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

During an Aria Automation design workshop, stakeholders present multiple requirements that conflict (e.g., "self-service with no approvals" and "all production changes require CAB approval"). What is the BEST next step in a formal design methodology?

An organization wants to ensure that all deployed VMs include a standardized backup agent and monitoring configuration, regardless of who requests the deployment. Which Aria Automation capability BEST enforces this consistently at design time?

A design calls for Aria Automation to provision into multiple vCenter Server instances and also into a public cloud. What is the MOST appropriate way to represent these targets within Aria Automation Cloud Assembly?

A customer wants to reduce security exposure by ensuring Aria Automation users never directly access vCenter credentials used for provisioning. Which design approach BEST supports this requirement?

A global enterprise needs a repeatable design for organizing cloud consumption where each business unit has its own cost controls and quotas, but a central platform team maintains shared images and governance. Which Aria Automation object model BEST fits this requirement?

An Aria Automation design must integrate with an ITSM tool to create and update tickets during provisioning and day-2 operations. The customer also requires the integration to be reusable across many blueprints without duplicating logic. Which approach BEST meets the requirement?

A blueprint deploys successfully, but the request fails at a later step when calling an external configuration service. The external call works from a developer workstation but fails from Aria Automation runtime. Which design-time troubleshooting consideration is MOST likely to resolve the issue?

A customer requires that all deployments include an owner tag for chargeback and that owners can only be chosen from an approved list per business unit. Which design BEST satisfies this while minimizing user error?

An enterprise wants a single multi-cloud blueprint that places workloads automatically based on policy: production must go to the most compliant zone, and non-production should prefer the lowest cost zone while still meeting minimum performance constraints. Which design approach BEST supports this objective in Aria Automation?

A regulated customer requires end-to-end auditability: who requested a service, who approved it, what configuration was deployed, and what changes occurred during day-2 actions. They also require separation of duties between requesters and approvers. Which combination of design elements BEST meets these requirements?

During an Aria Automation design workshop, a customer frequently requests new capabilities mid-project, causing repeated scope changes and rework. Which design methodology deliverable best helps control scope while still enabling iterative delivery?

A cloud team wants to reduce blueprint sprawl by allowing many applications to reuse a standard "base VM" definition while still permitting teams to add small application-specific differences. Which Aria Automation design approach best achieves this?

A company plans to integrate Aria Automation with an external ITSM tool for approvals and ticketing. What is the most appropriate high-level design decision to ensure the integration remains resilient during brief ITSM outages?

A regulated customer requires that developers can deploy to multiple environments (dev/test/prod) but must never see or use production credentials, endpoints, or secrets. Which Aria Automation design best meets this requirement?

A customer wants catalog items to include an approval step only when requests exceed a cost or size threshold (for example, CPU/RAM). They also want different approver groups based on business unit. Which design capability should be used?

A large enterprise requires that all provisioned resources across multiple clouds follow consistent naming, tagging, and metadata standards for chargeback and compliance reporting. What is the best design approach in Aria Automation?

A customer reports that deployments from a cloud template succeed, but post-provisioning configuration (software installation) intermittently fails and leaves resources in an inconsistent state. The configuration is triggered via an external automation system using webhooks. Which design change most improves reliability and recoverability?

A customer wants a design that supports multi-tenancy where each tenant has isolated catalog visibility, quotas, and governance, while a central platform team maintains shared content and guardrails. Which Aria Automation design aligns best with this goal?

A global organization must deploy workloads to multiple regions and clouds. They require low-latency user access to the service, but also need consistent governance, catalog content, and reporting. Which architecture best balances these requirements?

A security team mandates that all automation actions must be attributable to an individual user for auditing, even when executed by automation workflows or integrations. Which design choice best satisfies this requirement while minimizing operational risk?

A cloud design workshop is starting for a VMware Aria Automation implementation. The architect wants to ensure requirements are measurable and testable before moving into conceptual design. Which artifact best supports this goal?

A tenant administrator wants to restrict catalog deployments so that developers can only request pre-approved VM sizes and network placements, while still allowing self-service. Which VMware Aria Automation feature best satisfies this requirement?

A customer requires that all automation actions against vCenter and public cloud endpoints use non-human identities and support auditability. Which approach is most appropriate?

A multi-cloud organization wants a single catalog item that can deploy to different clouds based on business intent (e.g., "dev" uses lowest cost, "prod" uses highest resiliency). The architect wants to avoid maintaining separate templates per cloud. What design is recommended?

An enterprise integrates VMware Aria Automation with a ticketing system for approvals and change records. Intermittently, provisioning fails after approval due to timeouts when calling the external system. Which design change most improves resiliency without removing the approval requirement?

