1.
If a Nutanix cluster that has been deployed using ESXi is only using one data store, which
advanced option needs to be set during the initial cluster deployment?
das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore with value of True
2.
To improve security on a newly created vSphere based Nutanix cluster, which two default
passwords should be changed? (Choose two)
Nutanix user on the CVM
Root user on ESXI
3.
After triggering a set of LCM updates, an administrator notices a failure message in Prism
during the pre-checks. Unfortunately, the message does not contain enough information to
isolate the exact cause of the pre-check failure.
In order to obtain more context around the issue, which two logs should be investigated on the
CVM? (Choose two)
Genesis.out
Lcm_ops.out
4- Which two CLI commands are required to take the CVM and
the node out of maintenance mode? (Choose two)
Acli host.exit_mainteance_mode host-ip
Ncli host edit id=host-id disable-mainteanace-mode= FALSE
5.
Which terms describe performance acceleration features of the Distributed Storage Fabric?
Intelligent Tiering, Data Locality and Automatic Disk Balancing
6.
The Autonomous Extent Store will bypass the OpLog in which workload scenario?
Sustained Random Write
7.
An administrator is setting up a new storage container which will host persistent (full clone)
VDI desktop VMs.
Which two storage optimization features should be enabled? (Choose two)
Deduplication
Inline compression
8.
What two types of VDI workloads benefit from enabling cache deduplication? (Choose two)
Persistent VMS
Full Clone
9.
An administrator is preparing an RF2 4-node cluster to deploy a VDI project consisting of full
clones.
Which action should the administrator take within the cluster to support this workload?
Create a dedicated storage container with inline deduplication and compression.
10.
A company wants a few lower priority VMs to communicate through 1G uplinks only.
How could the company achieve this while still maintaining maximum throughput for the
other mission critical VMs?
Create vs1 with 1G uplinks and assign the lower priority VMs a network on br1.
11.
What is the Nutanix recommended configuration for taking full advantage of the bandwidth
provided by multiple links?
Active-Active
12.
The administrator wants to create a detailed network mapping of which nodes/NICs
connect to which switches/ports, using MAC addresses, and plans on using a
script to collect this information from the cluster.
What would be the most efficient way to collect the node MAC address?
Use the ethtool command via cli.
13.
An administrator needs to customize report settings, such as appearance and retention format
that are differentiated for each corporate business unit.
Where should these customizations be configured?
In Report Settings for each report
14.
An administrator needs to compare two VMs to see if one is resource constrained.
Which two chart types can provide the administrator with this information? (Choose two)
Metric chart showing each VM's CPU Usage %
Entity Chart for each VM showing its CPU Ready %
15.
From Monday to Friday, a VM has a CPU consumption range between 20% and 40%. During
the weekend, the range decreases to between 15% and 25%.
In the last week after an update, VM CPU usage has spiked to 100% every 60-120 minutes.
In which two locations should the administrator look to track this behavior? (Choose two)
In the Vm details Metrics tab
In the Event dashboard
16.
An administrator has been asked to increase the number of processors for a VM because an
application is not performing well.
Currently, the VM has 1 vCPU with 2 vCores. Prism shows 50% CPU usage and 0 CPU
Ready.
Which action should be taken?
Do not add vcPUs because the application does not support SMP
17.
Which Inefficient VM Profile type is used to identify a VM with Host I/O Stargate CPU
usage > 85%?
Bully
18.
An administrator needs to configure an AHV cluster to be compliant with a corporate policy
that all system logs are forwarded to a central log server for inspection and analysis.
Configure rsyslog via ncli
Determine which modules and log level need to be forwarded
19.
Which service controls all I/O in the Nutanix cluster?
Stargate
20.
Which service is responsible for running the Nutanix GUI interface?
Prism
21.
An administrator has created custom alert policies in Prism Central that monitor CPU and
Memory usage of guest VMs. The application owners of specific VMs should be notified by
email when an alarm is triggered.
Create a rule to send an email to the application owner
22.
An administrator has observed that memory usage for a VM is reporting as 100% utilized in
Prism, while the in-guest usage never reports above 30%.
Install the Virtlo Balloon driver
23.
