Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) v6.5 Exam Flashcards
An administrator should use which Nutanix component to create in-guest clustering?
A. Storage Pools
B. Volumes
C. Blocks
D. Containers
Volumes
Which feature enables Image Placement Policies to be mapped to target clusters?
A. YAML
B. Labels
C. JSON
D. Categories
Categories
An administrator wants to view VMs with NGT Installed and Filter by their installed guest operating systems. How can this task most quickly be accomplished within prism central?
A. Use a pre-defined Prism Central report
B. Create a customer Focus using the OS Column
C. In the VM dashboard, filter by Nutanix Guest Tools - OS field
D. Use the Prism Central analysis Panel to create a pie chart by OSType
In the VM dashboard, filter by Nutanix Guest Tools - OS field
Which account is recommended for performing task and operations on the CVM via SSH?
A. administrator
B. admin
C. nutanix
D. root
admin
User are complaining that web application hosted on a Nutanix cluster are running slow. After reviewing the performance metric, it is determined that the CPU Ready time is high in the cluster.
What entity is impacted by CPU ready time?
A. Oplog
B. NIC
C. vDisk
D. VM
Oplog
An administrator is unable to discover a Nutanix-hosted iSCSI block device allocated to a baremetal host.
What is causing this issue?
A. Jumbo frames have not been configured on the switch
B. External client access has not been enabled for the host
C. Network segmentation has not been enabled
D. External host IP address is not in the Filesystem Whitelist
External host IP address is not in the Filesystem Whitelist
Upon logging into Prism Element an administrator sees a red heart, as shown in the exhibit.
Which dashboard in Prism will best help the administrator to isolate the cause of the red heart?
A. Health
B. Tasks
C. Analysis
D. Hardware
Health
An administrator wants to have a single chart with the logical usage for three storage containers.
Which action should the administrator perform?
A. Create a new Metric Chart
B. See Storage usage under Prism Element Health page
C. Create a new Entity Chart
D. See Usage Summary in the Storage Containers detailed view
Create a new Entity Chart
Which option is available for an administrator to upload a remote disk file to Image Configuration?
A. HTTP
B. FTP
C. SCP
D. SFTP
HTTP
An organization runs several core business applications on a Nutanix cluster. System stability and support are critical for these applications, which has an annual maintenance window.
How can the administrator assure that these requirements are met?
A. Purchase Mission Critical support
B. Purchase Ultimate licensing
C. Adhere to the STS release cycle
D. Adhere to the LTS release cycle
Adhere to the LTS release cycle
An administrator needs to migrate a running VM’s vDisks to another container without downtime.
Which tool should the administrator use to satisfy this task?
A. aCLI
B. Prism Element
C. nCLI
D. Prism Central
aCLI
An administrator manages a memory-sensitive application that consists of multiple VMs. The administrator needs to understand if workloads, historically, have been evenly distributed across these VMs.
What should the administrator do?
A. Create an Alert Policy with VM as entity type and memory usage as a metric
B. Run cluster efficiency summary report selecting all the VMs that constitute the applications
C. Add Memory usage chart to Analysis dashboard for each required VM
D. Filter VMs list by using Memory Usage
Filter VMs list by using Memory Usage
An administrator wants to create an application-consistent snapshot. Which NGT feature needs to be enabled to satisfy this task?
A. VSS
B. iSCSI
C. UEFI
D. SSR
VSS
What is the purpose of Discoveries within the Nutanix Support Portal?
A. To identify clusters that are affected by known issues
B. To provide an audit trail of cluster logins
C. To identify VMs that require OS updates or patching
D. To provide forecasting of cluster resource utilization
To identify clusters that are affected by known issues
Which area of the Prism Element homepage displays a cluster’s current fitness?
A. Alert and Messages
B. Settings and Configuration
C. Health and Data Resiliency
D. Performance and Usage Statistics
Health and Data Resiliency
Which Nutanix data efficiency mechanism replaces a traditional Replication Factor for suitable data?
A. Compression
B. Deduplication
C. Erasure Coding
D. Intelligent Cloning
Erasure Coding
Which type of network supports automatically assigning IP addresses to VMs?
A. Floating IP Network
B. Management traffic network
C. Virtual Network with IPAM
D. Virtual Private Cloud Networks
Virtual Network with IPAM
What happens to images that are imported into Prism Central?
