Free 2V0-13.25: VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Architect Exam Questions and Answers

A retail company operates in Germany, Brazil and Japan. Regulations require virtual machine data to remain in the country where it is generated. The sites are connected by WAN links, and round-trip latency between Germany and Japan is 180 ms. A central team of six administrators must have a single view of capacity, health and compliance across all sites, and the budget does not allow additional operations staff. Which VCF architecture is MOST appropriate for this customer?

• AA. One consolidated VCF instance in Germany, with clusters in Brazil and Japan attached as remote sites of that instance
• BB. Three independent VCF fleets, one per country, each with its own VCF Operations and VCF Automation deployment
• CC. One VCF instance with a stretched management domain cluster spanning the three countries and a workload domain for each country
• DD. One VCF fleet with a VCF instance in each country, managed centrally through the fleet-level VCF Operations deployment

An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 workload domain for a customer. The first cluster will start with four hosts, and the capacity plan shows growth to 16 hosts over three years. Hardware will be bought in phases because the budget releases funds once a year. The two-person operations team must add hosts through VCF lifecycle workflows, and the network team has said that it will not re-address or add VLANs to production clusters after go-live. Which design decision BEST supports the scalability requirement?

• AA. Create a new network pool with a new subnet for each yearly batch of hosts added to the cluster
• BB. Assign vMotion and vSAN VMkernel IP addresses manually on each new host after it is added to the cluster
• CC. Size the network pool IP ranges and subnets for vMotion and vSAN traffic for at least 16 hosts at initial deployment
• DD. Deploy all 16 hosts at go-live and keep 12 of them in maintenance mode until the capacity is needed

During requirements workshops for a VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 private cloud, the CFO states that total infrastructure cost must fall by 20% over three years. The general counsel states that each of the four business units must run on physically dedicated hosts. The architect's sizing shows that a dedicated cluster for every business unit would raise three-year cost above the current baseline. The project sponsor expects the logical design within six weeks. What should the architect do NEXT?

• AA. Record the cost reduction target as a project risk and proceed with a cluster per business unit
• BB. Present the conflict and its cost impact to the sponsor and both stakeholders for a priority decision
• CC. Design shared clusters that use vSphere DRS VM-host rules to keep each business unit on its own hosts
• DD. Treat the dedicated hosts requirement as a constraint and size the physical design around it

An architect records the following statements from a customer's design workshop for a new VMware Cloud Foundation solution: • Annual data center operating costs must be reduced by 15%. • Storage latency for production VMs must not exceed 2 ms at the 95th percentile. • The new development platform must be available before the fiscal year starts in January. • The company must be able to onboard a newly acquired business unit within one quarter without hiring IT staff. • All workload VM data must be encrypted at rest using FIPS 140 validated modules. Which two statements are technical requirements? (Choose two.)

Select 2 answers.

• AA. The new development platform must be available before the fiscal year starts in January.
• BB. Annual data center operating costs must be reduced by 15%.
• CC. All workload VM data must be encrypted at rest using FIPS 140 validated modules.
• DD. The company must be able to onboard a newly acquired business unit within one quarter without hiring IT staff.
• EE. Storage latency for production VMs must not exceed 2 ms at the 95th percentile.

During an initial design workshop with stakeholders, the architect was provided with an overview of the current state and other information required to proceed to the design phase. The architect has assumed that the solution will need to support high availability for workloads. Given the assumption, which statement should the architect document as a risk?

• AA. The solution supports the separation of management components from production workloads.
• BB. BGP is the dynamic routing protocol on the physical fabric and cannot be changed.
• CC. The solution supports a recovery point objective (RPO) of 24 hours for infrastructurecomponents.
• DD. The entire infrastructure is hosted on a single physical site.

As a part of designing the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations deployment, the architect must ensure that VCF Operations is capable of monitoring the customer's infrastructure made up of a central datacenter and multiple remote sites in different countries. During a design workshop, the following requirements were identified: • REQ001: Corporate IT users must be able to review performance, alerts, and capacity details from a single management point. • REQ002: The monitoring solution must support local data collection at remote sites to prevent data loss from unstable WAN connections. • REQ003: The monitoring solution must comply with local data sovereignty regulations. Which deployment model fulfills all design requirements?

• AA. Single VCF fleet with Cloud Proxies in each remote site
• BB. Each remote site will be its own VCF fleet.
• CC. All remote sites will be a single VCF fleet.
• DD. A single fleet with multiple VCF instances

An architect responsible for creating the automation design for a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Private Cloud is reviewing the notes from a customer design workshop. The customer has provided the following information: • The customer's existing fleet management instance will be upgraded to maintain the existing process for virtual machine deployments. • The customer would like to limit the total active resource consumption per VCF Automation user. • The customer would like to ensure requests meet company requirements prior to deployment for certain users. A combination of which two VCF Automation policies should the architect recommend to meet the customer's stated requirements? (Choose two.)

Select 2 answers.

• AA. IaaS Policy
• BB. Approval Policy
• CC. Resource Quota Policy
• DD. Deployment Limit Policy
• EE. Lease Policy

Constraint: Existing stretched cluster model must be used. Requirement: Minimize management infrastructure downtime. Which Supervisor deployment model supports the design?

• AA. Three Management Zone Supervisor deployment with HA control plane
• BB. Single Management Zone Supervisor deployment with HA control plane
• CC. Three Management Zone deployment with Simple Availability control plane
• DD. Single Management Zone Supervisor deployment with Simple Availability control plane

Which four component areas are provided by a VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) cluster?

• AA. Identity federation, persistent logging, firewall services, and monitoring.
• BB. Authentication, external storage, virtual machine networking, and DNS services.
• CC. Authorization, backup services, VLAN segmentation, and DHCP.
• DD. Authentication and authorization, storage integration, pod networking, and load balancing.

An architect is designing the network model for a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution. During the requirements gathering phase, the customer stated that the VCF solution must comply with the organization's security policy for traffic separation. The customer provided the architect with the following information from the policy: • The physical network architecture is divided into multiple security zones. • Traffic is not permitted to traverse between the zones with the exception of pre-approved monitoring tools. • Physical servers may not be connected to multiple zones via a single network interface. • Management and Storage traffic must be kept within network zone 1. • Workload traffic must be kept within network zone 2. The architect makes a design decision to use two vSphere Distributed Switches per cluster for both the Management and VI Workload domains. Which two additional design decisions should the architect include in the virtual networking design for the separation of traffic between the vSphere Distributed Switches? (Choose two.)

Select 2 answers.

• AA. Configure one vSphere Distributed Switch for ESX Management, Storage, and vMotion traffic.
• BB. Configure one vSphere Distributed Switch for all storage traffic.
• CC. Configure one vSphere Distributed Switch for ESX Management, Storage, vMotion traffic and NSX - Host and Edge TEP/Edge Uplinks.
• DD. Configure one vSphere Distributed Switch for all workload traffic and all NSX - Host and Edge TEP/Edge Uplinks.
• EE. Configure one vSphere Distributed Switch for all NSX - Host and Edge TEP/Edge Uplinks.