Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

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 Dashboard 
D)  Choose Migrate on the Primary site within the Data Protection Dashboard

Question 3

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.)

Accepted Answer

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 datacenter

Question 4

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  NearSync 
B)  Leap 
C)  Metro Availability 
D)  Asyn&DR

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

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 6

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  No data reduction 
B)  Post process Deduplication only 
C)  Inline compression and EC-X 
D)  Inline compression and Deduplication

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

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 9

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Increase SSD capacity 
B)  Increase the OPLOG 
C)  Increase the write cache 
D)  Use HDDs with higher RPM

Question 10

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  VMs are migrated 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 the nodes with failed disks are unable to write data

Question 11

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

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?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 13

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 mode must remain enabled. What should the administrator do to continue with the migration with Nutanix Move?

Accepted Answer

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 guidelines 
D)  Place Windows VM in Maintenance Mode

Question 14

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.)

Accepted Answer

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 15

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Soft 
B)  Internal 
C)  Hard 
D)  External

Question 16

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.)

Accepted Answer

A)  Increase CPU utilization % 
B)  Increase CPU ready % 
C)  Increase memory utilization % 
D)  Increasing CPU counts will decrease memory utilization

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 18

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Async 
B)  Metro Availability 
C)  Near Sync 
D)  Cloud Connect

Question 19

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.)

Accepted Answer

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 20

A three-node cluster has a Nutanix Files instance with three FSVMs. What happens after a node failure?

Accepted Answer

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.

Exam 1: Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure