Nutanix Nutanix Certified Advanced Professional (NCAP) NCM-5.15 Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  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

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 22:

  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 duster

  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

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 23:

  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 Whitelist-Based Policy

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 24:

  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.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 25:

  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

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 26:

  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

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 27:

  Refer to the exhibit.

  

  What is the purpose of eth2 on the CVMs?

  A. RDMA Network Segmentation

  B. iSCSI connectivity

  C. Remote site connectivity

  D. Network Segmentation

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 28:

  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.

  Correct Answer: AD

• Question 29:

  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.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 30:

  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

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: https://next.nutanix.com/archive-44/scaling-up-vm-storage-performance-on-ahv-volume-group-load-balancer-28063