A company initially purchased a single Nutanix AHV cluster for virtual desktops. They have
configured the gold image to reside on the cluster Nutanix to provision their desktops.
After 6 months they have made an additional investment for 4 more clusters that are also
dedicated to run virtual desktop workloads.
In order for the administrator to be able to keep the gold image consistent across all clusters,
what are the two items that the Nutanix administrator needs to implement?
Setup Leap OnPrem and deploy Protection\recovery plans
Install NGT on the gold image so it can replicate between cluster
24.
What are two supported values of a Encryption Storage Policy? (Choose two)
Inherit from Cluster
Enabled
25.
An administrator has created several storage containers, which are all associated with the
same storage pool. Each container has different optimizations to support the VM workload.
Which two actions can the administrator take to ensure that one container does not use all
remaining storage space?
Configure the Reserved Capacity for each storage container
Configure the Advertised Capacity for each storage container
An administrator needs to run a mixed Exchange and SQL workload with a guaranteed amount of
container space for each application.
How should the administrator meet this requirement?
B. Create two containers and reserve space for containers
A configuration is single domain, single forest, and does not use SSL.
Which port number should be used to configure LDAP?
389
Which best practice should be followed when creating a bond in a Nutanix cluster?
Configure the bond to use LACP
A customer wants to isolate a group of VMs within their Nutanix environment for security reasons.
The customer creates a VM with two NICs to act as a firewall and installs the appropriate software and
certificates. However, no one from the outside can access the application.
What is the likely cause of this problem?
One of the NICs needs to be configured on the internal VLAN
In Files, how many FSVMs are deployed by default?
3
What are two minimum prerequisites for live migration to succeed? (Choose two.)
All AHV hosts must be configured on the same VLAN
All VMs have an IP address in the same subnet
How should an administrator enable secure access to Volumes using a password?
CHAP
An administrator is working on a one-node ROBO cluster configuration.
Which statement is true for this configuration?
Supported hardware is NX-1175S-G5 and NX-1175S-G6
An administrator receives an alert email that indicates that a health check has failed.
Which action should the administrator take to collect more information on the failed check?
Re-run the check from the CVM CLI using the ncc command
A cluster has RF2. The cluster loses two drives on different nodes in the same storage tier.
What is the effect on the replicas of the VMs?
No VMs lose data if the node has two or more SSDs
An administrator needs to boot a VM to a bootable CD. The administrator tries to configure the VM to
boot to it, selects to add disk, and goes to the images available. The image for the bootable CD is
unavailable.
What is the likely issue?
The bootable CD image is corrupted during creation
Which three cluster operations require an administrator to reclaim licenses? (Choose three.)
C. Destroy a cluster
D. Move Nodes between clusters
E. Remove a Node from a cluster
An administrator logs in to Prism Element, goes to the Network view, and sees the output shown in the
exhibit.
Which three steps must the administrator take to increase throughput to the host? (Choose three.)
A. Change the VLAN ID to a higher priority ID
B. Connect the 10Gb interfaces to the physical switch
Change the bond mode to balance-slb or balance-tcp
In a default configuration of an AHV cluster, a single node fails.
What happens to the running VMs on that node?
A. The cluster restarts all VMs in the event of a host failure
An administrator is configuring data protection and DR for a multi-tier application. All VMs must be
protected at the same time.
What must the administrator do to meet this requirement?
Create a consistency group for the application and place all VMs in it
A two-node ROBO cluster is configured with a witness VM.
What happens when Node A goes down?
Node B sends a leadership request to the Witness VM and goes into single-node mode
CPU utilization climbs above 90% on several VMs. This causes performance degradation for a
business-critical application.
How can alerts be configured to notify the administrator before VM CPU utilization hits 90%?
On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the alert threshold below 90%
Which node type does not deploy a Nutanix Controller VM?
Compute Only
A guest VM should be able to tolerate simultaneous failure of two nodes or drives.
What are the minimum requirements for the Nutanix cluster?
5 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 3
What Nutanix feature provides effective caching optimization In VDI environments?
Shadow Clones
An administrator is configuring data protection and DR for a multi-tier application. All VMs must be
protected at the same time.
reate a consistency group for the application and place all VMs in it
In Nutanix clusters, which feature ensures VMs can be migrated and restarted on another host in
case of failure?
