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When should Pulse be disabled?. When the cluster is connected to the Internet with less than 1GbE. When the cluster is deployed in 3 dark-site. Before any cluster maintenance activities requiring node reboots. Only under the guidance of Nutanix Support.

An Administrator has created a Volume Group for a specific VM on an AHV Cluster. What is the next step required to user vDisk in the VM?. Attach the Volume Group to the VM. Configure CHAP Authentication. Reboot the VM. Bring the disk Online.

Refer to the exhibit What is true about the network uplink ports?. One is connected at 1GbE and the other is 10GbE. They are configured in Active-Backup mode. All are connected, but only two are carrying traffic. They are configured in Active-Active mode.

Where Does an administrator go to take a consolidated backup of the Key manager Servers?. Prism Central. Foundation Central. Prism Element. Security Central.

An administrator wants to evaluate the overall health of the Nutanix cluster. What should be the first step?. Run NCC. Run Log Collector. Run Xi Beam. Run LCM.

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.

Which Task is Required to initiate a live migration of VMs between two cluster?. Replicate VM Recovery Point. Promote Metro Availability Protection Domain. Press Migrate Button on the Protection Domain. Perform a Leap Planned Failover.

How is the destination cluster determined when uploading images from the local workstation to Prism Central?. Selected randomly. Selected manually. Selected alphabetically. Selected sequentially.

User are complaining that web application hosted on a Nutanix cluster are running slow. After reviewing the performance metric, it is determined that the CPU Ready time is high in the cluster. What entity is impacted by CPU ready time?. Oplog. NIC. vDisk. VM.

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.

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.

Where can an administrator configure role-based access control (RBAC)?. Self-Service Restore. Prism Element. Foundation. Prism Central.

An administrator should use which Nutanix component to to create in-guest clustering?. Storage Pools. Volumes. Blocks. Containers.

An administrator is unable to discover a Nutanix-hosted iSCSI block device allocated to a bare-metal host. What is causing this issue?. Jumbo frames has not been configured on the switch. External client access has not been enabled for the host. Network segmentation has not been enabled. External host IP address is not in the Filesystem Whitelist.

15. ***What is required to successfully live migrate a VM Between two AHV clusters?. Stretch L2 networks across the primary and recovery sites. Configure a Protection domain with synchronous replication. Install and Configure the witness VM on a third Site. Both clusters must be managed by the same prism central.

16. ***How long does a Nutanix cluster’s Recycle Bin retain deleted vDisk and configuration data files?. 6 Hours. 12 Hours. 24 Hours. 48 Hours.

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.

Which option allows administrators to specify groups of VMs and assign them to a destination for Disaster Recovery using Leap?. Security Policies. Protection Policies. Recovery Plans. Availability Zones.

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.

A company's security team has requested that all IT resources be hardened. What should an administrator do to increase the security of the Nutanix environment?. Enable Cluster Lockdown. Enable Prism Central KMS. Enable Flow. Enable STIG.

What should an administrator do after a Protection Domain is migrated?. Register Virtual Machines. Restore Virtual Machines. Mount datastores on Hosts. Power on Virtual Machines.

An administrator receives several alerts indicating a Nutanix cluster is running out of memory. As a preemptive measure, the administrator wishes to try to reduce the consumed resources, if possible. Which two predefined views for Reporting best display potentially reclaimable resources? (Choose two.). List of Inactive VMs. list of Bully VMs. Memory Runway. List of Overprovisioned VMs.

Where can an administrator find information about the Cluster Runway?. Prism Element Home Page. Prism Element Analysis. Prism Central Main Dashboard. Prism Central Analysis.

Which address allows external connections to Nutanix storage presented by the Volumes feature?. Prism Central IP. Prism Central IP. Data Services IP. IPMI IP.

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.

26. ***An administrator has been tasked with delivering a report on all nutanix Field Advisors (FAs) Affecting each of the clusters. What is the most efficient way to collect this data?. Request an environmental audit from the Nutanix Support. Use Prism to run NCC and Check for information on FAs. Review the discoveries information on the support Portal. Review Field Advisories published on the Support Portal.

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator needs to upgrade a VM to 10 virtual processors. Which action should the administrator take to complete this task?. Power-off the VM and add one vCPU. Update the VM adding two vCPUs. Update the VM adding two cores. Power-off the VM and add one core.

What type of relationship does a VM Affinity policy define?. VM to VM. VM to Storage tier. VM to Network VLAN. VM to Host.

