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VMware 3V0-21.23 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | VMware |
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| Exam Name: | VMware vSphere 8.x Advanced Design |
| Exam Number: | 3V0-21.23 |
| Related Certifications: | VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design (VCAP-DCV Design) |
| Exam Format: | Single Choice, Multiple Choice, Proctored |
| Passing Score: | 300 |
| Exam Duration: | 145 minutes |
| Exam Price: | $250 USD |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years |
| Real Exam Qty: | 60 |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Sample Questions: |  |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored or testing center |
| Pre Condition: | Candidates are recommended to hold a current VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification and have hands-on experience with VMware vSphere 8.x environments. |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://www.broadcom.com/support/education/vmware/certification/vcap-dcv-design |
VMware 3V0-21.23 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Objectives |
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| Topic 1: IT Architectures, Technologies, and Standards | - Business and Technical Requirements
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| Topic 2: VMware Products and Solutions | - Networking and Security
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| Topic 3: Planning and Designing VMware Solutions | - Operational Considerations
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Your VMware vSphere 8.x Advanced Design Questions, Answered Clearly
The 3V0-21.23 exam — officially the VMware vSphere 8.x Advanced Design — is VMware's certification exam for professionals who work with its technologies, and passing it awards the VCAP-DCV Design certification at the Advanced level. Vendor-issued credentials like this one remain among the clearest signals of skill a resume can carry. It also connects naturally to VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design (VCAP-DCV Design) as a next step.
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The VMware vSphere 8.x Advanced Design blueprint comprises 3 domains, led by Planning and Designing VMware Solutions, VMware Products and Solutions, and IT Architectures, Technologies, and Standards. The complete weighted syllabus is in the section above — accurate preparation starts with knowing exactly what the exam weights most.
Candidates are recommended to hold a current VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification and have hands-on experience with VMware vSphere 8.x environments.
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VMware vSphere 8.x Advanced Design Sample Questions:
An architect is reviewing the security and compliance requirements for a new application that will be hosted on a vSphere 8 environment.
The following information has been noted about the new application:
The application stores and processes confidential data
The supporting virtual infrastructure is shared with other departments
No other application stores or processes confidential data
The application virtual machines must be able to run on any ESXi host in the cluster The storage layer is a iSCSI attached SAN Data at Rest Encryption is in place for each presented LUN validated to FIPS 140-2 No budget is available for additional infrastructure components or software Application data must not be accessible outside of the application's virtual machines The architect has been tasked with providing a secure virtual machine design to host the application.
Which three design elements must the architect include to meet the requirements? (Choose three.)
- A. External Key Management Service (KMS) provider
- B. A new encrypted iSCSI LUN
- C. The vSphere Native Key Provider
- D. A new local VMFS volume
- E. Virtual Machine Encryption
- F. VMware vSAN
Correct Answer: B,C,E 🗳️
An architect is responsible for designing the upgrade of a brownfield vSphere-based solution for a financial services customer. The customer has a requirement to host a mission critical, latency sensitive stock trading application.
During initial meetings with the customer, the following information is provided:
The solution is currently running vSphere 7.0 U3
All vSphere distributed switches (VDS) are at version 7.0.0
The customer has provisioned new hardware with dedicated AMD Data Processing Units (DPU) The mission critical applications must not be adversely affected by other workloads running in the environment The architect has made the following design decisions:
The solution will upgrade the existing VMware vCenter Server to version 8.0 The solution will upgrade all existing VMware ESXi hosts to version 8.0 The solution will deploy VMware ESXi 8.0 for all new host servers Which three additional design decisions should the architect make to ensure that the new hardware can be used to support the latency-sensitive application? (Choose three.)
- A. The solution will deploy new vSphere distributed switches (7.0.3) and connect the new DPU-enabled hosts.
- B. The solution will configure the hosts to use Network Time protocol (NTP).
- C. The solution will deploy new vSphere distributed switches (8.0.0) and connect the new DPU-enabled hosts.
- D. The solution will deploy all DPU-enabled VMware ESXi hosts into a dedicated VMware vSphere cluster.
- E. The solution will upgrade all existing vSphere distributed switches to version 8.0.0.
- F. The solution will configure network offloads compatibility to support DPUs.
Correct Answer: C,D,F 🗳️
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An architect is reviewing the information gathered from an initial requirements gathering workshop.
The following requirements have been identified:
REQ001 - The architecture must support tracking of administrative logons and actions.
REQ002 - The architecture must support class three (three nines or 99.9%) system availability.
REQ003 - The architecture must report on system usage in terms of CPU, memory, storage and network.
REQ004 - The architecture must provide for system recovery point objective (RPO) of two hours.
REQ005 - The architecture must provide access to a precision time protocol (PTP) for time synchronization.
Which two of the listed requirements would be classified as business (formerly functional) requirements?
(Choose two.)
- A. The architecture must provide access to a precision time protocol (PTP) for time synchronization.
- B. The architecture must provide for system recovery point objective (RPO) of two hours.
- C. The architecture must report on system usage in terms of CPU, memory, storage and network.
- D. The architecture must support class three (Three nines or 99.9%) system availability.
- E. The architecture must support tracking of administrative logons and actions.
Correct Answer: A,C 🗳️
An architect is designing a new vSphere-based solution for a customer.
During a requirements gathering workshop, the following information is provided:
0The solution must have a primary and secondary (isolated) environment
The solution must support orchestration to address application dependencies The isolated environment must be able to scale on demand in case of a DR scenario The solution is managed through a single interface Which solution should the architect include in this design?
- A. vSAN stretched cluster
- B. A dedicated fault domain
- C. Site Recovery Manager with dedicated hardware
- D. Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AWS
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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An architect is tasked with creating a design for a vSphere-based solution.
Reviewing requirements with the security team, the architect makes the following design decision:
ESXi hosts in the environment will enable shell sandbox for SSH connections and the local ESXi shell What is an implication of the design decision to enable shell sandboxing?
- A. Only administrative accounts can access the sandbox shell
- B. Only certain commands can be executed in the sandboxed shell
- C. The vSphere 8 hosts will operate in strict lockdown mode
- D. All commands executed in the sandbox shell will be logged
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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