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Q1 an administrator responsible for a VDI environment needs to investigate reports of slow login. The
administrator finds that increasing the number of vCPU from 2 to 4 reduce the login times. Production
workload are consuming 75% of the host CPU on the cluster. The administrator increases the vCPU
count on all of the VDI VM’s.

What two impact on cluster?

A. Increase CPU utilization of cluster.

B. Increase CPU read.
C. Increase memory utilization.
D. Increase CPU count will decrease memory utilization.

Q2 an administrator using Nutanix move to migrate 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 domain admin account for windows VM.

B. Reboot the VM and try migration again.
C. Follow manual VM preparation.
D. Place windows VM in maintenance mode.

Q3 A VM is exhibiting one or more of the following baseline values based on the past 30 days.

- CPU usage <20%

- CPU read time <5%
- Memory usage <50% (moderately) or < 20% ( severely)
- Memory swap rate = 0 kbps

Which type of VM is being described?

A. Constrained VM
B. Inactive VM
C. Bulky VM
D. Over provisioned VM
Q4 an administrator receives reports that VDI desktop performance in an 8-node Nutanix
environment is poor. Opening application takes between 1 and 2 minutes.

When investigating the issue, the following conditions are found:

- Cluster memory utilization 80%

- Cluster SSD utilization 70%
- Average VM CPU wait time 11%
- CVM CPU utilization 75%

Which action should be taken to improve VDI performance?

A. Increase the amount of SSD storage in the cluster.

B. Add memory to the nodes in the cluster.
C. Add CPU resource to the cluster.
D. Increase the number of vCPU cores allocate to the CVM.

Q5 an administrator has a custom backup application that requires a 2TB disk and runs in windows.
Throughput is considerably poor than expected.

The application was installed on a VM with following configuration.

- Four vCPU with one core/vCPU

- 4 GB of memory
- One 50 GB vDisk for the windows installation
- One 2 TB vDisk for the application.

What is the recommended configuration change to improve throughput?

A. Increase the number of cores per vCPU

B. Increase the vCPU assign to the VM
C. Span 2TB disk across four vDisk
D. Add 4 GB of memory to the VM.

Q6 A customer recently setup Async Replication between Site A and Site B. The customer wants to
conduct a planned failover and clicks Activate on site B.

The customer then runs following command on site A:

Ncli pd deactivate _and_destroy_vms name=<protection domain name>

What does this to the customer environment?

A. VMs get deleted from site B, and the protection domain is now active.
B. VMs are powered off on site A and must be manually powered on site B.
C. VMs get deleted from site A and the protection domain no longer active.
D. Customer must then manually power off VMs at site A and power them at site B.
Q7 an administrator needs to forecast infrastructure requirements for a new program and its
associated applications. Prior to the project start of the new program, all exiting application will be
decommissioned.

How should administrator perform this task?

A. Check the Disregards Exiting Workloads radio button in the runway scenario.
B. Check the Disregards Exiting 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 Capacity runway.

Q8 a customer has a primary datacenter with 12 Nutanix blocks distributed across three RACKs. The
Customer wants to achieve most resiliency possible. They also have datacenter in a branch office that
is 400 km away from primary DC.

Which two solutions should be used? (Chose Two)

A. Time stream to remote site.

B. Async DR to a remote site.
C. Rack awareness.
D. Block awareness.

Q9 which action should the administrator take to improve network performance?

A. Configure vlan tagging on br0 and br1 and their physical interfaces.
B. Add eth0 and eth1 to br0-up bond.
C. Configure balance-SLB or Balance-TCP mode for br0-up if switch configuration allows.
D. Remove one GBs interfaces from br0-up to make sure 10 GBs can be used.
Q10 an administrator is concerned that PRISM will be inaccessible if active directory unable to logins.

Which method should the administrator use to access cluster in event of this type of outage?

A. Manage the cluster using “Nutanix” user on the prism leader CVM.
B. Create and use an emergency local account on the cluster.
C. Deploy active directory server locally on the cluster.
D. Manage the cluster remotely by downloading ncli to a remote workstation.