A team is designing Day-2 operations for catalog-deployed VMs. They must ensure that post-deployment actions (resize, power operations, add disk) are available only to users who deployed the resources, while platform operators retain full access. Which design best meets this requirement?

A company wants to standardize infrastructure provisioning and application configuration. The infrastructure team uses Cloud Templates, and the app team uses configuration management tools. The architect wants a maintainable design that separates concerns and supports reusability. What is the best approach?

A regulated customer must prove that no catalog item can deploy resources without mandatory tagging for cost center and data classification, and that the values are validated against an approved list. Which design best satisfies this?

A global enterprise wants to deploy VMware Aria Automation with high availability. They also require that a failure of a single site does not prevent existing deployments from being managed (Day-2 actions) for critical applications. Which architectural consideration is most important to meet this requirement?

A customer uses extensibility actions to call an external secrets system at request time. They report occasional failures where deployments start but later fail because the secret retrieval action times out. The business requires that either the deployment succeeds with valid secrets or no resources are created. What is the best design improvement?

During an Aria Automation design workshop, stakeholders disagree on success criteria for the new self-service platform (speed vs. compliance vs. cost). What is the BEST next step in a VMware design methodology to prevent scope creep and conflicting priorities later?

A cloud team wants developers to request common multi-tier environments with minimal input while ensuring consistent network placement, tags, and naming. Which Aria Automation capability BEST supports this goal?

A company requires that only corporate devices on a trusted network can access the Aria Automation console. Authentication is already integrated with the enterprise IdP. What additional control BEST meets this requirement?

An organization wants every provisioned machine to automatically include CMDB metadata (owner, application, environment) and ensure it is searchable for operations. Which design approach BEST satisfies this requirement in Aria Automation?

You must design Aria Automation for multiple business units. Each business unit needs its own set of projects, quota limits, and isolated templates, while a central team manages cloud accounts and shared policies. Which Aria Automation construct BEST maps to this organizational model?

A design requires Aria Automation to call an external IPAM system during provisioning to allocate IP addresses and then update the IPAM record on deprovision. Which integration approach BEST fits this lifecycle requirement?

A customer wants to expose a curated set of day-2 actions (resize, snapshot, run patch job) while preventing users from executing arbitrary operations on deployed resources. What is the BEST design approach?

A blueprint deployment intermittently fails when invoking an external service via a subscription. Logs show timeouts and occasional duplicate requests reaching the external service. Which design change MOST improves reliability and avoids unintended duplicate side effects?

A regulated enterprise must ensure that every Aria Automation request is traceable end-to-end (who requested, what changed, approvals, and external system calls). They also need to demonstrate that logs are tamper-resistant. Which design BEST meets these requirements?

You are designing a multi-cloud Aria Automation solution where different regions have distinct networking standards and only certain workloads are allowed in specific regions due to data residency. The business also wants a single blueprint for developers. Which design approach BEST satisfies these constraints while keeping the developer experience simple?

An architect is starting an Aria Automation design engagement and needs a repeatable way to capture functional requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks that can be traced to design decisions. Which artifact is most appropriate to produce early and maintain throughout the engagement?

A platform team wants catalog items to be maintainable across many projects. They want end users to select from standardized sizes (Small/Medium/Large) while the underlying CPU and memory values can be updated centrally without editing each template. Which Aria Automation design approach best meets this requirement?

A tenant administrator reports that catalog items are visible but requests fail immediately with an authorization error, even though the user is in the correct organization and project. Which design-time check is MOST likely to resolve the issue?

A global enterprise requires that deployments from Aria Automation use different naming conventions and tagging rules per business unit, and that these rules are enforced consistently regardless of who requests the deployment. Which design approach best enforces this at scale?

A customer wants to integrate Aria Automation with an ITSM tool so that every successful deployment automatically creates a configuration item (CI) record, and every destroy action closes the related record. They also want retry logic and visibility into failures without modifying every cloud template. Which solution is the best fit?

A solution design requires that catalog items remain provider-agnostic so the same blueprint can deploy to vSphere, public cloud, or additional providers in the future. Which design choice best supports this goal?

During design, a customer requests that certain catalog requests require separation of duties: the requester must not be able to approve their own request, and approvals must be conditional based on cost center and environment. What is the recommended approach?

An architect must design extensibility so that custom actions can be added with minimal operational overhead. The customer has strict requirements to avoid managing additional servers and wants built-in scaling for event-driven tasks. Which extensibility option is most aligned?

A customer runs multiple Aria Automation instances (development, staging, production). They want to promote cloud templates and policies through environments with controlled changes, peer review, and rollback capability. Which design pattern best satisfies this requirement?

A regulated organization requires end-to-end auditability for deployment actions, including who requested, who approved, what input values were used, and what external integrations executed. They also require tamper-resistant log retention and correlation across systems. Which design is MOST appropriate?