Question #:1

An administrator receives reports about a Nutanix environment. The investigation finds the following;
• VMs are experiencing very high latency
• Each node is equipped with a single SSD, utilized at 95%• Each node is
equipped with three HDDs, utilized at 40% Why are the guest VMs
experiencing high latency?
A. CVMs are overwhelmed by disk balancing operations.
B. All VM write operations are going to HDD.
C. All VM read operations are coming from HDD.
D. VMs are unable to perform write [Link]: C

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Question #:2
In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single
Node Replication Target. The current schedule configuration is as follows:
• Repeat every 6 hours
• Local Retention Policy 1
• Remote Retention Policy 8
• Starting time 12 am

At 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good
state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection. Which strategy
should the administrator use to meet these requirements?
A. From the Remote site, activate the Protection Domain, then re-protect the entity.
B. From the Remote site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot
C. From the local site, retrieve the correct remote snapshot, then restore the VM locally.
D. From the local site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot.
Question #:3
An administrator has a custom backup application that requires a 2TB disk and runs in Windows.
Throughput is considerably lower than expected. The application was installed on a VM with the
following configuration:
• Four vCPUs with one core/vCPU
• 4GB of Memory
• One 50GB vDisk for the Windows installation
• One 2TB vDisk for the application
What is the recommended configuration change to improve throughput?
A. Increase the number of cores per vCPU
B. Increase the vCPUs assigned to the VM
C. Span the 2TB disk across four vDisks
D. Add 4GB of memory to the VM

Question #:4
An administrator is responsible for the following Nutanix Enterprise Cloud environment:
• A central datacenter with a 20-node cluster with 1.5PB of storage
• Five remote sites each with a 4-node cluster with 200TB storage
The remote sites are connected to the datacenter via 1GB links with an average latency of 6 ms RTT.
What is the minimum RPO the administrator can achieve for this environment?
A. 0 minutes
B. 15 minutes
C. 1 hour
D. 6 hours

Question #:5
An administrator of a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has microsegmentation enabled and a firewall VM
installed. The security team notifies the administrator that one of the VMs hosted in the environment
has been exhibiting suspect network activity. The administrator wants to isolate the VM from the
production network, but must still be able to access it to perform diagnostics.
What should the administrator do to meet the requirement?
A. Disable the vNIC on the affected VM
B. Quarantine the VM using the Forensic Method
C. Create a firewall rule that blocks VM traffic but permits diagnostic access
D. Create a security policy with a service chain directing that VMs traffic to the firewall

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Question #:6
A customer recently set up Async Replication between Site A and Site B. The customer wants
to conduct a planned failover and clicks Activate on Site B. The customer then runs the
following command on Site A: ncli pd deactivate_and__destroy_vms
name=<protection_domain_name> What does this do to the customer environment?
A. VMs get deleted from Site B. and the protection domain is now Active.
B. VMs are powered off on Site A and must be manually powered on at Site B.
C. VMs get deleted from Site A and the protection domain is no longer active.
D. Customer must then manually power off VMs at Site A and power them on at Site B.

Question #:7
An administrator needs to create and start five new VMs for a Data Analytics Project (OLAP). The VM
Profile is as follows:
• vCPU:4
• vRAM: 64 GB
• vDisk: 1.5 TB
Each of the four nodes of the Nutanix cluster has the following:
• 24 vCPU. 20% overall usage
• 192 GB RAM, 60% overall usage
• 2xl920GBSSD
• 4x 2 TB HDD
At cluster level, there is a single RF2 container that is 30% utilized and has an extent store capacity of
13.5 TB. Which component requires administrator attention?
A. Physical RAM, because it is not enough to power on all of the new VMs.
B. Physical Cores, because they are not enough to power on all of the new VMs.
C. Storage, because the capacity is not enough to create VMs.
D. Flash Tier because it is not enough to accommodate the workloads.

Question #:8
An administrator manages the following two Nutanix AOS 5.15 cluster environment:
• Corp-cluster-01
• Corp-cluster-02
The VM images must be available only on Corp-cluster-01, but cannot be checked out to cluster Corp-
cluster-02. The images also cannot be checked out to any other clusters that are registered with Prism
Central in the future.
Which two configuration settings must the administrator choose when creating the i mage placement
policy that satisfies the stated requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-01 as the target cluster
B. Set the policy enforcement to Soft.
C. Set the policy enforcement to Hard.
D. Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-02 as the target cluster.

Question #:9
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator logs in to Prism and sees the status shown in the exhibit within the Hardware
Diagram section.
What should the administrator do?
A. Resolve all alerts and re-import the disks to make sure there is no service disruption.
B. Restart all CVMs for the cluster to check, confirm health and repartition and add the disks.
C. Reseat all disks immediately. If this does not help, reseat the nodes.
D. Check status of applications running on the cluster and call support

Question #:10
An administrator is supporting a business critical environment and deploys metro availability to
achieve a zero data loss configuration. The two clusters are connected by a 1GbE connection. A new
workload is going to be deployed to this cluster. This workload requires a sustained 150MB/S of write
throughput and 20MB/s of read throughput.
Which change must be made to deploy the workload successfully on this cluster?
A. The bandwidth must be increased to support this workload.
B. The workload must be configured to read at greater than 12.5MB/S.
C. The replication frequency must be less than 60 minutes.
D. Zero data loss nearsync must be used to support this workload.

