NCS-Core

Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional (NCS-Core 6.8) Version

2.0

QUESTION NO: 1
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

QUESTION NO: 2
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?

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 NO: 3
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

QUESTION NO: 4
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 NO: 5
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 NO: 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 NO: 7
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 NO: 8
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 NO: 9
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 NO: 10
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 5-minute 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 NO: 11
An administrator inherits a new Nutanix environment and logs in to a CVM to check the network configuration. The configuration is
as follows:
nutanix@NTNX-16xxxxxxxxx5-A-CVM:xx.xx.xx. 76:~$ manage_ovs show_uplinks

Bridge: br0
Bond: br0-up
bond_mode: active-backup
interfaces: eth3 eth2
lacp: off
lacp-fallback: True
lacp_speed: slow
Bridge: br1
Bond: eth0
bond_mode: active-backup
interfaces: eth0
lacp: off
lacp-fallback: false lacp_speed: slow
Bridge: br2
Bridge: br5

nutanix@NTNX-16XXXXXXXxx5-A-CVM:xx.xx.xx. 76:~$ manage_ovs show_interfaces

name mode link speed
eth0 1000 True 1000
eth1 1000 True 1000
eth2 10000 True 10000
eth3 10000 True 10000

nutanix@NTNX-16xxxxxxxxx5-A-CVM:xx.xx.xx.76-S

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 NO: 12
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

QUESTION NO: 13
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

Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 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.)
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 NO: 15
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 NO: 16
An alert about RX errors on eth2 on a node is reported in the cluster. The administrator logs in to the CVM in question, chec ks the
ping_* files in the data/logs/syststats folder, and notices intermittent ping loss.
The node in question has the following network configuration:

nutanix@NTNX-16xxxxxxxxx5-A-CVM:xx.xx.xx.76:~$ manage_ovs show_uplinks

Bridge: bro
Bond: br0-up
bond_mode: active-backup
interfaces: eth3 eth2
lacp: off
lacp-fallback: True
lacp_speed: slow
Bridge: br1
Bond: eth0
bond_mode:
active-backup
interfaces: eth0
lacp: off
lacp-fallback: True
lacp_speed: slow
Bridge: br1
Bond: eth0
bond_mode:
active-backup
interfaces: eth0
lacp: off
lacp-fallback: false
lacp_speed: slow
Bridge: br2
Bridge: br5

nutanix@NTNX-16xxxxxxxxx5-A-CVM:xx.xx.xx.76: $ manage_ovs show_interfaces

name mode link speed
eth0 1000 True 1000
eth1 1000 True 1000
eth2 10000 True 10000
eth3 10000 True 10000

nutanix@NTNX-16XXXXXXXXX5-A-CVM:xx.xx.xx.76:~$

Which action should be used to troubleshoot without disrupting the VMs running on this node?
A. Check the port on the switch side for any errors
B. Replace the cable from eth2 to the switch
C. Enable balance-s1b on br0-up and monitor if a problem persists
D. Remove eth3 from br0-up and monitor for new alerts

QUESTION NO: 17
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 NO: 18
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 duster and requires more RAM.
D. Nutanix Leap and Nutanix Flow have been enabled on Prism Central

QUESTION NO: 19
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.

QUESTION NO: 20
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

Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 21
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 VM

QUESTION NO: 22
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.
Answer: A B
QUESTION NO: 23
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 NO: 24
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 NO: 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 NO: 26
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 VM
D. Run Defrag on the Linux VM

QUESTION NO: 27
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:

[root@AHV-Host ~]# ethtool -s eth2 | grep error

rx_errors: 0
tx_errors: 0
rx_over_errors: 0
rx_crc_errors: 478593
rx_frame_errors: 0
rx_fifo_errors: 0
rx_missed_errors: 0
tx_aborted_errors: 0
tx_carrier_errors: 0
tx_fifo_errors: 0
tx_heartbeat_errors: 0
rx_long_length_errors: 0
rx_short_length_errors: 0
rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
_ _ _
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 NO: 28
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
QUESTION NO: 29
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 NO: 30
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 NO: 31
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.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 32
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 Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 33
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 zone
Which 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.
Answer: A, C

QUESTION NO: 34
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 perfor
mance 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
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 35
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
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 36
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 reIease-api.nutanix-
ccm:8D. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 37
Refer to the exhibit.

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 Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 38
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 Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 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. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 40
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
datacenter Answer: A C

QUESTION NO: 41
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
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 42
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. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 43
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. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 44
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 image 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. Answer: A C

QUESTION NO: 45
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 Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 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 genesis.out 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
Answer: B
Ref: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000CuaDCAS

QUESTION NO: 47
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 38G to 636
E. D Change the Domain to use an IP rather than
a name Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 48
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. Answer: C
QUESTION NO:
46
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 Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 50
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 Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 51
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 Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 52
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.
Answer: B D

QUESTION NO: 53
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 54
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 60 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm
What must be changed to meet the required policy?
A. Revise the schedule tc 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 NO: 55
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 Answer: B
QUESTION NO:
56
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 Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 57
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 Dashboard
D. Choose Migrate on the Primary site within the Data Protection
Dashboard Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 58
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. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 56 HOTSPOT

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 the item
requirements using the drop-down option.

Procedure Correct/Incorrect
One container with compression and deduplication enabled for full clone virtual desktops Correct
One container with compression and Erasure Coding enabled for Hadoop Incorrect
One container with compression enabled for heavy database Correct
One container with deduplication enabled for full cone virtual desktops Correct
One container with deduplication enabled for hadoop Correct
QUESTION NO: 60 HOTSPOT
A system administrator needs to shutdown 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.)
A. Put the host in maintenance mode
B. Shutdown the CVM
C. Power off the node
D. Allow VMs to start on the remaining nodes
E. Shutdown the node

QUESTION NO: 61
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 Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 62
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.
Answer: B D

QUESTION NO: 63
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 Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 64
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. Answer: AB

QUESTION NO: 65
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. Answer: D
QUESTION NO:
66
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
Answer: B C

QUESTION NO: 67
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
• 162 GB RAM, 60% overall usage
• 2xl620GBSSD
• 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. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 68
Refer to the exhibits.
An administrator has reported that a new VM is not
performing well. Prism element, VM table Metrics
VM Name:NCNCAPVM
Core: 4
Memory Capacity: 8GiB
Storage: 6.86 GiB / 40 GiB
Memory Usage: 0%
Controller Read IOPS: 0
Controller Write IOPS: 0
Controller I/O Bandwidth: 13
KBps Controller Avg IO
Latency: 2.33ms Backup...:
Yes
Flash Mode: No

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. Answer: C
QUESTION NO:
66
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 6443 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.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 70
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
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 71
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 Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 72
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 Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
73
Refer to the

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
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 74
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 in- stallation
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 75
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. Answer: C
QUESTION NO:
76
Refer to the

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.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 77
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. File
s Answer:
A

QUESTION NO: 78
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 60-100Mbps
• 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 Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 76
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:
• 5 x AIX hosts
• 3 x Hyper-V hosts
• 6 x ESXi hosts
• 2 x 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. Answer: A, B
QUESTION NO:
80
Refer to the

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 0.0.0.0 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. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 81
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 rebooted
D. A drive has been
ejected Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 82
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
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 83
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. Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 84
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 Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 85
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 65%
• 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
operations. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 86
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?
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 87
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. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 88
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
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 86
A VM does not have 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 > 60% (moderate), 65% (high)
• CPU ready time > 5%, 10%
• Memory usage > 60%, 65%
• Memory swap rate > 0 Kbps (no moderate value)
Which type of VM is being described?
A. Constrained VM
B. Bully VM
C. Inactive
VM Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
60
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 the nodes with failed disks are unable to
write data Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 61

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

Answer: D
QUESTION NO:
62
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 600TB 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, 6 nodes total.
B. Expanse the cluster by adding 2 additional nodes per rack, 6 nodes total.
C. Expanse the cluster by adding 6 nodes to a new 42U rack
D. Expanse the cluster by adding 8 nodes to a new 42U rack

QUESTION NO: 63
An administrator needs to maximize storage potential in a six-node cluster. The container is configured with the following:
• Post-process compression
• Capacity deduplication
What should the administrator configure to increase space savings?
A. Erasure coding
B. Inline compression
C. Reserve capacity
D. Cache dedupe

QUESTION NO: 64
An administrator is currently using both 10g uplink with LACP and balance-tcp. A single VM should not be allowed to use
more than a single 10G uplink, and both uplinks should be utilized.
Which two command should be used to configure the bond? (choose two)
A. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-slb
B. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-tcp
C. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=active-backup
D. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up other_config: bond-rebalance-interval=30000

QUESTION NO: 65
An organization is running a Nutanix Cluster based on AOS 5.10.x and VMware vSphere 6.7. Currently, the CVM network
is segmented and Storage only nodes not present.
A new security project based on NSX is coming. VMware Distributed Virtual Switches are required. The administrator
needs to prepare the environment for the new project.
Which step should the administrator use to initiate the project?
A. Enable Nutanix Flow at the Prism Central Level
B. Manually disable CVM network Segmentation
C. Convert storage only nodes into vSphere nodes
D. Enable Jumbo Frames to accommodate network
frames Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
66
Over the period of 2 to 3 weeks, a cluster displays the following:
• Periods where Warning Alerts of memory usage over 75% are asserted
• Periods where Critical Warnings of memory usage over 60% are asserted
• Periods of slow of frozen VDI desktops have caused work stoppage or slowdown
• VDI clones have periodically not powered up when called, causing work stoppage
Which steps should be used to prioritize the administrator’s troubleshooting efforts?
A. Assess resource health on Hardware page
Review the Analysis page for memory usage
demand Determine the VDI workload-to-host affinity
across the cluster
B. Analyze Alert Pages for a root cause of memory
problem Analyze VM table page to access the
VM functionality
Analyze the VDI Clone properties for possible VDI Workload stress
C. Check Analysis page for CPU demand
Verify VDI workload property for memory subscription
Review the Hardware page to determine if the cluster has sufficient RAM
D. Review Analysis Page for memory use
pattern Alert with VDI workload
demand
Analyze current and future workload in the Capacity Runaway tab for sufficient resources
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 67
After the migration, some SQL queries take longer to execute than prior to
migration. The following SQL best practices were applied while creating the
SQL VM on Nutanix:
• 8 vDisks per SQL server VM
• Database and Log files on separate vDisk
• 2 TempDB database drives and 1 TempDB log drive
What should the administrator to do improve the SQL Server performance?
A. Redistribute existing data by creating additional database file and enable autogrowth
B. Create multiple TempDB data files and enable autogrowth
C. Create multiple SQL log files and disable autogrowth
D. Redistribute existing data by creating additional database files and disable
autogrowth Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 68
Refer to the exhibit.

Loadbalance_srcid
Node 10.103.1.111 external vswitch Vswith0 after
conversion will use NICs active-passive. Currently using
active-active with load balancing policy
loadbalance_srcid

An administrator receive the warning massages shown in the exhibit while validating cluster conversion from
EXSi to AHV. What should the administrator do to address this warning in v Center Server?
A. Keep active adapters od different speeds as active standby
B. Remove adapters that are active but not homogeneous.
C. Keep homogeneous adapter as active and standby
D. Remove the standby adapters under Teaming and
Failover. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 66
An administrator configure Active Directory (AD) authentication for their Nutanix environment. When login in using an
AD user account, the login process takes more than one minute to complete. No delay occurs when logging a local
account.
What should the administrator confirm to resolve this issue?

