VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Automation Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An organization is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation automation architecture and needs to ensure that infrastructure provisioning requests are automatically approved for development environments but require manual approval for production environments. The solution should integrate with existing vRealize Automation workflows. Which combination of components should be implemented?

A cloud administrator is configuring vRealize Automation to provision multi-tier applications across multiple VMware Cloud Foundation instances. The deployment must ensure that web servers are placed in one availability zone and database servers in another, with automatic failover capabilities. Which design approach should be implemented?

During the implementation of a vRealize Automation blueprint, a developer needs to consume an external REST API to retrieve configuration data during the provisioning phase and populate VM custom properties. The API requires OAuth 2.0 authentication. What is the recommended implementation approach?

A company has deployed vRealize Automation with multiple cloud zones spanning different geographic regions. Users are reporting that some deployments are failing with 'insufficient resources' errors even though capacity exists in other cloud zones. When reviewing the blueprint, the administrator finds that capability tags are configured. What is the most likely cause and solution?

An administrator needs to configure automated day-2 operations for scaling a three-tier application in vRealize Automation. The application requires that when web tier VMs are added, the load balancer configuration must be updated, and when database tier VMs are scaled, replication must be configured between database instances. What configuration approach provides the most maintainable solution?

A DevOps team is implementing a CI/CD pipeline that needs to automatically deploy infrastructure using vRealize Automation when code is committed to the main branch. The pipeline should validate the deployment request before submission and handle deployment failures with automatic rollback. Which orchestration approach should be implemented?

An organization needs to orchestrate a complex workflow that provisions VMs in vRealize Automation, configures network segments in NSX-T, registers endpoints in a third-party IPAM system, and updates a CMDB. The workflow must be atomic, meaning if any step fails, all changes should be rolled back. Which orchestration design pattern should be implemented?

A vRealize Orchestrator workflow that integrates with multiple cloud accounts is intermittently failing with timeout errors. The workflow successfully retrieves data from vRealize Automation but fails when calling external REST endpoints. Logs show that the external API sometimes responds slowly. What is the most appropriate solution to improve workflow reliability?

After a vRealize Automation deployment, users report that newly provisioned VMs are not accessible via their assigned DNS names, although IP addresses work correctly. The blueprint includes an IPAM integration that successfully assigns IPs. Network connectivity tests show no issues. What is the most likely cause and resolution?

A cloud administrator notices that some vRealize Automation deployments are taking significantly longer than expected. Analysis shows that the time is spent in the 'Allocating' phase. The environment has multiple cloud zones with different capacity levels and capability tags. What troubleshooting steps should be taken to identify the root cause?