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Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) v6.5 Exam Flashcards

1
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An administrator should use which Nutanix component to create in-guest clustering?

A. Storage Pools
B. Volumes
C. Blocks
D. Containers

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Volumes

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Which feature enables Image Placement Policies to be mapped to target clusters?

A. YAML
B. Labels
C. JSON
D. Categories

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Categories

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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

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In the VM dashboard, filter by Nutanix Guest Tools - OS field

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Which account is recommended for performing task and operations on the CVM via SSH?

A. administrator
B. admin
C. nutanix
D. root

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admin

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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

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Oplog

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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

A

External host IP address is not in the Filesystem Whitelist

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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

A

Health

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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

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Create a new Entity Chart

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Which option is available for an administrator to upload a remote disk file to Image Configuration?

A. HTTP
B. FTP
C. SCP
D. SFTP

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HTTP

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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

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Adhere to the LTS release cycle

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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

A

aCLI

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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

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Filter VMs list by using Memory Usage

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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

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VSS

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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

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To identify clusters that are affected by known issues

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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

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Health and Data Resiliency

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Which Nutanix data efficiency mechanism replaces a traditional Replication Factor for suitable data?

A. Compression
B. Deduplication
C. Erasure Coding
D. Intelligent Cloning

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Erasure Coding

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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

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Virtual Network with IPAM

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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

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Copied to the Prism Central image repository

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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

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Selected alphabetically

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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

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Prism Central Reports with a schedule

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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

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Press Migrate button on the Protection Domain

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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

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Power Cycle

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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

A
  • Disaster Recovery of a VM between AHV and ESXi Hypervisors
  • Self-service file-level recovery from VM snapshots
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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

A

Settings/Upgrade Software

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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

A

Witness VM

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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

A
  • Increase number of vCPU in Prism Element
  • Ensure CPU hot-add is supported by the Guest
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When creating a virtual switch on an AHV cluster, what is the recommended configuration method?

A. Manual
B. Automatic
C. Standard
D. Quick

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Standard

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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

A

Mount datastores on Hosts

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Which Nutanix storage service can store Petabytes of unstructured data and supports S3 APIs?

A. DSF
B. Files
C. Volumes
D. Objects

A

Objects

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Which Nutanix product provide S3 compatible storage?

A. Volumes
B. Files
C. Objects
D. Mine

A

Objects

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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%

A

Create a new alert policy for the memory Usage and set to critical after 80%

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On which entity is Replication Factor configured?

A. Host
B. Oplog
C. Volume
D. Container

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Container

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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

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Snapshot 1, Details, review restore points, then Clone

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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

A

Add two NICs to the VM and configure one for each VLAN

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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

A

24 hours

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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

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Prism Central Main Dashboard

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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

A
  • Manually upload AOS binaries and metadata
  • Use the LCM dark site option providing AOS binaries
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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

A

The SMTP server is not configured properly

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What is the minimum number of nodes needed to configure a Replication Factor of 2 (RF2)?

A. 3
B. 1
C. 4
D. 2

A

1

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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

A

Prism Central

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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

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Image Placement Policies

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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)

A

Enable STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide)

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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

A

Data Obfuscation

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Which LCM feature simplifies upgrades on clusters without Internet access?

A. One-click upgrade
B. NCC
C. Direct upload
D. FTP

A

Direct upload

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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

A

Block awareness

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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

A

Analysis chart

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When a VM generates I/O, which Nutanix component is serving the storage request?

A. Hypervisor
B. Prism
C. HDD disks
D. CVM

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CVM

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Which VM-level feature ensures continuous availability of data?

A. Replication Factor
B. Data locality
C. Data protection
D. Deduplication

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Data protection

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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

A

Active-Active with LACP

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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

A

Create an anti-affinity rule via CLI

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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

A

Network segmentation

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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

A

ADS (Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling)

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53
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Which platform supports firmware updates through LCM?

A. Lenovo HX
B. Dell PowerEdge
C. Huawei Atlas
D. Hitachi Vantara

A

Lenovo HX

54
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Within a Nutanix cluster an administrator is getting frequent failure alerts of the Cassandra and Stargate services for one of the nodes. What action will be taken by the cluster?

