Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) Flashcards
An administrator has a AHV cluster that is comprised with 4 nodes with the following configuration in each node.
- CPU: 2 each, 2.4 GHz, 12 cores.
- Memory: 256 GB
- Disk: 6 each 1.92 SSD
A VM with 16 vCPUs and 96GB of RAM is being created on the cluster, How should the administrator configure the VM to assure optimal performance?
A. With 2 vNUMA nodes
B. With an affinity policy
C. With flash mode enabled
D. With Memory Over Commitment
With 2 vNUMA nodes
An Administrator wants to receive an environment summary report when a host failure occurs.
Which action would address the administrators need?
A. Enable App Discovery
B. Create a playbook
C. Edit Report Schedule
D. Configure an Alert Policy
Configure an Alert Policy
A recently configured cluster is leveraging NearSync with a recovery schedule of 15 Minutes. It is noticed that cluster is consistently transitioning in and out of NearSync. What action should be taken to potentially address this issue?
A. Change the NearSync Schedule to 30 minutes
B. Configure a secondary schedule in the same protection domain
C. Increase the network bandwidth
D. Add vCPU to the user VMs
Change the NearSync Schedule to 30 minutes
After initial configuration and upgrade of NCC, the administrator notices critical alerts as shown in the exhibit.
Which two initial cluster configuration task were missed during the configuration process?
A. Password Policy change
B. Host password change
C. BIOS Password Change
D. CVM Password change
- Host password change
- CVM Password change
An Administrator needs to enable inline deduplication for a pre-existing storage container. When trying to enable deduplication on the storage container, this feature is greyed OUT.
What is the reason for this behaviour?
A. Replication Factor 1 is configured on the storage container
B. The Cluster has hybrid storage and deduplication is supported only on all flash clusters
C. Capacity reservation is not enabled on the storage container
D. The Cluster has less than 5 nodes which is the minimum node count to enable deduplication
Replication Factor 1 is configured on the storage container
An Administrator manages an AHV cluster that is dedicated to a dev/test environment. The administrator is receiving complaints from users that they are unable to create VMs on the clusters. After reviewing the clusters, the administrator finds that the memory resources are almost fully utilized, with many VMs overprovisioned on Memory. What option is the most efficient resolution to enable additional VMs to be created?
A. Upgrade the nodes with additional memory DIMMs
B. Enable Memory overcommit on the over provisioned VMs
C. Disable HA Reservation on the cluster
D. Enable Memory HA on the over provisioned VMs
Enable Memory overcommit on the over provisioned VMs
An administrator recently added new SSDs to a Nutanix cluster and knows the firmware will be out of dat. Due to security constraints, the cluster does not have access to the internet.
Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose Two)
A. Update the LCM source and URL to access the firmware bundle
B. Download a darksite bundle and deploy it on an internal webserver
C. Download the disk firmware from the OEMs website
D. Select upgrade software then upload the firmware bundle
- Update the LCM source and URL to access the firmware bundle
- Download a darksite bundle and deploy it on an internal webserver
Which Scenario would benefit most from Erasure coding being enabled on a container?
A. Long Term storage of data which is written once and read frequently
B. WEB and API Servers
C. VDI use cases where a single VM is cloned 100s of times
D. High performance database where all data is relatively hot
Long Term storage of data which is written once and read frequently
What is the minimum time a newly created deduplication storage policy takes to apply to the vms in the container?
A. 5 Minutes
B. 10 Minutes
C. 30 Minutes
D. 60 Minutes
30 Minutes
An administrator was reviewing various AOS logs when it was noticed that the time of the logs were off by several hours.
Which initial step was missed during the post process cluster configuration?
A. Setting the cluster time zone via PE GUI
B. Setting the cluster time zone via CVM aCLI
C. Setting the cluster time zone via CVM nCLI
D. Setting the cluster time zone via PC GUI
Setting the cluster time zone via CVM nCLI
An administrator is not able to log into PC using a new Active Directory user account, after logging with the local user, the administrator verified that directory services and role mapping settings are valid. What is the most likely cause of this issue?
A. PE authentication is not configured
B. Active directory functional level is wrong
C. User does not belong to the administrator group
D. Change password at next logon attribute is set
Change password at next logon attribute is set
An administrator logs into Nutanix support portal and notices there is a new version of LCM framework available. In an effort to ensure LCM is providing the latest features, the administrator would like to upgrade LCM. How can the LCM framework be upgraded?
A. Upgrade AOS
B. Upload the latest LCM framework as an image in the image configuration in Prism
C. Perform an LCM inventory
D. Upload the latest LCM framework bundle via upgrade software in Prism
Perform an LCM inventory
An administrator needs to limit the amount of storage pace that data stored in single container can consume. Which action should the administrator take?
A. Enable reservations for rebuild capacity
B. Set advertise capacity for the container
C. Thick provision the container
D. Store VM Snapshot in a different container
Set advertise capacity for the container
What does Nutanix recommend when setting up the node networking?
