VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Architect Questions and Answers
During an initial design workshop with stakeholders, an Architect was provided with an overview of the current state and other information required to proceed to the design phase.
Which statement should be documented as a requirement?
An architect is responsible for designing a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based private cloud. During the discovery workshops, the following information was captured from key customer stakeholders:
The private cloud will operate with three different monitoring levels:
Self-Managed Service: VM construct only
OS Managed Service: OS metrics and VM construct
Fully Managed Service: Infrastructure apps + OS metrics + VM construct
Approved infrastructure applications include: Microsoft IIS, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat Server, and Apache HTTPD
Each workload must subscribe to a monitoring level
Minimal management overhead is required for agent operations
Which two design decision should the architect make to meet the stated monitoring requirements? (Choose two.)
Requirement: The solution must include high security hardening levels to meet military compliance standards.
Which two physical design decisions will meet this security requirement in the workload domain? (Choose two.)
A customer has a new initiative to build a private cloud based on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The customer technical team is presenting an overview of the current state of the infrastructure as well as describing what the expectations are for the private cloud.
Based on the notes captured by the architect, which statement should be documented as a constraint?
An architect is responsible for designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based private cloud. During the design requirements gathering workshop, the following information was captured:
• The solution must capture events from all infrastructure components of the VCF fleet.
• The solution must provide a single pane of glass management interface for troubleshooting, alerting, and monitoring using metrics, events, and flows.
• The solution must meet a 99.9% Service Level Agreement for Availability.
Which three design decisions should the architect make to meet the stated requirements? (Choose three.)
An architect is designing for a greenfield VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution. This would be the first VCF Fleet in the VCF solution, and the customer would like to start with a minimal footprint with the option to scale up and out later.
Which VCF Operations deployment model should the architect choose?
An architect is responsible for designing a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based Private Cloud solution. During the requirements gathering workshop with key customer stakeholders, the following information was captured:
• The solution must ensure that all components meet a software version of N-1.
An architect is tasked to plan for an upgrade of an existing vSphere-only deployment utilizing vSAN to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
Which three new infrastructure components are required for the upgrade? (Choose three.)
An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployment to meet the following design requirements:
• Tenants need dedicated external network access.
• The number of NSX Edge clusters should be minimized.
To fulfill these requirements, the architect made a design decision to use a Workload Networking VPC with Full Services Model.
Which additional design decision should be considered as part of the logical network design?
An architect is responsible for designing a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based Private Cloud solution. During the requirements gathering workshop with key customer stakeholders, the following information was captured:
• The solution must support running 50,000 workloads concurrently across all sites.
• The solution must support the concurrent deployment of up to 10 workloads.
When creating the design document, which design quality should be used to classify the stated requirements?
An architect is documenting the design for a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution and makes the following design decision:
Two vSphere clusters will be deployed within the single VI workload domain.
What statement should the architect include as an implication of this design decision?
An architect is responsible for designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based solution for a customer. The customer has the following requirement:
• There should be no single points of failure within the solution.
To comply with the customer requirement, the architect has decided to include physical NIC teaming for all ESX servers in the design.
When documenting this design decision, which consideration should the architect make?
An architect is responsible for designing a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based Private Cloud solution. During the requirements gathering workshop with key customer stakeholders, the following information was captured:
• In the event of a disaster affecting the primary site, all tier 1 production services must be restored to the secondary site within 1 hour.
• In the event of a disaster affecting the primary site, all tier 3 production services must be restored to the secondary site within 8 hours.
A customer is designing a multi-site VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and vSAN Data Protection (DP) architecture to ensure business continuity. The customer's support team must validate the failover and recovery processes before being allowed to deploy into production.
Which two validation activities should be included in the strategy to meet the objective? (Choose two.)
As part of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) logical design, the architect documented the following requirement:
• The solution must be able to support latency-sensitive workloads.
Which two physical design decisions will meet this performance requirement in the workload domain? (Choose two.)
A customer is deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in an enterprise environment. During a series of workshops with stakeholders, the following requirements were identified:
The network solution must be capable of complete logical isolation.
The network solution must be capable of supporting independent upgrade cycles for network stacks.
The network solution must be capable of tenant-specific customization of NSX configurations.
The architect has made the following design decisions:
The solution will consist of a single VCF instance.
The solution will include a management domain and two workload domains.
Based on the scenario, which additional design decision meets all of the stated requirements?
Requirement: Ensure all management components are redundant at the component level.
Which design quality should classify this requirement?
An architect is responsible for the design of a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Fleet and the following risk has been identified:
• RISK001: There is a risk that frequent infrastructure design changes may break Disaster Recovery (DR) plans and Service Level Objectives.
What should the architect suggest to mitigate this risk?
During a design workshop, the customer provided the following requirement:
• Business units should not be able to interfere with the operations of a different business unit.
As a result of this requirement, the architect makes the decision to enable multi-tenancy within VCF Automation.
A combination of which two design implications would also need to be documented? (Choose two.)
Which design defines how to arrange and use components and features of the infrastructure to satisfy service dependencies and other relationships specified in the Conceptual Model?
An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution for a customer. During the discovery phase, the customer outlined the following availability requirements:
Business-critical workloads: RPO = 2 hours
Infrastructure components: RTO = 8 hours
Based on this context, what does the RTO metric represent?
A large financial institution is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution. During initial discovery meetings:
• Management of the physical network is outsourced.
• VMware team cannot reconfigure the physical network.
• Environment uses Link Aggregation.
How does this impact design?
During a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) architectural design workshop, one of the stakeholders made the following comment:
“The company has just used the remaining budget to purchase eight vSAN Ready Nodes for this project.”
How would the architect classify this statement within the conceptual model document?
A financial services company is deploying a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based solution for its core banking applications. The architect needs to ensure that the design can handle peak transaction loads while maintaining the performance SLA.
Which two approaches should be included in the design validation strategy? (Choose two.)
VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) cluster exposes three layers of controllers to manage its lifecycle.
Which set correctly identifies these layers?
When designing a backup and recovery solution for VKS clusters, which tool can be leveraged to back up and restore workloads?
Which type of design would include specific details about server hardware, port connections, or Fibre Channel zones?
Which statement would be classified as a functional (business) requirement?
As part of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) logical design, the architect has determined that the VCF Private Cloud will encompass multiple VCF instances contained within a single VCF Fleet. The architect documented the following requirements when using VCF Operations:
Monitoring downtime must be minimized.
Alerting downtime must be minimized.
Which design decision supports these requirements?