A. The user search base for the group is configured correctly

B. The domain controller being used is configured as a global catalog server.
C. Active directory lookups are configured to use Non-Recursive mode.
D. The service Account Username is correct for the
domain. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 100

A customer has the following requirement for a Nutanix cluster:
• Must support high-performance Nutanix Volumes iSCSI workloads
• Must utilize AHV nodes
• Must use 10 GbE interface
How should the customer optimize networking?
A. Enable Jumbo Frame on just the Host
B. Convert Cluster to ESXi and enable Jumbo Frame on Host and CVM
C. Enable Jumbo Frames on just the CVM
D. Enable the use of Jumbo Frame on Host and CVM
Answer: D
QUESTION NO:
101
A customer has a four-node cluster and is using Volume Groups to provide storage services to a
SQL cluster. In the event of a CVM failure in the cluster, what is the expected IO path of the
volume group’s iSCSI targets?
A. vDisk directed at failure CVM are redirected to Data Services IP until CVM is reconnected
B. vDisk directed to CVM that failed to disconnect and will not reconnect without manual intervention
C. vDisk directed to failed CVM are redirected to another CVM and automatically reconnect
D. vDisk directed at failed CVM will disconnect and reconnect when the failed CVM comes
back online Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 102

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator logged into Prism Element, notices the following in the home dashboard, and
showing the exhibit. Which action should the administrator take next?
A. Configure the fqdn for the hosts indicated
B. Troubleshoot the zookeeper server issue
C. Re-run NCC specifying data_resiliency_check
D. Check the hardware page for disk
failures Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 103

The networking team makes changes to the Top of Rack switches to which the Nutanix cluster are attached. A few VMs
are able to communicate with each other on the same node but are unable to connect to other parts of the network.
What is the likely cause of this issue?
A. There is a VLAN misconfiguration on the VMs.
B. The vNIC port is disconnected on the affected VMs.
C. There is a VLAN misconfiguration on the switch.
D. Jumbo Frame are misconfigured across
ports. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 104

An administrator has a 32-node hybrid cluster with CPU, RAM and storage utilization of 80%. A database VM is
configured with VM Flash. What is causing this IO latency?
A. Controller VM is experiencing high CPU ready time.
B. Curator scans causes by ILM constantly moving data.
C. VM Flash Mode reduces SSD tier capacity for VMs.
D. Database VM is experiencing high CPU ready time.

Answer: B

QUESTION NO:

105
An administrator is deploying a new application to a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. The application requires a security to prevent
unauthorized access. The application also uses many non-standard ports that are unique to it. Security should not be changed
for existing applications. What should the administrator do to meet these requirement?
A. Use existing categories for the VMs. and create new security policies to use the existing categories.
B. Use existing categories for the VMs and modify existing security policies to include the specific port.
C. Create new categories for the VMs, and create new security policies that include the new categories.
D. Create new categories for the VMs, and modify existing security policies to include the new categories.

Answer: C

QUESTION NO:

106
A CEO asks the IT administrator to provide a list of required resources to protect current workloads and the two new SQL
servers from a disaster. The Nutanix environment is managed by Prism Central.
Which option explains how to meet the CEO's request?
A. In Capacity Runway, select Optimize Resources and select all VMs that must be protected.
B. Create a new project and assign the VMs to it to get compute and storage requirements.
C. Create a new scenario based on a new cluster based on a VM Profile and select Recommend.
D. Create a new Recovery policy by selecting the VM that needs to be protected and get hardware requirements.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO:
107
An administrator is trying to correct high cluster IOPs and Cluster Controller Latency. Networking is the
suspected issue. Which networking parameters should be configured in the Nutanix cluster?
A. Bond State and network latency
B. Number of NICs connected and network latency.
C. Number of NICs connected and frame size
D. Number of NICs connected and bond
state. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 108

An administrator needs to configure snapshots for DR scenarios. The databases get refreshed on Friday nights
regularly. The search service application re-indexes the new application on Saturday nights regularly. The remaining
front-end and middle tier VMs are static but do get minor version updates weekly.
The administrator needs to have 2 weeks of daily snapshots for all the VMs in an app group and 2 weeks
application consist lo cal snapshots only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on the same group of VMs.
Which two options should the administrator use to configure snapshots?
A. Create a schedule in a protection domain for all applicable VMs to snap daily with application consistency
enabled with 6 days of retention and with no application consistency and 14 days local retention.
B. Create two consistency groups in a protection domain, one for front-end and middle tier apps with no application
consistency, one for database and Search apps with application consistency, and apply the correct schedule to
both groups.
C. Create one protection domain for all VMs in an application group with scheduled daily non-application
consistent snap- shots and another protection domain for all VMs in an application group with scheduled
Friday. Saturday, Sunday appli- cation consistent snapshots.
D. Create a protection domain for all
VMs Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 106

An administrator needs to install prism central for their 2550 multi-cluster
environment. How should they deploy the application?
A. Deploy a large 3-VM Prism Central instance
B. Deploy a large 1-VM Prism Central instance.
C. Deploy a small 3-VM Prism Central instance.
D. Deploy a small 1-VM Prism Central
instance. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 110

An administrator recently added in 3 nodes to an existing 5 node cluster. While 1 node came with its own block, the other 2
nodes where added to an existing share. After adding the nodes, the administrator sees that the hardware tab displays
the correct number of nodes, but incorrect position in the diagram tab.
What should the administrator do to resolve the issue?
A. Check the factory_config.json for all 3 nodes
B. SSH into CVM and perform genesis restart on each CVM
C. SSH into the CVMs and run genesis acropolis stop; cluster start
D. Check the factory_config.json for the two single
nodes. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 111

The following critical Availability Alert displays in prism Central:

Availability Zone config in Protection Policy PP-BCA-1HR is not accessible

The protection Policy PP-BCA-1HR includes a business critical application with a 1-hour snapshot
frequency. What is causing this issue?
A. There is a scheduled outage for the Availability Zone referenced in Protection Policy PP-BCA-1HR.
B. Workloads included in PP-BCA-1HR are no longer within their intended RPO.
C. Prism Central in the Availability Zone for PP-BCA-1HR is unavailable.
D. NearSync replication between the Availability Zones has fallen out
of scope. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 112

The following alert appears on the file server alerts tab in the file server dashboard:

File Server FS47-SS has multiple VMs on a single node

Which two events can generate this alert? (choose two)

A. A three-node cluster hosting the file server is undergoing AOS upgrade.
B. A node failed in a three-node cluster.
C. A Nutanix file with four hie server VMs is deployed on a three-node duster.
D. A node is set to the maintenance mode in a three node cluster.
Answer: B D
QUESTION NO:
113
A systems administrator configures a protection domain replication between two Nutanix clusters. After the first
successful replication
, the administrator tests DR by clicking activate on the remote cluster.
While VMs are active on the remote cluster, the protection domain is marked as active on
both clusters. What steps are required to return both clusters to their original state?

A. On the remote site, deactivate the Protection Domain

using ncli On the primary site, select the Protection
Domain and dick migrate

B. On the remote site, promote the Protection Domain

On the primary site, change the Protection Domain state from Decoupled to
Disabled Enable the original primary site as remote site

C. On the primary site, suspend replications

On the remote site, deactivate the Protection Domain using ncli
On the remote site, migrate the protection domain back to the primary site

D. On the remote site, restore the snapshots from the Protection Domain
On the remote site, select the Protection Domain and migrate to the

primary site Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 114

An organization subscribes to field advisories from the Nutanix support portal. An administrator receives an email about a rare prob-
lem that could cause cluster instability and affect the entire AOS cluster. The organization is running Vmware vsphere 6.x on Nutanix.
What action should be taken to resolve this issue?
A. Open Prism Element and select Upgrade Software to update AOS.
B. File a ticket to Nutanix Support and provide the Field Advisory ID.
C. Use VMware Update Manager to update the cluster.
D. In Prism Central, select Life Cycle Management and perform LCM update.

Answer: A
QUESTION
NO: 1
During the Knowledge Transfer, the customer askes where to find the details about their Nutanix environment, such as
IP addresses, storage containers, and configuration.
Where can the consultant find this information?
A. Support Portal
B. As-Built Guide
C. Test Plan
D. Tech

Checklist Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 2
A customer is deploying Nutanix AHV clusters over hundreds of remote sites worldwide. Prism Central will be used to
centrally manage all clusters. Customer security policy requires the use of MS Active Directory (AD) groups to
authenticate all network devices.
Which method should be consultant use to meet the requirements?
A. Integrate AD authentication on all CVMs.
B. Integrate AD authentication on Prism Central Only.
C. Proxy Prism Element traffic through Prism Central.
D. Integrate AD authentication on all Prism Element Clusters.

Answer: D

QUESTION

NO: 3
Where can a consultant find Nutanix Enablement Starter Packs (ESPs)?
A. In the Partner Portal
B. In the Nutanix .NEXT Community Forum
C. In the Support Portal
D. In the Services section of the Nutanix
website. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 4
A consultant has deployed a Nutanix cluster with AOS 5.10.x, then discovers the customer’s environment is running on
AOS 5.6.x. The consultant decides to re-image the cluster using the foundation Java applet. During the Foundation
discovery, all cluster nodes display a status of Unavailable.
What should the consultant do to resolve the issue?
A. Use the Phoenix ISO
B. Destroy the cluster.
C. Restart the Genesis service on the cluster.
D. Reset the IPMI IP
addresses. Answer: A
QUESTION
NO:
A 5
consultant needs to verify the make and model of the systems that will be imaged with Foundation. The consultant
does not have the Bill of Materials (BOM) available to review.
When should the consultant verify the make and model to prepare for the cluster deployment?
A. During the Foundation Process
B. While conducting the Tech Review Call
C. Upon arriving on-site
D. When reviewing the Statement of Work
(SOW) Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 6
A consultant is onsite with a customer running Foundation VM (FVM) and discovers that there is no connectivity between
the FVM and their laptop. The consultant verifies the following:
*The consultant’s laptop and Nutanix nodes are plugged into a flat switch.
*The laptop, switch and nodes are plugged into supported power supplies.
*The laptop network adapters and FVM are configured with their corresponding IP
addresses. What is the cause for the connectivity failure to the FVM?
A. The switch is not plugged into the power supply.
B. Desktop Firewall is blocking ping requests.
C. Network cables are not connected.
D. Laptop WiFi configured to use
DHCP. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 7
Refer to the exhibit.