A. Put host in Maintenance Mode
B. Redirect I/O path to another CVM
C. Remove the host from cluster
D. Reboot Guest VMs to another hosts

A

Put host in Maintenance Mode

55
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Which storage protocol is used to attach a container to an ESXi host?

A. CIFS
B. FCoE
C. SMB
D. NFS

A

NFS

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What resource should be used to ensure a successful upgrade of the hypervisors and AOS within a vSphere-based Nutanix cluster?

A. Upgrade paths
B. Field advisories
C. Compatibility and interoperability matrix
D. Hardware replacement documentation

A

Compatibility and interoperability matrix

57
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Which tool provides diagnostic system data for Nutanix to deliver proactive support?

A. NCC
B. Cluster heart
C. Pulse
D. Cluster health

A

Pulse

58
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A team member has built a CentOS VM image for use as a template. An administrator deploys a new VM using the CentOS image as the 05 drive. No other drives are presented to the VM.
Following the deployment, the administrator attempts to boot the VM, but is unsuccessful. What could be causing this issue?

A. The VMS Boot Priority must reference disk first before CD-ROW
B. The VM’s Disk (scsi.O) setting must be set to make this disk bootable
C. No Volume Groups have been created for the VM
D. The CentOS VM image was built with UEFI

A

The CentOS VM image was built with UEFI

59
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An administrator is deploying a virtual firewall on each node in an AHV cluster and wants each VM to maintain affinity to its host. How can an administrator achieve this goal most efficiently?

A. Create VM Protection Policies
B. Set the VM labels as firewalls
C. Create VM Annotations
D. Set the VMs as Agent VMs

A

Create VM Protection Policies

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What is the maximum jumbo frame MTU supported by host network interfaces and Guest VMs?

A. 1500 bytes
B. 2048 bytes
C. 9000 bytes
D. 4096 bytes

A

9000 bytes

61
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By default, Nutanix Files will deploy how many FSVMs (File System Virtual Machine) within a Nutanix cluster?

A. 5
B. 3
C. 4
D. 2

A

3

62
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What type of relationship does a VM Affinity policy define?

A. VM to VM
B. VM to Storage tier
C. VM to Network VLAN
D. VM to Host

A

VM to Host

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An administrator needs to expand a Nutanix cluster that is tagging the network traffic at the CVM and AHV level. However, the administrator doesn’t remember the configured VLAN ID.
Which command can the administrator run to find the correct VLAN ID from the CVM?

A. Ifconfig
B. manage-ovs
C. aCLI
D. ovs-vscl

A

manage-ovs

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Nutanix Support asked an administrator to provide AHV logs to help solve a support request.
Which task should be performed to provide log files to the support team?

A. Run NCC Check from the command line
B. Upload log files from /home/nutanix/data/logs folder
C. Collect logs from the Health page
D. Enable Pulse to include additional support information

A

Run NCC Check from the command line

65
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How can an administrator determine if the cluster can sustain a hardware failure?
A. Review the cluster Health
B. Review the Hardware Summary
C. Review the Data Resiliency Status
D. Review the Storage Summary

A

Review the Data Resiliency Status

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What is the minimum number of blocks required to utilize block awareness?

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

A

3

67
Q

In Prism Element, to which object are policies such as replication factor and storage efficiency settings applied?

A. Container
B. Virtual Machine
C. Storage Pool
D. vBlock

A

Container

68
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What is required to successfully live migrate a VM Between two AHV clusters?

A. Stretch L2 networks across the primary and recovery sites
B. Configure a Protection Domain with Synchronous Replication
C. Install and configure the witness VM on a third Site
D. Both clusters must be managed by the same prism central

A

Configure a Protection Domain with Synchronous Replication

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A customer requires the ability to block all network traffic between their VDI VMs and their application VMs running on their Nutanix AHV clusters.
What Nutanix product would meet this requirement?

A. Beam
B. Calm
C. Era
D. Flow

A

Flow

70
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Which cluster configuration is LCM unable to perform firmware upgrades against?

A. Five-node
B. Three-node
C. Two-node
D. Single-node

A

Single-node

71
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Which address allows external connections to Nutanix storage presented by the Volumes feature?

