Center Design (VCAP5-DCD) Version: 2.6 QUESTION NO: 1
When designing a storage platform, which of the following should be considered as part of the overall design?
A. Capacity B. I/O requirements of the applications to be supported C. Disk latency tolerance D. Growth rate E. All of the above
Answer: E Explanation: A storage platform logical design requires in-depth analysis of factors that can affect applications. In the case of storage, aspects that relate to the physical layersuch as the amount of usable space required for services; the size, number, and speed of disks; and how fast the data is being producedcould have a substantial impact to the storage platform. Chapter 4, Storage Design - The Logical & Physical Approaches
QUESTION NO: 2
You are the technical designer for a vSphere platform transformation project. After conducting SME interviews and using various platform information-gathering methods, you have created a high-level design document.
This document specifies the following:
Requirements:
R1. The solution must not have a single point of failure.
R2. Production applications must not have an outage of more than 10 seconds.
R3. Data must be based in the UK.
R4. There is a 7-year retention policy for contracts.
R5. Applications should support existing and developing workloads for the next 3 years growth.
Spec of servers:
Web 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB storage
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 2 App 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 100 Gb storage
DB 2 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 750 Gb storage
At a late stage in the software development life cycle of a production application developed in- house, an unfortunate issue was identified when the application was deployed to the production vSphere cluster. The production core stacked switch has capacity issues, and this is having a serious impact on all applications for which the switch is providing network services. Within the test system, the application works as intended in the single test VLAN and with a single-host configuration.
Which of the following could be tried to help in this situation, from a vSphere perspective? (Choose two)
A. Redevelop the application for a virtual platform B. Place the application into a single-vApp network C. Add DRS rules to keep network traffic within the same host, where possible D. Configure network I/O control
Answer: B,D Explanation: If you limit the application traffic to a specific dedicated network (that is, a separate VLAN) and using enforced DRS affinity rules, the application traffic will not traverse the ESXi hosts physical network interfaces. This will ensure that the impact of the application is minimized, while also ensuring that the application itself is not limited. The application servers already have vCPU settings. This suggests that the system has already being virtualized in both types of environments. Network I/O control could be useful in the event of contention, but the role of a designer would be to plan to prevent contention where possible; other options would be more beneficial. In addition, Requirement 5 specifies that the system should work with workloads over the next 3 years. Network I/O control would suggest contention very early in the platform history. Chapter 4, NetWork - Logical and Physical Design to allow applications to flow
QUESTION NO: 3
Based on the information in the high-level design extract you have created a high-level design document.
This document specifies the following:
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 3 Requirements:
R1. The solution must not have a single point of failure.
R2. Production applications must not have an outage of more than 10 seconds.
R3. Data must be based in the UK.
R4. There is a 7-year retention policy for contracts.
R5. Applications should support existing and developing workloads for the next 3 years growth.
Spec of servers:
Web 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB storage
App 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 100 Gb storage
DB 2 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 750 Gb storage
At a late stage in the software development life cycle of a production application developed in- house, an unfortunate issue was identified when the application was deployed to the production vSphere cluster. The production core stacked switch has capacity issues, and this is having a serious impact on all applications for which the switch is providing network services. Within the test system, the application works as intended in the single test VLAN and with a single-host configuration.
, what storage protocol is unsuitable?
A. NFS B. iSCSI C. FC
Answer: A Explanation: The requirements state that the application uptime requirements would not be met if using vSphere HA alone. vSphere HA would invoke a restart of guest virtual machines after at least 10 seconds. VMware fault tolerance would meet the uptime requirements; a failover would result in zero downtime of the application. This technology can be used only with VMFS; therefore, NFS cannot be used in this design. Chapter 4, NetWork - Logical and Physical Design to allow applications to flow
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 4 QUESTION NO: 4
Based on the information in the high-level design extract for question 2, which type of data store would be required?
A. VMFS B. NFS
Answer: A Explanation: Because fault tolerance would be the only VMware technology that would meet the technical requirements, VMFS is the only choice here. Chapter 4, Storage Design - The Logical & Physical Approaches
QUESTION NO: 5
Which of the following vSphere cluster technologies would meet the application requirements specified in the high-level design extract you have created a high-level design document.
This document specifies the following:
Requirements:
R1. The solution must not have a single point of failure.
R2. Production applications must not have an outage of more than 10 seconds.
R3. Data must be based in the UK.
R4. There is a 7-year retention policy for contracts.
R5. Applications should support existing and developing workloads for the next 3 years growth.
Spec of servers:
Web 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB storage
App 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 100 Gb storage
DB 2 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 750 Gb storage
At a late stage in the software development life cycle of a production application developed in- house, an unfortunate issue was identified when the application was deployed to the production VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 5 vSphere cluster. The production core stacked switch has capacity issues, and this is having a serious impact on all applications for which the switch is providing network services. Within the test system, the application works as intended in the single test VLAN and with a single-host configuration.
A. FT B. HA
Answer: A Explanation: vSphere HA would need to wait at least 10 seconds before a restart would be possible. This would not meet requirements. In the event of a restart, it could be possible to be without the application feed database for about 15 minutes. VMware FT would enable the service to be provided without additional redevelopment. Chapter 4, Storage Design - The Logical & Physical Approaches
QUESTION NO: 6
A project requirement _______________
A. must be achieved B. can be set as aspirational but may never be achieved
Answer: A Explanation: A project requirement is a specific deliverable that the business has said must be provided at the end of a project. It must always be achieved. Chapter 4, Storage Design - The Logical & Physical Approaches
QUESTION NO: 7
A logical diagram shows vendor-specific information.
A. True B. False
Answer: B VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 6 Explanation: A logical diagram shows the high-level components of a design or platform. It may include descriptions such as data flow and entity relationships. However, it does not show specific vendors (such as Dell or HP). Chapter 2, Creating the design
QUESTION NO: 8
Storage DRS is enabled by default.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: Chapter 4, Storage Design - The Logical & Physical Approaches
QUESTION NO: 9
Storage DRS can be enabled and can balance I/O levels based on _______________
A. real-time stats B. historical stats
Answer: B Explanation: Storage DRS can balance I/O by using storage vMotion. This would be based on historical values for a period of time. Storage DRS would make decisions based on these figures. If the system were using realtime stats, the machines could potentially migrate a lot more. This could have an effect on the latency figures for some systems. The larger historical sampling in storage DRS allows the system to make a decision with limited risk of impacting I/Ounlike moving a virtual machine over and over again. Chapter 4, Storage Design - The Logical & Physical Approaches
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 7 QUESTION NO: 10
The vCenter database is powered off ungracefully, along with a three cluster nodes in a separate cluster. Will the failed existing ESXi host nodes restart correctly using Auto Deploy?
A. Yes B. No
Answer: A Explanation: Auto Deploy enables an untrained IT professional to increase capacity while ensuring quality and consistency within a cluster. However, there is a dependency on the vCenter server and Auto Deploy server roles at different times. In this case, the ESXi hosts have already booted successfully. This means that all subsequent reboots will be controlled using configuration from the Auto Deploy server, not vCenter. If the vCenter database is impacted, the ESXi hosts will automatically restore. Even in the event of no vCenter availability, hosts will use the last-known copy of a distributed switch or the configured vSphere switch. Chapter X, Putting it all together
QUESTION NO: 11
A best practice can change over time.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A best practice is based on experience with delivering a solution. A new product will have limited best-practice information except for vendor- or vendor-partner-based recommendations. The longer a technology is used in a community, the more potential success; therefore, best practices can change over time. Chapter 6, Validation, Thoughts, and Processes
QUESTION NO: 12
Only a software vendor develops a standard process or configuration. VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 8 A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: A best practice is based on experience with delivering a solution. A new product will have limited best-practice information except for vendor- or vendor-partner-based recommendations. The longer a technology is used in a community, the more potential success; therefore, best practices may be recommended by non-vendor-related people. It is up to a designer to validate this information rather than ignore it straightaway. Chapter 6, Validation, Thoughts, and Processes
QUESTION NO: 13
A logical design can contain which of the following? (Choose three)
A. BIOS settings B. Data flow C. Key component relationships D. High-level diagrams E. Server host names
Answer: B,C,D Explanation: A logical diagram can be used to show service components and how they relate to each other. A logical diagram is high level in nature and is independent of the hardware used for a solution. Chapter 2, Presenting the Data Gathered
QUESTION NO: 14
You are a VMware architect employed to design and build application environments and the underlying platform for a software development company. The company is using a devops approach and has engaged with you at the beginning of the first planning meeting/pre-sprint.
The software has yet to be written. However, you have some high-level specifications that are subject to change at each of the early meetings.
The ______ is more logical for virtual machine sizing. VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 9 A. predictive sizing approach based on current software B. adaptive sizing approach
Answer: B Explanation: There are two types of scaling approaches in virtual platforms: adaptive and predictive. Both approaches are usable; however, a designer must work out which is the best approach for each project. The adaptive approach to guest virtual machine design is a major advantage that virtualization technology brings to a datacenter. It allows a guest virtual machine to be created initially on a few metrics or high-level requirements (such as a limited budget) and scaled (that is, grown, not shrunk) through the virtual machine life cycle. In many cases, this scaling can be performed hot/live without outage/downtime to the running applications. The predictive approach, on the other hand, requires more planning and research, and you must know the metrics before deployment. The advantage here is that once the virtual machine has been deployed, only application maintenance is required. The application requirements are known. Chapter 5, Design Approaches
QUESTION NO: 15
You are working on a hybrid cloud project, where production applications (yet to be fully developed) are to be deployed. Which of the following is a project requirement?
A. The production data must be in the UK at all times. B. The hosting partner provides sufficient resources without overcommitment to support application load. C. The hosting provider meets uptime expectations. D. The development team provides the software on time.
Answer: A Explanation: A requirement is a definable and measurable project item. It must be part of the delivery, and its removal cannot be justified. Chapter 2, Definitions of Key Terms
QUESTION NO: 16
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 10 In the project life cycle, the ____________ defines the vision.
A. IT architect B. software vendor C. business
Answer: C Explanation: By reviewing the current configuration of a system and mapping the final status of components as described in the vision, the business identifies the gap between the two. A gap state analysis is a review of the items or tasks that are required to progress between the stages. Such an analysis is useful in creating milestone plans, implementation orders, and so on. Chapter 2, Gathering Information and Spotting the Gaps
QUESTION NO: 17
A(n) _____________ is an item that is taken to be true in the design phases but has not been tested prior to execution.
A. requirement B. constraint C. assumption D. risk
Answer: C Explanation: An assumption could impact your design. It is good to ensure that project team and wider business are aware of assumptions and that they are agreed and validated as part of the design consideration process. Chapter 2, Gathering Information and Spotting the Gaps
QUESTION NO: 18
You are a virtualization consultant working on a DR project. You have proposed a solution that uses SAN replication technology to replicate production virtual machine files. This meets the cold standby requirement.
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 11 Which of the following could be a design constraint?
A. The hardware currently being used in the datacenter is out of support. B. The company is undecided about the choice of centralized storage to be used in the enterprise. C. The company is at the end of year 1 of a 3-year contract for the point-to-point link between Site A and Site D. This link is currently 10 MB.
Answer: C Explanation: An item from the current state analysis that would restrict or change a design choice is potentially a constraint. Such factors can limit a design and in some cases prevent the realization of a project vision. Chapter 2, Gathering Information and Spotting the Gaps
QUESTION NO: 19
You are a technical consultant designing a solution for an online retail company. The project vision is to deploy a hybrid cloud, with the internal team developing the website on internal infrastructure and migrating production-ready applications to a hosting provider. The project is expected to ease deployment and require less infrastructure capital expenditurewithout lowering application quality.
Which of the following is a risk to the project?
A. The solution must adhere to ISO 27001. B. Change control of the hosting vCloud platform is not under full control of the internal business. C. The hosting provider outsources the platform support to the platform vendor. D. The applications to be deployed on the production hosts are not fully developed, although a beta exists.
Answer: B Explanation: The technical design process enables the platform designer to work in a methodical way and with others who have similar objectives. A risk is that a project item could potentially prevent the vision or aspects of it (requirements) from being created. Chapter 1, The Technical Design Process
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 12 QUESTION NO: 20
A DR project requires a recovery time objective (RTO) of 4 hours and has a recovery point objective (RPO) of 2 hours. The system fails at 8 p.m. on a Sunday evening. At what time is the application expected to be available to the end users?
A. Midnight B. 10 p.m. C. 2 a.m. D. 11 p.m.
Answer: A Explanation: The recovery time objective (RTO)also known as the return to operationis the amount of time it takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place. The recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which the system needs to be restored following a failure. Chapter 3, RTO, RPO, and All That Stuff?
QUESTION NO: 21
A project vision in some cases may not be achieved due to constraints, risks, and other project factors. However, a project vision is required to guide a project throughout the life cycle.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: The technical design process enables a platform designer to work in a methodical way and with others who have similar objectives. The vision is the endpointthe environment or situation whereby the business would ideally like to be following the process. Chapter 1, The Technical Design Process
QUESTION NO: 22
A software vendor-provided best practice should be adhered to ___________. (Choose two)
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 13 A. where possible, respecting other project requirements B. at all times because the vendor wrote and designed the software C. in the absence of other requirements as a guide to configuration
Answer: A,C Explanation: A best practice is based on experience with delivering a solution. A new product will have limited best-practice information except for vendor- or vendor-partner-based recommendations. The longer a technology is used in a community, the more potential success; therefore, best practices may change over time. Chapter 6, Validation, Thoughts, and Processes
QUESTION NO: 23
An application has an SLA whereby the service must be restored in 4 hours, with 15-minute data loss. Which of the following statements is valid?
A. The platform must provide the application with RTO of 15 minutes and RPO of 4 hours. B. The platform must provide the application with RTO of 4 hours and RPO of 15 minutes.
Answer: B Explanation: The recovery time objective (RTO)also known as the return to operationis the amount of time it takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place. The recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which the system needs to be restored following a failure. Chapter 3, RTO, RPO, and All That Stuff?
QUESTION NO: 24
Which of the following type of discovery methods used in state-analysis techniques is more likely to affect application or server performance.
A. Active B. Passive C. Both A and B
Answer: A VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 14 Explanation: There are two types of discovery methods: active and passive. Active discovery methods can run processes that are detrimental and can impact a system. They normally require an agent. With passive discovery methods, data is obtained in a non-impact, non-intrusive manner, with no agents. Obtaining and interpreting/presenting data such as this normally requires more experience. Chapter 2, Selecting the Best Tool for the Job
QUESTION NO: 25
Which of the following diagrams which may be included in project documentation shows a systems components and how they could affect/depend on each other?
