50 VMware Certified Professional - Cloud Operations Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

An administrator is deploying VMware Aria Operations and wants high availability for the analytics and UI services while minimizing operational complexity. Which deployment approach best meets this requirement?

You need to ensure VMware Aria Operations can collect metrics from vCenter with the least privilege model. Which approach is recommended?

A cloud operations team wants to quickly determine which virtual machines are experiencing resource contention and why, using VMware Aria Operations. Which feature best supports this goal?

After adding a new vCenter adapter instance in VMware Aria Operations, no objects are discovered. The credentials test successfully. What is the most likely cause?

A company has multiple vCenters across sites with limited WAN bandwidth. They want VMware Aria Operations to collect data locally at each site and forward it to the analytics cluster. What is the best architectural component to deploy at each remote site?

An administrator created a symptom definition for high memory usage on VMs. It triggers frequently during normal business hours, generating noise. What is the best practice to reduce false positives while still detecting real issues?

You need to ensure different operations teams only see the resources they manage in VMware Aria Operations (for example, each team only sees its own business unit’s VMs). Which feature should you use to implement this separation?

A critical alert in VMware Aria Operations indicates datastore latency is high and affecting multiple VMs. Which action is most appropriate to validate the impact and pinpoint whether the issue is contention versus an underlying storage problem?

A design requires VMware Aria Operations to continue collecting and analyzing data during a node failure, and to support growth by adding nodes later. Which cluster sizing/design principle best supports this requirement?

VMware Aria Operations is reporting intermittent gaps in metrics for several objects collected via a remote collector. Connectivity tests to vCenter pass, but gaps align with periods of high resource usage on the remote collector VM. What is the best remediation approach?

An operations team needs a quick way to confirm that VMware Aria Operations can communicate with vCenter and is successfully collecting inventory and metrics. Which built-in view is the BEST starting point?

You need to ensure that specific alert definitions apply only to a subset of clusters used for VDI, without impacting the rest of the environment. What is the recommended approach?

A junior operator wants to understand why a specific alert triggered and which symptoms contributed to it. Where should they look FIRST?

A VMware Aria Operations deployment is integrated with vCenter. After a network change, collection stops and the adapter instance shows errors. Other applications can still reach vCenter. What is the MOST likely cause specific to VMware Aria Operations adapter communication?

An administrator wants to provide application owners read-only access to their VMs and related alerts, while preventing them from seeing other tenants’ objects. Which design best achieves this in VMware Aria Operations?

A performance engineer wants to identify which cluster is most constrained and whether the constraint is CPU, memory, or disk. Which VMware Aria Operations feature provides the BEST at-a-glance indicator for comparing resource pressure across clusters?

A team uses super metrics to track an environment-wide KPI, but the KPI value is sometimes missing for newly added clusters. What is the MOST likely configuration issue?

A spike in datastore latency is reported, and VMware Aria Operations shows multiple VMs impacted. You need to determine whether the contention is caused by one or two "noisy neighbor" VMs. Which workflow is MOST appropriate?

You are designing VMware Aria Operations for a large environment with strict requirements that data collection must continue even if a remote site temporarily loses connectivity to the primary data center. What architecture choice BEST addresses this requirement?

A VMware Aria Operations cluster is experiencing intermittent UI slowness and delayed analytics during peak hours. The environment has grown significantly. Which action is MOST aligned with best practice to restore performance while maintaining data continuity?

A cloud operations team is deploying VMware Aria Operations in a multi-node cluster. They want to minimize time-to-value and ensure the cluster can immediately balance analytics workloads without manual tuning. Which deployment best practice should they follow?

An administrator needs to prevent a specific group from deleting dashboards, while still allowing them to view dashboards and run reports. What is the MOST appropriate configuration in VMware Aria Operations?

In VMware Aria Operations, an operator sees an alert recommending to add memory to a VM, but the VM is part of a cluster with DRS and has a history of high ballooning. What is the BEST next step before increasing VM memory allocation?

A team wants to ensure that when an ESXi host enters maintenance mode, VMware Aria Operations automatically suppresses alerts from that host to reduce noise. Which feature should they use?

A provider uses VMware Aria Operations to manage multiple tenant vCenters. Tenants must only see their own objects and related dashboards while the provider retains global visibility. What configuration is MOST appropriate?

A VM shows intermittent high CPU Ready time, but its guest CPU usage is moderate. The cluster is not overcommitted on average. Which action in VMware Aria Operations is MOST likely to help identify the cause?

A custom alert in VMware Aria Operations is firing too frequently due to brief metric spikes. Operations wants the alert to trigger only when the condition persists for a sustained period. Which configuration is the BEST fit?