A. Prism Central IP
B. Prism Central IP
C. Data Services IP
D. IPMI IP

A

Data Services IP

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An administrator needs to upgrade AOS in a vSphere-based Nutanix Five-node cluster with no automatic live migration. VMs have neither affinity nor anti-affinity rules configured.
What will happen to VMs during the AOS upgrade?

A. VMs will be rebooted on other hosts
B. VMs will continue to run on the same host
C. Upgrade fails because host can’t go in maintenance mode
D. AOS automatically live migrate VMs to other hosts

A

VMs will continue to run on the same host

73
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What requirement needs to be considered before configuring Replication Factor of 1 (RF1)?

A. Application resiliency
B. Hypervisor
C. RAID configuration
D. Node count

A

Node count

74
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How should an administrator enable the recycle bin on a Nutanix cluster?

A. Select the Enable Recycle Bin checkbox on the storage Overview page
B. Select Retain Deleted VMs for 8h in the cluster Details Page of the cluster setting
C. Select the enable recycle bin checkbox in the configure CVM page of the cluster setting
D. Select Retain Deleted VMs for 24h in the cluster details page of the cluster setting

A

Select Retain Deleted VMs for 24h in the cluster details page of the cluster setting

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An administrator has defined a security policy that needs to be applied to dozens of VMs. What is the most efficient way the administrator can perform this?

A. Within the policy, select all the VMs it should be applied to
B. Apply a category to the VMs. and associate the category with the policy
C. Apply the same label to all the VMs, then bind the policy to the label
D. Use a script to apply the policy to the defined VMs

A

Apply the same label to all the VMs, then bind the policy to the label

76
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When should Pulse be disabled?

A. When the cluster is connected to the Internet with less than 1GbE
B. When the cluster is deployed in 3 dark-site
C. Before any cluster maintenance activities requiring node reboots
D. Only under the guidance of Nutanix Support

A

Only under the guidance of Nutanix Support

77
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An administrator needs to do a manual VM in-place restore of a mission-critical VM.
Which Prism Central option should the administrator use to satisfy this task?

A. Snapshot
B. Clone
C. Backup
D. Recovery Point

A

Recovery Point

78
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What is the maximum transmission units (MTU) supported by Nutanix CVM?

A. 1472 bytes
B. 9000 bytes
C. 9216 bytes
D. 1500 bytes

A

1500 bytes

79
Q

Which product or feature is most suitable for deploying a Microsoft SQL cluster in a Nutanix environment?

A. Volumes
B. Objects
C. NFS shares
D. Files

A

Objects

80
Q

An administrator notices that the Data Resiliency Status of some components has been reduced to 0, making it impossible to support a node failure in the cluster.
What type of failure is most likely the cause of this issue?

A. Block
B. Disk
C. CVM
D. Nods

A

CVM

81
Q

Which Nutanix concept is responsible for accommodating and remediating node failure scenarios?

A. Life cycle management
B. Auto resolve mode
C. Data locality
D. Self-healing

A

Data locality

82
Q

Where can an administrator configure role-based access control (RBAC)?

A. Self-Service Restore
B. Prism Element
C. Foundation
D. Prism Central

A

Prism Central

83
Q

When does AOS automatically generate a case with Nutanix Support?

A. When disk space usage is high above 90%
B. On failure of a scheduled NCC check
C. When losing network connectivity to the CVM
D. For every alert detected by Pulse Diagnostics

A

On failure of a scheduled NCC check

84
Q

A Cluster is experiencing an occasional issue that does not impact production services.
Which support case priority level should be assigned?

A. P1 – Emergency
B. P2 – Critical
C. P3 – Normal
D. P4 – Low

A

P3 – Normal

85
Q

During VM creation, an administrator clicked on Add New NIC, but there is nothing in the Network Name dropdown list.
What is causing this issue?

A. No physical NICs have been allocated for user VMs
B. The nodes nave no NiCs attached to them
C. Only 1GbE NIC is attached to the Nutanix nodes
D. A network was not created during Network Configuration

A

A network was not created during Network Configuration

86
Q

An Administrator has created a Volume Group for a specific VM on an AHV Cluster.
What is the next step required to user vDisk in the VM?