A. Logical diagram B. Entity relationship diagram C. Physical diagram
Answer: B Explanation: An entity relationship diagram is a form of logical diagram than can be used to map service component dependencies. It is independent of the hardware used for a solution. Chapter 2, Presenting the Data Gathered
QUESTION NO: 26
Infrastructure qualities are guiding design considerations that can be used ___________. (Choose two)
A. in the absence of project requirements B. instead of project requirements C. in addition to project requirements
Answer: A,C Explanation: Good design should meet the project requirements and consider the properties of assumed platform design. Protecting data requires that a system be available and manageable, that it have VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 15 good performance, and that it be easy to recover and be secure. Chapter 3, What Makes a Good Choice for Virtualization, and What Is a Good Design?
QUESTION NO: 27
In a stateless Auto Deploy design, which of the following is correct?
A. The vCenter has a direct impact in the event of an outage of this component. B. The Auto Deploy server has a direct impact in the end of an outage of this component. C. Both of the above statements are correct
Answer: C Explanation: The Auto Deploy feature is an excellent design choice for managing a mass installation of ESXi. The vCenter is required for implementation; however, the requirement is independent of vCenter version. Chapter 4, Management/Platform Design
QUESTION NO: 28
VMware HA can reduce the requirement for disaster recovery planning and documentation.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: VMware HA can satisfy the majority of RTO scenarios. In general, a business can tolerate small outages of less than a few minutes. When designed correctly, HA can satisfy this requirement while providing hardware-level protection. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance
QUESTION NO: 29 You are tasked with ensuring that a multitier application will restart correctly during an HA event. VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 16 Which of the following is required? (Choose two)
A. A specified restart priority for each machine in the application tiers B. A vApp object C. A DR and validation process for operations staff manual processes
Answer: A,B Explanation: A vApp is a logical container for guest virtual machine objects. When you use a container, you have the ability to use key management functionality, which can dramatically help a virtualized platform. Automation allows a small number of staff to manage lots of virtual machines. Chapter 5, vApps
QUESTION NO: 30
Before the implementation phase of a project, all design choices should be ______________.
A. validated and justified to the business and project team members B. documented, validated, and verified as vendor-based best practices C. validated
Answer: A Explanation: The best validation is to place a platform under a typical test of what it will be faced with in the fieldfor example, having a simulated number of users go through a workflow (perhaps a website). A lot of these tasks vary with the type of application and are primarily application functionality based. In addition, platform or infrastructure metrics are key for validation and for information to be used within the operational documentation (for example, troubleshooting guide, monitoring recommendations). Chapter 6, Validation, Thoughts, and Processes
QUESTION NO: 31
You have been asked to review a vSphere HA design. The admission control policy is set to "The number of host failures tolerated." The virtual machines vary in size, and use of VM-based reservations is common. Which of the following should be recommended? (Choose three)
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 17 A. The platform has reservations removed unless specifically required by an application vendor verified or workload verified requirement. B. The platform should be configured with reservations based on resource pools C. The platform should be configured with an appropriate slot size or the admission control policy changed to a percentage based policy. D. The platform should not be configured with reservations based on resource pools
Answer: A,B,C Explanation: An admission control policy tells VMware HA how to calculate the resources it needs to reserve for a cluster. It uses a combination of memory and CPU reservation configuration or, if no configuration exists, a default low reservation. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance
QUESTION NO: 32
When given a project requirement for RTO to be satisfied, VMware HA can be used with admission control enabled.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: An admission control policy tells VMware HA how to calculate the resources it needs to reserve for a cluster. It uses a combination of memory and CPU reservation configuration or, if no configuration exists, a default low reservation. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance
QUESTION NO: 33
DRS rules can help satisfy availability concerns within a cluster; however, if used extensively, they may cause a performance issue with vCenter.
A. True B. False
Answer: A VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 18 Explanation: DRS rules can be extremely useful for a number of reasons, such as redundancy, network bandwidth, and performance management. However, if they are used extensively, functionality such as DPM may become less effective (that is, hosts will not be able to power off due to rules and will use more power than required). Chapter 4, Management/Platform Design
QUESTION NO: 34
You are reviewing a VMware vSphere 5 cluster design. The system is designed to run DPM in fully automated mode. DPM in fully automated mode ____ evacuate all templates when placed into standby mode.
A. will B. will not
Answer: B Explanation: DPM will not move powered-off virtual machines or templates. A real-life workaround is to turn off fully automated DRS for these machines on a case-by-case basis and register them to a specific host in the cluster for deployment usage. Chapter 4, Management/Platform Design
QUESTION NO: 35
Has the configurable option "Failure Detection Time" in VMware HA has been removed in vSphere 5?
A. No. It is an advanced setting. B. Yes. It is no longer needed due to additional storage checks in the VMware HA isolation response process.
Answer: B Explanation: vSphere 5 will use datastore heartbeats in a disaster. Thus, this setting is no longer available or supported in VMware vSphere 5. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 19
QUESTION NO: 36
You are considering the correct option for a VMware HA cluster admission control policy. The system is a hosted platform, and for business reasons, reservations will not be used. Which of the following statements is correct?
A. The only admission control policy possible is based on failover host. B. A default slot size will be used in place of reservations. C. The percentage-based admission control policy should be used.
Answer: B Explanation: An admission control policy tells VMware HA how to calculate the resources it needs to reserve for a cluster. It uses a combination of memory and CPU reservation configuration or, if no configuration exists, a default low reservation. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance
QUESTION NO: 37
You are designing a VMware HA cluster. In vSphere 5, VMware HA will take cluster resource fragmentation into account and ask DRS to defragment the cluster, if required.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: In VMware vSphere 5, this HA functionality is fully automated and does not use any specific custom settings with regard to reservations or slot sizes. VMware HA functions can request DRS to migrate workloads across the system in multiple rounds of vMotion tasks. This can help defragment the cluster and restart VMs that have been affected by a failed host. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 20 QUESTION NO: 38
You are designing a VMware HA cluster. Due to project requirements, it has been agreed that the admission control policy is based on the number of host failures tolerated per cluster. However, because there are a number of small web servers and one large database server with large reservations, the slot size has been manually configured. What is the impact of this configuration?
A. DRS will not automatically defragment the resources in the event of a failure. B. DRS will automatically defragment the resources in the event of a failure. C. DPM cannot be used in this configuration.
Answer: A Explanation: With the rebuild of vSphere 5 HA functionality, it is possible for VMware HA to ask DRS to defragment a cluster if systems are not going to restart correctly. However, this functionality is disabled if the default or automatic slot size calculation is changed using the override setting. In situations like this, from a design perspective, a percentage-based admission control policy would be more beneficial. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance
QUESTION NO: 39
You are designing a vSphere 5 HA cluster. One of the requirements is to ensure full collection of log files in the event of an issue. Which of the following is correct? (Choose two)
A. By default, ESXi logs are not persistent following reboots. B. The logs should be forwarded to a syslog server or vCenter dump collector. C. The ESXi logs are persistent through reboots.
Answer: B,C Explanation: By default, ESXi hosts do not store logs persistently through reboots. To ensure full visibility of logs, a syslog and/or vCenter dump collector is required for compliance and root cause analysis. Chapter 4, Management/Platform Design
QUESTION NO: 40
You are designing a VMware HA cluster as part of a solution for a large enterprise. One of the VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 21 specific requirements is to remove the risk of impact to a DRS outage due to possible fragmentation of resources leading to performance issues. Which of the following statements is correct?
A. VMware HA will automatically protect DRS in the event of a HA event. B. A virtual vCenter cannot be used in this solution. C. vCenter heartbeat would need to be implemented to protect the vCenter and dependent services DRS uses for this level of protection.
Answer: C Explanation: The vCenter can be protected by VMware HA but is a requirement for HA configuration. The vCenter is also a requirement for DRS, DPN, network vMotion, and vMotion. For cases in which functionality such as this cannot tolerate outages of several minutes in the event of a major event, VMware has a product called vCenter heartbeat. It can give true application protection without an outage to the vCenter application. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance
QUESTION NO: 41
You are designing a VMware HA platform based on vSphere converged network hardware and softwarebased iSCSI storage. Which of the following is true?
A. vSphere 5 can provide protection for workloads in this design, using datastore heartbeats and management networks. B. vSphere 5 datastore heartbeats may not provide additional protection in this design if a physical card containing the management and storage networks fails.
Answer: B Explanation: VMware HA will check storage heartbeats or a lock file (NFS v3) on datastores in the event that the management network is impacted. By using a CNA and slicing the 10 GB up into smaller chunks, it could be possible perspective to have a smaller number of physical NICs but with multiple logical networks defined. As a CNA can define network and storage configuration, it could be a major outage if the NIC failed, and this would remove the extra protection the network storage heartbeats provide. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 22 QUESTION NO: 42
DRS and vMotion can help increase consolidation ratios.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: DRS can be configured for fully automated mode and can review performance statistics on hosts. Assuming that all workloads will not have the same peak period of time, you can load balance workloads across the hosts and reuse resources in different scenarios through the working day to increase consolidation ratios. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance
QUESTION NO: 43
A guest VM should be sized using ____________. (Choose two)
A. minimum applications specifications B. initial workload C. anticipated workloads
Answer: A,C Explanation: Allocated resources are shown in the guest operating system and are not guaranteed. The amount depends on the unreserved resources available at the time. Assuming no functionality issues, you can configure a production application to be guaranteed its projected workload, and the system should deliver. Without a reservation, there is potential for a performance impact if there is contention. Chapter 5, Virtual MachinesFrom the Design Perspective
QUESTION NO: 44
You are a VMware architect designing a solution for a client with an existing site who wishes to build a disaster recovery site. The operations manager has presented some information in the kickoff meeting. The company has 1,000 VMs, and the average VM has the following specs: VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 23 18 GB memory
2 vCPU
100 GB
The company already has an existing vendor relationship with a hardware vendor and would like to keep the existing storage solution roadmap in place. The following requirements are stated:
RTO: 15 minutes
RPO: 15 minutes
Uptime: 99.99%
The existing vendor relationship is a ______________.
A. risk to the project B. constraint C. vision
Answer: B Explanation: An assumption could impact your design. It is good to ensure that project team and wider business are aware of assumptions and that they are agreed and validated as part of the design consideration process. Chapter 2, Gathering Information and Spotting the Gaps
QUESTION NO: 45
The RTO and RPO objectives can be achieved using VMware HA.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: The majority of applications do not require 100% uptime. VMware HA can be configured to restart workloads within a few seconds. The software can be configured to produce a fully automated DR and BC system. It is, however, not completely application aware and will depend on application requirements to be proved useful. From a VMware admin point of view, VMware HA is very VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 24 - - - - important and worth exploring in the design process. Chapter 4, The Importance of vMotion, VMware HA, and Fault Tolerance
QUESTION NO: 46
You are a VMware consultant working at a small managed services company. The company has won a contract with a large company, Company A, to host its test and dev platform, with the chance on annual review to host the production platform.
Although you have been engaged early in the project due to business requirements, the budget for the project has already been combined with that for another DR project for another company, Company B. The thought process for this decision is that, if needed, the test systems from Company A have a lower requirement in the unlikely event of Company B having a DR event.
All the items have been bought and are to be delivered. Your role is to take the equipment provided and construct, develop, and implement a scalable working vSphere platform. The following requirements are stated:
Company A test machines must be provided with sufficient resources for BAU. Company B systems can be made available with minimum impact to Company A. For Company A, RTO is 7 days, and RPO is 1 month. For company B, RTO is 1 hour, and RPO is 15 minutes.
Using a shared infrastructure in this way is a risk to the project.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: The technical design process enables the platform designer to work in a methodical way and with others with similar objectives. A risk is an object that could prevent the delivery of the project requirements. Chapter 1, The Technical Design Process
QUESTION NO: 47
You are a VMware consultant working at a small managed-services company that has won a VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 25 - - - - contract with a large Company A to host its test and dev platform, with the chance on annual review to host its production platform.
Although you have been engaged early in the project, because of business requirements, the budget for the project has already been combined with another DR project for another Company B. The thought process for this decision is that, if needed, the test systems from Company A have a lower requirement in the unlikely event of Company B having a DR event.
All the items have been bought and are to be delivered. Your role is to take the equipment provided and construct, develop, and implement a scalable working vSphere platform.
The requirements stated are:
Company A test machines must be provided with sufficient resources for BAU. Company B systems must be made available with minimum impact to Company A. The RTO for Company A is seven days, with an RPO of one month. Company B's RTO is 1 hour, and its RPO is 15 minutes.
The use of a shared infrastructure used in this way is a constraint to the project.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: An item from the current state analysis that would restrict or change a design choice is potentially a constraint. These factors can limit the design and in some cases prevent the realization of the project vision.
QUESTION NO: 48
You are a VMware consultant who has been hired to take over a mismanaged VMware vSphere 5 platform estate. You are presented with the vCenter administrator password and given the following information.
1. The system has full production support from VMware.
2. The platform has been suffering from performance problems for two weeks.
3. No documentation exists.
Your role is to design and implement a platform that meets the following requirements: VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 26 - - - - R001: Stable for current workloads R002: Supportable by operations staff
Which of the following discovery methods should be used?
A. Active discovery B. Passive discovery
Answer: B Explanation: There are two types of discovery methods: Active discovery can run processes which are detrimental and can impact a system, and normally requires an agent. With passive discovery, data is obtained in a non-impactful, non-intrusive manner with no agents. Data such as this normally needs more experience to obtain and interpret/present.
QUESTION NO: 49
You are a VMware consultant who has been hired to take over a mismanaged VMware vSphere 5 platform estate. You are presented with the vCenter administrator password and given the following information.
The system has full production support from VMware.
The platform has been suffering from performance problems for two weeks.
No documentation exists.
Your role is to design and implement a platform that meets the following requirements:
R001: Stable for current workloads R002: Supportable by operations staff
The preferred method for information gathering in this case should be a passive discovery.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: There are two types of discovery methods: Active discovery can run processes which are detrimental and can impact a system, and normally VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 27 - - requires an agent. With passive discovery, data is obtained in a non-impactful, non-intrusive manner with no agents. Data such as this normally needs more experience to obtain and interpret/present.
QUESTION NO: 50
You are a VMware consultant who has been hired to take over a mismanaged VMware vSphere 5 platform estate. You are presented with the vCenter administrator password and given the following information.
The system has full production support from VMware.
The platform has been suffering from performance problems for two weeks.
No documentation exists.
