VMware VCDX Availability & Recoverability Design

1. Which admission control policy is most suitable for a VCDX design with predictable workloads?

Cluster resource percentage

Per-VM reservation

Host failures cluster tolerates

Disabled admission control

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3. Which feature enables seamless VM migration during planned maintenance in a VCDX design?

VMotion with zero downtime

Storage vMotion

VSphere DRS automation

Distributed Power Management

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5. Which vSAN configuration option provides the best balance between availability and storage efficiency?

RAID 0

RAID 1

RAID 5

RAID 6

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7. In VCDX design, what is the primary advantage of using vSphere Replication over SRM alone?

Lower cost and asynchronous replication

Synchronous replication across any distance

Eliminates need for backup software

Automatic application failover

8. Which NSX feature enhances availability by distributing network services across multiple nodes?

Logical Routing

Service Node Clustering

Edge Load Balancing

Distributed Firewalling

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10. In a stretched vSAN cluster design, what is the minimum latency requirement between sites?

Less than 5 ms

Less than 10 ms

Less than 100 ms

Less than 200 ms

11. Which metric defines the maximum acceptable time a system can be offline before business impact becomes critical?

RTO (Recovery Time Objective)

RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

MTTF (Mean Time To Failure)

12. What is the maximum number of hosts vSphere HA can protect in a single cluster?

32 hosts

64 hosts

96 hosts

128 hosts

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14. Which vSAN feature enables automatic recovery of failed components without manual intervention?

Capacity Monitoring

Automatic Rebalancing

Data Locality

Fault Domains

15. For a mission-critical application requiring 99.99% uptime, what is the maximum allowable downtime per year?

36.5 hours

52.6 minutes

8.76 hours

5.26 minutes

16. Which feature allows a VCDX design to isolate network failures and prevent split-brain scenarios?

Network I/O Control

Isolation Address

VSphere HA Admission Control

Distributed Port Group Tagging

17. In a VCDX design, what is the recommended quorum disk configuration for vSphere HA in a 4-node cluster?

One quorum disk shared by all nodes

One quorum disk per node

Two quorum disks in RAID 1

No quorum disk required for 4+ nodes

18. Which VMware technology provides synchronous replication for disaster recovery across geographic sites?

VSphere Replication

Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

VSAN Stretched Cluster

NSX Data Center

19. What is the primary difference between RPO and RTO in disaster recovery planning?

RPO measures time to recover; RTO measures data loss tolerance

RPO measures data loss tolerance; RTO measures time to recover

RPO and RTO are interchangeable terms

RPO applies only to databases; RTO applies to all systems

20. In a VCDX design, which vSphere feature enables transparent failover of VMs without application awareness?

VSphere HA

VSphere DRS

VSphere vMotion

VSphere Storage vMotion

VMware VCDX Availability and Recoverability Design Quiz

1. Which admission control policy is most suitable for a VCDX design with predictable workloads?

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2. For a VCDX design protecting against site-wide failure, the recovery strategy should include ____ at a geographically distant location.

3. Which feature enables seamless VM migration during planned maintenance in a VCDX design?

4. In VCDX design, host failure tolerance in vSphere HA is configured using ____ policy.

5. Which vSAN configuration option provides the best balance between availability and storage efficiency?

6. For a VCDX design with three data centers, ____ determines which site handles primary workloads during normal operation.

7. In VCDX design, what is the primary advantage of using vSphere Replication over SRM alone?

8. Which NSX feature enhances availability by distributing network services across multiple nodes?

9. For VCDX availability design, ____ ensures that VM restart policies respect host resource availability.

10. In a stretched vSAN cluster design, what is the minimum latency requirement between sites?

11. Which metric defines the maximum acceptable time a system can be offline before business impact becomes critical?

12. What is the maximum number of hosts vSphere HA can protect in a single cluster?

13. In VCDX design, Site Recovery Manager (SRM) uses ____ to automate failover procedures.

14. Which vSAN feature enables automatic recovery of failed components without manual intervention?

15. For a mission-critical application requiring 99.99% uptime, what is the maximum allowable downtime per year?

16. Which feature allows a VCDX design to isolate network failures and prevent split-brain scenarios?

17. In a VCDX design, what is the recommended quorum disk configuration for vSphere HA in a 4-node cluster?

18. Which VMware technology provides synchronous replication for disaster recovery across geographic sites?

19. What is the primary difference between RPO and RTO in disaster recovery planning?

20. In a VCDX design, which vSphere feature enables transparent failover of VMs without application awareness?