VMware Certified Professional - Private Cloud Security Administrator Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An organization is designing a private cloud security architecture for a multi-tenant environment. They want to minimize lateral movement between applications while allowing shared services (DNS, NTP, patch repositories) to be reachable from all segments. Which design best meets these requirements?

During a security architecture review, a team needs a way to validate that proposed segmentation rules will not break application dependencies before enforcing them. The environment uses VMware vDefend for distributed controls. What is the most appropriate approach?

A security administrator is implementing VMware vDefend distributed firewall controls. They want to ensure that a new application group can only communicate with a database group on a specific port, while all other east-west traffic between these groups is blocked. Which rule strategy best aligns with least privilege and operational clarity?

A company uses dynamic workload placement and frequent VM scaling. The security team wants vDefend policies to automatically apply to workloads based on application role, regardless of IP changes. What is the most effective way to implement this?

After implementing vDefend distributed firewall rules, an application experiences intermittent connectivity issues. The administrator needs to determine whether the distributed firewall is dropping the traffic and identify which rule is responsible. What should they do first?

A security team is rolling out micro-segmentation with vDefend. They want to reduce risk by gradually enforcing policies, starting with a sensitive PCI application, while keeping the rest of the environment in a baseline state. Which approach best supports this phased implementation?

A threat detection alert indicates unusual east-west SMB traffic from a web server VM to multiple unrelated application servers. The organization uses vDefend for segmentation and wants to respond quickly while preserving evidence for investigation. What is the best initial response action?

Security operations wants to reduce false positives in threat detection by correlating network-based anomalies with workload context (e.g., which application tier a VM belongs to). In a vDefend-segmented environment, what practice best supports higher-fidelity alerting?

Following a suspected compromise, the incident responder needs to determine which other workloads communicated with the affected VM during the last 24 hours to assess blast radius. Which action is most appropriate in a vDefend-enabled private cloud?

An auditor requests evidence that only authorized administrative access paths exist to production workloads and that segmentation rules are reviewed for compliance. Which operational process best satisfies this request in a vDefend-secured private cloud?