VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Architect Practice Exam: Test Your Knowledge 2025

An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment for a financial services organization that requires separate management and compute domains. Which architectural approach best meets this requirement?

A company is planning to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation and needs to determine the minimum number of hosts required for the management domain. The design must support failure tolerance and meet VMware best practices. How many ESXi hosts are required at minimum?

An organization wants to implement automated lifecycle management for their VMware Cloud Foundation environment. Which component is primarily responsible for orchestrating upgrades and patches across the SDDC stack?

A cloud architect needs to design network connectivity for a new workload domain in VMware Cloud Foundation. Which network segment must be configured to support vMotion traffic between hosts?

An architect is sizing vSAN storage for a new workload domain. The design requires protection against a single host failure. Which vSAN storage policy configuration should be recommended?

A company is deploying VMware Cloud Foundation across multiple availability zones for disaster recovery purposes. They need to ensure management domain availability during a site failure. Which architectural design best supports this requirement?

An architect is designing NSX networking for a VMware Cloud Foundation workload domain that will host multi-tier applications. The design requires micro-segmentation between application tiers. Which NSX feature should be implemented?

A retail organization needs to deploy a new workload domain in their existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment to isolate PCI-DSS compliant applications. Which approach provides the best security isolation while maintaining centralized management?

An architect must design storage for a VMware Cloud Foundation workload domain that requires encryption at rest for all data. Which combination of technologies should be implemented?

A company's VMware Cloud Foundation environment experiences a failure where SDDC Manager becomes unavailable. What is the immediate impact on running workloads in the workload domains?

An architect is designing network connectivity for NSX Edge nodes in a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. The design requires high availability and must support both North-South traffic and centralized services. How should the NSX Edge nodes be deployed?

A global enterprise is implementing VMware Cloud Foundation with workload domains across multiple geographic regions. They need to implement consistent security policies and maintain compliance. Which design approach best addresses these requirements?

An organization needs to size their VMware Cloud Foundation management domain to support 15 workload domains with an average of 500 VMs per workload domain. Which design consideration is MOST critical for the management domain?

During a VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade, the architect needs to plan the upgrade sequence. Which order should components be upgraded to follow VMware best practices?

An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation solution for a healthcare provider that requires 99.99% uptime for critical applications. The design must account for host maintenance without impacting application availability. Which combination of features should be implemented?

A company is experiencing performance issues in their VMware Cloud Foundation workload domain. Analysis shows that vSAN witness traffic is consuming significant bandwidth on the management network. What is the most appropriate remediation?

An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation environment that must support dynamic scaling of workload domains. The organization wants to automate the addition of hosts to existing workload domains based on resource utilization. Which combination of components and configurations enables this capability?

A financial services company requires network segmentation for their multi-tenant VMware Cloud Foundation environment where tenants must be completely isolated at Layer 2 and Layer 3, with no possibility of traffic leakage between tenants. Which NSX design provides the strongest isolation?

An organization's VMware Cloud Foundation environment uses vSAN storage with deduplication and compression enabled. After adding a new workload domain, they notice that deduplication ratios are lower than expected. Analysis shows the new workload consists of pre-compressed database files and encrypted VMs. What architectural decision should the architect recommend?

An architect is designing certificate management for a large VMware Cloud Foundation deployment with multiple workload domains. The organization requires automated certificate lifecycle management, integration with their enterprise PKI, and minimal operational overhead. Which approach best meets these requirements?