A consultant is installing AOS 5.10 and ESXi 6.5 on three nodes. During the Foundation process, ESXi 6.5 is not available
as one of the choices for hypervisor.
Which solution should the consultant use?
A. Upload ESXi image to /home/Nutanix/foundation/nos/hypervisor/esx.
B. Restart Foundation VM and refresh Foundation page.
C. Update the Foundation whitelist from the support portal.
D. Upload ESXi image to /home/Nutanix/foundation/isos/hypervisor/esx.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 8
A consultant is planning an installation and needs to collect configuration items to be used during the install. The data
needed from the customer are IP addresses, Gateway, DNS servers, and NTP Servers.
Which Cluster Deployment document must be completed with the customer?
A. Project Plan
B. Operations Guide
C. Questionnaire
D. Technical Checklist
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 6
A consultant is deploying a Nutanix cluster at a customer location. The consultant will be deploying the latest AOS along
with the latest Nutanix hardware.
Which three references should the consultant review prior to this installation? (Choose three.)
A. Release Notes
B. Software Product Interoperability
C. Field s Security Advisories
D. End-Of-Life (EOL) Information
E. Acropolis Advanced Administration
Guide Answer: A, B, C

QUESTION NO: 10
A consultant is performing a Nutanix Cluster installation on Dell XC Core hardware. The consultant decides to use
Foundation Portable for Mac to perform the installation. When the consultant arrives onsite, Foundation Portable is
unable to locate the new nodes.
Which log should the consultant check to troubleshoot this issue?
A. /home/nutanix/foundation/log
B. ~/data/logs/foundation.out
C. foundation.app/contents/resouces/log
D. ~/data/logs/foundation
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 11
A consultant is imaging a Nutanix cluster with VMware ESXi. Foundation returns an error that the media is not a
supported ISO. The consultant checks the whitelist file in Foundation and confirms that the version of the ISO is not
listed.
Which three actions should the consultant take to resolve this issue? (Choose three.)
A. Replace and save whitelist file in Foundation
B. Obtain the MD5 checksum of the ISO and confirm MD5 checksum of ISO is listed.
C. Download the iso_whitelist.json from the Support portal.
D. Edit the whitelist file in Foundation.
E. Restart the imaging process in
Foundation. Answer: B, C, D

QUESTION NO: 12
To prepare for a new Nutanix installation, a consultant downloads the Foundation VM, imports the VM to their Desktop
Virtualization Solution, and powers on the VM. The IPv4 static address on the host workstation and the Foundation VM have
been configured, but pings between them fail.
Which two troubleshooting steps should the consultant perform? (Choose two.)
A. Remove and re-import the Foundation VM to ensure the virtual NIC is set to Host-Only.
B. Verify the virtual NIC in the Foundation VM is bound to the correct physical Host adapter.
C. Confirm the IP addresses and subnet masks are correct.
D. Verify the virtual NIC in the Foundation VM is bound to the correct wireless
network adapter. Answer: B C

QUESTION NO: 13
A customer wants to use NIC teaming on an ESXi host using a vSphere Standard Switch configured with the Route
based on physical NIC load balancing option. The customer does not see the option when editing the Teaming and
Failover settings for the switch.
How should the consultant resolve this issue?
A. Change the load balancing option on the switch.
B. Add a vSphere Distributed Switch
C. Add another physical NIC to the team.
D. Install a vCenter server to manage the switch
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 14
Refer to the exhibit.

A system administrator is using Range-Autofill tool to assign IP addresses to setup a multi-block cluster based
on the following configuration:
Block Serial # Node ID Hypervisor Host Hypervisor IPMI IP CVM IP
Name (FQDN) Mgmt IP
18GM3E430018 A RW-P-NX1A 10.100.6.16 10.100.6.18 10.100.6.17
B RW-P-NX1B 1 1 1
10.100.6.16 10.100.6.18 10.100.6.17
2 2 2
18GM3E430027 A RW-P-NX2A 10.100.6.16 10.100.6.18 10.100.6.17
B RW-P-NX2B 3 3 3
10.100.6.16 10.100.6.18 10.100.6.17
4 4 4

Which additional changes must be made during the Foundation process to configure the cluster correctly?
A. Change host names
B. Reorder block serial
C. Change IP address
D. Reorder
blocks Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
15
After uploading a hypervisor ISO during the Foundation process, a consultant sees a message that the MD5 sum for the
hypervisor is not found in the Whitelist file.
Which step should the consultant take next to resolve this issue?
A. Download the hypervisor ISO again from the vendor website.
B. Restart the Foundation process and upload the hypervisor again.
C. Download the latest hypervisor ISO whitelist file from Nutanix portal.
D. Check the hypervisor version in the Nutanix
Compatibility Matrix. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 16
A consultant is viewing an ESXi host via console without external network
connectivity. Which two IP addresses can be used to connect to the CVM
(Choose two.)
A. 162.168.5.253
B. 1G2.168.5.2
C. 1G2.168.5.254
D. 162.168.5.1
Answer: A C

QUESTION NO: 17
A customer wants to expand an existing cluster with three additional nodes. After running the Foundation process on the new
nodes, the customer realizes that the wrong IPs where used and the nodes are configured on a different network. The
customer decides to create a new cluster instead.
Which method should be used to recreate the cluster?
A. Log into IPMI and use cluster create command to create the cluster.
B. Log into CVM and use cluster create command to create the cluster.
C. Log into Hypervisor and use cluster create command to create the cluster.
D. Foundation all nodes again and create the cluster.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 18
A consultant successfully installs the Foundation VM on a laptop and needs to ensure the VM can
communicate externally. Which two configuration changes should the consultant make next? (Choose
two.)
A. Ensure the vNIC is set to bridged adapter.
B. Configure the static IP address through the desktop virtualization software.
C. Open terminal and configure via ifconfig command.
D. Run the set_foundation_ip_address application on the VM desktop.
Answer: A, D

QUESTION NO: 16
A consultant is setting up a new vSphere cluster. Customer requirements are as follows:
*VMs should automatically failover to another host if the host crashes
*Host CPU and Memory resources should be evenly balanced
*New VMs should be placed on the host with the most resources
available Which two settings should be turned on to meet the
requirements? (Choose two.)
A. vShpere DRS
B. vSphere HA
C. vSphere vMotion
D. vSphere Power
Management Answer: A, B

QUESTION NO: 20
A consultant configures an ESXi cluster which will utilize a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). The consultant has just
migrated the first host to the dvSwitch when several alerts appear within Prism Element regarding Host-to-CVM
connectivity.
What is causing these alerts?
A. The consultant migrated the CVM Backplane and VM network adapter over to the vDS.
B. The consultant migrated the CVM svm-iscsi-pg network adapter over to the vDS.
C. The consultant migrated the CVM Backplane network adapter over to the vDS.
D. VLAN tags are incorrectly configured on the vDS port groups.

QUESTION NO: 21
Which Nutanix feature creation is described in the Knowledge Transfer?
A. Calm Blueprints
B. REST API
C. Self Service Portal
D. Data Protection
Domain Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 22
A consultant is unable to install virtualization software on a laptop.
Which two versions of Foundation can be used to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)
A. Foundation VM
B. Foundation Portable
C. Foundation Central
QUESTION NO:
15 D. Foundation Applet
Answer: B, D
QUESTION NO:
23
Refer to the exhibits.
Nutanix Node Node Network Port Path Panel Port Switch Name & Port
A 10GE port 1 E1/16 TOS-HQ-N5K1
10GE port 2 E1/16 TOS-HQ-N5K2

A consultant is trying to test port failover on the node shown in the first exhibit. A continuous ping test is performed to
the host. The consultant shuts down one of the links, after which the host ping request times out. The consultant tries
to troubleshoot the issue with the customer and sees the information shown in the second exhibit on their Cisco
Switches:

What is causing the issue?

A. There is a Native VLAN mismatch on the switchport.
B. The wrong VLAN is tagged on the host.
C. Bad SPF+ cables are on the active interface.
D. PortFast is not enabled on the port connected to the host.

Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
24
A customer would like to re-image an existing cluster. The Foundation Applet and Foundation VM is
unavailable to them. How can the consultant access Foundation-as-a-Service (FaaS)?
A. Through <cluster-IP> :9443
B. Through <cluster-IP> :8000
C. Through <CVM-IP> :9443
D. Through <CVM-IP> :8000
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 25
A consultant is deploying a two-node cluster at a remote branch
office. Which component must be available to complete cluster
configuration?
A. Prism Central
B. Witness VM
C. Remote Site
D. Protection
Domain E.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 26
A consultant is installing Nutanix AOS on Cisco UCS.
Which method should be used to install AOS on UCS hardware platforms?
A. Foundation Central
B. Foundation Applet
C. Foundation VM
D. Foundation as a
Service Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 27
In a 20-node ESXi deployment, the customer needs additional resiliency to survive the loss of two nodes
concurrently. Which configuration should the consultant use to ensure that the appropriate resources are
available?
A. Storage reservation for 10%; HA admission control for 10%, cluster RF3
B. Storage reservation for 5%; HA admission control for 5%, cluster RF2
C. Storage reservation for 5%; HA admission control for 5%, cluster RF3
D. Storage reservation for 10%; HA admission control for 10%,
cluster RF2 Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
28
A consultant is running the Foundation VM using desktop virtualization software. No nodes are
discovered. What should the consultant verify first?
A. NAT
B. Host-only Adapter
C. Bridged Adapter
D. Internal
Network Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 26
A consultant creates a four-node AHV cluster with two 1GbE (eth0, etc1) and two 10GbE (eth2, eth3) NICs per node.
The 1GbE NICs will not be placed into service, but the customer wants the network to be preconfigured for their
eventual use.
The consultant removes the 1GbE NIC from the default bond and creates a second bridge(br1), but is unable to add the
1GbE NIC using the below command:

manage_ovs –bridge_name br1 –interfaces 1g –bond_name br1-up update_uplinks

Which parameter is missing from this command?

A. --bond_duplex full
B. --require_link=false
C. --interfaces eth0
D. --bridge_duplex full
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 30
A consultant creates a Windows VM after installing a new Nutanix cluster running AHV. The consultant has statically
assigned an IP address to the VM but it is unable to communicate on the network.
Which action should the consultant take to resolve this issue?
A. Confirm that IPv6 is enabled on the guest VM.
B. Confirm that the VM vNIC is tied to the correct VLAN in Prism Element.
C. Mount and install the Nutanix Guest Tools.
D. Set a Group Policy to make sure the Windows Firewall is
disabled. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 31
A customer needs to meet the following requirements for their business critical application:
*SQL Servers must be on specific hosts to lower licensing costs.
*Oracle RAC servers must be on separate hosts for licensing reasons
Which policy or policies should be implemented to meet these requirements?
A. Configure VM-VM anti-affinity policy.
B. Configure VM-VM affinity policy.
C. Configure both VM-Host and VM-VM affinity policy.
D. Configure VM-Host affinity policy.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 32
For a new AHV cluster installation, a customer has 20 NX-8155-G6 nodes with quad port
SFP NICs. The customer wants to meet the following guidelines:
 Take advantage of all available 10GbE links
 Achieve maximum throughput per VM
 Use of redundant ToR switches
 Fastest reconvergence during link failure
How should the load balancing be configured on the host?
A. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-slb
ovs-vsctl set port br0-up other_config:bond-rebalance-interval=30000
ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=10

B. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=active-backup

ovs-vsctl set port br0-up other_config:bond-rebalance-interval=30000

C. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-slb

D. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up other_config:lacp-fallback-ab=true

ovs-vsctl set port br0-up lacp=active
ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-tcp
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 33
Where in the Support Portal is the Best Practices guide for vSphere Networking located?
A. Product Notices
B. Solutions Documentation
C. Software Documentation
D. Knowledge
Base Answer: B
QUESTION NO:
34
A consultant needs to review a customer’s switch port configuration to identify any issues. Other customer requirements
are as follows:
 Leverage LACP
 Native VLAN will not be used
 Use Multiple Upstream switches
 Use VLANs 20-25 and 30
 LACP Fallback has been Enabled
 vPC or MLAG has been configured
What must be included in a configuration in order to meet these requirements?
A.
Native VLAN set to default
Ports trucked to allow all necessary VLANs
B.
Native VLAN set to default
Ports in access mode to allow all necessary VLANs
C.
Native VLAN set to 30
Ports Trunked to allow all necessary VLANs
D.
Native VLAN set to 30
Ports in access mode to allow all necessary VLANs

Answer: C

QUESTION NO:

35
Which two components must be identified to validate that software compatibility requirements are met for Nutanix
Cluster Installation? (Choose two.)
A. Guest OS
B. AOS
C. Firmware
D. Hypervisor
Answer: B, D

QUESTION NO: 36
Which subnet is reserved for internal connectivity within a Nutanix Cluster?
A. 1G2.168.5.0/24
B. 162.168.254.0/24
C. 162.168.5.0/23
D. 162.168.5.0/26
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 37
A consultant runs the Foundation Applet and discovers all the nodes. The consultant wants to use the latest version of
Foundation for imaging for support purposes and to cover the latest hardware and software hypervisor support.
What should the consultant do to upgrade Foundation on a node?
A. Use crash cart and manually upgrade Foundation files on one node.
B. Use latest version of Foundation to reimage all the nodes.
C. Use the Foundation VM to upgrade Foundation on all nodes.
D. Use the Foundation Applet to upgrade Foundation on a
single node. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 38
While preparing for a new four-node cluster installation, the consultant has a Tech Review Call with the customer. The
hardware is as follows:
 4 nodes in 1 Block
 8 x 10 GbE Ports
 4 x 1 GbE IPMI Ports
 Adequate Ethernet ports are available
 Ethernet cables are correct and available
 Adequate rack space is available
Which remaining item must be confirmed as available onsite?
A. Crash Cart
B. Fibre Channel switches
C. Redundant 208v power
D. Redundant 110v
power Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 36
After a consultant runs Foundation, the imaging process fails.
In which two locations can the consultant find the logs? (Choose two.)
 On the Hypervisor - /home/nutanix/foundation/logs
 Logs link on the Foundation Imaging Screen
 On the Foundation VM - /home/nutanix/foundation/logs
 On the CVM -
/home/Nutanix/foundation/logs Answer: B, C
QUESTION NO:
40
During a technical call with a customer, it is identified that this installation will be software only on Dell servers. The out-
of-band management interfaces will not be given IP addresses until the consultant is onsite.
Which Foundation method should be used for this type of installation?
A. Bare metal using iDRAC MAC addresses.
B. Bare metal using LAN MAC addresses.
C. Bare metal using block serial numbers.
D. Bare metal using node serial
numbers. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 41
A customer wants to know the details of network validation
testing. Where can the consultant find this information?
A. Handover checklist
B. Test plan
C. Operations Guides
D. As-Built
Guide Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 42
A customer has an ESXi Cluster with two 10GbE NICs on each node with the following requirements:
 Solution must follow Nutanix Best
Practices
 Network configuration should be
redundant
 A vSphere Standard Switch must be
utilized Which load balancing method
should be used?
A. Route based on originating port ID
B. Route based on physical NIC load
C. Route based on IP hash
D. Route based on source MAC
hash Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 43
A consultant creates three storage containers (container-1, container-2, container-3). The customer requires that only
container-1, which will be utilized as an NFS datastore, be presented to external hosts.
However, users are able to mount all three
containers. What is causing this problem?
A. Compression was turned on for all containers.
B. A Container-level whitelist entry was configured.
C. Deduplication was turned on for all containers.
D. A Global whitelist entry was configured.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 44
What reference materials should be provided to the customer during the Knowledge Transfer?
A. Questionnaire, technical slides and checklist, links to documentation and resources
B. As-Built Guide, technical slides and checklist, Network Diagram
C. As-Built Guide, Project Plan, links to documentation and resources
D. As-Built Guide, technical slides and checklist, links to documentation and resources
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 45
A consultant is planning a new cluster installation and needs to locate the Shared IPMI port for each of the specific
nodes that the customer has bought.
Which Support Portal location contains the document that would identify the port?
A. Solutions Documentation
B. Hardware Replacement Documentation
C. Software Documentation
D. Knowledge
Base Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 46
A consultant is using the Foundation applet to create a cluster. During the process the consultant refreshes the progress
bar web page and is concerned when nothing loads.
What should the consultant do to verify that Foundation has completed successfully?
A. Return to the Foundation configuration page and start over.
B. Update Java on the Foundation VM.
C. Connect to any CVM IP address from a web browser.
D. Restart the Foundation
process. Answer: C
QUESTION NO:
47
A consultant is setting up a new Hyper-V cluster. The customer requirements are as follows:
*VMs should automatically failover to another host if the host crashes
*Host CPU and Memory resources should be evenly balanced
*New VMs should be placed on the host with the most resources available
Which two Hyper-V features can be used to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Performance Resource Optimization
B. Failover Clustering
C. High Availability
D. Distributed Resource
Scheduler Answer: B C

QUESTION NO: 48
A consultant creates an AHV cluster and connects the Intel X550T NICs to the top of rack switch using Twinax cables.
The activity and link lights are green. The cluster cannot communicate over the 10GbE link.
What is the first command the consultant should perform to troubleshoot the issue?
A. manage_ovs show_bridges
B. manage_ovs show_interfaces
C. manage_ovs update_uplinks
D. manage_ovs show_uplinks
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 46
A customer has a G6 AHV cluster with 4x10GbE NICs on each node and the following configuration:
*Networking is set to default
*Only two NICs are connected
The customer receives the following critical message:
The NIC is disconnected from the switch, or the switchport is
failing. What should the consultant verify to resolve the
issue?
A. The NICs are configured for active-backup.
B. The VLANs are configured correctly on the switch or tagged on the cluster.
C. The other two 10GbE connections are removed from the default bond.
D. The NICs are connected for
balance-slb. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 50
A consultant deploys a four-node VMware ESXi cluster and vCenter server. An HA/DRS cluster is configured for all four
nodes. The customer deploys five new VMs on the cluster.
During the knowledge Transfer, a network cable on one node is removed to demonstrate HA and migration of the VMs to
another host. In the HA/DRS cluster settings, the VM Restart Priority for all CVMs is set to Disabled. The customer
observes warnings that the CVM on the ejected host is no longer powered on.
Which ESXi HA/DRS cluster setting is missing?
A. Enable EVC for the cluster.
B. Disable VM Monitoring on all CVMs.
C. Disable Automation Level on all CVMs.
D. Enable Host
Monitoring. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 51
Refer to the exhibit.

Hypervior host Hypervisor IPMI IP CVM IP vMotion IP

Name Mgmt IP
DC1-NTX- 10.20.44.11 10.20.20.31 10.20.44.21 10.20.55.1
01 71
DC1-NTX- 10.20.44.12 10.20.20.32 10.20.44.22 10.20.55.1
02 72
DC1-NTX- 10.20.44.13 10.20.20.33 10.20.44.23 10.20.55.1
03 73
DC1-NTX- 10.20.44.14 10.20.20.34 10.20.44.24 10.20.55.1
04 74
A consultant is deploying a cluster using the customer-provided IP addressing
information. Which option in Foundation must be configured to ensure connectivity
during the deployment?
A. Link Aggregation
B. Range Autofill
C. Network Segmentation
D. Multi-homing
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 52
After imaging the nodes and creating the cluster successfully, the consultant connects the cluster to the customer
network. When logging into Prism, the events dashboard is full of errors.
What is causing the issue?
A. The cluster was not stopped prior to connecting to the customer network.
B. The Cluster Virtual IP Address (VIP) was not set up during the process.
C. Foundation did not create the cluster successfully.
D. The consultant did not run Nutanix Cluster Check
QUESTION NO:
47
(NCC) Answer: B
QUESTION NO:
53
A consultant is preparing to add new nodes into an existing cluster. The current cluster AOS version is 5.8. The new
expansion node is currently running AOS 5.6 code. The cluster must continue to run at its current AOS version.
Which method can be used to successfully add the node?
A. Upgrade the cluster to 5.6 and add the node through Prism Element.
B. Use Prism Element to Expand the cluster and select the re-image option.
C. Use the CLI and enter cluster add-node node-serial=”node_serial”.
D. Use Prism Element, which will downgrade the node by default during the node
add process. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 54
While trying to upgrade AOS in a cluster, a consultant receives a warning message that there are two powered-on VMs
that need to be powered off for the upgrade to proceed.
What would cause this warning to be issued?
A. Upgrading a single-node cluster requires the VMs to be shut down.
B. Upgrading a two-node cluster requires the VMs to be shut down.
C. There are not enough resources left in the single-node cluster.
D. There are not enough resources left in the two-node cluster.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 55
A consultant successfully completes a Foundation using a flat switch. The consultant then works with the customer to
move the cluster over to their production network. After the move, the CVMs and hypervisors can no longer communicate,
which prevents the cluster from starting.
Which option should be used to resolve this issue?
A. If the IPMI is in use, check that the IPMI can ping the default gateway over IPv6.
B. Make sure that the IPMI and CVM VLAN is manually tagged on the Host and CVM.
C. Verify that IPv6 Link Local and DHCP is enabled on all switch ports.
D. If using VLANs, confirm the hypervisor/CVM VLAN is set as Native on the switch ports.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 56
A customer racks all nodes in the new cluster. The customer does not allow IPv6 for node discovery.
The consultant is not allowed to use the consultant’s own flat switch in the customer’s
environment. Which step should the consultant take to resolve this issue?
A. Bare metal image all nodes with Foundation VM.
B. Image each node individually with Foundation VM.
C. Connect to the top of rack switch and discover the nodes with IPv4.
D. Open a console to all nodes and statically assign IP addresses.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 57
A consultant configures a Nutanix cluster and integrates the hosts into vCenter using VMware best practices.
The customer has requested that the Nutanix cluster only have a single datastore.
Upon configuring the cluster per the customer requirements, vCenter displays an alert regarding the heartbeat datastore.
The consultant adds the das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore value = true rule. The container can be seen from each host,
but the alert remains active. What should the consultant do to resolve this issue?
A. Turn off and then turn back on HA.
B. Make sure the DRS setting is turned on.
C. Create a second container.
D. Whitelist the vCenter IP address within
Prism. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 58
After finishing foundation on an AHV cluster, a consultant is preparing to plug into the customer network given the
following set of requirements:
*All network traffic on trunks is tagged
*Customer is using LACP
*A native VLAN is not in use
Which set of commands should the consultant use to ensure cluster connectivity on customer equipment?
A. change_cvm_vlan 0
ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=0
ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-tcp

B. change_cvm_vlan 10
ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=10
ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-tcp

C. change_cvm_vlan 0
ovs~vsctl set port br0 tag=0
ovs~vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=active-backup

D. change_cvm_vlan 10
ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=10
ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-slb
Answer: B
QUESTION NO:
56
After installation, network ports are properly configured with the default active-backup bonding. One 10GbE port goes to
switch 1. Another 10GbE port goes to switch 2.
A consultant tests failover by manually pulling one of the cables and notices it is taking too much time to failover, which
is causing excessive packet loss.
What should the consultant enable to resolve this issue?
A. LACP on switch
B. PagP
C. Spanning-tree Portfast
D. Jumbo
frames Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 60
A consultant creates a new cluster using ESXi as the hypervisor. After creating the cluster, the consultant begins to run
Life Cycle Manager (LCM) updates. During the LCM upgrade pre-checks, an error is returned.
Which configuration is causing this issue?
A. ESXi cluster admission control is disabled.
B. ESXi cluster DRS is enabled.
C. ESXi cluster HA is enabled.
D. ESXi cluster admission control is
enabled. Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 61
A customer has engaged a Nutanix consultant to deploy a cluster consisting of two NX-3460-G6 blocks. The consultant
arrives at the customer site and fines the following:
*One rack with a total of 5U available
*Two ToR switches with 14 total available ports
*Dual PDUs with six available sockets
What will prevent the consultant from successfully installing the cluster?
A. Insufficient sockets for power
allocation. Rack space may not
be continuous.

