VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An organization is designing a vSphere cluster that will host both production databases and development workloads. The production databases require consistent performance, while development workloads are more flexible. The infrastructure team wants to prevent development workloads from impacting database performance. Which combination of resource management features should be implemented?

A company is designing a vSphere environment that must support 500 VMs with an average of 4 vCPUs per VM. During capacity planning, the architect determines that peak CPU utilization across all VMs is 60%. The company wants to maintain an N+1 host failure tolerance. If each ESXi host has 2 CPUs with 16 cores each (32 cores total), what is the minimum number of hosts required?

An architect is designing storage for a vSphere cluster that will run mixed workloads with varying I/O patterns. The organization has purchased all-flash arrays and wants to optimize performance while maintaining cost efficiency. Which VMFS datastore configuration approach best balances performance and management overhead?

A financial services company requires that their vSphere environment maintains separation between compliance-regulated workloads and general business applications at the network level. The design must minimize east-west traffic traversing physical network infrastructure while maintaining microsegmentation capabilities. Which design approach best meets these requirements?

An organization's vSphere design includes a stretched cluster across two data centers 50 kilometers apart with 10ms RTT latency. They need to ensure that VM-to-VM communications within the same site remain local while maintaining the ability to vMotion VMs between sites. Which combination of technologies should be implemented?

A company is designing their vSphere compute infrastructure to support VMs with varying memory requirements, including several VMs that will each require 512GB of RAM. The architect needs to determine the appropriate host memory configuration. Which design consideration is most critical for supporting large memory VMs efficiently?

An architect is designing a network infrastructure for a vSphere environment that will support various traffic types including management, vMotion, vSAN, and VM traffic. The physical network provides 4x25GbE connections per host. Which uplink configuration provides the best balance of performance, redundancy, and flexibility?

A healthcare organization needs to design a backup and recovery strategy for their vSphere environment that includes strict RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 1 hour for critical patient systems. The environment consists of 200 VMs with 50 classified as tier-1 critical. Which design approach best meets these requirements?

An organization is designing their vSphere cluster with vSphere HA enabled. They have 8 hosts in the cluster and want to tolerate the failure of 2 hosts while ensuring VMs can restart with adequate resources. Which admission control policy should be configured?

A company is designing a monitoring and alerting strategy for their vSphere environment using vRealize Operations. They need to proactively identify performance issues before they impact applications while minimizing alert fatigue for the operations team. Which approach provides the most effective design?