VMware Certified Professional 7 - Cloud Management and Automation Exam (VCP7-CMA)
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This exam tests your skills and abilities installing, configuring and administering a VMware vRealize® environment. Review exam topics and objectives below or download the exam guide now.
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+ Section 1: Create and Modify vRealize Automation Blueprints
+ Objective 1.1: Create, Modify and Publish Blueprints Based on a Given Design
Knowledge
- Select the provisioning workflow, virtual machine template, and customization specification
- Configure expiration and archive durations
- Configure machine prefixes
- Configure and manage networking components
- Specify compute, memory, and storage resources
- Configure custom properties and property groups
- Create nested blueprints
- Create and add software components
- Publish blueprints
+ Objective 1.2: Create and Manage XaaS Blueprints with Custom Resource Mappings
Knowledge
- Create and manage XaaS resources in vRealize Automation based on the design
- Configure Active Directory plugin
- Configure REST plugin
- Configure PowerShell plugin
- Configure SOAP plugin
- Configure vCenter Server plugin
- Create and manage custom resources
- Create and manage XaaS Service Blueprints
- Create a service blueprint form
- Configure output parameters
- Publish the blueprint
- Create and manage XaaS resource actions
- Create a service blueprint form
- Configure output parameters
- Publish the blueprint
- Create and manage resource mappings with specific conditions
+ Section 2: Configure and Manage Tenants and Business Groups
+ Objective 2.1: Create and Manage Tenants
Knowledge
- Create a new tenant for a given design
- Create, add, and manage local users
- Configure administrative access and describe privilege level differences between roles
- Determine the unique URL used to access the tenant
+ Objective 2.2: Create and Manage Directories
Knowledge
- Create and manage LDAP directory for Active Directory in vRealize Automation
- Create and manage Windows Integrated Authentication Directory in vRealize Automation
- Determine and configure appropriate user and directory binding details
- Evaluate directory synchronization health and troubleshoot issues
+ Objective 2.3: Create and Manage Business Groups
Knowledge
- Configure business groups for a given design
- Add users and groups to appropriate support roles for a given design
- Determine and select the appropriate the machine prefix for the business group
+ Objective 2.4: Manage User and Group Role Assignments
Knowledge
- Explain the roles available to vRealize Automation and vRealize Business
- Assign roles to individual users for a given design
- Assign roles to directory groups for a given design
- Create vRealize Automation custom groups and assign roles
+ Section 3: Install and Configure vRealize Automation and Related Components
+ Objective 3.1: Install a Minimal Deployment
Knowledge
- Identify IaaS minimal deployment prerequisites
- Validate environment readiness for a given design based on install type
- Deploy and configure vRealize Automation Appliance OVF
- Install using the installation wizard
- Install manually, remediating IaaS prerequisites and installing all IaaS components
- Install Management Agent(s) at the appropriate time
- Implement and manage CA signed certificates
+ Objective 3.2: Install an Enterprise Deployment
Knowledge
- Identify IaaS enterprise deployment prerequisites
- Validate environment readiness for given design based on install type and size
- Confirm DNS configuration for servers and load balancers based on deployment type and size
- Deploy and configure vRealize Automation Appliance OVF
- Install using the installation wizard
- Determine and select appropriate deployment based on size
- Determine and select the appropriate servers for component installation
- Prepare the environment for installation based on deployment size
- Install IaaS Web components and model manager data
- Install IaaS manager server and DEM Orchestrator components
- Install DEM Workers
- Install Management Agents
- Implement and manage CA signed certificates
+ Objective 3.3: Install and Configure vRealize Business Standard for use with vRealize Automation
Knowledge
- Create and configure a vRealize Business tenant
- Create a user based on defined credentials for vRealize Business in vRealize Automation
- Select the credentials for the vRealize Business user
- Configure vRealize Business to connect to vRealize Automation
+ Objective 3.4: Troubleshoot Common vRealize Automation Installation and Configuration Errors
Knowledge
- Perform a rollback installation on a minimal or enterprise deployment
- Revert to pre-installation snapshots if available
- Generate a vRealize Automation support bundle
- Validate DNS configuration settings