B. Insufficient rack space for block

installation. Insufficient sockets for
power allocation.

C. Insufficient network ports for

communication. Insufficient sockets for
power allocation.

D. Insufficient network ports for

communication. Insufficient sockets for
power allocation.

E. Insufficient network ports for

communication. Rack space may not
be continuous.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 62
During a six-node cluster deployment, one node fails to image successfully and Foundation is unable to automatically
configure the cluster. The consultant decides to manually complete cluster formation with the successful nodes, then
expand the cluster with the remaining unconfigured node.
Which command should be used to begin the process?
A. cluster status
B. cluster create
C. cluster start
D. cluster
expand Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 63
After a recent installation using a flat switch, a consultant notices issues migrating the Nutanix nodes to the
customer’s network. The customer states that they are using VLANs on the production switch but not on the dedicated
switch for IPMI. The customer does not require a manual configuration of the host and CVM.
What network changes need to be made to correct the issues?
A. Us untagged VLANs for the CVM and host and trunk mode for IPMI.
B. Use Native VLANs for the CVM and host and access mode for IPMI.
C. Use tagged VLANs for the CVM and host and access mode for IPMI.
D. Use Native VLANs for the CVM and host and trunk mode
for IPMI. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 64
A Nutanix cluster has 10TB usable storage. The customer wants to create a 100GB datastore for ISO images to eliminate
too much storage being consumed by unnecessary images.
Which setting should be used to accomplish this goal?
A. From Container Advanced Settings, configure 100GB for advertised capacity.
B. From Container Advanced Settings, enable erasure coding.
QUESTION NO:
56 C. From Container Advanced Settings, turn on compression and deduplication.
D. From Container Advanced Settings, configure 100GB for reserved
capacity. Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
65
A consultant finishes creating a new ESXi cluster. The consultant connects to the nodes via laptop and a personal flat
switch. The host/CVM network is on VLAN 23. The customer has the native VLAN on the ToR switches set to 23.
The customer wants to use LACP. Before placing the nodes on the customer network, the consultant tags VLAN 23 for
each host and CVM. The consultant connects the nodes to the customer network and finds that they are unreachable.
What is causing this issue?
A. The customer has LACP fallback enabled on switch ports.
B. The hosts have not been migrated to a vSphere Distributed Switch.
C. Under the vSwitch0 settings, the consultant did not select Route based on IP hash.
D. The host and CVM are incorrectly
configured. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 66
After deploying an AHV cluster connected to Cisco Nexus 6k switches, unexpected network behavior is observed. The
consultant needs to rule out physical network mis-cabling without returning to the datacenter.
Which command from the host should the consultant run?
A. show lldp neighbors
B. show cdp neighbors
C. show interfaces
D. lldpctl
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 67
What is the minimum number of nodes required for a Nutanix Cluster to support Replication Factor 3 (RF3) on a storage
container?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 68
A consultant is onsite and needs to start their Foundation Virtual Machine (FVM) to image Nutanix hardware. The FVM
fails to boot. The consultant decides to use a different Foundation method.
Assuming the nodes will discover, which Foundation type or configuration option should the consultant select?
A. Foundation VM
B. Use IPMI IPs
C. Use IPMI MACs
D. Foundation Applet
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 66
A consultant notices while assigning VLAN tags to hosts and CVMs in a running cluster, that Prism Element displays
alerts indicating a node is down.
What should the consultant do to prevent these alerts?
A. Restart the Nutanix cluster.
B. Only change the Controller Virtual Machine VLANs.
C. Only change the hypervisor VLANs.
D. Stop the Nutanix cluster before changing VLANs.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 70
A consultant is using a customer’s switch for installation. Although the 10GbE ports for each of the hosts are connected
to the switch, the nodes fail to be discovered.
What is causing the issue?
A. IPv6 is not enabled on the switch.
B. IPMI port is not plugged in.
C. Foundation VM is running on a Windows host.
D. 10GbE ports are configured with the incorrect duplex
setting. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 71
During the Foundation imaging process, nodes are successfully imaged, but the cluster
creation fails. Which log should the consultant review to determine the cause?
A. service.log
B. foundation.out
C. first_boot.log
D. genesis.o
ut Answer: B
QUESTION NO:
72
A consultant has deployed a new Nutanix AHV cluster with Foundation. The customer requests separating the
management and production traffic in the CVM.
Which feature should the consultant configure?
A. Micro-segmentation
B. Multi-homing
C. Network Segmentation
D. VLAN
Tagging Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 73
A consultant is preparing to foundation over a customer network that has the following criteria:
*VLAN segmented network
*VLAN tags on the nodes must be imaged prior to starting the
foundation process. For each node, the consultant has done the
following:
*Connected to the Network Crash Cart of the Node
*Logged in using “root” credentials
What should the consultant do next?
A. 1. CD to /root/nutanix-network-crashcart/
2.Start Network Utility tool by running: ./network_configuration
3.Change Values

B. 1. CD to /home/data/nutanix/nutanix-network-crashcart/
2.Start Network Utility tool by running: ./network_configuration
3.Change Values

C. 1. Log into CVM using nutanix@192.168.5.254

2.CD to /root/Nutanix-network-crashcart/
3.Start Network Utility tool by running: ./network_configuration
4.Change Values

D. 1. Log into CVM using nutanix@162.168.5.254

2.CD to /home/data/nutanix/nutanix-network-crashcart/
3.Start Network Utility tool by running: ./network_configuration
4.Change Values
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 74
A customer is running out of storage in an ESXi cluster. The customer wants to add storage without paying for an
additional hypervisor license.
Which option should the consultant recommend to meet the requirement?
A. Convert the cluster to AHV to support storage-only node requirements.
B. Select the storage-only checkbox during Foundation and then expand the cluster in Prism.
C. Buy a new node to meet the requirements of the storage-only node specifications.
D. Edit the factory_config.json file to configure the node as storage-only and then expand the
cluster in Prism Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 75
A consultant creates a Nutanix cluster using the 10.10.10.0/24 network and VLAN 10. The customer creates a VM
network inside the Prism using VLAN 20. The customer starts to create VMs but is unable to ping the default gateway
from these new systems.
What is causing the issue?
A. The CVM/hypervisor must be on an untagged VLAN.
B. The switch port is not set up as a trunk.
C. Only one VLAN is supported on AHV.
D. The CVM/hypervisor cannot use the same VLAN as
guest VMs. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 76
An existing Nutanix customer has several clusters in production and is adding a new cluster. The customer wants to
create an AHV cluster that has already been racked and powered on remotely, with the factory image, using Prism
Central.
Which step should the consultant take next?
A. Build the cluster with the Foundation Applet
B. Build the cluster with the Foundation VM.
C. Bare metal image the nodes with the Foundation VM.
D. Build the cluster with Foundation Central.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 77
A customer buys ultimate licensing and wants to use the built-in Nutanix software encryption on their new AHV cluster.
The customer needs to create three storage containers and asks the consultant to complete the process as fast as
possible.
In which order should the cluster be deployed?
A. Create Cluster -> Install License Key -> Encrypt Cluster -> Create Storage Containers
B. Create Cluster -> Install License Key -> Create Storage Containers -> Encrypt Cluster
C. Create Cluster -> Encrypt Cluster -> Install License Key -> Create Storage Containers
QUESTION NO:
72 D. Create Cluster -> Create Storage Containers -> Encrypt Cluster -> Install
License Key Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
78
A consultant is running Foundation. The cluster creation fails during the process. The host logs confirm that the
nodes have been successfully imaged. The consultant decides to create the cluster manually.
Which command should the consultant use?
A. cluster -c IP_CVM_A, IP_CVM_B, IP_CVM_n
B. cluster create -s IP_CVM_A, IP_CVM_B, IP_CVM_n
C. cluster -s IP_CVM_A, IP_CVM_B, IP_CVM_n create_manual
D. cluster -s IP_CVM_M, IP_CVM_B, IP_CVM_n create
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 3
A consultant is reimaging a Nutanix cluster with a supported ISO, but Foundation returns an error that the media is not a
supported ISO. Which two actions should the consultant take to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)
A. Restart the imaging process in Foundation.
B. Obtain the MD5 checksum of the ISO and confirm the MD5 checksum of ISO is listed.
C. Edit the whitelist file in Foundation.
D. Download and replace with the latest iso_whitelist.json from the Support Portal.

Answer: B, D

QUESTION

NO: 4
Acbest sacording to Nutanix best practices, which interface configuration should be used when setting up the default
bond?
A. One 10G uplink only
B. 10G uplinks only or 25G uplinks only
C. One 10G uplink paired with one 25G uplink
D. One 1G uplink paired with one 10G
uplink Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 5
A customer is considering increasing the Redundancy Factor from 2 to 3 for a Nutanix cluster in their existing
environment. Which option would provide the company with the optimal solution?
A. Four Compute Nodes with 25% available disk space
B. Six Compute Nodes with 25% available disk space
C. Three Compute Nodes with 40% available disk space
D. Five Compute Nodes with 40% available disk
space Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 6
A consultant is working on an expansion project for a customer that has an existing 7-node RF2 cluster. The customer
has purchased four more nodes to add to the cluster. All of the hardware is identical between the existing hardware and
newly purchased hardware.
Currently, the 7-node cluster has the following utilization:
• CPU: 48%
• Memory: 66%
• Storage: 61%
During the kick-off call, the customer mentioned they'd like to reserve storage capacity on the cluster if a node were to fail in
the future. What's the safest and best way to implement this on the cluster?
A. Expand the cluster with the additional nodes and enable Reserve Rebuild Capacity.
B. Enable Reserve Rebuild Capacity and expand the cluster with the additional nodes.
C. Expand the cluster with the additional nodes and enable HA reservation.
D. Enable HA reservation and expand the cluster with the
additional nodes. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 7
How should a consultant verify that a Nutanix cluster can tolerate a single-node failure?
A. [root@cvm~]# ncli cluster get-domain-fault-tolerance-status type=node
B. nutanix@cvm~$ ncli cluster get-domain-fault-tolerance-status type=node
C. [root@avh~]# ncli cluster fault-tolerance-status type=node
D. nutanix@cvm~$ ncli cluster status type=node
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 8
A customer design calls for link aggregation. Despite the consultant verifying all hosts are correctly configured for
fallback per Nutanix best practices, initial testing reveals the aggregate bond fails to pass traffic and shows a status of
configured.
What is the most likely cause for the bond disabling and reporting a "configured" status?
A. The uplinks in the bond need to be turned on.
B. The ports need to be flushed.
C. Failed negotiation due to misconfiguration on ToR switches
D. The bond needs to be reconfigured for balance slb
mode. Answer: C
QUESTION
NO:
A 6
consultant asks a customer to verify the ToR Switch data port configuration was done according to Nutanix best
practices. The switch configuration must simplify future deployments and expansions.
Which two configuration actions will satisfy this requirement? (Choose two.)
A. Disable multicast and broadcast flood optimizations.
B. Configure the CVM and hypervisor host VLAN as the native.
C. Use a tagged VLAN for the CVM and hypervisor hosts.
D. Configure the connected switch ports as access.
Answer: AC

