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Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) v6.5 exam

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Questions 1

When VM HA Reservation is enabled, what is the expected behavior for all failed VMs in the event of a host

failure?

Options:

A.  

Restart on a best-effort basis if resources are available

B.  

Perform a live migration to other hosts in the AHV cluster

C.  

Restart on other hosts in the AHV cluster

D.  

Perform a live migration on a best-effort basis if resources are available

Discussion 0
Questions 2

An administrator wants to ensure that data in a container is stored in the most space efficient manner as quickly as possible after being written,

Which space efficiency too meets this requirement?

Options:

A.  

Inline Compression

B.  

Thin Provisioning

C.  

Cache Deduplication

D.  

Erasure Coding

Discussion 0
Questions 3

In the event of a disk failure, which process will immediately ad automatically scans Cassandra to find all data previously hosted on the failed disk, and all disks in that node?

Options:

A.  

Curator

B.  

Stargate

C.  

Genesis

D.  

Prism

Discussion 0
Questions 4

Which two methods are available when migrating a VM from a legacy 3-tier solution using VMware ESXi to AHV? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Deploy the Move appliance.

B.  

Use Cross-Hypervisor DR.

C.  

Import the .vmdk into the Image Service.

D.  

Use shared nothing live migration.

Discussion 0
Questions 5

Which two types of granular RBAC does Nutanix provide for AHV hosts? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Category based

B.  

Project based

C.  

Disk based

D.  

Cluster based

Discussion 0
Questions 6

An administrator needs to increase bandwidth available to the AHV host and to the CVM.

How should the administrator complete this task?

Options:

A.  

In Prism, update vs0 to change the configuration to Active-Active.

B.  

Use manage-ovs commands to update br0 change the configuration to Active-Active.

C.  

In Prism, create a vsl interface and add any remaining uplinks.

D.  

Use manage-ovs commands to create br1 and add any remaining uplinks

Discussion 0
Questions 7

Which Nutanix service control ncli, the HTML5 UI, and Rest API?

Options:

A.  

Prism

B.  

Cassandra

C.  

Zookeeper

D.  

Chronos

Discussion 0
Questions 8

An administrator notices that most of the VMs in the cluster are on one host. Users report that an application seems to respond slowly. The application server VM has significantly more memory assigned to it than other VMs.

How should the administrator fix this issue?

Options:

A.  

Reduce the amount of memory assigned to the VM.

B.  

Migrate the VM to a different host.

C.  

Add more memory to the VM.

D.  

Increase the memory on the CVM.

Discussion 0
Questions 9

An administrator is not able to log into Prism Central by using a new Active Directory user account. After Logging with the local user, the administrator verified that Directory Services and Role Mapping setting are valid.

What is the most likely cause of this issue?

Options:

A.  

Change password at next logon attribute is set.

B.  

User does not belong to the Administrators group.

C.  

Active Directory functional level of wrong.

D.  

Prism Element authentication is not configured.

Discussion 0
Questions 10

The administrator wants a container to be displayed and limited to 1TB in the hypervisor.

What advanced container setting must the administrator set?

Options:

A.  

Advertised Capacity

B.  

Reserved Capacity

C.  

Advertised Quota

D.  

Reserved Quota

Discussion 0
Questions 11

Which three configuration scenarios are valid for the deployment of Prism Central? (Choose three.)

Options:

A.  

Environments use Network Address Translation.

B.  

Prism Elements and Prism Central art in different subnets.

C.  

Environments do not have Internet access.

D.  

Prism Elements and Prism Central have proxy configured.

E.  

Environments use the 192.168.5.0/24 CVM management network.

Discussion 0
Questions 12

A Nutanix cluster is equipped with four nodes. Four VMs on this cluster have been configured with a VM-VM anti-affinity policy and are each being hosted by a different node.

What occurs to the cluster and these VMs during an AHV upgrade?

Options:

A.  

One node hosts two VMs while the node being upgraded is in maintenance mode.

B.  

One VM out of the four powers down when the node hosting it reboots.

C.  

