expand its existing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment for a new application. The current VCF environment includes a Management Domain and two separate VI Workload Domains with different hardware profiles. The new application has the following requirements:
The application will use significantly more memory than current workloads.
The application will have a limited number of licenses to run on hosts.
Additional VCF and hardware costs have been approved for the application.
The application will contain confidential customer information that requires isolation from other workloads.
What design recommendation should the architect document?
A customer has a requirement to use isolated domains in VMware Cloud Foundation but is constrained to a single NSX management pane. What should the architect recommend satisfying this requirement?
An architect is planning resources for a new cluster that will be integrated into an existing VI Workload Domain. The cluster’s primary purpose is to support a mission-critical application with five resource-intensive virtual machines. Which design recommendation should the architect provide to prevent resource bottlenecks while meeting the N+1 availability requirement and keeping the overall investment cost minimal?
As part of a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) design, an architect is responsible for planning for the migration of existing workloads using HCX to a new VCF environment. Which two prerequisites would the architect require to complete the objective? (Choose two.)
During a requirement capture workshop, the customer expressed a plan to use Aria Operations Continuous Availability. The customer identified two datacenters that meet the network requirements to support Continuous Availability; however, they are unsure which of the following datacenters would be suitable for the Witness Node.
Which datacenter meets the minimum network requirements for the Witness Node?
A customer has stated the following requirements for Aria Automation within their VCF implementation:
Users must have access to specific resources based on their company organization.
Developers must only be able to provision to the Development environment.
Production workloads can be placed on DMZ or Production clusters.
What two design decisions must be implemented to satisfy these requirements? (Choose two.)
The following requirements were identified in an architecture workshop for a virtual infrastructure design project.
REQ001: All virtual machines must satisfy the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of fifteen (15) minutes or less in a disaster recovery (DR) situation
REQ002: Service level availability must satisfy 99.999% measured yearly.
Which two test cases will validate these requirements?
A VMware Cloud Foundation multi-AZ (Availability Zone) design requires that:
All management components remain centralized.
The availability SLA must be no less than 99.99%.
Which two design decisions would help meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
An architect is designing a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution. During the discovery workshops, the customer explained that the solution will initially be used to host a single business application and some internal management tooling. The customer provided the following background information:
The business application consists of two virtual machines.
The business application is sensitive to changes in its storage I/O.
The business application must be available during the company’s business hours of 9 AM - 5 PM on weekdays.
The architect has made the following design decisions in response to the customer’s requirements and the additional information provided during discovery:
The solution will use the VCF consolidated architecture model.
A single cluster will be created, consisting of six ESXi hosts.
Which design decision should the architect include in the design to mitigate the risk of impacting the business application?
An architect is documenting the design for a new VMware Cloud Foundation solution. During workshops with key stakeholders, the architect discovered that some of the workloads that will be hosted within the Workload Domains will need to be connected to an existing Fibre Channel storage array. How should the architect document this information within the design?
A VMware Cloud Foundation design incorporates the following technical requirements:
All management components must have their login sessions timeout after 2 minutes of inactivity.
Communication between management components should be limited to required ports only.
Modifications required by compliancy should not impact the management components’ functionality.
What would be the recommendation from a design perspective that would aid in achieving the above requirements?
An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based Private Cloud solution. During the requirements gathering workshop with customer stakeholders, the following information was captured:
The solution must be capable of deploying 50 concurrent workloads.
The solution must ensure that once submitted, each service does not take longer than 6 hours to provision.
When creating the design documentation, which design quality should be used to classify the stated requirements?
An architect is working with a service provider to design a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution that is required to host workloads for multiple tenants. The following requirements were gathered:
Each tenant requires full access to their own vCenter.
Each tenant will utilize and manage their own identity provider for access.
A total of 28 tenants are expected to be onboarded.
Each tenant will have their own independent VCF lifecycle maintenance schedule.
Which VCF architecture option will meet these requirements?
An Architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based private cloud solution for a customer. During the requirements gathering workshop, the customer stated the following:
• All users must only have access to the solution components to fulfill their defined role.
• All administrative users must be authenticated to a separate approved identity source for administrator accounts only.
• All service users must be authenticated to the central approved identity source.
• All service account passwords must be stored centrally in an approved secrets management platform.
When creating the design, how should the Architect classify all the stated requirements?
An architect is sizing the workloads that will run in a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Management Domain. The customer has a requirement to use Aria Operations to provide effective monitoring of the new VCF solution. What is the minimum Aria Operations Analytics node size requirement when AriaSuite Lifecycle is in VCF-aware mode?
The following are a list of design decisions made relating to networking:
NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rule to block all traffic by default.
Implement overlay network technology to scale across data centers.
Configure Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) - Listen mode on all Distributed Virtual Switches (DVS).
Use of 2x 64-port Cisco Nexus 9300 for top-of-rack ESXi host switches.
Which design decision would an architect document within the logical design?
An architect decided to deploy an NSX Edge cluster using SDDC Manager. These Edges will be used by a Tier-0 Gateway configured with BGP to provide North-South connectivity in the Management Domain. Which statement justifies this design decision?
A customer defined a requirement for the newly deployed SDDC infrastructure which will host one of the applications responsible for video streaming. Application will run as part of a VI Workload Domain with dedicated NSX instance and virtual machines. Required network throughput was defined as 250 Gb/s. Additionally, the application should provide the lowest possible latency. Which design decision should be recommended by an architect for the NSX Edge deployment?
When determining the compute capacity for a VMware Cloud Foundation VI Workload Domain, which three elements should be considered when calculating usable resources? (Choose three.)