Certified Design Expert - Data Center Virtualization 2024 Practice Test

• Develop and document a complete solution through architectural design that addresses customer requirements and constraints
• Defend design decisions and be able to provide alternative options along with the relative merits and drawbacks of those options
• Articulate solution to stakeholders demonstrating excellent communication skills

• Design for the considerations and analysis of single points of failure (SPOFs), redundancy options, and accessibility
• Map availability requirements to infrastructure design and document risks and assumptions

• Design for the considerations and analysis of monitoring, administration ease, maintenance, updates, scalability, and capacity planning
• Map manageability requirements to infrastructure design and document risks and assumptions

• Design for the considerations and analysis of demand patterns, potential bottlenecks, resource management, capacity planning, and workload balancing
• Map performance requirements to infrastructure design and document risks and assumptions

• Design for the considerations and analysis of potential data and component loss, acceptable downtime, and methods for restoring components and services
• Map recoverability requirements to infrastructure design and document risks and assumptions

• Design for the considerations and analysis of permissions, user roles, component access, network security, and monitoring
• Map security requirements to infrastructure design and document risks and assumptions

Specify features and functions for managing and maintaining normal operations

Specify sizing and configurations for virtual machines, taking into account workload policies

Specify sizing and configurations for host and clusters

Specify sizing and configurations for network resources

Specify sizing and configurations for storage resources

Supply a workable plan for implementing the solution as designed, validate that it was done correctly, and operate it going forward

• Document installation procedures to implement the design as architected
• detailed enough for a VCP to implement the design

Document standard operational procedures for VCP-level personnel to operate and maintain the environment

• Define and perform a test/validation plan that confirms the design functions as intended
• Provide guidance on expected results

• Determine and identify inhibitors to successful implementation, operation, and functionality of the design
• Explain identified risks to business and technical audiences, along with options for avoidance or mitigation and the benefits and drawbacks for each

• Document plans to address, mitigate, and/or eliminate risks in the design
• Provide thoughtful solutions to mitigate risk in the design

Validate that procedures for mitigating identified risks were successful

• Succinctly and clearly explain design rationale via written, verbal, and visual communication
• Receive and act upon constructive criticism and be able to adapt to change
• Construct appropriate and relevant questions that garner information that is put into action

• Throughout the defense, show how selections were made among reasonable alternatives, as well as how the final design met requirements and constraints
• Identify assumptions and explain improper design decisions with improvement suggestions
• If typical best practices were contravened, justify the decisions to do so

• Respond interactively to a presentation of requirements and constraints to show the ability to produce a design which satisfies a customer's needs
• Determine the relevant information required to understand the current customer environment
• Given a design requirement and data set within a multi-site environment, determine which components to include in a design
• Given results of requirement-gathering activities, identify the business requirements
• Given business requirements, analyze and determine the impact of the requirements on the design
• Succinctly and clearly explain design rationale