The AHV pre-upgrade checks fail until the administrator disables the anti-affinity policy.

D.  

The AHV pre-upgrade checks fail until the four VMs are powered off.

Discussion 0
Questions 13

An administrator needs to configure a new subnet on an AHV cluster and want to ensure that VMs will automatically be assigned an IP address at creation time.

Which type of network does the administrator need to create?

Options:

A.  

Dynamic Network

B.  

Unmanaged Network

C.  

Managed Network

D.  

DHCP Network

Discussion 0
Questions 14

Where should an administrator unregister Prism Element from Prism Central?

Options:

A.  

From a Host SSH session

B.  

From the Prism Central web console

C.  

From the Prism Element web console

D.  

From a CVM SSH session

Discussion 0
Questions 15

An Administrator has been asked to deploy VMs using a specific image. The image has been configured with settings and applications that will be used by engineering to develop a new product by the company.

The image is not available on the desired cluster, but it is available in other cluster associated with Prism Central.

Why isno’t the image available?

Options:

A.  

The image bandwidth policy has prevented the image upload.

B.  

The cluster should be removed from all categories.

C.  

The cluster has not been added to the correct category

D.  

The image placement policy was configured with enforcement.

Discussion 0
Questions 16

An administrator is commissioning a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Once the user VMs have been deployed and are running, the administrator finds that VMs on the same host are able to communicate, but are unable to communicate between hosts.

What must be changed to enable full inter-VM communications?

Options:

A.  

Change the spanning-tree port type on the switch.

B.  

Change the network the VMs are connected to

C.  

Update the switch to specifically allow VLAN 15

D.  

The VMs need to have static IP addresses.

Discussion 0
Questions 17

Which change can be made on a cluster with software-based Data-at-Rest Encryption enabled?

Options:

A.  

Disable encryption on the cluster

B.  

Deploy an additional Native KMS Server

C.  

Enable encryption for a VM

D.  

Change Native KMS to External KMS

Discussion 0
Questions 18

An administrator has set up a local web server accessible to the Nutanix clusters.

Which two steps are required to set up LCM for an environment without Internet access? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Download the lcai_disconnecced_version. tar.gz LCM bundle from the support portal.

B.  

Edit LCM Advanced Settings in Prism Element and enter the address of the web server.

C.  

Edit LCM Advanced Settings m Prism Central and enter the address of the web server.

D.  

Download the lcm_dark_site_version. tar . gz LCM bundle from the support portal.

Discussion 0
Questions 19

Refer to Exhibit:

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 grayed-out.

What is the reason for this behavior?

Options:

A.  

Replication Factor 1 is configured on the storage container.

B.  

The cluster has less than 5 nodes which is the minimum node-count to enable deduplication.

C.  

Capacity reservation is not enabled on the storage container.

D.  

The cluster has hybrid storage and deduplication is supported only on all-flash clusters.

Discussion 0
Questions 20

An administrator needs to run a mixed Exchange and SQL workload with a guaranteed amount of container

space for each application.

How should the administrator meet this requirement?

Options:

A.  

Create one container and set capacity reservation

B.  

Create two containers and reserve space for containers

C.  

Create one container and enable compression

D.  

Create two containers and reserve space for vDisks

Discussion 0
Questions 21

A customer has a 24-node cluster with all containers configured with RF3. Two different nodes have incurred a simultaneous HDD failure.

What is the result?

Options:

A.  

The cluster runs in a degraded state until the failed drives are replaced and the data has been restored to three replicas.

B.  

Sixty minutes after the failures a rebuild of the lost data can remaining HDDs begins to restore to three replicas.

C.  

The VMs with data on those drives crash, and an HA event occurs, restarting them on a remaining healthy node.

D.  

The Nutanix cluster recognizes the failures and immediately begins to rebuild lost data to three replicas.

Discussion 0
Questions 22

Which data savings technique utilizes stripes and parity calculation in a Nutanix cluster?

Options:

A.  

Compression

B.  

Parity strip

C.  

Erasure coding

D.  