After adding a new vCenter adapter instance, VMware Aria Operations shows objects discovered but many metrics are missing and collection status indicates failures. Other vCenter adapters work normally. Which is the MOST likely cause?

A customer requires that VMware Aria Operations remain available even if a node fails, and they want to avoid a single point of failure for the analytics and UI services. Which design choice BEST meets this requirement?

Operations notices that VMware Aria Operations capacity reclamation recommendations are consistently inaccurate for a subset of business-critical VMs. The VMs run monthly batch jobs that cause short but extreme utilization bursts. What is the BEST way to improve the accuracy of rightsizing and reclamation for these VMs while preserving accurate alerting elsewhere?

An administrator is deploying VMware Aria Operations and must minimize user downtime during maintenance (patching, node replacement). Which architecture best supports high availability for the analytics and UI functions?

You need to restrict what a group of help-desk users can see in VMware Aria Operations so they only access objects in a specific vCenter folder and cannot view the rest of the environment. Which configuration approach is most appropriate?

A performance engineer wants to reduce alert noise by ensuring alerts only trigger when sustained conditions exist (for example, high CPU usage for several minutes). Which feature should be used to accomplish this?

An administrator observes that the VMware Aria Operations UI is slow, but data collection appears normal and no adapter errors are present. Which action is the most appropriate FIRST step to isolate whether the issue is caused by the user interface layer rather than data collection?

A company is onboarding a new business unit and wants to enforce different alert thresholds (for example, tighter CPU contention limits) for only that unit’s clusters without impacting global behavior. What is the recommended approach?

An administrator needs to design VMware Aria Operations connectivity for multiple isolated network segments where the Aria Operations cluster cannot directly reach the vCenter Servers. Data must still be collected centrally. Which design best meets this requirement?

After adding a new vCenter adapter instance, the administrator sees inventory objects but no performance metrics are populating for hosts and VMs. No errors appear in the adapter status. Which is the MOST likely cause?

A capacity analyst wants to identify whether a cluster is constrained primarily by CPU or memory and to understand the time-to-exhaustion for each resource. Which VMware Aria Operations view or feature is best suited for this task?

Security requires that user authentication to VMware Aria Operations be centrally managed and that role assignments map automatically based on corporate group membership. Which approach best meets this requirement while minimizing ongoing administrative effort?

A VMware Aria Operations cluster shows intermittent 'collection gaps' for multiple adapters during peak hours. Network connectivity is stable. Node health indicates high disk latency on the analytics nodes. Which remediation is MOST appropriate to address the root cause and prevent recurrence?

An operations team wants to ensure that only a small group of administrators can modify alert definitions and symptom thresholds in VMware Aria Operations, while help-desk users can still view alerts and dashboards. Which approach best meets this requirement?

A cloud operations engineer needs to capture VMware Aria Operations data to support an internal audit. The auditor requires proof of alert occurrences and the actions taken to resolve them for the last 90 days. Which VMware Aria Operations feature most directly supports this request?

A team wants VMware Aria Operations to stop generating alerts for a vSphere cluster during a planned maintenance window, but they do not want to change policies or disable adapters. Which action is most appropriate?

A customer is deploying VMware Aria Operations in a highly secured environment. Security requires that collectors in a management segment can access vCenter, but the analytics cluster must not have direct network connectivity to vCenter. Which architecture best satisfies this requirement?

After a reorganization, two business units need separate dashboards and views, but they share the same vCenter infrastructure. The operations team wants to avoid duplicating data collection. Which VMware Aria Operations design approach is best?

An administrator receives frequent alerts for high CPU contention on a cluster, but users report no performance issues. The alerts appear mostly during a nightly batch job. The administrator wants to reduce noise without ignoring genuine contention events. Which action is most appropriate?

A customer reports that several VMs show as "Not Collecting" in VMware Aria Operations after a vCenter certificate replacement. The vCenter adapter instance is now in an error state. What is the most likely remediation step?

A performance engineer wants to identify whether a VM’s latency is driven primarily by storage issues, CPU ready time, or network congestion. Which VMware Aria Operations capability best supports this type of root-cause analysis?

A multinational company deploys VMware Aria Operations across two data centers. Network latency between sites is variable, and during peak periods the remote site frequently shows delayed metrics and intermittent collection gaps. The business requires accurate near-real-time monitoring at both sites. Which design choice is most appropriate?

An operations team integrated automation with VMware Aria Operations so that certain alerts trigger remediation actions. They notice that some remediations are executed multiple times for the same ongoing issue, causing unnecessary changes. Which configuration best reduces repeated remediation while preserving automated response?