EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Following a recent acquisition, an architect needs to merge IT assets into its current data center.
The combined vSphere environment will need to run the newly acquired company's virtual machines.
Network integration work has already been completed and the current environment has capacity to host all virtual machines. The Operations team needs to identify which virtual machines belong to the acquired company and report on their usage.
How should the architect merge the company's assets and virtual machines?

Question2: A customer requests a review of its current vSphere platform design.
The following information is noted:
There are three different workload profiles for the virtual machines:
- Tier-1 virtual machines operate resource-intensive applications and require dedicated allocations for CPU and RAM.
- Tier-2 virtual machines operate internet-facing applications and require access to externally facing networks.
- Tier-3 virtual machines operate platform management tools such as vCenter Server and have different lifecycle management requirements.
Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 virtual machines are all hosted on a single large vSphere cluster.
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has raised concerns that hosting externally facing applications alongside management tools does not meet internal compliance standards.
The Operations team has raised concerns about Tier-1 virtual machines negatively impacting the performance of vCenter Server.
The Operations lead has stated that management changes have consistently been rejected by application teams.
As a result of the review, which recommendation should the architect make regarding the design of this platform?

Question3: An architect is designing a new VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) that will consist of
100 branch sites connected to a single VMware vCenter Server within the primary data center. To allow for the use of existing automation scripts, there is a requirement to replicate the names of the virtual distributed port groups across all sites. The procurement team purchases licensing and there is no further budget allocated.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet this requirement?

Question4: Which requirement would be classified as a functional requirement within the design documentation?

Question5: Which two statements are true about gathering functional business and application requirements- (Choose two.)

Question6: Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as manageability non-functional requirements- (Choose two.)

Question7: An architect is designing a new VMware solution for a customer that has a number of different resource profiles.
The following are the business requirements for the design:
The solution must support virtual machines with the following storage profiles:
- Write-intensive
- Backup
- Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) archive
The solution must support migration of virtual machine disks between storage profiles.
The WORM archive data must be located at an isolated secure site.
The backup storage array must only be connected to a backup media server.
All data should be recoverable from backup.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet the business requirements?

Question8: An architect is tasked with reviewing the design of a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) for a software development company. The platform is used to developing applications and services. It is important that the customer be able to accurately benchmark performance of developed applications.
The platform has recently commissioned new hosts to update the development cluster.
The development cluster host configuration is:
- 4 ESXi hosts with 2 sockets × 16 cores
- 512 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
- There is no resource contention
The benchmarking cluster host configuration is:
- 8 ESXi hosts with 2 sockets × 8 cores
- 256 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
- There is no resource contention
The customer is developing an application that includes a database virtual machine. The application developer states that the database virtual machine performs as required only when allocated 8 vCPUs 256 GB RAM. The database virtual machine performance meets the required levels when run from the development cluster. Performance benchmarking for the database virtual machine yields highly variable results when run from the benchmarking cluster. The application cannot be released without reliable performance benchmarking data.
What is a possible reason for the difference in performance test results between the development and benchmarking clusters?

Question9: A customer defines a requirement to minimize the vMotion migration time during a maintenance period. The servers being used are equipped with eight 1 GbE network adapters.
Per the defined logical network configuration, there are two network adapters each used for:
- Management traffic
- vMotion traffic
- iSCSI traffic
- Virtual machine traffic
Which design decision should the architect make to meet the customer requirement?

Question10: An architect is considering placement of virtual machines within an existing VMware software- defined data center (SDDC).
During the discovery phase, the following information is documented:
Cluster One
- Six ESXi hosts
- vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1
- Proactive HA is enabled and set to automated
- Fully Automated vSphere DRS
- Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is enabled
Cluster Two
- Eight ESXi hosts
- vSphere HA with host failures cluster tolerates = 1
- Proactive HA is disabled
- Partially Automated vSphere DRS
- Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled
Cluster Three
- Three ESXi hosts
- vSphere HA with admission control is disabled
- Proactive HA is not supported
- Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is disabled
Virtual Machine Resource Profile 1
- Memory sharing techniques should not be used
- Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure if resources are available
- Automated initial virtual machine placement
Virtual Machine Resource Profile 2
- Memory sharing techniques should not be used
- Virtual machines should be automatically restarted in the event of host failure regardless of available resources
- Automated initial virtual machine placement
Which two recommendations should the architect make for placement of the virtual machines to meet resource profile requirements- (Choose two.)