High Availability
An administrator is setting up a Nutanix cluster and needs to configure the default VLAN. Which
configuration should the administrator choose?
Vlan.1
An administrator has been tasked with increasing security on Nutanix cluster by disabling password
authentication when accessing the CVM and AHV hosts and instead moving to key-based SSH, What
is the easiest way for the administrator to meet these needs?
Enable Cluster Lockdown and provide an RSA key
An administrator is adding a node with a higher AOS release to an existing cluster.
What is the most efficient action an administrator should take to ensure it is in a supported state?
Perform standalone reimage of the new node and then add to cluster
The customer is seeing high memory utilization on a mission critical VM. Users report that the
application is unavailable. The guest OS does not support hot add components.
How should the administrator fix this issue?
From the Prism web console:
*Go to the VM dashboard
*Select the VM from the VMs list
*Choose Update
*Adjust the amount of memory assigned to the VM
How many Prism Central instances are required to deploy Leap:'
One per customer environment
What requires iSCSI initiator configuration in the guest OS to use Volumes?
Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster
What is the name of the internal bridge used by AHV nodes and CVMs?
virbr0
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?
Utilize Optimize Resources for VM efficiency
Determine utilization with Cluster Runway
Microsegmentation was recently enabled in a Nutanix environment. The administrator wants to
leverage Prism Central to create a policy that will block all traffic regardless of direction, between
two groups of VMs identified by their category.
Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?
An Isolation Environment Policy
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?
Distribute workload across multiple virtual disks
Enable RSS (Receive Side Scaling)
Which two access protocols are supported by Files?
SMB
NFS
An administrator wants to have a VM on an AHV cluster with access to multiple VLANs. What is the
most efficient way to achieve this?
Update a vNIC on the VM to operate in trunked mode for all desired VLANs.
An administrator is working with Nutanix Support and needs to provide logs for troubleshooting an
issue. The cluster is located in a secure environment. Data such as IP addresses and VM names
cannot be shared.
On the Health dasbhord in Prism, use the Log Collector option under Actions and choose Anonymize
Logs
Prism Central will be installed manually on an AHV cluster.
Which three disk images must be downloaded from the portal for the Prism Central VM?
Boot
Home
Data
The administrator wants a container to be displayed and limited to 1TB in the hypervisor.
What advanced container setting must the administrator set?
Advertised Capacity
Which data savings technique utilizes stripes and parity calculation in a Nutanix cluster?
Erasure coding
What is the function of the virbr0 bridge on AHV?
To carry management and storage communication between user VMs and AHV host.
A customer has a newly-deployed AHV cluster with nodes that have 2.x 10 GBE and 2.x interface. The
customer wants to use all available network interfaces to provide connectivity to the VMs.
Which option should the administrator use to achieve this while remaining consistent with Nutanix
recommendations?
Create a second bridge on each host and assign the 1GbE interfaces to it.
The administrator recently had a node fail in an AHV Nutanix cluster. All of the VMs restarted on
other nodes in the cluster, but they discovered that the VMs that make up a SQL cluster were
running on the failed host. The administrator has been asked to take measures to prevent a SQL
outage in the future.
What affinity option will prevent the SQL VMs from running on the same hos?
VM-VM anti-Affinity policy
After logging into Prism Element, an administrator presses the letter A
on the Keyboard.
What is the expected outcome of this input?$
API Explorer page will launch
An administrator needs to increase bandwidth available to the AHV
host and to the CVM.
How should the administrator complete this task?
In Prism, update vs0 to change the configuration to Active-Active.
Which inefficient VM Profile can be used to identify a VM that
consumes too many resources and causes other VMs to starve?
Bully VM
What is he recommended approach for a constrained VM?
Increase the VM resources.
An administrator wants to expand the Failure Domain level of a
cluster.
Block / Rack
What is a requirement to enable Flow Neworking?
Flow Micro segmentation must be enabled.
A user running a Computer Aided Design (CAD) application is
complaining about slow response time within the VM, particular when
moving windows or rendering images.
GPU Usage
An administrator needs to ensure logs, alerts and information is
consistent across clusters that are located in different countries.
Which service needs to be configured?
