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3V03122 CMA Design (3V0-31.22)
The course teaches VMware Certified Advanced Professional – CMA Design, covering CMA architecture, cloud templates, catalog governance, extensibility, and operations design, enabling professionals to design and implement robust, scalable cloud management solutions.
Who Should Take This
It is intended for senior cloud architects, infrastructure engineers, or solution designers with at least three years of VMware experience who are responsible for building and governing multi‑tenant cloud environments. These learners aim to deepen strategic design skills, master governance frameworks, and lead advanced CMA implementations across enterprise portfolios.
What's Covered
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Domain 1: CMA Architecture
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Domain 2: Cloud Template Design
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Domain 3: Catalog and Governance
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Domain 4: Extensibility Design
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Domain 5: Operations Design
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Domain 6: Security Design
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Domain 7: Migration Design
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Course Outline
70 learning goals
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Domain 1: CMA Architecture
2 topics
Platform Design
- Apply Aria Automation platform architecture design including clustering, load balancing, and DR configuration and operational procedures for enterprise VMware environments.
- Apply Aria Automation platform architecture design including clustering, load balancing, and DR best practices including deployment standards and integration with related components.
- Analyze Aria Automation platform architecture design including clustering, load balancing, and DR configuration and data to identify issues, performance bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
- Analyze Aria Automation platform architecture design including clustering, load balancing, and DR tradeoffs between different implementation approaches evaluating complexity, cost, and operational impact.
- Design a Aria Automation platform architecture design including clustering, load balancing, and DR strategy that satisfies enterprise requirements for scalability, performance, security, and governance.
Integration Design
- Apply Aria Suite integration design connecting Automation, Operations, Logs, and Orchestrator techniques for complex scenarios requiring multi-component coordination and integration.
- Apply Aria Suite integration design connecting Automation, Operations, Logs, and Orchestrator integration with monitoring, automation, and third-party systems for unified management.
- Analyze Aria Suite integration design connecting Automation, Operations, Logs, and Orchestrator failures and degradation using diagnostic tools, logs, and metrics to determine root causes.
- Analyze the operational impact of Aria Suite integration design connecting Automation, Operations, Logs, and Orchestrator changes on dependent services and infrastructure stability.
- Design comprehensive Aria Suite integration design connecting Automation, Operations, Logs, and Orchestrator procedures including automation, monitoring, escalation, and documentation.
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Domain 2: Cloud Template Design
2 topics
Template Strategy
- Apply cloud template architecture design with modularity, versioning, and content governance configuration and operational procedures for enterprise VMware environments.
- Apply cloud template architecture design with modularity, versioning, and content governance best practices including deployment standards and integration with related components.
- Analyze cloud template architecture design with modularity, versioning, and content governance configuration and data to identify issues, performance bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
- Analyze cloud template architecture design with modularity, versioning, and content governance tradeoffs between different implementation approaches evaluating complexity, cost, and operational impact.
- Design a cloud template architecture design with modularity, versioning, and content governance strategy that satisfies enterprise requirements for scalability, performance, security, and governance.
Multi-Cloud Abstraction
- Apply multi-cloud abstraction design using zones, profiles, and mappings for portable templates techniques for complex scenarios requiring multi-component coordination and integration.
- Apply multi-cloud abstraction design using zones, profiles, and mappings for portable templates integration with monitoring, automation, and third-party systems for unified management.
- Analyze multi-cloud abstraction design using zones, profiles, and mappings for portable templates failures and degradation using diagnostic tools, logs, and metrics to determine root causes.
- Analyze the operational impact of multi-cloud abstraction design using zones, profiles, and mappings for portable templates changes on dependent services and infrastructure stability.
- Design comprehensive multi-cloud abstraction design using zones, profiles, and mappings for portable templates procedures including automation, monitoring, escalation, and documentation.
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Domain 3: Catalog and Governance
2 topics
Catalog Design
- Apply Service Broker catalog architecture design with content sources, custom forms, and entitlements configuration and operational procedures for enterprise VMware environments.
- Apply Service Broker catalog architecture design with content sources, custom forms, and entitlements best practices including deployment standards and integration with related components.
- Analyze Service Broker catalog architecture design with content sources, custom forms, and entitlements configuration and data to identify issues, performance bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
- Analyze Service Broker catalog architecture design with content sources, custom forms, and entitlements tradeoffs between different implementation approaches evaluating complexity, cost, and operational impact.
- Design a Service Broker catalog architecture design with content sources, custom forms, and entitlements strategy that satisfies enterprise requirements for scalability, performance, security, and governance.
Policy Framework
- Apply governance policy design including approvals, leases, quotas, and compliance enforcement techniques for complex scenarios requiring multi-component coordination and integration.
- Apply governance policy design including approvals, leases, quotas, and compliance enforcement integration with monitoring, automation, and third-party systems for unified management.
- Analyze governance policy design including approvals, leases, quotas, and compliance enforcement failures and degradation using diagnostic tools, logs, and metrics to determine root causes.
- Analyze the operational impact of governance policy design including approvals, leases, quotas, and compliance enforcement changes on dependent services and infrastructure stability.
- Design comprehensive governance policy design including approvals, leases, quotas, and compliance enforcement procedures including automation, monitoring, escalation, and documentation.
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Domain 4: Extensibility Design
2 topics
Automation Architecture
- Apply extensibility architecture design using ABX, Orchestrator, and event subscriptions configuration and operational procedures for enterprise VMware environments.
- Apply extensibility architecture design using ABX, Orchestrator, and event subscriptions best practices including deployment standards and integration with related components.
- Analyze extensibility architecture design using ABX, Orchestrator, and event subscriptions configuration and data to identify issues, performance bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
- Analyze extensibility architecture design using ABX, Orchestrator, and event subscriptions tradeoffs between different implementation approaches evaluating complexity, cost, and operational impact.