Question #:11
Refer to the exhibit.
User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM group
What are two descriptions of how Files perform quota management? (Choose two.) A.
User 2 can continue to add another 3GB file but will receive a daily notification email.
B. User 1 can continue to add another 5GB file but will receive a daily notification email.
C. User 1 can add an 8GB file to the share without receiving notification.
D. User 2 can add an 8GB file without receiving a notification email.

Question #:12
An organization is planning an upgrade to AOS 5.15 and wants to understand which cluster products
and/or services are supported for physical traffic isolation. Which Nutanix component supports its
network traffic being isolated onto its own virtual network?
A. Volumes
B. Objects
C. Containers
D. Files

Question #:13
An administrator is planning to deploy a Nutanix cluster to support a few high-performance VMs. This
deployment will have the following considerations:
• Individual VMs will likely generate network throughputs in the range of 90-100Mbps
• Due to the configuration of the VMs, it is unlikely that a node will host more than one or two of
them at a time
• Individual VMs will communicate with only a few (one or two) remote hosts at a time
• Multicast will not be used in the environment
• The hosts are connected via two 1GbE network connections
How should the administrator configure the network bonds to meet this requirement while
maintaining the simplest switch configuration?
A. Configure bond0 as balance-sib
B. Configure bond0 as active-backup
C. Configure bond0 as balance-tcp
D. Configure bond0 as balance-lacp

Question #:14
An administrator configures authentication in Prism Central (PC) for the NTNX-Admins group. Users
report that they are unable to log in. The administrator confirms that the Active Directory ( AD)
settings in PC are correct. Which condition could result in this behavior? A. A role mapping needs to
be associated with the AD group.
B. The users must be added to the Domain Admins AD group.
C. The Local authentication type must also be selected in PC.
D. A client chap certificate must also be added in PC.

Question #:15
An administrator has an existing Nutanix seven-node cluster running at RF2 that must be changed to
have the following capabilities:
• RF3 set for the cluster
• Performance tier deduplication
What is the minimum memory needed on the CVMs to allow for these capabilities?
A. 24GB
B. 28GB
C. 32GB
D. 20G?
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Question #:16
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?
(Choose two.)
A. Use multiple subnets for iSCSI traffic
B. Enable RSS (Receive Side Scaling)
C. Enable thick provisioning on the Volume Group(s)
D. Distribute workload across multiple virtual disks
Question #:17
An administrator deploys Exchange on a Nutanix cluster. The administrator creates two containers
with RF2 configuration:
• One container for Exchange
• One container for the other VMs
The Exchange VM is experiencing I/O performance issues. Which changes to Storage Optimization
should be used on the Exchange container to enhance I/O performance?
A. No data reduction
B. Post process Deduplication only
C. Inline compression and EC-X
D. Inline compression and Deduplication
Ans: C
Question #:18
An administrator learns that some security settings in a cluster have been changed. The environment
is out of compliance with required policies. Which function should be used to revert any settings that
have changed from the defaults and prevent further violations?
A. Cluster Lockdown with strong password enforcement
B. Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE)

C. Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA)D. Defense Information Systems Agency

STIG enforcement
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Question #:19
A customer with a four-node RF2 cluster is adding application VMs to their system. After adding these
Vms, the Prism dashboard shows 81% storage utilization.
What is the consequence of running the cluster at 81% storage utilization?
A. The customer has the ability to add more VMs up to the 100% storage utilization.
B. There is available capacity in the storage fabric and the cluster is resilient.
C. Node failure is imminent due to storage utilization.
D. The cluster is not resilient in the storage fabric

Question #:20
Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator creates a security policy that isolates their financial application from accessing the
Internet When viewing the policy in Prism Central, several connections from the application are
outbound to the Internet.
What is causing this issue with the policy?
A. The [Link] address was not specified in the outbound rule.
B. The blocked connections are illustrated for information only.
C. The Activate box was not checked in the rule, so it is not enforcing.
D. The policy has been left in monitor mode instead of enforcing mode.

Question #:21
An administrator has two clusters: Site A and Site B.
Async DR is configured between the clusters as follows:
• Site A is the Primary Site
• Site B is the Secondary inactive Site, no VMs running
• Site A is fully in Production
• Site B used as Backup/Disaster Recovery
The customer wants to perform a planned failover between the sites. How should the administrator
accomplish this?
A. Click Activate on the Secondary site within the Data Protection Dashboard
B. Click Activate on the Secondary site and run deactive NCLI command on Primary site
C. Choose Migrate on the Secondary site within the Data Protection DashboardD. Choose Migrate on
the Primary site within the Data Protection Dashboard

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Question #:22
A systems 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?
(Choose two.)
A. Perform an Inventory with Life Cycle Management.
B. Determine utilization with Cluster Runway.
C. Enable Deduplication and Erasure Coding.
D. Utilize Optimize Resources for VM efficiency.

