Free Practice Questions for the CA Technologies Administrator CAT-280 Exam (2026 Updated)

A logical representation of a commodity server.

A non-instantiable object that represents your application.

A virtual business service that includes everything required to run an end-to-end service.

A purpose built highly optimized VM to be used for assembling complete business services.

They are secondary entities and must be combined with other components to run as end-to-end services.

They are multi-system objects that require multiple components to run them as a distributed application.

They are hardware dependent and normally contain references to hardware such as servers, IP addresses, and host names.

They are complete N-tier virtual business services, which include everything, from firewalls to data sources, needed to provision the service to a customer.

ctld, the controller daemon, controls the start process.

The application is added to the grid by the grid controller.

The start procedure follows the pattern you specify in the Q-obj file.

Application scheduling determines which components in an application will be started on which servers.

Disconnect all cables from one switch for one minute.

Pull all the network cables from one bank of interfaces on the switch.

Pull the power on one switch and leave it offline for at least five minutes.

Access the switch administrative interface and administratively shut the port to disable it.

App creator

App developer

Grid backup operator

Backbone Fabric Controller (BFC) architect

vol clean

vol scoop

vol migrate

vol reinstate

Add the Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of any server or device that is added to the backbone network through DHCP and that should not be discovered by the BFC.

Enable the BFC to power control grid servers by Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).

Add the backbone MAC addresses of all grid servers that should be part of this BFC.

Enable the MAC addresses of all grid servers to be discovered using IPMI.

One public NIC, one private NIC, and one power interface NIC

Two public NICs, two private NICs, one storage NIC, and one power network interface NIC

One public Network Interface Card (NIC), one power interface, one storage NIC, and one power interface NIC

One public NIC, two private NICs, one Storage Area Network (SAN) Host Bus Adapter (HBA), and one power network interface NIC

Reboot the server.

Restart the grid controller.

Re-install the grid controller.

Remove and remount the server.

Automatically recover from VN failures with zero downtime.

Manage all applications, servers, and storage with an iPad application.

Handle server or network hardware failures automatically without data loss.

Manage external systems, such as Storage Area Networks (SANs), networks, and grids to redirect failed applications elsewhere.

Handles the infrastructure for each CA AppLogic application

Provides a central point for managing and monitoring the grid

Provides an easy way to package multiple appliance classes into a library

Abstracts and virtualizes the grid hardware, and provides core system services

Migrating users from CA AppLogic versions before r3.0.

Implementing a WebX4 Linux cluster as an assembly of appliances.

Integrating CA AppLogic with CA Access Control to protect your web applications.

Invoking commands through the RESTful application programming interface (API).