Free 2V0-13.25 Sample Questions — VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Architect

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 all components are configured with SSL certificates that have been signed by the corporate Certificate Authority. The solution must ensure that users with administrative access are authenticated through an approved Identity Provider. When creating the design document, which design quality should be used to classify the stated requirements?

• A. Security
• B. Recoverability
• C. Manageability
• D. Availability

An organization is evacuating their current datacenter and moving all workloads to a new datacenter. The organization has a total of 800 workloads to move, and the migration must be completed with no downtime within a planned change window that is scheduled to occur in four weeks. What migration method will meet the requirements?

• A. HCX Replication Assisted vMotion
• B. Cross vCenter vMotion
• C. HCX OS Assisted Migration
• D. HCX Bulk Migration

Which two VCF components are replicated across availability zones in a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Fleet with Disaster Recovery model design with two availability zones? (Choose two.)

• A. SDDC Manager
• B. VCF Operations
• C. VCF Automation
• D. vCenter
• E. NSX

An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) fleet. The following information has been provided by the customer: • Due to budget constraints, the solution must utilize the existing server hardware. • The existing server hardware consists of server models from the same vendor but different generations. • There are ten servers available for use in this solution. • Management and Business workloads should be hosted in different clusters. What design decision should the architect make for the lifecycle management of the solution based on this information?

• A. Use a single vSphere Lifecycle Manager composite image for the management and workload domain clusters
• B. Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager baselines for the management domain cluster
• C. Use separate vSphere Lifecycle Manager composite images for the management and workload domain clusters
• D. Use a single vSphere Lifecycle Manager composite image for the management domain cluster

An architect is planning resources for a new cluster that will be part of an existing workload domain. The new cluster will provide resources for a number of new workloads, including a mission-critical application consisting of five resource-intensive virtual machines. The following requirements were provided for the new cluster: The solution must ensure that the new workload cluster meets the company's availability standard of N+l. The solution must minimize the overall investment in hardware. Which two design recommendations should the architect make to meet the stated requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. Use automated placement rules to keep the mission-critical application virtual machines apart
• B. Create a cluster with five hosts
• C. Use automated placement rules to keep the mission-critical application virtual machines together
• D. Use resource pools to prioritise resource for the mission-critical application virtual machines
• E. Create a cluster with six hosts

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. Constraint
• B. Assumption
• C. Requirement
• D. Risk

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?

• A. Deploy two VCF Operations instances and configure the Aggregator Management Pack
• B. Deploy a single VCF Operations instance across a multi-VCF instance fleet
• C. Deploy VCF Operations using the High Availability model with Collector nodes at remote sites
• D. Deploy VCF Operations using the Simple model with Collector nodes at remote sites

As part of the initial design workshop, one of the customer stakeholders has stated the following: All Virtual Machines must be encrypted. How would the architect classify this statement?

• A. An Assumption
• B. Requirement
• C. risk
• D. Constraint

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?

• A. Deploying multiple clusters within the single VI workload domain meets the requirement to segregate Production and Development workloads
• B. All clusters within the single VI workload domain must use vSAN as their principal storage type
• C. If the solution needs to be scaled at a future date, additional VI workload domains can be deployed
• D. Deploying multiple clusters in the single VI workload domain reduces the number of vCenter Server instances that must be managed

An architect is designing for a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Instance. The following requirements and constraints were documented. The management domain cluster utilizes vSAN stretched as the principal storage. Company policy states that compute and storage capacity utilization must not exceed 90% at all times. Which three statements should the architect consider when designing the solution to satisfy the requirements? (Choose three.)

