Nutanix Certified Professional Certification Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Updated Exam Questions

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1. AHV IPAM assigns an IP address from the address pool when creating a managed VM NIC.

At which two instances does the address release back to the pool? (Choose two)

The IP address lease expires

The VM NIC is deleted.

The IP address is changed to static.

The VM is deleted.

2. In Nutanix clusters, which feature ensures VMs can be migrated and restarted on another host in case of failure?

High Availability

Protection Domain

Host Affinity Rules

Availability Zone

3. What is the expected operation during node addition when the new node has a different AOS version?

The entire cluster is upgraded to the latest one-click release.

The node is added and a separate upgrade operation must be performed.

The addition fails and forces the administrator to image using standalone Foundation.

The node is automatically re-imaged using the software currently running in the cluster.

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

Disable encryption on the cluster

Deploy an additional Native KMS Server

Enable encryption for a VM

Change Native KMS to External KMS

5. A guest VM should be able to tolerate simultaneous failure of two nodes or drives.

What are the minimum requirements for the Nutanix cluster?

3 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 3

3 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 2

5 nodes with cluster RF 2 and container RF 3

5 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 3

6. When creating a VM on an AHV cluster, how is the initial placement of the VM determined?

AHV uses a round robin algorithm, placing new VMs onto hosts based on the numerical order of their UUID

The administrator right clicks on the desired host and selects Power on VM from the dropdown menu

The Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler selects a host which provides adequate resources for the VMs configuration

Placement is determined by the host that holds the new_VM token at the time of VM creation

7. 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 a CVM, use ncli to set the VM CPU Check threshold for the critical VMs to a value below 90%.

On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the alert threshold below 90%.

On a CVM, configure a cron job to run the VM CPU Check more frequently and email the result.

On the Alerts dashboard, ensure that the VM CPU usage alert is not set to auto-resolve.

8. 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.)

Connect the 10Gb interfaces to the physical switch.

Change the bond mode to balance-slb or balance―tcp.

Remove any 1Gb interfaces still connected from the default bond.

Add a new switch to the network and connect 1Gb interfaces to it.

Change the VLAN ID to a higher priority I

9. 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 host will automatically redirect I/O and VMs will continue running.

The impacted host and VMs will automatically shut down.

VM High Availability will restart the impacted VMs on another host

10. How many SSL certificates are used by Prism Element on a Nutanix cluster?

256

2048

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11. Which two access protocols are supported by Files? (Choose two.)

ISCSI

SMB

FCOE

NFS

12. 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? (Choose three.)

var

tmp

boot

home

data

13. What is the default network bond setting for an AHV host configuration?

active-backup

active-active

balance-slb

balance-tcp

14. What is Prism Central primarily used for?

Multi-cluster network configuration

Container creation

Multi-cluster Single Sign On

Data reduction configuration

15. An administrator has been alerted to a VM that has high I/O latency and wants to determine if there are any other factors, such as insufficient network or memory resources that correlate, as part of a troubleshooting process.

Which type of chart should the administrator create to allow all relevant data to be easily exported to CSV for later analysis?

A VM entity chart with each of the relevant metrics.

A cluster metric chart for each of the relevant metrics

A cluster entity chart with each of the relevant metrics

A VM metric chart for each of the relevant metrics

16. Where should an administrator unregister Prism Element from Prism Central?

From a Host SSH session

From the Prism Central web console

From the Prism Element web console

From a CVM SSH session

17. Refer to Exhibit.

An administrator increases the cluster RF to 3. The containers are not modified.

What will the new values in the data resiliency dashboard be for FAILURES TOLERABLE for the Zookeeper and Extent Groups components?

Zookeeper = 1 and Extent Groups = 1

Zookeeper = 2 and Extent Groups = 2

Zookeeper = 2 and Extent Groups = 1

Zookeeper = 1 and Extent Groups = 2

18. Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?

Cloud Connect

Controller VM

Prism Element

Prism Central

19. 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?

