An organization's existing vSphere environments are configured for Enhanced Linked Mode. The DevOps team automates the creation of hardened virtual machine images for various operating systems. Their continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline runs a task at the end of a successful build, which uploads the Open Virtualization Format (OV) image to a sandbox content library, deploys a virtual machine from the image, and then destroys these objects after quality checks are complete. The followi

During a requirements gathering workshop, the customer’s Chief Information Security Office (CISO) provides the following requirements that are pertinent to the design of a new vSphere environment: All operating system critical patches must be installed within 24 hours of release. All virtual machine templates must be updated every three months in line with company policy. Which requirement classification is being gathered for the design documentation?

An architect is considering placement of virtual machines within an existing VMware software-defined data center (SDDC). During the discovery phase, the following information is documented: Which two recommendations should the architect make for placement of the virtual machines to meet resource profile requirements? (Choose two.)

An architect is designing a new greenfield environment that will install ESXi on local disks. There is a requirement to streamline initial and future installations of ESXi hosts. Which configuration option should the architect recommend for installing ESXi hosts to meet these requirements?

An architect is designing a vSphere environment for a customer based on the following information: The vSphere cluster will have three hosts only due to budget considerations. A database cluster (node majority) consisting of three virtual machines will be running on the vSphere cluster. Which two recommendations can the architect make so that the customer achieves the highest level of application availability while taking into consideration operational resiliency? (Choose two.)