Free VMware 3V0-21.23 Practice Test Questions 2026

An architect is designing a new vSphere solution. The solution will be used to host workloads that have multiple dependencies. The customer provides the following information regarding the workloads:

Workload 1: Self-Service Portal
Workload 2: Database
Workload 3: Identity Broker
Workload 4: Reporting Tool
Workload 5: Management Tool

Application A is formed of workloads 1 and 2 and has a dependency on workload 3
Application B is formed of workloads 2 and 4 and has a dependency on workload 3
Application C is formed of workload 5 and has a dependency on workload 4

How should the architect document the vSphere HA requirements to ensure that all of the applications can be recovered in the event of a host failure while observing the dependencies?

A. Set vSphere HA to Restart VMs in response to a Host Failure
Set the Restart Priority of workload 3 to High
Set the Restart Priority of workload 4 to Medium
Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1, 2 and 5 to Low

B. Set vSphere HA to Shut Down and Restart VMs in response to a Host Isolation
Set the Restart Priority of workloads 3 and 4 to High
Set the Restart Priority of workload 5 to Medium
Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1 and 2 to Low

C. Set vSphere HA to Restart VMs in response to a Host Failure
Set the Restart Priority of workloads 3 and 4 to High
Set the Restart Priority of workload 5 to Medium
Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1 and 2 to Low

D. Set vSphere HA to Shut Down and Restart VMs in response to a Host Isolation
Set the Restart Priority of workload 3 to High
Set the Restart Priority of workloads 4 and 5 to Medium
Set the Restart Priority of workloads 1 and 2 to Low

An architect is updating the design for a vSphere environment.

During a workshop focused on security, the following has been identified:

It has been determined that any configuration of ESXi hosts can only be completed via VMware vCenter
The Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) service must be disabled on ESXi hosts
The SSH service must be disabled on ESXi hosts

Based on the information from the workshop, which element does the architect need to include in the design?

A. Strict Lockdown Mode

B. Normal Lockdown Mode

C. Normal Lockdown Mode with a defined Exception User list

D. Strict Lockdown Mode with a defined Exception User list

An architect is responsible for the lifecycle management design for a brownfield vSpherebased solution.

The following information has been provided during initial meetings around the new solution:

Existing heterogeneous server hardware will be used to provide the hosting platform.

The available hardware is:

-- 10 servers that contain 2 x 20-Core Intel Xeon processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor A
-- 10 servers that contain 2 x 24-Core Intel Xeon processors and 768 GB RAM from Vendor A
-- 20 servers that contain 2 x 16-Core AMD EPYC processors and 512 GB RAM from Vendor B
-- 10 servers that contain 1 x 24-Core AMD EPYC processors and 256 GB RAM from Vendor C
All of the hardware is currently listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).
All existing server hardware has 36 months vendor support remaining.

The requirements from the customer are:

REQ001 - The solution must support the hosting of 5,000 workloads across two physical sites.
REQ002 - The solution should minimize the number of clusters.
REQ003 - The solution must ensure that there is no impact to service when completing upgrades.

Given the resource requirements needed for the solution, the architect has calculated that all of the existing servers will be required to provide sufficient resources for the new environment. The Intel-based servers will be deployed to the primary site and the AMDbased servers will be deployed to the secondary site.

Which four additional design decisions should the architect make to ensure all requirements can be met? (Choose four.)

A. The solution will create an Intel-based 20-node vSphere cluster in the primary site and an AMD-based 30-node vSphere cluster in the secondary site.

B. The solution will use VMware SDDC Manager to perform lifecycle management of the solution.

C. The solution will ensure each vSphere cluster supports a minimum of N + 1 redundancy.

D. The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager images to update and upgrade vSphere ESXi hosts in the secondary site.

E. The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager baselines to perform patching and upgrading of vSphere ESXi hosts in the secondary site.