QUESTION NO: 10
To ensure VM availability when a service outage has occurred, a customer has requested that automatic VM failovers must occur as
part of the DR strategy for their environment.
Which failover operation is within an Unplanned Failover option?
A. AHV Metro – with Witness Operation
B. Protection Domain Migrate
C. Cross-Cluster Live Migration
D. Test Failover
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 11
Where can the Foundation version included with an AOS bundle be found?
A. AOS Release Notes
B. Upgrade Paths menu
C. Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix
D. Field Installation
Guide Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 13
A customer wants to validate the Microsoft SQL workload performance for a CRM application before migration to the
new Nutanix cluster.
Which activity must the consultant add as part of the test plan to fulfill this requirement?
A. X-Ray with OLTP Workload.
B. Run perfmon on guest VM.
C. X-Ray with OLAP Workload.
D. Run perfmon on all CVMs.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 14
How should a consultant validate the installed version of an NVIDIA driver in a Nutanix VDI deployment?
A. [root@ahv rpm qa | grep i nvidia
B. nutanix@cvm~$ rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia
C. adminGcvm^S rpm -qa | grep i nvidia
D. [rootQesxi -)# rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 15
What should a consultant consider when completing a bare-metal imaging process?
A. Avoid connecting any device to the node USB port that presents virtual media such as a CD-ROM.
B. Connect to a managed switch with routing tables to protect the production environment against configuration errors.
C. Ensure that the CD ROM appears last in the BIOS boot order to avoid Foundation timeout.
D. Enable STP by using PortFast or an equivalent feature on the ports that are connected to the Nutanix host.

QUESTION NO: 16
A consultant is setting up a new install of Nutanix Files for a customer, but receives this error when attempting to join
the customer's Active Directory domain:
File Server <FileServerName> could not join the Domain because User credentials failed
with error Unable to connect to WORKGROUP ads_connect: No logon servers
The consultant has already verified the domain credentials provided by the customer are valid and have the correct
permissions. What is the most likely cause in this scenario for a domain-join failure when setting up Nutanix Files?
A. The FSVMs storage network must be in the same network as the logon servers.
B. The client network is failing to communicate with the customer's domain controllers due to mismatched MTU
sizes.
C. The client network is failing to communicate with the customer's domain controllers due to a missing network
firewall port requirement.
D. The FSVMs must first be manually added to a site mapping in Active Directory before they can be authorized
to communicate with the logon servers.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 17
A consultant is not able to run the As-Built Tool for a technical reason.
What action should the consultant take to gather information and provide customer documentation?
A. Manually create documentation using As-Built document template
B. Use RVTools for vSphere and Hyper-V deployments.
C. Create a support case on behalf of a customer.
D. Access portal.nutanix.com, search Software
Documentation. Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
18
A customer has requested that a consultant create a Disaster Recovery Test for their new Nutanix
environments. What should the consultant include in a custom plan to validate VM availability across
the network?
A. Assign backup policies to source VMs.
B. Verify VMs received correct IP address after failover
C. Ensure NTP configuration active.
D. Sign into VM console using local
credentials. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 16
During an AHV upgrade, a database VM automatically migrated to another host. A customer is concerned about
potential storage performance impact.
Which statement addresses the customer's concern?
A. Shadow clones mitigate the need for data locality.
B. Data locality is not required on all flash nodes.
C. Mirroring the database on two VMs eliminates the need for data locality.
D. AHV's built in scheduler automatically restores data locality.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 20
Which two components are required to validate and Foundation a cluster with ESXi as the hypervisor? (Choose two.)
A. ISO image for ESXI
B. iso_whitelist.json
C. Phoenix Installation Tool
D. Latest NCC LCM
Bundle Answer: A, B

QUESTION NO: 22
A consultant is completing final network failover testing on a recently deployed
AHV cluster. The cluster consists of the following:
• Three nodes
• Two uplinks connected to two switches
• Supported SFPs
The consultant removed one SFP+ out of each node. Two of the nodes (Hostl I Host2) failed over to the backup NIC correctly
without any interruption but have lost communication with the third node (Host 3) hypervisor/CVM. Inserting the
original SFP+ back into the prob- lematic node allowed the network to be connected and the two healthy nodes could
communicate successfully again.
manage_ovs show_interfaces output:
name mode link speed
eth0 10000 True 10000
ethl 10000 False None
eth2 10000 True 10000
eth3 10000 False None

manage_ovs show.uplinks output:

Bridge: br0
Bond: br0-up
bond_mode: active-backup
interfaces: ethl eth0
lacp: off
lacp-fa I 1 back: false
lacp_speed: slow

What should the consultant validate first?

A. Validate NIC card on node is seated properly.
B. Validate that the correct interfaces are included in the bridge.
C. Validate the customer has configured all their switch ports identically.
D. Validate the SFP+ is fully plugged into the node and switch.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 23
After finishing customer education during a new cluster deployment, the consultant wants to make sure all in-scope
tasks have been completed.
Which document can the consultant use to verify all tasks have been closed out?
A. As-Built Guide
B. Deployment Questionnaire
C. Deployment Guide
D. Deployment Checklist
Answer: D
QUESTION NO:
25
A consultant deployed a Nutanix Files cluster using separate networks for client and storage.
For testing a SMB standard share, a VM has been deployed on storage network. However, the consultant cannot
access the share. What is the cause of the issue?
A. The CVM network segmentation is configured.
B. Clients on the same subnet as the storage network cannot access the shares.
C. An iSCSI Data Services IP is not configured for the cluster.
D. Clients on the same subnet as the storage network can only access the
distributed shares. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 26
When utilizing the Nutanix cluster As Built Document generator, which two configuration elements should a consultant
provide when running the run_as_built.exe command? (Choose two.)
A. Data Services IP
B. Cluster IP
C. Remote Site IP
D. Customer Name
Answer: B, D

QUESTION NO: 27
As a consultant concludes the project for deploying a new cluster, the customer expresses plans to repeat the process
in-house for one of the company's dark site locations.
What three items can the consultant deliver in closing to help ensure customer's success in deploying and supporting
Nutanix clusters?
A. Creating an account for access to Nutanix Support
Portal External USB drive
Offline NCC bundle

B. A trial license activation code for Prism Starter

Creating an account for access to Nutanix Support
Portal Guide for dark site deployments using Nutanix
standards

C. Generating cluster licenses

What are binaries and where can they be
downloaded Creating an account for accessing the
Nutanix Support Portal

D. External USB
drive Access to
Nutanix FTP
Encrypted key required for accessing clusters
Answer: B

QUESTION NO:

28

Product Product Code Quantity

10GbE 2-port SFP+ Network Adapter (Intel C-NIC-10GSFP2-A-CM 3.00
82566ES)
3.84TB 3.5" SSD C-SSD-3840GB-35-A-CM 6.00
64GB Memory Module (2633MHz DDR4 C-MEM-64GB-2633-A- 12.00
RDIMM) CM
Intel Xeon Processor 6210U (2.5 GHz, 20 cores) C-CPU-6210U-CM 3.00
L-CORES-PRO-PRD-5YR L-CORES-PRO-PRD-5YR 60.00
L-FLASHTIB-PRO-PRD-5YR L-FLASHTIB-PRO-PRD- 21.00
5YR
No Cables C-CBL-NONE-CM 3.00
No HDD C-HDD-NONE-CM 3.00
NX-1175S-G7. 1 Node configuration NX-1175S-G7-CM 3.00
PRO HW SUP S-HW-PRD 3.00
During a pre-engagement call, a customer explains that network cables are missing from the boxes. The consultant
examines the bill of materials more closely to verify the quantity and type required by the hardware. The rack is already
equipped with one OOBM Ethernet switch and two 10GbE SFP+ ToR switches.
Which cables should the consultant recommend to the customer for implementing in this scenario?
A. Six Ethernet Cat7 cables
B. Six DAC 10GbE cables and 3 Ethernet cables
C. Six lOGbE cables
D. Three DAC 10GbE cables and 3 Ethernet
cables Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 26
A consultant will be doing an install for an enterprise customer. The consultant has racked up, powered on, and
connected their Foun- dation software to the new nodes. The Foundation VM is not discovering the hardware.
What should the consultant do to resolve this issue?
A. Console to each node, reboot the node, go through BIOS to set an IPMI IP address, then run Foundation bare
metal installation using IPMI IP addresses.
QUESTION NO:
25 B. Connect a crash cart to each node, log in to the pre-installed AHV hypervisor, run the IPMITool commands to
set IPMI IP Address, subnet, and gateway for each node. Run a Foundation using the configured IPMI addresses
that were just set.
C. Collect the IPMI MAC addresses on the back of each node, run a bare metal Foundation using each MAC
addresses.
D. Connect a crash cart to each node, reboot the node, go through BIOS and set an IPMI IP address for each node.
Using your Foundation VM, create a Phoenix boot ISO, then mount the ISO via Virtual Media connector from
IPMI.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO:
30
During the knowledge transfer on Prism GUI, a customer asked about AHV best practices for VM High Availability on a
five-node cluster and the safest configuration. The consultant informed the customer that best practices dictate that all
storage containers are configured with a replication factor of 3.
What will be the behavior if the non-default Guarantee mode is selected on Prism with two AHV host failures?
A. Keeping the default mode will ensure that all VMs can restart in case of two AHV host failures.
B. Keeping the default mode will ensure that all VMs can restart in case of an AHV host failure.
C. Will ensure that all VMs can restart if two AHV nodes remains online.
D. Will ensure that all VMs can restart in case of two simultaneous AHV host failures.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 31
A consultant is running operational verifications to validate cluster behaviors
What will happen if one power supply is disconnected from a NX-3235-GG chassis?
A. The hardware status is updated to reflect the change in Prism Element, the hosts continues to run, but VMHA
has started se- curing workloads by moving them to other nodes.
B. The hardware status updates to reflect the change in Prism Element, the hosts continues to run, and the Host
hardware power status alert is sent There is no impact on workloads.
C. The hosts appears disconnected in Prism Element and VMs are restarting on the other hosts.
D. The hosts appears disconnected in vCenter and VMs are restarting on the
other hosts. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 32
In which two ways can the IPMI address be set on a Nutanix hardware installation? (Choose two.)
A. Nutanix Network Crashcart
B. iLO configuration utility
C. BIOS configuration
D. ipmitool
Answer: A D