Q11 Customer has NearSync configured. When administrator tries to restore a snapshots from 3
minute ago, it is not available. The snapshots are happening 15-minute intervals instead of 5-minute
configured interval. When the protection domain was initially set up, the snapshot were happening at
the expected 5-minute interval.

What should the customer do to enable the snapshots to happen at the expected intervals?

A. Utilize Metro Availability to meet this requirement

B. Change the protection domain to use Async DR
C. Fix connectivity issue because the protection domain reverted to Async.
D. Configure the protection to take snapshots on 15-minute intervals.

Q12 An administrator deploys Exchange on Nutanix cluster. The administrator creates two containers
with RF2 configuration:

- One container for exchange.

- One container of other VM’s

The exchange VM is experiencing I/O performance issue.

Which change to storage optimization should be used on the Exchange Container to enhance I/O
performance?

A. No data reduction
B. Post process DE duplication on
C. Inline compression and EC-X
D. Inline compression and DE duplication

Q13 While creating on image placement policy on the organization AOS 5.15 –based on 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
Q14 which action should be used to troubleshoot without disrupting the VM’s running on the node?

A. Replace the cable from eth2 to the switch.

B. Remove eth3 from br0-up and monitor for new alerts.
C. Check the port on the switch side for any errors.
D. Enable balance-slb on br0-up and monitor if a problem persists.

Q15 an administrator protects DB VM running on a Nutanix cluster with Nearsync replication, which
schedules to repeat every 15 minutes to second site. The daily change rate is low. During night
backups the replication window missed due to write volume.

Which two options describe the expected behavior? (Choose Two)

A. NearSync stop working and fails over to the remote site.

B. Protection domain transitions back to the hourly schedule.
C. The administrator needs to re-enable it manually.
D. The systems continuously tries to get the NearSync schedule.

Q16 An administrator is deploying three-tier application on Nutanix enterprise cloud consisting of

Web, application and database VMs. Traffic between the servers must be limited to specific
service/port. There is an application layer firewall VM deployed on one host in the cluster.

In which way should the administrator meet this requirement?

A. Creates 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 dedicated VLANs.
D. Categorize the VMs in prism central and utilize flow to set security policy.
Q17 Refer to 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?

A. Workloads are multi-threaded.

B. VMs have one vCPU configured.
C. VMs have multi queue disabled.
D. VMs have more than one vCPU.

Q18 an administrator is performing a set of routine check and note that PRISM Central running 4 vCPU
and 21 GB RAM. The organization environment running is based on two Nutanix Clusters with 170
VMs plus a legacy vSphere infrastructure. No manual changes have done on PRISM central VM.

Which configuration justifies the current PRISM central configuration?

A. Nutanix MOVE running on PRISM Central to import VMs from the legacy cluster.
B. PRISM Central was installed for large deployment environment.
C. PRISM central running legacy cluster and require more RAM.
D. Nutanix leap and Nutanix flow have been enabled on PRISM central.

Q19 an administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new files 3.5 deployment.

Why this is happening?

A. NFS default access is set to Read only.

B. Multi-protocol access is not configured.
C. Access based enumeration is not enabled.
D. The system is deployed as a single FSVM.
Q20 Refer to exhibit.

A. Combine both of the OS and SQL binaries disks.

B. Add second SCSI controller for the Database. TempDB and logs disks.
C. Separate the Database TempDB and logs onto their own disks.
D. Configure the VM to use a PCI disk controller.

Q21 an administrator of a Nutanix Enterprise cloud has micro segmentation enabled and firewall VM
installed. The security team notifies the administrator that one of the VM hosted in the environment
has been exhibiting suspected network activity. The administrator wants to isolate the VM from
production network, but must still be able to access it to perform diagnostics.

What should administrator do to meet the requirement?

A. Disable the vNIC on the affected VM.

B. Quarantine VM using the forensic method.
C. Create firewall rule that blocks VM traffic, but permits diagnostic access.
D. Create a security policy with a service chain directing that VMs traffic to the firewall VM.

