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WorksheetsNutanix Administration Quiz
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After adding new workloads, why is Overall Runway below 365 days and the scenario still shows the cluster is in good shape?
Because the Target is 1 month.
Because there are recommended resources.
Because Storage Runway is still good.
Because new workloads are sustainable.
An administrator notices high CPU usage on a VM and wants to determine whether adding more vCPUs would improve performance. Which two metrics should be analyzed to make this decision? (Choose two.)
VM CPU Ready Time
Host Memory Swap Out Rate
VM CPU Usage
Host CPU Usage
An administrator receives complaints about VM performance. After reviewing the VM's CPU Ready Time data shown in the exhibit, which step should the administrator take to diagnose the issue further?
Assess cluster SSD capacity.
Review host CPU utilization.
Check the number of vCPUs assigned to each CVM.
Enable VM memory oversubscription.
An administrator is responsible for resource planning and needs to plan for resiliency of a 10-node RF3 cluster. The cluster has 100TB of storage. How should the administrator plan for capacity in the event of future failures?
Set Reserve Storage Capacity (%) to 20.
Set Reserve Capacity for Failure to Auto Detect.
Set Reserve Capacity for Failure to None.
Set Reserve Memory Capacity (%) to 20.
An administrator is protecting an application and its data stored on Volume Groups using Protection Domains. During failover tests, all application VMs restore successfully, but the application data is completely missing. How can the Protection Domain configuration be adjusted to avoid this issue in the future? (Choose two.)
Use application-consistent snapshots.
Manually add Volume Groups to Protected Entities.
Place Volume Groups in a separate Protection Domain.
Select the 'Auto protect related entities' checkbox.
An administrator started an LCM upgrade of the AHV hosts but realized that the upgrade would exceed the planned maintenance window. Which feature should be leveraged to prevent additional updates from occurring?
Run the lcm_task_cleanup.py script.
Restart Genesis on the cluster to restart the LCM service.
Cancel the LCM tasks via the Ergon command line (ecli).
Use the Stop Update feature in LCM.
Which feature deploys a temporary VM that allows an administrator to log in and apply OS patches to a VM template?
Update Guest OS
Complete Guest OS Update
Update Configuration
Create VM from Template
An administrator is trying to configure Metro Availability between Nutanix ESXi-based clusters. However, the Compatible Remote Sites screen does not list all required storage containers. Which two reasons could be a cause for this issue? (Choose two.)
Both storage containers must have the same name.
Source and destination hardware are from different vendors.
The destination storage container is not empty.
The remote site storage container has compression enabled.
An administrator needs to create two virtual machines: VM4 and VM5 that leverage the memory over-commit feature. Once VM4 is created and running, the administrator notices that it uses only 28GB of RAM. What will be the maximum RAM that can be allocated to VM5 so that it can be powered on?
4GB
8GB
16GB
32GB
An administrator needs to modify an AHV VM to support a large number of concurrent network connections. The VM has: * 4 vCPUs * 20 GB RAM * OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Which modification can improve network performance for network I/O-intensive applications?
Add more vCPUs.
Enable AHV Turbo Technology.
Enable RSS VirtIO-Net Multi-Queue.
Add more RAM.
An administrator is configuring Protection Policies to replicate VMs to a Nutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2) over the internet. To comply with security policies, how should data be protected during transmission?
Configure Data on a self-encrypting drive.
Configure VMs to use UEFI Secure Boot.
Enable Data-at-Rest Encryption.
Enable Data-in-Transit Encryption
An administrator wants to live-migrate a vGPU-enabled VM from one host to another within the same cluster. What requirements must be met before initiating the migration?
The target host has sufficient resources to support the VM.
The vGPU profile needs to be changed.
The VM must be configured as an agent VM.
The host affinity for the VM must be set to a specific host.
Which predefined view in Prism Central's Intelligent Operations should be used to determine which VM is consuming excessive resources and causing performance issues for others?
