diff --git a/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/base.py b/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/base.py
index c5d6e7952efb..14164fb70a5a 100644
--- a/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/base.py
+++ b/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/base.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class TestCase(testtools.TestCase):
         self.useFixture(capture.Logging())
         self.useFixture(output.CaptureOutput())
         # Filter ignorable warnings during test runs.
-        self.useFixture(fixtures.WarningsFixture())
+        self.useFixture(capture.WarningsFixture())
 
         self.placement_db = self.useFixture(
             fixtures.Database(database='placement'))
diff --git a/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/fixtures/capture.py b/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/fixtures/capture.py
index 26913a458974..637c9621220b 100644
--- a/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/fixtures/capture.py
+++ b/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/fixtures/capture.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #    under the License.
 
 import logging
+import warnings
 
 import fixtures
 from oslotest import log
@@ -57,3 +58,24 @@ class Logging(log.ConfigureLogging):
             handler = NullHandler()
             self.useFixture(fixtures.LogHandler(handler, nuke_handlers=False))
             handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+
+
+class WarningsFixture(fixtures.Fixture):
+    """Filter or escalates certain warnings during test runs.
+
+    Add additional entries as required. Remove when obsolete.
+    """
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(WarningsFixture, self).setUp()
+
+        # Ignore policy scope warnings.
+        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore',
+                                message="Policy .* failed scope check",
+                                category=UserWarning)
+        # The UUIDFields emits a warning if the value is not a  valid UUID.
+        # Let's escalate that to an exception in the test to prevent adding
+        # violations.
+        warnings.filterwarnings('error', message=".*invalid UUID.*")
+
+        self.addCleanup(warnings.resetwarnings)
diff --git a/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/fixtures/gabbits.py b/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/fixtures/gabbits.py
index 3e11e3aba9e3..c63450437d33 100644
--- a/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/fixtures/gabbits.py
+++ b/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/fixtures/gabbits.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class APIFixture(fixture.GabbiFixture):
         self.output_stream_fixture = output.CaptureOutput()
         self.output_stream_fixture.setUp()
         # Filter ignorable warnings during test runs.
-        self.warnings_fixture = fixtures.WarningsFixture()
+        self.warnings_fixture = capture.WarningsFixture()
         self.warnings_fixture.setUp()
 
         self.conf_fixture = config_fixture.Config(CONF)