A. Attach the Volume Group to the VM
B. Configure CHAP Authentication
C. Reboot the VMD
D. Bring the disk Online

A

Attach the Volume Group to the VM

87
Q

How many copies of metadata are written for a Replication Factor of 2 (RF2)?

A. 2
B. 1
C. 3
D. 4

A

3

88
Q

Which policy specifies that a selected VM will only run on a specific group of nodes?

A. Isolation
B. Anti-affinity
C. Affinity
D. Fixed

A

Affinity

89
Q

An Administrator wants to copy some virtual machine disk files to ADSF from an external VMware ESXI Host.
Which two action should the administrator take to complete this task? (Choose two).

A. Enable CHAP on Volume Group
B. Mount container as NFS on external host
C. Configure Whitelist on container
D. Configure Volume Group

A
  • Mount container as NFS on external host
  • Configure Whitelist on container
90
Q

A customer is running a three-node Nutanix cluster.
Which data optimization feature cannot be enabled in this scenario?

A. Post Compression
B. Map-reduce dedup
C. Erasure Coding
D. Inline Compression

A

Erasure Coding

91
Q

Which URL can be used to open Nutanix support cases?

A. portal.nutanix.com
B. www.nutanix.com
C. console.nutanix.com
D. partnerportal.nutanix.com

A

portal.nutanix.com

92
Q

An administrator needs to create a new chart to analyze GPU usage.
Which entity should be added to the chart?

A. Cluster
B. Virtual Machine
C. GPU
D. Host

A

Virtual Machine

93
Q

What is the biggest benefit of the Redfish Protocol and LCM?

A. HBA and NIC card update twice as quickly
B. AOS and AHV update twice as quickly
C. BMC and BIOS update twice as quickly
D. SSD and HDD update twice as quickly

A

BMC and BIOS update twice as quickly

94
Q

What does Replication Factor 2 (RF2) refer to?

A. Number of blocks that can be lost without impact
B. Number of nodes that can be lost without impact
C. Number of disks that can be lost in the cluster
D. Number of copies of data written in the cluster

A

Number of copies of data written in the cluster

95
Q

After an abrupt power outage, an administrator receives a number of alerts indicating disks are failed. Prism Element shows a large number of disks offline as seen in the diagram. This single block, four node cluster is configured FT1 with an RF2 container holding all user data.
What number of drive failures on different domains (node, block or rack) could this configuration have tolerated prior to seeing data unavailability?

A. 1
B. 4
C. 3
D. 2

A

3

96
Q

Which option allows administrators to specify groups of VMs and assign them to a destination for Disaster Recovery using Leap?

A. Security Policies
B. Protection Policies
C. Recovery Plans
D. Availability Zone

A

Availability Zone

97
Q

In an AHV five-node cluster, an SSD fails within a node that has two SSDs and four HDDs installed.
What will happen to the cluster environment?

A. Host goes down and VMs will be powered on elsewhere
B. Cluster goes in read-only mode
C. VMs will be live migrated to other hosts until metadata rebuild is finished
D. CVM on the impacted node reboots

A

CVM on the impacted node reboots

98
Q

Which technology allows applications and data to move freely between runtime environments?

A. Distributed Storage Fabric
B. Disaster Recovery
C. App Mobility Fabric
D. Nutanix Move

A

App Mobility Fabric

99
Q

An administrator receives several alerts indicating a Nutanix cluster is running out of memory.
As a preemptive measure, the administrator wishes to try to reduce the consumed resources, if possible.
Which two predefined views for Reporting best display potentially reclaimable resources? (Choose two).

A. List of inactive VMs
B. List of bully VMs
C. Memory Runway
D. List of overprovisioned VMs

A
  • List of inactive VMs
  • List of overprovisioned VMs
100
Q

Which Nutanix replication type needs to be assigned to a VM to allow cross cluster live migration?

A. Asynchronous
B. Move
C. NearSync
D. Synchronous

A

Synchronous

101
Q

An administrator has recently expanded the Nutanix cluster and noticed that NCC health checks and alerts for newly added nodes are not being received via email.
What should administrator do to resolve this issue?

