2V0-31-24 Sample Questions & Answers
Deployment setup ties with day-to-day administration and cloud template management for the top share, next to Aria Automation's architecture and SaaS services, and log analysis and command-line troubleshooting.
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- Question 1Beginner
– Architecture and Technologies · Objective 1.1 – Describe the architecture of VMware Aria Automation
A cloud administrator is reviewing the components of an on-premises VMware Aria Automation 8.10 deployment. Which core component is primarily responsible for managing the underlying Kubernetes cluster that hosts the application services?
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Correct answer: B
The VMware Aria Automation appliance itself contains the embedded Kubernetes cluster. The
vraclicommand-line interface is the primary tool for managing the lifecycle and services of the appliance at a high level, including the state of the cluster services. Suite Lifecycle is for deploying and managing the lifecycle of the entire appliance, while Assembler is a service that runs within the appliance. - Question 2Intermediate
– Troubleshooting and Repairing · Objective 6.2 – Describe "vracli" commandlet options
A VMware Aria Automation appliance is experiencing intermittent service failures. An administrator with SSH access needs to perform a health check on all deployed services within the appliance's Kubernetes cluster. Which command should be executed?
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Correct answer: D
The
vracli service statuscommand is the designated high-level utility for checking the health and status of all core VMware Aria Automation services running on the appliance. Whilekubectl get podsprovides the status of Kubernetes pods,vracli service statusgives a more application-centric view and is the recommended first step for a service health check. - Question 3IntermediateSelect 2
– Installing, Configuring, and Setup · Objective 4.7 – Configure identity and access management (RBAC)
A cloud architect is defining Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for a new development project in VMware Aria Automation. The lead developers must be able to deploy and manage their team's deployments, while junior developers should only be able to view deployments without making changes. Neither group should be able to alter the project's configuration. Which two roles should be assigned? (Select TWO)
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Correct answers: C, D
The principle of least privilege dictates assigning the minimum required permissions. The 'Project Member' role allows users to deploy and manage their own deployments within a project. The 'Project Viewer' role provides read-only access to project resources. 'Project Administrator' would grant excessive permissions, allowing modification of the project configuration itself.
- Question 4Advanced
– Administrative and Operational Tasks · Objective 7.10 – Create and Manage VMware Aria Automation Templates (NSX-T On-Demand Network Contructs)
An administrator is authoring a VMware Aria Automation cloud template to deploy a multi-tier application. A requirement is that each deployment must create a new, dedicated, and isolated NSX-T routed network. This network must be automatically destroyed when the application deployment is deleted. Which YAML resource type should be used in the cloud template to achieve this?
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Correct answer: A
To create an on-demand, routed NSX-T network as part of a deployment, the
Cloud.NSX.Networkresource type must be used with thenetworkTypeproperty set to'routed'. This instructs Aria Automation to provision a new Tier-1 Gateway and logical segment for the deployment, ensuring isolation, and to tear it down during deprovisioning. Using'existing'would connect to a pre-configured network, andCloud.vSphere.Networkis for standard vSphere port groups. - Question 5Beginner
– Architecture and Technologies · Objective 1.2 – Describe the architectural differences between VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Automation SaaS
True or False: A VMware Cloud Proxy is a mandatory component for an on-premises VMware Aria Automation deployment to manage on-premises vCenter Server endpoints.
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Correct answer: B
A VMware Cloud Proxy is required only when using VMware Aria Automation SaaS to connect to on-premises endpoints like vCenter Server. For a fully on-premises VMware Aria Automation deployment, the appliance communicates directly with the on-premises endpoints without the need for a separate Cloud Proxy.
- Question 6Intermediate
– Troubleshooting and Repairing · Objective 6.4 – Troubleshoot VMware Aria Automation configuration errors (Cloud Zone, tags, YAML, etc.)
A user's request to deploy a virtual machine fails. The deployment history shows the error message: "No matching placement for compute. The request has a constraint 'env:prod' but no compute was found with matching capability."
An administrator has verified that a Cloud Zone named 'Production-CZ' exists and is added to the user's project. What is the most likely cause of this error?
