An administrator experiences a Recovery Plan failure for a cross-hypervisor (ESXi to AHV) DR test. Guest VMs do not recover at the DR location. Which configuration is required for a successful event?
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Deploy Legacy BIOS boot on hosts within the cluster.
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Nutanix Guest Tools must be installed on source guest VMs.
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A consultant is configuringsyslog monitoringand wants to receiveCRITICAL logsfrom theAudit module. Which severity level setting should be configured to get the desired output?
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Question 3
Multiple choice
An administrator was tasked with configuring a Nutanix Disaster Recovery solution and has established synchronous replication between the sites. For additional resiliency, each site is running its own Prism Central instance managing the local AHV cluster. An administrator was notified that a failover is required for a planned datacenter maintenance on the primary site.
In which two ways should the administrator proceed? (Choose two.)
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Perform on-demand live migration between the clusters.
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Conduct a planned failover from the standby site.
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Conduct an unplanned failover from the primary site.
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Conduct a planned failover from the primary site
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Question 4
Multiple choice
An administratormigrated a physical MySQL databasefrom alegacy 3-tier environmentto aNutanix cluster.
After migration, the administrator finds that atpeak load, the number of IOPS is lower than expected, andlatency is higher. Which two steps should the administrator take to improve performance? (Choose two.)
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Ensure that theSQL data vDisks are thick provisioned.
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Createadditional vDisks for SQL data.
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UseLVM to stripe the SQL data across multiple vDisks.
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Ensure that theSQL data vDisks are thin provisioned.
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Which feature allows a Nutanix administrator to perform non-disruptive upgrades of software and firmware?
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Due to application requirements, an administrator needs to modify an AHV VM in order to support a large number of distinct, concurrent connections. The VM has the following configuration:
- VCPUs: 4
- RAM: 20 GB
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server 2022. Which modification can the administrator make to improve network performance for network I/O-intensive applications running on this VM?
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Enabling RSS Virtio-Net Multi-Queue
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Enabling AHV Turbo Technology
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An administrator is trying todelete a protected snapshotbut is unable to do so. What is the most likely cause?
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There is an active recovery occurring at that time.
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Ransomware has encrypted the snapshot.
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There is an approval policy that was denied.
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The snapshot has been corrupted.
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An administrator is managing an environment based on two different AHV-based and ESXi-based clusters.
Workloads are evenly distributed and in a healthy state. A Linux VM running on ESXi is not performing well at the storage level and is configured as follows:
- VCPU: 8
- VRAM: 32
- vDisk: 3, first 100 GB, second 250 GB, third 250 GB. What is the easiest way to test VM performance, while minimizing downtime?
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Increase the number of vCPUs.
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Migrate the VM to the AHV cluster.
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Enable vDisk sharding at AOS level.
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Collapse the second and the third disk into a single one
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An administrator has successfully configuredMetro Availabilityfor aProtection Domain. However, after a few
days, anNCC warningis raised: "Following VMs are accessing data from remote clusters: VM-1 from remote cluster Remote-ML" What is the first action an administrator must take to fix the issue?
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Run the command:ncli pd list metro-avail=true | egrep "Protection Domain Stretch Role" | grep
"ACTIVE"
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Usemust-affinity rulesto avoid automated VM migration to the standby datastore.
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Migrate the VM to itsprimary siteand set appropriate rules forDRS and affinity.
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Run the command:ncc health_checks metro_availability_checks data_locality_check --cvm_list=X.X.X.
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Question 10
Multiple choice
An administrator is tasked with protection of a business critical application. The application is running on a Linux VM and is using a custom DB that require application consistent snapshots for data integrity. An administrator has written a pre_freeze and post_thaw scripts and placed them under /usr/local/sbin/.
During protection domain scheduled run an alert is generated: Execution of the PostThaw Script Failed. Which two resolution steps could an administrator conduct to fix the issue? (Choose two.)
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Ensure that scripts have nutanix user ownership and admin access.
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Review the NGT logs under /usr/local/sbin/post_thaw.
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Ensure NGT service is up and running.
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Execute scripts manually and ensure they succeed
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Question 11
Single choice
An administrator is managing a4-node clusterwithdifferent hardware generations:
Two G5 Nodes# 2 CPUs (12 cores), 1 SSD (1.92 TB), 2 HDDs (4 TB). Two G7 Nodes# 2 CPUs (16
cores), 2 SSDs (1.92 TB), 4 HDDs (4 TB). The cluster will bedecommissioned from productionand used forDisaster Recovery (DR) purposeswithan RPO of 1 hour. What is the best approach when replacing G5 nodes without impacting performance?
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New node must have at least 2 SSDs.
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New node must be G7 or G8.
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New node must have 2 CPUs with 12 cores.
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Question 12
Multiple choice
An administrator is trying toconfigure Metro Availabilitybetween NutanixESXi-based clusters. However,
theCompatible Remote Sitesscreen does not list all required storage containers.  Which two reasons could be a cause for this issue? (Choose two.)
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Source and destination hardware are from different vendors.
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The remote site storage container has compression enabled.
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The destination storage container is not empty.
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Both storage containers must have the same name.
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Question 13
Single choice
Which Nutanix product is used for automating application deployment across clouds?
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Question 14
Single choice
An administrator is configuringProtection Policiesto replicate VMs to aNutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2)over the internet.
To comply with security policies, how should data be protected during transmission?
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Configure Data on a self-encrypting drive.
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Configure VMs to use UEFI Secure Boot.
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Enable Data-at-Rest Encryption.
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Enable Data-in-Transit Encryption.
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Question 15
Single choice
Which update in LCM can an administrator apply on a per-node basis?