• A. Use a heterogenous cluster configuration
• B. Size and monitor the cluster for a maximum compute peak utilization of < 45%
• C. Size and monitor the cluster for a maximum storage utilization of 90%
• D. Size and monitor the cluster for a maximum compute peak utilization of < 90%
• E. Size and monitor the cluster for a maximum storage utilization of 40%
• F. Use a homogenous cluster configuration

An architect is gathering business requirements for a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution from the customer stakeholders and subject matter experts. Which two factors should the architect discuss with the customer to determine any potential impact on the business requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. Service-level agreements (SLAs)
• B. Product versions
• C. Storage capacity
• D. Organizational structure
• E. Average virtual machine size

During the design workshop, the customer stated the following requirement: • The solution must comply with the organization’s security standards. Which two design decisions should be included in the logical design for the workload domain? (Choose two.)

• A. Use an SHA-2 algorithm or higher when signing certificates
• B. Enable Inter-SR iBGP routing
• C. Use large-size NSX Edge virtual appliances to account for the additional firewall rules
• D. Enable VM Monitoring for each workload within the cluster
• E. Establish an operations practice to capture and update the thumbprint of the NSX Local Manager certificate on the NSX Global Manager every time the certificate is updated

An architect is tasked with designing a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution. During workshops with the customer, the following requirements were captured: REQ01: The solution must provide a self service catalog. REQ02: The solution must support the segregation of the Development and Production resources (networks, virtual machines, users). When documenting the design decisions, which statement should the architect include in order to help meet these requirements?

• A. VCF Automation will be configured with separate service catalog instances for Development and Production
• B. VCF Automation will be configured with separate organizations for Development and Production
• C. Separate workload domains must be configured to provide segregation between the Development and Production environments
• D. VCF Automation does not support the use of multiple Active Directory domains

A company is deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment to support their growing infrastructure requirements. The company is planning to scale their environment over time by adding more workload domains as new applications and departments are onboarded. The company requires that the architecture must be highly scalable and flexible, able to accommodate both current and future demands. They also require a seamless transition when adding new workload domains. Which design decisions should the architect make to meet the stated scalability requirements and facilitate the future growth?

• A. Use a single workload domain for all departments and increase the size of the vSphere clusters as the demand grows
• B. Use multiple workload domains for each department and ensure that each workload domain is independently scaled
• C. Use multiple workload domains for each department but combine them into a single vSphere cluster to reduce complexity
• D. Use a single workload domain and rely on storage and network scaling to accommodate future growth

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?

• A. Existing storage arrays provide sufficient capacity for building the environment
• B. The customer network team is not trained to support NSX VPC
• C. Existing shared storage array must be used
• D. Block-based storage must be used within a workload domain

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?

• A. The design must address security zone requirements for management, production, dev/test, and QA workloads
• B. The existing storage is out of hardware vendor maintenance
• C. No funding exists for a new storage array. Therefore, existing storage hardware must be used
• D. The design must provide a centralized management console to manage both data centers

During a design workshop, the security team provides the following requirement for the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Automation deployment: • All Virtual Machine images must be reviewed and vetted by the security team prior to consumption. Which Content Library type supports the requirement?

• A. Local Content Library
• B. Tenant-managed Content Library
• C. Subscribed Content Library
• D. Provider-managed Content Library

An architect is working on a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) architecture design and identified the following requirements: The organization is using a third-party virtual appliance that does not support overlay networks. The virtual appliance must reside on the same L2 domain as an external physical firewall. The virtual appliance also needs access to workloads that are currently hosted on overlay segments provided by NSX. Which design decision should the architect make to meet these requirements?

• A. Place the virtual appliance and all workloads on VLAN-backed segments
• B. Connect the virtual appliance to a VLAN-backed segment and configure NSX bridging to allow access to overlay segments
• C. Request the third-party vendor to certify the virtual appliance for NSX Overlay segments
• D. Connect the virtual appliance to an overlay-backed segment and use static routes to the firewall

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. When creating the design document, which design quality should be used to classify the stated requirements?

• A. Manageability
• B. Recoverability
• C. Availability
• D. Performance

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?

• A. Only 10GbE NICs should be used for NIC teaming
• B. Embedded NICs should not be used for NIC teaming
• C. Each NIC team must include NICs from the same physical NIC Card
• D. Each NIC team must include NICs from different physical NIC Cards