Q22 an administrator migrates a VM onto a new Nutanix Cluster. After the migration, the
administrator observes the following conditions:

- Cluster memory utilization: 64%

- Cluster CPU utilization: 19%
- Cluster storage utilization: 32%
- Average VM CPU utilization: 25%
- Average VM CPU ready: 24%
- Average VM memory utilization: 60%

Which two changes should the administrator make to improve VM performance?

A. Add more memory to VM.

 B. Reduce the no of vCPU assign to the VMs.
C. Replace high core count CPUs with high clock rate CPUs.
D. Reduce the number of VMs on the hosts.

Q23 an administrator is supporting a business critical environment and deploy 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 150 Mb/s of write
throughput and 20 MB/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 12.5 MB/s.
C. The replication frequency must be less than 60 minutes.
D. Zero data loss nearsync must be used to support this workload.

Q24 a system administrator needs to add more VMs to their Nutanix cluster.

Which two actions should the administrator perform to determine if the current cluster can
accommodate the new VMs?

A. Perform an inventory with Life Cycle Management.

B. Determine utilization with cluster runway.
C. Enable De-duplication and erasure coding.
D. Utilize optimize resources for VM efficiency.

Q25 A guest VM is reported to have poor storage performance. It has an I/O profile 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 the SSD capacity.

B. Increase the OPLOG.
C. Increase the write cache.
D. Use HDDs with higher RPM.
Q26 Refer to exhibit.

What is causing this issue?

A. Incorrect link speeds on the switch

B. The interface is incorrectly configured with jumbo frames
C. A misconfigured bond
D. A physical layer network problem.

Q27 an administrator deletes a large amount of data from a Volume group presented to a Linux VM.
The administrator notice that the deleted data has been reclaimed as usable storage?

What action should be taken to reclaim the storage capacity?

A. Shrink the volume group that is associated with Linux VM.

B. Unmount the volume group and then remount the volume group.
C. Enable the unman operation on the Linux VM.
D. Run defrag on the Linux VM

Q28 A customer has two mission-critical application and needs to have them backed up to remote
location. The remote location is connected using a leased line and has as average latency of 7 ms.

Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest RPO possible?

A. NearSync
B. Leap
C. Metro availability
D. AsyncDR
Q29 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?

A. Use multiple subnets for iSCSI traffic

B. Enable RSS (Receive Side Scaling)
C. Enable thick provisioning on the volume group
D. Distribute workload across multiple virtual disks

Q30 Micro segmentation was recently enabled in a Nutanix Environment. The administrator wants to
leverage prism central to create 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

Q31 an administrator configure authentication in PRISM central (PC) for NTNX admins group. Users
reports that they are unable to log in. The administrator confirms that the Active Directory (AD)
setting in PC are correct.

Which condition could result in the behavior?

A. A role mapping needs to be associated with the AD group.

B. The users must be added to the Domain Admin group.
C. The local authentication type must also be selected in PC.
D. A client chain certificate must also be added in PC.

Q32 an organization’s Nutanix Cluster is based on VMware vSphere. The cluster is configured for
download software automatically. The administration needs to verify and eventually upgrade
VMware hypervisor via Prism UI.

After logging in to Prism, the administrator receives the massage shown:

No available versions for upgrade

What is causing the current state?

A. VMware support has expired, so downloads are not available.

B. vSphere binaries needs to be manually uploaded.
C. The environment is running the latest vSphere version, so no update is required.
D. The cluster is unable to connect to release-api.nutanix.com:80
Q33 an administrator receives an error indicating that the CVMs in the cluster not syncing to any NTP
server. An investigation of the issue finds:

- The NTP servers are configured in prism.