Access the CVM on the host that is running the VM: * Open acli * Run a command to increase the amount of RAM assigned to the VM

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

Go to Control Panel in the VM: * Select the Computer Properties * Increase the amount of RAM assigned

During the next maintenance window: * Select the VM from the VMs list * Perform a graceful shutdown

20. Which two private key types are supported by the Nutanix SSL certificate implementation? (Choose two.)

ECDSA

ECDH

ED25519

RSA

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21. 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.

Create a network in AHV associated with all those VLANs on all hosts.

Use SFPs that allow the needed VLANs.

Use one vNIC per VLAN for the V

22. 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 each VM with identical schedules

Create a consistency group for the application and place all VMs in it

Create a protection domain for the application and select auto-protect related entities

Create a protection domain for each VM with identical schedules

23. Refer to the exhibit.

System Non-Root Partition Usage shows a warning or critical alert. The administrator needs to change the frequency of checks and alerts to respond more quickly.

Where in Prism Element should the administrator change the frequency of checks and alerts?

Health Dashboard > Manage Crocks > Frequency

Alerts Dashboard > Manage Checks > Schedule

Health Dashboard > Manage Checks > Schedule

Alerts Dashboard > Manage Checks > Frequency

24. 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?

Destroy cluster and foundation with the new node in place

Add the node to the cluster and leave the existing AOS version in place

Perform standalone reimage of the new node and then add to cluster

Add the node to the cluster and reboot all running VMs to use new release

25. An administrator is configuring cross-hypervisor DR from an ESXi cluster to a new AHV cluster. When the administrator migrates a protection domain to the AHV cluster, the VMs fail to boot.

What should the administrator do to correct this problem?

Increase the snapshot frequency to more than 6 hours.

Uninstall VMware Tools from the VMs.

Install Nutanix Guest Tools in the protected VMs.

Add all VMs into a single consistency group.

26. Which component ensures uniform distribution of data throughout the cluster to eliminate hot spots and speed up rebuilds?

Cassandra

Distributed Storage Fabric

High Availability

Acropolis App Mobility Fabric

27. An administrator wants to use Volumes to connect to physical servers that are not able to be virtualized.

Which three things must be configured for Volumes to support iSCSI clients? (Choose three)

Enable external client access

Client OS iSCSI initiator

iSCSI Multipathing I/O

Cluster Virtual IP address

Data Services IP address

28. An administrator responsible for a VDl environment needs to investigate reports of slow logins. The administrator finds that increasing the number of vCPUs from 2 to 4 will reduce the login times. Production workloads are consuming 75% of the host CPU on the cluster. The administrator increases the vCPU count on all of the VDl VMs.

What are two impacts on the cluster? (Choose two)

Increasing CPU counts will decrease memory utilization

Increase memory utilization%

Increase CPU utilization%

Increase CPU ready%

29. An administrator is reviewing performance of a core banking system that routinely has 20,000 concurrent users. During business hours, the CPU on the applications servers runs at close to 100%. The administrator needs to determine if there is a performance issue specific to the app servers, the database servers, or all servers on the cluster.

Which metrics should the administrator review in Prism Analytics Graphs?

Cluster CPU and Memory Only

Cluster IO, Network, Database and App Server CPU

Cluster IO, CPU, Memory and Database and App Server CPU

Cluster IO, CPU, Memory, Network, App Server CPU

30. An administrator needs 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.)

Reconfigure IPMI for the new datacenter

Shut down all user VMs in the cluster

Relocate the linked LDAP server

Stop all Nutanix Files clusters

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31. Which three configuration scenarios are valid for the deployment of Prism Central? (Choose three.)

Environments use Network Address Translation.

Prism Elements and Prism Central art in different subnets.

Environments do not have Internet access.

Prism Elements and Prism Central have proxy configured.

Environments use the 192.168.5.0/24 CVM management network.

32. A two-node ROBO cluster is configured with a witness VM.

What happens when Node A goes down?

The- cluster becomes unavailable and goes into read-only mode.

All operations and services on the Node B are shut down and go into a waiting state.

The cluster is unaffected and no administrator intervention is required.

Node B sends a leadership request to the Witness VM and goes into single-node mode.