Inactive VMs List
Overprovisioned VMs List
Bully VMs List
Constrained VMs List
An administrator configured a remote site for Protection Domain replication, but network performance and stability are impacted. How can the remote site configuration be adjusted to fix the issue?
Configure Network Address Translation (NAT) between the two Nutanix clusters.
Configure the Protection Domain with many-to-many replication.
Configure a Bandwidth Throttling Policy.
Configure the remote Cluster VIP as a proxy.
An administrator needs to ensure that a VM is powered on before the rest of the VMs when starting a host. Which configuration option allows this behavior?
Recovery Plan
Host Affinity
High Availability
Agent VM
An administrator wants to disable password-based SSH access for the nutanix user on a CVM to improve security. What action should the administrator take?
Rename the nutanix user.
Block port 22 on the CVM firewall.
Enable Cluster Lockdown.
Delete the nutanix user.
After adding new workloads, the Overall Runway is now below 365 days, but the scenario still shows the cluster is in good shape. Why?
Because Storage Runway is still good.
Because new workloads are sustainable.
Because there are recommended resources.
Because the Target is 1 month.
A Disaster Recovery administrator has set up a Protection Policy for 50 workloads, all configured similarly. The RPO is 60 minutes with a specified retention of 10 local copies, 5 remote copies, and crash consistency. After activation, recovery points are not appearing at the DR site, even though they are visible on the production side. What is the most likely issue?
Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) is not installed on the source VMs.
Windows updates need to be applied to all affected VMs.
The storage container name on the DR cluster does not match the production cluster.
The storage container RF factor does not match in both clusters.
An administrator has been tasked with justifying why Nutanix Disaster Recovery was chosen for a multi-tier application spanning multiple business units. What is the most efficient way to organize and manage the workloads?
Utilize a VM naming schema that allows sorting
Utilize Categories to organize VMs in Recovery Plans
Utilize a 1:10 ratio of Recovery Plan to VMs
Utilize RESTful APIs to script creation of Recovery Plans
An administrator wants to ensure that user VMs on AHV hosts can take advantage of bandwidth beyond a single adapter in a bond. Which uplink Bond Type should the administrator configure to accomplish this?
No Uplink Bond
Active-Active
Active-Active with MAC pinning
Active-Backup
An administrator attempted to enable Data-in-Transit Encryption on a Scale-Out Prism Central cluster to encrypt service-level traffic between nodes. However, the feature did not work correctly due to a firewall restriction. Which CVM-specific port should be allowed through the firewall for Data-in-Transit Encryption?
2009
2010
2020
9440
An administrator using a dark site deployment for LCM is attempting to upgrade to the latest BIOS. After completing an inventory scan, the administrator does not see the expected BIOS version available for upgrade. What is the most likely reason the latest BIOS is not shown?
AOS needs to be upgraded first.
The latest compatibility bundle has not been uploaded.
The BMC version needs to be upgraded first.
The dark site webserver is not accessible.
Which two entities can be categorized? (Choose two.)
Storage Containers
Alerts
Virtual Machines
ISO Images
An administrator receives an alert in Prism stating: 'Storage container
Advertised Capacity is set too low.
Reserved Capacity is set too high.
Compression is set too low.
Replication Factor is set too high.
An administrator is experiencing storage performance issues on a Windows Server 2019 VM with the following configuration: * vCPU: 1 * VRAM: 8 GB * vSCSI: VirtIO SCSI Controller * vDisk: 2 (100 GB, 250 GB) * vNIC: VirtIO Fast Ethernet The AHV cluster is healthy, and other Windows VMs are performing well. Which configuration change should be reviewed to enhance VM performance?
Add a second virtual storage controller (vSCSI).
Enable Balance-TCP on bridge (br0).
Increase Controller VM (CVM) resources.
Increase the VM's number of vCPUs.
An administrator is trying to delete a protected snapshot but is unable to do so. What is the most likely cause?
There is an active recovery occurring at that time.
Ransomware has encrypted the snapshot.
There is an approval policy that was denied.
The snapshot
What is the most likely cause?