- The time on all CVMs is the same
- Both the CVMs and AHV hosts are configured for the UTC time zone

Which two steps can be taken to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose Two)

A. Confirm that the NTP servers are reachable from the CVMs.
B. Restart genesis on all CVMs
C. On a CVM, run the command allssh ntpq –pn
D. Restart the chronos service on all CVMs

Q34 an administrator is implementing a VDI solution. The workload will be a series of persistence
desktops in a dedicated storage container within a four-node cluster. Storage optimizations should be
set on the dedicated storage container to give optimal performance including during a node failure
event.

Which storage optimization should the administrator set to meet the requirements?

A. Compression, De-duplication and Erasure coding

B. De-duplication and Erasure coding
C. Compression and De-duplication
D. Compression only.

Q35 Refer to exhibit

A Nutanix host is connected as shown in the exhibit with br0-up set to active/backup. Physical switch
1 experiences a power outage causing br0-up to failover to using eth2. The CVM and host become
inaccessible. User VMs restart on other hosts in the cluster, which causes a disruption to those VMs.

Which configuration issue likely caused this outage?

 A. Bridge br0-up should be configured to use balance-tcp rather than active/backup
B. The CVM should have eth1connected to the OVS
C. The upstream port for eth2 is missing a VLAN.
D. The user VMs only have one NIC.

Q36 an administrator is configuring software only. Data-at-rest Encryption on their Nutanix cluster.
They are planning to deploy a third party KMS server.

Where this server should be hosted?

A. As a single VM on the Nutanix cluster.

B. On hardware external to the Nutanix cluster
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.

Q37 An administrator recently added VLAN 205 CRM in prism element. The workloads attached to the
associated NICs are enable to establish network connectivity.

Which Layer 2 protocol allows the administrator to troubleshoot this issue from PRISM Element?

A. HDLC
B. SLIP
C. LACP
D. LLDP

Q38 an administration is deploying an application requires maximum I/O throughput for scratch data.
The administrator concerned that the throughput requirement is greater than what can be provided
by a single cluster node.

What should the administrator do to meet this requirement?

A. Create a volume group with several virtual disks and attach to the VM.
B. Create a volume group with one virtual disks and attach to the VM.
C. Create a virtual disk attached to the VM PCI interface.
D. Create several virtual disk attached to the VM’s virtual SCSI controller.

Q39 an administrator is deploying several new application VMs to a Nutanix cluster. The application is
very transactional with a 28/72 random, read/write ratio.

What should the administrator do?

A. Add a minimum of four SSDs to each node to ensure all writes go to the SSDs.
B. Add a minimum of four virtual disks to each VM, and aggregate them on guest OS level.
C. Add one large SSD to each node and enable flash mode for VMs.
D. Add one large virtual disk to each VM, and use it for all application data.
Q40 an administrator wants 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 cluster

B. Relocate the linked LDAP servers
C. Shutdown all user VMs in the cluster
D. Reconfigure IPMI for the new datacenter.

Q41 Refer to exhibit

What is the purpose of eth2 on the CVM?

A. RDMA Network segmentation

B. iSCSI connectivity
C. Remote site connectivity
D. Network segmentation

Q42 an administrator wants to utilize network utilization to monitor physical and logical network on
the Nutanix cluster. The first hope switch has LLDP enabled. The network switch information is still
not being displayed.

What is the causing this problem?

A. The ISL between switches is not configured

B. SNMP is not configured properly
C. Br0 and br1 not defined
D. The cluster is using RDMA-enabled NICs.
Q43 an administrator is missing SMB shares from third-party platform to Nutanix Files with following
characteristics:

- Share 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 distributed migrated data as evenly as possible.
C. Create standard share with multiple top-level directories and distributed migrated data.
D. Create distributed shares with multiple top-level directories and distributed migrated data.

Q44 an administrator manages the following two Nutanix AOS 5.15 cluster environment:

- Corp-cluster-01
- Corp-cluster-02

The VM images must be available only on Corp-cluster-01, but cannot be checked out to cluster Corp-
cluster-02. The images also cannot be checked out to any other cluster that are registered with PRISM
central in the future.

Which two configuration settings must the administrator choose when creating the image placement
policy that satisfies the stated requirements?

A. Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-01 as target cluster.
B. Set the policy enforcement to soft.
C. Set the policy enforcement to hard
D. Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-02 as target cluster.

Q45 a customer has a Nutanix cluster with 10 GB connectivity via switch fabric extenders. The
administrators receives NCC health check errors of latency greater than 200ms.

Which action should take to resolve NCC health check errors?

A. Replace the switch fabric extenders with 10GB line rate switches.
B. Upgrade the NCC and increase the CVM memory by 4 GB
C. Add to additional 10 GB uplinks from switch fabric extenders per node
D. Upgrade NCC and increase the vCPU of the CVM

Q46 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/hosts

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/event page
Analyze output for the network and interface properties and connectivity
 B. Verify the Host/CVM connectivity on the network utilization 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 failure
Access the NIC properties in the network visualization > Host properties page
D. Restart network services on CVM
Determine the current configuration of the affected CVM via output
Access the alert/events page for the CVM network connection failure.

Q47 an administrator configures AD authentication as shown in exhibit. Upon finishing setup. Users
are not able to log in. What configuration change should be made to fix this issue?

A. Change ldaps to https

B. Change the directory URL to use an IP rather than a name
C. Change the port from 389 to 636
D. Change the domain to use an IP rather than a name
Q48 in a Nutanix cluster, a protection domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to remote site
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

At 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that 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?

A. From remote site, activate the protection domain and then re-protect the entity
B. From the remote site, restore the VM from the local snapshots by selecting correct snapshots
C. From the local site, retrieve the correct remote snapshot, then restore VM locally.
D. From the local site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot

Q49 a customer with four-node RF2 cluster is adding application VMs to their system. After adding
these VMs, the prism dashboard shows 81% storage utilization.

What is the consequence of running the cluster at 81% storage utilization?

A. The customer has the ability to add more VMs up to the 100% storage utilization
B. There is available capacity in the storage fabric, and the cluster is resilient
C. Node failure is imminent due to storage utilization
D. The cluster is not resilient in the storage fabric.

Q50 a company needs to replicate their VMs to remote site and must have an RPO of less than 1 hour.

When creating a protection domain, what should an administrator do to meet this requirement?

A. Enable Async Replication with an RPO of 60 minutes

B. Enable Near-Async Replication with an RPO of 15 minutes
C. Enable entity sync on the designated VMs
D. Enable Availability zones and send the VM to multiple targets.

Q51 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 require
- Use of Nutanix VSS

Which Data Protection method should be used?

A. Async
B. Metro Availability
C. Near Sync
D. Cloud connect
Q52 an administrator needs to replicate self-signed certificate on a cluster.

Which two requirement must be met as part of the process? (Choose Two)

A. The cluster administrator must restart the interface gateway.

B. The signed, intermediate, and root certificate are chained.
C. The existing certificate must be deleted prior to replacement.
D. The imported files for the custom certificate must be PEM encoded.

Q53 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 maximum of 60 minute of data loss,
SQL data must be quiesced.

The protection domain is configured as follows:

- Application consistent snapshots are enabled.

- The SQL server VMs are assigned to protection domain as their own consistency group
- The protection domain schedule is configured as snapshot taken every 90 minute from 7 am
until 8 pm.

What must be changed to meet the require 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

Q54 an administrator is monitoring the Nutanix v5.15 AOS based cluster performance logs and notice
that a SQL server VM is greatly exceeding its intended maximum IOPS. The administrator has confirms
that a QoS policy was previously created for the group of VM this server is a member of.

What are reasons that this VM would exceed its maximum configured IOPS from the QoS policy?

(Choose Two)

A. The VM is missing required snapshot needed to implement the QoS policy.

B. The VM was not crated as an AFS virtual machine.
C. The SQL server VM has volume group attached.
D. It was clone from another SQL server VM that was a member of the QoS policy.

Q 55 an administrator needs to make sure an RF3 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 20 TB usable storage all flash drives. (Cluster Total 600TB usable)
- Current cluster utilization is 500 TB storage.
- Storage container 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

Q 56 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.