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

vnet0

br1

br0

virbr0

34. HOTSPOT

What is the proper sequence to perform a one-click upgrade to a Nutanix cluster?

Item instructions: For each procedure, indicate the order in which that procedure must take place to meet the item requirements. Not all procedures are valid. Identify any invalid procedures using the drop-down option.

35. Which two capabilities does IPAM provide in a Nutanix networking configuration? (Choose two.)

Allows proxy server settings to be set up for a defined network

Allows AHV to assign IP addresses automatically to VMs using DHCP

Configures a VLAN with an IP subnet and assigns a group of IP addresses

Configures firewall rules to prevent or allow certain TCP/IP traffic

36. In Files, how many FSVMs are deployed by default?

37. 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?

Create one container and set capacity reservation

Create two containers and reserve space for containers

Create one container and enable compression

Create two containers and reserve space for vDisks

38. A customer has a 24-node cluster with all containers configured with RF3. Two different nodes have incurred a simultaneous HDD failure.

What is the result?

The cluster runs in a degraded state until the failed drives are replaced and the data has been restored to three replicas.

Sixty minutes after the failures a rebuild of the lost data can remaining HDDs begins to restore to three replicas.

The VMs with data on those drives crash, and an HA event occurs, restarting them on a remaining healthy node.

The Nutanix cluster recognizes the failures and immediately begins to rebuild lost data to three replicas.

39. 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? (Choose two.)

Reduce the number of vCPUs assigned to VMs.

Add more memory to the VMs.

Reduce the number of VMs on the hosts.

Replace high core count CPUs with high clock rate CPUs.

40. An administrator wants to create a trunked interface on a VM on AOS 5.15x.

Which two steps should the administrator take first to achieve this? (Choose two)

Use acli

SSH to CV

Update VM dialog.

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41. An administrator notices that most of the VMs in the cluster are on one host. Users report that an application seems to respond slowly. The application server VM has significantly more memory assigned to it than other VMs.

How should the administrator fix this issue?

Reduce the amount of memory assigned to the V

Migrate the VM to a different host.

Add more memory to the V

Increase the memory on the CV

42. What are two minimum prerequisites for live migration to succeed? (Choose two.)

All AHV hosts have IP addresses in the same subnet

All AHV hosts must be configured on the same VLAN

All VMs have an IP address in the same subnet

All VMs are configured for the same VLAN

43. When configuring Prism Central, which two log modules are able to forward messages to an external syslog server? (Choose two.

API Audit

Flow

DNS

NTP Synchronization

44. How should an administrator enable secure access to Volumes using a password?

iSER

CHAP

SAML

LDAP

45. HOTSPOT

An administrator needs to shut down an AHV cluster to relocate hardware. The administrator upgrades NCC and runs health checks.

Which steps should the administrator perform next?

Item instructions: For each procedure, indicate the order in which that procedure must take place to meet the item requirements.

46. Which node type does not deploy a Nutanix Controller VM?

Storage Only

Hyper Converged

Compute Only

All Flash

47. How will an HDD failure affect VMs with data on the failed device?

The VMs will crash, and will be restarted once the failed HDD has been replaced and the data has been restored.

A live migration will be initiated, moving the affected VMs to a host that contains the replica data.

The VMs will remain operational on that host and continue to function normally with no noticeable impact

An HA event will occur, causing the affected VMs to restart on a node that contains the replica data.

48. In which two scenarios is an automated live migration likely to occur? (Choose two)

Cluster resource hotspot

AOS upgrade

Network upgrade

Hypervisor upgrade

49. How should an administrator configure a custom alert for a specific VM in Prism?

Modify an existing alert to only alert on the specific V

Modify VM settings to add the custom alert.

Modify the alerts to add a new custom alert policy.

Modify node settings to add the custom alert.

50. Where can an administrator change a CVM password?

KMS Server Terminal

CVM setting in Prism Element

CVM setting in Prism Central

Prism CVM VM Console

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51. An administrator needs to report on any alerts generated by a Nutanix cluster that affected the cluster's availability over the past 10 days.

Which method should be used to locate these events?

On the Health dashboard, use the Log Collector to export data based on time stamp.