Your role is to design and implement a platform that meets the following requirements:
R001: Stable for current workloads R002: Supportable by operations staff
The performance problem mentioned in the initial project information can be classified as:
A. A constraint B. An assumption
Answer: A Explanation: An assumption is an item which could more than likely impact your design. It is good to ensure that the project time and wider business are aware of these assumptions, and that they are agreed upon and validated as part of the design consideration process. VCAP5-DCD Practice Exam #2
QUESTION NO: 51
Active discovery methods require agents.
A. True VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 28 B. False
Answer: A Explanation: There are two types of discovery methods: active and passive. Active discovery methods can run processes that are detrimental and can impact a system. They normally require an agent.
With passive discovery methods, data is obtained in a non-impact, non-intrusive manner, with no agents. Obtaining and interpreting/presenting data such as this normally requires more experience.
QUESTION NO: 52
Active discovery methods require agents.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: There are two types of discovery methods: active and passive. Active discovery methods can run processes that are detrimental and can impact a system. They normally require an agent. With passive discovery methods, data is obtained in a non-impact, non-intrusive manner, with no agents. Obtaining and interpreting/presenting data such as this normally requires more experience.
QUESTION NO: 53
Passive discovery methods may impact the platform used for monitoring.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 29 There are two types of discovery methods: active and passive. Active discovery methods can run processes that are detrimental and can impact a system. They normally require an agent. With passive discovery methods, data is obtained in a non-impact, non-intrusive manner, with no agents. Obtaining and interpreting/presenting data such as this normally requires more experience.
QUESTION NO: 54
Active discovery methods may impact the platform used for monitoring.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: There are two types of discovery methods: active and passive. Active discovery methods can run processes that are detrimental and can impact a system. They normally require an agent. With passive discovery methods, data is obtained in a non-impact, non-intrusive manner, with no agents. Obtaining and interpreting/presenting data such as this normally requires more experience.
QUESTION NO: 55
An entity relationship diagram shows the physical attributes of a solution.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: An entity relationship diagram is a form of logical diagram than can be used to map service component dependencies. It is independent of the hardware used for the solution.
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QUESTION NO: 56
An entity relationship diagram shows the logical attributes of a solution.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: An entity relationship diagram is a form of logical diagram than can be used to map service component dependencies. It is independent of the hardware used for the solution.
QUESTION NO: 57
If a vendor best practice details configuration that would not meet a project requirement, a solution should ignore that requirement.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: A requirement is a definable and measurable project item. It must be part of the delivery, and its removal cannot be justified.
QUESTION NO: 58
A project requirement must always be met.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A requirement is a definable and measurable project item. It must be part of the delivery, and its VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 31 removal cannot be justified.
QUESTION NO: 59
A current state analysis is a project phase that is carried out to ensure that an architect understands the complete environment at the beginning of a project.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A current state analysis gives an architect a way to examine the road ahead. Any oversights at this stage could have major implications for the project later on. By ensuring that the current state analysis is completed thoroughly, you can prevent many potential problems.
QUESTION NO: 60
A current state analysis is a project phase that is carried out to validate the end of a project.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: A current state analysis gives an architect a way to examine the road ahead. Any oversights at this stage could have major implications for the project later on. By ensuring that the current state analysis is completed thoroughly, you can prevent many potential problems.
QUESTION NO: 61
A design choice guided by a best practice does not need to be justified.
A. True VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 32 B. False
Answer: B Explanation: You should always be sure to include your justifications and selection criteria in your logical design documents. These justifications are useful when you explain your approach during design and milestone meetings, and they ensure that you are aware of the impact of the technical approach and the components of the platform or solution you are building.
QUESTION NO: 62
The difference between the beginning of a project and the vision is also known as the ____________.
A. current state analysis B. gap state analysis C. upstream relationship D. downstream relationship
Answer: B Explanation: By reviewing the current configuration of a system and mapping the final status of components as described in the vision, the business identifies the gap between the two. A gap state analysis is a review of the items or tasks that are required to progress between the stages. Such an analysis is useful in creating milestone plans, implementation orders, and so on.
QUESTION NO: 63
The analysis of the difference between the beginning of a project and the vision is also known as the current state analysis.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: By reviewing the current configuration of a system and mapping the final status of components as VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 33 described in the vision, the business identifies the gap between the two. A gap state analysis is a review of the items or tasks that are required to progress between the stages. Such an analysis is useful in creating milestone plans, implementation orders, and so on.
QUESTION NO: 64
An upstream relationship is a logical object or component that has dependency on other items in a solution.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: In an upstream relationship, a logical object or component has a dependency on other items in the solution. For example, a service running on an application server requires an Active Directory user account to be authenticated. The application service must be started after the Active Directory service. Therefore, the application server has an upstream relationship with the Active Directory service. In an downstream relationship, a logical object or component does not have a dependency on other items in the solution. For example, say that a multisite web server crashes. The web tier hosting multiple websites will crash; however, the downstream objects such as the database server will continue to function. Backend processes that are dependent on the downstream objects from the web servers can continue to function.
QUESTION NO: 65
An downstream relationship is a logical object or component that has a dependency on other items in a solution.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: In an upstream relationship, a logical object or component has a dependency on other items in the solution. For example, a service running on an application server requires an Active Directory user VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 34 account to be authenticated. The application service must be started after the Active Directory service. Therefore, the application server has an upstream relationship with the Active Directory service.
In an downstream relationship, a logical object or component does not have a dependency on other items in the solution. For example, say that a multisite web server crashes. The web tier hosting multiple websites will crash; however, the downstream objects such as the database server will continue to function. Backend processes that are dependent on the downstream objects from the web servers can continue to function.
QUESTION NO: 66
A gap state analysis is a review of the items or tasks required to progress from the current environment to the vision.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: By reviewing the current configuration of a system and mapping the final status of components as described in the vision, the business identifies the gap between the two. A gap state analysis is a review of the items or tasks that are required to progress between the stages. Such an analysis is useful in creating milestone plans, implementation orders, and so on.
QUESTION NO: 67
A component relationship diagram can be used to establish impact analysis.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: In an upstream relationship, a logical object or component has a dependency on other items in the solution. For example, a service running on an application server requires an Active Directory user account to be authenticated. The application service must be started after the Active Directory VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 35 service. Therefore, the application server has an upstream relationship with the Active Directory service.
In an downstream relationship, a logical object or component does not have a dependency on other items in the solution. For example, say that a multisite web server crashes. The web tier hosting multiple websites will crash; however, the downstream objects such as the database server will continue to function. Backend processes that are dependent on the downstream objects from the web servers can continue to function.
QUESTION NO: 68
The vCenter is an example of a(n) _____ discovery tool.
A. active B. passive
Answer: B Explanation: There are two types of discovery methods: active and passive. Active discovery methods can run processes that are detrimental and can impact a system. They normally require an agent. With passive discovery methods, data is obtained in a non-impact, non-intrusive manner, with no agents. Obtaining and interpreting/presenting data such as this normally requires more experience.
QUESTION NO: 69
A logical diagram illustrates how components relate to each other in a solution.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A logical diagram can be used to show service components and how they relate to each other. A logical diagram is a high-level diagram that is independent of the hardware used for the solution. VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 36
QUESTION NO: 70
A logical diagram may contain ____________. (Choose two)
A. relationship information B. Data flow information C. IP addresses D. vendor information
Answer: A,B Explanation: A logical diagram can be used to show service components and how they relate to each other. A logical diagram is a high-level diagram that is independent of the hardware used for the solution.
QUESTION NO: 71
VMware Capacity Planner is an example of a(n) __________ discovery tool.
A. active B. passive
Answer: B Explanation: There are two types of discovery methods: active and passive. Active discovery methods can run processes that are detrimental and can impact a system. They normally require an agent. With passive discovery methods, data is obtained in a non-impact, non-intrusive manner, with no agents. Obtaining and interpreting/presenting data such as this normally requires more experience.
QUESTION NO: 72
Design choices are normally _____________. VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 37 A. justified to the business and project team B. presented in a vendor-based best practice C. presented in a business-led project requirement D. all of these are correct
Answer: A Explanation: You should always be sure to include your justifications and selection criteria in your logical design documents. These justifications are useful when you explain your approach during design and milestone meetings, and they ensure that you are aware of the impact of the technical approach and the components of the platform or solution you are building.
QUESTION NO: 73
During the information-gathering stage, an architect should _____________.
A. complete a current state analysis, using an active or passive discovery tool B. interview and discuss the project with other colleagues and users of the platform C. both of these answers are correct
Answer: C Explanation: The information-gathering stage gives an architect a way to examine the road ahead. It is a time to validate requirements and current documentation. This should involve technical discovery and interviews with users of all levels to ensure that information is not missed at this early stage.
QUESTION NO: 74
A project vision _______________.
A. is the required endpoint of a projectthe purpose for completing the process B. can be achieved after several iterations of a project life cycle C. both of these are correct
Answer: C Explanation: The project vision indicates the final state the platform should be in. It is the business-led VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 38 objective, which provides value and incorporates the infrastructure qualities.
QUESTION NO: 75
Which of the following is not a vSphere component to consider from a design perspective?
A. Network layer component B. Security layer component C. Storage layer component D. Management layer component E. Compute layer component
Answer: B Explanation: From a design perspective, the vSphere platform consists of five components, all of which are highly linked. Good design is needed to aggregate these five components into a stable and scalable platform.
QUESTION NO: 76
Vendor-best practices can be used to guide ______________.
A. configuration and design choices in the absence of project requirements B. configuration and design choices in addition to project requirements C. both these answers are correct
Answer: C Explanation: A best practice is normally based on experience with a successful implementation. By using these configurations, known issues could possibly be avoided. Best practices should not replace project requirements but can be used as a starting point, as long as the project requirements are satisfied.
QUESTION NO: 77
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 39 A vendor-best practice can be used regardless of project requirements.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: A best practice is normally based on experience with a successful implementation. By using these configurations, known issues could possibly be avoided. Best practices should not replace project requirements but can be used as a starting point, as long as the project requirements are satisfied.
QUESTION NO: 78
You are planning a vSphere 4.1 to 5.0 upgrade. The production datastores are 6 TB. Each datastore consist of thee extents of 2 TB and is currently 65% full. The operations team would like to keep the system as close to the current configuration as possible. The upgrade process also requires as little service impact as possible. In addition, you wish to use storage I/O control as soon as possible, due to a mission-critical business application requirement. Which of the following would be the correct approach?
A. Create a new VMFS 5 datastore of 6 TB Enable storage I/O control Migrate the VMs using storage vMotion Configure storage I/O shares as required B. Upgrade the VMFS 3 datastore Enable storage I/O control Configure storage I/O shares as required
Answer: A Explanation: When a datastore with VMFS v3 is upgraded with extents to VMFS v5, the logical attributes and extents are not changed. Storage I/O control cannot be used with datastores composed of extents.
QUESTION NO: 79
A logical diagram does not include ____________.
A. high-level components and how they relate to the solution VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 40 B. detailed information regarding the components, such as model of systems, IP addresses, and configurations
Answer: B Explanation: A logical diagram can be used to show service components and how they relate to each other. A logical diagram is a high-level diagram that is independent of the hardware used for the solution. It shows components and relationships. In this example, the diagram would should the number of datastores, size, and logic, such as replication and other settings.
QUESTION NO: 80
You develop a physical storage design after you develop a logical storage design.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A logical design is used to create a physical design. The logic and relationships should be capable of being deployed using any vendor.
QUESTION NO: 81
Which of the following VMware vSphere functionality can help control real-time storage issues?
A. Storage DRS B. Storage I/O control
Answer: B Explanation: Storage I/O control can be used to monitor and ensure the amount of I/O at contention time. This is based on real-time stats and requires a support storage system. Storage DRS uses an average of I/O usage.
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 41 QUESTION NO: 82
You are working as a platform designer for a large hosting provider. You are considering the scalability of a solution that is projected as 50 hosts and 1,500 virtual machines. A VCSA is a project requirement. Which of the following is true?
A. The VCSA will scale to 5 hosts and 50 VMs and thus is a risk to project scalability. B. The VCSA can be configured to use a remote SQL database to meet project scalability. C. The VCSA should be configured to use a remote DB2 or Oracle database.
Answer: C Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 83
A host has four dual-port network cards. What is the maximum number of vSwitches that can be integrated with the physical network, assuming that network redundancy is not a requirement?
A. 8 B. 4 C. 64 D. 512
Answer: A Explanation: An ESXi physical NIC can be assigned to only one vSwitch at a time. For example, a host with five NICs can have a maximum of five vSwitches that can link to the outside world.
QUESTION NO: 84
How do you understand and predict the resources available for VMware HA to meet specific project requirements?
A. Configure the appropriate admission control policy B. Disable admission control policy
Answer: A Explanation: VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 42 An admission control policy tells VMware HA how to calculate the resources it needs to reserve for a cluster. It uses a combination of memory and CPU reservation configuration or, if no configuration exists, a default low reservation.
QUESTION NO: 85
The admission control policy Host failure the cluster tolerates calculates slot size using the combination of the ______________.
A. largest reservation for memory and CPU in the cluster B. average usages of memory and CPU in the cluster
Answer: A Explanation: An admission control policy tells VMware HA how to calculate the resources it needs to reserve for a cluster. It uses a combination of memory and CPU reservation configuration or, if no configuration exists, a default low reservation.
QUESTION NO: 86
You are considering the use of the VCSA. Which of the following use cases would invalidate VCSA as a design choice?
A. VMware View Composerlinked clones B. Auto Deploy C. Use of sys prep and virtual guest template D. vCenter linked mode
Answer: A Explanation: The simplicity of VCSA makes it a compelling design choice for deployments. However, items that are not supportedsuch as linked mode and linked clonesare showstoppers if they are declared project requirements.
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 43 QUESTION NO: 87
Auto Deploy can be used with _______________.
A. The VCSA only B. the Windows version of the vCenter only C. both versions of the vCenter
Answer: C Explanation: The Auto Deploy feature is an excellent design choice for managing a mass installation of ESXi. The vCenter is required for implementation; however, the requirement is independent of vCenter version.
QUESTION NO: 88
If the event of a vCenter failure, which of the following is not true?
A. VMware vMotion is not possible. B. DRS functionality is lost. C. Auto deployment of existing ESXi hosts is impossible.
Answer: C Explanation: The Auto Deploy feature requires the vCenter for the original deployment and configuration. Following the first boot, unless a change has been added in the Auto Deploy rules, the subsequent reboots have a dependency on the Auto Deploy server, not the vCenter.
QUESTION NO: 89
Network vMotion requires ______________.