Q 57 an administrator have two clusters: Site A & Site B

Async DR is configured between two 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 is used as backup/disaster recovery

The customer wants to perform plan failover between the sites.

How should the administrator accomplish this?

A. Click activate on secondary site within data protection dashboard

B. Click activate on secondary site and run deactivate 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
Q58 after performing ESXi to AHV conversion on a cluster, the alerts shown in the exhibit display on
PRISM:

What should the administrator do to resolve this issue efficiently?

A. Remove the VMs, create a new protection domain and add new VMs on it.
B. Remove VMs from the protection domain add them back in
C. Delete the protection domain, create a new protection domain, and add the VMs in it
D. Create a new Protection domain and add the VMs to it

Q 59 an administrator is configuring an all flash cluster to support the following workloads:

- Full clone virtual desktop

- Hadoop
- Write heavy Database

Which three correct configuration options should the administrator use to meet the item
requirements?

Correct- 2,3,4 Incorrect 1,5,6

Q 60 a system administrator needs to shutdown AHV node in a Nutanix Cluster without causing
service disruption. The administrator checks Data resiliency and verifies that the cluster can tolerate a
node down.

Which three steps should administrator perform the next?

Q 61 an administrator need to initiate a new VDI project within a couple of month, Prism Central
reports there is no storage available to accommodate such a workload.

The administrator sees many powered-off VMs and has the authority to delete test VMs powered-off
at least for 30 days. Test VMs belongs to Test category.

Using Prism Central, which steps require to identify the correct VMs to be deleted?

A. Use capacity runway to filter by Test and Powered off VMs.

B. Filter VMs list, choose Test category and inactive under Efficiency
C. Create a new Scenario selecting Test VMs, filter by uptime.
D. Create a new Project selecting Test VMs, sorting by power state.
Q 62 Refer to Exhibit.

A. User 2 can continue to add another 3 GB file but will receive a daily notification email.
B. User 1 can continue to add another 5 GB file but will receive a daily notification email.
C. User 1 can add an 8 GB file to share without receiving notification.
D. User 2 can add an 8 GB file without receiving a notification email.

Q 63 a customer wants to run SAP Hana on a Nutanix cluster with 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, de-duplication, or erasure coding on the storage container
D. Place the SAP HANA Database on the same socket as CVM

Q 64 an administrator knows that the disks in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is
available. For security reason, these cluster 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 from the Nutanix portal
D. Select upgrade software, then select disks and upload the updated firmware.
Q 65 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
setting
D. The affected FSVM will be restarted on another node.

Q 66 a VDI environment based on AHV cluster is not performing well. The current environment is
using only one bridge (Bridge0). The administrator needs to verify if nodes are using all network card
associate to Bridge0.

Which Two menus should be used to check the current configuration? (Choose Two)

A. Network configuration item in setting menu

B. Host view in Network menu
C. Host NICs tab in Hardware menu
D. I/O metrics tab in VM menu

Q 67 an administrator needs to create and start five new VMs for a Data Analytics Project (OLAP). The
VM profile as follows:

- vCPU: 4
- vRAM: 64 GB
- vDisk: 1.5 TB

Each of four nodes of the Nutanix cluster has the following:

- 24 vCPU, 20% overall usage

- 192 GB RAM, 60% overall usage
- 2 x 1920 GB SSD
- 4 x 2 TB HDD

At cluster level, there is a single RF2 container that is 30% utilize and has an extent store capacity of
13.5 TB.

Which components requires administrator attention?

A. Physical RAM, because it is not enough to power on all of the new VMs
B. Physical cores, because they are not enough to power on all of the new VMs
C. Storage, because the capacity is not enough to create VMs
D. Flash tier, because it is not enough to accommodate the workload.
Q 68 Refer to exhibit

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 need 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 multi-thread applications
Q 69 an administrator is notified that a bare metal database server is down. This database server is
being served storage using Nutanix Volume Group. Upon investigating, the administrator finds that
the disks in the Database server that mapped to vDisks in volume group have gone offline.

