NCA Exam Practice

Upon logging into Prism Element, an administrator sees a red heart icon. Which dashboard in Prism will best help the administrator to isolate the cause of the red heart?

Health

An administrator wants to collect log files requested by Nutanix Support. From which Prism Element dashboard can this be accomplished?

Health

Within Prism Central, which Compute and Storage section allows an administrator to upload a Windows ISO file?

Images

What is the maximum jumbo frame MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) supported by host network interfaces and guest VMs?

9000 bytes

What is the maximum MTU supported by Nutanix CVM (Controller Virtual Machine)?

3

What is the minimum number of blocks required to utilize block awareness?

3

What is the minimum number of nodes needed to configure a Replication Factor of 2 (RF2)?

3

An administrator has configured Prism Central to email daily digests of alerts on a Nutanix cluster. After a week, the administrator notices that digests are not being received. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

The SMTP server is not configured properly

An administrator has been tasked with delivering a report on all Nutanix Field Advisors (FAs) affecting each of the clusters. What is the most efficient way to collect this data?

Review the discoveries information on the support Portal

An Administrator has created a Volume Group for a specific VM on an AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) Cluster. What is the next step required to use the vDisk in the VM?

Attach the Volume Group to the VM

Which account is recommended for performing tasks and operations on the Nutanix CVM via SSH (Secure Shell)?

Nutanix

Which URL can be used to open Nutanix support cases?

portal.nutanix.com

How long does a Nutanix cluster’s Recycle Bin retain deleted vDisk and configuration data files?

24 Hours

What is the purpose of the OpLog?

Persistent write buffer

An administrator receives several alerts indicating a Nutanix cluster is running out of memory. As a preemptive measure, the administrator wishes to try to reduce the consumed resources, if possible. Which two predefined views for Reporting best display potentially reclaimable resources? (Choose two.)

List of inactive VMs

List of overprovisioned VMs

After starting an LCM (Life Cycle Management) update from Prism Element, on which dashboard can the progress be monitored?

Tasks

What is the purpose of the Recycle Bin?

Keeps deleted VMs for 24 hours for recovery

An administrator needs to remove several old VM snapshots. From which Prism Element dashboard should the administrator complete this tasks?

VM

After starting LCM updates, an administrator would like to see a detailed view of each update as it progresses. Which Prism Element dashboard should the administrator use to monitor the LCM updates?

Tasks

A single host in a four-node AHV-based Nutanix cluster experiences a complete network failure. If more than enough resources exist in the cluster to tolerate a node failure, what happens to the user VMs running on that host?

VMs automatically restart on the three remaining hosts

A team member has built a CentOS VM image for use as a template. An administrator deploys a new VM using the CentOS image as the OS drive. No other drives presented to the VM. Following the deployment, the administrator attempts to boot the VM, bus is unsuccessful. What could be causing this issue?

The CentOS VM image was built with UEFI

An administrator needs to migrate a running VM’s vDisk to another container without downtime. Which tool should the administrator use to satisfy this task?

aCLI

An administrator has spent time correcting specific issues that have been identified by NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check) Health Checks in Prism Element. How can just the checks that previously did not pass be executed again to confirm they are all resolved?

Select Only Failed and Warning Checks

What resource should be used to ensure a successful upgrade of the hypervisors and AOS (Acropolis Operating System) within and vSphere-based Nutanix cluster?

Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix

An administrator is deploying a virtual firewall on each node in an AHV cluster and wants each VM to maintain affinity to its host. How can an administrator achieve this goal most efficiently?

Set the VMs as Agent VMs

An administrator needs to ensure that the three VMs of an application cluster are never placed onto the same hypervisor by creating a VM-VM Anti-Affinity Policy. What should the administrator use to complete this task?

Acli

What is required to successfully live migrate a VM between two AHV clusters (Cross-Cluster Live Migration) CCLM?

Configure a Protection Domain with Synchronous Replication

10 GbE link has failed on Node A within the following cluster enviorment: Four-node AHV-based Nutanix cluster, All nodes have only two 10GbE ports connected to the network, Active-backup is configured. What impact will user VMs experience from this issue?

Will have no impact

An administrator should use which Nutanix component to create in-guest clustering?

Volumes

What data is stored as a file on storage devices owned by a Nutanix CVM?

vDisk

An administrator wants to create an application-consistent snapshot. Which NGT (Nutanix Guest Tools) features needs to be enabled to satisfy this task?

VSS

An Administrator wants to copy some virtual machine disk files to ADSF (Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric) from an external VMware ESXi Host. Which two actions should the administrator take to complete this task? (Choose two.)

Mount container as NFS on external host

Configure Whitelist on container

An administrator receives an alert indicating that a node has failed within a Nutanix AHV- Based 10-node cluster. Before the failure, CPU and memory utilization was around 50%. What automatic actions will the cluster take in response to the node failure?

All HA-protected VMs will be automatically restarted on other nodes in the cluster

Nutanix Support has asked an administrator to provide an NCC output, but there is no access to the command line. What should the administrator do to provide the requested NCC output?

Configure email in Alert Settings and Run Health Checks in the Health Dashboard

When multiple Alert policies are applied to an entity, which will take precedence?

Policy applied to a specific entity

An administrator is performing AHV upgrades on an 8-node Nutanix cluster configured with Redundancy Factor 3. How many nodes would be placed into maintenance mode simultaneously?

1

An administrator needs to upgrade AOS in vSphere-based Nutanix five-node cluster with no automatic live migration. VMs have neither affinity nor anti-affinity rules configured. What will happen to VMs during AOS upgrade?

VMs will continue to run on the same host

In the Health page in Prism Element, what should be selected first to run a full health check?

Actions

When configuring dual encryption, which key management method is supported?

External Key Manager

Shared storage for Windows Server Failover Clustering is a use case for which Nutanix Unified Storage solution?

Volumes

An administrator wants to enable Windows Defender Credential Guard. What must be enabled when creating the VM?

UEFI

An administrator is creating a Linux VM and must decide which is the correct timezone to choose. Which timezone should the administrator select for this VM?

UTC

An administrator of an AHV cluster needs to deploy a solution that provides self-service network provisioning and overlapping IP. Addresses for true multi-tenant networking with VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds). Which product satisfies this requirement?

Flow Virtual Networking

What type of NTP (Network Time Protocol) sources are recommended for Nutanix clusters?

Internal NTP Sources

Upon logging into Prism Element, an administrator sees a red hear icon. What dashboard in Prism will best help the administrator to isolate the cause of the red heart?

Health

What is the maximum jumbo fram MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) supported by host network interfaces and guest VMs?

9000 bytes

What is the minimum number of blocks required to utilize block awareness?

3

An administrator needs to create a VM Template from an existing Windows VM. What is required for this action to be successful?

The VM is powered off

Which feature should be enabled to prevent password access to the CVM for both the Nutanix and admin user accounts?

Cluster Lockdown

When does AOS automatically generate a case with Nutanix Support?

For every alert detected by Pulse Diagnostics

Which technology provides Nutanix’s native virtualization solution?

AHV

Which hypervisor supports integrated IP address management (IPAM) for Nutanix?

AHV

Users are complaining that web applications hosted on a Nutanix cluster are running slow. After reviewing the performance metric, it is determined that the CPU Ready time is high in the cluster. What entity is impacted by CPU ready time?

VM

An admin needs to create a storage container for an application that has built-in redundancy. What should the admin do?

Create an RF1 storage container

How can an administrator access a specific Nutanix cluster from Prism Central?

Use the cluster quick access from the main dashboard widget?

At what time does LCM auto-inventory run by default?

3:00 AM

Which is the easiest way to get a call back from Nutanix Support on an open ticket?

Select Escalate within the existing ticket

A new project is being rolled out to an AHV Cluster being monitored by Prism Central. The application team indicated that the application managed by the project is very memory intensive. The administrator wants to be notified about any memory constraints should they occur. How would an administrator most effectively achieve this task?

Create a new alert policy for the memory Usage and set the critical after 80%

An administrator needs to implement a disaster recovery plan. The company has two sites, each with its own Nutanix AHV cluster. Latency between the sites is 30ms. Which built-in functionality in Prism Element could the administrator use to enable disaster recovery between the two clusters?

Data Protection

Which of the following option is supported by Nutanix for Data-at-Rest encryption?

Software-only Encryption

How can an admin work with Nutanix Support team to recover a deleted VM, in its most up to date status within a 24-hour period of the VM being deleted?

Use the Recycle Bin

What is true when adding a storage-only node to the Nutanix HCI cluster?

It can have a different hypervisor than the other nodes in the cluster

What minimum number of clusters must be registered within the Nutanix Prism Central to open a support case from the UI?

1

An administrator has been directed to ensure that all Prism Element and Prism Central clusters allow Nutanix Support  to gather logs without needing engagement. What should the administrator enable to meet this requirement?

Pulse

An Administrator wants a VM to communicate with twi separate VLANs (Virtual Local Area Networks). What steps should the administrator complete?