Question #:23
An administrator responsible for a VDI 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 VDI VMs.
What are two impacts on the cluster? (Choose two.)
A. Increase CPU utilization%
B. Increase CPU ready%
C. Increase memory utilization%
D. Increasing CPU counts will decrease memory utilization
Ans: A, B

Question #:24
An administrator is deploying an application using Nutanix Volumes. After configuring the volume
group and connecting the guest's iSCSI initiator to the volume group, they begin performance testing.
The administrator learns that performance on the virtual disk attached to the iSCSI initiator is far less
than that of a virtual disk connected directly to the VM.
Which situation is causing this condition?
A. The VM's iSCSI traffic is being routed to the data services IP subnet
B. The performance test is generating small block random 10.
C. The duster data services IP address is a bottleneck, shared with other iSCSI traffic
D. Data Locality ensures that VM attached disks are always faster than iSCSI volumes.

Question #:25
A guest VM is reported to have poor storage performance. It has an I/O profile of 80% read. 20%
write, and the HDDs form more than 50% of the read source.
What should an administrator do to resolve this issue?
A. Increase SSD capacity
B. Increase the OPLOG
C. Increase the write cache
D. Use HDDs with higher RPM

Question #:26
An administrator is deploying a three-tier application on a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud consisting of web,
application, and database VMs. Traffic between the servers must be limited to specific services/ports.
There is an application layer firewall VM deployed on one host in the cluster.
In which way should the administrator meet this requirement?
A. Create a network for each type of VM, and use policy-based routing to control the traffic flow
B. Configure a security policy and service chain redirecting the server traffic through the firewall
C. Separate the web. application and database VMs on to dedicated VLANs
D. Categorize the VMs in Prism Central and utilize Flow to set a security policy

Question #:27
An administrator needs to make sure an RF2 cluster can survive a complete rack failure without
negatively effecting workload performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the
following:
• 30 nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U rack
• Each nodes is configured with 40TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 1.2 PB Usable)
• Current cluster utilization is 900TB storage
Which configuration changes should be made to make sure that the cluster meets the
requirements? A. Expanse the cluster by adding 3 additional nodes per rack, 9 nodes total.
B. Expanse the cluster by adding 2 additional nodes per rack, 6 nodes total.

C. Expanse the cluster by adding 9 nodes to a new 42U rackD. Expanse the cluster by adding 8

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Question #:28
A company needs to replicate their VMs to a remote site and must have an RPO of less than 1 hour.
When creating a protection domain, what should an administrator do to meet this requirement?
A. Enable Async Replication with an RPO of 60 minutes
B. Enable Near-Sync Replication with an RPO of 15 minutes
C. Enable Entity Sync on the designated VMs
D. Enable Availability Zones and send the VM to multiple targets
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Question #:29
An administrator is monitoring the Nutanix v5.15-based AOS cluster performance logs and notices
that a SQL server VM is greatly exceeding its intended maximum IOPS. The administrator has
confirmed that a QoS policy was previously created for the group of VMs this server is a member of.
What are two reasons that this VM would exceed its maximum configured IOPS from the QoS Policy?
(Choose two.)
A. The VM is missing the required snapshot needed to implement the QoS Policy.
B. The VM was not created as an AFS virtual machine.
C. The SQL Server VM has volume groups attached.
D. It was cloned from another SQL Server VM that was a member of the QoS Policy.

Question #:30
A customer has a Nutanix cluster with 10Gb connectivity via switch fabric extenders. The
administrator receives NCC health check errors of latency greater than 200ms.
Which action should the administrator take to resolve the NCC errors?
A. Replace the switch fabric extenders with 10G line rate switches
B. Upgrade NCC and increase the CVM memory by 4Gb
C. Add 2 additional 10G uplinks from the switch fabric extenders per node
D. Upgrade NCC and increase the vCPU of the CVM
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Question #:31
An administrator knows that the disks in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For
security reasons, these clusters do not have access to the Internet.
Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)
A. Configure LCM with a URL to access the firmware bundle.
B. Download a dark site bundle and stage it on an internal webserver.
C. Download the updated firmware .tgz file from the Nutanix portal.
D. Select Upgrade Software, then select disks and upload the updated firmware.

Question #:32
A customer needs a DR solution designed around the following requirements:
 • There are 8 ms of latency between Sites A and B
• The administrator needs the shortest RPO/RTO possible
• Application consistent snapshots are required
• Use of Nutanix VSS
Which Data Protection Method should be used?
A. Async
B. Metro Availability

C. Near Sync
D. Cloud Connect
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Question #:33
A VM is exhibiting one or more of the following baseline values based on the past 30 days:
• CPU usage < 20%
• CPU ready time < 5%
• Memory usage < 50% (moderately) or < 20% (severely)
• Memory swap rate = 0 Kbps
Which type of VM is being described?
A. Constrained VM
B. Inactive VM
C. Bully VM
D. Over-Provisioned VM