An administrator needs to upgrade AOS for an air gapped cluster by using Prism Element. Which two actions allow the administrator to perform the upgrade? Choose Two. Extract the AOS binaries to the CVM. Manually Upload Binaries to a local http server. Manually Upload AOS binaries and metadata. Use the LCM dark site Option Providing AOS Binaries.

How should an administrator view the storage consumed by the recycle bin?. On the storage Overview dashboard. In the Cluster Details Page of the cluster setting. On the storage Summary Widget on the Prism Dashboard. In the Diagram or Table view on the Storage dashboard.

Which tool provides diagnostic system data for Nutanix to deliver proactive support? (Choose Correct answer and give explanation/References from Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) v6.5 official study resources). NCC. Cluster Heart. Pulse. Cluster health.

Refer to the exhibit A team member has built a CentOS VM image for use as a template. An administrator deploys a new VM using the CentOS image as the 05 drive. No other drives are presented to the VM. Following the deployment, the administrator attempts to boot the VM, but is unsuccessful. What could be causing this issue?. The VMS Boot Priority must reference disk first before CD-ROW. The VM's Disk (scsi.O) setting must be set to make this disk bootable. No Volume Groups have been created for the VM. The CentOS VM image was built with UEF.

What requirement needs to be considered before configuring Replication Factor of 1 (RF1)?. Application resiliency. Hypervisor. RAID configuration. Node count.

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.

What data is stored as a file on storage devices owned by a CVM?. Storage Pool. vDisk. Extent Group. Container.

Which Nutanix data efficiency mechanism replaces a traditional Replication Factor for suitable data?. Compression. Deduplication. Erasure Coding. Intelligent Cloning.

When Does AOS automatically Generate a case with nutanix Support?. When disk space usage is high above 90%. On failure of a scheduled NCC check. When losing network connectivity to the CVM. For every alert detected by pulse Diagnostics.

Which two advanced features requires you to install Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT)? (Choose two.). Disaster Recovery of a VM between AHV and ESXi Hypervisors. Live Migration of a VM between AHV & other Hypervisors. File recovery from a third-party backup. Self-service file-level recovery from VM snapshots.

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.

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 a category to the VMs. and associate the category with the policy. Apply the same label to all the VMs, then bind the policy to the label. Use a script to apply the policy to the defined VMs.

Which feature in Pulse helps secure a customer's private information?. Security Central. Cluster Lockdown. Data-at-rest Encryption. Data Obfuscation.

Which Nutanix storage service can store Petabytes of unstructured data and supports S3 APIs?. DSF. Files. Volumes. Objects.

Which Prism Central feature can map images to target clusters using categories?. Image Replication Policies. Image Placement Policies. Protection Domain Policies. Storage Policies.

Which feature enables Image Placement Policies to be mapped to target clusters?. YAML. Labels. JSON. Categories.

An administrator wants to view VMs with NGT Installed and Filter by their installed guest operating systems. How can this task most quickly be accomplished within prism central?. Use a pre-defined Prism Central report. Create a custome Focus using the OS Column. In the VM dashboard , filter by the nutanix Guest tools - OS field. use the Prism central analysis Panel to create a pie chart by OSType.

Which Nutanix Product Provide S3-Compatible Storage ?. Volumes. Files. Objects. Mine.

An application owner had reported that an AHV-based critical application VM is performing very slowly. After initial diagnostics, it has been observed that the CPU utilization is significantly higher than normal. What two actions should the administrator take on this VM without shutting it down? (Choose two.). Increase number of vCPU in Prism Element. Configure additional cores in acli. Ensure CPU hot-add is supported by the Guest. Use PrismElement to increase the number of cores.

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.

Which technology allows applications and data to move freely between runtime environments?. A. Distributed Storage Fabric. Disaster Recovery. App Mobility Fabric. Nutanix Move.

Which product or feature is most suitable for deploying a Microsoft SQL cluster in a Nutanix environment?. Volumes. Objects. NFS shares. Files.

An Administrator needs to provide users access to prism Central Projects. What Source of user accounts must the administrator Use?. Local Users. Open LDAP. Active Directory. SAML2 Provider.

What is the minimum number of blocks required to utilize block awareness?. 2. 3. 4. 5.

An administrator needs to upgrade AOS in a vSphere-based NutaniSJve-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.

