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

An enterprise is designing a multi-region cloud automation platform using VMware Aria Automation. They require: (1) repeatable design decisions with clear traceability to business requirements, (2) explicit documentation of assumptions and constraints (e.g., network boundaries, identity sources), and (3) an approach that reduces rework when requirements change late in the project. Which design methodology approach best meets these goals?

A platform team must design Aria Automation for 40 business units. Each business unit needs isolation of catalog visibility, policies, and quotas, but the platform team also requires centralized governance, shared extensibility, and consistent naming/tagging standards across all tenants. Which design best balances isolation with centralized control?

A design uses Aria Automation templates to provision multi-tier applications. The security team mandates that any deployment must be denied if it includes a forbidden outbound network path (e.g., internet egress) unless an approved exception exists. The controls must be enforced at request time, be auditable, and remain effective even if a user can edit inputs (e.g., network selection) in the request form. Which solution is the most appropriate?

A company is integrating Aria Automation with an enterprise CMDB. They must ensure that every provisioned resource is recorded with the correct CI relationships (app-to-VM-to-network), and that deprovisioning reliably cleans up the CI and relationships even if external API calls intermittently fail. Which integration pattern best meets reliability and data-consistency requirements?

During design validation, a team observes that identical Aria Automation deployments land in different vSphere clusters across runs, creating performance and licensing issues. The requirement is deterministic placement based on: (1) application environment (dev/test/prod), (2) data sensitivity (regulated vs non-regulated), and (3) capacity thresholds to avoid overcommit. Which design approach most directly addresses deterministic placement while preserving elasticity?

A customer requires that Aria Automation blueprints are reusable across private cloud and a public cloud account. They also require minimal drift between environments and a single source of truth for application topology, while allowing environment-specific differences (e.g., instance size, network, region). Which blueprint design pattern best meets these goals?

A regulated organization must design least-privilege access for Aria Automation where: (1) developers can request and manage only their deployments, (2) platform operators can troubleshoot and operate integrations without accessing application secrets, and (3) auditors can view immutable records of approvals and policy decisions. Which design is most appropriate?

A customer wants to extend Aria Automation to configure application settings on newly provisioned VMs using an external configuration management tool. They require: (1) standardized, reusable actions, (2) ability to handle long-running tasks without request timeouts, and (3) clear failure handling and rollback signals back into the deployment state. Which approach best meets these requirements?

An architecture review finds that Aria Automation deployments frequently become stuck in an intermediate state when an external IPAM integration is slow or returns intermittent errors. The business requires that: (1) successful resources must not be orphaned, (2) failed requests must be automatically remediated or rolled back, and (3) the user must receive a clear outcome without manual operator intervention. Which design improvement best addresses the issue?

A global enterprise is designing operational readiness for Aria Automation. Requirements include: (1) rapid root-cause analysis across distributed components, (2) evidence for compliance (who requested, who approved, what policy decisions were applied), and (3) detecting configuration drift between intended blueprint state and actual infrastructure state. Which combined design best satisfies these operational requirements?