VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Cloud Management and Automation Design Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An architect is designing a multi-cloud VMware Aria Automation deployment for a financial services organization. The organization requires that all cloud templates be version-controlled, peer-reviewed before deployment, and automatically tested in a development environment. Which design approach best meets these requirements?

A large enterprise is designing their VMware Aria Automation infrastructure and needs to support 5,000 concurrent users across multiple geographic regions with different compliance requirements. The design must ensure high availability and data sovereignty. Which architecture should the architect recommend?

An organization wants to implement a self-service catalog in VMware Aria Automation where different business units can deploy resources with their own approval workflows and cost centers, but share common cloud templates. The design must prevent one business unit from viewing or deploying resources belonging to another. Which combination of Aria Automation constructs should be used?

A cloud architect needs to design a cloud template that provisions VMs across AWS, Azure, and vSphere based on user input, with each cloud provider requiring different network configurations and security groups. The template should minimize code duplication. Which design pattern is most appropriate?

An enterprise requires that all VM deployments through VMware Aria Automation must be automatically registered with their CMDB, assigned an IP address from their IPAM solution, and have monitoring agents installed before being handed over to users. The solution should handle failures gracefully and support rollback. How should this be architected?

A company needs to integrate VMware Aria Automation with their existing ServiceNow ITSM platform. Users should request services through ServiceNow, approvals should follow ServiceNow workflows, and deployment status should update ServiceNow tickets automatically. Which integration approach provides the most seamless experience?

An architect is designing a solution where VMware Aria Automation must integrate with a legacy REST API that requires certificate-based authentication and has rate limiting of 10 requests per minute. The API must be called during VM provisioning to register assets. Which design considerations should be implemented?

A security team requires that all VMware Aria Automation deployments must comply with CIS benchmarks, have encryption enabled, and be deployed only to compliant cloud zones. Non-compliant deployments should be blocked before resource allocation. How should this be enforced in the architecture?

An organization using VMware Aria Automation needs to implement a cost governance model where each department has a monthly cloud budget. When a department reaches 80% of their budget, approvals should be required for new deployments. At 100%, deployments should be blocked. Which design approach best implements this requirement?

A company is designing a VMware Aria Automation solution that must support both greenfield deployments and brownfield resource onboarding from existing vSphere, AWS, and Azure environments. Onboarded resources should be manageable through Aria Automation with day-2 operations. Which architectural components and processes should be included?