Deduplication

Discussion 0
Questions 23

An administrator is adding a node with a higher AOS release to an existing cluster.

What is the most efficient action an administrator should take to ensure it is in a supported state?

Options:

A.  

Destroy cluster and foundation with the new node in place

B.  

Add the node to the cluster and leave the existing AOS version in place

C.  

Perform standalone reimage of the new node and then add to cluster

D.  

Add the node to the cluster and reboot all running VMs to use new release

Discussion 0
Questions 24

An administrator is tasked with configuring networking on an AHV cluster and needs to optimize for maximum single VM throughput.

Which bond mode should the administrator select?

Options:

A.  

Active-Active with Mac pinning

B.  

Active-Active

C.  

Active-Backup

D.  

No Uplink Bond

Discussion 0
Questions 25

How will an HDD failure affect VMs with data on the failed device?

Options:

A.  

The VMs will crash, and will be restarted once the failed HDD has been replaced and the data has been restored.

B.  

A live migration will be initiated, moving the affected VMs to a host that contains the replica data.

C.  

The VMs will remain operational on that host and continue to function normally with no noticeable impact

D.  

An HA event will occur, causing the affected VMs to restart on a node that contains the replica data.

Discussion 0
Questions 26

An administrator was reviewing various AOS logs when a 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?

Options:

A.  

Setting the cluster time zone via PC GUI

B.  

Setting the cluster time zone via CVM NCLI

C.  

Setting the cluster time zone via PE GUI

D.  

Setting the cluster time zone via CVM ACLI

Discussion 0
Questions 27

An administrator is troubleshooting vDisk performance issues in a Nutanix cluster with hybrid disks. The VMs all have Flash Mode enabled.

But users are reporting disk latency.

What could cause the performance issues?

Options:

A.  

Flash mode is disabled when a node fails.

B.  

Compression is disabled on the vDisk storage container.

C.  

The VMs vDisks are in multiple containers.

D.  

Data size for flash mode exceeds 25% of the SSD capacity.

Discussion 0
Questions 28

An administrator has created a Nutanix managed it a VLAN ID of 512.

Several VMs have been created, and the administrator notices that the can successfully communicate with other VMs on that VLAN.

Provided they are on the host, but cannot communicate with VMs that reside on different hosts in the cluster.

What is most likely thee cause of this issue?

Options:

A.  

There is a firewall rule blockingVLAN512 traffic.

B.  

VLANS12 is a reserved VLAN ID, and not usable for guest VMs.

C.  

The VLAN was not created on the upstream switches.

D.  

The administrator did not create the VLAN on all hosts

Discussion 0
Questions 29

An administrator has created several custom alert policies, which are applied to the same entities. Prism Central displays a message that a similar policy exists.

In what order of precedence are overlapping policies evaluated?

Options:

Discussion 0
Questions 30

An administrator has been alerted to a VM that has high I/O latency and wants to determine if there are any other factors, such as insufficient network or memory resources that correlate, as part of a troubleshooting process.

Which type of chart should the administrator create to allow all relevant data to be easily exported to CSV for later analysis?

Options:

A.  

A VM entity chart with each of the relevant metrics.

B.  

A cluster metric chart for each of the relevant metrics

C.  

A cluster entity chart with each of the relevant metrics

D.  

A VM metric chart for each of the relevant metrics

Discussion 0
Questions 31

Refer to the exhibit.

Which two initial cluster configuration tasks were missed during the deployment process? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Host password changes

B.  

Password policy changes

C.  

BIOS password changes

D.  

CVM password changes

Discussion 0
Questions 32

An administrator needs to bring down a host in a Nutanix Cluster for maintenance reasons. The administrator puts the host in maintenance mode.

What should the administrator do to perform an orderly shutdown of the CVM?

Options:

A.  

Execute the cvm_shutdown -P new command from the CVM.

B.  

Enter Fever off Server - immediate from the IPMI console.

C.  

Enter Fewer off Server-orderly Shutdown from the IPMI console.

D.  

