Deploy Ansible Automation Platform

An organization wants to deploy Ansible Automation Platform 2.x in a highly available configuration. Which component must be deployed in an active-active cluster to ensure controller failover?

A DevOps engineer is troubleshooting an Ansible Automation Platform deployment where ansible-navigator fails to run a playbook, showing the error 'Error: Unable to pull execution environment image'. The ansible-navigator configuration file is shown in the exhibit. Which change should the engineer make to resolve the issue?

Which TWO statements are true about deploying Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform using the automation mesh?

A systems administrator is deploying Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 using the provided setup script. The installation fails with the error shown in the exhibit. Based on the exhibit, what is the most likely cause of the failure?

A company is deploying Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 in a hybrid cloud environment. The automation controller is installed on a RHEL 8 server in the on-premises data center. Execution nodes are distributed: four in the same data center, two in a remote branch office connected via VPN, and three in AWS EC2 instances. The VPN connection to the branch office is low-bandwidth and high-latency. The AWS nodes use a direct connect with stable bandwidth. During initial testing, playbooks running on the branch office execution nodes frequently timeout or hang, while on-premises and AWS nodes work fine. The automation mesh topology is configured with all nodes as direct children of the controller. The team wants to minimize latency and ensure reliable execution for the branch office nodes. Which course of action should the administrator take?

Which TWO statements are true regarding the deployment of Ansible Automation Platform in a highly available configuration?

You are deploying Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in a restricted network environment where the automation controller, automation hub, and execution nodes cannot access the internet. You have successfully installed the automation controller and automation hub on separate RHEL 8 servers using a local repository. The automation hub is configured to sync collections from a local mirror. After deployment, you attempt to create a new job template that uses a collection from automation hub, but the job template creation fails with the error: 'Failed to find collection' for a collection that exists in automation hub. The execution nodes are subscribed to the same local repository. The automation controller is configured with the automation hub as the default collections server. What is the most likely cause?

Drag and drop the steps to configure an Ansible control node for managing remote hosts into the correct order.

Drag and drop the steps to configure a basic NFS server to export a directory in the correct order.

Match each Ansible module to its primary function.

Match each Ansible inventory parameter to its meaning.

An organization is deploying Automation Platform for the first time. The security team requires that all SSH private keys used for automation be stored securely with access controls. Which AAP feature should be used to meet this requirement?

A job template consistently fails with 'Authentication failed' for a managed host. The admin has verified that the username/password in the credential is correct and that the host is reachable. What is the most likely remaining cause?

An admin is configuring a project in Automation Platform to pull playbooks from a Git repository. Which source control type should be selected?

An organization is designing a high-availability Automation Platform deployment. Which TWO practices are essential for achieving high availability?

Which THREE of the following are core components of Automation Platform that are installed by default in a standard setup?

A job template has failed. Which TWO logs should be examined first to diagnose the issue?

An admin checks the job details and sees this error from the API. What is the most likely cause?

An admin attempts to run this playbook as a job template in AAP. The job fails with 'ERROR! 'now' is not a valid attribute for a task'. What is the issue?

An admin imports this inventory into AAP and assigns a machine credential that uses SSH key authentication. The job fails with 'Authentication failed'. What is the most likely cause?

An admin needs to restrict which users can launch specific job templates. Which AAP feature should be used?

An admin is creating a workflow that must run a survey at the beginning to collect user input. Which node type should be used for the first step?

A job template runs successfully on some hosts but fails on others with 'Permission denied' for the same task. The admin has verified that the credential is correct. What is the most likely cause?

An admin wants to use custom Python modules in a job template without affecting the global controller environment. What should be used?

An admin configures an automation mesh environment. What is the primary purpose of mesh nodes in AAP?

After upgrading AAP, an admin notices that all job templates using a custom virtual environment fail with 'No module named 'foo''. The virtual environment was previously working. What should the admin do first?

A systems administrator is installing Ansible Automation Platform on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 server. They download the installer tarball and run `./setup.sh`. The installation fails with an error indicating that the database password is incorrect. What is the most likely cause?

