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

1. A. Security
2. B. Manageability
3. C. Recoverability
4. D. Availability

Correct Answer: A
This is lifecycle management function. The requirement is system critical patches, not system security patches.

A VMware Service Provider is tasked with delivering a solution for continuous availability for a subset of Tier 1 virtual machines (VMs) and vApps running in their vSAN environment. The VMs make up a
mission-critical application and there can be no data loss in the event of an outage at their primary data center. In the event of a regional outage, they have established a 10-minute recovery point objective (RPO). Failover/failback to the third site must be automated.
They have the following in place:
Two local data centers (primary and secondary) connected with 100 Gb dedicated fiber
2ms round-trip time (RTT) latency between the sites A third data center located on another power grid
70ms latency between the primary and secondary data centers
Matching storage arrays at all locations
Which two solutions could be used to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

1. A. Site Recovery Manager
2. B. Snapshots
3. C. vSAN Metro Cluster
4. D. vSphere Data Protection
5. E. vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)

Correct Answer: BC

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

1. A. Five
2. B. Six
3. C. Four
4. D. Seven

Correct Answer: A

An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer and learns that the customer has:
A single vSphere cluster
Two storage arrays with different RAID capabilities
Which two design decisions should the architect make to maximize data availability and data performance for this customer? (Choose two.)

1. A. Use Storage DRS.
2. B. Use VMDK anti-affinity rules.
3. C. Use multiple datastores for heartbeat.
4. D. Use a minimum of three storage arrays.
5. E. Use VM to host DRS rules.

Correct Answer: AC