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

An enterprise is deploying VMware Aria Automation in a production environment and wants the best practice approach to ensure the platform remains available if a single appliance node fails. Which design best meets this requirement?

A cloud administrator needs to delegate catalog item management to a specific team while preventing them from changing infrastructure integrations and global platform settings. Which approach is most appropriate?

A tenant requires that deployed virtual machines always use IP addresses provided by the enterprise IP Address Management (IPAM) system. What is the recommended solution in Aria Automation to enforce this during provisioning?

A developer reports they cannot see a newly published catalog item, but other team members can. The item is published and active. Which is the most likely cause?

A company wants to ensure all deployments comply with a naming standard that includes project code, environment, and a unique sequence. They want enforcement at request time across all blueprints. What is the best approach?

After adding a new vCenter integration, a Cloud Administrator expects additional compute capacity to appear as available for provisioning, but capacity does not change. Which action is typically required to make new compute resources consumable?

A platform team needs a blueprint to provision a VM and then run a configuration job in an external automation system. They want the integration to be reusable across many blueprints and centrally maintained. Which capability should they use?

A cloud administrator must ensure that only specific networks are used for production workloads, while development workloads can use a broader set of networks. Which configuration best supports this requirement?

A multi-node Aria Automation deployment intermittently returns 503 errors for the UI and API. The load balancer is configured, but logs show requests are sometimes routed to a node that is online yet not ready to serve traffic due to internal service startup delays. What is the most appropriate remediation?

An organization uses a single Aria Automation instance for multiple business units. They require strict separation so that: (1) each business unit can manage its own content and deployments, (2) policies can differ per business unit, and (3) administrators for one unit must not view resources from another. Which design best satisfies these requirements?

An organization wants to enable vRealize Automation users to log in with their corporate directory accounts and have group membership used for entitlements. Which configuration best meets this requirement?

A cloud administrator needs to ensure all deployed Linux machines have a standard set of packages installed and a configuration file placed during provisioning, without requiring users to run post-deployment manual steps. Which vRealize Automation feature is most appropriate?

A tenant administrator needs to quickly restrict which users can request a specific catalog item. What is the recommended way to implement this control?

A company is designing vRealize Automation for multiple business units. They need strong separation of resources, independent quotas, and distinct sets of users while still sharing the same platform deployment. Which design best fits?

A blueprint deploys successfully, but the machine never joins the domain and the customization specification appears not to run. The administrator confirms the cloud template includes the correct customization settings. What is the most likely cause in the infrastructure configuration?

A cloud administrator wants to prevent deployments from consuming all available IP addresses on a shared network segment. Which control is most appropriate to implement within vRealize Automation governance?

A developer requests that a deployment automatically triggers an external ITSM ticket creation after provisioning, and the ticket number must be written back to a custom property on the deployment. Which approach best satisfies this requirement?

A cloud template includes a network selection input. Users report that the drop-down list is empty even though networks exist in the cloud account. The cloud administrator confirms the cloud account is healthy. What is the most likely configuration missing?

After restoring vRealize Automation from backup, users can access the UI but many deployments show stale status and day-2 actions fail with errors indicating missing event processing. Which post-restore validation is most critical to address this symptom?

A financial services company requires that provisioning requests be evaluated against a policy that checks user attributes and deployment metadata, and then conditionally enforces additional approval and placement restrictions. The policy must be centrally managed and applied consistently across multiple projects. What is the best solution design?

An organization wants business groups to request catalog items, but governance requires that deployment parameters and approvals be controlled by IT in a centralized way. Which vRealize Automation construct best meets this requirement?

A cloud administrator wants all provisioned Linux VMs to include a consistent set of baseline configurations at first boot (packages, users, and hardening). The configurations must be part of the deployment and repeatable. Which approach is most appropriate in vRealize Automation?

A user reports that a specific catalog item is not visible in Service Broker, but other users in the same organization can see it. Which is the MOST likely cause?

A company needs to enforce that deployments tagged as "production" can only be placed on a specific set of compute resources and must consume from a dedicated quota pool. Which combination best accomplishes this in vRealize Automation?

A cloud template deploys successfully, but day-2 actions (power operations) fail with an authorization error for all deployments in a project. Provisioning uses a named cloud account. What is the MOST likely configuration issue?