Question11: An architect is designing a new vSphere environment with the following resources:
- 600 vCPU
- 5,760 GB RAM
Average resource usage is:
- 60 vCPU
- 1,152 GB RAM
The design must meet the following requirements:
- The environment has the ability to burst by 25%.
- Each host can schedule 36 vCPUs and has 512 GB RAM.
- Management overhead is 20%.
What is the minimum number of hosts required to meet the design requirements?

Question12: An architect is designing a solution for an environment with two types of resource profiles that must be virtualized. The first type consists of Tier 1 virtual machines that are disk I/O intensive, but do NOT require high CPU or memory. The second type consists of Tier 2 virtual machines that require a lower CPU and memory allocation and have minimal disk I/O.
Which design recommendation should the architect make for distributing the resource profiles?

Question13: During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following information:
- Each host has 2 × 10 GbE NIC
- EtherChannel is not currently configured
- No changes can be made to the physical network
- Network throughput must be prioritized for defined critical services
Which two recommendations should the architect make with regard to virtual networking?
(Choose two.)

Question14: An architect is finalizing the design for a new vSphere platform based on the following information:
- All Windows virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster for licensing purposes.
- All Linux virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster for licensing purposes.
- All management virtual machines will be hosted on a dedicated cluster.
- A total of ten physical sites will be used to host virtual machines.
- In the event of one physical datacenter becoming unavailable, the manageability of the virtual infrastructure in the remaining data centers should not be impacted.
- Access to configure the management virtual machines via vCenter Server must be controlled through the management Active Directory domain.
- Access to configure the Windows and Linux virtual machines must be controlled through the resource Active Directory domain.
- The management and resource Active Directory domains are part of separate Active Directory forests and do not have any trusts between them.
- The design will use Active Directory with Integrated Windows Authentication.
How should the architect document the vCenter Server configuration for this design?

Question15: During a requirements gathering workshop to design a physical to virtual migration, the customer provides the following information:
- There is no physical firewall in the data center with no anticipated plans for a future network refresh.
- Leveraging the virtual infrastructure to mitigate the lack of network security must be addressed in the design.
- All physical servers to be migrated exist on the same VLAN.
Which recommendation should the architect make to address the customer requirement with regard to virtual networking?

Question16: The Chief Operating Officer (COO) at an organization raises concerns that their virtual infrastructure environment is vulnerable. Recently, a security-related issue with a virtual machine caused all management services to become unavailable. No budget is available in the short term for additional platform investment. An architect is asked to review the current environment and make recommendations to mitigate concerns.
A virtualization administrator has provided the following details:
- There is a single four node cluster of ESXi servers
- There are two, Layer 2, physical network switches connecting resources
- The data center network is presented as a single /16 subnet
Given the information provided, which functional requirement should the architect include in the design to mitigate the COOs concerns?

Question17: 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?

Question18: During a transformation project kick-off meeting, an architect highlights specific areas on which to focus while developing the new conceptual design.
Which two of the listed statements are business requirements- (Choose two.)

Question19: 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.)

Question20: An architect is designing a new vSphere cluster. The requirement is to provide a total of 96 CPU cores and 1.5 TB RAM across all hosts.
The following information has been provided:
Two different physical hardware profiles are available for the ESXi hosts in the cluster.
- Profile 1: 16 CPU cores and 256 GB RAM
- Profile 2: 32 CPU cores and 512 GB RAM
Profile 2 is twice as expensive to purchase as Profile 1.
Which two aspects should the architect consider when selecting the hardware profile- (Choose two.)

