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1 / 60

Which change can be made on a cluster with software-based Data-at-Rest Encryption enabled?

Enable encryption for a VM

Disable encryption on the cluster

Change Native KMS to External KMS

Deploy an additional Native KMS Server

2 / 60

What is the name of the internal bridge used by AHV nodes and CVMs?

br0

br1

vnet0

virbr0

3 / 60

Which method can be used to migrate a VM configured for UEFI-boot from a Nutanix Hyper-V cluster to AHV?

Nutanix Move

Live Migration

Cloud Connect

Storage vMotion

4 / 60

What is the expected behavior of the VMs residing on that host when a controller VM becomes unavailable?

A Live Migration will be performed on the affected VMs

The impacted host and VMs will automatically shut down

VM High Availability will restart the impacted VMs on another host

The host will automatically redirect I/O and VMs will continue running

5 / 60

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.

What option is the most efficient resolution to enable additional VMs to be created?

Disable HA Reservation on the cluster

Enable Memory HA on the over-provisioned VMs

Upgrade the nodes with additional memory DlMMs

Enable Memory Overcommit on the over-provisioned VMs

6 / 60

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 separate VLANs that map 10GbE and 1GbE interfaces

Createbond1 on virbr0 and add the 1GbE interfaces to it for VM use

Create a second bridge on each host and assign the 1GbE interfaces to it

Create a second bond on br0 on each host and assign the 1 GbE interfaces to it

7 / 60

A configuration is single domain, single forest, and does not use SSL.

Which port number should be used to configure LDAP?

389

636

3268

3269

8 / 60

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 PE GUI

Setting the cluster time zone via PC GUI

Setting the cluster time zone via CVM NCLI

Setting the cluster time zone via CVM ACLI

9 / 60

An administrator wants to ensure that data in a container is stored in the most space efficient manner as quickly as possible after being written,

Which space efficiency too meets this requirement?

Erasure Coding

Thin Provisioning

Inline Compression

Cache Deduplication

10 / 60

When installing Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) on an ESXi-hosted VM, which port should be enabled on the VM to allow communication with the NGT-Controller VM service?

2000

2074

8080

9943

11 / 60

An administrator is commissioning a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Once the user VMs have been deployed and are running, the administrator finds that VMs on the same host are able to communicate, but are unable to communicate between hosts.

What must be changed to enable full inter-VM communications?

The VMs need to have static IP addresses

Change the network the VMs are connected to

Update the switch to specifically allow VLAN 15

Change the spanning-tree port type on the switch

12 / 60

In the event of a disk failure, which process will immediately and automatically scan Cassandra to find all data previously hosted on the failed disk, and all disks in that node?

Prism

Genesis

Stargate

Curator

13 / 60

After running an LCM inventory, it is noticed that there are a number of firmware and software updates available. The administrator would like to avoid any host reboots, but would like to apply some of the available updates.
Which two updates can be done while avoiding a host reboot? (Choose two.)

AHV, Data Drives

AOS, AHV

M.2 Drives, AOS

Data Drives, M.2 Drives

14 / 60

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator is trying to put a node into maintenance mode but receives the message shown in the exhibit.
What is a potential reason for this dialog?

LinuxVM1 uses a virtual GPU

LinuxVM1 uses a Volume Group

LinuxVM1 uses a vDisks stored in a RF1 DataStore

LinuxVM1 uses a vDisks stored in a RF3 DataStore

15 / 60

An administrator needs to limit the amount of storage space that data stored in single container can consume.
Which action should the administrator take?

Thick provision the container

Enable reservations for rebuild capacity

Set an advertised capacity for the container

Store VM snapshots in a different container

16 / 60

Refer to the exhibit.

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?

A Log Level of EMERGENCY includes all monitor logs

A second rsyslog server is configured to send all monitor logs

The true setting for Include Monitor Logs sends all monitor logs regardless of the level

Having the Module Name set to STARGATE sends all monitor logs regardless of the level

17 / 60

What is the minimum time a newly created Deduplication storage policy takes to apply to the VMs in the container?

5 minutes

10 minutes

20 minutes

60 minutes

18 / 60

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator is trying to implement the solution that is shown in the exhibit, but has been unsuccessful.
Based on the diagram, what is causing the issue?

Network latency

A remote Witness VM

Unsupported hypervisor

Active containers in both sites

19 / 60

An administrator has been tasked with increasing security on a 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 STIGs via command line on SSH to a CVM

Restrict access with User Management in Prism

Enable Cluster Lockdown and provide an RSA key

Configure LDAP authentication through a secure server

20 / 60

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?

DNS

NTP

SMTP

SNMP

21 / 60

The administrator recently had a node fail in an AMV 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 host?

Create Affinity Project

Create Affinity Category

VM Anti Affinity policy

VM-Host Affinity policy

22 / 60

An administrator has an AHV cluster that is comprised of 4 nodes with the following configuration in each node:

CPU: 2 each 2.4GHz, 12 core -

Memory: 256GB -

Disk: 6 each 1.92 SSD -
A VM with 16 vCPUs and 96GB of RAM is being created on the cluster.
How should the administrator configure the VM to assure optimal performance?