A. network I/O control B. distributed switches C. a Vmkernal port marked as Network vMotion
Answer: B VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 44 Explanation: Network vMotion is an Enterprise plus feature provided by the vDS that allows network stats to be collected, regardless of guestto-host migrations (vMotion). Without a vDS, metrics are lost after a machine is migrated.
QUESTION NO: 90
VMware HA can protect application corruption issues by using VM monitoring functionality.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: VM monitoring is the function whereby a virtual machine is restarted when the virtual machine heartbeat has stopped (such as with a blue screen of death on a Windows machine). The machine is simply restarted on the same host (that is, not migrated). However, the system would lose data from the point of corruption.
QUESTION NO: 91
VMware HA may not restart all guest workloads if _______________.
A. admission control policy is disabled B. the resources are fragmented between nodes in the cluster and DRS is not in fully automated mode C. the master ESXi node has crashed
Answer: B Explanation: An admission control policy tells VMware HA how to calculate the resources it needs to reserve for a cluster. It uses a combination of memory and CPU reservation configuration or, if no configuration exists, a default low reservation.
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QUESTION NO: 92
During a vCenter outage caused by a host power issue, a member of the operations team created an emergency guest VM by connecting directly to one of the hosts. The cluster was enabled for VMware HA at the time of the vCenter outage. In the event of further problems in the datacenter, is the newly created VM protected by HA?
A. Yes B. No
Answer: B Explanation: The vCenter manages the update of the VMware HA protected list. When you add a machine while the vCenter is out of service, the list will not be updated.
QUESTION NO: 93
When designing a system for VMware HA functionality, which of the following considerations is not an impact to the design?
A. The size of the host B. The number of hosts C. Application compatibility with VMware platforms using HA
Answer: C Explanation: The simplicity of VMware HA is one of the many design benefits. If an application or guest virtual machine is running on a vSphere platform, the system is compatible from a high level with VMware HA. It is purely an automated restart from a functionality perspective.
QUESTION NO: 94
VMware fault tolerance requires a cluster-aware application within the guest workload.
A. True B. False VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 46 Answer: B Explanation: VMware fault tolerance, subject to its requirements, can add redundancy without affecting the application configuration. The guest workload can be a single-instance item.
QUESTION NO: 95
The use of VMware host profiles can aid in _____________.
A. configuration management B. change management C. both these answers are correct
Answer: C Explanation: Host profiles are an enterprise plus feature which allows a configuration to be applied to a host of group of hosts. Following scanning, the systems can be automatically repaired or reported in terms of status when compared to the scan reference point.
QUESTION NO: 96
The method of guest VM backup can have an effect on the size of datastores used in a vSphere platform.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: The RTO and RPO requirements and available hardware used in a solution can impact the size of datastores by limiting the amount of data that can be practically restored. This amount of data is the max size of the datastore.
QUESTION NO: 97 VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 47 From an operations management perspective, a design should not plan to use a virtual vCenter in a fully automated DRS cluster.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: There are no reason a virtual vCenter should not be used from an operations management perspective. There should, however, be a process for managing the handling of a virtual vCenter outage (for example, DRS VM-to-host affinity rules and lockdown mode behavior).
QUESTION NO: 98
You have been sent a query regarding a platform you have just designed and implemented. Following a maintenance window where VMware HA was disabled, the VMware HA settings were lost. How would you prevent this issue?
A. Back up the vCenter database and restore it if the problem reoccurs. B. Instruct the team to use the Host monitoring tab functionality. C. Instruct the team to use the VM monitoring tab functionality.
Answer: B Explanation: Disabling the vSphere HS cluster settings will change the entire configuration of the cluster from the HS perspective. If the Host Monitoring checkbox is selected, it will allow the configuration to remain; however, the isolation response or outage response will not occur.
QUESTION NO: 99
VMware HA in vSphere 5.0 cannot survive more than five primary host failures. Thus, hosts should be physically placed in different racks, where possible, to avoid substantial impact.
A. True B. False
Answer: B VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 48 Explanation: This was true for VMware HA solutions prior to version 5. vSphere 5 can withstand multiple failures and uses a master/slave topology with a reelection process.
QUESTION NO: 100
The size of a host can affect the business impact in the event of a VMware HA event.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: The size and number of VMs running on a system can affect the impact of a system failure. For example, a larger per-host configuration with a smaller number of hosts per cluster would normally have a larger consolidation ratio; however, in the event of a failure, more guest VMs would be restarted, and this would be more likely to impact more applications.
QUESTION NO: 101
A guest VM has a 8 GB allocated to it. What is the size of the swap file?
A. 8 GB minus the reservation B. It depends on the limit configuration. C. 8 GB
Answer: A Explanation: The size of the swap space is the maximum amount of allocated memory that could be reallocated to another VM in the event of contention. This is expressed as the size of configured memory minus the reservation.
QUESTION NO: 102 A guest VM has a 24 GB allocated to it and a 13 GB reservation. What is the size of the swap file? VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 49 A. 24 GB minus the reservation B. 8 GB C. 24 Gb plus the Reservation
Answer: A Explanation: The size of the swap space is the maximum amount of allocated memory that could be reallocated to another VM in the event of contention. This is expressed as the size of configured memory minus the reservation.
QUESTION NO: 103
Which of the following settings could be utilized when performing a performance test on an application server?
A. CPU Limits B. Share Values C. Reservations
Answer: C Explanation: To accurately understand the resource allocation , and compare against other tests in a virtual or physical platform, an administrator can guarantee resources.
QUESTION NO: 104
How many vApps can a guest virtual machine be placed into?
A. 1 B. 64 C. 8 D. 12
Answer: A Explanation: A vApp is a logical container of guest virtual machine objects. The use of a container provides the ability to use key management functionality, which can dramatically help a virtualized platform. Automation allows lots of VMs to be managed by fewer staff. Although vApps can be nested, a VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 50 single virtual machine can be defined in only one vApp.
QUESTION NO: 105
You are a VMware technical contact for an application development project. The system consists of a multitier application. In addition to you, the project team consists of three developers and a project manager. You are required to create various environments for different stages of the SDLC. The developers will be developing in silos on various hardware (laptops, Windows 7 desktops, vSphere hosted). Which of the following delivery methods would be the easiest to manage and deploy?
A. Create the virtual servers using an in-house template and export each VM and present the server OVFs to each developer for copying and importing. B. Create servers for an environment and place them within a vApp object, export the vApp object as OVF files, and present the OVF files to the dev team for editing and importing. C. Create servers for an environment and place them within a vApp object, export the vApp object as an OVF file, and present the file to the dev team for copying and importing.
Answer: C Explanation: A vApp is a logical container of guest virtual machine objects. The use of a container provides the ability to use key management functionality, which can dramatically help a virtualized platform. Automation allows lots of VMs to be managed by fewer staff.
QUESTION NO: 106
VMware HA respects vApp startup order.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: A vApp is a logical container of guest virtual machine objects. The use of a container provides the ability to use key management functionality, which can dramatically help a virtualized platform. Automation allows lots of VMs to be managed by fewer staff. Although the objects have startup and shutdown automation features, VMware HA does not currently understand this feature; VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 51 therefore, at present, a manual process should be used to restart applications in the event of a VMware HA event.
QUESTION NO: 107
vApp startup order can be configured to work with VMware Heartbeat status.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A vApp is a logical container of guest virtual machine objects. The use of a container provides the ability to use key management functionality, which can dramatically help a virtualized platform. Automation allows lots of VMs to be managed by fewer staff. The virtual machine Heartbeat is part of the VMware tools service. Other application services can be made a high priority or a parent of the VMware Tools service; in this case, on startup, waiting for the VMware tools service to start before starting the next guest virtual machine in the vApp would assume that the application service has started successfully.
QUESTION NO: 108
A vApp can be created with its own resource settings and requirements.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A vApp is a logical container of guest virtual machine objects. The use of a container provides the ability to use key management functionality, which can dramatically help a virtualized platform. Automation allows lots of VMs to be managed by fewer staff. A vApp can have resource allocations applied at the vApp level, outside the resource pool configuration.
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Which of the following is true?
A. An OVF export of a custom vApp consists of multiple files. B. An OVF export of a customer vApp consists of a single OVA file.
Answer: B Explanation: OVF (Open Virtualization Format) files are prepackaged virtual machines that can be created with attributes such as EULA, IP settings, and so on. They can be imported into most modern virtualization hypervisors, not just VMware, thus enabling businesses to deploy and share applications simply by importing and exporting files, as opposed to going through a long, complicated installation process. The OVF export has a number of files, while an OVA file is the same logical product but exists as a single file.
QUESTION NO: 110
A guest VM has 50 GB allocated to it and a 2 GB reservation. What is the size of the swap file?
A. 50 GB minus the reservation B. 48 GB minus the reservation C. 52 GB minus the reservation D. 2 GB minus the reservation
Answer: A Explanation: The size of the swap space is the maximum amount of allocated memory that could be reallocated to another VM in the event of contention. This is expressed as the size of configured memory minus the reservation.
QUESTION NO: 111
You are working on a virtual guest design for the deployment of a critical business application. The software vendor has provided you with detailed application requirements for the projected workloads. Which of the following scaling approaches does this describe?
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 53 A. Adaptive B. Predictive
Answer: B Explanation: There are two types of scaling approaches in virtual platforms: adaptive and predictive. Both approaches are usable; however, a designer must work out which is the best approach for each project. The adaptive approach to guest virtual machine design is a major advantage that virtualization technology brings to a datacenter. It allows a guest virtual machine to be created initially on a few metrics or high-level requirements (such as a limited budget) and scaled (that is, grown, not shrunk) through the virtual machine life cycle. In many cases, this scaling can be performed hot/live without outage/downtime to the running applications. The predictive approach, on the other hand, requires more planning and research, and you must know the metrics before deployment. The advantage here is that once the virtual machine has been deployed, only application maintenance is required. The application requirements are known.
QUESTION NO: 112
You are working on a virtual guest design for the deployment of a critical business application. The software vendor has provided you with very few application requirements for projected workloads. Which of the following scaling approaches does this describe?
A. Adaptive B. Predictive
Answer: A Explanation: There are two types of scaling approaches in virtual platforms: adaptive and predictive. Both approaches are usable; however, a designer must work out which is the best approach for each project. The adaptive approach to guest virtual machine design is a major advantage that virtualization technology brings to a datacenter. It allows a guest virtual machine to be created initially on a few metrics or high-level requirements (such as a limited budget) and scaled (that is, grown, not shrunk) through the virtual machine life cycle. In many cases, this scaling can be performed hot/live without outage/downtime to the running applications. The predictive approach, on the other hand, requires more planning and research, and you must know the metrics before deployment. The advantage here is that once the virtual machine has been deployed, only application maintenance is required. The application requirements are known.
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QUESTION NO: 113
You are a VMware technical consultant for an application development project. The system consists of a multitier application. The team consists of you, five developers, and a project manager. At the project kickoff meeting, you are tasked with creating the servers for each stage of the development life cycle the team is using: development, testing, staging, and production. During the meeting, you come to the conclusion that the technical specifications have yet to be defined or will likely change. Which of the following scaling approaches for guest workload design would be most appropriate?
A. Adaptive B. Predictive
Answer: A Explanation: There are two types of scaling approaches in virtual platforms: adaptive and predictive. Both approaches are usable; however, a designer must work out which is the best approach for each project. The adaptive approach to guest virtual machine design is a major advantage that virtualization technology brings to a datacenter. It allows a guest virtual machine to be created initially on a few metrics or high-level requirements (such as a limited budget) and scaled (that is, grown, not shrunk) through the virtual machine life cycle. In many cases, this scaling can be performed hot/live without outage/downtime to the running applications. The predictive approach, on the other hand, requires more planning and research, and you must know the metrics before deployment. The advantage here is that once the virtual machine has been deployed, only application maintenance is required. The application requirements are known.
QUESTION NO: 114
You are working on a virtual guest design for the deployment of a critical business application. The software vendor has provided you with some projected workloads. One of the project requirements is to ensure that business application performance is guaranteed. Which of the following would be the best approach for guest configuration?
A. Configure the virtual guest with a reservation, as specified, as the minimum requirement for the application to run. B. Configure the virtual guest with a reservation, as specified, as the projected initial workload VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 55 requirement.
Answer: B Explanation: Allocated resources are shown in the guest operating system and are not guaranteed. The amount depends on the unreserved resources available at the time. Assuming no functionality issues, you can configure a production application to be guaranteed its projected workload, and the system should deliver. Without a reservation, there is potential for a performance impact if there is contention.
QUESTION NO: 115
The VMware hot add and hot plug functionality is most useful for a(n) __________ scaling approach.
A. adaptive B. predictive
Answer: A Explanation: There are two types of scaling approaches in virtual platforms: adaptive and predictive. Both approaches are usable; however, a designer must work out which is the best approach for each project. The adaptive approach to guest virtual machine design is a major advantage that virtualization technology brings to a datacenter. It allows a guest virtual machine to be created initially on a few metrics or high-level requirements (such as a limited budget) and scaled (that is, grown, not shrunk) through the virtual machine life cycle. In many cases, this scaling can be performed hot/live without outage/downtime to the running applications. The predictive approach, on the other hand, requires more planning and research, and you must know the metrics before deployment. The advantage here is that once the virtual machine has been deployed, only application maintenance is required. The application requirements are known.
QUESTION NO: 116
Application performance test cases are most accurate if based on ____________.
A. quantitative success criteria VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 56 B. vendor best practices
Answer: A Explanation: The best validation is to place a platform under a typical test of what it will be faced with in the fieldfor example, having a simulated number of users go through a workflow (perhaps a website). A lot of these tasks vary with the type of application and are primarily application functionality based. In addition, platform or infrastructure metrics are key for validation and for information to be used within the operational documentation (for example, troubleshooting guide, monitoring recommendations).
QUESTION NO: 117
An installation guide should contain _____________. (Choose two)
A. basic troubleshooting and baseline monitoring for verification purposes B. entry criteria or requirements C. justifications for design choices D. best practices.
Answer: A,B Explanation: An installation guide provides engineers a detailed reference and process to install and verify a solution. All relevant components and processes are detailed. It is also useful to include troubleshooting or known issues, if any were experienced during the development and test phases.
QUESTION NO: 118
An implementation plan should contain _____________.
A. a milestone plan B. risks, assumptions, and dependencies on the activities in the implementation plan C. order
Answer: A Explanation: VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 57 - - An implementation plan gives all members of a project team a level of understanding of the technical approach of a project, the number of phases, major tasks in each phase, and the correct order for completing the tasks.
