The HPE7-A04 examination is specifically tailored for network architects seeking to demonstrate their proficiency in designing and implementing data center network architectures utilizing Aruba technologies. PassQuestion offers the most current HPE7-A04 Aruba Certified Data Center Architect Exam Questions, which are meticulously crafted to provide candidates with precise and contemporary information. These examination questions are developed by industry professionals possessing extensive knowledge of the exam's content and structure. By utilizing these HPE7-A04 Aruba Certified Data Center Architect Exam Questions, candidates can acquaint themselves with the question formats likely to appear on the examination.

This exam validates your ability to interpret technical requirements to create and design secure, redundant, scalable, resilient, or high-performing data center network infrastructure consistent with appropriate validated solution guides per business needs. The exam will also test your ability to translate complex requirements and constraints into designing an optimal HPE Aruba Networking Data Center Network solution and articulate the business value to multiple stakeholders.

Ideal candidate

Typical candidates are senior technical professionals such as principal engineers, network consultants, presales consultants, solutions architects, networking SMEs, network security architects, or technical members of an architecture team. Candidates have vast technical knowledge of the products and solutions that may require a migration and/or deployment strategy from/into an existing architecture. They also have extensive experience building solutions and optimizing applications and workloads. 

Exam Information

Exam ID: HPE7-A04
Exam type: Proctored
Exam duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Exam length: 70 questions
Passing score: 65%
Delivery languages: English, Japanese, Latin American Spanish

Exam Objectives

Discover  Requirements           20%      

• 1.1 Identify stakeholders and sponsors
• 1.2 Understand the objectives
• 1.3 Identify initial environment
• 1.4 Collect information

Analyze the Requirements         27%      

• 2.1 Determine the possible high-level solutions
• 2.2 Map the requirements into technical solutions
• 2.3 Analyzing requirements and constraints
• 2.4 Document assumptions
• 2.5 Determine the options to meet the business needs 

Architect the Solution               32%    

• 3.1 Create the preliminary solution
• 3.2 Select the correct products 
• 3.3 Determine network segments and protocols for the design
• 3.4 Design security for the network    
• 3.5 Validate that the design meets the original requirements

Prepare and Present the Solution          21%     

• 4.1 Create the design documentation 
• 4.2 Present the solution
• 4.3 Review the solution and modify it as needed
• 4.4 Deliver the completed solution

View Online Aruba Certified Data Center Architect HPE7-A04 Free Questions

1. What is a use case for a two-tier L2 design for a dedicated data center?
A. Server room adjacent to campus core
B. Customers with medium-to-large data centers with application demanding requirements
C. Customers with small-to-medium data centers with less demanding requirements
D. Data Center that is located in a separate building to the campus network
Answer: C

2. What is the transit VLAN that runs between VSX members?
A. Must not be assigned IP addresses on any switch.
B. It is used as a keepAlive mechanism
C. It is a routed VLAN allowed in the ISL to ensure that the two switches within a VSX pair can learn routes from one another, in potential failover situations
D. Must be assigned identical IP address on both of the switches
Answer: C

3. What delivery documents are included in the post-installation handover?
A. Devices Datasheets
B. Devices Quick Specs
C. Cost of the project
D. Archived configurations
E. Inventory
Answer: D E

4. How many Aruba 100G QSPF28 LC ER4L 40KM SMF Transceivers are allowed on Aruba CX 8325?
A. Twelve Transceivers
B. Four Transceivers
C. None
D. Eight Transceivers
Answer: B

5. A customer currently has a three-tier architecture in which aggregation switches are the default gateways. Pairs of aggregation switches use VRRP. You are migrating to an L2 two-tier architecturein which the core switches are the default gateways. How should you migrate the default gateway functionality?
A. Use a DHCP server to assign servers new gateway IP addresses, which are configured on the new core switches
B. Configure VSX active gateway on the new core switches using the current default gateway IP address as the virtual IP and a new virtual MAC address
C. Add the core switches to the aggregation switches' VRRP groups and use VRRP to fail over to the new switches
D. Configure VSX active gateway on the new core switches using a new default gateway IP address as the virtual IP and the existing VRRP MAC for the virtual MAC address
Answer: C

6. What is the maximum distance supported by Active Optical Cables (AOC)?
A. 7 meters
B. 50 meters
C. 15 meters
D. 30 meters
Answer: B

7. What is the transit VLAN that runs between VSX members?
A. It is used as a keepAlive mechanism
B. It is a routed VLAN allowed in the ISL to ensure that the two switches within a VSX pair can learn routes from one another, in potential failover situations
C. Must not be assigned IP addresses on any switch.
D. Must be assigned identical IP address on both of the switches
Answer: B 

8. You created a formal proposal and quote for a customer's data center network refresh. What is some other support information that you should include? (Select two)
A. A list of VLANs that you plan to configure on the switches
B. No need to include any of these as the proposal is not the place to educate the customer on them
C. HPE Aruba networking recommends including a block diagram with proposals
D. A list of IP addresses that you plan to configure on the switches
Answer: A,C

9. Which of these protocols carries commands for reading from/writing to storage over a TCP/IP session?
A. RDMA
B. FCoE
C. NVMeoF-RDMA
D. iSCSI
Answer: D

10. What is true about the VSX switches in EVPN VXLAN?
A. Each member of the VSX acts as standalone from the EVPN VXLAN perspective
B. VSX stacking and EVPN VXLAN are mutually exclusive
C. You should make the two switches in the VSX pair operate as a single logical VTEP
Answer: C