VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Architect Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

An enterprise is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on-prem platform for multiple business units. Requirements: strict tenant separation for management plane access, independent workload domain lifecycle, and the ability for a central platform team to apply baseline security controls across all domains without breaking separation-of-duties. Which architecture best meets these requirements?

During architecture validation, a customer asks for a design that minimizes management plane blast radius. They want the ability to patch/upgrade NSX components frequently for security while reducing risk to workload domains that have change freezes. Which design approach best satisfies the goal?

A VCF design must support two physical data centers with active/active application tiers. The platform team proposes stretched clusters for workload domains. The customer’s key constraint is minimizing the risk of split-brain and ensuring deterministic behavior during partial connectivity loss (inter-site link degradation). Which architectural guidance is most appropriate?

An architect is troubleshooting a failed VCF bring-up. SDDC Manager reports that vCenter deployment succeeded, but host commissioning fails intermittently with certificate/trust errors when adding ESXi hosts. DNS and NTP are correct. Which underlying issue is the MOST likely cause in a hardened enterprise environment?

A platform team needs to design identity and access for VCF so that: (1) workload domain administrators can manage only their domain’s vCenter and NSX, (2) the cloud platform team can perform lifecycle operations in SDDC Manager across all domains, and (3) audit requirements mandate centralized identity with least privilege. Which approach best meets these requirements?

A workload domain must host latency-sensitive databases requiring predictable performance and minimal noisy-neighbor effects. The customer also requires rapid scale-out for stateless tiers in the same domain. Which workload domain design choice best balances these competing requirements?

A customer wants to deploy NSX-backed workload domains with micro-segmentation. They also require that a subset of regulated workloads never shares an NSX management plane with non-regulated workloads, even if compute is separated. What is the MOST appropriate design response?

A workload domain is planned with vSAN as the principal storage. The business requires the ability to sustain a host failure during a maintenance event (e.g., patching) without violating availability objectives, while also keeping usable capacity efficient. Which design decision best aligns with these requirements?

During a planned lifecycle upgrade using SDDC Manager, the pre-check reports that the target vCenter has a non-standard alarm action script and a custom extension registered. The change advisory board requires minimizing upgrade risk and ensuring the environment remains supported. What is the BEST course of action?

After an NSX upgrade orchestrated by VCF lifecycle, east-west traffic between two application tiers in the same segment intermittently drops. North-south traffic is unaffected. Logs show brief periods where some hosts report missing DFW rules. The environment uses multiple clusters in the workload domain. What is the MOST likely cause and best immediate mitigation?