Execute the cvm_shutdown -P now command from the host.

Discussion 0
Questions 33

Which storage policy value can be inherited from a cluster?

Options:

A.  

IO performance

B.  

Storage Container

C.  

Compression

D.  

QoS

Discussion 0
Questions 34

Refer to Exhibit:

An administrator wants to replace and old node with a node of newer generation in a 3-node cluster. The administrator has already chosen the appropriate node. But unable to remove it from the cluster.

Why is the Remove Host option not shown in the exhibit?

Options:

A.  

The host needs to be placed into maintenance Mode before.

B.  

It is only possible to remove a host from a cluster using CLI.

C.  

It is not possible to remove a node from a the cluster using Prism Central

D.  

It is not possible to remove a host from a 3-node cluster.

Discussion 0
Questions 35

How many Prism Central instances are required to deploy Leap:'

Options:

A.  

One per availability zone

B.  

One per customer environment

C.  

One per physical site

D.  

One per AHV cluster

Discussion 0
Questions 36

An administrator needs to report on any alerts generated by a Nutanix cluster that affected the cluster's availability over the past 10 days.

Which method should be used to locate these events?

Options:

A.  

On the Health dashboard, use the Log Collector to export data based on time stamp.

B.  

Export the cluster event log to a CSV on the Alerts dashboard.

C.  

On the Alerts dashboard, filter based on Impact Type and the desired Time Range.

D.  

Configure an Alert Policy to generate an email with the data on the Health dashboard.

Discussion 0
Questions 37

Which component ensures uniform distribution of data throughout the cluster to eliminate hot spots and speed up rebuilds?

Options:

A.  

Cassandra

B.  

Distributed Storage Fabric

C.  

High Availability

D.  

Acropolis App Mobility Fabric

Discussion 0
Questions 38

How should an administrator enable secure access to Volumes using a password?

Options:

A.  

iSER

B.  

CHAP

C.  

SAML

D.  

LDAP

Discussion 0
Questions 39

When creating a VM on an AHV cluster, how is the initial placement of the VM determined?

Options:

A.  

AHV uses a round robin algorithm, placing new VMs onto hosts based on the numerical order of their UUID

B.  

The administrator right clicks on the desired host and selects Power on VM from the dropdown menu

C.  

The Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler selects a host which provides adequate resources for the VMs configuration

D.  

Placement is determined by the host that holds the new_VM token at the time of VM creation

Discussion 0
Questions 40

Administrator is creating a Windows 10 VM that will be used for a virtual desktop template. After creating the VM and booting to the ISO, the administrator is unable to install Windows and receives the following error.

What steps does the administrator need to take to install the OS?

Options:

A.  

Load the Nutanix VirtIO Serial Bus Driver.

B.  

Load the VirtIO Network Ethernet Adaper.

C.  

Load the Nutanix Virtual Balloon Driver.

D.  

Load the Virtual SCSI pass-through controller.

Discussion 0
Questions 41

CPU utilization climbs above 90% on several VMs. This causes performance degradation for a business-critical application.

How can alerts be configured to notify the administrator before VM CPU utilization hits 90%?

Options:

A.  

On a CVM, use ncli to set the VM CPU Check threshold for the critical VMs to a value below 90%.

B.  

On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the alert threshold below 90%.

C.  

On a CVM, configure a cron job to run the VM CPU Check more frequently and email the result.

D.  

On the Alerts dashboard, ensure that the VM CPU usage alert is not set to auto-resolve.

Discussion 0
Questions 42

Which command should an administrator run from the CLI to view the uplink state of all AHV nodes in the

cluster?

Options:

A.  

allssh show_uplinks

B.  

manage_ovs show_uplinks

C.  

allssh manage_ovs show_uplinks

D.  

manage ovs show uplinks

Discussion 0
Questions 43

Where can an administrator change a CVM password?

Options:

A.  

KMS Server Terminal

B.  

CVM setting in Prism Element

C.  

CVM setting in Prism Central

D.  

Prism CVM VM Console

Discussion 0
Questions 44

What is the name of the internal bridge used by AHV nodes and CVMs?

