An architect is tasked with designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution for an online retail customer who has a primary and secondary data center as well as 10 distribution hubs.

The customer has provided the following business requirements to help inform the design:

The solution must support the running of up to 1,000 concurrent virtual machines across the primary and secondary data center.

The solution must support the running of up to 20 concurrent virtual machines in each distribution hub.

The solution must support the separation of management and lines-of-business application virtual machines.

All management components (including directory services, backup, automation, operations and logging) must be deployed to the primary data center.

All virtual infrastructure components must have redundancy of N+1.

All sites are connected to each other using a wide area network that has multiple diversely routed links.

The solution should support a monthly uptime target of 99.9%.

The recovery time objective (RTO) for the solution must be four hours.

The recovery point objective (RPO) for the solution must be 24 hours.

Given the information from the customer, which assumption should the architect include in the design?

An architect will be taking over control of a former Linux server fleet and repurposing the hardware into a new vSphere cluster. The current environment is already connected to the network but the hosts do not have any local disks. Since the fleet hardware is uniform, the architect can use a single ESXi image. All hosts within the cluster have the same CPU and memory capacity.

Which ESXi deployment method should the architect use?

An architect is designing a new vSphere platform for a customer to meet the following requirements:

The platform must be deployed into five physically separate sites.

The sites are spread across multiple regions.

Some sites require more than one vCenter Server.

The platform must provide an administrator with the ability to access virtual infrastructure components across all sites from a single management tool instance.

Which single sign-on (SSO) design recommendation will meet these requirements?

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

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

An architect is designing a VMware solution for a customer based on the following information:

The solution must use investments in existing storage array that supports both block and file storage.

The solution must support the ability to migrate workloads between hosts within a cluster.

The solution must support resource management priorities.

The solution must support the ability to connect virtual machines directly to LUNs.

The solution should use existing IPv4 based network infrastructure.

There is no budget for additional physical hardware.

Which two design decisions could the architect make to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A new real-time financial service application is being developed by the engineering team at a financial firm and will be released as a public Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. The solutions architect has designed and deployed a new vSphere environment and the supporting network infrastructure for hosting all public services. ESXi hosts are configured to use Precision Time Proalhazi@1tocol (PTP) and a local stratum-1 network time server.

Application provisioning and scaling will be managed by VMware vRealize Automation and can be run on Microsoft Windows or multiple distributions of Linux.

Which three recommendations should the architect include in the design to ensure that the service maintain timekeeping within an accuracy of one second? (Choose three.)

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.)

An architect is preparing a design for a customer. Based on requirements, the architect recommends an HCI- based infrastructure with all-flash architecture. During the assessment, it is confirmed that the network throughput generated by virtual machines does not exceed 150 Mb/s.

What is the minimum number and type of network adapters in each server that the architect can recommend to ensure requirements are met and there is no single point of failure?

An architect is reviewing a physical storage design. The customer has specified that storage DRS will be used for ease of operational management for capacity and performance.

Which recommendation should the architect include in the design?