HP Aruba Certified Data Center Architect - HPE7-A04 Exam Questions [2026]

QUESTION NO: 1
What can be used to encrypt data in flight between untrusted locations?

A. MACSec B. OSPF authentication C. GRE tunnels D. MD5 encryption

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 2
What is a use case for a two-tier L2 design for a dedicated data center?

A. Customers with medium-to-large data centers with application demanding requirements B. Customers with small-to-medium data centers with less demanding requirements C. Data Center that is located in a separate building to the campus network D. Server room adjacent to campus core

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 3
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. Add the core switches to the aggregation switches' VRRP groups and use VRRP to fail over to the new 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. 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 D. Use a DHCP server to assign servers new gateway IP addresses, which are configured on the new core switches

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 4
You want to configure your border leaf switches to leak routes between an overlay VRF named "dc1" and a VRF named "campus," which connects to the campus core. You also want to leak routes between an overlay VRF named "dc2" and the campus VRF. "dc1" should not be able to communicate with "dc2." Which is a valid design for the VRFs' IPv4 route-targets?

A. vrf dc1, import = 1:1, export = 1:1; vrf dc2, import = 1:2, export = 1:2; vrf campus, import = 1:1, 1:2, 1:
99, export = 1:99 B. vrf dc1, import = 1:1, export = 1:99; vrf dc2, import = 1:2, export = 1:99; vrf campus, import = 1:99, export = 1:1, 1:2 C. vrf dc1, import = 1:1, export = 1:1; vrf dc2, import = 1:1, export = 1:1; vrf campus, import = 1:1, export
= 1:99 D. vrf dc1, import = 1:99, export = 1:1; vrf dc2, import = 1:99, export = 1:2; vrf campus, import = 1:1, 1:2 export = 1:99

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 5
You are designing overlay solutions for two Data Centers. Each Data Center has two rooms and each room is its own fabric. What is the underlay routing protocol between each data center room?

A. OSPF B. RIP C. iBGP D. eBGP

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 6
You are designing an overlay solution for two Data Centers based on the Aruba CX platform. Each Data Center has two rooms and each room is its own fabric. What is used for EVPN advertisements between data center rooms?

A. iBGP B. Not supported design C. eBGP D. Static Routing

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 7
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. No need to include any of these as the proposal is not the place to educate the customer on them B. A list of IP addresses that you plan to configure on the switches C. A list of VLANs that you plan to configure on the switches D. HPE Aruba networking recommends including a block diagram with proposals

Correct Answer: C,D

QUESTION NO: 8
Name some Post-installation handover tasks

A. List of Engineers involved in the project B. Schedule training C. Number of employees that will benefit from the solution D. Ensure new spares have replaced old spares

Correct Answer: B,D

QUESTION NO: 9
You are designing overlay solutions for two Data Centers. Each Data Center has two rooms and each room is its own fabric. What is the underlay routing protocol between each data center room?

A. OSPF B. RIP C. iBGP D. eBGP

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 10
Which management solution for HPE Aruba Networking CX switches integrates tightly with VMware?

A. HPE Aruba Networking NetEdit B. HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager C. HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer (AFC) D. HPE Aruba Networking Central

Correct Answer: C