Add two NICs to the VM and configure one for each VLAN

What type of relationship does a VM Affinity policy define?

VM to Host

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

Identify clusters affected by known issues

An administrator notices that the Data Resiliency Status of some components has been reduced to 0, making it impossible to support a node failure in the Nutanix cluster. What type of failure is most likely the cause of this issue?

CVM

An application owner reported that an AHV-based critical application VM is performing very slowly. After initial diagnostics, it has been observed that the CPU utilization is significantly higher than normal. What two actions should the administrator take on this VM without shutting it down? (Choose two.)

- Ensure CPU hot-add is supported by the Guest

- Increase number of vCPU in Prism Element

By default, Nutanix Files will deploy how many FSVMs (File System Virtual Machines) within a Nutanix cluster?

3

An administrator needs to deploy a two-node Nutanix cluster on a new ROBO (Remote Office/Branch Office) Site. What is required to maintain High Availability in the case of node failure?

Witness VM

What is the default administrator session log out time?

15 minutes

Which policy specifies that a selected VM will only run on a specific group nodes in Nutanix Cluster?

Affinity

An administrator is upgrading a current three-node Nutanix cluster with new HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) nodes. Currently, the environment is based on a single two-unit chassis hosted in one cabinet. By simply changing the system form factor, what new level of resiliency may this customer achieve?

Block awareness

An administrator is conducting updates in a Nutanix cluster and is being prompted for handling non-migratable VMs. Which VM is non-migratable?

VMs marked as an Agent

On which entity is Replication Factor configured?

Container

An administrator needs to ensure data integrity at the application level for a VM replicated to a secondary site. Which requirement will satisfy this task?

1 VM per Consistency Group

Which NIC-teaming configuration balances network traffic based on source/destination IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports?

Active-Active with LACP

When should Pulse be disabled?

Only under the guidance of Nutanix Support

An admin needs to configure a cluster to perform an LCM inventory automatically. At what frequency will the inventory run by default?

Every 24 hours

Which Windows technology does AHV support to prevent authentication theft?

Windows Defender Credential Guard

A Microsoft SQL Server cluster has been deployed on an AHV cluster. To ensure maximum uptime, the administrator wants the SQL Server VMs running on different hosts while leveraging High Availability in case of host failure. Which configuration would meet those requirements?

Create an anti-affinity rule via CLI

Which Nutanix storage efficiency feature is most suitable for nearly every workload?

Compression

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

Categories

A Veeam Backup appliance, which uses iSCSI, must be deployed into an AHV-based bluster. What must be configured to allow Veeam to connect to the Nutanix cluster?

Data Services IP

An administrator has defined a security policy that needs to be applied to dozens of VMs. What is the most efficient way the admin can perform this?

Apply a category to the VMs, and associate the category with the policy

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

Container

Which component allows you to pair sites for Disaster Recovery Policy Creation using Nutanix Leap?

Availability Zones

An admin is considering a data protection strategy between two datacenters. There is a 10ms round trip (10ms RTT) latency between the two dusters. Which data protection solution can the admin implement that minimizes data loss in the event of a disaster?

NearSync Replication

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

App Mobility Fabric

Where does an administrator go to take consolidated backup of the Key Manager servers [KMS]?

Prism Central

An administrator has created a custom alert policy is configured for a VM named Calm_3_8_VM to generate a Warning alert if memory exceeds 90% or is below 30% for 10 minutes. What action can be taken to prevent this alert policy from creating multiple alerts within a 48-hour period if the 90% threshold is crossed multiple times?

Select the Auto resolve alerts checkbox and click Save

An admin has recently expanded the Nutanix cluster and noticed that NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check) health checks and alerts for newly-added nodes are not being received via email, what should the admin do to resolve this issue?

Configure SMTP

How is Prism Central deployed?

As a virtual machine

An admin wants to change from Redundancy Factor 2 to 3, but is not allowed. What must the admin check?

Check that the cluster has five or more nodes.

What does Replication Factor 2 (RF2) mean in Nutanix cluster?

Number of copies of data written in the cluster

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

Volumes

What is the biggest benefit of the Redfish Protocol and LCM (Life Cycle Manager)?

BMC and BIOS update twice as quickly

What role does a Replication Factor of 2 or 3 play in ensuring data integrity and recovery?

It ensures that multiple copies of data are available for recovery

What requirement needs to be considered before configuring Replication

What requirement needs to be considered before configuring Replication Factor of 1 (RF1)?

Application resiliency