What is causing this issue?

A. The volume group load balancer has been disabled

B. Port 9443 is blocked in the server firewall
C. Port 3260 has been blocked in the server firewall
D. A CVM serving the volume group has gone offline

Q 70 Refer to exhibit

A. Resolve all alerts and re-import the disks to make sure there is no service disruption.
B. Restart all CVMs for the cluster to check, confirm health and repartition and add the disks
C. Reseat all disks immediately. If this does not help, reseat the nodes
D. Check status of application running on the cluster and call support

Q 71 an administrator needs to migrate workload from Nutanix cluster running VMware ESXi to
Nutanix AHV. The migration process needs to be completed in multiple VM groups and support roll
back in case any problems are found during user acceptance testing.

Which action should the administrator perform?

A. Use cross hypervisor DR to replicate VMs from ESXi to AHV

B. Use VMware converter
C. Use Nutanix one-click cluster conversion from ESXi to AHV
D. Use storage live migration
Q 72 an administrator needs to expand the cluster based on AHV and running on Nutanix G5
hardware with a new Nutanix G7 system. The cluster is running AOS 5.10 but the operation fails when
expanding the cluster. AOS is running on the new system. There are no issue discovering the nodes.

Why is the operation failing?

A. AOS version running on G7 is older than the version on the cluster.

B. Foundation software has not been updated on the cluster.
C. G7 hardware cannot be added to a G5 cluster
D. EVC needs to be configure before cluster expansion

Q 73 Refer to exhibit

A. Change the network the VMs are connected to

B. Change the spanning tree port type on the switch
C. The VMs needs to have static IP address
D. Update the switch to specify allow VLAN 15
Q 74 an administrator is deploying Nutanix files 3.5 and needs to configure the sizing of the FSVMs for
an increased number of concurrent SMB connection over the default 750.

What should the administrator do?

A. Deploy the files VMs, power down the three FSVMs. Change the CPU and RAM via PRISM and
then power the three FSVMs backup
B. During installation, click customize on the file server installation screen. Change the number of
connections and finish the installation
C. Complete the default installation, change the CPU and RAM in prism, and then log in to the file
server dashboard and change the file server properties
D. During installation, input the correct number of connections in the file server installation screen
and complete the installation.

Q 75 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 investigating, administrator finds the following:

- All AHV hosts are powered on and all CVMs are running
- Nodes A, B and C are connected to one TOR switch
- Nodes D and E are connected to second TOR switch
- The cluster status command run on Node A shows that CVM service on node D and E are down

Which issue is causing the storage outage?

A. The default gateway for the CVM 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

Q 76 Refer to exhibit
 A. Metro availability Protection Domain is active on the remote site
B. VMware site recovery Manager is handling a failover event
C. Metro Availability did not fail over and causing an outage
D. vSphere moved VMs to the remote site container, and the VMs must be moved back

Q 77 an administrator 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 on to its own virtual network?

A. Volume
B. Objects
C. Containers
D. Files

Q 78 an administrator is planning to deploy a Nutanix cluster to support few high performance VMs.
This deployment will have the following consideration:

- Individual VMs will likely generate network throughputs in the range of 90-100 Mbps
- 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 more) remote host 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 maintain
the simplest switch configuration?

A. Configure bond0 as balance-slb

B. Configure bond0 as active-backup
C. Configure bond0 as balance-tcp
D. Configure bond0 as balance-lacp

Q 79 an administrator needs to replace an aging SAN and move to hyper-converged infrastructure.

The existing environment consists of the following hosts that are connected to the SAN:

- 5x AIX hosts
- 3x Hyper-v hosts
- 9x ESXi hosts
- 2x physical SQL cluster( windows Server 2012R2 hosts)

After deploying a Nutanix AHV cluster, which two action should the administrator take to meet the
requirements?