An administrator wants to standardize naming across all deployments so that VM names include project code, environment, and a unique sequence number, without requiring users to enter names manually. What is the BEST way to implement this in vRealize Automation?

A customer wants to ensure that when a deployment is deleted, the associated DNS records and IP address reservations are also cleaned up automatically. Which solution approach is MOST appropriate?

A distributed vRealize Automation deployment uses multiple components that must communicate internally. Security mandates a zero-trust posture and requires that only required ports be opened between nodes. What is the BEST practice approach to meet this requirement while maintaining supportability?

After integrating vRealize Automation with an external identity source, users can authenticate, but group-based entitlements do not apply consistently. Some users only receive entitlements after they log out and back in. What is the MOST likely cause?

A cloud template includes multiple networks, but deployments sometimes attach a VM NIC to the wrong network when multiple cloud zones meet the constraints. The design requires deterministic network selection based on environment tag (dev/test/prod). What should the administrator do to ensure correct placement every time?

An organization wants to deploy vRealize Automation with minimal downtime during certificate renewals. Which approach best supports this requirement?

A cloud administrator needs to let project members deploy only approved VM sizes and images in a vRA cloud zone. Which construct is primarily used to constrain what can be requested in a project?

A tenant administrator wants to ensure that blueprints created by one project are not visible to other projects by default. Which vRA feature best enforces this separation?

A user reports they cannot request an item from the Service Broker catalog, but they can see it listed. The administrator suspects an entitlement issue. What is the most likely cause?

A company wants all vRA deployments to be automatically placed only on clusters that have the tag "Prod" and have sufficient capacity. Which design best meets this requirement?

An administrator is integrating vRA with an external identity provider. Users can authenticate, but group-based entitlements are not applying. What is the most likely configuration issue?

A cloud template includes a machine resource and a separate network resource. Deployments fail with an IP assignment error only when multiple instances are requested at once. Which change is most likely to resolve the issue?

A customer wants approval only when a deployment exceeds a specific cost threshold, otherwise requests should be automatically provisioned. Which feature in Service Broker is best suited for this requirement?

After a planned network change, vRA deployments begin failing during provisioning with intermittent "endpoint not reachable" errors, but the vRA UI remains accessible. You suspect a connectivity issue between vRA and the target cloud endpoint. What is the most effective first step to isolate the problem?

A global enterprise requires vRA to support strict separation between two business units, including distinct identity sources, branding, and isolated governance policies. Which architectural approach best meets these requirements?

An administrator needs to allow project members to deploy to a specific vCenter cloud account, but must prevent them from editing the cloud account configuration. Which is the MOST appropriate approach in vRealize Automation?

A Cloud Administrator wants to ensure all deployments created from a given cloud template are automatically tagged for cost reporting (e.g., costCenter=FIN). What is the BEST method to enforce this consistently?

An administrator needs to verify whether vRealize Automation is integrated with the corporate identity provider for user authentication. Which component is primarily responsible for brokering authentication to external identity sources?

A company wants to ensure that all deployments in a project automatically expire after 30 days unless a manager approves an extension. Which vRealize Automation capability best meets this requirement?

After onboarding an existing virtual machine into vRealize Automation, the owner can see the deployment but cannot perform Day 2 actions such as power operations. The vCenter account is healthy and the VM is otherwise manageable in vSphere. What is the MOST likely cause?

A Cloud Administrator needs to restrict provisioning so that only a specific cluster is used for a sensitive workload, while other workloads in the same project can use any cluster. Which approach best achieves this using vRealize Automation constructs?

An administrator wants to allow developers to request deployments with an additional data disk, but the size must be limited to a maximum of 200 GB. What is the BEST way to enforce this at request time in vRealize Automation?

A new deployment policy requires that every provisioned VM must be automatically enrolled into a configuration management system by calling an external REST API immediately after provisioning. Which vRealize Automation feature is MOST appropriate to implement this integration?

A company is designing vRealize Automation for high availability. They want to avoid a single point of failure for user access and API calls and ensure traffic can be distributed across multiple appliances. Which design element BEST addresses this requirement?

A Cloud Administrator reports that provisioning to a public cloud account intermittently fails with timeouts, while on-prem vCenter provisioning is unaffected. Monitoring shows that failed requests correlate with high latency to the cloud endpoints. Which action is the MOST effective first step to improve reliability without changing the cloud provider configuration?