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Question #:34

A Nutanix host is connected as shown in the exhibit with br0-up set to active/backup. Physical Switch
1 experiences a power outage causing br0-up to failover to using eth2. The CVM and host become
inaccessible. User VMs restart on other hosts in the cluster, which causes a disruption to those VMs.
Which configuration issue likely caused this outage?
A. Bridge br0-up should be configured to use balance-tcp rather than active/backup.
B. The CVM should have eth1 connected to the OVS.
C. The upstream port for eth2 is missing a VLAN.
D. The user VMs only have one NIC

Question #:35
An administrator needs to forecast infrastructure requirements for a new program and its associated
applications. Prior to the projected start of the new program, all existing applications will be
decommissioned.
How should the administrator perform this task?
A. Check the Disregard Existing Workloads radio button in the Runway scenario.
B. Check the Disregard Existing Nodes radio button in the Runway scenario.
C. Add up the recovered workloads and manually remove from the Runway configuration.
D. Power down the workloads during a maintenance window and run the Capacity Runway.
Question #:36
An administrator is deploying several new application VMs to a Nutanix cluster. The application is very
transactional with a 28/72 random, read/write ratio.
What should the administrator do?
A. Add a minimum of four SSDs to each node to ensure all writes go to the SSDs.
B. Add a minimum of four virtual disks to each VM, and aggregate them on guest OS level.
C. Add one large SSD to each node and enable Flash Mode for the VMs.
D. Add one large virtual disk to each VM. and use it for all application data.

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Question #:37
An alert about RX errors on eth2 on a node is reported in the cluster. The administrator logs in to the
CVM in question, checks the ping_* files in the data/logs/syststats folder, and notices intermittent
ping loss. The node in question has the following network configuration:
Which action should be used to troubleshoot without disrupting the VMs running on this node?
A. Replace the cable from eth2 to the switch
B. Remove eth3 from br0-up and monitor for new alerts
C. Check the port on the switch side for any errors
D. Enable balance-s1b on br0-up and monitor if a problem persists

Question #:38
A three-node cluster has a Nutanix Files instance with three FSVMs.
What happens after a node failure?
A. The affected FSVM will get live-migrated to another node.
B. The affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its agent VM setting.
C. The affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its VM-to-VM anti-affinity
settings.
D. The affected FSVM will be restarted on another node.
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Question #:39
Refer to the exhibits.
An administrator has reported that a new VM is not performing well.
After analyzing the information presented in the exhibits, which option shows the best
conclusion regarding this workload?
A. VM is CPU constrained since the hypervisor cannot provide the required resources.
B. VM is CPU constrained because more CPU needs to be added to the VM.
C. VM is Storage constrained, because the workload is waiting for storage access.
D. VM is not CPU constrained, because the VM is not running, a multithreaded application.

Question #:40
An administrator is performing a set of routine checks and notes that Prism Central is running with 4
vCPUs and 21 GB RAM. The organizations environment is based on two Nutanix clusters with 170 VMs
plus a Legacy vSphere infrastructure. No manual changes have been done on Prism Central VM.
Which configuration justifies the current Prism Central configuration?
A. Nutanix Move is running on Prism Central to import VMs from the Legacy Cluster.
B. Prism Central was installed for Large Deployment environments.
C. Prism Central is running on the legacy cluster and requires more RAM.
D. Nutanix Leap and Nutanix Flow have been enabled on Prism Central

Question #:41
A customer wants to run SAP HANA on a Nutanix cluster with the following characteristics:
• AHV nodes
• SAP HANA version 2
• Production database files
Which configuration should be recommended to the customer?
A. Start with a cluster containing three or more nodes
B. Enable only compression for the container that contains the Production database
C. Do not enable compression, deduplication. or erasure coding on the storage container
D. Plate the SAP HANA Database on the same socket as CVM

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Question #:42
An administrator receives reports that VDI desktop performance in an 8-node Nutanix VDI
environment is poor. Opening applications takes between 1 and 2 minutes. When investigating the
issue, the following conditions are found:
• Cluster memory utilization: 80%
• Cluster SSD utilization: 70%
• Average VM CPU Wait Time: 11%
• CVM CPU utilization: 75%
Which action should be taken to improve VDI performance?
A. Increase the amount of SSD storage in the cluster.
B. Add memory to the nodes in the cluster.
C. Add CPU resources to the cluster.
D. Increase the number of vCPU cores allocated to the CVM.

Question #:43
An administrator receives an alert in Prism indicating that interface eth2, on an AHV host is receiving
many CRC errors. After togging into the problematic host, the following command is run to show the
indicated output:
What is causing this issue?
A. Incorrect link speeds on the switch
B. The interface is incorrectly configured with Jumbo Frames
C. A misconfigured bond
D. A physical layer network problem

Question #:44
An administrator needs to migrate workloads from a Nutanix cluster running VMware ESXi to Nutanix
AHV. The migration process needs to be completed in multiple VM groups and support roll back in
case any problems are found during user acceptance testing.
Which action should the administrator perform?
A. Use Cross Hypervisor DR to replicate VMs from ESXi to AHV
B. Use VMware Converter
C. Use Nutanix one-click cluster conversion from ESXi to AHV
D. Use storage live migration
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Question #:45
Refer to the exhibit.

