VMware Certified Distinguished Expert Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

You are preparing a VCDX design document for a global enterprise. The customer has strict non-functional requirements (NFRs) around availability, recoverability, and operational supportability. Reviewers previously commented that your submission “reads like an implementation guide” and does not clearly justify architectural choices. What change most directly improves alignment to VCDX documentation expectations?

In your design, a business unit requires rapid provisioning of test environments, while security requires strict separation between regulated and non-regulated workloads. You propose separate vSphere clusters with distinct network/security controls and a shared content library for templates. In the design document, which artifact best demonstrates that the design satisfies both agility and separation requirements without overbuilding?

Your design includes a stretched cluster to meet an aggressive availability requirement. During documentation review, you realize the customer has an unvalidated assumption: inter-site latency will always remain within tolerance. What is the most appropriate way to handle this in the submission to strengthen its defensibility?

During your design defense, a panelist challenges your choice to standardize on a single cluster for both VDI and server workloads to maximize utilization. The customer’s NFRs include predictable VDI performance during business hours and minimal operational overhead. What is the best way to defend (or refine) your design in the moment?

Your defense presentation has limited time. The panel tends to probe areas of risk and decision-making rather than restating the entire document. Which presentation structure best aligns with how VCDX panels typically evaluate designs?

A panelist asks how you validated that your design can be operationally supported by the customer’s small infrastructure team. The design includes multiple availability zones, advanced networking, and tight RPO/RTO targets. Which evidence is most persuasive in the defense while staying at the design level?

In the panel technical interview, you are asked to explain how your design ensures recoverability for a tier-1 application with low RPO/RTO while also meeting a constraint that network bandwidth between sites is limited. Which answer best demonstrates sound architectural reasoning?

A panelist challenges your use of shared storage for a cluster hosting mixed workloads, noting the customer has a history of storage contention incidents. The customer also requires simplified operations and predictable performance. What is the best response that demonstrates you considered multi-dimensional trade-offs?

During the technical interview, you are asked how you would handle a situation where a stakeholder introduces a new compliance constraint late in the design cycle that affects logging retention and access controls. What approach best aligns with VCDX-level methodology while remaining practical?

You are asked to describe your architecture and design methodology for a complex virtualization program spanning multiple sites and teams. Which sequence best reflects a defensible VCDX approach?