Question21: An architect is designing a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
- The environment must support 800 virtual machines.
- The environment will be built initially using 200 hosts.
Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?

Question22: 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.)

Question23: As part of a new hybrid cloud initiative for a large financial company, the customer technical team is presenting an overview of the current state of the infrastructure and their vision for a new solution.
The project team captures notes during the presentation and adds them to the discovery documentation.
Which of the listed statements is a design constraint?

Question24: Which of the listed requirements would be classified as a recoverability non-functional requirement?

Question25: A customer provides the following list of requirements for their vSphere platform:
- REQ01 The solution should utilize dual network connections to eliminate single points of failure.
- REQ02 The solution should allow logs to be retained for a period of 30 days.
- REQ03 All user access to the platform should be recorded for audit purposes.
- REQ04 The solution should allow the management of multiple ESXi hosts.
- REQ05 The solution should allow users to view the remote console of virtual machines.
Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as non-functional requirements- (Choose two.)

Question26: An architect is designing a new VMware software-designed data center (SDDC) using vSphere 7 to meet the following requirements:
- The SDDC must be deployed at two locations: primary and secondary.
- vSphere Replication must be used to replicate virtual machines between the two locations.
- Site Recovery Manager must be used to orchestrate disaster recovery (DR) activities.
- One single-sign on (SSO) domain must be used to authenticate access at both locations.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet these requirements?

Question27: The storage team at an organization is planning to migrate from an older Fibre Channel storage environment to a new environment using IP-based storage.
Which two switch features or characteristics are appropriate for IP storage networks- (Choose two.)

Question28: Refer to the exhibit. During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer shares the following about their existing ESXi host virtual networking infrastructure:

The customer confirms that:
- Each ESXi host has approximately 200 virtual machines.
- They want to maximize the number of concurrent virtual machine migrations.
- When placing a host in maintenance mode, it takes a long time to evacuate the virtual machines.
Which two recommendations should the architect make in order to help the customer overcome their challenge- (Choose two.)

Question29: A customer has a database cluster with 40/60 read/write ratio and a high IOPs requirement with no contention on an all-flash vSAN cluster.
Which two storage settings should be configured for best performance- (Choose two.)

Question30: The architect for a large enterprise is tasked with reviewing a proposed design created by a service partner.
Which design elements are expected to be detailed within the physical design section of the documentation?

Question31: An architect is creating a network design for a new vSphere environment.
Based on customer requirements, the environment must support the following types of traffic:
- Management
- vMotion
- vSAN
- Fault Tolerance
- Virtual machine traffic, which cannot be impacted by other types of traffic Which design recommendation can the architect make for a resilient infrastructure with vSphere network service tiering?

Question32: An architect is tasked with expanding an existing VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution so that it can be used to deliver a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service off-shore development activities.
The production environment is currently delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers. The two data centers are currently connected to each other through multiple diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency links. The current operations management components are deployed to a dedicated management cluster that is configured with N+1 redundancy. The current VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) has a monthly availability target of 99.5%, which includes all management components.
The customer requires that the new solution scale to support the concurrent running of 500 persistent virtual desktops. The virtual desktops must not share the same virtual infrastructure as existing virtual machines, but can be managed using the same VMware operations management components. Any new VDI service management components must be installed into the management cluster. There is no requirement to back up the virtual desktops because all relevant user data is stored centrally. The VDI service is providing business critical services and must have an availability target of 99.9%.
Given the information from the customer, which two assumptions would the architect include in the design- (Choose two.)

Question33: In a meeting to discuss the minimum viable product (MVP) deployment of a new customer-facing application, the key stakeholder shares details of the application components and the application administrators share details of performance and integrity tests for the application.
The application will be made up of the following components:
A web server
- Steps to confirm the web server is operating correctly will take 15 minutes after the application server is online.
An application server
- Steps to confirm application server integrity will take 15 minutes after the database is online.
A database server
- The database server will be managed by a database administrator, with an agreed service-level agreement (SLA) to restore and validate database services within one hour.
The existing VMware infrastructure offers a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 minutes and recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes through a combination of backups and replication.
In the event of an outage impacting all three application components, how long will it take for the application to recover and complete all checks?

