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Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Prism Element, to which object are policies such as replication factor and storage efficiency settings applied?
Container
Virtual Machine
Storage Pool
vBlock
Which IP address can be used to directly access Prism Element?
Foundation VM IP address
IP address of any CVM in the cluster
IP address of any Prism Central VM
AHV host br0 IP address
Where can an administrator find information about the Cluster Runway?
Prism Element Home Page
Prism Element Analysis
Prism Central Main Dashboard
Prism Central Analysis
What is the purpose of Discoveries within the Nutanix Support Portal?
To identify clusters that are affected by known issues
To provide an audit trail of cluster logins
To identify VMs that require OS updates or patching
To provide forecasting of cluster resource utilization
From Prism Central, how can an administrator access a cluster?
Use the VM Summary view
Use the cluster quick access from the main dashboard widget
Use the cluster quick access from the Settings page
Use the Cluster Summary view
Where can an administrator configure role-based access control (RBAC)
Self-Service Restore
Foundation
Prism Central
Prism Element
Which Prism Central feature can map images to target clusters using categories?
Image Replication Policies
Image Placement Policies
Protection Domain Policies
Storage Policies
What is true about the network uplink ports?
They are configured in Active-Backup mode
All are connected, but only two are carrying traffic.
They are configured in Active-Active mode
One is connected at 1GbE and the other is 10GbE
Which type of network supports automatically assigning IP addresses to VMs?
Floating IP Network
Management traffic network
Virtual Network with IPAM
Virtual Private Cloud Networks
Which directory should the LCM Framework Bundle be extracted to on a dark site web server in order to update the LCM Framework?
release
upgrade
software
install
Which feature or configuration is best for securing network traffic between the management and storage replication environments?
Use of Firewall Rules
VM Anti-Affinity Rules
Network Segmentation
Different Storage Containers
Which Nutanix data efficiency mechanism replaces a traditional Replication Factor for suitable data?
Compression
Erasure Coding
Deduplication
Intelligent Cloning
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?
Create an Alert Policy with VM as entity type and memory usage as a metric
Add Memory usage chart to Analysis dashboard for each required VM
Filter VMs list by using Memory Usage
Run cluster efficiency summary report selecting all the VMs that constitute the applications
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?
VMs will be unavailable until the affected host is fully functional
VMs will migrate to other nodes in the cluster with no user impact.
The cluster will enter read-only mode and the VMs will be powered down to preserve data
All HA-protected VMs will be automatically restarted on other nodes in the cluster.
An administrator wants to have a single chart with the logical usage for three storage containers. Which action should the administrator perform?
Create a new Metric Chart
See Storage usage under Prism Element Health page
Create a new Entity Chart
See Usage Summary in the Storage Containers detailed
What is Nutanix's scale-out storage technology that makes its hyperconverged platform possible?
Distributed File Services
Distributed Storage Fabric
HDD/SDD Storage Tiers
Hot swappable NVMe/SSD
What is the effect of enabling Flash Mode?
Sets the storage tier preference to SSD
Sets the storage tier preference to HDD
Sets the metadata tier preference to HDD
Sets the metadata tier preference to SSD
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?
Prism Elements Links to Chart analysis
Prism Elements New Alert policy
Prism Central Projects with data export
Prism Central Reports with a schedule
Which address allows external connections to Nutanix storage presented by the Volumes feature?
IPMI IP
Prism Central IP
Data Services IP
Prism Central IP
What does Replication Factor 2 (RF2) refer to?
Number of blocks that can be lost without impact
Number of nodes that can be lost without impact
Number of disks that can be lost in the cluster
Number of copies of data written in the cluster
Which Nutanix storage service can store Petabytes of unstructured data and supports S3 APIs?
DSF
Files
Volumes
Objects
Which LCM feature simplifies upgrades on clusters without Internet access?
One-Click Upgrade
NCC
Direct Upload
FTP
Which Nutanix storage efficiency feature is suitable for nearly every workload?
