EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: What is the main difference between workload and management clusters in vSphere design?

Question3: What is the purpose of determining business continuity requirements for a vSphere design?

Question4: Which requirements specify the number of virtual machines and cores needed for a virtualized system?

Question5: 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?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: Which of the following is a primary architectural component of VMware vSphere 7.x that provides the abstraction of physical resources and enables virtual machine mobility?

Question9: An organization operates a vSphere platform that supports three tiers of virtual machines: Tier 1- for all business-critical applications and services, Tier 2- for line of business services, and Tier 3- for test and development virtual machines.
The vSphere platform operates from three sites, named A, B and C; and virtual machines from all tiers run at each location. The operations manager wants to improve services so that the vSphere platform operates with virtual machines running on any site.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) requests that the architect redesign the disaster recovery (DR) solution to meet the goals of the operations manager and notes that site A should not be considered as there are plans to redevelop it as office space.
Which requirement should the architect include in the design to meet the goals of both the operations manager and the CEO?

Question10: What is a benefit of using a scale-out method for handling vSphere cluster growth?

Question11: During the troubleshooting process, a vSphere administrator identifies that a virtual machine has lost network connectivity.
Which log file should be checked on the ESXi host for network-related issues?

Question12: A customer has six hosts available in a cluster. When running at full capacity, all virtual machines can be run on two hosts.
How many hosts can the customer place into maintenance mode at the same time while still providing N+2 resiliency to the cluster?

Question13: An architect is planning the physical server configuration for a vSAN-based infrastructure.
Which operations mode should a RAID controller support to minimize potential server downtime during physical disk failures?

Question14: What does gathering and analyzing non-functional requirements involve?

Question15: A customer is deploying a new cluster and wants to be able to patch and update two hosts in parallel. The cluster must be able to maintain N+1 resiliency across the remaining hosts while patching activities are performed. The current expected utilization of the platform requires a minimum of two hosts to support all of the virtual machines.
What is the minimum number of hosts the customer will require in the cluster in order to meet the required resiliency level?

Question16: How are SLA requirements different from performance requirements?

Question17: 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.)

Question18: What do workload design requirements focus on?

Question19: 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?

Question20: 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?

Question21: 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.)

Question22: An architect is designing a solution based on the following information:
- Each ESXi host has a single physical NIC with two 10 Gbps ports.
- There is a performance-based service-level agreement (SLA) that guarantees 15 Gbps bandwidth for production virtual machines at all times.
- There is no budget to purchase additional hardware.
- The hardware replacement SLA is based on a delivery agreement of two business days.
Which recommendation for the configuration of vSphere High Availability (HA) should the architect include in the design?

Question23: 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?

Question24: What do data protection requirements for a vSphere design focus on?

Question25: 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?

Question26: Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as manageability non-functional requirements? (Choose two.)

Question27: An architect is designing a series of new vSphere environments for an organization. The environments will be deployed in their US-East and US-West region data centers. Each data center may have one or more dedicated vSphere environments. Only the vSphere environments within a data center will be configured with Enhanced Linked Mode.
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has authorized the use of VMware vRealize Automation Cloud for automation. The build team creates standardized virtual machine images for various operating systems in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and publishes the latest version on an asneeded basis to an internal HTTPS-accessible repository.
The architect must design a content library topology that meets the following requirements:
- A localized content library must be available in each data center.
- Each content library must be updated when an image is updated and released by the build team.
- The cloud automation platform must be able to consume the latest approved content library images.
- It must leverage the existing build team processes.
What should the architect recommend to meet the requirements?

Question28: 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.)

Question29: 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.)

Question30: 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?

Question31: How is the physical and virtual networking topology different in a vSphere environment?

Question32: An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer based on the following information:
- The vSphere cluster will have three hosts only due to budget considerations.
- A database cluster (node majority) consisting of three virtual machines will be running on the vSphere cluster.
Which two recommendations can the architect make so that the customer achieves the highest level of application availability while taking into consideration operational resiliency? (Choose two.)

Question33: What is the purpose of creating a vSphere host logical design?

Question34: Which vSphere feature allows an administrator to reduce the storage consumption of virtual machines by reclaiming blocks of unused storage space on a VMFS datastore?

Question35: What are workload design requirements related to?

Question36: As part of a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirements for the design of a new greenfield virtual infrastructure:
- Some applications have a latency that must be less than 5 minutes.
- The solution must be able to support a workload growth rate of 10% per year.
Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

Question37: What does evaluating storage protocols in a given scenario involve?

Question38: In a vSphere environment, what is the purpose of a virtual switch (vSwitch)?

Question39: What is the purpose of determining storage segregation techniques in a given scenario?

Question40: 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.)

Question41: 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?

Question42: 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?

Question43: An architect is designing a new greenfield environment with 600 ESXi hosts in an automated fashion. The engineering department already has a PXE Boot server, TFTP server, and DHCP server set up with an NFS mount for their current Linux servers. The architect must be able to demonstrate and meet a security requirement to have all infrastructure processes separated.
Which recommendation should the architect make for the ESXi host deployment?

Question44: 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.)