F. The solution will use vSphere Lifecycle Manager images to update and upgrade vSphere ESXi hosts in the primary site.

G. The solution will ensure each vSphere cluster is configured with Distributed Power Management (DPM).

Following a review of security requirements, an architect has confirmed the following requirements:

REQ001- A clustered firewall solution must be placed at the perimeter of the hosting platform, and all ingress and egress network traffic will route via this device.

REQ002- A distributed firewall solution must secure traffic for all virtualized workloads.

REQ003- All virtualized workload, hypervisor, firewall and any management component system events must be monitored by security administrators.

REQ004- The hosting platforms security information and event management (SIEM) system must be scalable to 20,000 events per second.

REQ005- The hosting platforms storage must be configured with data-at-rest encryption.

REQ006- The hosting platform limits access to authorized users.

Which three requirements would be classified as technical (formerly non-functional) requirements? (Choose three.)

A. A clustered firewall solution must be placed at the perimeter of the hosting platform, and all ingress and egress network traffic will route via this device.

B. A distributed firewall solution must secure traffic for all virtualized workloads.

C. The hosting platforms security information and event management (SIEM) system must be scalable to 20,000 events per second.

D. The hosting platforms storage must be configured with data-at-rest encryption.

E. The hosting platform limits access to authorized users.

F. All virtualized workload, hypervisor, firewall and any management component system events must be monitored by security administrators.

What are two benefits of the VMware Validated Solutions? (Choose two.)

A. Provide prescriptive runbooks to deploy VMware solutions

B. Provide comprehensive manual deployment guidance and day 2 operational practices

C. Provide best practice design guidance

D. Provide faster time to value for VMware Cloud Foundation

E. Deploy technical validated implementations on VMware Cloud Foundation

An architect is responsible for the following customer considerations in a hardware refresh:

Capacity planning will ensure that the environment does not exceed 70% of peak-average utilization on deployment.
CPU purchases will favor clock speed and last level cache over cores per socket.
Additional ESXi hosts will be added to the cluster when CPU or memory utilization exceeds 70% for 3 consecutive business days.
Path Selection policy will be set to round robin and set to switch paths with every SCSI command.
vCPU to pCPU ratio may not exceed 5:1.

What are three considerations when designing for performance? (Choose three.)

A. Path Selection policy will be set to round robin and set to switch paths with every SCSI command.

B. vCPU to pCPU ratio may not exceed 5:1.

C. Capacity planning will ensure that the environment does not exceed 70% of peakaverage utilization on deployment.

D. All ESXi hosts must have four paths to the storage array.

E. CPU purchases will favor clock speed and last level cache over cores per socket.

F. Additional ESXi hosts will be added to the cluster when CPU or memory utilization exceeds 70% for 3 consecutive business days.

An architect is holding a requirements workshop with a customer for a new vSphere solution design. The customer states that the solution should make it easy to identify and apply patches or updates to ESXi hosts, including the ability to pre-stage the files on the ESXi hosts.

Which design quality is being referenced by the customer?

A. Recoverability

B. Manageability

C. Performance

D. Availability

An architect is designing a new hosting platform for a healthcare provider with proposed locations in three regional areas.

The following set of requirements have been provided by key stakeholders:

REQ001 - The hosting platform must support long distance vMotion between the primary and secondary site.

REQ002 - The maximum RTT (round-trip time) latency between the primary site and the secondary site must be less than 150 milliseconds.

REQ003 - The hosting platform must be manageable from assets located in the third site.

REQ004 - Each location must scale to support a minimum of 35TB storage.

Which requirement would be classified as a technical (formerly non-functional) requirement for the new hosting platform?

A. Each location must scale to support a minimum of 35TB storaqe

B. The maximum RTT (round-trip time) latency between the primary and secondary site must be less than 150 milliseconds.

C. The hosting platform must be manageable from assets located in the third site.

D. The hosting platform must support long distance vMotion between the primary and secondary site.