A. Deploy volume to support AIX and SQL workloads

B. Migrate ESXi workloads to AHV using MOVE
C. Deploy files to support AIX hosts
D. Migrate ESXi and Hyper-V workloads using MOVE
Q 80 Refer to exhibit

An administrator creates a security policy that isolate their financial application from accessing the
internet. When viewing the policy in Prism central, several connections from the application are
outbound to the internet.

What causing this issue with the policy?

A. The 0.0.0.0 address was not specified in the outbound rule.

B. The blocked connection are illustrated for information only
C. The Activate box was not checked in the rule, so it is not enforcing
D. The policy has been left in monitor mode instead of enforcing mode.

Q 81 Refer to exhibit

A. A node has been rebalanced

B. A Drive has been reformatted
C. A node has been rebooted
D. A Drive has been ejected
Q 82 a 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 check

- Network performance status
- Storage performance status

Which tool is used to perform these test?

A. X-Ray
B. Clurator_cli
C. NCC
D. Diagonostic.py

Q 83 an administrator is deploying an application using Nutanix volume. After configuring the volume
group and connecting the guest’s iSCSI initiator to the volume group, they being performance testing.

The administrator learns that performance on the virtual disk attached to the iSCSI initiator is far less
than that of virtual disk connected directly to the VM.

Which situation is causing this condition?

A. The VMs iSCSI traffic is being routed to the Data service IP subnet
B. The performance test is generating small block random IO.
C. The cluster Data service IP address is a bottleneck shared with other iSCSI traffic
D. Data Locality ensure that VM attached disks are always faster than iSCSI volumes.

Q 84 an administrator learns that some security setting in a cluster have been changed. The
environment is out of compliance with required policies.

Which function should be used to revert any setting that have changed from the default and prevent
further violations?

A. Cluster lockdown with strong password enforcement

B. Advance Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE)
C. Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA)
D. Defense Information Systems Agency STIG enforcement

Q 85 an administrator has an existing Nutanix seven-node cluster running at RF2 that must be
changed to have the following capabilities:

- RF3 set for the cluster

- Performance tier de-duplication

What is the minimum memory needed on the CVMs to allow for these capabilities?

A. 24 GB
B. 28 GB
C. 32 GB
D. 20 GB
Q 86 an administrator receives reports about a Nutanix environment. The investigation finds the
following:

- VMs are experiencing very high latency

- Each node is equipped with a single SSD, utilized at 95%
- Each node is equipped with three HDDs, utilize at 40%

Why are the guest VMs experiencing high latency?

A. CVMs are overwhelmed by disk balancing operations.

B. All VM write operations are going to HDD
C. All VM read operation are coming from HDD
D. VMs are unable to perform write operations.

Q 87 a customer has metro availability configured in Automatic resume mode between site A and site
B.

What happens to VMs if primary site A has full network failure?

A. Automatic protection domain promotion in site B, VMs automatically restart in site B.

B. VMs continue to run on Site A following an automatic disable of protection domains.
C. An administrator must unwitness in Site B and promote protection domains in Site B for VMs to
restart.
D. An administrator must promote protection domain in Site B for VMs to restart.

Q 88 an administrator is responsible for the following Nutanix Enterprise Cloud environment:

- A central datacenter with a 20 –node cluster with 1.5 PB of storage

- Five remote sites each with a 4-node cluster with 200 TB storage

The remote site are connected to the datacenter via 1 GB links with an average latency of 6 ms RTT.

What is the minimum RPO the administrator can achieve for this environment?

A. 0 Minute
B. 15 Minute
C. 1 Hour
D. 6 Hours

Q 89 a Nutanix cluster is deployed with the following configuration:

- Three four-node blocks ( A,B and C)

- All flash redundancy factor 2

What is the effect of simultaneous disk failures on two nodes located in block A?

A. VMs are migrated off of the nodes with disk failures.

B. Each node with a failed disk is marked as degraded.
C. VM read and write operations continue normally
D. VMs on the nodes with failed disks are unable to write data.
Q 90 a VM does not have enough resources for the demand, which leads to performance bottlenecks.
The VM is exhibiting one or more of the following baseline value 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