50 VMware Certified Professional - Cloud Management and Automation Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

An organization wants to deploy VMware Aria Automation in a way that supports scaling services independently and improves resiliency. Which architecture best meets this requirement?

You are asked to onboard a VMware vSphere environment into VMware Aria Automation so users can provision VMs. Which configuration object is required first to establish the connection to vCenter?

A team wants a cloud template to provision multiple identical web servers behind a load balancer. They want to adjust the number of web servers at request time. Which cloud template capability should be used?

A user can see a catalog item but receives an authorization error when attempting to request it. Which is the most likely cause?

A company wants to enforce that all deployments include specific tags for cost allocation (e.g., costCenter and environment) before provisioning is allowed. What is the best approach in VMware Aria Automation?

After adding a new vSphere cluster, you expect it to be available for placement in a project. The cluster appears in vCenter, but Aria Automation does not offer it as a compute option. Which action most directly addresses this?

You need a cloud template that can deploy either to vSphere or to a public cloud, based on an input (e.g., targetCloud). You also want to minimize template duplication. What is the best design approach?

A deployment intermittently fails during provisioning with an IP address allocation error. The network is managed through an IPAM integration. Which is the most likely root cause?

You are designing VMware Aria Automation for high availability in a production environment. Which design choice is most important to avoid a single point of failure for core services?

A cloud template is intended to deploy to a specific set of vSphere clusters using tags. The template uses a constraint tag, but deployments sometimes land in clusters that should be excluded. Which configuration issue is the most likely cause?

An administrator needs to let developers deploy to an existing vSphere cluster through VMware Aria Automation while ensuring the cluster is managed and selectable in projects. Which object must be created first to make vSphere resources available for provisioning?

A cloud template includes a VMware Aria Automation Cloud Assembly input named "environment" with allowed values "dev", "test", and "prod". The administrator wants the selected value to drive placement to different cloud zones. Which approach is most appropriate?

A user reports they can request deployments from the catalog but cannot see the "Deployments" list to manage what they created. Which role assignment most directly addresses this?

After adding an AWS cloud account, an administrator wants to ensure only approved instance types are used and that quotas are enforced per project. Which configuration best meets this requirement?

A team wants a single cloud template that can deploy either one or three web servers depending on a request input named "webCount". Which cloud template capability should be used?

A company must ensure all deployments automatically receive a consistent set of metadata tags for governance and search (e.g., costCenter, owner). They want it enforced regardless of what a user specifies in the template. What is the best approach?

A cloud template deploys a VM and attaches a network. The deployment fails with a placement error indicating no eligible networks in the selected cloud zone. The administrator confirms the cloud account is healthy. Which is the most likely cause in Aria Automation configuration?

A developer requests a catalog item that uses a cloud template with Cloud-Init to configure the OS. The VM deploys successfully but the application is not installed. Logs show Cloud-Init did not run. Which troubleshooting step is most appropriate first?

An enterprise requires Aria Automation to be deployed across multiple availability zones with no single point of failure for core services. Which architecture pattern best meets this requirement?

A company uses multiple projects and wants strict separation so that deployments from Project A cannot consume networks or storage profiles intended for Project B, even though they share the same vCenter cloud account. Which design best enforces this separation in Aria Automation?

An organization wants to restrict who can create and manage Cloud Accounts while allowing project admins to deploy workloads. Which Aria Automation capability is primarily used to control this separation of duties?

A cloud administrator needs deployments to land only on clusters approved for production. The vSphere environment is tagged with "env:prod" on the appropriate clusters. What is the best way to enforce this placement rule in Aria Automation?

In a cloud template, a developer wants to allow the requester to choose the VM size from a predefined list (Small/Medium/Large). Which design element should be used?

A team uses a single cloud template to deploy to either AWS or vSphere based on a user selection. They want to keep one template but switch resource definitions depending on the target. Which approach best supports this requirement?

After adding a new vSphere Cloud Account, the compute resources do not appear when creating Cloud Zones. What is the most likely cause?

