Aruba Networking Certified Professional Data Center Practice Exam
Aruba Networking Certified Professional Data Center Practice Exam
About Aruba Networking Certified Professional Data Center Exam
The Aruba Networking Certified Professional – Data Center certification validates the knowledge and skills required to design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performing data center network infrastructure based on HPE Aruba Networking data center products.
Knowledge Gained
- Position yourself as a trusted IT professional with the knowledge and skills to design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performing data center network infrastructure based on HPE Aruba Networking data center products.
- Validate your skills and experience required to integrate data center networking switches with other products.
- Advance your career as a certified professional who has extensive experience designing and validating data center networks that meet customer requirements.
Who should take the exam?
The Aruba Networking Certified Professional Data Center Exam is suitable for candidates with a minimum of three years of experience implementing and supporting data center networks.
Skills Acquired
The Candidates are able to perform the following topics -
- Design and validate data center networks that meet customer requirements.
- Deploy HPE Aruba Data Center Networking switches into greenfield or brownfield network environments.
- Integrate data center networking switches with other products such as servers, storage, hypervisors, etc., from HPE or third-party vendors.
- Troubleshoot, monitor and maintain the data center network.
Exam Prerequisites
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this examination, but it is strongly recommended that candidates already hold the Aruba Certified Switching Associate (ACSA) certification and complete the Implementing Data Center Networks training.
Exam Details
- Exam Level: Professional
- Exam Code: HPE7-A05
- Exam Type: Proctored
- Exam Duration: 2 hours
- Exam Length: 75 questions
- Passing Score: 65%
- Delivery Languages: English, Latin American Spanish, Japanese
Exam Objectives
This certification validates that you can -
- Design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performing data center network infrastructure based on HPE Aruba Networking data center products.
- Validate your skills and experience required to integrate data center networking switches with other products.
- Advance your career as a certified professional with extensive experience designing and validating data center networks that meet customer requirements.
Course Outline
This exam validates that you have competence in each objective listed below:
Domain 1 - Understanding Plan the Low-Level Design (14%)
- Create a low-level design based on a high-level network design for deployment using HPE Aruba Networking data center switches.
- Validate the Bill of Materials (BoM) based on the low-level design.
- Ensure the physical environment and data center infrastructure meet the needs of the solution and recommend changes as needed.
Domain 2 - Understanding Install the Solution (13%)
- Stage the network equipment to enable testing prior to the final installation.
- Execute the physical installation of equipment.
- Validate the installation.
Domain 3 - Understanding Configure the Solution (23%)
- Implement the low-level design using various interface mechanisms.
- Verify that the configuration meets the design requirements.
- Configure monitoring tools.
Domain 4 - Understanding Troubleshoot (15%)
- Diagnose issues using embedded diagnostic tools.
- Determine the severity of issues and develop a plan of action to remediate the problem.
- Resolve issues using the appropriate tools.
Domain 5 - Understanding Create a Monitored Environment (12%)
- Use available monitoring and reporting tools to monitor performance, availability, and system resources.
- Establish baselines and define alert thresholds.
- Generate reports to determine switch and data center health.
Domain 6 - Understanding Maintain and Optimize (12%)
- Monitor HPE and third-party release cycles.
- Maintain licenses and subscriptions.
- Optimize traffic, security, and automation.
Domain 7 - Understanding Integration (11%)
- Implement specific switch features that integrate and interoperate with servers, storage, workloads, and applications.
