2V0-13.25 Practice Questions
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- v1VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Architect 280 questions Current
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Domains covered on the exam 3
- IT Architectures, Technologies, Standards20%
- VMware Products and Solutions10%
- Plan and Design the VMware Solution70%
- 1
An architect is designing a VCF solution for an organization with three distinct data centers (A, B, and C). They want to manage all three sites through a single interface but ensure that a failure in Site A does not impact the management capability of Site B or C.
Which VCF Fleet topology is recommended?
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Correct answer: B
Deploying independent VCF instances at each site ensures that the failure domain is limited to that site (SDDC Manager failure at A doesn't affect B or C). Federation allows a unified view (single pane of glass) without creating hard dependencies between the availability of the management planes.
- 2
A customer is implementing VCF 9.0 and wants to use their existing external DNS and NTP servers.
What is a critical prerequisite regarding these services before starting the VCF deployment?
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Correct answer: A
VCF deployment (Cloud Builder) performs strict validation. Forward and reverse DNS resolution for all component IPs (ESXi, vCenter, NSX, SDDC Manager) is a mandatory prerequisite. Failure to resolve will cause the bring-up process to fail.
- 3
An architect is planning the IP addressing schema for a VCF deployment. The customer uses a strict IPAM system and cannot provide a contiguous DHCP scope for the VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) VLANs.
Which design decision accommodates this constraint?
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Correct answer: B
VCF supports using Static IP Pools for VTEPs as an alternative to DHCP. This allows the architect to define specific, non-contiguous (if needed, though pools are usually ranges) or strictly managed IP addresses assigned by the IPAM system without requiring a DHCP server on that VLAN.
- 4
A retail company needs to deploy VCF to 50 remote branch locations. Each branch has limited space (2 servers max) and needs to be centrally managed.
Which VCF design pattern is most appropriate?
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Correct answer: D
VCF Remote Clusters allow you to manage remote sites using a central VCF instance. Remote clusters can run on as few as 2 nodes (using vSAN ROBO or similar), fitting the space constraint, while being lifecycle managed from the central SDDC Manager.
- 5
An architect is designing a VCF environment that will host a mission-critical database application requiring high throughput and low latency. The application team requests the use of Jumbo Frames.
Where must the MTU setting be configured to support this requirement end-to-end?
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Correct answer: C
For Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000) to work, every hop in the path must support it. This includes the physical switches (underlay), the vSphere Distributed Switch (virtual layer), and the Guest OS interface inside the VM. Missing any point will cause fragmentation or dropped packets.
- 6
An architect is engaging with a financial institution to design a new private cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0. During the stakeholder interview, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) states: "All financial transaction data must remain within the country of origin to comply with data sovereignty laws."
How should the architect classify this statement in the design documentation?
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Correct answer: B
Constraints are restrictions that limit the design choices. A legal or regulatory mandate, such as data sovereignty, is a business constraint because it limits where data can be placed, removing the architect's freedom to choose any location.
- 7
An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation solution for a healthcare provider. The client has a requirement to tolerate a complete site failure with zero data loss (RPO=0). The sites are connected by a dark fiber link with 2ms round-trip latency.
Which availability design decision aligns best with this requirement?
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Correct answer: C
A vSAN Stretched Cluster provides synchronous replication between sites, enabling RPO=0. The 2ms latency is well within the 5ms requirement for vSAN Stretched Clusters.
- 8
A customer plans to deploy a VCF Consolidated Architecture. They have limited hardware resources but require strict separation between management components and tenant workloads for security audit purposes.
Which design approach best satisfies this constraint while maintaining the Consolidated Architecture model?
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Correct answer: C
In a Consolidated Architecture, both management components and user workloads run in the Management Domain. To achieve separation, vSphere Resource Pools are used to logically isolate resources and ensure management components have reservation priority.