- Design a extensibility architecture design using ABX, Orchestrator, and event subscriptions strategy that satisfies enterprise requirements for scalability, performance, security, and governance.
Integration Patterns
- Apply third-party integration design with Terraform, Ansible, Git, and CI/CD platforms techniques for complex scenarios requiring multi-component coordination and integration.
- Apply third-party integration design with Terraform, Ansible, Git, and CI/CD platforms integration with monitoring, automation, and third-party systems for unified management.
- Analyze third-party integration design with Terraform, Ansible, Git, and CI/CD platforms failures and degradation using diagnostic tools, logs, and metrics to determine root causes.
- Analyze the operational impact of third-party integration design with Terraform, Ansible, Git, and CI/CD platforms changes on dependent services and infrastructure stability.
- Design comprehensive third-party integration design with Terraform, Ansible, Git, and CI/CD platforms procedures including automation, monitoring, escalation, and documentation.
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Domain 5: Operations Design
2 topics
Day-2 Strategy
- Apply day-2 operations design including lifecycle actions, resource management, and self-healing configuration and operational procedures for enterprise VMware environments.
- Apply day-2 operations design including lifecycle actions, resource management, and self-healing best practices including deployment standards and integration with related components.
- Analyze day-2 operations design including lifecycle actions, resource management, and self-healing configuration and data to identify issues, performance bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
- Analyze day-2 operations design including lifecycle actions, resource management, and self-healing tradeoffs between different implementation approaches evaluating complexity, cost, and operational impact.
- Design a day-2 operations design including lifecycle actions, resource management, and self-healing strategy that satisfies enterprise requirements for scalability, performance, security, and governance.
Cost Management
- Apply cloud cost management design with showback, chargeback, and optimization automation techniques for complex scenarios requiring multi-component coordination and integration.
- Apply cloud cost management design with showback, chargeback, and optimization automation integration with monitoring, automation, and third-party systems for unified management.
- Analyze cloud cost management design with showback, chargeback, and optimization automation failures and degradation using diagnostic tools, logs, and metrics to determine root causes.
- Analyze the operational impact of cloud cost management design with showback, chargeback, and optimization automation changes on dependent services and infrastructure stability.
- Design comprehensive cloud cost management design with showback, chargeback, and optimization automation procedures including automation, monitoring, escalation, and documentation.
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Domain 6: Security Design
2 topics
Access Control
- Apply multi-tenant access control design with projects, roles, and permission boundaries configuration and operational procedures for enterprise VMware environments.
- Apply multi-tenant access control design with projects, roles, and permission boundaries best practices including deployment standards and integration with related components.
- Analyze multi-tenant access control design with projects, roles, and permission boundaries configuration and data to identify issues, performance bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
- Analyze multi-tenant access control design with projects, roles, and permission boundaries tradeoffs between different implementation approaches evaluating complexity, cost, and operational impact.
- Design a multi-tenant access control design with projects, roles, and permission boundaries strategy that satisfies enterprise requirements for scalability, performance, security, and governance.
Compliance
- Apply compliance monitoring design integrating Aria Operations benchmarks and audit reporting techniques for complex scenarios requiring multi-component coordination and integration.
- Apply compliance monitoring design integrating Aria Operations benchmarks and audit reporting integration with monitoring, automation, and third-party systems for unified management.
- Analyze compliance monitoring design integrating Aria Operations benchmarks and audit reporting failures and degradation using diagnostic tools, logs, and metrics to determine root causes.
- Analyze the operational impact of compliance monitoring design integrating Aria Operations benchmarks and audit reporting changes on dependent services and infrastructure stability.
- Design comprehensive compliance monitoring design integrating Aria Operations benchmarks and audit reporting procedures including automation, monitoring, escalation, and documentation.
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Domain 7: Migration Design
2 topics
Onboarding Strategy
- Apply brownfield workload onboarding design for bringing existing resources under Aria management configuration and operational procedures for enterprise VMware environments.
- Apply brownfield workload onboarding design for bringing existing resources under Aria management best practices including deployment standards and integration with related components.
- Analyze brownfield workload onboarding design for bringing existing resources under Aria management configuration and data to identify issues, performance bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
- Analyze brownfield workload onboarding design for bringing existing resources under Aria management tradeoffs between different implementation approaches evaluating complexity, cost, and operational impact.
- Design a brownfield workload onboarding design for bringing existing resources under Aria management strategy that satisfies enterprise requirements for scalability, performance, security, and governance.
Upgrade Planning
- Apply Aria Automation upgrade design using Lifecycle Manager with staged rollout and validation techniques for complex scenarios requiring multi-component coordination and integration.
- Apply Aria Automation upgrade design using Lifecycle Manager with staged rollout and validation integration with monitoring, automation, and third-party systems for unified management.
- Analyze Aria Automation upgrade design using Lifecycle Manager with staged rollout and validation failures and degradation using diagnostic tools, logs, and metrics to determine root causes.
- Analyze the operational impact of Aria Automation upgrade design using Lifecycle Manager with staged rollout and validation changes on dependent services and infrastructure stability.
- Design comprehensive Aria Automation upgrade design using Lifecycle Manager with staged rollout and validation procedures including automation, monitoring, escalation, and documentation.
Scope
Included Topics
- Cloud Management and Automation advanced design including Aria Automation architecture, multi-cloud strategy, template design, governance framework, extensibility, and operations design.
- Enterprise-level VMware technology knowledge for CMA Design.
Not Covered
- Implementation details beyond stated certification scope.
- Vendor-specific third-party configurations.
- Current pricing and partner program details.
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