A security team requires that all deployed VMs include a specific configuration step (install an endpoint agent) regardless of which cloud template is used. Which Aria Automation feature is best suited to enforce this consistently?

A cloud template provisions two identical application servers. After deployment, configuration management must run against both nodes as a group. Which blueprint design is most appropriate?

You are designing Aria Automation for high availability. Which component should be treated as a stateful dependency requiring its own HA/backup strategy to prevent loss of deployment state and content?

A deployment fails during provisioning with an error indicating a network cannot be selected. The cloud template requests a network with constraint tag "net:app". The project has a Cloud Zone, but no networks are being assigned. What is the most likely issue?

An administrator needs to ensure that catalog consumers can deploy only from approved versions of a cloud template, and that changes go through a controlled release process. Which approach best supports this requirement?

An enterprise is deploying VMware Aria Automation in a highly available architecture. Which component should be placed behind a load balancer to provide a single entry point and improve availability for users and API clients?

A cloud administrator wants to restrict which vCenter clusters can be used by projects in VMware Aria Automation while still allowing a single vCenter cloud account. What is the recommended mechanism to control placement scope per project?

A team wants a single cloud template that deploys to either AWS or Azure based on a user-selected input. Which cloud template design approach best supports this requirement?

A request to provision an on-prem VM fails with a placement error stating that no compute resources satisfy constraints. The cloud zone has available clusters. What is the MOST likely cause?

An administrator needs to add a day-2 action to a deployed machine so users can run it from the deployment in VMware Aria Automation. Which feature should be used?

A cloud template deploys successfully, but the deployed VM is missing its intended network configuration. The network profile and cloud zone are correct. Which template element MOST directly controls which network is attached to the machine at deploy time?

A company wants to ensure all deployments include specific metadata and follow naming standards, regardless of which user requests the deployment. Which approach is MOST appropriate?

A developer reports that a cloud template deployment intermittently fails when calling an external REST endpoint from an extensibility action. The endpoint requires outbound internet access, but the deployment environment is locked down. What is the BEST design to make the integration reliable and compliant?

An administrator needs to troubleshoot why a deployment request is stuck in an approval state even though the requester’s manager approved it. What is the MOST likely reason the request does not proceed?

A security team requires that developers can provision only from a curated set of machine images and cannot specify arbitrary images. They also require that image selection differs by environment (Dev vs Prod). What is the BEST way to meet this requirement in VMware Aria Automation?

An administrator wants to ensure that only tagged resources are available to users when provisioning in VMware Aria Automation. Which configuration best enforces this behavior?

A cloud template includes both a machine and a network. The designer wants the machine to always attach to the same network defined in the template, without user selection at request time. Which approach is most appropriate?

A Cloud Administrator needs to allow a Project Admin to manage project members and view deployments, but not create or edit cloud accounts. Which assignment best meets this requirement?

A company uses multiple vCenter Servers. They want to onboard them into VMware Aria Automation while keeping administrative boundaries so each business unit can only provision to its own vCenters. What is the best practice approach?

A cloud template must support two environments: "dev" and "prod". In dev, the machine can be small and placed anywhere; in prod, it must be larger and placed only on production-tagged clusters. Which design best meets these requirements with minimal duplication?

After creating a new cloud account, an administrator notices that no networks appear as available in the project, even though networks exist in vCenter. What is the most likely cause?

A company wants to standardize machine naming across all deployments. The name must include the project name and a unique sequence, and it must be applied consistently without requiring user input. Which capability is most appropriate?

An administrator is troubleshooting intermittent deployment failures where machines cannot be placed due to "no matching compute resources". The cloud template includes constraints requiring a specific tag, and the project has capability tags set. What is the best first step to isolate the issue?

A global enterprise requires high availability for VMware Aria Automation and needs to avoid a single point of failure for critical services. Which architecture decision best supports this requirement?

A company uses Aria Automation with multiple extensibility integrations. They need to ensure that custom workflows/actions cannot exfiltrate secrets and must be tightly controlled by least privilege. Which approach is MOST appropriate?