Question45: Which element of a design includes physical server specifications, network configurations, and storage details?

Question46: How do you determine storage topology needs for a vSphere design?

Question47: In a vSphere environment, what is the purpose of a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity rule?

Question48: During the installation of ESXi, what is the minimum number of network interfaces required for management and vMotion traffic, respectively?

Question49: During the planning and designing phase, what are the two main considerations for workload placement within a vSphere environment? (Choose two.)

Question50: What do capacity requirements for a vSphere design help determine?

Question51: Refer to the exhibit. During a requirements gathering workshop, the architect shares the following diagram:
What should the architect recommend for guaranteed throughput for each service?

Question52: What is the primary purpose of gathering and analyzing performance requirements?

Question53: When configuring a vSphere High Availability (HA) cluster, which network redundancy option is recommended to ensure the availability of HA functionality even during a single network link failure?

Question54: The DevOps team at an organization is preparing to build and package virtual machine (VM) images that will be added to a content library for a new vSphere environment. Users will deploy virtual machines from the content library.
The solutions architect is gathering requirements to help the DevOps team decide between the use of VM templates versus Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates in the content library.
Which requirement would influence the design decision to use OVF templates in the content library?

Question55: What do risks in the context of design refer to?

Question56: During the upgrade process of VMware tools on virtual machines, what is the correct sequence to ensure smooth compatibility?

Question57: An organization's data scientists are executing a plan to use machine learning (ML). They must have access to graphical processing unit (GPU) capabilities to execute their computational models when needed. The solutions architect needs to design a solution to ensure that GPUs can be shared by multiple virtual machines.
Which two solutions should the architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Question58: What does determining compliance requirements for a vSphere design involve?

Question59: An architect makes the design decision to install ESXi on embedded and resilient 8 GB SD cards.
What is the impact of this design decision?

Question60: What is a benefit of using VMware Auto Deploy during the installation and configuration process?

Question61: 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?

Question62: What does defining a workload cluster design objective involve?

Question63: What is the purpose of a Content Library in vSphere?

Question64: What is the primary purpose of data protection requirements for a vSphere design?

Question65: Which requirement is concerned with the amount of data storage necessary to support the system?

Question66: 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?

Question67: What is the purpose of a virtual data center design?

Question68: 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?

Question69: An architect is tasked with designing the vSphere cluster layout for a customer. The customer is NOT sure how many clusters are required or the number of hosts to use in any of the clusters.
The customer has provided the following requirements:
- The placement of Linux and Windows machines (end user virtual machines) needs to be controlled for license compliance.
- Access to virtual machines such as Active Directory and DHCP (infrastructure virtual machines) should be restricted to just the platform administration team.
- Infrastructure virtual machines should not prevent end user virtual machines from consuming their allocated resources.
- Utilization for the current infrastructure's virtual machines is less than end user virtual machines.
- The platform needs to provide the ability to lifecycle manage the hosts without impacting end user virtual machines.
- The platform needs to account for the predicted future growth of end user virtual machines being very high, while for infrastructure virtual machines being very low.
- There are a total of 15 physical servers for use across the platform.
Which of the proposed cluster layouts would meet the customer's requirements?

Question70: An architect has 50 ESXi hosts to deploy and DHCP servers are not allowed on any network.
Which automated host deployment method should the architect use?

Question71: 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?

Question72: What is the purpose of creating a vCenter Server logical design?

Question73: Which VMware product offers a software-defined storage solution, providing distributed storage architecture that spans multiple vSphere clusters?

Question74: 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?

Question75: What does a network requirement specify?

Question76: What is the purpose of designing network segregation for different traffic types in vSphere?

Question77: Which vSphere feature is used to allocate CPU and memory resources dynamically among virtual machines within a cluster, based on predefined resource allocation rules?

Question78: 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:
1. 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
2. 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.)

Question79: Which type of requirement is "Usability" an example of?

Question80: What is the main purpose of analyzing functional requirements?

Question81: A 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?

Question82: During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer provides the following requirement that is pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment:
The Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) for all Tier 1 applications is one hour.
Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

Question83: An architect is reviewing a physical storage design. The customer has specified that a new active- passive based storage array will be used to provide storage for the vSphere clusters.
Which configuration should for the architect recommended?

Question84: What are non-functional requirements in the context of a vSphere design?

Question85: An architect is designing a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) solution based on the following customer requirements:
- The solution must initially support 1,000 virtual machines
- The solution must scale to support the concurrent running of up to 5,000 virtual machines
- The production environment should be delivered across two data centers
- The solution should have a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of four hours
- The solution should have a monthly service availability target of 99.8%.
Which two assumptions could the architect make based on the information from the customer to help size the solution? (Choose two.)

Question86: 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?

Question87: What is the primary function of vCenter Server in a vSphere environment?

Question88: An architect is tasked with recommending a solution for a company that is running out of VLANs.
Currently the company is running two separate data centers based on vSphere including an Enterprise Plus license.
In the first data center, the problem was solved by using VMware NSX and overlay network. In the second data center, there is currently no VMware NSX implementation in place and no budget for additional licenses.
What should the architect recommend as a potential solution to provide support for additional VLANs?