With an affinity policy

With Flash Mode enabled

With 2 vNUMA nodes

With memory overcommit

23 / 60

What is a requirement to enable Flow Networking?

How Microsegmentation must be enabled

Microservices Infrastructure (CMSP) is enabled

Prism Central is using a three-node scale out deployment

A dedicated virtual switch has been created for Flaw Networking

24 / 60

An administrator is performing validation testing of a newly deployed cluster. During this test, the administrator disconnects each LAN interface from each of the nodes while pinging the hypervisor and guest VMs.
When the first interface is disconnected, pings continue as expected to the hypervisor, but pings stop responding from the guest. Pings continue when the interface is reconnected. When the second interface is disconnected, pings continue to both the hypervisor and guest VMs.
What could be the cause of this error?

This is normal behavior for LAN Failover

Portfast is not enabled on the switch ports

Switch ports are configured with different VLANs

One of the network interfaces has a bad patch cable

25 / 60

An administrator has been asked to deploy VMs using a specific image. The image has been configured with settings and applications that will be used by engineering to develop a new product by the company.
The image is not available on the desired cluster, but it is available in other clusters associated with Prism Central.
Why isn’t the image available?

The cluster should be removed from all categories

The cluster has not been added to the correct category

The image bandwidth policy has prevented the image upload

The image placement policy was configured with soft enforcement

26 / 60

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator receives complaints of poor performance in a particular VM.
Based on the VM performance metrics, what is the most likely cause for this behavior?

The VM needs mare vCPUs

The host's CPU is severely overloaded

Oplog is full and cannot serve IO request for this VM

SSD tier is not big enough to serve workloads’ IOPS demand

27 / 60

An administrator needs to provide access for a user to view real time performance metrics for all VMs on all clusters across the datacenter.
Which method accomplishes this with the least effort and ongoing maintenance?

Configure local account and assign the new user to the Viewer role in Prism Central

Configure AD authentication and assign the user to the Viewer role in Prism Element

Configure IDP authentication and assign the user to the Cluster Admin role in Prism Central

Configure AD authentication, create a custom role, assign the user to the role, and apply the role to all clusters and VMs

28 / 60

An administrator needs to increase bandwidth available to the AHV host and to the CVM.
How should the administrator complete this task?

In Prism, create vs1 interface and add any remaining uplinks

In Prism, update vs0 to change the configuration to Active-Active

Use manage_ovs commands to create br1 and add any remaining uplinks

Use manage_ovs commands to update br0 to change the configuration to Active-Active

29 / 60

An administrator needs to configure Prism to send encrypted messages to a set of recipients.
Which setting must be applied?

Use SMTP Port 25

Set SMTP Security Mode to STARTTLS

Install SSL certificates on Prism Central

Configure Prism Central to use Cluster lockdown

30 / 60

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?

Yes - FT2 requires a minimum of three nodes

No - FT2 requires a minimum of five nodes

Yes - Block awareness requires a minimum of three blocks

No - Fault tolerance changes are not supported

31 / 60

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator wants to replace an old node with a node of a newer generation in a 3-node cluster. The administrator has already chosen the appropriate node, but is 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 node from a 3-node cluster

It is only possible to remove a host from a cluster using CLI

The host needs to be placed into Maintenance Mode before

The host needs to be removed from the cluster using Prism Central

32 / 60

The 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:
We couldn't find any drives. To get a storage driver, click Load driver.
What steps does the administrator need to take to install the OS?

Load the Nutanix VirtIO Balloon Driver

Load the VirtIO Network Ethernet Adapter

Load the Nutanix VirtIO Serial Bus Driver

Load the VirtIO SCSI pass-through controller

33 / 60

Which capability refers to the storage of VM data on the node where the VM is running and ensures that the read I/O does not have to traverse the network?

Data Tiering

Data Locality

Intelligent Locality

Intelligent Tiering

34 / 60

Which Inefficient VM Profile can be used to identify a VM that consumes too many resources and causes other VMs to starve?

Bully VM

Inactive VM

Constrained VM

Over-provisioned VM

35 / 60

What does Nutanix recommend when setting up the node networking?

Include at least two physical interfaces in every bond

Include NIC models from different vendors in the same bond

Combine NIC models from different vendors in the same bond

Combine 1 GbE interfaces and 10 GbE interfaces in the same bond

36 / 60

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator is trying to create a custom alert policy for all! VMs.
Why is the Alert warning if field greyed out?

The Alert critical if threshold is set

The Behavioral Anomaly threshold is set

The Enable Policy option is checked

The Auto resolve alerts option is checked

37 / 60

Which Nutanix service controls noli, the HTML5 UI, and REST API?

Prism

Chronos

Zookeeper

Cassandra

38 / 60

An administrator has been notified by a user that a Microsoft SQL Server instance is not performing well.
When reviewing the utilization metrics, the following concerns are noted:
Memory consumption has been above 95% for several months
Memory consumption has been spiking to 100% for the last five days
CPU Usage is 45%

Storage latency is 2ms -
When logging into Prism Central, how could the administrator quickly verify if this VM has performance bottlenecks?