There is an active recovery occurring at that time.
Ransomware has encrypted the snapshot.
There is an approval policy that was denied.
The snapshot has been corrupted.
Why are no firmware upgrades listed in LCM for this cluster?
Single-node clusters only support one-disk firmware upgrades.
LCM is not supported on single-node clusters.
LCM cannot perform firmware upgrades on single-node clusters.
LCM does not have connectivity to the internet
How should the administrator complete this task?
Log into Prism Element and create the storage container with an Advertised Capacity of 100 GiB.
Log into Prism Element and create the storage container.
Log into Prism Central and create the storage container with a Reserved Capacity of 100 GiB.
Log into Prism Central and create the storage container.
Which severity level setting should be configured to get the desired output?
0
2
5
7
What must the administrator ensure for this configuration to be possible?
Source VM and Target VM are on the same VLAN.
Source VM and Target VM are on the same host.
Source VM and Target VM are on the same subnet.
Source VM and Target VM are on the same VPC.
In a scale-out Prism Central deployment, what additional functionality does configuring an FQDN instead of a Virtual IP provide?
Load balancing
Resiliency
Segmentation
SSL Certificate
What feature allows receiving a weekly message about infrastructure performance summary?
Admin Center Life Cycle Manager
Prism Central Syslog
Infrastructure VMs List
Intelligent Operations Reports
What is the best approach when replacing G5 nodes without impacting performance?
New node must have at least 2 SSDs.
New node must be G7 or G8.
New node must have 2 CPUs with 12 cores.
New node must be hybrid.
What is the first step required to satisfy this task?
Install NGT (Nutanix Guest Tools) on VMs where applications are supported.
Create an Availability Zone between Production and DR.
Convert the source cluster to AHV.
Create a point-in-time snapshot of source VMs.
What is the potential impact of this condition?
The cluster is unable to sustain an SSD disk failure.
The cluster may be nearly out of storage for metadata.
The cluster is at risk of entering a read-only state.
Average I/O latency in the cluster may increase.
How should an administrator proceed to resolve this issue?
Configure Self-Service Restore.
Create custom in-guest scripts to preserve the statically assigned DNS IP addresses.
Install Network Manager command-line tool (nncli) in the protected Windows VMs.
Configure a Protection Domain
After reviewing the VM's CPU Ready Time data, which step should the administrator take to diagnose the issue further?
Check the number of vCPUs assigned to each CVM.
Review host CPU utilization.
Assess cluster SSD capacity.
Enable VM memory oversubscription.
In an RF2 cluster, what is the minimum number of nodes required to allow a host removal?
2
3
4
5
What is required for a successful cross-hypervisor DR event?
Utilize delta disks.
Deploy Legacy BIOS boot on hosts within the cluster.
Use raw device mappings.
Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) must be installed on source guest VMs.
What is required to automatically discover new nodes?
New nodes must have the same hypervisor version.
IPv6 multicast must be allowed on physical switches.
New nodes must have the same AOS version.
IPv4 multicast must be allowed on physical switches.
Which storage attributes do Storage Policies manage?
Storage Containers and Volume Groups
Replication Factor and Encryption
Shares and Object Stores
Data Protection and Security
What settings should the administrator configure while creating the storage container?
Set Advertised Capacity to 10 GiB and Reserved Capacity to 500 GiB.
Set Advertised Capacity to 10 GiB.
Set Reserved Capacity to 500 GiB.
Set Reserved Capacity to 10 GiB and Advertised Capacity to 500 GiB.
Which two URLs must be accessible from a Connected Site's Controller VMs to allow Life Cycle Manager (LCM) to download software updates?
download.nutanix.com
mynutanix.com
release-api.nutanix.com
portal.nutanix.com
What action should be taken in Prism Element to meet this requirement?
Set Redundancy Factor to 3.
Enable HA Reservation.
Configure a Protection Domain.
Configure an RF1 storage container.
What is the most efficient way to enable the team leads to directly manage these VMs?