A. Copied to the Prism Central image repository
B. Remain in the source cluster after import
C. Copied to all clusters managed by Prism Central
D. Deleted from the source cluster after import
Copied to the Prism Central image repository
How is the destination cluster determined when uploading images from the local workstation to Prism Central?
A. Selected randomly
B. Selected manually
C. Selected alphabetically
D. Selected sequentially
Selected alphabetically
An administrator needs to send weekly performance reviews to several line of business managers about VMs they are managing. Which tool should the administrator use to satisfy this task?
A. Prism Elements Links to Chart analysis
B. Prism Elements New Alert policy
C. Prism Central Projects with data export
D. Prism Central Reports with a schedule
Prism Central Reports with a schedule
Which task is required to initiate a live migration of VMs between two cluster?
A. Replicate VM recovery point
B. Promote Metro Availability Protection Domain
C. Press Migrate button on the Protection Domain
D. Perform a Leap Planned Failover
Press Migrate button on the Protection Domain
In Prism Element, which power action will allow the hypervisor to perform a hard restart on a VM?
A. Power On
B. Guest Shutdown
C. Guest Reboot
D. Power Cycle
Power Cycle
Which two advanced features requires you to install Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT)? (Choose two.)
A. Disaster Recovery of a VM between AHV and ESXi Hypervisors
B. Live Migration of a VM between AHV & other Hypervisors
C. File recovery from a third-party backup
D. Self-service file-level recovery from VM snapshots
- Disaster Recovery of a VM between AHV and ESXi Hypervisors
- Self-service file-level recovery from VM snapshots
How would an administrator upgrade the LCM framework to the latest version?
A. Run LCM pre-checks
B. Settings/Upgrade Software
C. Run LCM inventory
D. Run an NCC health check
Settings/Upgrade Software
An administrator needs to deploy a two-node cluster on a new ROBO Site. What is required to maintain High Availability in the case of a node failure?
A. Witness VM
B. Metro-Availability
C. Windows Failover Clustering
D. Async Replication
Witness VM
An application owner had reported that an AHV-based critical application VM is performing very slowly.
After initial diagnostics, it has been observed that the CPU utilization is significantly higher than normal. What two actions should the administrator take on this VM without shutting it down? (Choose two).
A. Increase number of vCPU in Prism Element
B. Configure additional cores in aCLI
C. Ensure CPU hot-add is supported by the Guest
D. Use Prism Element to increase the number of cores
- Increase number of vCPU in Prism Element
- Ensure CPU hot-add is supported by the Guest
When creating a virtual switch on an AHV cluster, what is the recommended configuration method?
A. Manual
B. Automatic
C. Standard
D. Quick
Standard
What should an administrator do after a Protection Domain is migrated?
A. Register Virtual Machines
B. Restore Virtual Machines
C. Mount datastores on Hosts
D. Power on Virtual Machines
Mount datastores on Hosts
Which Nutanix storage service can store Petabytes of unstructured data and supports S3 APIs?
A. DSF
B. Files
C. Volumes
D. Objects
Objects
Which Nutanix product provide S3 compatible storage?
A. Volumes
B. Files
C. Objects
D. Mine
Objects
A new project is being rolled out to an AHV Cluster being monitored by prism Central, the application team indicated that the application managed by the project is very memory intensive. The administrator wants to be notified about any memory constraints should they occurs.
How would an administrator most effectively achieve this task?
A. Create a new metric chart for the cluster and analyze hypervisor Memory Usage
B. Search for the VM, then in the details page, go to metrics an select CPU usage
C. Create a Report to tracking the memory Usage
D. Create a new alert policy for the memory Usage and set to critical after 80%
Create a new alert policy for the memory Usage and set to critical after 80%
On which entity is Replication Factor configured?
A. Host
B. Oplog
C. Volume
D. Container
Container
Management has tasked an administrator to restore the VM, “VMforQuestion” to a previous point in time (3:20pm), to recover from a corrupted set of files.
Which snapshot should the administrator choose, and which action(s) should be executed?
A. Snapshot 2, Details, review restore points, then Clone
B. Snapshot 2, Restore
C. Snapshot 1, Restore
D. Snapshot 1, Details, review restore points, then Clone
Snapshot 1, Details, review restore points, then Clone
An Administrator wants a VM to communicate with two separate VLANs.
What steps should the administrator complete?
