Nutanix NCA 6.

5 exam dumps

1. Which storage protocol is used to attach a container to an ESXi host?

NFS

2. How can an administrator determine if the cluster can sustain a hardware failure?

Review the Data Resiliency Status

3. On which Prism Element dashboard can an administrator identify that a node is in

maintenance mode prior to an LCM upgrade?

Hardware

4. An administrator needs to check which users have created VMs within the previous two
weeks.
How can the administrator satisfy this task?

Create a filter in Prism Central Audits page

5. What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)?

A combination of servers and storage into a distributed infrastructure platform.

6. An administrator wants to create an application-consistent snapshot.

Which NGT feature needs to be enabled to satisfy this task?

VSS

7. When creating a virtual switch on an AHV cluster, what is the recommended configuration
method?

Standard

8. By default, Nutanix Files will deploy how many FSVMs within a Nutanix cluster?

9. What is the minimum number of nodes needed to configure a Replication Factor of 2

(RF2)?

10. Which Nutanix replication type needs to be assigned to a VM to allow cross cluster live
migration?

Synchronous

11. An administrator needs to create a new chart to analyse GPU usage.

Which entity should be added to the chart?

Virtual Machine

12. What protocol does Pulse use to transmit cluster information to Nutanix?

HTTPS

13. Which tool is used to reinstall the hypervisor and CVM after boot disk replacement?

Phoenix
14. How many copies of metadata are written for a Replication Factor of 2 (RF2)?

15. Which account is recommended for performing tasks and operations on the CVM via SSH?
admin
16. What is the maximum transmission units (MTU) supported by Nutanix CVM?

1500 bytes

17. How is Prism Central deployed?

As a virtual machine

18. Which URL can be used to open Nutanix support cases?

portal.nutanix.com

19. An administrator needs to migrate a running VM's vDisks to another container without
downtime.

Which tool should the administrator use to satisfy this task?

aCLI

20. Which platform supports firmware updates through LCM?

Lenovo HX

21. After starting an LCM update from Prism Element, on which dashboard can the progress be
monitored?

Tasks

22. What is the maximum jumbo frame MTU supported by host network interfaces and Guest
VMs?

9000 bytes

23. Which technology provides Nutanix's native virtualization solution?

AHV

24. In Prism Element, which power action will allow the hypervisor to perform a hard restart
on a VM?

Power Cycle

25. Which area of the Prism Element homepage displays a cluster's current fitness?

Health and Data Resiliency

26. In Prism Element, to which object are policies such as replication factor and storage
efficiency settings applied?

Container

27. On which entity is Replication Factor configured?

Container

28. Which product or feature is most suitable for deploying a Microsoft SQL cluster in a
Nutanix environment?

Objects
29. Which Prism Central feature can map images to target clusters using categories?

Image placement policies

30. An administrator wants to have a single chart with the logical usage for three storage
containers. Which action should the administrator perform?

Create new entity chart

31. What requirement needs to be considered before configuring Replication Factor of 1 (RF1)?
Node count
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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?

35. Which IP address can be used to directly access Prism Element?

IP of any CVM

36. Which feature or configuration is best for securing network traffic between the
management and storage replication environments?

Network Segmentation

37. Where can an administrator find information about the Cluster Runway?

Prism central dashboard

38. Which address allows external connections to Nutanix storage presented by the Volumes
feature?

Data services IP

39. Which feature enables Image Placement Policies to be mapped to target clusters?

Categories

40. Which technology allows applications and data to move freely between runtime
environments?

App mobility Fabric

41. 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?

Recovery Point
42. What does Replication Factor 2 (RF2) refer to?

Number of copies of data written in the cluster

43. What is the purpose of Discoveries within the Nutanix Support Portal?

To identify clusters that are affected by known issues

44. What is the effect of enabling Flash Mode?

Sets the storage tier preference to SSD

45. Which LCM feature simplifies upgrades on clusters without Internet access?

Direct upload

46. 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

47. 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

48. Which option is available for an administrator to upload a remote disk file to Image
Configuration?

HTTP

49. When should Pulse be disabled?

Only under the guidance of Nutanix support

50. Which feature in Pulse helps secure a customer's private information?

Data Obfuscation

51. Which Nutanix storage service can store Petabytes of unstructured data and supports S3
APIs?

Objects

52. What is the biggest benefit of the Redfish Protocol and LCM?

BMC and BIOS update twice as quickly

53. Which AHV feature proactively monitors a Nutanix cluster for compute and storage I/O
contention or hot-spots over a period of time?

ADS

54. What resource should be used to ensure a successful upgrade of the hypervisors and AOS
within a vSphere-based Nutanix cluster?

Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix

55. 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?

Apply the same label to all the VM’s, then bind the policy to the label.
56. From Prism Central, how can an administrator access a cluster?

Use the cluster quick access from the main dashboard widget

57. Which type of network supports automatically assigning IP addresses to VMs?

Virtual Network with IPAM.

58. Where can an administrator configure role-based access control (RBAC)?

Prism Central

59. What is Nutanix's scale-out storage technology that makes its hyperconverged platform
possible?

Distributed Storage Fabric

60. How would an administrator upgrade the LCM framework to the latest version?

Settings / Upgrade Software

61. 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 stay up, but are unreachable until connectivity is restored.

62. 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?

Create an anti-affinity rule via CLI

63. 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?

CVM on the impacted node reboots

64. What is true about the network uplink ports?

They are connected in Active-Backup mode.

65. Which directory should the LCM Framework Bundle be extracted to on a dark site web
server in order to update the LCM Framework?

Release

66. Which Nutanix data efficiency mechanism replaces a traditional Replication Factor for
suitable data?

Erasure coding

67. 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?
All HA-protected VMs will be automatically restarted on other nodes in the cluster
68. 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 Central Reports with a schedule.
69. Which Nutanix storage efficiency feature is suitable for nearly every workload?
Compression
70. Which NIC-teaming configuration balances network traffic based on source/destination IP
addresses and TCP/UDP ports?
Active-Active with LACP
71. What data is stored as a file on storage devices owned by a CVM?
vDisk
72. 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 continue to run on the same host
73. 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?
Configure SMTP
74. What should an administrator do after a Protection Domain is migrated?
Mount data store on hosts
75. 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 CentOS VM image was built with UEFI
76. Which option allows administrators to specify groups of VMs and assign them to a
destination for Disaster Recovery using Leap?
Availability Zone
77. 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?
Analysis chart
78. 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?
Manage-ovs
79. A customer is running a three-node Nutanix cluster.
Which data optimization feature cannot be enabled in this scenario?
Erasure coding
80. An administrator receives several alerts indicating a Nutanix cluster is running out of
memory. As a pre-emptive measure, the administrator wishes to try to reduce the
consumed resources, if possible.
Which two predefined views for Reporting best display potentially reclaimable resources?
List of Inactive VMs and List of Overprovisioned VMs
81. 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 STIG
82. An administrator should use which Nutanix component to create in-guest clustering?
Volumes
83. 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?
SMTP server is not configured properly.
84. An administrator wants to evaluate the overall health of the Nutanix cluster.
What should be the first step?
RUN NCC
85. Which two advanced features requires you to install Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT)?

Disaster recovery of a VM between AHV & ESXi hypervisors

Self-service file-level recovery from VM snapshots

86. An administrator is unable to discover a Nutanix-hosted iSCSI block device allocated to a

bare-metal host. What is causing this issue?
External host IP address is not in the Filesystem whitelist
87. 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?
CVM
88. 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?
Run the log collector and Run NCC
89. 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?
1 VM per schedule
90. An administrator needs to upgrade a VM to 10 virtual processors.
Which action should the administrator take to complete this task?
Update the VM adding 2 cores
91. In which VM creation stage will the administrator see this dialog?
During OS installation
92. 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?
Flow
93. What is the minimum cluster size for Redundancy Factor 3?
5 nodes
94. How should an administrator enable the recycle bin on a Nutanix cluster?

Select Retain Deleted VMs for 24h in the cluster details page of the cluster setting

95. Which Task is Required to initiate a live migration of VMs between two cluster?

Press Migrate Button on the Protection Domain

96. An Administrator Wants a VM to Communicate with two Separate VLANs.

What steps should the administrator complete?

Add two NICs to the VM and Configure one for each VLAN
97. An Administrator needs to provide users access to prism Central Projects.

What Source of user accounts must the administrator Use?

Active Directory

98. A 10 GbE link has failed on Node A within the following cluster environment:

Four-node AHV-based cluster

All node have only two 10 GbE ports connected to the network

Active-backup is configured

What impact will user VMs experience from this issue?

Will have no impact

99. Management has tasked an administrator to restore the VM, VM for Question 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 1 Details, review restore points. then Clone

100. 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?
Block awareness
101. An Administrator wants to copy some virtual machine disk files to ADSF from an
external VMware ESXI Host. Which two actions should the administrator take to complete
this task?
Mount container as NFS on External host and Configure Whitelist on container
102. Assuming Sufficient storage capacity, how long are entities kept in Prism recycle
bin?

24 hours

103. Which Nutanix concept is responsible for accommodating and remediating node
failure scenarios?

Data locality

104.