An organization uses Ansible Automation Controller. They have an inventory source that syncs from a Git repository containing `inventory/hosts.yml`. The job template uses this inventory. Recently, the inventory stopped updating. The admin checks the job logs and sees: `ERROR! Could not update inventory source: invalid inventory source definition`. What is the most likely issue?

A large enterprise has deployed Ansible Automation Platform with multiple organizations. A team lead needs to allow a junior administrator to create and manage job templates within their own organization, but not modify organizations, users, or system settings. Which RBAC roles should be assigned?

An administrator wants to use automation mesh to distribute workloads across multiple execution nodes. After configuring mesh topology, some jobs fail with: `Error: No healthy mesh node found for execution`. What is the most likely cause?

A team uses execution environments (EE) for job templates. The admin builds a custom EE using `ansible-builder` with a `execution-environment.yml` file that includes a `base_image: registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-21/ee-minimal-rhel8:latest` and a custom Python requirement. However, the controller reports that the EE is not found when launching a job. What is the most likely issue?

An administrator is designing a workflow that includes an approval node. The workflow should pause at the approval node until a user with the appropriate role approves or denies. The workflow is triggered by a webhook. After setting up, the webhook successfully starts the workflow, but the approval node is never created. What is the most likely cause?

A user wants to authenticate against Ansible Automation Controller using LDAP. They configure the LDAP settings in the controller UI. After saving, they test the connection and it succeeds. However, when an LDAP user tries to log in, they get an authentication failure. What is the most likely issue?

Which TWO are valid methods to back up an Ansible Automation Controller installation? (Choose two.)

Which TWO should be configured to enable centralized logging from multiple Automation Controller nodes to an external Elasticsearch cluster? (Choose two.)

Which THREE are valid user roles within an Automation Controller organization? (Choose three.)

A junior administrator is deploying Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) 2.3 on a fresh RHEL 9 server. They have downloaded the installer and edited the inventory file. The installation fails early in the process with: `TASK [private_automation_hub : Check that server_url has been configured]` and the error message: `FAILED - Could not connect to the Automation Hub server`. The inventory file has the following relevant lines: `automationhub_server_url=https://hub.example.com:443` and `automationhub_validate_certs=false`. The server `hub.example.com` is reachable from the installation node and responds with a 404 on the root path. The admin verified that the SSL certificate is self-signed. What should the admin do to resolve the issue?

A team has been using Ansible Automation Controller for six months. They have a job template that runs a playbook against a static inventory. Recently, the job template started hanging indefinitely after launching. The admin checks the job output and sees: `PLAY [all] ************************` with no further output. The playbook uses `delegate_to: localhost` for some tasks. The admin executed the same playbook manually with `ansible-playbook` on the control node and it completes successfully. The controller logs show no errors. What is the most likely cause of the hang in the controller?

An enterprise is running Ansible Automation Platform with automation mesh across three data centers. Each data center has a control node and multiple execution nodes. The mesh topology is set up with `node_type: control` for control nodes and `node_type: execution` for execution nodes. The nodes in DC2 can reach nodes in DC1 and DC3, but DC1 and DC3 cannot directly reach each other. The admin notices that jobs that require execution on DC3 are being scheduled on DC1 or DC2, causing slow performance. The admin checks the mesh node list and sees all nodes are healthy. What should the admin do to ensure jobs are executed geographically closest to the target nodes?

Which TWO statements are true about deploying Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 system?

A junior admin runs the command shown in the exhibit. What is the most likely cause of the error?

A company is deploying Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) in a three-node cluster: one automation controller node, one private automation hub node, and one database node (PostgreSQL). The deployment uses an execution environment that pulls from the private automation hub. After a successful installation, all nodes are reachable and services are running. However, when launching a job template that uses the execution environment, the job fails with the error: 'Unable to pull execution environment image from automation-hub.example.com:5000/ee/my-ee:latest - request to registry failed with status 403 Forbidden'. The administrator confirms that the execution environment image exists in the private automation hub and that the automation controller node can reach the registry via curl. What is the most likely cause and solution?