A. Include NIC modules from different vendors in the same bond
B. Combine NIC modules from different vendors in the same bond
C. Include at least two physical interfaces in every bond
D. Combine 1 Gbe interfaces and 10 Gbe interfaces in the same bond
Include at least two physical interfaces in every bond
An administrator needs to increase bandwidth available to the AHV host and to the CVM. How should the administrator complete this task?
A. Use manage_ovs command to update br0 to change the configuration to Active-Active
B. In Prism, create a VS1 interface and add any remaining uplinks
C. Use manage_ovs command to create br1 ad add any remaining uplinks
D. In Prism update VS0 to change the configuration to Active-Active
In Prism update VS0 to change the configuration to Active-Active
An Administrator needs to update some images that were previously uploaded to their Nutanix Cluster, while logged into PE when trying to update the images, the update icon is not enabled. What could be the cause for this failure?
A. Images were imported into PC
B. The files were ISO but were uploaded as disk images hence cannot be used or edited
C. Images are corrupted and must be re-uploaded
D. RBAC is configured and administrator user does not have the right Privileges
Images were imported into PC
Which component can be associated with a storage policy?
A. Catalog
B. Category
C. Subnet
D. VM
Category
On a Nutanix Cluster, What does Network Segmentation refers to?
A. Isolating intra cluster traffic from guest VM traffic
B. Physically separating management traffic from Guest VM traffic
C. A distributed firewall for securing VM to VM traffic
D. Isolating management traffic from storage replication traffic
Isolating management traffic from storage replication traffic
An administrator has created a Nutanix Managed Network, and assigned it a vlan ID of 512 Several VMs have been created and the administrator notices that the VMs can successfully communicate with other VMs on that vLAN, provided they are on the same host, but can not communicate with the VMs that resides on different hosts in the cluster. What is most likely the cause of this issue.
A. The vLAN was not created on the upstream switches
B. The administrator did not create the vLAN on all hosts
C. vLAN 512 is reserved vLAN ID and not usable for guest VMs
D. There is a firewall rule blocking vLAN 512 traffic
The vLAN was not created on the upstream switches
After running a LCM inventory, it is noticed that there are a number of firmware and software updates available. The administrator would like to avoid any host reboots, but would like to apply some of the available updates. Which two updates can be done while avoiding a host reboot? (choose Two).
A. AOS
B. Data Drives
C. AHV
D. M.2 Drives
- AOS
- Data Drives
Upon logging into PC, an administrator notices high cluster latency. How can the administrator analyze data with the least number of steps or actions?
A. Click the cluster name in cluster quick access widget
B. Take note of the cluster name and create a new analysis chart
C. Click on the chart in the widget to expand the data element
D. Modify data density in the main prism central dashboard
Click the cluster name in cluster quick access widget
An administrator manages a cluster and notices several failed components shown in the exhibit. What two options does the administrator have to run all NCC checks manually? (Choose Two)
A. Running ncc health_checks run_all on the PC VM
B. Running ncc health_checks run_all on the cvm
C. Using the action drop-down menu in the health dashboard of PC
D. Using the action drop down menu in the health dash board of PE
- Running ncc health_checks run_all on the cvm
- Using the action drop down menu in the health dash board of PE
An administrator needs to ensure logs, alerts and information is consistent across clusters that are located in the different countries. Which service needs to be configured?
A. DNS
B. NTP
C. SMTP
D. SNMP
SMTP
During an AHV upgrade, an administrator finds that a critical VM was powered OFF rather than migrating to another host. Which scenario explains this behavior?
A. The VM OS hung during migration
B. No AHV, Host were able to be schedule
C. The VM was on the same host as the acropolis leader
D. The VM was marked as an agent VM
The VM was marked as an agent VM
An administrator has been notified by a user that a Microsoft SQL server instance is not performing well. When reviewing the utilization metrics, the following concerns are noted:
- Memory consumption has been above 95% for several months
- Memory consumption has been spiked to 100% for the last five days
- CPU usage is 45%
- Storage latency is 2ms
When logging into Prism Central, how could the administrator quickly verify if this VM has performance bottlenecks.
A. Perform Entity Sync
B. Filter VM by efficiency
C. See capacity run away
D. Update capacity configuration
Filter VM by efficiency
When configuring a syslog server in Prism central, what two pieces information are required? (choose Two)
A. HTTPS URL
B. IP address/PORT
C. Transport protocol
D. Encryption Secret
- IP address/PORT
- Transport protocol
What is a requirement to enable flow networking?
A. Microservices infrastructure (CSMP) is enables
B. PC is using a three-node scale out deployment
C. Flow micro segmentation must be enabled
D. A dedicated virtual switch has been created for flow networking
Microservices infrastructure (CSMP) is enables
Which inefficient VM Profile can be used to identify a VM that consumes too many resources and causes other VMs to starve?
A. Over-Provisioned VM
B. Bully VM
C. Constrained VM
D. Inactive VM
Bully VM
An Administrator is tasked with configuring networking on an AHV cluster and need to optimize for maximum single VM throughput. Which bond mode should the administrator select?
A. Active-Active with MAC pinning
B. No Uplink Bond
C. Active-Active
D. Active-Backup
Active-Active