A. Add a single NIC to the VM and configure it for both VLANs
B. Add two NICs to the VM and configure one for each VLAN
C. Turn on IPAM for autoconfiguration of VLANs
D. Configure a security Policy to assign VLANs to the VM
Add two NICs to the VM and configure one for each VLAN
Assuming sufficient storage capacity, how long are entities kept in the Prism recycle bin?
A. 8 hours
B. 24 hours
C. 1 week
D. 1 month
24 hours
Where can an administrator find information about the Cluster Runway?
A. Prism Element Home Page
B. Prism Element Analysis
C. Prism Central Main Dashboard
D. Prism Central Analysis
Prism Central Main Dashboard
An administrator needs to upgrade AOS for an air gapped cluster by using Prism Element.
Which two actions allow the administrator to perform the upgrade? (Choose two).
A. Extract the AOS binaries to the CVM
B. Manually upload binaries to a local http server
C. Manually upload AOS binaries and metadata
D. Use the LCM dark site option providing AOS binaries
- Manually upload AOS binaries and metadata
- Use the LCM dark site option providing AOS binaries
An administrator has configured Prism Central to email daily digests of alerts on a cluster. After a week, the administrator notices that digests are not being received.
What is the most likely cause of the issue?
A. The recipient address is no” registered with Nutanix
B. Nutanix support is not enabled as a recipient
C. The tunnel connection has not been enabled
D. The SMTP server is not configured properly
The SMTP server is not configured properly
What is the minimum number of nodes needed to configure a Replication Factor of 2 (RF2)?
A. 3
B. 1
C. 4
D. 2
1
Where does an administrator go to take a consolidated backup of the Key manager Servers?
A. Prism Central
B. Foundation Central
C. Prism Element
D. Security Central
Prism Central
Which Prism Central feature can map images to target clusters using categories?
A. Image Replication Policies
B. Image Placement Policies
C. Protection Domain Policies
D. Storage Policies
Image Placement Policies
A company’s security team has requested that all IT resources be hardened.
What should an administrator do to increase the security of the Nutanix environment?
A. Enable Cluster Lockdown
B. Enable Prism Central KMS
C. Enable Flow
D. Enable STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide)
Enable STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide)
Which feature in Pulse helps secure a customer’s private information?
A. Security Central
B. Cluster Lockdown
C. Data-at-rest Encryption
D. Data Obfuscation
Data Obfuscation
Which LCM feature simplifies upgrades on clusters without Internet access?
A. One-click upgrade
B. NCC
C. Direct upload
D. FTP
Direct upload
An administrator is upgrading a current three-node Nutanix cluster with new HCI nodes. Currently, the environment is based on a Single two-unit chassis hosted in one cabinet.
By simply changing the system form factor, what new level of resiliency may this customer achieve?
A. Rack awareness
B. Block awareness
C. Metro availability
D. Better replication factor
Block awareness
An administrator notices that a VM is slow and unresponsive. The administrator wants to compare performance to other VMs on cluster.
Which chart type is best suited to display multiple VM performance metrics for diagnosis?
A. Dashboard chart
B. Entity chart
C. Analysis chart
D. Metric chart
Analysis chart
When a VM generates I/O, which Nutanix component is serving the storage request?
A. Hypervisor
B. Prism
C. HDD disks
D. CVM
CVM
Which VM-level feature ensures continuous availability of data?
A. Replication Factor
B. Data locality
C. Data protection
D. Deduplication
Data protection
Which NIC-teaming configuration balances network traffic based on source/destination IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports?
A. Active-Active with MAC Pinning
B. Active-Active with LACP
C. Active-Backup
D. Active-Passive
Active-Active with LACP
A SQL Server cluster has been deployed on an AHV cluster. To ensure maximum uptime, the administrator wants the SQL Server VMs running on different hosts while leveraging High Availability in case of host failure.
Which configuration would meet these requirements?
A. Configure one VM as an Agent VM
B. Disable Host affinity rules in the cluster
C. Create an anti-affinity rule via CLI
D. Disable VM live migration from selected VMs
Create an anti-affinity rule via CLI
Which feature or configuration is best for securing network traffic between the management and storage replication environments?
A. Use of firewall rules
B. Network segmentation
C. VM anti-affinity rules
D. Different storage containers
Network segmentation
Which AHV feature proactively monitors a Nutanix cluster for compute and storage I/O contention or hot-spots over a period of time?
A. Genesis
B. ADS (Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling)
C. Prism
D. Cluster maintenance utility
ADS (Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling)