NUTANIX Certified Master Multicloud Infrastructure Questions + Answers
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:30 am
QUESTION 1
In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single Node Replication Target. The current schedule configuration is as follows:
Repeat every 6 hours Local Retention Policy 1 Remote Retention Policy 8 Starting time 12 am
A. From the Remote site, activate the Protection Domain, then re-protect the entity.
B. From the Remote site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot. C. From the local site, retrieve the correct remote snapshot, then restore the VM locally.
D. From the local site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot.
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 2
At 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection.
Which strategy should the administrator use to meet these requirements?
An administrator is supporting a business critical environment and deploys metro availability to achieve a zero data loss configuration. The two clusters are connected by a 1GbE connection. A new workload is going to be deployed to this cluster. This workload requires a sustained 150MB/s of write throughput and 20MB/s of read throughput.
Which change must be made to deploy the workload successfully on this cluster?
A. The bandwidth must be increased to support this workload.
B. The workload must be configured to read at greater than 12.5MB/s. C. The replication frequency must be less than 60 minutes.
D. Zero data loss nearsync must be used to support this workload.
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 3
Refer to the exhibit.
User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM group.
What are two descriptions of how Files perform quota management? (Choose two.)
A. User 2 can continue to add another 3GB file but will receive a daily notification email. B. User 1 can continue to add another 5GB file but will receive a daily notification email. C. User 1 can add an 8GB file to the share without receiving notification.
D. User 2 can add an 8GB file without receiving a notification email.
Correct Answer: BD Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 4
An organization is planning an upgrade to AOS 5.15 and wants to understand which cluster products and/or services are supported for physical traffic isolation. Which Nutanix component supports its network traffic being isolated onto its own virtual network?
A. Volumes B. Objects
C. Containers D. Files
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 5
An administrator is planning to deploy a Nutanix cluster to support a few high-performance VMs. This deployment will have the following considerations: Individual VMs will likely generate network throughputs in the range of 90-100Mbps
Due to the configuration of the VMs, it is unlikely that a node will host more than one or two of them at a time
Individual VMs will communicate with only a few (one or two) remote hosts at a time
Multicast will not be used in the environment
The hosts are connected via two 1GbE network connections
How should the administrator configure the network bonds to meet this requirement while maintaining the simplest switch configuration?
A. Configure bond0 as balance-sib B. Configure bond0 as active-backup C. Configure bond0 as balance-tcp D. Configure bond0 as balance-lacp
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 6
An administrator configures authentication in Prism Central (PC) for the NTNX-Admins group. Users report that they are unable to log in. The administrator confirms that the Active Directory (AD) settings in PC are correct. Which condition could result in this behavior?
A. A role mapping needs to be associated with the AD group. B. The users must be added to the Domain Admins AD group. C. The Local authentication type must also be selected in PC. D. A client chap certificate must also be added in PC.
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 7
An administrator has two clusters: Site A and Site B.
Async DR is configured between the clusters as follows: Site A is the Primary Site
Site B is the Secondary inactive Site, no VMs running Site A is fully in Production
Site B used as Backup/Disaster Recovery
The customer wants to perform a planned failover between the sites. How should the administrator accomplish this?
A. Click Activate on the Secondary site within the Data Protection Dashboard
B. Click Activate on the Secondary site and run deactive NCLI command on Primary site C. Choose Migrate on the Secondary site within the Data Protection Dashboard
D. Choose Migrate on the Primary site within the Data Protection Dashboard
Correct Answer: D Section: (none) Explanation
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Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documen ... -wc-t.html
QUESTION 8
A systems administrator needs to add more VMs to their Nutanix cluster. Which two actions should the administrator perform to determine if the current cluster could accommodate the new VMs? (Choose two.)
A. Perform an Inventory with Life Cycle Management. B. Determine utilization with Cluster Runway.
C. Enable Deduplication and Erasure Coding.
D. Utilize Optimize Resources for VM efficiency.
Correct Answer: BD Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 9
An administrator responsible for a VDI environment needs to investigate reports of slow logins. The administrator finds that increasing the number of vCPUs from 2 to 4 will reduce the login times. Production workloads are consuming 75% of the host CPU on the cluster. The administrator increases the vCPU count on all of the VDI VMs.
What are two impacts on the cluster? (Choose two.)
A. Increase CPU utilization %
B. Increase CPU ready %
C. Increase memory utilization %
D. Increasing CPU counts will decrease memory utilization
Correct Answer: AB Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 10
A guest VM is reported to have poor storage performance. It has an I/O profile of 80% read. 20% write, and the HDDs form more than 50% of the read source. What should an administrator do to resolve this issue?
A. Increase SSD capacity
B. Increase the OPLOG
C. Increase the write cache
D. Use HDDs with higher RPM
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 11
An administrator is deploying a three-tier application on a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud consisting of web, application, and database VMs. Traffic between the servers must be limited to specific services/ports.
There is an application layer firewall VM deployed on one host in the cluster.
In which way should the administrator meet this requirement?
A. Create a network for each type of VM, and use policy-based routing to control the traffic flow B. Configure a security policy and service chain redirecting the server traffic through the firewall C. Separate the web application and database VMs on to dedicated VLANs
D. Categorize the VMs in Prism Central and utilize Flow to set a security policy
Correct Answer: D Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 12
An administrator needs to make sure an RF2 cluster can survive a complete rack failure without negatively effecting workload performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:
30 nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U rack
Each nodes is configured with 40TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 1.2 PB Usable) Current cluster utilization is 900TB storage
Which configuration changes should be made to make sure that the cluster meets the requirements?
A. Expanse the cluster by adding 3 additional nodes per rack, 9 nodes total. B. Expanse the cluster by adding 2 additional nodes per rack, 6 nodes total. C. Expanse the cluster by adding 9 nodes to a new 42U rack
D. Expanse the cluster by adding 8 nodes to a new 42U rack
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 13
An administrator is monitoring the Nutanix v5.15-based AOS cluster performance logs and notices that a SQL server VM is greatly exceeding its intended maximum IOPS. The administrator has confirmed that a QoS policy was previously created for the group of VMs this server is a member of.
What are two reasons that this VM would exceed its maximum configured IOPS from the QoS Policy? (Choose two.)
A. The VM is missing the required snapshot needed to implement the QoS Policy.
B. The VM was not created as an AFS virtual machine.
C. The SQL Server VM has volume groups attached.
D. It was cloned from another SQL Server VM that was a member of the QoS Policy.
Correct Answer: BC Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 14
A customer has a Nutanix cluster with 10Gb connectivity via switch fabric extenders. The administrator receives NCC health check errors of latency greater than 200ms.
Which action should the administrator take to resolve the NCC errors?
A. Replace the switch fabric extenders with 10G line rate switches B. Upgrade NCC and increase the CVM memory by 4Gb
C. Add 2 additional 10G uplinks from the switch fabric extenders per node D. Upgrade NCC and increase the vCPU of the CVM
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 15
An administrator knows that the disks in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For security reasons, these clusters do not have access to the Internet.
Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)
A. Configure LCM with a URL to access the firmware bundle.
B. Download a dark site bundle and stage it on an internal webserver.
C. Download the updated firmware .tgz file from the Nutanix portal.
D. Select Upgrade Software, then select disks and upload the updated firmware.
Correct Answer: AB Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 16
A customer needs a DR solution designed around the following requirements: There are 8 ms of latency between Sites A and B
The administrator needs the shortest RPO/RTO possible
Application consistent snapshots are required
Use of Nutanix VSS
Which Data Protection Method should be used?
A. Async
B. Metro Availability C. Near Sync
D. Cloud Connect
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 17
An administrator needs to forecast infrastructure requirements for a new program and its associated applications. Prior to the projected start of the new program, all existing applications will be decommissioned.
How should the administrator perform this task?
A. Check the Disregard Existing Workloads radio button in the Runway scenario.
B. Check the Disregard Existing Nodes radio button in the Runway scenario.
C. Add up the recovered workloads and manually remove from the Runway configuration. D. Power down the workloads during a maintenance window and run the Capacity Runway.
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 18
A three-node cluster has a Nutanix Files instance with three FSVMs. What happens after a node failure?
A. The affected FSVM will get live-migrated to another node.
B. The affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its agent VM setting.
C. The affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its VM-to-VM anti-affinity settings. D. The affected FSVM will be restarted on another node.
Correct Answer: D Section: (none) Explanation
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Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documen ... ity-c.html
QUESTION 19
Refer to the exhibits.
An administrator has reported that a new VM is not performing well.
After analyzing the information presented in the exhibits, which option shows the best conclusion regarding this workload?
A. VM is CPU constrained since the hypervisor cannot provide the required resources.
B. VM is CPU constrained because more CPU needs to be added to the VM.
C. VM is Storage constrained, because the workload is waiting for storage access.
D. VM is not CPU constrained, because the VM is not running, a multithreaded application.
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 20
A customer wants to run SAP HANA on a Nutanix cluster with the following characteristics: AHV nodes
SAP HANA version 2
Production database files
Which configuration should be recommended to the customer?
A. Start with a cluster containing three or more nodes
B. Enable only compression for the container that contains the Production database
C. Do not enable compression, deduplication, or erasure coding on the storage container D. Plate the SAP HANA Database on the same socket as CVM
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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Explanation:
Do not configure storage-saving functionalities such as compression, deduplication, or erasure coding (EC-X) on a storage container that holds production database files. Because of the way the SAP HANA Persistence Engine stores data, these features deliver no benefits. Nutanix SAP Engineering has tested compression with SAP HANA workloads; the tests indicate no noticeable performance impact but also show no reduction in the space the SAP HANA workload consumes.