A. Add CVM IP in SMTP Relay,
B. Configure SMTP
C. Reboot Nutanix cluster
D. Run NCC Health Check

A

Configure SMTP

102
Q

Which Nutanix storage efficiency feature is suitable for nearly every workload?

A. Erasure Coding
B. Deduplication
C. Compression
D. Thick Provisioning

A

Compression

103
Q

An administrator needs to check which users have created VMs within the previous two weeks.
How can the administrator satisfy this task?

A. Create a filter in Prism Central Audits page
B. CSV export Events list from Prism Central page
C. Sort operation messages in Prism Element Tasks page
D. Use Analysis page in Prism Element and adjust time range

A

Create a filter in Prism Central Audits page

104
Q

After starting an LCM update from Prism Element, on which dashboard can the progress be monitored?

A. Tasks
B. Alerts
C. Health
D. Analysis

A

Tasks

105
Q

What data is stored as a file on storage devices owned by a CVM?

A. Storage Pool
B. vDisk
C. Extent Group
D. Container

A

vDisk

106
Q

Which tool is used to reinstall the hypervisor and CVM after boot disk replacement?

A. NCC
B. Phoenix
C. X-Ray
D. LCM

A

Phoenix

107
Q

Which component allows you to pair sites for Disaster Recovery Policy Creation using Nutanix Leap?

A. Availability Zones
B. Protection Domains
C. Recovery Plans
D. Protection Policies

A

Availability Zones

108
Q

How is Prism Central deployed?

A. As a SaaS offering
B. As a Karbon container
C. As a native cluster service
D. As a virtual machine

A

As a virtual machine

109
Q

How long does a Nutanix cluster’s Recycle Bin retain deleted vDisk and configuration data files?

A. 6 Hours
B. 12 Hours
C. 24 Hours
D. 48 Hours

A

24 Hours

110
Q

On which Prism Element dashboard can an administrator identify that a node is in maintenance mode prior to an LCM upgrade?

A. Settings
B. Hardware
C. Alerts
D. Analysis

A

Hardware

111
Q

An administrator receives an alert that a node has failed within a Nutanix AHV based 10-node cluster. Before the failure, the cluster CPU and memory utilization was around 50%.
What actions will the cluster automatically take?

A. VMs will be unavailable until the affected host is fully functional
B. VMs will migrate to other nodes in the cluster with no user impact
C. The cluster will enter read-only mode and the VMs will be powered down to preserve data
D. All HA protected VMs will be automatically restarted on other nodes in the cluster

A

All HA protected VMs will be automatically restarted on other nodes in the cluster

112
Q

What protocol does Pulse use to transmit cluster information to Nutanix?

A. SSH
B. SCP
C. SFTP
D. HTTPS

A

HTTPS

113
Q

A single host in a four-node AHV based cluster experiences a complete network failure.
If more than enough resources exist in the cluster to tolerate a node failure, what happens to the user VMs running on that host?

A. VMs remain down until network connectivity is restored
B. VMs stay up, but are unreachable until connectivity is restored
C. VMs automatically restart on the three remaining hosts
D. VMs are live-migrated to the three remaining hosts

A

VMs stay up, but are unreachable until connectivity is restored

114
Q

An administrator wants to evaluate the overall health of the Nutanix cluster.
What should be the first step?

A. Run NCC
B. Run Log Collector
C. Run Xi Beam
D. Run LCM

A

Run NCC

115
Q

Which IP address can be used to directly access Prism Element?

A. Foundation VM IP address
B. IP address of any CVM in the cluster
C. IP address of any Prism Central VM
D. AHV host br0 IP address

A

IP address of any CVM in the cluster

116
Q

From Prism Central, how can an administrator access a cluster?

A. Use the VM Summary view
B. Use the cluster quick access from the main dashboard widget
C. Use the cluster quick access from the Settings page
D. Use the Cluster Summary view

A

Use the cluster quick access from the main dashboard widget

117
Q

An administrator needs to provide data integrity at the application level for a VM that is replicated to a secondary site.
Which requirement will satisfy this task?

A. 1 VM per Consistency Group
B. 1 VM per Availability Zone
C. 1 VM per Protection Domain
D. 1 VM per Schedule

A

1 VM per Schedule

118
Q

What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)?