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Correct answer: B
This error indicates a failure in the placement engine. The cloud template is requesting a resource with the constraint tag 'env:prod'. For the placement to succeed, a Cloud Zone (or the underlying compute resource) available to the project must have a matching capability tag ('env:prod'). The absence of this capability tag on the 'Production-CZ' is the most direct cause of the failure.
- Question 7Advanced
– Administrative and Operational Tasks · Objective 7.20 – Manage Policies (definition and enforcement)
Company Background:
FinCorp, a global financial services organization, uses VMware Aria Automation to manage its vSphere-based private cloud. The company is subject to strict internal governance and external regulatory compliance, requiring meticulous control over resource provisioning and lifecycle.Current Situation:
Two primary projects exist: 'Dev-Project' for application development and 'Prod-Project' for production workloads. The Cloud Operations team is tasked with implementing a new set of governance controls to curb uncontrolled consumption in the development environment and enforce stricter change control for production.Requirements:
- Any request to deploy a workload in 'Prod-Project' must be explicitly approved by a member of the 'IT-Operations-Mgrs' Active Directory group.
- Developers using 'Dev-Project' must not be able to deploy virtual machines with more than 8 vCPUs or 32 GB of memory.
- All deployments in 'Dev-Project' must be automatically destroyed after 14 days.
- Production deployments in 'Prod-Project' should have a maximum lease of 365 days.
Which combination of policies must be configured in VMware Aria Automation to meet all of FinCorp's requirements?
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Correct answer: C
This option correctly identifies the specific policy types and scopes needed. An Approval Policy must be scoped to 'Prod-Project' to target production requests. A Day 2 Actions Policy is used to enforce resource constraints (like CPU/memory limits) and must be scoped to 'Dev-Project'. Finally, two distinct Lease Policies are required because the lease durations for development (14 days) and production (365 days) are different and must be applied to their respective projects.
- Question 8Beginner
– Installing, Configuring, and Setup · Objective 4.19 – Describe different types of tags in VMware Aria Automation
A cloud administrator needs to ensure that cloud templates with a specific constraint tag can only be provisioned on vSphere clusters equipped with high-performance GPU hardware. Which type of tag should be applied to the Cloud Zone that contains these specialized clusters to advertise this feature?
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Correct answer: A
Capability tags are placed on infrastructure resources (like Cloud Zones, compute hosts, or storage) to describe their properties or capabilities (e.g., 'gpu:true', 'tier:gold'). Constraint tags are placed on cloud templates to specify the requirements for the infrastructure. The placement engine matches the template's constraints to the infrastructure's capabilities.
- Question 9Intermediate
– Administrative and Operational Tasks · Objective 7.12 – Manage Extensibility/Subscription (ABX/VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator)
A DevOps engineer needs to automatically update an external Configuration Management Database (CMDB) with a newly provisioned VM's IP address and FQDN. The update must occur immediately after the machine is provisioned and customized. The engineer has a PowerShell script prepared to perform the CMDB update. What is the most efficient, native method to trigger this script using VMware Aria Automation extensibility?
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Correct answer: B
Action Based Extensibility (ABX) is designed for lightweight, event-driven integrations. Creating an ABX action allows running scripts (like PowerShell) on a FaaS provider. Subscribing this action to the 'Compute post provision' event topic ensures it runs automatically at the correct point in the lifecycle, with the deployment's payload (containing IP/FQDN) passed as an input.
- Question 10Intermediate
– Troubleshooting and Repairing · Objective 6.3 – Describe "kubectl" (VMware Aria Automation Appliance) commandlet options
An administrator suspects that the
codestream-appservice pod is in a crash loop within the VMware Aria Automation appliance. To investigate the pod's recent events, status, and configuration, the administrator uses thekubectl describe podcommand.Fill in the blank to specify the correct namespace:
kubectl describe pod codestream-app-xxxxx-yyyyy -n ________Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
The majority of VMware Aria Automation application services, including Code Stream (
codestream-app), run within thepreludenamespace in the embedded Kubernetes cluster. Therefore, when usingkubectlto interact with these specific service pods, you must specify the-n preludeflag.
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