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Question 16
Single choice
Refer to Exhibit:  In ascale-out Prism Central deployment, what additional functionality does configuring anFQDN instead of a Virtual IPprovide?
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Question 17
Single choice
In afive-node cluster, an administrator noticed thatthree VMsare consuming too many resources on asingle host. Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling (ADS) is not able to migrate these VMs. What is the most likely reason preventing ADS from migrating these VMs?
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VMs use GPU pass-through.
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VM-VM anti-affinity policy is set.
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VMs use external Network Attached Storage.
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Question 18
Single choice
A user has created a report in the Intelligent Operations Analysis Dashboard but forgot to download it. After logging back into Prism Central, the administrator finds that the report is no longer available. Which option explains this behavior?
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Reports are automatically deleted after 24 hours.
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A user with Cluster Viewer role deleted the report.
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The report is stored in the cluster's Prism Element.
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The user-generated report was archived.
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Question 19
Multiple choice
An administrator wants toclean up inactive VMsusingVM Efficiency in Nutanix. The business requires that VMs must beinactive for 120 daysbefore deletion. A Playbook was created to deleteDead and Zombie VMswith a99-day wait period after they are marked inactive. How long will have passed before these VMs are deleted? (Choose two.)
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For Dead VMs, the wait before deletion is 120 days.
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For Zombie VMs, the wait before deletion is 129 days.
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For Dead VMs, the wait before deletion is 129 days.
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For Zombie VMs, the wait before deletion is 120 days.
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Question 20
Single choice
What is the best way to automate the deployment of 100 Linux VMs with similar configurations but different hostnames, local configurations, and install packages?
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VM template configuration
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Question 21
Single choice
An administrator wants to ensure that user VMs on AHV hosts can take advantage of bandwidth available beyond a single adapter in a bond. Which uplink Bond Type should the administrator configure?
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Active-Active with MAC pinning
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Question 22
Single choice
Which tool in Nutanix can be used to gather logs for troubleshooting and support?
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NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check)
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Question 23
Single choice
An administrator would like to create a Playbook where VM protection has failed for VMs in category: CriticalApps:Alerts.
The administrator needs to create an alert for only the VMs in the CriticalApps:Alerts category. The alert must send a notification to the on-call personnel in the event that a VM Protection Failed Alert is triggered. How should the administrator complete this task?
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Create a Playbook with a Manual trigger.
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Create a Playbook with an Alert Matching Criteria trigger.
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Create a Playbook with an Event-based trigger.
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Create a Playbook with an Alert-based trigger
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Question 24
Multiple choice
An administrator has configuredAHV Metro Availability with Witnessand is testing failover scenarios. During testing, the administratordisconnects the primary and recovery clustersbutPrism Central remains connected to the recovery site. What are two expected system behaviors? (Choose two.)
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Guest VM I/O operations pause (freeze) until connectivity is restored.
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Guest VM I/O operations pause (freeze) until connectivity between Prism Central and the primary site is restored.
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Guest VMs failover automatically to the recovery cluster.
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Guest VMs continue to run on the primary cluster.
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Question 25
Single choice
Refer to Exhibit:  An administrator sees the alert shown in the exhibit. What should the administrator do to ensure the nutanix user can no longer SSH to a CVM using a password?
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Block port 22 on the CVM firewall.
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Question 26
Single choice
An administrator is executing a storage performance test between two Microsoft Windows VMs. The first VM was deployed by using a template, while the second one was created from scratch. Results show that VMs have very different metrics when using the same performance test. The first VM reaches 8000 IOPS, while the second struggles reaching 500/800 IOPS. Currently the AHV cluster is not under pressure. How can the administrator determine why these results were produced?
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Verify both VMs have installed Nutanix Guest Tools.
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Enable AHV Turbo on the second VM.
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Compare vDisk bus type between VMs.
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Check number of VCPUs assigned to VMs
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Question 27
Single choice
Which task should be performed first when upgrading host memory?
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Gracefully stop the host by using the out of band management interface.
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Remove node from the cluster.
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Execute "shutdown -h now" from the AHV command line interface.
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Place node into the maintenance mode
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Question 28
Single choice
A new employee has inherited a partially configured Disaster Recovery (DR) schema. Source workloads have been identified and Nutanix Guest Tools has been installed. There are two Protection Polices in place, one with an asynchronous schedule with a 1-hour RPO and a second policy utilizing synchronous replication. All of these workloads need to be recovered at a DR location and this will be orchestrated by Prism Central Recovery Plans. What is the best way to setup this recovery orchestration?
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Identify the workload startup order and create Recovery Plans corresponding to the startup order.
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Setup a Recovery Plan for the asynchronous replication and convert the synchronous replication to a Protection Domain.
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Setup two Recovery Plans, one for the asynchronous replication and one for the synchronous replication.
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Setup a single Recovery Plan utilizing stages of recovery delays as needed.
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Question 29
Single choice
After addingnew workloads, theOverall Runwayis nowbelow 365 days, but thescenario still shows the cluster is in good shape. Why?
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Because Storage Runway is still good.
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Because new workloads are sustainable.
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Because there are recommended resources.
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Because the Target is 1 month.
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Question 30
Single choice
A company is evaluatingNutanix Disaster Recovery (DR)to protect multiplebusiness-critical applications. Some applications are built using a3-tier architectureand have interdependencies. Afterfailover, the VM'sstatic IP address is retained, butDNS configuration is lost. How should an administrator proceed to resolve this issue?
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ConfigureSelf-Service Restore.
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Createcustom in-guest scriptsto preserve the statically assigned DNS IP addresses.
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InstallNetwork Manager command-line tool (nncli)in the protected Windows VMs.
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Configure aProtection Domain.
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