QUESTION NO: 119
You are a VMware consultant for a large enterprise running VMware vSphere 4.1. You are reviewing the upgrade documentation created to take the company to version 5.X of the software. The upgrade has several requirements, including the following:
Minimize the impact to the business applications Do a full rollback, if required, for any issues not foreseen by the project team
You notice in the documentation that the upgrade to VMFS 5 is mentioned as being nondisruptive and having zero impact on the technical solution. Is this technically correct?
A. Yes B. No
Answer: B Explanation: In this example, a VMFS 5 upgrade cannot be rolled back without extra scratch space and without using storage vMotion. These things could add extra I/O load on the systems and affect the first requirement.
QUESTION NO: 120
During an upgrade of VMware vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.0, several virtual machines appeared to have lost network configuration. What is the possible cause of the issue?
A. DHCP server not available B. Incorrect order of upgrade implementation steps C. Incorrect drivers.
Answer: C Explanation: This can be experienced when migrating from a virtual machine hardware level and have an old version of VMware tools installed. The guest operating system may not understand the hardware VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 58 and may create or lose information such as the MAC address and network settings. By upgrading VMware tools first and then upgrading the hardware the correct drivers and software are present for a non-impacting upgrade.
QUESTION NO: 121
An implementation plan is a set of instruction that provide sufficient detail for an engineer to configure or install a platform according to a physical design.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: An implementation plan gives all members of a project team a level of understanding of the technical approach of a project, the number of phases, the major tasks in each phase, and the correct order for completing the tasks. This documentation can be used to bring in skilled people and to judge the project stability and progress throughout the implementation. The plan should be detailed enough for technical personnel to understand the tasks being completed but without detailing specific configuration and installation processes.
QUESTION NO: 122
A validation plan is a set of processes which prove that a project or a function of a platform has been configured correctly and behaves as designed.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A validation plan can range from a detailed test plan to high-level statements. It should not be subjective. The best validation is to place a platform under a typical test of what it will be faced with in the field for example, having a simulated number of users go through a workflow (perhaps a website). A lot of these tasks vary with the type of application and are primarily application functionality based. In addition, platform or infrastructure metrics are key for validation and for information to be used within the operational documentation (for example, troubleshooting VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 59 guide, monitoring recommendations).
QUESTION NO: 123
A validation plan can be used to gather further requirements.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: A validation plan can range from a detailed test plan to high-level statements. It should not be subjective. The best validation is to place a platform under a typical test of what it will be faced with in the field for example, having a simulated number of users go through a workflow (perhaps a website). A lot of these tasks vary with the type of application and are primarily application functionality based. In addition, platform or infrastructure metrics are key for validation and for information to be used within the operational documentation (for example, troubleshooting guide, monitoring recommendations).
QUESTION NO: 124
A platform validation plan is primarily concerned with guest VM settings and application delivery rather than VMware platform functionality.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: A validation plan can range from a detailed test plan to high-level statements. It should not be subjective. The best validation is to place a platform under a typical test of what it will be faced with in the field for example, having a simulated number of users go through a workflow (perhaps a website). A lot of these tasks vary with the type of application and are primarily application functionality based. In addition, platform or infrastructure metrics are key for validation and for information to be used within the operational documentation (for example, troubleshooting guide, monitoring recommendations).
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QUESTION NO: 125
For effective VMware platform validation to take place, that platform should be _____________.
A. running test guest workloads B. running workloads of projected application resource requirements C. stress tested until failure to understand capacity
Answer: B Explanation: A validation plan can range from a detailed test plan to high-level statements. It should not be subjective. The best validation is to place a platform under a typical test of what it will be faced with in the field for example, having a simulated number of users go through a workflow (perhaps a website). A lot of these tasks vary with the type of application and are primarily application functionality based. In addition, platform or infrastructure metrics are key for validation and for information to be used within the operational documentation (for example, troubleshooting guide, monitoring recommendations).
QUESTION NO: 126
A good design ______________. (Choose two)
A. meets project requirements and considers infrastructure qualities B. uses the latest best practices and considers infrastructure qualities C. removes all single points of failure D. considers the impact of component failure and subsequent mitigation
Answer: A,D Explanation: Good design should meet the project requirements and consider the properties of assumed platform design. Protecting data requires that a system be available and manageable, that it have good performance, and that it be easy to recover and be secure.
QUESTION NO: 127 VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 61 Vendor support may prevent an application from being virtualized.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: Good design should meet the project requirements and consider the properties of assumed platform design. Protecting data requires that a system be available and manageable, that it have good performance, and that it be easy to recover and be secure. In this example, if an application is not supported by the vendor, the business may be unable to meet SLAs.
QUESTION NO: 128
Which of the following are the infrastructure qualities?
A. Availability, manageability, best practices, scalability, backup B. Availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, security C. CPU, memory, network, storage D. Management, virtual machine, compute, network, storage
Answer: B Explanation: Good design should meet the project requirements and consider the properties of assumed platform design. Protecting data requires that a system be available and manageable, that it have good performance, and that it be easy to recover and be secure.
QUESTION NO: 129
You are VMware designer working at a company where a new business application is being rolled out. The SLA requirements are RTO of 2 hours and RPO of 10 minutes. During a project team meeting, the business user misunderstands this requirement. To illustrate the situation, you give an example where the system becomes unavailable at 4 p.m. To meet the project SLA, _____________. (Choose two)
A. the application must be brought online and be accessible to users by 6 p.m. B. the application must be brought online and be accessible to users by 4:10 p.m. VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 62 C. when the application is brought online, the data must be from a version as of 3:50 p.m. D. when the application is brought online, the data must be from a version as of 2 p.m.
Answer: A,C Explanation: The recovery time objective (RTO)also known as the return to operationis the amount of time it takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place. The recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which the system needs to be restored following a failure.
QUESTION NO: 130
You are a VMware architect working at a company where a new business application is being rolled out. Based on a conversation with the business, you establish that the RTO requirement is 1 hour, and the RPO requirement is 10 minutes. After months of successful use, the system crashes at 3 p.m. To meet the project SLA, ______________. (Choose two)
A. the application must be brought online and be accessible to users by 4 p.m. B. the application must be brought online and be accessible to users by 3:10 p.m. C. when the application is brought online, the data must be from a version as of 2:50 p.m. D. when the application is brought online, the data must be from a version as of 2 p.m.
Answer: A,C Explanation: The recovery time objective (RTO)also known as the return to operationis the amount of time it takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place. The recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which the system needs to be restored following a failure.
QUESTION NO: 131
You are a VMware architect working at a company where a business application is being rolled out. Based on conversations with the business, you establish that the RTO requirement is 2 hours, and the RPO requirement is 3 hours. Consider a situation in which the VMware platform is out of service following multiple hardware issues. The application dropped from service at 2 p.m. To meet the application business SLA, which of the following is true?
A. When the application is brought online, the data must be from a version as of 4 p.m. B. When the application is brought online, the data must be from a version as of 11 a.m.
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 63 Answer: B Explanation: The recovery time objective (RTO)also known as the return to operationis the amount of time it takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place. The recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which the system needs to be restored following a failure.
QUESTION NO: 132
You are a VMware designer working on virtualizing a business application. The SLA specifies that the RTO requirement is 4 hours, and the RPO requirement is 9 hours. After months of successful use, the system crashes at 1 p.m. To meet the project SLA, which of the following is true?
A. The application must be brought online and be accessible to users by 10 p.m. B. The application must be brought online and be accessible to users by 5 p.m.
Answer: B Explanation: The recovery time objective (RTO)also known as the return to operationis the amount of time it takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place. The recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which the system needs to be restored following a failure.
QUESTION NO: 133
You are VMware architect working at a large enterprise where a new VMware platform is being installed.
Based on conversations with the business, you establish that the RTO requirement is 8 hours, and the RPO requirement is 15 minutes. After months of successful use, the system crashes at 4 p.m. To meet the project SLA, _____________. (Choose two)
A. the application must be brought online and be accessible to users by midnight. B. the application must be brought online and be accessible to users by 4:15 p.m. C. when the application is brought online the data must be from a version as of 3:45 p.m. D. when the application is brought online the data must be from a version as of 8 p.m. the night before.
Answer: A,C VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 64 Explanation: The recovery time objective (RTO)also known as the return to operationis the amount of time it takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place. The recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which the system needs to be restored following a failure.
QUESTION NO: 134
The recovery time objective is the point in time to which a system needs to be restored following a failure.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: The recovery time objective (RTO)also known as the return to operationis the amount of time it takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place.
QUESTION NO: 135
The recovery point objective is the point in time to which a system needs to be restored following a failure.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: The recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which the system needs to be restored following a failure.
QUESTION NO: 136
When considering incorporating redundancy into design, which of the following should be VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 65 considered?
A. The impact of the failure B. The likelihood of the failure C. RTO and RPO values D. All of these are correct
Answer: D Explanation: The recovery time objective (RTO)also known as the return to operationis the amount of time it takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place. The recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which the system needs to be restored following a failure. In some cases a business may be interested in functionality and just assume items such as redundancy. The infrastructure qualities help consider aspects considered as good design.
QUESTION NO: 137
Which of the following factors should influence the decision of whether to virtualize an application? (Choose three)
A. Whether it is supported on a virtualization platform B. Licensing costs in a virtualization platform C. Compliance considerations (such as inability to share infrastructure due to regulations) D. Whether the software is custom and has not be widely virtualized in the field
Answer: A,B,C Explanation: Good design should meet the project requirements and consider the properties of assumed platform design. Protecting data requires that a system be available and manageable, that it have good performance, and that it be easy to recover and be secure.
QUESTION NO: 138
Which of the following describes the anticipated time until a solution component may fail?
A. Recovery time objective B. Recovery point objective VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 66 - - C. Mean time between failures
Answer: C Explanation: The recovery time objective (RTO)also known as the return to operationis the amount of time it takes to restore a service after a failure has taken place. The recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which the system needs to be restored following a failure. The MTBF is the amount of time a component is predicted to fail and can be used with operational management or design concepts.
QUESTION NO: 139
A well-thought-out request for change document contains __________. (Choose three)
A. configuration based on a known vendor based best practice B. an implementation plan C. a verification process D. a change summary
Answer: A,B,C Explanation: An implementation plan gives all members of a project team a level of understanding of the technical approach of a project, the number of phases, major tasks in each phase, and the correct order for completing the tasks.
QUESTION NO: 140
You are a VMware platform designer at a large service provider reviewing a network design.
Two of the requirements are as follows:
R001: All traffic must be encrypted or separated. R002: All components must be fault tolerant.
The current design involves software-based iSCSI storage with teamed 1 GB network cards for the storage network. The iSCSI network has a uniqiue vLAN and network ID. The design ensures that a different password is used for each LUN.
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A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: By using NIC teaming, iSCSI is configured in a fault-tolerant manner. However, it is not encrypted but is separated; therefore R001 and R002 are satisfied.
QUESTION NO: 141
The use of software-based iSCSI storage allows encryption to be used in logical designs.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: iSCSI traffic is not encrypted by default. However, CHAP can be used with software-based iSCSI.
QUESTION NO: 142
You are reviewing a vSphere platform design. The system is planning to use a virtual vCenter server. Which of the following is not true if the vCenter fails when using this design?
A. DRS is unaffected. B. VMware HA can protect and restart the vCenter. C. The VCSA cannot be used. D. vCenter must be configured in Linked mode.
Answer: A Explanation: DRS is controlled by the vCenter. vCenter invokes vMotion based on metrics. During the period where the vCenter is out of action, DRS is not functional.
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QUESTION NO: 143
You are reviewing a vSphere platform design. The system is planning to use a virtual vCenter server. Which of the following is true if the vCenter fails when using this design?
A. DRS is unaffected. B. VMware HA can protect and restart the vCenter. C. The VCSA cannot be used. D. vCenter must be configured in Linked mode.
Answer: B Explanation: DRS is controlled by the vCenter. vCenter invokes vMotion based on metrics. During the period where the vCenter is out of action, DRS is not functional. VMware HA can mitigate against issues by restarting the vCenter in the event of an outage.
QUESTION NO: 144
Which of the following is a logical boundary for vMotion?
A. Cluster B. vDC C. Folder D. Resource Pool
Answer: B Explanation: By design, vMotion is possible from a logical perspective between the vDC. It is possible, however, to have a stretched cluster and to not satisfy vMotion requirements. The logical boundary is limited to vDCs.
QUESTION NO: 145
You have been asked to design a system with the following VMware functionality enabled:
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 69 - - - R001: VMware HA must be functional. R002: VMware SRM can be used between two sites for DR processes. R003: You must be able to see all hosts from a single pane of glass.
From these requirements:
A. A vSphere 5.0 VCSA can provide an acceptable solution. B. A vSphere 5.0 Windows-based vCenter can provide an acceptable solution. C. The requirements cannot be met.
Answer: B Explanation: The VCSA can function with VMware SRM. However, for SRM functionality, both sites require a vCenter installation. This would limit the choice of single-glass-pane management to Linked mode. A Linked mode installation requires Microsoft technology in the ADAM instance, and thus eliminates the VCSA choice.
QUESTION NO: 146
When using VMware HA, the larger the consolidation ratio, the smaller the potential impact to the business in the event of a VMware HA event.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: VMware HA can satisfy the majority of RTO scenarios. In general, businesses can tolerate small outages of shorter than a few minutes. Designed correctly, HA can satisfy this requirement while providing hardware-level protection. Some design considerations are the restart time and impact of the outage; the fact that the more VMs per host, the higher the consolidation ratio; and the possibly longer time to restart along with its larger impact to the business.
QUESTION NO: 147
In a platform with two vCenters configured with Linked mode, one vCenter can be configured using the VCSA.
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Answer: B Explanation: A Linked mode installation requires Microsoft technology in the ADAM instance, and thus eliminates the VCSA choice.
QUESTION NO: 148
When considering scalability, the VCSA is not as effective as the vCenter installed on a Windows platform.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: The VCSA can scale to the same size of the Windows-based platform when using a remote database based on Oracle or DB2. Microsoft SQL, however, is not supported. The built-in database is a DB2 version, which is only supported for small platforms.
QUESTION NO: 149
When deploying a vCenter solution for a vSphere design, continuous uptime is stated as a requirement.
The use of vCenter heartbeat has been agreed upon and budgeted. The design consists of two VCSAs.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: vCenter heartbeat requires a Windows-based vCenter installation, rather than the appliance.
