VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Cloud Management and Automation Deploy Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

An enterprise is deploying vRealize Automation in a multi-node architecture across two data centers (active/standby) with a requirement that users must continue requesting catalog items even if the primary data center is lost. The team proposes stretching the vRA database across sites and placing all appliances behind a global load balancer. Which design best aligns with resiliency goals while avoiding unsupported or high-risk dependencies?

After deploying vRealize Automation in a load-balanced, multi-appliance topology, administrators notice intermittent login failures and occasional looping back to the login page. The load balancer health checks show all nodes as UP. The issue worsens during peak hours when different nodes handle successive requests from the same browser session. Which load balancer configuration change is the MOST likely fix?

A company uses vRealize Automation with multiple tenants and integrates an external identity source. Several users can authenticate, but group-based entitlements intermittently fail to apply after a new group is created in the directory. The tenant administrator confirms the group exists and users are members. What is the BEST next step to restore consistent entitlement evaluation without changing directory design?

A Cloud Administrator wants to ensure that business groups can request blueprints but cannot see or consume networks except those approved for their environment. The organization uses multiple fabric groups, reservations, and network profiles. Which configuration provides the STRONGEST control while minimizing operational overhead?

A tenant has strict naming standards: VM names must include project code, environment, and a sequence. The sequence must be unique per project and reset per project annually. Requests can come concurrently from many users and must avoid collisions. Which approach is MOST robust in vRA?

An organization uses multiple vCenter endpoints and wants to prevent "resource fragmentation" where reservations become stranded due to overly strict reservation policies. They also must ensure gold workloads never land on silver clusters. Which strategy BEST balances placement control with operational flexibility?

A blueprint deploys a multi-machine application with dependencies. The customer requires that if any component fails to provision, ALL previously created components must be cleaned up automatically to avoid orphaned resources and IP consumption. Which design best meets this requirement?

After integrating an external IPAM system, some deployments intermittently fail with an error indicating no available IP addresses, even though the IPAM UI shows free addresses. The failures occur more frequently when many requests run in parallel. Which root cause is MOST likely, and what is the BEST mitigation?

A vRA cluster is healthy, but provisioning suddenly slows dramatically. Requests stay in progress for long periods with minimal log errors. The only symptom is a growing queue of pending tasks related to extensibility actions. The environment uses several event subscriptions that call vRO. What is the MOST effective troubleshooting step to isolate the bottleneck end-to-end?

A Day-2 action triggers a vRO workflow that updates CMDB records and then performs a VM reconfiguration. The CMDB update must be guaranteed even if the VM reconfiguration fails. However, duplicate CMDB updates must be prevented if the workflow is retried. Which design pattern BEST satisfies these requirements?