Question34: During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement (REQ) and constraints (CON):
- REQ01: The customer is looking for a way to limit database virtual machine (VM) placement to save on CPU licensing costs.
- CON01: There is a single cluster with no budget to scale.
- CON02: All virtual machines must run on the consolidated cluster.
Which two design decisions should the architect make to meet the customer requirement- (Choose two.)

Question35: Following a company merger, there are two data centers running vSphere environments. Both data centers are leveraging separate Layer 3 vMotion networks.
Which requirement must be met in order to enable vMotion migration between these locations?

Question36: During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer's Chief Information Security Office (CISO) provides the following requirements that are pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment:
- All operating system critical patches must be installed within 24 hours of release.
- All virtual machine templates must be updated every three months in line with company policy.
Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

Question37: When considering server consolidation, plan on running ___________ vCPUs per core.

Question38: What is a benefit of using a scale-out method for handling vSphere cluster growth?

Question39: An architect is preparing a design for a company planning digital transformation. During the requirements gathering workshop, the following requirements (REQ) and constraints (CON) are identified:
- REQ01 The platform must host different types of workloads including applications that must be compliant with internal security standard.
- REQ02 The infrastructure must initially run 100 virtual machines.
- REQ03 Ten of the virtual machines must be compliant with internal security standard.
- REQ04 The internal security standard specifies logical network separation for in-scope applications.
- CON01 The customer has already purchased the licenses as part of another project.
- CON02 The customer has five physical servers that must be reused.
Additionally, based on resource requirements, four physical servers will be enough to run all workloads.
Which recommendation should the architect make to meet requirements while minimizing project costs?

Question40: A customer requires the use of data encryption to ensure data is not accessible when a drive is removed from the primary storage platform. However, there is also a requirement to use deduplication and compression against all workloads in order to conserve space.
Which solution meets the customer requirements?

Question41: An architect is designing a new vSphere environment to meet the following requirements:
- The environment must support 5,000 virtual machines.
- The environment will be built initially using 350 hosts.
Which vCenter Server appliance deployment size should the architect specify for the design?

Question42: An architect is designing a new backup solution for a vSphere platform that has been recently upgraded to vSphere 7.
The architect wants the backup solution to perform the following:
- Full virtual machine image backup and restore
- Incremental virtual machine image backup and restore
- File level backup and restore within both Windows and Linux virtual machines
- LAN-free backup
Which functional requirement should the architect include in the design of the new backup solution?

Question43: An architect is designing a VMware solution for a customer to meet the following requirements:
- 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 32G fabric infrastructure.
- There is no budget for additional physical hardware.
Which design decision should the architect make to meet these requirements?

Question44: An architect is tasked with designing a greenfield VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution that will be used to deliver a private cloud service for a customer.
During the initial meeting with the service owner and business sponsor, the customer has provided the following information to help inform the design:
- The solution must initially support the concurrent running of 300 production and 600 development virtual machines.
- The production environment should be delivered across two geographically dispersed data centers.
- The development environment must be vSphere-based but does not have to be deployed on- premises.
- The two data centers are connected to each other through multiple diversely routed, high bandwidth and low latency links.
- The customer's server hardware standard document states that all virtual infrastructure hosts must be based on blade architecture only.
- The service owner has said that is important to ensure that neither the availability target of
99.5% nor the resource capacity is affected when the operations team completes maintenance activities, such as the monthly software patching and ad-hoc hardware break/fix.
- All virtual machine backups must be completed using the existing backup service.
- The recovery time objective (RTO) for the service is four hours.
- The recovery point objective (RPO) of the service is 24 hours.
Given the information from the customer, which two would be classified as assumptions within the design- (Choose two.)