QUESTION NO: 33
During a Site Readiness Check, a customer informed the consultant that there is no NTP server currently configured in
the environment. Which two statements should the consultant consider for continuing the cluster deployment? (Choose
two.)
A. An NTP server is not required for cluster Foundation and can be added later.
B. If an NTP server is provided using FQDN, a DNS server is required.
C. At least 3 NTP servers must be provided in a comma-separated list.
D. At least one external NTP server must be used to complete
Foundation process. Answer: A B

QUESTION NO: 34
Refer to Exhibit:

A Foundation install must be done on four NX nodes for a new customer. A consultant need to set up the network onsite
before imaging the nodes through the Foundation tool.
The nodes are equipped with two SFP28 25GbE NICs with dual ports, and a 10GBase-T NIC with dual ports as well The
customer’s ToR
switches are 25GbE datacenter switches, already in production.
What is the appropriate hardware to perform the most reliable imaging of these NX nodes?
A. A flat Ethernet switch, 4 compatible 10GBase-T GBiCs, five Ethernet cables and a laptop.
B. The 25GbE production switches. 4 DAC cables and 5 Ethernet cables with a flat Ethernet switch, and a laptop.
C. A flat Ethernet switch. 6 Ethernet cables, and a laptop.
D. The 25GbE production switches. 4 DAC cables, only one Ethernet cable with a 10GBase-T GBIC,
and a laptop. Answer: B
QUESTION NO:
35
A customer has requested help deploying a small single-VM instance of Prism Central in their environment that will be used
for managing less than 100 guest VMs and registered to a single 5-node cluster. Due to business needs, the customer also
plans to consume additional service features within the PC platform.
The consultant discusses with the customer and ultimately decides to deploy a small 3-VM instance to better account
for possible re- source overhead required once the additional services are enabled on the cluster.
The additional services the consultant must enable to meet the customer’s requests are as follows:
• Nutanix Disaster Recovery
• MS-SQL Server Monitonng
• Flow Microsegmentation
Why won’t the plan to deploy a small PC instance work for this customer?
A. The consultant must specify during the small PC deployment that all 3 PCVMs are configured to have 32GB of
memory in order to ensure adequate overhead.
B. The additional services the customer needs cannot be supported on a small sized PC. Consultant must deploy
at a min- imum a large size PC.
C. Flow Microsegmentation requires an X-Large 5-VM scale-out instance of Prism Central be deployed in order to
avoid con- straints.
D. MS-SQL Server Monitoring requires additional licensing and a separate appliance to be deployed when using a
small sized PC.

QUESTION NO: 36
A consultant is conducting a vSphere cluster deployment. As a part of operational tests, a vMotion operation is
performed on a test VM, but fails with following error message:
The VMotion failed because the ESX hosts were not able to connect over the VMotion network. Please check your
VMotion network settings and physical network configuration.
VMotion [184329483:1276605211167987] failed to create connection with remote host
<10.10.16.14>: The ESX hosts failed to connect over the VMotion network Migration
[184329483:1276605211167987] failed to connect to remote host <10.10.16.14>: Timeout
What issue could prevent the vMotion operation from completing successfully?
A. The vmknic is configured with a conflicting IP address.
B. NIOC is enabled and vMotion traffic is configured with Share value SO.
C. Foundation service prevents connectivity between the source and the destination TCP port 8000.
D. The vSS is configured with Route based on originating
virtual port. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 37
A customer has provided the following network requirements to their consultant during a discovery session for AHV
cluster deployments:
• Maximum Uptime Guest Traffic is a Hard Requirement
• Maximum Throughput for Guest is a Hard Requirement
• Link Aggregation is established at the TORs
Cluster nodes have the following network card configurations:
• 2 x 40GbE Adapters
• 2 x IGbE Adapters
How should the consultant satisfy these requirements?
A. Bonded 2 x 40GbE Adapters with LACP Disabled for Storage Traffic and Guest Traffic using balance-sib
B. Bonded 2 x 1 GbE Adapters with LACP Enabled for Storage Traffic and Bonded 2 x 40 GbE Adapters for Guest
VM Traffic using balance-tcp
C. Bonded 2 x 40GbE Adapters with LACP Enabled for Storage Traffic and Guest Traffic using balance-tcp
D. Bonded 2 x 40GbE Adapters with LACP Disabled for Storage Traffic and bonded 2x1 GbE Adapters for Guest VM
Traffic using active-backup
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 38
A consultant has finished imaging all assigned clusters and is ready to close out the
engagement Which action is part of the Closeout Checklist?
A. Provide an overview of Nutanix NDB.
B. Provide an overview of Nutanix NC2.
C. Provide an overview of Nutanix Prism Central.
D. Provide an overview of Nutanix Self-
Service. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 36
A consultant is working to setup the network before starting the Foundation
process. How should the consultant complete this task?
A. Using the shared IPMI port, ensure that the connected switch can auto-negotiate to 1 Gbps.
B. Disable IPv6 on the network to which the nodes are connected to ensure that IPv6 unicast is blocked.
C. Ensure the IPMI of the nodes are reachable using pre-configured IPMI IPv6 addresses.
D. On Nutanix NX Series, connect the IPMI port and any one of the data ports to
the switch. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 40
Before deploying a new 3-node cluster, a consultant wants to know which VLAN ID to use during
Foundation. Where can the consultant find this information?
A. Nutanix Portal
B. As-Built Guide
C. Deployment Questionnaire
D. Test Plan
QUESTION NO:
41
After an onsite cluster deployment, a consultant prepares the deliverables for a project closeout.
Which two data in the As-Built Guide require adjustment or might be missing completely? (Choose two.)
A. Nutanix Node Port Layout
B. AHV Host information
C. Physical Rack Layout
D. Cluster
information Answer: AC

QUESTION NO: 42
A consultant is reviewing a customers Pre-delivery Questionnaire.
The customer wants to deploy their cluster with ESXi as the hypervisor with vSphere Distributed Switch. The customer
will be using Cisco Nexus Gk as their switch choice In the kick-off call, it is confirmed that the customer has a business
requirement to use LACP in their environment.
What should the consultant ensure that the customer configures on the port-channel interface before deployment?
A. show port-channel
B. no lacp graceful-convergence
C. service unsupported-transceiver
D. no lacp suspend-individual
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 43
A consultant is preparing for a cluster deployment and evaluates portable
Foundation. Laptop configuration is as follows:
• CPU: 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
• Memory: 4GB RAM
During the installation, the consultant encounters some errors and tries to
troubleshoot. What could prevent successful installation and Foundation
usage?
A. Gatekeeper must be enabled
B. Oracle VirtualBox is installed on the laptop
C. Laptop configuration does not meet installation requirements
D. Firewall Stealth Mode is
disabled Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 44
After deployment of a Nutanix cluster, a customer has requested to validate the peak performance
of the cluster. Which tool can a consultant use to satisfy this request?
A. Nutanix X-Ray
B. Nutanix HCiBench
C. diagnostics.py
D. Nutanix
perfmon Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 45
A consultant attempts to perform an LCM inventory after successfully creating the cluster, but is met with the following error:

LCM Exception [LcmExceptionHandler]: Could not find a module for entity with reference
name nutanix.ncc.update

What is the most likely reason LCM inventory/update is failing?

A. Nameservers are not reachable.
B. IPMI network is unable to reach the internet.
C. Clusters must be licensed before LCM inventory.
D. Nutanix CVMs are blocking TCP
port 54. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 46
During the knowledge transfer session, a consultant conducts a storage management demo. In the Creating a Storage
Container work- flow, the customer notices the Advertised Capacity parameter and asks for an explanation.
How should the consultant respond?
A. It is a capacity computed by dividing physical storage usage of a container by the replication factor (RF).
B. It assists in reserving space for a storage container to ensure a maximum storage capacity is available.
C. It enables the ability to cap usage of storage containers to be smaller than the limit of a storage pool capacity.
D. It assists in reserving space for a storage container to ensure a minimum storage
capacity is available. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 48
A customer’s security team has a policy prohibiting a consultant’s laptop from connecting within the corporate datacenter.
In which two ways should the consultant complete the customer deployment on the factory-prepared nodes? (Choose
two.)
A. Use the Controller VM-based Foundation process.
B. Configure IPs on hosts and create the cluster.
C. Run the Network crashcart Script, provide IPs, and create the cluster manually.
D. Manually edit ifcfg-eth0 file on CVM, restart networking, and create the
cluster. Answer: A, C
QUESTION NO: 46
Refer to Exhibit:
30 SN202313123218 ESXI-NUTA-01 ESXI-NUTA-03
26 ESXI-NUTA-02 ESXI-NUTA-04
28 SN502413104620 ESXI-NUTA-05 ESXI-NUTA-06
27
26 SN47280648053 ESXI-NUTA-07 ESXI-NUTA-08
25
24 NEW BLOCK ESXI-NUTA-0G ESXI-NUTA-10
23

A customer is preparing to expand a cluster with a consultant. The production cluster is comprised of one NX-3460-G7
and two NX- 8235 G8 blocks. The running AOS version is 5.20.4.6 and Hypervisor version is ESXi 6.7 U3b. vCenter is also
running a 6.7 version.
One NX-3235-G6 block will be added to that cluster (ESXI-NUTA-06 and ESXI-NUTA-10).
The consultant has verified Nutanix documentation and customer’s As-Built guide:
• NX-3060-G7 and NX-8035-G8 are hybrid HCI nodes
• ESXi 6.7 U3b is unsupported for the new G6 hardware model
• AOS 5.20.X and ESXi 6 X are end of support
• NX-3060-G7 and NX-8035-G8 hypervisors can be upgraded to the latest ESXi
supported version What actions should be taken before beginning the cluster
expansion?
A. Upgrade vCenter, AOS and ESXI to supported and recommended versions.
B. Upgrade only AOS and ESXi to supported and recommended versions.
C. Replace all HDDs with SSDs on the Production cluster.
D. Prepare Foundation and the whitelist.json file to deploy ESXi 6.7 U3b on the
new nodes. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 50
A consultant notes that a customer environment requires Nutanix storage containers to be mounted on non-Nutanix
hosts for manual data migration workflows.
What configuration should the consultant validate to ensure setup was performed properly?
A. Prism Element - Settings - Filesystem Whitelist
B. Prism Element - Settings - Cluster Details
C. Prism Central - Settings - Cluster Details
D. Prism Central - Settings - Filesystem
Whitelist Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 51
What is the default password shipped on new NX hardware from the factory for the ADMIN user on IPMI?
A. node-serial-number
B. nutanix/4u
C. block-serial-number
D. ADMIN
Answer: A

QUESTION NO:

52

After the successful creation of clusters, the customer wants to ensure that alerts are sent automatically to
Nutanix support. Which Nutanix feature should the consultant ensure is enabled?
A. Support Portal
B. Pulse
C. insights
D. Support
Tunnel Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 53
Which subnet should a consultant be aware is reserved for internal connectivity within a Nutanix cluster?
A. 1G2.168.5.0/24
B. 162.168.5.0/23
C. 162.168.254.0/24
D. 162.168.5.0/26
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 54
During Foundation using a customer-provided network switch, a consultant is facing time-
out issues. What action should the consultant take to resolve this issue?
A. Check jumbo frames support of the network switch.
B. Ensure the firmware of network switch is updated.
C. Enable queue depth on ports connected to nodes.
D. Disable STP on ports connected to Nutanix nodes.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 55
After reviewing the questionnaire provided by a customer, the consultant is completing the Foundation Configuration
on the Nutanix website. According to the customer requirements, the cluster should be prepared off site in a safe
room, and moved afterwards to the datacenter.
Which configuration should the consultant implement on the Foundation VM?

