You are a VMware technical consultant for an application development project. The system
consists of a multitier application. The team consists of you, five developers, and a project
manager. At the project kickoff meeting, you are tasked with creating the servers for each stage of
the development life cycle the team is using: development, testing, staging, and production. During
the meeting, you come to the conclusion that the technical specifications have yet to be defined or
will likely change. Which of the following scaling approaches for guest workload design would be
most appropriate?

You are working on a virtual guest design for the deployment of a critical business application. The
software vendor has provided you with some projected workloads. One of the project requirements
is to ensure that business application performance is guaranteed. Which of the following would be
the best approach for guest configuration?

The VMware hot add and hot plug functionality is most useful for a(n) __________ scaling
approach.

Application performance test cases are most accurate if based on ____________.

An installation guide should contain _____________. (Choose two)

An implementation plan should contain _____________.

You are a VMware consultant for a large enterprise running VMware vSphere 4.1. You are
reviewing the upgrade documentation created to take the company to version 5.X of the software.
The upgrade has several requirements, including the following:
Minimize the impact to the business applications
Do a full rollback, if required, for any issues not foreseen by the project team
You notice in the documentation that the upgrade to VMFS 5 is mentioned as being nondisruptive
and having zero impact on the technical solution. Is this technically correct?

During an upgrade of VMware vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.0, several virtual machines appeared to
have lost network configuration. What is the possible cause of the issue?

An implementation plan is a set of instruction that provide sufficient detail for an engineer to
configure or install a platform according to a physical design.

A validation plan is a set of processes which prove that a project or a function of a platform has
been configured correctly and behaves as designed.