After performing ESXi to AHV conversion on a cluster, the alerts shown in the exhibit display on Prism.
What should the administrator do to resolve this issue efficiently?
A. Remove the VMs. create a new Protection Domain, and add VMs to it
B. Remove VMs from the Protection Domain and add them back in.
C. Delete the Protection Domain, create a new Protection Domain, and add the VMs to it
D. Create a new Protection Domain and add the VMs to rt.

Question #:46
For several days, an administrator notices the following alerts:
• CVM NIC Speed Low Warning Alerts
• Warning Alerts of CVM NIC not performing at optimal speed
• CVM is disconnected from the network Critical Alert
• Network Visualization page shows excessive dropped packets on CVM/Host
Which steps should be taken to determine which problem should be addressed first?
A. • Access the Hardware Page to verify resources are available
• Analyze ail CVM Speed Alerts in the Alerts/Events page
• Analyze output for the network and interface properties and connectivity issues

B. • Verify Host/CVM connectivity on the Network Visualization page

• Use to verify the bridge and bond configuration
• Review alerts/events page for the CVM disconnected error
C. • Review Alerts page for NIC speed alerts and alert timing
• Analyze the [Link] log file for process failures
• Assess the NIC properties in the Network Visualization > Host Properties page
D. • Restart networking services on the CVM
• Determine the current configuration of the affected CVM via output
• Access the Alerts/Events page for the CVM network connection failures

Question #:47
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.)
A. Stop all Nutanix Files clusters
B. Relocate the linked LDAP servers

C. Shut down all user VMs in the cluster

D. Reconfigure IPMI for the new data center

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Question #:48
An administrator needs to evaluate if the existing configuration of Protection Domains meets the
specified corporate recovery policy for SQL Data. The corporate policy requires that all SQL Servers be
recoverable at the DR site within 30 minutes, and must result in a maximum of 60 minutes of data
loss. SQL data must be required.
The protection domain is configured as follows:
• Application consistent snapshots are enabled
• The SQL server VMs are assigned to the Protection Domain as their own Consistency Group
•The Protection Domain schedule is configured as snapshots taken every 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm

What must be changed to meet the required policy?

A. Revise the schedule to be 15 minutes
B. Revise the schedule to be 60 minutes
C. Revise the schedule to be 30 minutes
D. Revise the schedule to be 45 minutes

Question #:49
An administrator needs to make sure an RF3 cluster can survive a failure of two complete racks
without negatively affecting performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:
• 30 All Flash Nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U racks
• Each node is configured with 20TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 600TB Usable)
• Current cluster utilization is 500TB storage
• Storage containers have Erasure Coding enabled
Which configuration changes should be made to make sure the cluster meets the requirements?
A. Expand the cluster to 50 nodes distributed evenly across 5 racks
B. Expand the cluster to 48 nodes distributed evenly across 6 racks
C. Expand the cluster to 60 nodes distributed evenly across 6 racks
D. Expand the cluster to 40 nodes distributed evenly across 5 racks

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Question #:50
An administrator receives an error indicating that the CVMs in the cluster are not syncing to any NTP
servers. An investigation of the issue finds:
• The NTP servers are configured in Prism
• The time on all CVMs is the same
• Both the CVMs and AHV hosts are configured for the UTC time zoneWhich two
steps can be taken to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.)
• A. Confirm that the NTP servers are reachable from the CVMs.
B. Restart genesis on all CVMs.
C. On a CVM. run the command a Hash ntpq -pn.
D. Restart the chronos service on all CVMs.

Question #:51
An administrator is configuring an All Flash cluster to support the following workloads:
• Full clone virtual desktops
• Hadoop
• Write heavy databases
Which three correct configuration options should the administrator use to meet the item
requirements? (Choose three.) For each procedure, indicate whether it is a correct or incorrect
procedure that must be configured to meet theitem requirements using the drop-down option.
Question #:52
Refer to the exhibit.

A Microsoft SQL 2016 deployment is shown in the exhibit. The administrator receives user reports
that database queries take too long to return.
Which optimization should be made to this configuration to improve performance?
A. Combine both of the OS and SQL Binaries disks
B. Add a second SCSI controller for the Database.
C. TempDB, and Logs disk Separate the Database. TempDB, and Logs onto their own disks
D. Configure the VM to use a PCI disk controller

Question #:53
A Nutanix cluster is deployed with the following configuration:
• Three four-node blocks (A, B, and C)
• All Flash Redundancy Factor 2
What is the effect of simultaneous disk failures on two nodes located in block A?
A. VMs are migrated off of the nodes with disk failures.
B. Each node with a failed disk is marked as degraded.
C. VM read and write operations continue normally.
D. VMs on

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Question #:54
An administrator is concerned that Prism will be inaccessible if Active Directory is unable to process
logins. Which method should the administrator use to access the cluster in the event of this type of
outage?
A. Manage the cluster by using the "nutanix" user on the Prism leader CVM
B. Create and use an emergency local account on the cluster
C. Deploy an Active Directory server locally on the cluster
D. Manage the cluster remotely by downloading ncli to a remote workstation