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QUESTION NO: 150
You are a platform designer reviewing a colleague's design. Based on vSphere 5, the platform is designed to be scalable and provide continuous availability of the vCenter. The proposed design utilizes VMware FT.
Does the design meet requirements?
A. Yes B. No
Answer: B Explanation: VMware FT currently only supports 1vCPU. The vCenter requires 2vCPU and above, depending on the location of the Microsoft SQL database.
QUESTION NO: 151
Which of the following is not a basic component of a good design?
A. Vision B. Scope C. Conceptual design D. Assumptions
Answer: C Explanation: The basic components of a good design are vision, scope, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks.
QUESTION NO: 152
Which component of a good design is described as the quantitative statement of what the project does and does not include?
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 72 A. Scope B. Constraint C. Vision D. Assumption
Answer: A Explanation: The scope is the quantitative statement of what is included in a project, or, more pertinently, what is not included in the project.
QUESTION NO: 153
A nonfunctional requirement _____________.
A. specifies what the system should do B. is a detail that happens to be true but has not been tested or verified C. specifies how the system should behave D. is an attribute that can prevent a project from being completed
Answer: C Explanation: A functional requirement states something the system should do (for example, the system should process transactions). A nonfunctional requirement states how the system should behave (for example, the system should update its performance metrics every 5 seconds). An assumption is a detail that happens to be true but has not been tested or verified is an assumption, and a risk is an attribute that can prevent ta project from being completed.
QUESTION NO: 154
A functional requirement ____________.
A. specifies what the system should do B. is a detail that happens to be true but has not been tested or verified C. specifies how the system should behave D. is an attribute that can prevent the completion of the project
Answer: A Explanation: VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 73 A functional requirement states something the system should do (for example, the system should process transactions). A nonfunctional requirement states how the system should behave (for example, the system should update its performance metrics every 5 seconds). An assumption is a detail that happens to be true but has not been tested or verified is an assumption, and a risk is an attribute that can prevent ta project from being completed.
QUESTION NO: 155
A ____________ is an iterative process used to define a technical solution.
A. constraint B. best practice C. logical design D. design methodology
Answer: D Explanation: A design methodology is an iterative process used to create a technical design.
QUESTION NO: 156
A ______________ design requires IP addresses and specific hardware selections.
A. conceptual B. physical C. logical D. None of the above
Answer: B Explanation: A conceptual design is a high-level overview of the suggested system. Logical designs show how subsystems interconnect or communicate. No attempt is made to select vendors or map out physical products; rather, the logical design shows how the suggested components align together. A physical design puts specific components and settings into place. It lists items such as vendor products, IP addresses, and specific communication protocols. A physical design is a blueprint of an architecture.
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QUESTION NO: 157
Which design is created first?
A. Conceptual design B. Physical design C. Logical design D. None of the above
Answer: A Explanation: A conceptual design is a high-level overview of the suggested system. The conceptual design is created first and is usually the starting point for the logical design.
QUESTION NO: 158
A logical design includes basic subsystems that the design will use and data flow directions, but it does not include specific hardware or settings details.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A logical design shows a high-level overview of the design without going through the details of the design such as hardware and software selections and storage and network settings. The logical design is usually the starting point for the physical design.
QUESTION NO: 159
A nonfunctional requirement is similar to a(n) _______.
A. constraint B. functional requirement VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 75 C. risk D. assumption
Answer: A Explanation: A constraint is an attribute that may limit a design choice. A nonfunctional requirement is a behavior of the system, which may also limit design choices. A functional requirement is something the system must do. An assumption is something that is decided to be true, without testing or verification. A risk is an attribute that can prevent a project from being completed.
QUESTION NO: 160
Best practices should always be followed.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: Best practices are recommendations based on practical standards collected by VMware and should always be used unless company business rules or functional requirements prevent their use.
QUESTION NO: 161
Best practices can change over time.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: Over time best practices can change. For example, in older versions of vSphere, it was a best practice to install vCenter Server on a physical host. Today, VMware recommends installing vCenter Server in a virtual machine.
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QUESTION NO: 162
Which of the following is not a reason to use virtualization?
A. Save money B. Improve system performance C. Save time D. Make disaster recovery easier
Answer: B Explanation: Administrators often feel compelled to virtualize their server infrastructure for reasons such as the following:
QUESTION NO: 163
Which of the following tools can be used to gather information for a current state analysis?
A. VMware vCenter Server B. VMware Orchestrator C. VMware Operations Manager D. VMware Capacity Planner
Answer: D Explanation: VMware Capacity Planner records performance metrics over time to give a clear picture of the current architectures performance. This information can be used to help build a current state analysis that can be used to help build the new virtual architecture.
QUESTION NO: 164
Information gathered during the current state analysis include the number of sites, servers, or devices; a list of applications and their dependencies; current usage; and known issues.
A. True VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 77 B. False
Answer: A Explanation: Data such as the following may be gathered for a current state analysis: Number of sites, servers, or devices A list of applications and their dependencies Current use and capacity Known issues (for example, a specific piece of software is not supported in a virtualized platform, an application requires certain hardware to run) Forthcoming projects and future growth plan (for example, Will extra capacity be needed soon? Is a critical point in the business year approaching?) Licensing, support, and maintenance information Business standards, policies, and compliance information
QUESTION NO: 165
If the design specifies an RTO of 3 hours and an RPO of 2 hours, and the system crashes at 8:00 p.m., the application be back online _______________.
A. by 10:00 p.m B. ASAP C. by 11:00 p.m D. by 9:00 p.m
Answer: C Explanation: The RTO is the amount of time until a crashed application should be back online. The RPO is the tolerated amount of data loss.
QUESTION NO: 166
An application has an SLA which states that the application must be restored within 12 hours, with no more than 10 minutes of data loss. This means the application has an RTO of 12 hours and an RPO of 10 minutes.
A. True VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 78 B. False
Answer: A Explanation: The RTO is the amount of time until a crashed application should be back online. The RPO is the tolerated amount of data loss.
QUESTION NO: 167
An application has an SLA which states that the application must be restored within 12 hours, with no more than 10 minutes of data loss. This means the application has an RTO of 10 minutes and an RPO of 12 hours.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: The RTO is the amount of time until a crashed application should be back online. The RPO is the tolerated amount of data loss.
QUESTION NO: 168
The _____________ shows the system components and how they interact with each other.
A. logical design B. implementation plan C. statement of work D. entity relationship diagram
Answer: D Explanation: An entity relationship diagram shows how a systems components relate to each other.
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The ___________ would not be considered a stakeholder in a design.
A. backup administrator B. project sponsor C. key application owners D. data center manager
Answer: A Explanation: Key stakeholders should include the following: Project sponsor Key application owners Server architecture leads LAN/WAN architecture leads Data center managers
QUESTION NO: 170
The phrase Lack of virtualization expertise on site is an example of a ______________.
A. constraint B. risk C. nonfunctional requirement D. functional requirement
Answer: B Explanation: A risk is an issue that can affect the overall success of a project. A constraint is a limiting factor in a design, based on current system behavior. A nonfunctional requirement is a system behavior, and a functional requirement is what the system should do.
QUESTION NO: 171
The customer has decided that it will use the NAS it has in-house as its storage solution. What type of design factor is this?
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 80 A. SLA B. Risk C. Nonfunctional requirement D. Functional requirement
Answer: C Explanation: The customer is stating that NFS must be used in the design. This is a form of a nonfunctional requirement. Often, nonfunctional requirements are similar to constraints.
QUESTION NO: 172
A recovery time objective (RTO) is ___________.
A. the point to which data has to be recovered after a failure B. the amount of time it takes to recover a system from a failure C. the plan to restore a system after a failure D. an agreement with the customer on a predefined level of service
Answer: B Explanation: RTO is the amount of time it must take to recover a system from failure.
QUESTION NO: 173
A recovery point objective (RPO) is ______________.
A. the point in time to which data has to be recovered after a failure B. the amount of time it takes to recover a system from a failure C. the plan to restore a system after a failure D. an agreement with the customer on a pre-defined level of service
Answer: A Explanation: RPO is the point in time to which the system must be restored after a failure.
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Mean time between failures (MTBF) is the ____________.
A. point to which data has to be recovered after a failure B. amount of time it takes to recover a system from a failure C. plan to restore a system after a failure D. anticipated amount of time until a solution component will fail
Answer: D Explanation: MTBF is the agreed upon amount of time it takes to recover a system from failure.
QUESTION NO: 175
High Availability (HA) can prevent virtual machine downtime.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: HA restarts virtual machines when an ESXi host crashes. HA can reduce downtime, but it cannot prevent it.
QUESTION NO: 176
VMware Fault Tolerance can prevent virtual machine downtime in the event of an application failure.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: Fault Tolerance can only prevent virtual machine downtime in the event of an ESXi host crash.
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QUESTION NO: 177
The infrastructure qualities of a good design are availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: The infrastructure qualities of a good design are availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security.
QUESTION NO: 178
Which quality of a good design deals with backup and restoration?
A. Availability B. Manageability C. Performance D. Recoverability
Answer: D Explanation: Recoverability deals with recovering from a component or system outage with minimal data loss, in accordance with an organizations RTO and RPO.
QUESTION NO: 179
Which quality of a good design does NIC teaming and storage multipathing help achieve?
A. Recoverability B. Performance C. Availability VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 83 D. Manageability
Answer: C Explanation: Availability in a design permits the system to always be available, even in the event of outages. NIC teaming, redundant hardware, and clustering applications are examples of availability options.
QUESTION NO: 180
Which design quality is concerned with creating an architecture that is easy to maintain and operate?
A. Recoverability B. Security C. Availability D. Manageability
Answer: D Explanation: When a system is manageable, the infrastructure is easy to maintain and operate.
QUESTION NO: 181
Performance requirements are usually presented as a service-level agreement (SLA).
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: SLAs are written to give the designer an idea about how the architecture is expected to perform
QUESTION NO: 182
The design process involves creating a conceptual design, using the conceptual design to aid in VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 84 creating the logical design, and then using the logical design to assist in creating the physical design.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A conceptual design brings forth the scope of the project. A logical design starts to show the relationship between components, without selecting specific equipment. The physical design is the exact drawing of the design, as intended.
QUESTION NO: 183
Which of the following is not part of the logical design?
A. BIOS settings B. Key component relationships C. Data flow diagrams D. High-level diagrams
Answer: A Explanation: A logical design shows the relationship between components, without selecting specific equipment. It shows the basic flow of data between components, key component relationships, and high-level diagrams.
QUESTION NO: 184
Which of the following is not a component of a virtual design?
A. compute layer B. resource layer C. network layer D. storage layer
Answer: B VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 85 Explanation: The components of a virtual design include the management layer, the networking layer, the storage layer, the guest VM layer, and the compute layer.
QUESTION NO: 185
What are the main types of storage? (Choose two)
A. Fibre Channel B. local storage C. VMFS D. shared storage
Answer: B,D Explanation: From a VMware platform design perspective, the storage is agnostic. Logically, there are two types of storage: local and shared.
QUESTION NO: 186
Storage tiering involves ______________.
A. priority locations to migrate virtual machines B. grouping storage to be used first C. categorizing storage by the size of the LUNs D. categorizing storage based on performance to meet SLAs
Answer: D Explanation: Storage tiering categorizes LUNs by the performance they can provide to enable architects to place workloads on the appropriate storage tiers to ensure that the workloads are within the SLA standards.
QUESTION NO: 187 VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 86 As a result of multiple design meetings, it has been stated that the company creating the virtual architecture will be using a NAS device as its storage choice. There is a functional requirement to run a Microsoft application in a Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) environment. What is the risk in this setup?
A. The cluster will not perform well in a virtual environment. B. The cluster will take up a lot of storage space, requiring an abnormal amount of storage. C. MSCS requires raw device mappings, which cannot be created on a NAS. D. There will be excessive IOPS as a result of the cluster.
Answer: C Explanation: If the organization uses only NFS datastores, raw device mappings cannot be created. A NAS creates shares that accesses storage at the file level, rather than LUNs that access storage at the block level.
QUESTION NO: 188
What practice should not be considered when using IP-based storage?
A. Using an isolated network for storage B. Using jumbo frames C. Placing the storage network on the physical switch as the management network D. Using a 10GbE network
Answer: C Explanation: It is a good idea to keep the storage network physically isolated from all other networks. If this cannot be done, at least consider logically separating the storage network via a VLAN.
QUESTION NO: 189
An activepassive storage array should be configured with the fixed multipathing policy.
A. True B. False
Answer: B VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 87 Explanation: An activepassive array will have only one active path at a time. An array like this should be configured with the MRU multipathing policy. An activeactive array has multiple active paths and should be configured with round-robin or fixed-multipathing policies.
QUESTION NO: 190
What multipathing options can be configured with an activepassive array? (Choose two)
A. Fixed B. MRU C. SATP D. Round-robin
Answer: A,D Explanation: An activepassive array will have only one active path at a time. An array like this should be configured with the MRU multipathing policy. An activeactive array has multiple active paths and should be configured with round-robin or fixed-multipathing policies.
QUESTION NO: 191
Which of the following could be considered a single point of failure for storage?
A. Using RAID 5 instead of RAID 10 B. Using single-port HBAs in an ESXi host C. Using a dual-port HBA in an ESXi host D. Not using jumbo frames
Answer: C Explanation: Using a dual-port HBA can result in a single point of failure if the HBA malfunctions, taking out both ports. It is better to use two single-port HBAs.
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When selecting a storage device, you do not need to consider _______ metrics.
A. vendor B. throughput C. IOPS D. capacity
Answer: A Explanation: IOPS, throughput, and capacity all have profound effects on how workloads will perform on a storage array. Although vendor is an important decision, it typically has no effect on workload performance.
QUESTION NO: 193
To balance IOPS and capacity within a datastore cluster, which of the following technologies should be implemented?
A. vMotion B. High Availability C. Storage I/O control D. Storage DRS
Answer: D Explanation: Storage DRS will automatically migrate powered-on VMs to datastores within a storage cluster in order to balance the capacity and IOPS among member datastores.
QUESTION NO: 194
HA is a disaster recovery solution.
A. True B. False
Answer: B VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 89 Explanation: HA provides automatic recovery of virtual machines in the event of an ESXi host crash.
QUESTION NO: 195
A physical adapter can belong to only one virtual switch.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A physical adapter can be assigned to only one virtual switch. Once it is assigned, it no longer shows up on the available adapter list.
QUESTION NO: 196
Consider leaving about 20% of a datastore available for _____________.
A. larger virtual machines B. vMotion C. snapshots D. I/O overhead
Answer: C Explanation: About 20% of a datastore should be left unused to provide space for swap files, snapshots, storage overhead, and future growth.
