Free VMware 3V0-21.23 Practice Test Questions 2026

An architect has made the following assumptions:

The customer will provide licensing for the vSphere platform.
The storage hardware has sufficient capacity for future workload scale.
The data center offers sufficient power, cooling and rack space for workload scale.

Which two risks must be documented in the design document in response to these assumptions? (Choose two.)

A. The assumptions must be approved by the customer, architect and the architect’s company.

B. The storage may not have capacity to accommodate 20% year over year virtual machine growth.

C. The licenses provided by the customer only have support entitlement for one year.

D. The customer may not have an existing licensing subscription that covers features the architect intends to use.

E. The customer may not have sufficient data center cooling, power, and physical rack space available.

An architect is designing a new vSphere architecture and notes the following information during the design workshops:

vSphere distributed switches (VDS) will be used for all vSphere clusters. Switch naming will be based on cluster name, resource type function and switch number.
Port group naming will be based on function, role and VLAN number range.

Each host has two physical network cards each with two NIC ports:

- Card A aligns to vmnic0 and vmnic1
- Card B aligns to vmnic2 and vmnic3

The architecture must provide resilient network connections.
Management Services will use VLAN ID 43.
Virtual machines access VLAN ID 100.
The vSphere infrastructure will use a hyper-converged storage architecture.

How should the architect document the VDS physical design based on the noted information?

A. vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 2 uplinks
Port group name "pg_mgmt_43"
- uplink = vmnic0
- teaming policy = active/passive
Port group name "pg_VM_100"
- uplink = vmnic1
- teaming policy = active/passive

B. vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks
Port group name "pg_mgmt_43"
- uplink = vmnic0, vmnic2
- teaming policy = active/passive
Port group name "pg_VM_100"
- uplink = vmnic1, vmnic3
- teaming policy = active/passive

C. vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks
name "pg_mgmt_43"
- uplink = vmnic0, vmnic1
- teaming policy = active/passive
Port group name "pg_VM_100"
- uplink = vmnic2, vmnic3
- teaming policy = active/passive

D. vSwitch Prod_DVS_01 will have 4 uplinks
Port group name "pg_mgmt"
- uplink = vmnic0, vmnic2
- teaming policy = active/passive
Port group name "pg_VM"
- uplink = vmnic1, vmnic3
- teaming policy = active/passive

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 all DPU-enabled VMware ESXi hosts into a dedicated VMware vSphere cluster.

D. The solution will configure network offloads compatibility to support DPUs.

E. The solution will deploy new vSphere distributed switches (8.0.0) and connect the new DPU-enabled hosts.

F. The solution will upgrade all existing vSphere distributed switches to version 8.0.0.

An architect is working on a security design for a shared storage environment. The storage array provides connectivity by the NFS protocol.

Which two design decisions could the architect include for this solution? (Choose two.)

A. Create a dedicated storage network

B. Create a dedicated VLAN

C. Create a challenge handshake authentication protocol (CHAP) password to prevent unauthorized access

D. Create dedicated volumes for sensitive data

E. Create a dedicated Fibre Channel network

An architect is tasked with designing a repeatable edge hosting solution using VMware technologies that can be deployed to existing hotels across the world and operate independently of other locations.

During interviews with stakeholders, the architect notes the following information:

There are 123 hotels in total.
All hotels have a minimum of two 1 Gbps connections for guest Internet access.
The company operates hotels in four countries: Canada, USA, Cuba and Mexico.
The company is rebranding the hotels located in Mexico.

Which of these is a business factor that will impact this design?

A. The company is rebranding the hotels located in Mexico.

B. The company operates hotels in four countries: Canada, USA, Cuba and Mexico.

C. There are 123 hotels in total

D. All hotels have a minimum of two 1 Gbps connections for guest Internet access.

A company is expanding and will be deploying new vSphere environments in multiple new locations. All environments use datastores backed by multiple storage technologies and vendors.

How can the architect create a design to efficiently and repeatedly distribute existing company virtual machine (VM) templates to multiple new locations?

A. Use storage array replication tools to replicate the storage volume holding the company VM templates to each remote site.

B. Upload company templates to a cloud provider and download to each new location.

C. Create a published content library and have the new locations subscribe to it.

D. Create a local content library at each site and manually copy only needed templates.

What is an example of a performance design quality?

A. The solution must scale to meet spikes in CPU demand.

B. The solution must provide 40 physical CPU cores and 20 TB of physical memory.

C. The solution must support applications with a maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) of four hours.

D. The solution must support applications with 1,000 transactions per second (TPS).

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. Site Recovery Manager with dedicated hardware

B. Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AW

C. vSAN stretched cluster

D. A dedicated fault domain