VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Architect Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An organization is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment with four availability zones. The architect needs to ensure that a management domain failure in one availability zone does not affect workloads in other zones. Which design approach best meets this requirement?

A financial services company requires encryption for data at rest and in transit for their VCF deployment. The security team mandates that encryption keys must never be stored within the VMware infrastructure. Which combination of features should the architect implement?

During the planning phase for a VCF deployment, an architect must determine the appropriate storage design for a workload domain that will host mixed application types including databases, file servers, and development VMs. The environment requires 200TB of usable storage with fault tolerance. What is the most important consideration when selecting the vSAN storage policy?

An organization needs to implement automated lifecycle management for their VCF environment across multiple workload domains. They want to ensure that updates are applied consistently while minimizing the risk of service disruption. What approach should the architect recommend using SDDC Manager?

A cloud architect is designing NSX networking for a VCF deployment with multiple workload domains. Applications require microsegmentation between tiers and integration with physical network infrastructure. The design must support both overlay and VLAN-backed networks. Which NSX design element is critical for this scenario?

An architect is sizing a management domain for a VCF deployment supporting 15 workload domains and 3000 VMs. The design must account for vCenter Server, NSX Manager cluster, SDDC Manager, and vRealize Suite components. Which sizing consideration is most critical for the management domain design?

A company is implementing a VCF disaster recovery strategy using multiple availability zones. They need to ensure RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 4 hours for critical workloads. The architect must design a solution that integrates with the VCF architecture. Which approach best satisfies these requirements?

During network design for a VCF implementation, an architect must determine the network segmentation approach. The environment includes management traffic, vMotion, vSAN, NSX Overlay (TEP), and VM traffic. Security policies require strict traffic isolation. What is the recommended design approach?

An architect needs to design a backup and restore strategy for a VCF environment that includes SDDC Manager configuration, vCenter inventory, NSX configuration, and workload VMs. The solution must enable point-in-time recovery of the entire SDDC state. Which combination of backup approaches should be implemented?

A retail company is designing a VCF workload domain for their e-commerce application that experiences significant seasonal traffic variations. The application has strict latency requirements and must scale compute resources independently from storage. Which workload domain design approach should the architect recommend?