QUESTION NO: 197
Which of the following is not considered vSphere network traffic?
A. IP storage VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 90 B. VM network C. Storage vMotion D. vMotion
Answer: C Explanation: vSphere network traffic includes VM network, vMotion, IP storage, FT traffic, and management network traffic.
QUESTION NO: 198
By default, Storage DRS is enabled.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: Storage DRS is used to balance IOPS and capacity among member datastores within a storage cluster. By default, it is disabled.
QUESTION NO: 199
Which type of VLAN requires no configuration of vSphere?
A. Virtual switch tagging B. VLAN trunking C. Virtual guest tagging D. External switch tagging
Answer: D Explanation: External switch tagging applies to VLANs that are created on physical switches only. The vSphere environment is not aware of the VLANs.
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In which type of VLAN does adding and removing the VLAN tag occur at the virtual switch?
A. Virtual switch tagging B. VLAN trunking C. Virtual guest tagging D. External switch tagging
Answer: A Explanation: When VLANs are configured on a virtual switch, the VLAN tag is added to outbound traffic and removed on inbound traffic.
QUESTION NO: 201
A network design has a requirement to have five total networks that are physically separated from one another.
The design requires that there be no single points of failure on the network. Based on this information, how many network adapters are needed?
A. 5 B. 2, with the use of VLANs C. 1 D. 10
Answer: D Explanation: Since there is a requirement that physical separation is required for the five different networks, VLANs will not satisfy the design. To ensure that there is no single point of failure, each virtual switch will require 2 adapters per virtual switchfor a total of 10.
QUESTION NO: 202
In which type of VLAN does adding and removing the VLAN tag occur at the virtual switch?
A. Virtual switch tagging VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 92 B. VLAN trunking C. Virtual guest tagging D. External switch tagging
Answer: C Explanation: Virtual guest tagging occurs when the guest operating systems inside the virtual machines adds the VLAN tags the network traffic.
QUESTION NO: 203
What topics need to be considered when creating a storage design?
A. Application I/O requirements B. Growth rate C. Latency D. All of the above
Answer: D Explanation: When creating a storage design, you have to ensure that the architecture can tolerate the application storage requirements. This includes providing the proper IOPS, limiting latency, and being able to adjust to growth over time.
QUESTION NO: 204
A functional requirement ____________.
A. should be a part of the design B. is important only when youre putting together the logical design C. must be accounted for in the design D. is not important
Answer: C Explanation: A functional requirement is an operation the design must perform. All functional requirements must be accounted for in the design.
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QUESTION NO: 205
A physical design includes specific vendor information, IP addresses, IQN addresses, and exact wiring connections.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A physical design is an exact diagram of how the system is intended to be built. The technical design should answer all technical questions.
QUESTION NO: 206
Private VLANs are required for the design. Which vSphere licensing edition is required?
A. Essentials B. Enterprise Plus C. Enterprise D. Standard
Answer: B Explanation: Private VLANs require distributed virtual switches, which are available only with the Enterprise Plus licensing edition.
QUESTION NO: 207
A functional requirement in a design requires management, IP-based storage, vMotion, and virtual machine traffic to be physically separated. Which option best fulfills the functional requirement?
A. Using a single virtual switch, applying VLANS for each traffic type, and configuring the physical adapters to use different physical switches B. Using distributed virtual switches VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 94 C. Using a different virtual switch for each type of traffic and having all network adapters use the same physical switch D. Using a different virtual switch for each type of traffic and having the physical adapters use different physical switches
Answer: D Explanation: VLANs can be used to logically separate network traffic. Separate virtual switches will physically separate the traffic on the ESXi host, but using a single physical switch introduces a single point of failure. The best answer is D: Using different physical switches will allow for redundancy.
QUESTION NO: 208
The vCenter Server should be deployed as a virtual machine and should be configured with fault tolerance.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: Fault tolerance works only with a virtual machine that uses a single virtual CPU. One of the requirements of vCenter Server is to use at least two virtual CPUs. Using fault tolerance with the vCenter Server is not supported.
QUESTION NO: 209
A number of factors determine how many physical adapters are needed in a host design. Which of the following is not one of them?
A. Virtual machine size B. Amount of bandwidth required C. Security requirements D. Hardware fault tolerance
Answer: A Explanation: Virtual machine size has no effect on the network. VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 95
QUESTION NO: 210
It is a best practice to physically separate storage networks from the rest of the network traffic.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: From a security standpoint, it is a risk to mix storage traffic with user traffic. Users can attempt to interrogate the storage traffic. A separate storage network helps prevent oversubscribing of the network.
QUESTION NO: 211
Which networking feature should be configured to improve storage performance?
A. Spanning Tree Protocol B. Traffic shaping on the storage network C. Jumbo frames D. Promiscuous mode for the storage port group
Answer: C Explanation: Jumbo frames provide a larger MTU (maximum transmission unit) that enables a typical frame to hold more actual payload data, which can result in better storage performance.
QUESTION NO: 212
____________ can be configured to ensure that a type of traffic receives priority for bandwidth when bandwidth is congested?
A. SIOC VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 96 B. NIOC C. Shares D. Reservations
Answer: B Explanation: Network I/O Control (NIOC) allows you to assign shares to different types of network traffic. The more shares a type of network traffic has, the higher percentage of the available bandwidth the traffic type will get when network bandwidth is completely congested.
QUESTION NO: 213
Which of the following needs to be considered when determining the amount and size of the hosts required for a virtual design?
A. Aggregate CPU and memory requirements B. Future growth C. Number of vCPUs to be hosted per box D. All of the above
Answer: D Explanation: When attempting to determine the host requirements of a virtual design, you need to determine aggregate CPU and memory requirements, number of virtual CPUs, number of cores available, maximum utilization, socket and core availability, and future growth.
QUESTION NO: 214
In scaling an architecture, scaling up involves __________.
A. selecting a smaller number of large hosts B. selecting a larger number of smaller hosts C. using a combination of large and small hosts to satisfy virtual machine requirements D. none of the above
Answer: A Explanation: Scaling up involves building your architecture using a few hosts that have large amounts of CPU VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 97 cores and memory. This method involves fewer hosts than a scaled-out architecture.
QUESTION NO: 215
In scaling an architecture, scaling out involves ___________.
A. selecting a smaller number of large hosts B. selecting a larger number of smaller hosts C. using a combination of large and small hosts to satisfy virtual machine requirements D. none of the above
Answer: B Explanation: Scaling out involves building your architecture using more hosts that have smaller amounts of CPU cores and memory than what you would use in a scaled-up architecture.
QUESTION NO: 216
When selecting a compute server, the architecture should use servers that are identical in every way possible, including components and the slots the components are installed in.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: Using identical servers ensures fewer issues with vMotion and aids in managing resource utilization among servers.
QUESTION NO: 217
When considering server consolidation, plan on running ___________ vCPUs per core.
A. 1 to 2 VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 98 B. 3 to 4 C. 4 to 6 D. 6 to 8
Answer: C Explanation: VMware best practices recommend running 4 to 6 virtual CPUs per core.
QUESTION NO: 218
When planning on resource use for the servers, you should plan on leaving resources available for all the following except __________.
A. patching B. maintenance mode C. future growth D. log file space
Answer: D Explanation: Consider leaving extra capacity for items such as maintenance mode, upgrades, patching, and short-term surges in resource usage.
QUESTION NO: 219
Which of the following will still function if vCenter crashes?
A. HA B. DRS C. FT D. Storage DRS
Answer: A Explanation: Although all the options listed require the vCenter Server for configuration, HA will work even if the vCenter Server crashes. For this reason, VMware recommends running the vCenter Server in a virtual machine so HA can provide the vCenter Server availability.
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QUESTION NO: 220
Options for running the vCenter Server include _____________.
A. installed on a physical server. B. installed on a virtual machine. C. deploying the vCenter Virtual Appliance D. all of the above
Answer: D Explanation: All of the listed options are supported.
QUESTION NO: 221
vCenter Server Linked mode allows you to view up to 10 vCenter Servers in a single window.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: vCenter Server will allow you to view up to 10 vCenter Servers and up to 30,000 virtual machines in a single view.
QUESTION NO: 222
When configuring HA, which admission control policy should be used?
A. Host Failure Cluster Tolerates B. CPU and Memory Percentage for Failover C. Standby Host D. None of the above
VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 100 Answer: B Explanation: CPU and Memory Percentage for Failover sets aside a percentage of the resources to be left unused in the event of a failover.
QUESTION NO: 223
An organization is trying to determine whether it should use the Windows version of the vCenter Server or use the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The organization will be using an external Oracle database, and it will manage about 30 ESXi hosts and about 200 virtual machines on 1 vCenter Server, but it would also like to see another groups vCenter Server from the same vSphere client window. Which type of vCenter Server should it use, and why?
A. The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) because it can be used with Oracle B. The VCSA because it can support 30 ESXi hosts C. The Windows version because it can support Oracle D. The Windows version because it can support Linked mode
Answer: D Explanation: The VCSA does not support Linked mode, so it cannot be used in this instance, based on the requirement that the user should be able to see multiple vCenter Servers in a single vSphere client window.
QUESTION NO: 224
The VCSA can be configured with a small internal Oracle database that can be used to manage up to 5 ESXi hosts or 50 virtual machines.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: The VCSA comes with an internal IBM DB2 database that supports up to 5 ESXi hosts or 50 virtual machines.
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QUESTION NO: 225
Which of the following is an advantage of a scaled-out architecture?
A. Fewer larger hosts means less hardware. B. Larger servers come with more bells and whistles, like completely redundant hardware. C. Smaller hosts translate to less time needed to recover using HA. D. Larger servers are cheaper.
Answer: C Explanation: In a scaled-out architecture, the cluster is configured with many smaller hosts rather than fewer large hosts. Because of this, when an ESXi host crashes in a scaled-out cluster, you lose a smaller percentage of your cluster, which translates to fewer virtual machines crashing, which translates to faster recovery times.
QUESTION NO: 226
Which of the following is an advantage of a scaled-up architecture?
A. Fewer Larger hosts means less hardware to manage B. Smaller hosts mean more DRS options C. Smaller hosts translate to less time needed to recover using HA D. Smaller servers are cheaper.
Answer: A Explanation: In a scaled-up architecture, Fewer servers are needed because each server can handle more virtual machines that what a typical scaled-out server can handle. So the cluster will require fewer servers.
QUESTION NO: 227
An organization is considering buying hosts that have one three-port NIC rather than buying hosts VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 102 that have three one-port NICs. Is this a good idea? Why or why not?
A. This is a good idea; one three-port NIC means fewer PCI slots. B. This is a good idea; one card is cheaper than three. C. This is not a good idea; one card translates to a single point of failure. D. This is not a good idea; three-port NICs are expensive
Answer: C Explanation: If the one three-port NIC fails, you will usually lose all three ports on the NIC. It would be a better solution to use three one-port NICs instead. You lose one card, and you lose only one port.
QUESTION NO: 228
During the design phase, one of the constraints listed is that because the organization is already using SQL Server 2008 in-house, a SQL Server database would have to be used for the vCenter Server. Because of the constraint, ______________.
A. the organization would have to use VCSA since it supports SQL Server B. the organization would have to use the Windows versions of the vCenter Server, but the database would have to be internal to the vCenter Server C. either the VCSA or the vCenter Server can be used D. the Windows version of vCenter Server would have to be used because VCSA does not support SQL Server
Answer: D Explanation: The VCSA is a Linux appliance and at this time does not support SQL Server. The Windows version of the vCenter Server would have to be used because it does support SQL Server.
QUESTION NO: 229
A design calls for 10 virtual machines, each with 2 GB of RAM, to be located on a single VMFS datastore. Only 5 virtual machines will be powered on at one time. If the virtual machines are using default resource settings, how much space on the datastore will be utilized by swap files?
A. 20 GB B. 10 GB VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 103 C. No swap files will be created. D. None of the above
Answer: B Explanation: By default, the swap file is the same size as the available memory of a VM. The swap file is created when you power on a virtual machine and removed when you power it off. With 5 virtual machines powered on and with each virtual machine having an available memory setting of 2 GB, 10 GB of space will be used for the swap files.
QUESTION NO: 230
You have a requirement to create a three-tiered application as part of a virtual machines design. The requirement includes the ability to start up and shut down the tiers in a given order and to be able to ensure that the three-tiered application gets the resources it needs. Which would be the best option?
A. Put all the tiers in a resource pool and manage resources via the resource pool settings B. Create a vApp and place the three tiers in it. Configure the startup/shutdown options and configure resources via the vApp C. Ensure that all three tiers are on the same vSwitch and use the ESXi host VM startup and shutdown options D. Manage the three tiers as three separate virtual machines
Answer: B Explanation: Of all these options, only a vApp can offer startup, shutdown, and resource control options.
QUESTION NO: 231
You have been tasked with creating a new domain controller in the vSphere environment to replace the physical domain controller. You are trying to determine how much memory to give the virtual machine. What is your best option?
A. Create the VM to match the memory of the domain controller B. Give the VM as much memory as possible to ensure optimal performance C. Read the vendor documentation and base your memory setting on that D. Look at the long-term memory metrics of the server and have the memory setting match the VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 104 maximum memory used by the domain controller
Answer: D Explanation: Viewing the memory performance data of the physical host can give you a solid understanding of how memory is used on the host and gives a good indication of the amount of memory you should set up for the replacement virtual machine.
QUESTION NO: 232
It is a best practice to give a virtual machine a single virtual CPU unless there is a compelling reason to give a virtual machine more than one virtual CPU.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation: A majority of your virtual machines can run with a single vCPU. Unless the application specifically requires multiple vCPUs, try to start with one.
QUESTION NO: 233
When is it appropriate for a virtual machine to use the virtual machine swap file?
A. Always B. Never C. When youre trying to save memory D. When the swap file is on fast storage
Answer: B Explanation: A virtual machine using the swap file as memory is usually an indication that there is not enough memory on the ESXi host to provide memory resources to all the virtual machines on the host. Steps should be taken to alleviate the problem.
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QUESTION NO: 234
The swap file must always be stored with the other virtual machine files.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: A virtual machines swap file can be stored separately on a local or shared datastore. This is a good option if you are replicating storage to another location and do not wish to replicate files that are not needed at the replicated site.
QUESTION NO: 235
The ________ virtual machine scaling approach allows a VM to be created initially on a few metrics or highlevel requirements and scaled through the virtual machines life cycle.
