VMware CertifiedAssociate–Cloud (VCA-Cloud) v8.1

Your manager asks you to set up your company's private cloud so that you can provide various compute and storage service level offerings. What component in vCloud Director would you configure to provide the different service level offerings?

Your manager heard on a webinar that vCenter Operations Manager has the ability to create custom groups so that he could better align performance and management decisions with the business. Which two custom groups could you create? (Choose two.)

Management has decided it makes business sense for your company to move to a hybrid cloud environment but has the concern that once you have made the move, managing your many VMs across the various clouds will require multiple logins with multiple interfaces.
Which product would you describe to management to reassure them that you have a single pane of glass style operational interface for all of the VMs in this hybrid cloud environment?

You are deploying a new vApp which needs specific storage capabilities. In the past, you manually assigned your datastores to a service level such as Tier 1 FC, Tier 2 SAS, etc. Your storage infrastructure has grown very large and it has become tedious and error prone manually identifying the various storage types and capabilities.
Which technology helps eliminate a lot of the manual work involved in keeping your storage information up to date within your cloud?

Management has decided that it makes business sense for your company to move to a hybrid cloud environment. They are concerned, however, that this may increase complexity by requiring multiple logins into multiple interfaces.
Which product should your present to management to allow a single pane of glass operations interface for all VMs within the hybrid cloud environment?

You need a solution that allows moving some of your datacenters workload to a public cloud during peak hours. You do not want to pay for unused capacity during non-peak hours. Which vCloud product will solve this problem?

Your consulting firm has asked you to advise a large enterprise client which has not yet moved to a cloud infrastructure. This client is running the majority of their servers in a virtualized vSphere environment and, initially, wants to know why they should deploy a private cloud.
Which of the following would be a compelling reason for the client to make the jump to the cloud?

You have been tasked with setting up various automation features in your private cloud.
You know that vCloud Automation Center is going to be the perfect tool for the job. What are the available purchase options for vCloud Automation Center?

You have been put in charge of configuring several new vApps in your private cloud. Your company's security policy dictates users on one project not see the IP addresses used on another project. Which vCloud Networking and Security feature would you setup to configure this required IP address isolation?

While giving a technical presentation on cloud concepts and components, you are asked to define the Sortware-Defined Enterprise. How do you respond?

You have Site Recovery Manager (SRM) in place to protect critical vCloud servers in the event of a disaster. Over lunch, a manager asks you why SRM is configured to protect only the vCloud servers and not the actual department workload VMs. What do you tell her?

Your manager wants an explanation of why your company should move to a Software-
Defined Data Center architecture. As part of this presentation, you are describing policy- driven automation.
Which components are enabled by policy-driven automation?

An administrator is considering a private cloud solution. The solution must allow for a 3 tiered service model for development servers, application servers and business critical servers. What component of a VMware private cloud solution can be used to meet this requirement?

As a consultant at a public cloud provider, you must provide a way of delivering services through a user interface that:
-> is specific to the user who logs in.
-> delivers services that adhere to the specific Service Level Agreement of that customer.
Which cloud product best meets your requirements?