VMware Certified Professional - Cloud Operations Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

You are designing VMware Aria Operations for a highly regulated environment with 3 data centers and strict requirements: (1) analytics must continue during a WAN outage between sites, (2) metrics and alerts must remain local to each site, and (3) a central team still needs consolidated visibility when the WAN is available. Which architecture best meets these requirements with the fewest operational trade-offs?

After onboarding a large environment, you observe long UI load times and delayed badge/alert evaluations. Cluster health shows high sustained CPU ready on analytics nodes and frequent "analytics queue" growth during business hours. Storage latency is normal. Which change most directly addresses the bottleneck while preserving resiliency?

Your security team requires that Aria Operations collect from vCenter using least privilege and that auditing clearly shows what permissions are needed. You must still support symptom-based alerts for cluster capacity, VM contention, and datastore latency. Which approach best meets least-privilege without breaking key analytics?

You need an alert that triggers only when BOTH conditions are true for at least 15 minutes: (1) a cluster is in contention (CPU Ready elevated) AND (2) the same cluster has insufficient remaining capacity to satisfy the next 7 days of projected demand. You also need the alert to open a ticket with the specific cluster name and key metrics in the payload. What is the most appropriate implementation in Aria Operations?

After a migration, you notice that many VMs appear duplicated in Aria Operations with one instance showing stale metrics and the other active. Alerts are firing on the stale objects. vCenter shows the VMs were moved between folders and resource pools, and some were re-registered. Which action best cleans up and prevents ongoing alert noise without losing historical context unnecessarily?

Operations reports show frequent cluster CPU contention alerts, but vCenter performance charts indicate CPU usage is moderate. Investigation reveals high CPU Ready on a subset of VMs during backup windows, and those VMs are pinned to a host group due to licensing constraints. What is the best Aria Operations-driven optimization recommendation that aligns with the constraint?

A business unit complains that their 'time remaining' capacity dashboard is overly optimistic. You find that the policy uses default capacity calculation, but the BU runs latency-sensitive workloads and requires N+1 availability at all times. Which change most directly makes capacity analytics align with their operational requirements?

You need to detect 'noisy neighbor' behavior in a multi-tenant cluster where tenants are separated by resource pools. The requirement is to alert when a tenant resource pool causes disproportionate contention (CPU Ready and Co-Stop) relative to its entitled share, not merely high usage. Which solution is most appropriate?

Users report that Aria Operations intermittently stops receiving new metrics from vCenter, yet the adapter status flips between 'Data Receiving' and 'Error' without a clear root cause. No firewall changes are reported. You suspect certificate or trust issues because vCenter recently renewed its TLS certificate. What is the best next troubleshooting step to confirm and remediate with minimal disruption?

A remediation action (powering off idle VMs) was recently automated using Aria Operations recommendations. Shortly after, critical batch-processing VMs were powered off because they appeared 'idle' during part of the day, causing an outage. You must keep automation but prevent future false positives while maintaining aggressive reclamation for non-critical workloads. What is the best corrective action strategy?