A. comprehensive B. predictive C. adaptive D. literal
Answer: C Explanation: The adaptive approach is used when a virtual machine is built with only a few requirements and then can be scaled once the application is in place and performance is measured based on the few requirements. Then the VM can be scaled according to what the performance indicates.
QUESTION NO: 236
Which virtual machine scaling approach requires the most planning and research before the VM is actually created?
A. Comprehensive VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 106 B. Predictive C. Adaptive D. Literal
Answer: B Explanation: The predictive approach requires you to have a full understanding of how the application will utilize resources before the virtual machine is created. There will be no actions taken to scale once the VM is complete. The advantage of this is that once the VM is complete, only periodic application maintenance is required.
QUESTION NO: 237
As a designer, you must either use a predictive or adaptive approach to creating virtual machines. You cannot use a combination of the two approaches.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: In some instances, a combination of the two approaches might be best.
QUESTION NO: 238
Part of your design includes updating VMware tools and virtual hardware to a newly updated vSphere 5.1 architecture. What is the best method for updating tools and hardware?
A. Manually update each virtual machine B. Dont bother updating the VMs; the new version of hardware and tools are not necessary C. Use Update Manager to update all the virtual machines at once D. Use Update Manager to help update the virtual machines in groups, as maintenance windows allow
Answer: D Explanation: Using Update Manager is the best way to upgrade multiple virtual machines in an automated fashion. You would not want to update them all at once because it would be time-consuming and VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 107 would require a lot of resources and lots of reboots. As a result, there might not be enough time to finish within a maintenance window.
QUESTION NO: 239
Which of the following is a good way to set a memory reservation?
A. Use reservations on all virtual machines to ensure that they are all guaranteed memory. B. Set a reservation to a virtual machines available memory to avoid creating a swap file. C. Never set a reservation on a virtual machine. D. Set a reservation only on a critical virtual machine, with the reservation set to the minimum amount of memory needed for acceptable performance.
Answer: D Explanation: Setting reservations should be the exception and not the rule. The reservation should be set to the minimum amount required for acceptable performance.
QUESTION NO: 240
While viewing the ESXi host resource tab, you notice that you have 1 GB of available memory. You attempt to turn on a virtual machine with a 1 GB reservation, and the virtual machine will not power on. What is preventing the virtual machine from powering on?
A. There are too many virtual machines on the host. B. For a virtual machine to start, there must be enough available memory for the reservation and memory overhead. C. A reservation was set too high. D. A CPU reservation was not set.
Answer: B Explanation: All virtual machines require some memory to use as overhead to handle virtualization. Even if a virtual machine did not have a reservation, real memory would still be required for the overhead.
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Which type of virtual disk takes the longest to create but performs the best?
A. Thin provisioned B. Eager-zero C. Lazy-zero D. Flat
Answer: B Explanation: An eager-zero disk allocates and zeros out all the block at once. While this type of disk takes significantly longer to create, the disk performs better than the others because the other disks require the block to be zeroed out before writing to the block. Since the blocks have already been zeroed with eager-zero, that is not necessary.
QUESTION NO: 242
All virtual machine files should always be on the same datastore.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: Some applications require different types of performance on the multiple disks they require. If this is the case, it is acceptable to put virtual disks on two different datastores that have different performance and RAID features.
QUESTION NO: 243
Which metric displays the amount of time, in milliseconds, it takes for a virtual CPU to get processing time on a physical CPU?
A. CPU Wait B. Ballooning C. CPU Ready VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 109 D. pCPU
Answer: C Explanation: CPU Ready is a metric that can be viewed using performance charts on the Web client or the vSphere client that shows how long a virtual CPU had to wait for a physical CPU to become available.
QUESTION NO: 244
A(n) _______ is a set of processes which proves that a design has been properly configured and that the design works as planned.
A. validation plan B. implementation plan C. design blueprint D. none of the above
Answer: A Explanation: A validation plan is used to ensure that a design is implemented and configured properly and to ensure that the design functions as intended.
QUESTION NO: 245
An implementation plan is a(n) ______________.
A. test plan to ensure proper system operation B. blueprint of the design C. operations manual D. document or set of documents that provides detailed instructions for installing the system
Answer: D Explanation: Implementation plans should provide detailed steps on how the designer expects the architecture to be built. The plan should provide the engineers enough detail to build the system without architect assistance. VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 110
QUESTION NO: 246
A validation plan does not validate _____________.
A. the design B. system functionality C. that system requirements match the functionality of the design D. topics outside the scope of the design
Answer: D Explanation: A validation plan should validate the design, should verify that the system operates in accordance with the functional requirements, and should ensure that all requirements are met.
QUESTION NO: 247
Documentation requirements for different designs require the same deliverables.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation: Documentation requirements can vary based on the customer, the customer requirements, or the design.
QUESTION NO: 248
A key memory metric to view during system testing is _____________.
A. Ballooning B. Compression C. Swap In/Swap Out VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 111 D. All of the above
Answer: D Explanation: Monitoring Ballooning, Compression, and Swap In/Swap Out memory metrics during testing will verify to the designer that sufficient memory is in place. If any of the listed metrics shows significant usage, there may be a memory issue somewhere in the design.
QUESTION NO: 249
Which VMware tools driver is the balloon driver?
A. VMMEMCTL B. VSS C. VLance D. None of the above
Answer: A Explanation: VMMEMCTL is the balloon driver. It is installed on any virtual machine that has VMware tools installed.
QUESTION NO: 250
Operational testing ____________.
A. provides an acceptable user experience and meets or exceeds expectations from all stakeholders B. verifies that scripts work C. ensures C-level sign-off of the project D. ensures that hardware passes stress tests
Answer: A Explanation: Operational testing ensures that the user experience meets or exceeds the users expectation and that the design system operates as all stakeholders expect it to.
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QUESTION NO: 251
In the project life cycle, who defines the vision?
A. The IT architect B. The software vendor C. The business
Answer: C Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 252
You are a VMware architect attending a project kickoff meeting. The project vision is to consolidate all existing physical workloads to a vSphere 5 platform.
The high-level requirements are defined during the design kickoff meeting. Which of the following is true?
A. You should make design choices based on current best practices and case studies from previous vendor implementations. B. You should review the current server estate to ensure the viability of the project in relation to the requirements and establish the tasks required to achieve the vision. C. You should construct a logical and physical design, based on requirements and guide best practices from previous implementations in the community.
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 253
Which of the following can a gap state analysis help achieve?
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Answer: A Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 254
Which of the following type of discovery methods is least likely to impact the platform it is discovering?
A. Active B. Passive
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 255
A component relationship diagram can be used to establish the order of component change or impact analysis.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 256
Which of the following tools would enable a Windows administrator to complete a state analysis of a virtual Windows 2008 Server guest machine without requiring access to the vSphere platform?
A. VMware Perfmon DLL B. resxtop C. PowerCLI monitor script
Answer: A VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 114 Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 257
Which of the following is a list of attributes that can be used as a checklist for ensuring good design thoughts?
A. The project requirements B. The infrastructure qualities C. The project design choices
Answer: A Explanation: The project requirements are always paramount to a design. Infrastructural qualities are secondary and can be changed to meet the project requirements.
QUESTION NO: 258
Which of the following could prevent a physical system from being converted to a virtual workload?
A. The physical system uses legacy operating systems, such as Windows B. NT 4. C. The application running on the physical server is not supported in a virtual platform. D. The application has not been tested in a virtual platform.
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 259
The infrastructure qualities are attributes you can use to ensure that major aspects are considered to help with good design processes. What are the infrastructure qualities?
A. RTO, RPO, and MTBF B. Availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security C. Capacity, change control, security, DR, and supportability
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QUESTION NO: 260
A platform has an RPO of 4 hours. The platform crashes at 2 p.m. Which of the following is correct?
A. The platform must be ready for users to access by 6 p.m., with data versions from at least from 10 a.m. B. The platform must be ready for users ASAP, with data versions from at least 10 a.m. C. The platform must be ready for users to access by 6 p.m., and the data age is unknown from the RTO.
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 261
A multitier website has an RTO of 4 hours and an RPO of 15 minutes. The database crashes at 5 p.m. and causes the website to be unavailable. Which of the following is true? (Select all that apply.)
A. The website must be restored by 5:15 p.m. B. The website must be restored by 9 p.m. C. At restore time, the data must be correct from at least from 4:45 p.m. D. At restore time, the data must be from at least 1 p.m.
Answer: B,C Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 262
You are the VMware consultant at a large enterprise. A senior manager is in charge of a project that needs new infrastructure for its application. The application will be used by 3,200 users. Three virtual machines are requested via the help desk. One of the three is a virtual machine with 32 vCPUs allocated for processing. The notes of the request say that the large number of vCPUs (the company template is 2 vCPUs) is justified by the senior manager. The notes also reference the following details from the application manual:
For every 100 users in the workload, the processing tier of the application requires one agent VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 116 - handler service. Each agent handler requires one single-core CPU.
Which of the following should the VMware consultant do next?
A. Configure the 32-vCPU box as requested and talk to the users during the rest of the project to understand the application as much as possible for ease of support and to understand the impact. B. Create a proof of concept server with 2 vCPUs and engage with the user/application vendor to understand actual resources required for the company workload and support requirements. Suggest other deployment strategies, such as scaling out the processing tier with a lower number of vCPUs per guest virtual machine but more virtual machines within the tier. C. Deny the virtual machine request and suggest that the processing tier be physical.
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 263
According to HA best practices, which of the following admission control policies is most appropriate for a cluster of hosts with virtual machines of very different memory and CPU reservations?
A. CPU and Memory % Configuration B. Number of Hosts Tolerate C. Failover Host
Answer: A Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 264
A requirement in a server consolidation project states: The consolidation ratio must be as high as possible. This has resulted in a lower number of larger-capacity hosts in the vSphere HA cluster. Which of the following is true?
A. The restart time of a VM could be greater than when using smaller hosts. B. The restart time of a VM could be lower than when using smaller hosts.
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QUESTION NO: 265
A host has three dual-port network cards. What is the maximum number of vSwitches that can be integrated with the physical network, assuming that network redundancy is not a requirement?
A. 3 B. 6 C. 256 D. 512
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 266
As a platform designer, you have been asked to create a design for a vSphere 5 platform. Based on existing capacity state analysis, the platform will require 30 hosts and 250 guest VMs. Due to an existing vendor relationship with the enterprise, the preferred database for all datacenter systems is Microsoft SQL 2008. Which of the following vCenter deployments can be used based on this constraint?
A. VCSA with a remote Microsoft SQL 2008 database B. Windows-based vCenter with a local Microsoft SQL 2008 database C. VCSA with an embedded Microsoft database D. Any of the above would meet the requirements.
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 267
RTO and RPO requirements can have a direct impact on the size and number of virtual datastores used in a vSphere platform.
A. True B. False
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QUESTION NO: 268
You are a platform designer constructing a physical design from an existing approved logical design. Out of the vendor proposals, there are two proposed solutions that could be used. Which of the following options is the most important factor when making a decision?
A. Community and vendor-based best practices B. Existing vendor relationships C. Project requirements D. Project budget
Answer: C Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 269
You have been asked to design a virtual machine for a new application developed in-house. The application will be load tested before it is finally made production ready. The application developers have created documentation based on data flow and entity dependency. The functionality of the application is critical to the business for a defined project with a client base of a maximum of 12,000 users. Which of the following scaling approaches would best suit this scenario?
A. Predictive B. Adaptive
Answer: A Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 270
You are a virtualization consultant at a company that develops its own inhouse website trading systems. The new website will be deployed in a vSphere 5 platform, which consists of two clusters and four ESXi hosts (one for each projectthe SDLC hostsfor all levels of testing and development prior to production deployment). VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 119 The production cluster has been configured for fully automated DRS and VMware HA. During the SDLC, the website platform was developed on a single development ESXi host inside a single VLAN. The system was successfully tested within the SDLC ESXi hosts and then deployed to the production cluster in a single vApp and a single VLAN.
Following a successful midweek, the new application starts to show signs of latency. Suddenly several applications across the cluster are being impacted by network latency issues. Metrics are collected and show that the amount of network traffic between the database and application servers of the new website platform are at 96% utilization on the physical switch links between ESXi hosts in the production cluster. What should you do?
A. Recommend that the website platform be fixed and removed from the production system. B. Create a DRS affinity rule to ensure that the database and applications servers stay on the same ESXi host and do not traverse the physical network when communicating. C. Configure Network I/O Control to ensure that the network latency is alleviated between the database and applications servers.
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 271
You are working on a project to deploy a critical multitier web application. The application is as follows:
In the scenario described, the SAN space is limited. Which of the following options would help save space while still providing the infrastructure shown above?
A. Confirm that 80 GB is actually used on the servers in each tier and configure thin provisioning to save space. B. Reduce the amount of memory in each web server by 2 GB to reduce the amount of swap space created. C. Create a resource pool hierarchy for the web, processing, and database tiers in the application VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 120 and configure a reservation for the total amount in each tier. This would reduce the amount of space used within the datastore.
Answer: A Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 272
You are working on a project to deploy a critical multitier web application. The application is as follows:
In the scenario described, which of the following would be a good design choice for memory management in the vSphere platform?
A. Configure each web server in the application to have a limit of 4 GB. B. Create a business-as-usual task to monitor the usage and increase it as required. C. Configure a DRS affinity rule to split 50% of the web servers between two hosts. D. Configure web servers to have high share values.
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 273
You are working on a project to deploy a critical multitier web application. The application is as follows:
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In the scenario described, which of the following would be a good alternate design choice to discuss with the vendor/web development team?
A. Consider consolidating the database servers into one large server for ease of management, backup, and licensing costs. B. Consider creating a file server with UNC file shares presenting the read-only data for web servers. This would reduce the amount of space required from approximately 3 TB to approximately 150 GB. C. Reduce the specifications of each web server and increase the number of servers to distribute the load more widely across the cluster.
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 274
Entry criteria should be included in all areas of documentation designed for implementation and validation.
A. True B. False
Answer: A Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 275
A validation plan should be based on estimated workloads and user behavior.
A. True VMware VCAP5-DCD Exam "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.actualtests.com 122 B. False
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 276
A validation plan is used to do which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
A. Verify the design B. Verify that the system is functional C. Verify that the system meets requirements D. Meet current best practices
Answer: A,B,C Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 277
vSphere cluster functionality such as DRS and HA does not need to be part of a validation plan. This kind of documentation is only concerned with guest VM workload validation, not platform-wide validation.
A. True B. False
Answer: B Explanation:
QUESTION NO: 278
The technical approach and order of delivery can have an impact on which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
A. Overall delivery time B. People resource contention (right person, right time, right task) C. Validation phase duration
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