A customer requires the ability to block all network traffic between their VDI VMs and their application VMs running on their Nutanix AHV clusters. What Nutanix product would meet this requirement?. Beam. Calm. Era. Flow.

Refer to the exhibit In which VM creation stage will the administrator see this dialog?. Upgrading Nutanix Guest Tools. During OS installation. During image sysprep. When powering on a UEFI VM.

An organization runs several core business applications on a Nutanix cluster. System stability and support are critical for these applications, which has an annual maintenance window. How can the administrator assure that these requirements are met?. Purchase Mission Critical support. Purchase Ultimate licensing. Adhere to the STS release cycle. Adhere to the LTS release cycle.

An Administrator Wants a VM to Communicate with two Separate VLANs. What steps should the administrator complete?. Add a single NIC to the VM and Configure it for both VLANs. Add two NICs to the VM and Configure one for each VLAN. Turn on IPAM for autoconfiguration of VLANs. Configure a security Policy to assign VLANs to the VM.

Which option is available for an administrator to upload a remote disk file to Image Configuration?. HTTP. FTP. SCP. SFTP.

A New Project is Being rolled out to an AHV Cluter being monitored by prism Central , The Application team indicated that the application managed by the project is very memory intensive. The administrator wants to be notified about any memory constraints should they occour. How would an administrator most effectively achieve this task?. Create a new metric chart for the cluster and analyse hypervisor Memory Usage. Search for the VM , then in the details page , go to metrics an select CPU usage. Create a Report to tracking the memory Usage. Create a new alert policy for the memory Usage and set to critical after 80%.

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.

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.

Assuming Sufficient Storage Capacity , how long are entities kept in the prism recycle bin?. 8 hours. 24 hours. 1 week. 1 month.

Which policy specifies that a selected VM will only run on a specific group of nodes?. Isolation. Anti-affinity. Affinity. Fixed.

What is the effect of enabling Flash Mode?. Sets the storage tier preference to HDD. Sets the storage tier preference to SSD. Sets the metadata tier preference to HDD. Sets the metadata tier preference to SSD.

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.

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.

On which entity is Replication Factor configured?. Host. Oplog. Volume. Container.

Which VM-level feature ensures continuous availability of data?. Replication Factor. Data Locality. Data Protection. Deduplication.

An Administrator has recieved the following critical alert: Node 192.168.148.172 is marked to be detached from metadata the administrator has opened a case with Nutanix and the support engineer has requested more information about the error. which two action should the administrator take in the health check dashboard to collect the requested information? choose two. Open A remote support tunnel. Run Logbay. Create an entity chart. Run Nutanix cluster check.

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.

What is the minimum cluster size for Redundancy Factor 3?. 3 nodes. 4 nodes. 5 nodes. 6 nodes.

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.

Which cluster configuration is LCM unable to perform firmware upgrades against?. Five-node. Three-node. Two - node. Single—node.

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 Nutanix concept is responsible for accommodating and remediating node failure scenarios?. Life cycle management. Auto resolve mode. Data locality. Self healing.

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator notices that the Data Resiliency Statue of some components has been reduced to 0. making it impossible to support a node failure in the cluster. What type of failure is most likely the cause of this issue?. Block. Disk. CVM. Nods.

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.

A customer is running a three-node Nutanix cluster. Which data optimization feature cannot be enabled in this scenario?. Post Compression. Map-reduce dedup. Erasure Coding. Inline Compression.

When a VM generates I/O, which Nutanix component is serving the storage request?. Hypervisor. Prism. HDD disks. CVM.

Nutanix Support Asked an administrator to provide AHV logs to help solve a support request. Which task should be performed to provide log files to the support team?. Run NCC Check from the command line. Upload log files from /home/nutanix/data/logs folder. collect logs from the health Page. Enable Pulse to include additional support information.

Refer to the exhibit. During VM creation, an administrator clicked on ♦ Add New NIC, but there is nothing in the Network Name dropdown list. What is causing this issue?. No physical NICs have been allocated for user VMs. The nodes nave no NiCs attached to them. Only 1G NIC is attached to the Nutanix nodes. A network was not created during Network Configuration.

In Prism Element, to which object are policies such as replication factor and storage efficiency settings applied?. Container. Virtual Machine. Storage Pool. vBlock.

A Cluster is Experiencing an occasional issue that does not impact production services. Which support case priority level should be assigned?. P1 – Emergency. P2 – Critical. P3 – Normal. P4 – Low.

