Free VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Cloud Management and Automation DesignPractice Test

An organization is designing a cloud automation platform that must support multiple business units with different compliance requirements. Each business unit needs isolation of resources and separate approval workflows. Which VMware Aria Automation design approach best meets these requirements?

A cloud architect is designing custom resource types in VMware Aria Automation to provision third-party storage appliances. The provisioning process requires multiple API calls with dependencies. What is the recommended approach to implement this?

An enterprise needs to integrate VMware Aria Automation with their existing ITSM ticketing system for change management approvals. Deployments should only proceed after external approval is received. Which integration method provides the most flexible and maintainable solution?

A company requires that all cloud deployments comply with data residency regulations, ensuring workloads are only deployed in specific geographic regions based on data classification. What VMware Aria Automation feature should be primarily leveraged to enforce this requirement?

During the design phase of a VMware Aria Automation deployment, which architectural decision best supports high availability and disaster recovery requirements for the control plane?

An organization wants to implement a self-service catalog where users can request pre-configured application stacks. The design must ensure that development teams can update their application configurations without involving cloud administrators. What design pattern should be implemented?

A cloud architect needs to extend VMware Aria Automation to automatically register deployed virtual machines with an external DNS system and update a CMDB. The process must execute after successful deployment but before the deployment is marked complete. Which extensibility approach is most appropriate?

An enterprise is designing resource naming standards across multiple cloud providers in VMware Aria Automation. Names must follow a pattern that includes environment, application, and sequence number, with provider-specific length and character restrictions. What is the best design approach?

A company needs to enforce that all deployed virtual machines have antivirus software installed and configured before they are released to users. The solution should work across multiple cloud providers. What design approach ensures this requirement is met?

When designing a multi-tenant VMware Aria Automation environment, what is the primary purpose of projects in the architecture?

A cloud automation design requires that certain sensitive inputs, such as database passwords, be encrypted and securely passed to provisioned workloads. Which VMware Aria Automation feature should be used to meet this security requirement?

An organization's VMware Aria Automation design must support automated scaling of applications based on custom business metrics from an external monitoring system. The scaling decisions require complex logic. What architectural approach best addresses this requirement?

A design team is creating a blueprint that deploys a three-tier application across development, test, and production environments. Each environment has different sizing requirements and network configurations. What is the most maintainable design approach?

During the discovery phase of a VMware Aria Automation design engagement, which stakeholder group is most critical to identify approval workflow requirements and governance policies?

A cloud architect is designing integration between VMware Aria Automation and an external IPAM solution. The design must support dynamic IP allocation during provisioning and automatic IP release on decommissioning. Which integration pattern provides the most robust solution?

An organization requires blueprint developers to follow infrastructure-as-code practices with version control, peer review, and automated testing before blueprints are available in production. What VMware Aria Automation design feature best enables this workflow?

A company is designing a cost management strategy for their VMware Aria Automation deployment. They need to track costs per business unit, implement budget alerts, and enable chargeback reporting. Which design elements are essential for this requirement?

A blueprint design requires coordinating the deployment sequence of multiple virtual machines where application servers must not start until database servers are fully configured and running. What VMware Aria Automation feature ensures this dependency is met?

An enterprise needs to implement a design where VMware Aria Automation orchestrates deployments across both on-premises vSphere infrastructure and multiple public cloud providers. Network connectivity between environments is limited. Which architectural consideration is most important for this hybrid cloud design?

A design requires that all VMware Aria Automation deployments automatically generate detailed documentation including architecture diagrams, resource inventory, and configuration details. This documentation must be stored in an external system. What integration approach best accomplishes this?