Options:

A.  

vnet0

B.  

br1

C.  

br0

D.  

virbr0

Discussion 0
Questions 45

An administrator is performing validation testing of a new-deploy cluster. During this test, the administrator disconnect each LAN interface from each of the nodes while pinging the hypervisor and guest VMs.

When the first interface is disconnected, pings continue as expected to the hypervisor, but pings stop responding from the guest. Pings continue when the interface is reconnected. When the second interface is disconnected, pings continue to both the hypervisor and guest VMs.

What could be the cause of this error?

Options:

A.  

This is normal behavior for a LAN Failover

B.  

Switch ports are configured with different VLANs

C.  

Portfast is not enabled on the switch ports

D.  

One of the network interfaces has a bad patch cable.

Discussion 0
Questions 46

An administrator wants to have a VM on an AHV cluster with access to multiple VLANs. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

Options:

A.  

Update a vNIC on the VM to operate in trunked mode for all desired VLANs.

B.  

Create a network in AHV associated with all those VLANs on all hosts.

C.  

Use SFPs that allow the needed VLANs.

D.  

Use one vNIC per VLAN for the VM.

Discussion 0
Questions 47

An administrator needs to configure Prism to send encrypted messages to a set of recipients.

Which setting must be applied?

Options:

A.  

Use SMTP Port 25

B.  

Configure Prism Central to use Cluster Lockdown

C.  

Install SSL certificates on Prism Central

D.  

Set SMTP Security Mode to STARTTLS

Discussion 0
Questions 48

An administrator needs to relocate an AHV cluster to a new datacenter during a maintenance window. The cluster will use the same IPs in the new datacenter.

Which two steps should be taken to prepare for this task? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Reconfigure IPMI for the new datacenter

B.  

Shut down all user VMs in the cluster

C.  

Relocate the linked LDAP server

D.  

Stop all Nutanix Files clusters

Discussion 0
Questions 49

When a configuring a syslog server in Prism Central, what two pieces information are required? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

HTTPS URL

B.  

Encryption secret

C.  

Transport protocol

D.  

IP address/port

Discussion 0
Questions 50

A customer has a newly-deployed AHV cluster with nodes that have 2.x 10 GBE and 2.x interface. The customer wants to use all available network interfaces to provide connectivity to the VMs.

Which option should the administrator use to achieve this while remaining consistent with Nutanix recommendations?

Options:

A.  

Create separate VLANs that map 10GbE and 1GbE interfaces.

B.  

Createbond1 on virbr0 and add the 1GbE interfaces to it for VM use.

C.  

Create a second bond on br0 on each host and assign the 1 GbE interfaces to it.

D.  

Create a second bridge on each host and assign the 1GbE interfaces to it.

Discussion 0
Questions 51

An administrator has been asked to enable block awareness and increase the fault tolerance to FT2 on a Nutanix AHV cluster with the following configuration:

Four blocks

One node per block

Will the administrator be able to accomplish these tasks?

Options:

A.  

No-Fault tolerance changes are not supported.

B.  

Yes-FT2 requires a minimum of three nodes.

C.  

Yes-Block awareness requires a minimum of three blocks.

D.  

No-FT2 requires a minimum of five nodes.

Discussion 0
Questions 52

A user running a Computer Aided Design (CAD) application is complaining about slow response time within the VM, particular when moving windows or rendering images.

Which VM metric will guide the administrator toward diagnosing the problem?

Options:

A.  

Storage Controller Latency

B.  

GPU Usage

C.  

Swap in Rate

D.  

Hypervisor Memory Usage (%)

Discussion 0
Questions 53

An administrator needs to deploy an application with a large amount of data connected via Nutanix volumes.

Which two actions should the administrator take when designing the Volume Group? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Distribute workload across multiple virtual disks

B.  

Enable RSS (Receive Side Scaling)

C.  

Use multiple subnets for iSCSI traffic

D.  

Enable thick provisioning on the Volume Group(s)

Discussion 0