Reference:
https://www.nutanix.com/go/sap-hana-on-nutanix-bpg
QUESTION 21
For several days, an administrator notices the following alerts:
CVM NIC Speed Low Warning Alerts
Warning Alerts of CVM NIC not performing at optimal speed
CVM is disconnected from the network Critical Alert
Network Visualization page shows excessive dropped packets on CVM/Host.
Which steps should be taken to determine which problem should be addressed first?
A. Access the Hardware Page to verify resources are available
Analyze all CVM Speed Alerts in the Alerts/Events page
Analyze output for the network and interface properties and connectivity issues
B. Verify Host/CVM connectivity on the Network Visualization page Use to verify the bridge and bond configuration
Review alerts/events page for the CVM disconnected error
C. Review Alerts page for NIC speed alerts and alert timing
Analyze the genesis.out log file for process failures
Assess the NIC properties in the Network Visualization > Host Properties page
D. Restart networking services on the CVM
Reference:
Determine the current configuration of the affected CVM via output Access the Alerts/Events page for the CVM network connection failures
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 22
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.)
A. Stop all Nutanix Files clusters
B. Relocate the linked LDAP servers
C. Shut down all user VMs in the cluster
D. Reconfigure IPMI for the new datacenter
Correct Answer: AC Section: (none) Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
https://next.nutanix.com/installation-c ... ters-38403
QUESTION 23
An administrator needs to evaluate if the existing configuration of Protection Domains meets the specified corporate recovery policy for SQL Data. The corporate policy requires that all SQL Servers be recoverable at the DR site within 30 minutes, and must result in a maximum of 60 minutes of data loss. SQL data must be required.
The protection domain is configured as follows:
Application consistent snapshots are enabled
The SQL server VMs are assigned to the Protection Domain as their own Consistency Group
The Protection Domain schedule is configured as snapshots taken every 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm
What must be changed to meet the required policy? A. Revise the schedule to be 15 minutes
B. Revise the schedule to be 60 minutes C. Revise the schedule to be 30 minutes D. Revise the schedule to be 45 minutes
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 24
An administrator needs to make sure an RF3 cluster can survive a failure of two complete racks without negatively affecting performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:
30 All Flash Nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U racks
Each node is configured with 20TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 600TB Usable) Current cluster utilization is 500TB storage
Storage containers have Erasure Coding enabled
Which configuration changes should be made to make sure the cluster meets the requirements?
A. Expand the cluster to 50 nodes distributed evenly across 5 racks B. Expand the cluster to 48 nodes distributed evenly across 6 racks C. Expand the cluster to 60 nodes distributed evenly across 6 racks D. Expand the cluster to 40 nodes distributed evenly across 5 racks
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 25
An administrator is concerned that Prism will be inaccessible if Active Directory is unable to process logins. Which method should the administrator use to access the cluster in the event of this type of outage?
A. Manage the cluster by using the "nutanix" user on the Prism leader CVM B. Create and use an emergency local account on the cluster
C. Deploy an Active Directory server locally on the cluster
D. Manage the cluster remotely by downloading ncli to a remote workstation
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 26
An administrator recently added VLAN 205 CRM in Prism Element. The workloads attached to the associated NICs are unable to establish network connectivity. Which Layer 2 protocol allows the administrator to troubleshoot this issue from Prism Element?
A. HDLC B. SUP C. LACP D. LLDP
Correct Answer: D Section: (none) Explanation
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Explanation:
Switch information on Nutanix AHV
Managing and troubleshooting virtual guests’ network connectivity issues is quite difficult, if you do not have right information about upstream switches. It is crucial to understand how Nutanix hosts are connected, hosting switch name, location, switch port number. Nutanix AHV leverages OVS (Open VSwitch) to manage AHV hosts and Guest OS network connectivity. OVS can use LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) to pull information from physical switches. LLDP is automatically enabled on Nutanix AHV. To have LLDP discovery working you have to enable it on the network port switches as well. Nutanix AHV will automatically pull switch information and present it in the Prism.
In Prism Element, on main dashboard click on Home -> Network
QUESTION 27
An administrator is migrating 5MB shares from a third-party platform to Nutanix Files with the following characteristics: Shares contain user profile directories
DFS-N will be used
How should the administrator create target shares for this migration?
A. Create multiple general purpose shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible. B. Create multiple distributed shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.
C. Create standard shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.
D. Create distributed shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.
Correct Answer: D Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 28
Refer to the exhibit.
What is the purpose of eth2 on the CVMs?
A. RDMA Network Segmentation B. iSCSI connectivity
C. Remote site connectivity
D. Network Segmentation
Correct Answer: D
Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 29
An administrator inherits a new Nutanix environment and logs in to a CVM to check the network configuration. The configuration is as follows:
Which action should the administrator take to improve network performance?
A. Configure VLAN tagging both on br0 and br1 and their physical interfaces.
B. Add eth0 and eth1 to the br0-up bond
C. Configure balance-sib or balance-tcp mode for br0-up if switch configuration allows
D. Remove one 10 Gbs interface from br0-up to make sure all 10 Gbs can be used.
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 30
Microsegmentation was recently enabled in a Nutanix environment. The administrator wants to leverage Prism Central to create a policy that will block all traffic, regardless of direction, between two groups of Vms identified by their category.
Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?
A. A Quarantine Policy
B. An Isolation Environment Policy C. An Application Security Policy D. A Whitelist-Based Policy
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 31
An administrator is configuring software only. Data-at-Rest Encryption on their Nutanix cluster. They are planning to deploy a third-party key management server (KMS). Where should this server be hosted?
A. As a single VM on the Nutanix cluster
B. On hardware external to the Nutanix duster
C. As a clustered VM setup on the Nutanix cluster
D. As a single VM deployed on the host that contains the Prism leader CVM
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 32
While creating an image placement policy on the organizations AOS 5.15-based Nutanix cluster, the administrator wants to ensure there are no restrictions on using the selected images on clusters outside of the identified set. What type of Policy Enforcement must the administrator choose?
A. Soft
B. Internal C. Hard
D. External
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 33
A VM does not have enough resources for the demand, which leads to performance bottlenecks. The VM is exhibiting one or more of following baseline values, based on the past 30 days:
CPU usage > 90% (moderate), 95% (high)
CPU ready time > 5%, 10%
Memory usage > 90%, 95%
Memory swap rate > 0 Kbps (no moderate value)
Which type of VM is being described?
A. Constrained VM
B. Bully VM
C. Inactive VM
D. Over-provisioned VM
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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Explanation:
Constrained VM is one that does not have enough resources for the demand and can lead to performance bottlenecks. A VM is considered constrained when it exhibits one or more of the following baseline values, based on the past 30 days:
CPU usage > 90% (moderate), 95% (high)
CPU ready time > 5%, 10%
Memory usage > 90%, 95%
Memory swap rate > 0 Kbps (no moderate value)
QUESTION 34
A new Nutanix cluster is ready for production on a remote site with no IT staff. Changes to the infrastructure will cost money and probably cause a cluster stop.
The administrator needs to perform a health check on the environment that should include: Network connectivity checks
Network performance status
Storage performance status
Which tool should be used to perform this test?
A. X-Ray
B. curator_cli
C. NCC
D. diagnostic, py
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 35
An administrator is using Nutanix Move to migrate a Windows VM from ESXi to AHV. Automated guest preparation is failing with an error:
Account has UAC enabled error
The administrator is using the local built-in administrator account for the Windows VM Admin approval mode must remain enabled. What should the administrator do to continue with the migration with Nutanix Move?
A. Use a Domain Admin account for the Windows VM B. Reboot the Windows VM and try the migration again
C. Follow manual VM preparation guidelines D. Place Windows VM in Maintenance Mode
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documen ... 0009DpgCAE
QUESTION 36
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance using AHV Turbo. Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance? (Choose two.)
A. Workloads are multi-threaded. B. VMs have one vCPU configured. C. VMs have multi-queue disabled. D. VMs have more than one vCPU.
Correct Answer: AD Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 37
An administrator receives a notification that storage in a Nutanix cluster is unavailable. The cluster consists of five nodes and is configured with a Fault-Tolerance level of 1 (FT-1).
Upon investigation, the administrator finds the following:
All AHV hosts are powered on and the CVMs are running
Nodes A, B, and C are connected to one top of rack switch
Nodes D and E are connected to a second top of rack switch
The cluster status command run on Node A shows that CVM services on nodes D and E are down.
Which issue is causing the storage outage?
A. The default gateway for the CVMs and AHV hosts is down. B. The switch connecting Nodes D and E is down.
C. The genesis process is down on both Nodes D and E.
D. Nodes D and E are in maintenance mode.
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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Reference:
https://hyperhci.com/2020/07/29/nutanix ... eshooting/
QUESTION 38
An administrator needs to replace an aging SAN and move to a hyper-converged infrastructure. The existing environment consists of the following hosts that are connected to the SAN:
5xAIX hosts
3x Hyper-V hosts
9xESXi hosts
2x physical SQL Clusters (Windows Server 2012R2 hosts)
After deploying a Nutanix AHV cluster, which two actions should the administrator take to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Deploy Volumes to support the AIX and SQL workloads. B. Migrate the ESXI workloads to AHV using Move.
C. Deploy Files to support the AIX hosts.
D. Migrate the ESXi and Hyper-V workloads using Move.
Correct Answer: AD Section: (none) Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documen ... 000Cr7GCAS
QUESTION 39
An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issues. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue.
Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?
A. Utilize Jumbo Frames
B. Add additional disks to the Volume Group C. Set the SCSI timeout value to 60
D. Utilize a separate subnet for the Linux VMs
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 40
A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backed up to a remote location. The remote location is connected using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms.
Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest RPO possible?
A. NearSync
B. Leap
C. Metro Availability D. Asyn&DR
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single Node Replication Target. The current schedule configuration is as follows:
Repeat every 6 hours Local Retention Policy 1 Remote Retention Policy 8 Starting time 12 am
A. From the Remote site, activate the Protection Domain, then re-protect the entity.
B. From the Remote site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot. C. From the local site, retrieve the correct remote snapshot, then restore the VM locally.
D. From the local site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot.
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 2
At 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection.
Which strategy should the administrator use to meet these requirements?
An administrator is supporting a business critical environment and deploys metro availability to achieve a zero data loss configuration. The two clusters are connected by a 1GbE connection. A new workload is going to be deployed to this cluster. This workload requires a sustained 150MB/s of write throughput and 20MB/s of read throughput.
Which change must be made to deploy the workload successfully on this cluster?
A. The bandwidth must be increased to support this workload.
B. The workload must be configured to read at greater than 12.5MB/s. C. The replication frequency must be less than 60 minutes.
D. Zero data loss nearsync must be used to support this workload.
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 3
Refer to the exhibit.
User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM group.
What are two descriptions of how Files perform quota management? (Choose two.)
A. User 2 can continue to add another 3GB file but will receive a daily notification email. B. User 1 can continue to add another 5GB file but will receive a daily notification email. C. User 1 can add an 8GB file to the share without receiving notification.
D. User 2 can add an 8GB file without receiving a notification email.
Correct Answer: BD Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 4
An organization is planning an upgrade to AOS 5.15 and wants to understand which cluster products and/or services are supported for physical traffic isolation. Which Nutanix component supports its network traffic being isolated onto its own virtual network?
A. Volumes B. Objects
C. Containers D. Files
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 5
An administrator is planning to deploy a Nutanix cluster to support a few high-performance VMs. This deployment will have the following considerations: Individual VMs will likely generate network throughputs in the range of 90-100Mbps
Due to the configuration of the VMs, it is unlikely that a node will host more than one or two of them at a time
Individual VMs will communicate with only a few (one or two) remote hosts at a time
Multicast will not be used in the environment
The hosts are connected via two 1GbE network connections
How should the administrator configure the network bonds to meet this requirement while maintaining the simplest switch configuration?
A. Configure bond0 as balance-sib B. Configure bond0 as active-backup C. Configure bond0 as balance-tcp D. Configure bond0 as balance-lacp
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 6
An administrator configures authentication in Prism Central (PC) for the NTNX-Admins group. Users report that they are unable to log in. The administrator confirms that the Active Directory (AD) settings in PC are correct. Which condition could result in this behavior?
A. A role mapping needs to be associated with the AD group. B. The users must be added to the Domain Admins AD group. C. The Local authentication type must also be selected in PC. D. A client chap certificate must also be added in PC.
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 7
An administrator has two clusters: Site A and Site B.
Async DR is configured between the clusters as follows: Site A is the Primary Site
Site B is the Secondary inactive Site, no VMs running Site A is fully in Production
Site B used as Backup/Disaster Recovery
The customer wants to perform a planned failover between the sites. How should the administrator accomplish this?
A. Click Activate on the Secondary site within the Data Protection Dashboard
B. Click Activate on the Secondary site and run deactive NCLI command on Primary site C. Choose Migrate on the Secondary site within the Data Protection Dashboard
D. Choose Migrate on the Primary site within the Data Protection Dashboard
Correct Answer: D Section: (none) Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documen ... -wc-t.html
QUESTION 8
A systems administrator needs to add more VMs to their Nutanix cluster. Which two actions should the administrator perform to determine if the current cluster could accommodate the new VMs? (Choose two.)
A. Perform an Inventory with Life Cycle Management. B. Determine utilization with Cluster Runway.
C. Enable Deduplication and Erasure Coding.
D. Utilize Optimize Resources for VM efficiency.
Correct Answer: BD Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 9
An administrator responsible for a VDI environment needs to investigate reports of slow logins. The administrator finds that increasing the number of vCPUs from 2 to 4 will reduce the login times. Production workloads are consuming 75% of the host CPU on the cluster. The administrator increases the vCPU count on all of the VDI VMs.
What are two impacts on the cluster? (Choose two.)
A. Increase CPU utilization %
B. Increase CPU ready %
C. Increase memory utilization %
D. Increasing CPU counts will decrease memory utilization
Correct Answer: AB Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 10
A guest VM is reported to have poor storage performance. It has an I/O profile of 80% read. 20% write, and the HDDs form more than 50% of the read source. What should an administrator do to resolve this issue?
A. Increase SSD capacity
B. Increase the OPLOG
C. Increase the write cache
D. Use HDDs with higher RPM
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 11
An administrator is deploying a three-tier application on a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud consisting of web, application, and database VMs. Traffic between the servers must be limited to specific services/ports.
There is an application layer firewall VM deployed on one host in the cluster.
In which way should the administrator meet this requirement?
A. Create a network for each type of VM, and use policy-based routing to control the traffic flow B. Configure a security policy and service chain redirecting the server traffic through the firewall C. Separate the web application and database VMs on to dedicated VLANs
D. Categorize the VMs in Prism Central and utilize Flow to set a security policy
Correct Answer: D Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 12
An administrator needs to make sure an RF2 cluster can survive a complete rack failure without negatively effecting workload performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:
30 nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U rack
Each nodes is configured with 40TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 1.2 PB Usable) Current cluster utilization is 900TB storage
Which configuration changes should be made to make sure that the cluster meets the requirements?
A. Expanse the cluster by adding 3 additional nodes per rack, 9 nodes total. B. Expanse the cluster by adding 2 additional nodes per rack, 6 nodes total. C. Expanse the cluster by adding 9 nodes to a new 42U rack
D. Expanse the cluster by adding 8 nodes to a new 42U rack
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 13
An administrator is monitoring the Nutanix v5.15-based AOS cluster performance logs and notices that a SQL server VM is greatly exceeding its intended maximum IOPS. The administrator has confirmed that a QoS policy was previously created for the group of VMs this server is a member of.
What are two reasons that this VM would exceed its maximum configured IOPS from the QoS Policy? (Choose two.)
A. The VM is missing the required snapshot needed to implement the QoS Policy.
B. The VM was not created as an AFS virtual machine.
C. The SQL Server VM has volume groups attached.
D. It was cloned from another SQL Server VM that was a member of the QoS Policy.
Correct Answer: BC Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 14
A customer has a Nutanix cluster with 10Gb connectivity via switch fabric extenders. The administrator receives NCC health check errors of latency greater than 200ms.
Which action should the administrator take to resolve the NCC errors?
A. Replace the switch fabric extenders with 10G line rate switches B. Upgrade NCC and increase the CVM memory by 4Gb
C. Add 2 additional 10G uplinks from the switch fabric extenders per node D. Upgrade NCC and increase the vCPU of the CVM
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 15
An administrator knows that the disks in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For security reasons, these clusters do not have access to the Internet.
Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)
A. Configure LCM with a URL to access the firmware bundle.
B. Download a dark site bundle and stage it on an internal webserver.
C. Download the updated firmware .tgz file from the Nutanix portal.
D. Select Upgrade Software, then select disks and upload the updated firmware.
Correct Answer: AB Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 16
A customer needs a DR solution designed around the following requirements: There are 8 ms of latency between Sites A and B
The administrator needs the shortest RPO/RTO possible
Application consistent snapshots are required
Use of Nutanix VSS
Which Data Protection Method should be used?
A. Async
B. Metro Availability C. Near Sync
D. Cloud Connect
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 17
An administrator needs to forecast infrastructure requirements for a new program and its associated applications. Prior to the projected start of the new program, all existing applications will be decommissioned.
How should the administrator perform this task?
A. Check the Disregard Existing Workloads radio button in the Runway scenario.
B. Check the Disregard Existing Nodes radio button in the Runway scenario.
C. Add up the recovered workloads and manually remove from the Runway configuration. D. Power down the workloads during a maintenance window and run the Capacity Runway.
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 18
A three-node cluster has a Nutanix Files instance with three FSVMs. What happens after a node failure?
A. The affected FSVM will get live-migrated to another node.
B. The affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its agent VM setting.
C. The affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its VM-to-VM anti-affinity settings. D. The affected FSVM will be restarted on another node.
Correct Answer: D Section: (none) Explanation
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Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documen ... ity-c.html
QUESTION 19
Refer to the exhibits.
An administrator has reported that a new VM is not performing well.
After analyzing the information presented in the exhibits, which option shows the best conclusion regarding this workload?
A. VM is CPU constrained since the hypervisor cannot provide the required resources.
B. VM is CPU constrained because more CPU needs to be added to the VM.
C. VM is Storage constrained, because the workload is waiting for storage access.
D. VM is not CPU constrained, because the VM is not running, a multithreaded application.
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 20
A customer wants to run SAP HANA on a Nutanix cluster with the following characteristics: AHV nodes
SAP HANA version 2
Production database files
Which configuration should be recommended to the customer?
A. Start with a cluster containing three or more nodes
B. Enable only compression for the container that contains the Production database
C. Do not enable compression, deduplication, or erasure coding on the storage container D. Plate the SAP HANA Database on the same socket as CVM
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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Explanation:
Do not configure storage-saving functionalities such as compression, deduplication, or erasure coding (EC-X) on a storage container that holds production database files. Because of the way the SAP HANA Persistence Engine stores data, these features deliver no benefits. Nutanix SAP Engineering has tested compression with SAP HANA workloads; the tests indicate no noticeable performance impact but also show no reduction in the space the SAP HANA workload consumes.
Reference:
https://www.nutanix.com/go/sap-hana-on-nutanix-bpg
QUESTION 21
For several days, an administrator notices the following alerts:
CVM NIC Speed Low Warning Alerts
Warning Alerts of CVM NIC not performing at optimal speed
CVM is disconnected from the network Critical Alert
Network Visualization page shows excessive dropped packets on CVM/Host.
Which steps should be taken to determine which problem should be addressed first?
A. Access the Hardware Page to verify resources are available
Analyze all CVM Speed Alerts in the Alerts/Events page
Analyze output for the network and interface properties and connectivity issues
B. Verify Host/CVM connectivity on the Network Visualization page Use to verify the bridge and bond configuration
Review alerts/events page for the CVM disconnected error
C. Review Alerts page for NIC speed alerts and alert timing
Analyze the genesis.out log file for process failures
Assess the NIC properties in the Network Visualization > Host Properties page
D. Restart networking services on the CVM
Reference:
Determine the current configuration of the affected CVM via output Access the Alerts/Events page for the CVM network connection failures
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 22
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.)
A. Stop all Nutanix Files clusters
B. Relocate the linked LDAP servers
C. Shut down all user VMs in the cluster
D. Reconfigure IPMI for the new datacenter
Correct Answer: AC Section: (none) Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
https://next.nutanix.com/installation-c ... ters-38403
QUESTION 23
An administrator needs to evaluate if the existing configuration of Protection Domains meets the specified corporate recovery policy for SQL Data. The corporate policy requires that all SQL Servers be recoverable at the DR site within 30 minutes, and must result in a maximum of 60 minutes of data loss. SQL data must be required.
The protection domain is configured as follows:
Application consistent snapshots are enabled
The SQL server VMs are assigned to the Protection Domain as their own Consistency Group
The Protection Domain schedule is configured as snapshots taken every 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm
What must be changed to meet the required policy? A. Revise the schedule to be 15 minutes
B. Revise the schedule to be 60 minutes C. Revise the schedule to be 30 minutes D. Revise the schedule to be 45 minutes
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 24
An administrator needs to make sure an RF3 cluster can survive a failure of two complete racks without negatively affecting performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:
30 All Flash Nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U racks
Each node is configured with 20TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 600TB Usable) Current cluster utilization is 500TB storage
Storage containers have Erasure Coding enabled
Which configuration changes should be made to make sure the cluster meets the requirements?
A. Expand the cluster to 50 nodes distributed evenly across 5 racks B. Expand the cluster to 48 nodes distributed evenly across 6 racks C. Expand the cluster to 60 nodes distributed evenly across 6 racks D. Expand the cluster to 40 nodes distributed evenly across 5 racks
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 25
An administrator is concerned that Prism will be inaccessible if Active Directory is unable to process logins. Which method should the administrator use to access the cluster in the event of this type of outage?
A. Manage the cluster by using the "nutanix" user on the Prism leader CVM B. Create and use an emergency local account on the cluster
C. Deploy an Active Directory server locally on the cluster
D. Manage the cluster remotely by downloading ncli to a remote workstation
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 26
An administrator recently added VLAN 205 CRM in Prism Element. The workloads attached to the associated NICs are unable to establish network connectivity. Which Layer 2 protocol allows the administrator to troubleshoot this issue from Prism Element?
A. HDLC B. SUP C. LACP D. LLDP
Correct Answer: D Section: (none) Explanation
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Explanation:
Switch information on Nutanix AHV
Managing and troubleshooting virtual guests’ network connectivity issues is quite difficult, if you do not have right information about upstream switches. It is crucial to understand how Nutanix hosts are connected, hosting switch name, location, switch port number. Nutanix AHV leverages OVS (Open VSwitch) to manage AHV hosts and Guest OS network connectivity. OVS can use LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) to pull information from physical switches. LLDP is automatically enabled on Nutanix AHV. To have LLDP discovery working you have to enable it on the network port switches as well. Nutanix AHV will automatically pull switch information and present it in the Prism.
In Prism Element, on main dashboard click on Home -> Network
QUESTION 27
An administrator is migrating 5MB shares from a third-party platform to Nutanix Files with the following characteristics: Shares contain user profile directories
DFS-N will be used
How should the administrator create target shares for this migration?
A. Create multiple general purpose shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible. B. Create multiple distributed shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.
C. Create standard shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.
D. Create distributed shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.
Correct Answer: D Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 28
Refer to the exhibit.
What is the purpose of eth2 on the CVMs?
A. RDMA Network Segmentation B. iSCSI connectivity
C. Remote site connectivity
D. Network Segmentation
Correct Answer: D
Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 29
An administrator inherits a new Nutanix environment and logs in to a CVM to check the network configuration. The configuration is as follows:
Which action should the administrator take to improve network performance?
A. Configure VLAN tagging both on br0 and br1 and their physical interfaces.
B. Add eth0 and eth1 to the br0-up bond
C. Configure balance-sib or balance-tcp mode for br0-up if switch configuration allows
D. Remove one 10 Gbs interface from br0-up to make sure all 10 Gbs can be used.
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 30
Microsegmentation was recently enabled in a Nutanix environment. The administrator wants to leverage Prism Central to create a policy that will block all traffic, regardless of direction, between two groups of Vms identified by their category.
Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?
A. A Quarantine Policy
B. An Isolation Environment Policy C. An Application Security Policy D. A Whitelist-Based Policy
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 31
An administrator is configuring software only. Data-at-Rest Encryption on their Nutanix cluster. They are planning to deploy a third-party key management server (KMS). Where should this server be hosted?
A. As a single VM on the Nutanix cluster
B. On hardware external to the Nutanix duster
C. As a clustered VM setup on the Nutanix cluster
D. As a single VM deployed on the host that contains the Prism leader CVM
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 32
While creating an image placement policy on the organizations AOS 5.15-based Nutanix cluster, the administrator wants to ensure there are no restrictions on using the selected images on clusters outside of the identified set. What type of Policy Enforcement must the administrator choose?
A. Soft
B. Internal C. Hard
D. External
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 33
A VM does not have enough resources for the demand, which leads to performance bottlenecks. The VM is exhibiting one or more of following baseline values, based on the past 30 days:
CPU usage > 90% (moderate), 95% (high)
CPU ready time > 5%, 10%
Memory usage > 90%, 95%
Memory swap rate > 0 Kbps (no moderate value)
Which type of VM is being described?
A. Constrained VM
B. Bully VM
C. Inactive VM
D. Over-provisioned VM
Correct Answer: A Section: (none) Explanation
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Explanation:
Constrained VM is one that does not have enough resources for the demand and can lead to performance bottlenecks. A VM is considered constrained when it exhibits one or more of the following baseline values, based on the past 30 days:
CPU usage > 90% (moderate), 95% (high)
CPU ready time > 5%, 10%
Memory usage > 90%, 95%
Memory swap rate > 0 Kbps (no moderate value)
QUESTION 34
A new Nutanix cluster is ready for production on a remote site with no IT staff. Changes to the infrastructure will cost money and probably cause a cluster stop.
The administrator needs to perform a health check on the environment that should include: Network connectivity checks
Network performance status
Storage performance status
Which tool should be used to perform this test?
A. X-Ray
B. curator_cli
C. NCC
D. diagnostic, py
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 35
An administrator is using Nutanix Move to migrate a Windows VM from ESXi to AHV. Automated guest preparation is failing with an error:
Account has UAC enabled error
The administrator is using the local built-in administrator account for the Windows VM Admin approval mode must remain enabled. What should the administrator do to continue with the migration with Nutanix Move?
A. Use a Domain Admin account for the Windows VM B. Reboot the Windows VM and try the migration again
C. Follow manual VM preparation guidelines D. Place Windows VM in Maintenance Mode
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documen ... 0009DpgCAE
QUESTION 36
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance using AHV Turbo. Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance? (Choose two.)
A. Workloads are multi-threaded. B. VMs have one vCPU configured. C. VMs have multi-queue disabled. D. VMs have more than one vCPU.
Correct Answer: AD Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 37
An administrator receives a notification that storage in a Nutanix cluster is unavailable. The cluster consists of five nodes and is configured with a Fault-Tolerance level of 1 (FT-1).
Upon investigation, the administrator finds the following:
All AHV hosts are powered on and the CVMs are running
Nodes A, B, and C are connected to one top of rack switch
Nodes D and E are connected to a second top of rack switch
The cluster status command run on Node A shows that CVM services on nodes D and E are down.
Which issue is causing the storage outage?
A. The default gateway for the CVMs and AHV hosts is down. B. The switch connecting Nodes D and E is down.
C. The genesis process is down on both Nodes D and E.
D. Nodes D and E are in maintenance mode.
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Reference:
https://hyperhci.com/2020/07/29/nutanix ... eshooting/
QUESTION 38
An administrator needs to replace an aging SAN and move to a hyper-converged infrastructure. The existing environment consists of the following hosts that are connected to the SAN:
5xAIX hosts
3x Hyper-V hosts
9xESXi hosts
2x physical SQL Clusters (Windows Server 2012R2 hosts)
After deploying a Nutanix AHV cluster, which two actions should the administrator take to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Deploy Volumes to support the AIX and SQL workloads. B. Migrate the ESXI workloads to AHV using Move.
C. Deploy Files to support the AIX hosts.
D. Migrate the ESXi and Hyper-V workloads using Move.
Correct Answer: AD Section: (none) Explanation
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Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documen ... 000Cr7GCAS
QUESTION 39
An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issues. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue.
Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?
A. Utilize Jumbo Frames
B. Add additional disks to the Volume Group C. Set the SCSI timeout value to 60
D. Utilize a separate subnet for the Linux VMs
Correct Answer: C Section: (none) Explanation
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QUESTION 40
A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backed up to a remote location. The remote location is connected using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms.
Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest RPO possible?
A. NearSync
B. Leap
C. Metro Availability D. Asyn&DR
Correct Answer: B Section: (none) Explanation
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