An architect is documenting a VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 design. Which artifact captures conditions that the design depends on but cannot be verified at design time?
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Question · Easy
A customer mandates that the VCF 9.0 management domain must use 25 GbE NICs because the existing leaf switches only support 25 GbE. How should this be documented?
Which design quality describes the ability of the VCF platform to continue operating when a component fails?
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An architect must justify a 4-host minimum for a VCF 9.0 vSAN OSA cluster instead of 3 hosts. Which design quality MOST directly drives this decision?
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Question · Medium
In VCF 9.0, which component is responsible for lifecycle management of the SDDC stack including ESXi, vCenter, NSX, and VCF Operations?
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A VCF 9.0 architect must select a workload domain type for tier-1 production applications that require dedicated lifecycle and resource isolation from other tenants. Which option is MOST appropriate?
Which vSAN architecture in VCF 9.0 uses a single tier of NVMe TLC flash devices with no separate cache tier?
A VCF 9.0 design must achieve RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 1 hour for tier-1 workloads across two metro sites 80 km apart with sub-5 ms RTT. Which design is MOST appropriate?
Question · Hard
What is the maximum supported RTT latency between sites for a VCF vSAN stretched cluster?
An architect is sizing NSX Edge nodes for a VCF 9.0 workload domain that requires 80 Gbps of north-south bandwidth and TLS inspection. Which Edge form factor and design pattern is MOST appropriate?
Which NSX feature allows VCF management VMs to communicate over an overlay network even when the underlay is a routed Layer 3 fabric?
What are Application Virtual Networks (AVNs) in VCF 9.0 used for?
A VCF 9.0 customer requires that all Aria/VCF management UIs be accessible by name and survive a site failure with minimal effort. Which design choice BEST supports this?
Which identity source design in VCF 9.0 enables single sign-on across SDDC Manager, vCenter, NSX, VCF Automation, and VCF Operations?
Which VCF 9.0 component provides a centralized password vault for service accounts and root passwords across the SDDC?
A regulatory requirement states that all certificates in the SDDC management plane must be issued by an enterprise CA. What is the recommended design pattern in VCF 9.0?
What is the recommended approach for ensuring the VCF 9.0 management domain meets the published Bill of Materials (BOM) compatibility?
Which VCF 9.0 component (formerly known as Aria Operations) provides capacity management, performance monitoring, and cost analytics?
An architect must design the VCF 9.0 management domain to support deployment of VCF Operations, VCF Automation, and Workspace ONE Access. Which sizing factor is MOST important to confirm during design?
Which factor MOST influences the choice between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA in a new VCF 9.0 deployment?
A workload domain must tolerate the simultaneous failure of two hosts without data loss. Which vSAN storage policy setting achieves this?
Which design pattern BEST supports tenant isolation while sharing physical hardware in a VCF 9.0 deployment?
An architect needs to design Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) integration in VCF 9.0. Which prerequisite MUST be satisfied at the workload domain level?
Which of the following is a non-functional requirement for a VCF 9.0 design?
An architect is designing the physical network for a VCF 9.0 deployment. Which underlay characteristic is MOST critical for NSX overlay performance?
Which BGP configuration is typical for an NSX Tier-0 gateway peering with a top-of-rack (ToR) switch in a VCF design?
What is the recommended minimum number of ESXi hosts in a VCF 9.0 management domain at deployment time?
Installation And Administration
An architect must justify deploying VCF Automation in the design. Which use case BEST fits this product?
Which VCF 9.0 design quality is MOST impacted by the choice between VMs and bare-metal NSX Edges?
A VCF 9.0 design must support deployment of new workload domains using existing rack hardware that is not on the vSAN ReadyNode HCL. Which is the BEST architectural option?
Which VCF 9.0 design pattern provides single-pane operations across multiple geographically separated SDDCs?
An architect must select an availability target for a tier-2 workload. The business defines downtime tolerance as 8.76 hours per year. Which availability target does this represent?
Which storage policy approach BEST enforces data placement across two fault domains in a stretched cluster?
Which VCF 9.0 component handles disaster recovery orchestration with automated runbooks and replication failover?
An architect must reduce the blast radius of a misconfigured DFW rule across hundreds of workloads. Which design choice BEST mitigates this risk?
Which is a benefit of using NSX security groups based on VM tags rather than static IP addresses in a VCF 9.0 design?
What is the role of a witness host or witness appliance in a VCF vSAN stretched cluster?
A VCF 9.0 deployment plans hybrid extension to VMware Cloud on AWS. Which capability supports live migration of running VMs from on-premises to the cloud SDDC?
Which VCF 9.0 licensing model is offered by Broadcom for the platform?
A risk has been identified that the customer's network team may not deliver MTU 9000 on the underlay before bring-up. Which response is MOST appropriate from an architectural standpoint?
Which design decision improves VCF Operations capacity planning accuracy for a new SDDC?
What is the supported VCF 9.0 design pattern for placing the witness appliance of a stretched cluster?
Which design qualities are addressed by enabling vSphere DRS in fully-automated mode in a VCF 9.0 cluster?
A design requires automated remediation when a host fails. Which combination of features delivers this?
A workload domain hosts 600 VMs averaging 4 vCPU and 8 GB RAM. Hosts have 64 cores @ 2.6 GHz and 1 TB RAM. Cluster vCPU:pCPU ratio target is 4:1 and the cluster must tolerate one host failure (n+1). What is the MINIMUM number of hosts required from a CPU perspective?
Which migration strategy is BEST suited for a customer with hundreds of VMs spread across legacy vSphere clusters that must be moved into a new VCF 9.0 SDDC with minimal downtime?
Which artifact in the VCF 9.0 design process documents the chosen design and the alternatives considered, including justification?
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