Export the cluster event log to a CSV on the Alerts dashboard.

On the Alerts dashboard, filter based on Impact Type and the desired Time Range.

Configure an Alert Policy to generate an email with the data on the Health dashboard.

52. An Administrator is working on a one-node ROBO cluster configurations

Which statement is true for this configuration?

Witness vm required to break cluster quoram

Supported hardware is NX-1175-G5 and G6

witness vm should be 8vcp and 20gb ram

the minimum RPO 8 hours required

53. What requires iSCSI initiator configuration in the guest OS to use Volumes?

SQL Server Always On Availability Group

Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster

Oracle RAC

Exchange DAG

54. Which three cluster operations require an administrator to reclaim licenses?(Choose three)

Destroy a cluster.

Upgrade a cluster

Migrate a cluster

Remove a Node from a cluster

Move Nodes between clusters.

55. Which data savings technique utilizes stripes and parity calculation in a Nutanix cluster?

Compression

Parity strip

Erasure coding

Deduplication

56. 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

57. 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

Reserved Capacity

Advertised Quota

Reserved Quota

58. Which three upgrades should an administrator be able to perform using Lifecycle Management? (Choose Three)

AOS

BMC

BIOS

Hypervisor

HBA Firmware

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

Which port number should be used to configure LDAP?

389

3269

636

3268

60. 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?

A shared volume group must be used by all isolated VMs

More than one NIC cannot be added to a VM

One of the NICs needs to be configured on the internal VLAN

Wireshark is installed on the NAT VM

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61. An administrator has set up a local web server accessible to the Nutanix clusters.

Which two steps are required to set up LCM for an environment without Internet access? (Choose two.)

Download the lcai_disconnecced_version. tar.gz LCM bundle from the support portal.

Edit LCM Advanced Settings in Prism Element and enter the address of the web server.

Edit LCM Advanced Settings m Prism Central and enter the address of the web server.

Download the lcm_dark_site_version. tar . gz LCM bundle from the support portal.

62. An administrator needs to boot a VM to a bootable CD. The administrator tries to configure the VM to boot to it, select to add disk, and goes to the images available. The image for the bootable CD is unavailable.

What is the Likely issue?

The CD-ROM interface is too slow.

The administrator selected a disk attached before it can boot to a C

The VM needs to have a standard disk attached before it can boot to a C

The bootable CD image is corrupted during creation.

63. Which algorithm do snapshots and clones leverage to maximize efficiency and effectiveness?

Continuous Data Protection

Copy-on-Write

Split-mirror

Redirect-On-Write

64. A VM in a 12-node Nutanix cluster is hosting an application that has specific Physical GPU requirements. Only three nodes in the cluster meet this requirement.

The administrator wants to allow a general workload to be distributed across all nodes in the cluster and must make sure that the node hosting the VM meets its requirements.

How should the administrator perform this task?

Create a sperate three-node cluster using the nodes that meet the requirement.

Configure VM-Host affinity for the nodes that meet the application's GPU requirement.

Over-Provision the application VM with additional virtual GPUs.

Configure anti-affinity rules between the application VM and the other VMs running on the cluster.

65. In which two scenarios is Native Key Management Server supported? (Choose two)

XenServer and AHV mixed cluster.

Hyper-V and AHV mixed cluster.

KVM and AHV mixed cluster.

ESXi and AHV mixed cluster.

66. HOTSPOT

Async DR is configured between two sites. A network outage occurs at the primary site.

Which steps must the administrator perform to bring the VMs back into service at the backup site?

Item instructions: For each procedure, indicate the order in which that procedure must take place to meet the item requirements. Not all procedures are valid. Identify any invalid procedures using the drop-down option.

67. What is the function of the virbr0 bridge on AHV?

To carry all traffic between the user VMs and the upstream network.

To carry management and storage communication between user VMs and the CV

To carry management and storage communication between user VMs and AHV host.

To carry storage communication between the guest VMs and the CVM

68. The Linux administration team has requested access rights to any current or future Linux VM in the environment

What entity should be selected when assigning this new role?

Image

AHV Cluster