Erasure Coding
Deduplication
Compression
Thick Provisioning
What is the minimum cluster size for Redundancy Factor 3?
3 nodes
4 nodes
5 nodes
6 nodes
How would an administrator upgrade the LCM framework to the latest version?
Run LCM pre-checks
Settings/Upgrade Software
Run LCM inventory
Run an NCC health check
What is the biggest benefit of the Redfish Protocol and LCM?
HBA and NIC card update twice as quickly
AOS and AHV update twice as quickly
BMC and BIOS update twice as quickly
SSD and HDD update twice as quickly
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?
Put host in Maintenance Mode
Redirect I/O path to another CVM
Remove the host from cluster
Reboot Guest VMs to another hosts
What requirement needs to be considered before configuring Replication Factor of 1 (RF1)?
Application resiliency
Hypervisor
RAID configuration
Node count
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?
VMs remain down until network connectivity is restored.
VMs stay up, but are unreachable until connectivity is restored.
VMs automatically restart on the three remaining hosts.
VMs are live-migrated to the three remaining hosts.
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?
1
2
3
4
Which NIC-teaming configuration balances network traffic based on source/destination IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports
Active-Active with MAC Pinning
Active-Active with LACP
Active-Backup
Active-Passive
Which AHV feature proactively monitors a Nutanix cluster for compute and storage I/O contention or hotspots over a period of time?
Genesis
ADS
Prism
Cluster Maintenance Utility
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?
Create VM Protection Policies
Set the VM labels as firewalls
Create VM Annotations
Set the VMs as Agent VMs
What data is stored as a file on storage devices owned by a CVM?
Storage Pool
vDisk
Extent Group
Container
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?
Witness VM
Metro-Availability
Windows Failover Clustering
Async Replication
What resource should be used to ensure a successful upgrade of the hypervisors and AOS within a vSphere-based Nutanix cluster?
Upgrade Paths
Field Advisories
Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix
Hardware Replacement Documentation
Which feature enables Image Placement Policies to be mapped to target clusters?
YAML
Labels
JSON
Categories
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?
Configure one VM as an Agent VM.
Disable Host affinity rules in the cluster.
Create an anti-affinity rule via CLI.
Disable VM live migration from selected VMs.
Which option is available for an administrator to upload a remote disk file to Image Configuration?
HTTP
FTP
SCP
SFTP
On which entity is Replication Factor configured?
Host
Oplog
Volume
Container
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?
Within the policy , select all the VMs it should be applied to
Apply the same label to all the VMs, then bind the policy to the label
Apply a category to the VMs, and associate the category with the policy.
Use a script to apply the policy to the defined VMs.
Which technology allows applications and data to move freely between runtime environments?
Distributed Storage Fabric
Disaster Recovery
App Mobility Fabric
Nutanix Move
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?
VMs will be rebooted on other hosts.
VMs will continue to run on the same host.
Upgrade fails because host can't go in maintenance mode.
AOS automatically live migrate VMs to other hosts.
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?
Host goes down and VMs will be powered on elsewhere
Cluster goes in read-only mode.
VMs will be live migrated to other hosts until metadata rebuild is finished.
CVM on the impacted node reboots.
When should Pulse be disabled?
When the cluster is connected to the Internet with less than 1GbE.
When the cluster is deployed in a dark-site.
Before any cluster maintenance activities requiring node reboots.
Only under the guidance of Nutanix Support.
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?
Add CVM IP in SMTP Relay
Configure SMTP
Reboot Nutanix cluster
Run NCC Health Check
Refer to the exhibit. 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?
Health
Tasks
Analysis
Hardware
Which feature in Pulse helps secure a customer's private information?
Security Central
Cluster Lockdown
Data-at-rest Encryption
Data Obfuscation
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?
Snapshot
Clone
Backup
Recovery Point
Which product or feature is most suitable for deploying a Microsoft SQL cluster in a Nutanix environment?
Volumes
Objects
NFS shares
Files