- Confirm time synchronization
- Confirm matching certificates
- Validate credentials used to configure endpoints
+ Section 4: Configure and Manage the vRealize Automation Catalog
+ Objective 4.1: Manage the vRealize Automation Catalog
Knowledge
- Create and configure the catalog service
- Activate the catalog service
- Add catalog items to the service
- Create and configure entitlements
- Specify users and groups for entitlements
- Add and manage entitlement services
- Add and manage catalog items
- Add and manage actions
- Activate entitlements
+ Objective 4.2: Create and Manage Approval Policies
Knowledge
- Create approval policies
- Specify approval policy information
- Determine when approvals should be executed
- Add pre-approval and post-approval levels
- Configure approval forms with defined approvers
- Manage approval policies
- Modify, deactivate, and delete approval policies
+ Objective 4.3: Provision Resources from a vRealize Automation Catalog
Knowledge
- Request a catalog resource
- Complete any applicable forms
- Monitor and validate a successful provisioning process
- Request catalog items on behalf of another user
+ Objective 4.4: Locate and Reclaim Resources Based on Provided Criteria
Knowledge
- Locate resources for reclamation based on provided criteria
- Initiate a system reclamation
- Eliminate known used systems
+ Objective 4.5: Manage Provisioned Resources
Knowledge
- Identify and locate owned items by assigned role
- Define resource quotas for managed resources based on design requirements
- Add resource portlets to the vRealize Automation home page
+ Section 5: Configure and Administer Fabric Groups and Endpoints
+ Objective 5.1: Create and Manage VMware Endpoints
Knowledge
- Integrate vRealize Automation with NSX
- Add a vRealize Orchestrator endpoint to vRealize Automation
- Configure the NSX plugin in vRealize Orchestrator
- Perform data collection in vRealize Automation
- Create and configure a vSphere Endpoint
- Configure NSX Network and Security for the vSphere endpoint
- Create and configure a vCloud Air Endpoint
+ Objective 5.2: Create and Manage Fabric Groups, Reservations and Network Profiles
Knowledge
- Create and configure a fabric group
- Select compute resources to include in the fabric group
- Configure compute resource Data Collection
- Create a vSphere reservation
- Assign a business group to the vSphere reservation
- Create a vCloud Air Reservation
- Assign a business group to the vSphere reservation
- Create and configure network profile types
- For static IP address assignment
- External network profiles
- NAT network profiles
- Routed network profile
- Create and configure machine prefixes
+ Section 6: Extend a vRealize Automation Implementation
+ Objective 6.1: Configure vRealize Orchestrator for use with vRealize Automation
Knowledge
- Configure vRealize Automation to use an external vRealize Orchestrator server
- Configure default vRealize Orchestrator settings in vRealize Automation
- Set tenant specific vRealize Orchestrator settings in vRealize Automation
+ Objective 6.2: Create and Manage Event Broker Subscriptions
Knowledge
- Determine appropriate subscription option based on design (blockable, replyable, schema)
- Configure subscription conditions based on the design (data, core event message values)
- Configure subscription workflow including input and output parameters based on the design
- Configure subscription details based on the design (priority, timeout, blocking)
+ Objective 6.3: Configure Virtual Machine Lifecycle Automation
Knowledge
- Configure automatic post-provisioning actions based on design criteria
- Configure automatic deactivation of a virtual machine based on condition criteria
- Configure automated event brokering for different status or event criteria based on design requirements
+ Objective 6.4: Install and Configure Plugins in vRealize Orchestrator
Knowledge
- Install and configure plug-in in vRealize Orchestrator
- Install and configure vRealize Automation plugin
- Install and configure VMware NSX plugin
- Run configuration workflows in vRealize Orchestrator client
- Run configuration workflows for vRealize Automation plugin
- Run configuration workflows for NSX plugin
- Run configuration workflows for vSphere plugin
- Determine if a plugin is enabled
+ Objective 6.5: Modify and Run Basic vRealize Orchestrator Workflows
Knowledge
- Execute vRealize Orchestrator workflows with defined parameters
- Troubleshoot vRealize Orchestrator workflow errors
- Modify vRealize Orchestrator workflows
+ Exam Contributors
David Evans
Jerry Ozbun
Jon Loux
Mandy Botsko-Wilson
Matt Vandenbeld
Kristina Hollowell
Gregg Parsons
Trey Lanier
Kumudu Herath
Selvakumar Jaganathan
Jerry Ozbun
Jon Loux
Mandy Botsko-Wilson
Matt Vandenbeld
Kristina Hollowell
Gregg Parsons
Trey Lanier
Kumudu Herath
Selvakumar Jaganathan
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