Question #:55
Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain What is causing
this alert?
A. Metro Availability Protection domain is active on the remote site.
B. VMware Site Recovery Manager is handling a failover event
C. Metro Availability did not fail over and caused an outage.
D. vSphere moved VMs to the remote container, and the VMs must be moved back.[Link]
[Link]/page/documents/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prismv5_10:wc-metro-
[Link]

Question #:56
An organizations Nutanix Cluster is based on VMware vSphere. The cluster is configured to download
software updates automatically. The administration needs to verify and eventually upgrade VMware
hypervisor via Prism Ul. After logging in to Prism, the administrator receives the message shown:
No available versions for upgrade What is causing the current state?
A. VMware support has expired, so downloads are not available.
B. vSphere binaries need to be manually uploaded.
C. The environment is running the latest vSphere version, so no update is required.
D. The cluster is unable to connect to [Link]-ccm:8D.[Link]
[Link]/page/documents/details?targetId=Acropolis-Upgrade-Guidev5_19:upg-cluster-
[Link]

Question #:57
An administrator recently added VLAN 205 CRM in Prism Element. The workloads attached to the
associated NICs are unable to establish network connectivity. Which Layer 2 protocol allows the
administrator to troubleshoot this issue from Prism Element?
A. HDLC
B. SUP
C. LACP
D. LLDP

Question #:58
An administrator is deploying an application that requires maximum I/O throughput for scratch data.
The administrator is concerned that the throughput requirement is greater than what can be
provided by a single cluster node. What should the administrator do to meet this requirement?
A. Create a volume group with several virtual disks and attach to the VM
B. Create a volume group with one virtual disk attached to the VM
C. Create a virtual disk attached to the VM's PCI interface
D. Create several virtual disks attached to the VM's virtual SCSI

controller[Link]

ahv-volumegroup-load-balancer-28063

Question #:59
An administrator protected a DB VM running on a Nutanix cluster with NearSync Replication, which
schedules to repeat every 15 minutes to a second site. The daily change rate is low. During nightly
backups, the replication window is missed due to write volume. Which two options describe the
expected behavior? (Choose two.)
A. NearSync stops working and fails over to the remote site.
B. Protection Domain transitions back to the hourly schedule.
C. The Administrator needs to re-enable it manually.
D. The system continuously tries to get to the NearSync schedule.

Question #:60
A system administrator needs to shut down an AHV node in a Nutanix cluster without causing service
disruption. The administrator checks data resiliency and verifies that the cluster can tolerate a node
down. Which three steps should the administrator perform next? (Choose three.)
Question #:61
An administrator is migrating 5MB shares from a third-party platform to Nutanix Files with the
following characteristics:
• Shares contain user profile directories
• DFS-N will be used
How should the administrator create target shares for this migration?
A. Create multiple general purpose shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.
B. Create multiple distributed shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.
C. Create standard shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.
D. Create distributed shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.

Question #:62
Refer to the exhibit.
What is the purpose of eth2 on the CVMs?
A. RDMA Network Segmentation
B. iSCSI connectivity
C. Remote site connectivityD. Network Segmentation
[Link]
v55:[Link]

Question #:63
An administrator is deploying Nutanix Files 3.5 and needs to configure the sizing of the FSVMs for an
increased number of concurrent SMB connections over the default 750.
What should the administrator do?
A. Deploy the Files VMs. power down the three FSVMs. change the CPU and RAM via Prism, and
then power the three FSVMs back up
B. During installation, click Customize on the File Server Installation screen, change the number
of connections, and finish the installation
C. Complete the default installation change the CPU and RAM m Prism, and then log into the File
Server dashboard and change the Filer Server Properties
D. During installation, input the correct number of connections in the File Server
Installation screen and complete the installation
Ans: B
[Link]
Question #:64
Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator configures Active Directory authentication as shown in the exhibit. Upon finishing
setup, users are not able to log in. What configuration change should be made to fix this issue?
A. Change leaps to https
B. Change the Directory URL to use an IP rather than a name
C. Change the plct from 389 to 636
D Change the Domain to use an IP rather than a name

Question #:65
An administrator inherits a new Nutanix environment and logs in to a CVM to check the network
configuration. The configuration is as follows:

Which action should the administrator take to improve network performance?

A. Configure VLAN tagging both on br0 and br1 and their physical interfaces.
B. Add eth0 and eth1 to the br0-up bond
C. Configure balance-sib or balance-tcp mode for br0-up if switch configuration allows
D. Remove one 10 Gbs interface from br0-up to make sure all 10 Gbs can be used.
Question #:66
A customer has a primary datacenter with 12 Nutanix blocks distributed across three racks. The
customer wants to achieve the most resiliency possible. They also have a datacenter in a branch office
that is 400 kilometers away from the primary datacenter.
Which two solutions should be used? (Choose two.)
A. Time Stream to a remote site
B. Async DR to a remote site
C. Rack awareness
D. Block awareness

Question #:67
An administrator is implementing a VDI solution. The workload will be a series of persistent desktops
in a dedicated storage container within a four-node cluster. Storage optimizations should be set on
the dedicated storage container to give optimal performance including during a node failure event.
Which storage optimizations should the administrator set to meet the requirements?
A. Compression, Deduplication, and Erasure Coding
B. Deduplication and Erasure Coding
C. Compression and Deduplication
D. Compression only