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator has configured Prism Central to email daily digests of alerts on a cluster. After a week, the administrator notices that digests are not being received. What is the most likely cause of the issue?. The recipient address is no" registered with Nutanix. Nutanix support is not enabled as a recipient. The tunnel connection has not been enabled. The SMTP server is not configured properly.

What happens to images that are imported into Prism Central?. Copied to the Prism Central image repository. Remain in the source duster after import. Copied to all clusters managed by Prism Central. Deleted from the source cluster after import.

Refer to the exhibit. Management has tasked an administrator to restore the VM, VMforQuestion to a previous point in time (3:20pm), to recover from a corrupted set of files. Which snapshot should the administrator choose, and which action(s) should be executed?. Snapshot 2 Details review restore points. then Clone. Snapshot 2 Restore. Snapshot 1, Restore. Snapshot 1 Details, review restore points. then Clone.

A 10 GbE link has failed on Node A within the following cluster environment: What impact will user VMs experience from this issue?. Performance will Decrease. Will failover to another node. Will have no impact. Will shutdown.

Which LCM feature simplifies upgrades on clusters without Internet access?. One-Click Upgrade. NCC. Direct Upload. FTP.

Which feature or configuration is best for securing network traffic between the management and storage replication environments?. Use of Firewall Rules. Network Segmentation. VM Anti-Affinity Rules. Different Storage Containers.

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. Run cluster efficiency summary report selecting all the VMs that constitute the applications. Add Memory usage chart to Analysis dashboard for each required VM. Filter VMs list by using Memory Usage.

An administrator notices that a VM is slow and unresponsive. The administrator wants to compare performance to other VMs on cluster. Which chart type is best suited to display multiple VM performance metrics for diagnosis?. ADashboard Chart. Entity Chart. Analysis Chart. Metric Chart.

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.

Refer to the exhibit. 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. 4. 3. 2.

Which Component Allows you to pair sites for disaster Recovery Policy Creation Using Nutanix Leap?. Availability Zones. Protection Domains. Recovery Plans. Protection Policies.

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.

An administrator needs to expand a Nutanix cluster that is tagging the network traffic at the CVM and AHV level. However, the administrator doesn't remember the configured VLAN ID. Which command can the administrator run to find the correct VLAN ID from the CVM?. ifconfig. manage-ovs. acli. ovs-vscl.

Which Nutanix storage efficiency feature is suitable for nearly every workload?. Erasure Coding. Deduplication. Compression. Thick Provisioning.

An administrator has received the following critical alert: Node 192.168.148.172 is marked to be detached from metadata The administrator has opened a case with Nutanix and the support engineer has requested more information about the error. Which two actions should the administrator take in the Health Check dashboard to collect the requested information? (Choose two.). Create an Entity chart. Open a remote support tunnel. Run the Log Collector. Run the Nutanix Cluster Check.

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 view.

An administrator needs to provide data integrity at the application level for a VM that is replicated to a secondary site. Which requirement will satisfy this task?. VM per Consistency Group. VM per Availability Zone. VM per Protection Domain. VM per Schedule.

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.

How should an administrator enable the recycle bin on a nutanix cluster?. Select the Enable Recycle Bin checkbox on the storage Overview page. select Retain Deleted VMs for 8h in the cluster Details Page of the cluster setting. Select the enable recycle bin checkbox in the configure CVM page of the cluster setting. Select Retain Deleted VMs for 24h in the cluster details page of the cluster setting.

Which Windows technology does AHV support to prevent authentication theft?. Endpoint Manager. Azure AD Multi-Factor. Windows Defender Credential Guard. Active Directory federation Services.

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.

An Administrator wants to copy some virtual machine disk files to ADSF from an external VMware ESXI Host. Which two action should the administrator take to complete this task? choose two. Enable CHAP on Volume Group. Mount container as NFS on External host. Configure Whitelist on container. Configure Volume Group.

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 AHV feature proactively monitors a Nutanix cluster for compute and storage I/O contention or hot-spots over a period of time?. Genesis. ADS. Prism. Cluster Maintenance Utility.

An administrator is upgrading a current three-node Nutanix cluster with new HCI nodes. Currently, the environment is based on a Single two-unit chassis hosted in one cabinet. By simply changing the system form factor, what new level of resiliency may this customer achieve?. Rack awareness. Block awareness. Metro Availability. Better replication factor.