Create a role mapping for each team lead and assign appropriately.
Create a VPC for each team lead and give them VPC Admin.
Create a Project for each team lead and assign access.
Create Security Policies to isolate users.
How should the administrator configure the replication schedule?
Configure a schedule for 16 minutes up to 59 minutes.
Configure a schedule for 1 minute up to 15 minutes.
Configure Async replication.
Configure NearSync replication.
What is supported for creating a VM Template in Nutanix?
VM has disks located on RF2 containers.
VM runs on the ESXi hypervisor.
VM is protected by Protection Domain-based DR.
VM is an agent or a Prism Central VM.
If an administrator creates a report with no retention policy configured, how many instances of the report are retained by default?
20
10
5
15
What will be the maximum RAM that can be allocated to VM5 so that it can be powered on?
16GB
4GB
32GB
8GB
What is the most likely cause?
The snapshot has been corrupted.
There is an approval policy that was denied.
Ransomware has encrypted the snapshot.
There is an active recovery occurring at that time.
What additional step is required before upgrading the host?
Run LCM in dark site mode so it can update AHV independently.
Create an agent VM on each host that has GPU drivers installed.
Use Direct Uploads to upload appropriate driver bundles.
Update NCC to the latest version and re-run Inventory
What is the first action an administrator must take to fix the issue?
Run the command: ncc health_checks metro_availability_checks data_locality_check --cvm_list=X.X.X.20
Run the command: ncli pd list metro-avail=true | egrep "P
What action should the administrator take to fix the issue?
Run the command: ncc health_checks metro_availability_checks data_locality_check --cvm_list=X.X.X.20
Run the command: ncli pd list metro-avail=true | egrep "Protection Domain Stretch Role" | grep "ACTIVE"
Use must-affinity rules to avoid automated VM migration to the standby datastore.
Migrate the VM to its primary site and set appropriate rules for DRS and affinity.
What action should the administrator take to disable password-based SSH access for the nutanix user on a CVM to improve security?
Rename the nutanix user.
Block port 22 on the CVM firewall.
Enable Cluster Lockdown.
Delete the nutanix user.
What requirements must be met before initiating the migration of a vGPU-enabled VM from one host to another within the same cluster?
The target host has sufficient resources to support the VM.
The vGPU profile needs to be changed.
The VM must be configured as an agent VM.
The host affinity for the VM must be set to a specific host.
To comply with security policies, how should data be protected during transmission when configuring Protection Policies to replicate VMs to a Nutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2) over the internet?
Configure Data on a self-encrypting drive.
Configure VMs to use UEFI Secure Boot.
Enable Data-at-Rest Encryption.
Enable Data-in-Transit Encryption.
What other prerequisites must be met before enabling application discovery on a Nutanix cluster to monitor applications?
Sufficient Prism Central VM resources
Internet connection
API key and key ID
Network controller is enabled
What is the most likely cause for the report no longer being available after logging back into Prism Central?
A user with Cluster Viewer role deleted the report.
The user-generated report was archived.
Reports are automatically deleted after 24 hours.
The report is stored in the cluster's Prism Element.
Which action should the administrator take to update LCM to the latest version?
Run an AOS upgrade.
Run an AHV upgrade.
Perform an Inventory Scan.
Download and install the latest LCM version from a CVM.
How long will have passed before Dead and Zombie VMs are deleted if the business requires that VMs must be inactive for 120 days before deletion?
For Dead VMs, the wait before deletion is 120 days.
For Zombie VMs, the wait before deletion is 129 days.
For Dead VMs, the wait before deletion is 129 days.
For Zombie VMs, the wait before deletion is 120 days.
What must be changed in order to properly enable Windows Defender Credential Guard?
Update vCPU to 8.
Enable UEFI with Secure Boot.
Use Windows Server 2022.
Update Memory to 16GB.
Which two steps should the administrator take to improve performance after migrating a physical MySQL database from a legacy 3-tier environment to a Nutanix cluster?
Ensure that the SQL data vDisks are thick provisioned.