Question #:68
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?
A. A Quarantine Policy
B. An Isolation Environment Policy
C. An Application Security Policy
D. A Whitehst-Based Policy

Question #:69
An administrator is configuring software only. Data-at-Rest Encryption on their Nutanix cluster. They
are planning to deploy a third-party key management server (KMS). Where should this server be
hosted?
A. As a single VM on the Nutanix cluster
B. On hardware external to the Nutanix cluster
C. As a clustered VM setup on the Nutanix cluster
D. As a single VM deployed on the host that contains the Prism leader CVM
Question #:70
An administrator has a VM that consumes large amounts of storage and has the following
characteristics:
• Create large / sequential writes
• Data must be kept for years
• Data is normally only accessed at the end of the year to run report
The administrator decides to use Erasure Coding to save space. Which feature should the
administrator utilize to save space for this VM?
A. Inline Compression
B. Flash Mode
C. Cache Dedup
D. Post-Process Compression

Question #:71
While creating an image placement policy on the organizations AOS 5.15-based Nutanix cluster, the
administrator wants to ensure there are no restrictions on using the selected images on clusters
outside of the identified set. What type of Policy Enforcement must the administrator choose? A.
Soft
B. Internal
C. Hard
D. External
A VMdoes nothave enough resources for the demand, which leads to performance bottlenecks. The
VM is exhibiting one or more of following baseline values, based on the past 30 days:
• CPU usage > 90% (moderate), 95% (high)
• CPU ready time > 5%, 10%
• Memory usage > 90%, 95%
• Memory swap rate > 0 Kbps (no moderate value)Which type of VM is being described?
A. Constrained VM
B. Bully VM
C. Inactive VM
D. Over-provisioned VM

Question #:73
A customer has Metro Availability configured in Automatic Resume Mode between Site A and Site B
What happens to VMs if Primary Site A has full network failure?
A. Automatic protection domain promotion in Site B. VMs automatically restart in Site B
B. VMs continue to run on Site A following an automatic disable of protection domains.
C. An administrator must unwitness in Site B and promote protection domains in Site B for VMs to
restart
D. An administrator must promote protection domains in Site B for VMs to
restart.[Link]
Question #:74
A new Nutanix cluster is ready for production on a remote site with no IT staff. Changes to the
infrastructure will cost money and probably cause a cluster stop. The administrator needs to perform
a health check on the environment that should include:
• Network connectivity checks
• Network performance status
• Storage performance status
Which tool should be used to perform this test?
A. X-Ray
B. clurator_cli
C. NCC
D. diagnostic, py
Question #:75
An administrator needs to expand a cluster based on AHV and running on Nutanix G5 hardware with a
new Nutanix G7 system. The cluster is running AOS 5.10 but the operation fails when expanding the
cluster. AOS is running on the new system. There are no issues discovering the node. Why is the
operation failing?
A. AOS version running on G7 is older than the version on the cluster.
B. Foundation software has not been updated on the cluster.
C. G7 hardware cannot be added to a G5 cluster.
D. EVC needs to be configured before cluster expansion
[Link]
Question #:76
An administrator needs to replace the self-signed certificate on a cluster. Which two requirements
must be met as part of the process? (Choose two.)
A. The cluster administrator must restart the interface gateway.
B. The signed, intermediate and root certificates are chained.
C. The existing certificate must be deleted prior to replacement.
D. The imported files for the custom certificate must be PEM encoded.[Link]
[Link]/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Security-Guidev5_19:sec-replacing-
[Link]

Question #:77
An administrator is using Nutanix Move to migrate a Windows VM from ESXi to AHV. Automated
guest preparation is failing with an error:
Account has UAC enabled error
The administrator is using the local built-in administrator account for the Windows VM Admin
approval modemust remain enabled. What should the administrator do to continue with the
migration with Nutanix Move?
A. Use a Domain Admin account for the Windows VM
B. Reboot the Windows VM and try the migration again
C. Follow manual VM preparation guidelinesD. Place Windows VM in Maintenance Mode
[Link]

Question #:78
Refer to the exhibit.
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?
A. Change the network the VMs are connected to
B. Change the spanning-tree port type on the switch
C. The VMs need to have static IP addresses
D. Update the switch to specifically allow VLAN 15
[Link]

Question #:79
Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance using AHV Turbo.
Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance? (Choose two.) A. Workloads
are multi-threaded.
B. VMs have one vCPU configured.
C. VMs have multi-queue disabled.
D. VMs have more than one vCPU.

Question #:80
An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment. Why is
this happening?
A. NFS default access is set to Read Only.
B. Multi-protocol access is not configured.
C. Access Based Enumeration is not enabled.
D. The system is deployed as a single FSVM.

