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VMware 3V0-21.21 Exam Overview :

Exam Name: Advanced Design VMware vSphere 7.x
Exam Code: 3V0-21.21
Certifications: VMware VCAP, VMware VCAP-DCV Design Certifications
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VMware 3V0-21.21 Exam Objectives :

Section Objectives
Section 1 –Architectures and Technologies Objective 1.1 Differentiate between conceptual, logical and physical elements of a design
Objective 1.2 Differentiate between functional and non-functional requirements
Objective 1.3 Differentiate between Availability, Manageability, Performance, Recoverability, Scalability and Security (AMPRSS)
Section 2 –VMware Products and Solutions There are no testable objectives for this section.
Section 3 –Planning and Designing Objective 3.1 Gather and analyze functional requirements
    3.1.1 Gather and analyze service-level agreement (SLA)requirements
    3.1.2 Gather network, storage and compute requirements
    3.1.3 Gather workload design requirements
    3.1.4 Gather capacity and performance requirements

Objective 3.2Gather and analyze non-functional requirements
    3.2.1 Determine security requirements for a vSphere design
    3.2.2 Determine data protection requirements for a vSphere design
    3.2.3 Determine business continuity requirements for a vSphere design
    3.2.4 Determine disaster recovery requirements for a vSphere design
    3.2.5 Determine compliance requirements for a vSphere design

Objective 3.3Determine risks, constraints and assumptions for a design
Objective 3.4Create a vCenter Server logical design
    3.4.1 Designasingle-site, multi-site, multi-region deployment
    3.4.2 Define avirtual data center design
    3.4.3 Determineavailability requirements for vCenter Server

Objective 3.5 Create a vSphere cluster logical design
    3.5.1. Differentiate between workload or management clusters
    3.5.2. Define aworkload cluster designObjective

3.6 Create a vSphere host logical design
    3.6.1 Recommend compute resource requirements
    3.6.2 Identify and address scalability requirements
    3.6.3 Determine hypervisor deployment method

Objective 3.7 Create a vSphere network logical design
    3.7.1 Determine network protocol needs
    3.7.2 Design network segregation for different traffic types
    3.7.3 Determine physical and virtual networking topology

Objective 3.8 Create a vSphere storage logical design
    3.8.1 Determine storage topology needs (e.g.,SAN, local, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure or HCI)
    3.8.2 Evaluate storage protocols based on agiven scenario/requirements
    3.8.3 Determine different storage segregation techniques based on agivenscenario
    3.8.4 Determine physical and storage connectivity topology

Objective 3.9 Create a workload logical design
    3.9.1 Determine workload sizing
    3.9.2 Determine workload placement

Objective 3.10 Create a vCenter Server physical design3
    3.10.1
Determine the correct sizing for vCenter Server based on workload requirements
    3.10.2 Map clusters to logical design

Objective 3.11 Create a vSphere cluster physical design
    3.11.1 Determine the appropriate Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler (pDRS), and Distributed Power Management (DPM)configurations based on requirements
    3.11.2 Determine the appropriate ProactiveHigh Availability/High Availabilityconfigurations based on requirements
    3.11.3 Determine the appropriatevSphereEnhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)configurations based on requirements
    3.11.4 Determine the appropriate cluster size based on requirements

Objective 3.12 Create a vSphere host physical design
    3.12.1 Identifythehypervisor deployment method
    3.12.2 Determine the appropriate host size based on requirements
    3.12.3 Determine the appropriate host configurations (network adapters, local storage, RAID controller) based on requirements

Objective 3.13 Create a vSphere network physical design
    3.13.1 Determine bandwidth needs based on requirements
    3.13.2 Determine NIC teaming and load balancing methods
    3.13.3 Design VMkernel adapters based on requirements
    3.13.4 Determine Network I/O Control (NIOC)configurations based on requirements
    3.13.5 Determine switch type (standard vs distributed) based on requirements

Objective 3.14 Create a vSphere storage physical design
    3.14.1 Determine storage multi-pathing and load balancing methods
    3.14.2 DeterminetheStorage DRS configuration
    3.14.3 Determine appropriate datastore configurations based on requirements
    3.14.4 Determine the physical storage design based on requirements
    3.14.5 Determine appropriate storage policy based on requirements

Objective 3.15 Create a workload physical design based on application requirements
    3.15.1 Determine workload virtual hardware (e.g., number of network interface cards (NICs) and type of NIC)
    3.15.2 Design content library topology
Section 4 –Installing, Configuring, and Setup There are no testable objectives for this section.
Section 5 –Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades There are no testable objectives for this section
Section 6 –Troubleshooting and Repairing There are no testable objectives for this section.
Section 7 –Administrative and Operational Tasks There are no testable objectives for this section.
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