Create additional vDisks for SQL data.
Use LVM to stripe the SQL data across multiple vDisks.
Ensure that the SQL data vDisks are thin provisioned.
Which type of chart should the administrator create to show multiple storage bandwidth metrics a VM is consuming?
Metric Chart
Entity Chart
Hypervisor Performance Chart
VM Summary Chart
Which action would fix the issue of one VM being unable to migrate while others migrate successfully?
Enable Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling (ADS) at the cluster level.
Update Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP).
Disable Agent VM within the VM configuration options.
Configure backplane port groups that are assigned to the CVM.
How should the administrator complete the task of configuring NTP on Prism Central running on a Hyper-V cluster?
Add an external NTP server.
Add the DNS server IP.
Add a server with a DNS hostname.
Add the IP of the Domain Controller.
Which update in LCM can an administrator apply on a per-node basis?
AOS
BMC
NCC
AHV
What guest customization options are available when creating a VM template?
Sysprep, Cloud-init, Custom Script, Guided Script
Bash, Powershell
Python, YAML
None, guest customization is not supported in Nutanix templates
Which two reasons could be a cause for the Compatible Remote Sites screen not listing all required storage containers when configuring Metro Availability between Nutanix ESXi-based clusters?
Source and destination hardware are from different vendors.
The remote site storage container has compression enabled.
The destination storage container is not empty.
Both storage containers must have the same name.
What is the most likely reason preventing Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling (ADS) from migrating VMs that are consuming too many resources on a single host?
VMs use a Volume Group.
VMs use GPU pass-through.
VM-VM anti-affinity policy is set.
VMs use external Network Attached Storage.
How should the administrator proceed to optimize a VM's storage by leveraging compression features?
Migrate vDisks to the Production storage container.
Recreate the VM in the Production storage container and copy data.
Migrate the VM to the Production storage container.
Recreate the vDisk in the Production storage container and copy data.
What are two expected system behaviors when testing failover scenarios after configuring AHV Metro Availability with Witness?
Guest VM I/O operations pause (freeze) until connectivity is restored.
Guest VM I/O operations pause (freeze) until connectivity between Prism Central and the primary site is restored.
Guest VMs failover automatically to the recovery cluster.
Guest VMs continue to run on the primary cluster.
Which Nutanix feature allows administrators to expand a cluster by adding new nodes without downtime?
AHV Protection Domains
Prism Central
Scale-out Architecture
Metro Availability
In Nutanix, what is the purpose of Storage QoS?
To increase the size of virtual machines dynamically
To manage data locality within a Nutanix cluster
To limit IOPS consumption of specific workloads
To enable deduplication and compression
Which networking component in AHV is responsible for providing network connectivity to virtual machines?
Controller VM (CVM)
Virtual Switch (vSwitch)
Nutanix Files
RDMA
What feature does Nutanix provide to enable asynchronous replication for disaster recovery?
Metro Availability
Protection Domains
Snapshots
Prism Element
What Nutanix feature helps improve performance by ensuring that VM data remains on the same node where the VM is running?
Data Tiering
Data Locality
Replication Factor
Prism Insights
Which tool in Nutanix can be used to gather logs for troubleshooting and support?
Nutanix Move
X-Ray
NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check)
LCM (Life Cycle Manager)
Which Nutanix feature allows users to clone multiple VMs from a single template efficiently?
One-Click Upgrade
Fast Clone
Prism Central
Image Service
Which feature allows a Nutanix administrator to perform non-disruptive upgrades of software and firmware?
Prism Central
One-Click Upgrade
Pulse Monitoring
Data Replication
Which hypervisors are officially supported by Nutanix for running virtualized workloads?
VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV
Citrix XenServer, KVM, Nutanix AHV
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, VMware ESXi, KVM
OpenStack, Proxmox, Nutanix AHV
What is the purpose of Replication Factor (RF) in Nutanix storage?
To increase read performance by caching data in memory
To provide data redundancy by storing multiple copies of data