[Link]

Question #:81
An administrator receives a notification that storage in a Nutanix cluster is unavailable. The cluster
consists of five nodes and is configured with a Fault-Tolerance level of 1 (FT-1).
Upon investigation, the administrator finds the following:
• All AHV hosts are powered on and the CVMs are running
• Nodes A, B, and C are connected to one top of rack switch
• Nodes D and E are connected to a second top of rack switch
• The cluster status command run on Node A shows that CVM services on nodes D and E are
down
Which issue is causing the storage outage?
A. The default gateway for the CVMs and AHV hosts is down.
B. The switch connecting Nodes D and E is down.
C. The genesis process is down on both Nodes D and E.
D. Nodes D and E are in maintenance mode.[Link]
services-down-troubleshooting/

Question #:82
An administrator needs to replace an aging SAN and move to a hyper-converged infrastructure. The
existing environment consists of the following hosts that are connected to the SAN:
• 5xAIX hosts
• 3x Hyper-V hosts
• 9xESXi hosts
• 2x physical SQL Clusters (Windows Server 2012R2 hosts)
After deploying a Nutanix AHV cluster, which two actions should the administrator take to meet the
requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Deploy Volumes to support the AIX and SQL workloads.
B. Migrate the ESXI workloads to AHV using Move.
C. Deploy Files to support the AIX hosts.
D. Migrate the ESXi and Hyper-V workloads using
Move.[Link]
Question #:83
An administrator deletes a large amount of data from a Volume Group presented to a Linux VM. The
administrator notices that the deleted data has not been reclaimed as usable storage.
What action should be taken to reclaim the storage capacity?
A. Shrink the Volume Group that is associated with the Linux VM
B. Unmount the Volume Group and then Remount the Volume Group
C. Enable the unman operation on the Linux VMD. Run Defrag on the Linux VM
[Link]

Question #:84
A customer has NearSync configured. When the administrator tries to restore a snapshot from 3
minutes ago, it is not available. The snapshots are happening at 15-minute intervals instead of at the
5minute configured interval. When the protection domain was initially set up, the snapshots were
happening at the expected 5-minute interval. What should the customer do to enable the snapshots
to happen at the expected interval?
A. Utilize Metro Availability to meet this requirement
B. Change the protection domain to use Async DR
C. Fix a connectivity issue because the protection domain reverted to Async
D. Configure the protection domain to take snapshots on 15-minute intervals

Question #:85
An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The
Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issues. The Windows VMs do not experience the
same issue. Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?
A. Utilize Jumbo Frames
B. Add additional disks to the Volume Group
C. Set the SCSI timeout value to 60
D. Utilize a separate subnet for the Linux Vms[Link]

Question #:86
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.)
A. Add more memory to the VMs.
B. Reduce the number of vCPUs assigned to VMs.
C. Replace high core count CPUs with high clock rate CPUs. (also can be but is physical invas)
D. Reduce the number of VMs on the hosts.[Link]

Question #:87
A VDI environment based on AHV Cluster is not performing well. The current environment is using
only one bridge (Bridge0). The administrator needs to verify if nodes are using all network cards
associated to Bridge0. Which two menus should be used to check the current configuration? (Choose
two.)
A. Network Configuration item in Settings menu
B. Host view in Network menu
C. Host NICs tab in Hardware menu
D. I/O Metrics tab in VM menu

Question #:88
An administrator is notified that a bare metal database server is down. This database server is being
served storage using a Nutanix Volume Group. Upon investigating, the administrator finds that the
disks in the database server that map to the vDisks in the volume group have gone offline.
What is causing this issue?
A. The Volume Group Load Balancer has been disabled.
B. Port 9443 is blocked in the server firewall.
C. Port 3260 has been blocked in the server firewall.
D. A CVM serving the Volume Group has gone offline.

Question #:89
An administrator is updating disk firmware using LCM and receives the following message:
“there have been 10 or more cluster services restarts within 15 minutes in the Controller VM”
The message appears as each drive is upgraded. What is the reason this message is being generated?
A. A node has been rebalanced
B. A drive has been reformatted
C. A node has been rebootedD. A drive has been ejected
[Link]

Question #:90
An administrator wants to utilize Network Visualization to monitor the physical and logical network on
the Nutanix cluster. The first-hop switch has LLDP enabled. The network switch information is still not
being displayed.
What is causing this problem?
A. The ISL between switches is not configured.
B. SNMP is not configured properly.
C. br0 and br1 are not defined.
D. The cluster is using RDMA-enabled
NICs.[Link]
v5_19:[Link]#ntask_o3v_2ww_ds
 Question #:91
A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backed up to a remote
location. The remote location is connected using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms.
Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest RPO possible?

A. NearSync
B. Leap
C. Metro Availability
D. Asyn&DR
[Link]
[Link]
Question #:92
An administrator needs to initiate a new VDI project within a couple of months. Prism Central reports there
are no storage resources to accommodate such workloads.
The administrator sees many powered-off VMs and has the authority to delete test VMs powered off at least
for 30 days. Test VMs belong to the Test category.
Using Prism Central, which steps are required to identify the correct VMs to be deleted?
A. Use Capacity Runway to filter by Test and Powered-off VMs
B. Filter VMs list, choose Test category and Inactive under Efficiency
C. Create a new Scenario selecting Test VMs. filter by uptime
D. Create a new Project selecting Test VMs, sorting by power state