A. Consist of separate servers, storage networks and storage arrays
B. Consist of a combination of separate servers, storage and networks
C. A combination of servers and storage into a distributed infrastructure platform
D. A combination of servers and storage into a non-distributed infrastructure platform

A

A combination of servers and storage into a distributed infrastructure platform

119
Q

Which technology provides Nutanix’s native virtualization solution?

A. Distributed Storage Fabric
B. CVM
C. AHV
D. App Mobility Fabric

A

AHV

120
Q

In which VM creation stage will the administrator see this dialog?

A. Upgrading Nutanix Guest Tools
B. During OS installation
C. During image sysprep
D. When powering on a UEFI VM

A

During OS installation

121
Q

An Administrator needs to provide users access to Prism Central projects.
What source of user accounts must the administrator use?

A. Local Users
B. Open LDAP
C. Active Directory
D. SAML2 Provider

A

Active Directory

122
Q

What is the effect of enabling Flash Mode?

A. Sets the storage tier preference to HDD
B. Sets the storage tier preference to SSD
C. Sets the metadata tier preference to HDD
D. Sets the metadata tier preference to SSD

A

Sets the storage tier preference to SSD

123
Q

An administrator has been tasked with delivering a report on all Nutanix Field Advisors (FAs) affecting each of the clusters.
What is the most efficient way to collect this data?

A. Request an environmental audit from the Nutanix Support
B. Use Prism to run NCC and Check for information on FAs
C. Review the discoveries information on the support Portal
D. Review Field Advisories published on the Support Portal

A

Use Prism to run NCC and Check for information on FAs

124
Q

Which Windows technology does AHV support to prevent authentication theft?

A. Endpoint Manager
B. Azure AD Multi-Factor
C. Windows Defender Credential Guard
D. Active Directory federation Services

A

Active Directory federation Services

125
Q

Which directory should the LCM Framework Bundle be extracted to on a dark site web server in order to update the LCM Framework?

A. Release
B. Upgrade
C. Software
D. Install

A

Release

126
Q

How should an administrator view the storage consumed by the recycle bin?

A. On the storage Overview dashboard
B. In the Cluster Details Page of the cluster setting
C. On the storage Summary Widget on the Prism Dashboard
D. In the Diagram or Table view on the Storage dashboard

A

In the Diagram or Table view on the Storage dashboard

127
Q

An administrator has received the following critical alert:
Node 192.168.148.172 is marked to be detached from metadata The administrator has opened a case with Nutanix and the support engineer has requested more information about the error.
Which two actions should the administrator take in the Health Check dashboard to collect the requested information? (Choose two).

A. Open a remote support tunnel
B. Run the Log Collector
C. Create an Entity chart
D. Run NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check)

A
  • Run the Log Collector
  • Run NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check)
128
Q

What is true about the network uplink ports?

A. One is connected at 1GbE and the other is 10GbE
B. They are configured in Active-Backup mode
C. All are connected, but only two are carrying traffic
D. They are configured in Active-Active mode

A

They are configured in Active-Backup mode

129
Q

What is the minimum cluster size for Redundancy Factor 3?

A. 3 nodes
B. 4 nodes
C. 5 nodes
D. 6 nodes

A

5 nodes

130
Q

What is Nutanix’s scale-out storage technology that makes its hyperconverged platform
possible?

A. Distributed File Services
B. Distributed Storage Fabric
C. HDD/SDD Storage Tiers
D. Hot swappable NVMe/SSD

A

Distributed Storage Fabric

131
Q

A 10GbE link has failed on Node A within the following cluster environment:
- Four-node AHV-based cluster,
- All node has only two 10GbE ports connected to the network,
- Active-backup is configured.
What impact will user VMs experience from this issue?

A. Performance will Decrease
B. Will failover to another node
C. Will have no impact
D. Will shutdown

A

Will have no impact

132
Q

An administrator needs to upgrade a VM to 10 virtual processors. Which action should the administrator take to complete this task?

A. Power-off the VM and add one vCPU
B. Update the VM adding two vCPUs
C. Update the VM adding two cores
D. Power-off the VM and add one core

A

Update the VM adding two cores

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