Perform Entity Sync

Filter VM by Efficiency

See Capacity Runway

Update Capacity Configurations

39 / 60

What is the recommended approach for a constrained VM?

Delete the VM

Reboot the VM

Decrease the VM resources

Increase the VM resources

40 / 60

Which two types of granular RBAC does Nutanix provide for AHV hosts? (Choose two.)

Disk based, Closter based

Closter based, Project based

Project based, Category based

Category based, Disk based

41 / 60

What Nutanix feature provides effective caching optimization in VDI environments?

Snap Clones

Shadow Clones

Local Protection Group

Remote Protection Group

42 / 60

Which scenario would benefit most from Erasure Coding being enabled on a container?

WEB and API Servers

VDI use cases where a single VM is cloned 100’s of times

High performance databases where all data is relatively hot

Long term storage of data which is written once and read infrequently

43 / 60

During an AHV upgrade, an administrator finds that a critical VM was powered off rather than migrating to another host.
Which scenario explains this behavior?

The VM was marked as an agent VM

The VM OS hung during migration

The VM was on the same host as the acropolis leader

No AHV hosts were able to be scheduled

44 / 60

An administrator wants to receive an environment summary report when a host failure occurs.
Which action would address the administrator's need?

Edit report schedule

Create a playbook

Configure an alert policy

Enable App Discovery

45 / 60

An administrator wants to expand the Failure Domain level of a cluster.
What two options are available? (Choose two.)

Rack, Data Center

Block, Rack

Node, Block

Data Center, Node

46 / 60

While installing Windows 2019 on a new VM on an AHV cluster, an administrator notices there aren't any drives listed for the install.
What might the problem be?

VirtIO drivers aren't supported on this version of Windows 2019

VirtIO drivers have not yet been installed and the disks are IDE disks

VirtIO drivers must be installed on AHV for installations of Windows

VirtIO drivers have not yet been installed and the disks are SCSI disks

47 / 60

An administrator logs into the Nutanix Support Portal and notices there is a new version of the LCM Framework available. In an effort to ensure LCM is providing the latest features, the administrator would like to upgrade LCM.
How can the LCM Framework be upgraded?

Upgrade AOS

Perform an LCM inventory

Upload the latest LCM Framework bundle via Upgrade Software in Prism

Upload the latest LCM Framework as an image in the Image Configuration in Prism

48 / 60

On a Nutanix cluster, what does Network Segmentation refer to?

A distributed firewall for securing VM to VM traffic

Isolating intra-cluster traffic from guest VM traffic

Isolating management traffic from storage replication traffic

Physically separating management traffic from guest VM traffic

49 / 60

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator needs to update some images that were previously uploaded to their Nutanix cluster. While logged into Prism Element when trying to update the images, the update icon is not enabled.
What could be the cause for this behavior?

Images were imported into Prism Central

Images are corrupted and must be re-uploaded

RBAC is configured and the administrator's user doesn't have the right privileges

The files were ISO but were uploaded as disk images hence cannot be used or edited

50 / 60

Refer to the exhibit.

The Update Source for LCM has been configured as shown in the exhibit. Inventory is failing consistently.
What is the likely cause of this issue?

Port 80 is blocked by a firewall

Port 443 is blocked by a firewall

The license assigned to the cluster has expired

The administrator does not have a valid portal account

51 / 60

Which baseline is used to identify a Zombie VM?

VM is powered off for the past 21 days

VM has no logins for the past 21 days

Fewer than 30 I/Os and less than 1000 bytes per day of network traffic for the past 21 days

Memory usage is less than 15% and memory swap rate is equal to 0 Kbps for the past 21 days

52 / 60

Upon logging into Prism Central, an administrator notices high cluster latency.
How can the administrator analyze data with the least number of steps or actions?

Click the cluster name in the cluster quick access widget

Modify Data Density in the main Prism Central dashboard

Click on the chart in the widget to expand the data elements

Take note of the cluster name and create a new Analysis chart

53 / 60

An administrator is setting up a Nutanix cluster and needs to configure the default VLAN.
Which configuration should the administrator choose?

vlan.0

vlan.1

vlan.2

vlan.7

54 / 60

An administrator is concerned about the amount of data that a VM is reading and writing to the storage fabric.
Which metric will provide that data?

Host Disk IOPS

VM Storage Controller IOPS

Host Hypervisor IO Bandwidth

VM Storage Controller Bandwidth

55 / 60

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

Active-Backup

Active-Active with Mac Pinning

No Uplink Bond

56 / 60

An administrator is troubleshooting vDisk performance issues in a Nutanix cluster with hybrid disks. The VMs all have Flash Mode enabled, but users are reporting disk latency.
What could cause these performance issues?

Hash mode is disabled when a node fails

The VMs vDisks are in multiple containers

Data size for flash mode exceeds 25% of the SSD capacity

Compression is disabled on the vDisk storage container

57 / 60

Which component can be associated with a storage policy?

Subnet

Catalog

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