VMware Certified Professional - Cloud Operations Practice Exam: Test Your Knowledge 2025

An administrator is planning to deploy VMware Aria Operations in a large enterprise environment with multiple data centers. The organization requires high availability and needs to monitor over 10,000 virtual machines. Which deployment architecture should the administrator implement?

Which component in VMware Aria Operations is primarily responsible for collecting metrics and properties from monitored objects?

A cloud administrator needs to configure VMware Aria Operations to send alert notifications to multiple teams based on different object types. Team A manages databases, Team B manages applications, and Team C manages infrastructure. What is the most efficient way to accomplish this requirement?

An administrator is configuring custom groups in VMware Aria Operations. The requirement is to create a dynamic group that automatically includes all VMs with names starting with 'PROD' and located in a specific datacenter. Which group type should be used?

A company has deployed VMware Aria Operations and integrated it with vCenter Server. After several weeks, the administrator notices that new VMs are not being discovered automatically. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

An organization wants to optimize VM right-sizing recommendations in VMware Aria Operations. Which configuration should the administrator adjust to ensure recommendations are based on actual workload patterns over time?

What is the primary purpose of configuring Business Intent in VMware Aria Operations?

An administrator notices that several ESXi hosts are showing high CPU ready times consistently. After investigation, the VMs on these hosts have high CPU utilization. What is the best optimization approach using VMware Aria Operations?

A VMware Aria Operations cluster consists of 4 analytics nodes. How many nodes can fail while maintaining cluster operations?

Which metric in VMware Aria Operations indicates that a VM is experiencing memory pressure due to ballooning or swapping?

An organization has implemented VMware Aria Operations and wants to create a custom dashboard showing only database-tier VMs with their specific performance metrics. The dashboard should be accessible only to the database team. What steps are required to accomplish this?

VMware Aria Operations displays a capacity remaining time of 90 days for a cluster, but the organization is planning to deploy 50 new VMs in 30 days. What feature should the administrator use to validate whether the cluster can accommodate the planned growth?

After upgrading VMware Aria Operations, an administrator notices that several custom alert definitions are no longer triggering. What is the first troubleshooting step the administrator should take?

An administrator needs to monitor a third-party application running on VMs. The application exposes metrics via a REST API. What is the recommended approach in VMware Aria Operations?

A company's VMware Aria Operations environment is experiencing performance degradation during data collection cycles. The environment monitors 5,000 VMs with collection intervals set to 5 minutes for all adapters. What is the most appropriate action to improve performance?

An administrator needs to troubleshoot why certain VMs are not generating expected capacity analytics recommendations. Upon investigation, these VMs show intermittent data collection gaps. What is the most likely cause?

Which VMware Aria Operations feature allows administrators to create custom metrics by combining existing metrics using mathematical formulas?

A multi-datacenter organization is experiencing network latency issues between VMware Aria Operations analytics cluster nodes located in different geographic regions. The administrator is planning a redesign. What architecture approach should be recommended?

An administrator observes that storage latency alerts are triggering frequently for a datastore, but the alerts clear within minutes. Upon investigation, the latency spikes occur during backup windows. What is the best approach to handle this situation?

A VMware Aria Operations environment needs to provide cost visibility by showing VM costs based on actual resource consumption. Which feature should be configured to accomplish this requirement?