VMware Certified Professional - Cloud Operations Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An administrator is deploying VMware Aria Operations in a multi-datacenter environment with 5,000 VMs distributed across three sites. The company requires high availability and wants to ensure that analytics continue if one node fails. Which deployment architecture should the administrator implement?

A cloud operations team notices that VMware Aria Operations is collecting metrics from vCenter Server but not from NSX-T environments. The NSX-T adapter shows a 'Connected' status but no data is being collected. What is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

An organization wants to create a custom dashboard in VMware Aria Operations that displays VM performance metrics only for VMs belonging to the Finance department's business unit. The dashboard should automatically include new VMs when they are added to this group. What is the BEST approach to accomplish this?

A VMware Aria Operations administrator observes that several VMs are generating alerts for high CPU ready time (above 5%) during business hours. After investigating, the administrator finds that the ESXi hosts are not CPU-constrained. What is the MOST likely cause and recommended action?

An operations team wants to use VMware Aria Operations to predict when a datastore will run out of capacity. The environment has unpredictable workload patterns with periodic large data ingestion events. How should the administrator configure capacity analytics to provide the MOST accurate predictions?

A company has configured VMware Aria Operations to monitor a multi-tier application consisting of web servers, application servers, and database servers across different VMs. The application owner wants to understand the health impact when one tier experiences issues. What feature should the administrator implement to provide this visibility?

During a troubleshooting session, an administrator notices that VMware Aria Operations is showing stale data for some VMs, with metrics not updating for the past 2 hours. The vCenter adapter is connected and other VMs are reporting current data. What troubleshooting steps should the administrator perform FIRST?

An administrator needs to create a custom alert in VMware Aria Operations that triggers only when BOTH CPU usage exceeds 85% AND memory usage exceeds 90% on a VM for at least 15 minutes. How should this alert definition be configured?

After upgrading VMware Aria Operations, an administrator discovers that custom dashboards are displaying 'No Data Available' for certain widgets, even though the underlying objects exist and are being monitored. What is the MOST likely cause and resolution?

A company wants to implement proactive capacity management using VMware Aria Operations. They need to ensure they maintain a buffer for unexpected workload spikes while optimizing resource utilization. The business requires 30 days of capacity headroom for normal operations. How should the administrator configure this requirement?