NTP
An administrator manages an AHV cluster that is dedicated to a
dev/test environment. The administrator receiving complaints from
users that they are unable to create new VMs on the cluster.
After the reviewing the cluster, the administrator finds that the
memory resources are almost fully utilized, with many VMs over-
provisioned on memory.
Enable Memory Overcommit on the over-provisioned VMs.
During an AHV upgrade, an administrator finds that a critical VM was
powered off rather than migration to another host.
Which scenario explains this behavior?
The VM was marked as an agent VM.
Which two types of granular RBAC does Nutanix provide for AHV
hosts?
Category based
Project based
An administrator is tasked with configuring networking on an AHV
cluster and needs to optimize for maximum single VM throughput.
Which bond mode should the administrator select?
Active-Active
An administrator wants to replace and old node with a node of newer
generation in a 3-node cluster. The administrator has already chosen
the appropriate node. But unable to remove it from the cluster.
Why is the Remove Host option not shown in the exhibit?
It is not possible to remove a host from a 3-node cluster.
An administrator needs to create a new Linux image and will to do the
following as part of the VM deployment:
* Set the OS hostname
* Add custom users
* Add keys
* Run custom scripts
What package needs to be installed in the Linux image to facilitate
this automation?
CloudInit
An administrator has created a Nutanix managed it a VLAN ID of
512.
Several VMs have been created, and the administrator notices that the
can successfully communicate with other VMs on that VLAN.
Provided they are on the host, but cannot communicate with VMs that
reside on different hosts in the cluster.
What is most likely thee cause of this issue?
The VLAN was not created on the upstream switches.
An administrator is concerned about the amount of data that a VM
reading and writing to the storage fabric.
Which metric will provide that data?
VM Storage Controller IOPS
An administrator needs to configure a new subnet on an AHV cluster
and want to ensure that VMs will automatically be assigned an IP
address at creation time.
Which type of network does the administrator need to create?
Managed Network
An administrator was reviewing various AOS logs when a it was
noticed that the time of the logs were off by several hours.
Which initial step was missed during the post process cluster
configuration?
Setting the cluster time zone via CVM NCLI
Which AOS process determine if an I/O from a user will be written to
OpLog or to an Extent Store?
Stargate
A recently configured cluster is leveraging NearSync with a recovery
schedule of 15 minutes. It is noticed that the cluster is consistently
transitioning in an Out of NearSyne.
What action should be taken to potentially address this issue?
Increase network bandwidth
Which scenario would benefit most from Erasure Coding being
enabled on a container?
Long term storage of data which is written once and read infrequently
An administrator logs into the Nutanix Support Portal and notices
there is a new version of the LCM Framework available. In an effort
ensure LCM is providing the latest features, the administrator would
like to upgrade LCM.
Upload the latest LCM Framework bundle via Upgrade Software in Prism
An administrator has been asked to enable block awareness and
increase the fault tolerance to FT2 on a Nutanix AHV cluster with the
following configuration:
Four blocks
One node per block
Will the administrator be able to accomplish these tasks?
No-FT2 requires a minimum of five nodes.
What Nutanix feature provides effective caching optimization In VDI
environments?
Shadow Clones
Which capability refers to the storage of VM data on the node where
the VM is running and ensure that the read I/O does not have to
traverse the network?
Data Locality
An administrator has received reports of users being disconnected
from remote desktop sessions to a specific VM.
Which VM metric is most useful isolating the cause of the issue?
Virtual NIC receive packet dropped
What does Nutanix recommend when setting up the node
networkring?
Include at least two physically interfaces in every bond.
An administrator is not able to log into Prism Central by using a new
Active Directory user account. After Logging with the local user, the
administrator verified that Directory Services and Role Mapping
setting are valid.
User does not belong to the Administrators group.
Administrator is creating a Windows 10 VM that will be used for a
virtual desktop template. After creating the VM and booting to the
ISO, the administrator is unable to install Windows and receives the
following error.
Load the Virtual SCSI pass-through controller.
After configuring modules for a Remote Syslog Server, the settings
are as shown. The administrator notices that even though the level
parameter is set to EMERGENCY, that all monitor logs are being
sent.
What is the likely cause of this issue?
The true setting for Include Monitor Logs sends all monitor logs regardless of the
level.