A. Add « virtual switch dedicated to the IPMI network.

B. Prepare multi-homing with two IP addresses.
C. another physical laptop port to the Foundation VM.
D. Create a firewall rule blocking customer
subnets. Answer A

QUESTION NO: 56
During the knowledge transfer session, a consultant conducts a storage management demo. In the Creating a Storage
Container work- flow, the customer notices the Reserved Capacity parameter and asks for best practices related to it.
How should the consultant respond?
A. Nutanix recommends to configure at least 2 storage pools with at least one storage container each.
B. Do not reserve less than 60% of the total space in the storage pool.
C. Reserve capacity for a storage container only if the storage pool consists of single storage container.
D. Reserve capacity for a storage container only if the storage pool consists of multiple storage containers.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 57
Based on customer requirements, a consultant conducted an AHV cluster deployment. Each node is configured with
four NICs. Which two components should the consultant manually update in the As-Built Guide? (Choose two.)
A. Node Port Layout Diagram
B. Network Cabling Diagram
C. Logical Design Diagram
D. Site installation
Diagram Answer: A, B

QUESTION NO: 58
A consultant is showing the Prism Element Web Console to a customer and wants to check that cluster health is OK.
During validation, the Health menu raises critical alerts about components using default passwords.
The cluster is based on ESXi as hypervisor, where Prism Central and Nutanix Files are deployed. Passwords have already
been changed for a few components, but some of them have been left by default.
How can the consultant check and handle that situation?
A. Activate Cluster lockdown in Prism Element.
B. Check accounts and passwords in Local User Management in the vCenter.
C. Check NCC results and review the associated KB.
D. Deploy and connect the cluster to Prism Security
Central. Answer: C
QUESTION NO:
60
A consultant is working with a customer on a new cluster deployment.
While reviewing the customer questionnaire, the consultant notices that the customer has documented their DNS
servers as follows:
• CompanyDNS1 162.168.5.10
• CompanyDNS2 162.168.5.20
What should the consultant consider regarding this deployment?
A. Everything has been accounted for to ensure a successful deployment.
B. Internal Nutanix networking will interfere with the installation's ability to complete.
C. During deployment, the CVMs should be configured to use a separate network.
D. New IP’s provided should by verified to not conflict with the customers network.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 61
What must be set to enable node discovery when using Foundation VM?
A. Host-only Adapter
B. Bridged Adapter
C. Network Address Translation
D. Internet
Access Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 62
Refer to Exhibit:

Nutanix Foundation show this message "failed to connect to following IPMI xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Here are some
possible reasons. Your IPM..."
A consultant is conducting cluster deployment using Foundation VM on a
laptop. What troubleshooting step is required?
A. Disable local machine firewall to ensure its not blocking traffic.
B. Verify Foundation VM is configured with at least 4GB of memory.
C. Confirm that TCP port 5123 is open.
D. Ensure that adaptive endpoint security agents are enabled.

QUESTION NO: 63
Imaging fails for one or more nodes in the
cluster A log file display this output:

Interface eth0 has an uplink.

Downloading livefs files…
Connecting to 10.249.230.171:8000 (10.249.230.171:8000)
[ 80.852033] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
...
tar: short read livecd files not found.

What is the possible root cause?

A. IPMI credentials are invalid.
B. There is a problem connecting to the Foundation VM.
C. Hypervisor version is not on the whitelist (iso_whitelist. json).
D. AOS version is
incompatible. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 64
In preparing to install a new cluster for a company, a consultant needs to complete an installation
worksheet. Which values must be documented prior to initial base system setup?
A. Block Serial Numbers
B. Hypervisor, CVM, and IPMI IP Addresses
C. DNS and NTP IP Addresses
D. Prism Central IP
Address Answer: B
QUESTION NO:
65
A customer already has a Prism Central (PC) instance deployed in their environment and expects the consultant to
unregister the old cluster before registering the new cluster
What steps should the consultant take to safely and successfully unregister the customer's former cluster from PC?
A. Login to any CVM using SSH and use the multicluster command found within NCLi, followed
by the
unregistration_cleanup.py script on PE and PC.
B. Login to the PC Web UI, locate the PE cluster and click Unregister from the Actions dropdown menu.
C. Login to any PCVM using SSH and run the PE_unregister.py script located in the Nutanix scripts directory,
followed by the unregistratlon_cleanup.py script
D. Login to the PC Web_UI, navigate to Cluster Registrations found under settings in the Admin Center,
check the box next to the desired PE. And click Remove
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 66
A consultant has been tasked with increasing security on a Nutanix cluster by disabling password authentication when
accessing the CVM and AHV hosts and instead moving to key-based SSH.
What is the easiest way for the consultant to meet these requirements?
A. Enable STlGs via command line on SSH to a CVM.
B. Configure LDAP authentication through a secure server.
C. Enable Cluster Lockdown and provide an RSA key.
D. Restrict access with User Management in
Prism. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 67
At which prompt should a consultant execute the command manage_ovs --bridge_name br0 show_uplinks
in a Nutanix cluster?
A. nutanix@CVM-$
B. rootOcvM-t
C. esxiOcvM'S
D. rootQAHV-J#
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 68
The installation process stops before imaging any of the nodes and an error message is displayed notifying the IPMI IP
address is un- reachable.
What should consultant do to fix the issue?
A. Ensure the Foundation VM is not in the same broadcast domain as the Controller VMs.
B. Re-try Foundation using a non-flat switch.
C. Check the service.log and the individual node log files for more detailed information.
D. if the nodes are in the same subnet go to the Cluster page and configure
multi-homing. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 66
A customer wants to ensure that the Data Protection configuration using Protection Domains is fully functional.
The consultant has configured a protection domain for newly-created VMs with static IP addresses on multiple VLANs.
The network administrator confirmed that the correct subnets exist at both physical sites.
After performing a failover operation, the virtual machines are turned back on but have no
network access. Which statement describes this issue?
A. Network mappings are not configured for the Remote Site.
B. Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) are mandatory to use Data Protection.
C. VirtIO drivers need to be reinstalled after a failover.
D. Remote Virtual IP addresses are missing for the
Remote Site. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 70
A consultant has completed a cluster build according to the following requirements:
• Syslog Setup with ERROR level Logging
• Proxy Setup
• SNMP v3 Trap setup
When adding the cluster to an existing Prism Central with a proxy setup, the following error is triggered in the
Prism Gateway logs: Caused by: com.nutanix.util.base.ValidationException: Prism Central is
unreachable What configuration is likely missing?
A. Whitelist of Prism Central DSIP inside of Prism Element and all Prism Element CVMs inside of Prism Central
B. Whitelist of Prism Central VIP inside of Prism Element and Prism Element VIP inside of Prism Central
C. Whitelist of AHV Host IP addresses in Prism Central
D. Whitelist of Prism Central DSIP inside of Prism
Element Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 71
As a part of a cluster deployment test plan, a customer asks the consultant for some additional performance and
resiliency tests. How should the consultant best satisfy this request?
A. Deploy X-Ray and conduct any relevant tests.
B. use Apache Jmeter.
C. Run diagnostics.py directly from CVM.
D. Leverage
lometer. Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
72
During the cluster deployment, a consultant conducts operational tests on a vCenter-managed ESXi hypervisor.
As a part of tests, vCenter must place the host into maintenance mode, however, the task is stuck and the CVM is not
shutting down automatically.
What should the consultant do to resolve the issue?
A. Shutdown the CVM using cvm_shutdown -P now.
B. Put the node into maintenance mode using
C. acli host.enter_maintenance_mode Hypervisor address.
D. Put the node into maintenance mode using ~/serviceability/bin/esx-shutdown -s cwn_.ip_addr
E. Shutdown the CVM using shutdown -h now.

Answer: A

QUESTION NO:

73
Refer to Exhibit:
Basic Cluster Inventory
Rack Unit Node ID Hypervisor BMC IP Address Hypervisor IP Address CVM IP Address
Host Name
A AHV-CLUSTER-01 172.25.16.10/24 172.25.17.10/24 172.27.17.20/24
S4-B13-U36-37 B AHV-CLUSTER-02 172.25.16.11/24 172.25.17.11/24 172.27.17.21/24
C AHV-CLUSTER-03 172.25.16.12/24 172.25.17.12/24 172.27.17.22/24
D AHV-CLUSTER-04 172.25.16.13/24 172.25.17.13/24 172.27.17.23/24
A customer has completed and given the pre-delivery questionnaire to the consultant. The customer has indicated that
they are using HPE/OEM hardware.
Which action should the consultant take to prepare the laptop and Foundation networking for the installation?
A. Configure Backplane Traffic Isolation.
B. Set IP Addresses in CVM/Host subnet only.
C. Set IP Addresses in both CVM/Host and IPMI subnets.
D. Enable network
segmentation. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 74
A consultant wants to expand a Nutanix cluster based on Dell PowerEdge servers and notices the nodes have arrived
software-less. Which two actions should the consultant take to expand the cluster? (Choose two.)
A. Image nodes using Foundation VM/App
B. Use Expand cluster to expand duster.
C. Return nodes to factory for imaging.
D. Use Expand cluster to image the nodes.

Answer: A B

QUESTION NO:

75
While reviewing the BOM during the kickoff call, a consultant notices that there are six NX nodes and 12 SFP+
modules, but no fiber
cables are listed.
Which statement is correct regarding this scenario?
A. Only copper cables, not fiber cables, are required for SFP* modules.
B. The customer can use any fiber cable from existing network devices.
C. Nutanix provides fiber cables based on the fiber channel ports on the server.
D. The consultant should remind the customer that it is their responsibility to procure compatible fiber cables.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 76
What are the two most important prerequisites to be validated before the consultant goes onsite? (Choose two.)
A. Complete the kickoff call and validate the BOM (Bill of Materials).
B. Verify whether the servers have been racked by the customer.
C. Validate whether the cluster questionnaire is complete and if the physical switch configurations are complete.
D. Identify the point of contact who can provide networking details and switch port information after
arriving onsite. Answer: A, C

QUESTION NO: 77
The consultant is deploying a 20-node AHV cluster, as part of a Nutanix Files
deployment. How many FSVMs can the consultant deploy in this
environment?
A. 16
B. 18
C. 20
D. 22
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 78
A customer recently bought services from their consultant to re-configure an existing Cluster for a new use case. The
data on the cluster is not important. The customer does not know the CVM usernames and passwords.
Which Foundation tool should the consultant use to resolve this issue?
A. Foundation VM - Auto Discovery
QUESTION NO:
72 B. Foundation Applet(CVM) - Auto Discovery
C. Foundation VM - Bare Metal
D. Foundation Applet(CVM) - Bare
Metal Answer: C
QUESTION NO:
76
A consultant is onsite with a customer to expand an existing eight-node cluster with four new GPU nodes. The consultant
plugs the nodes into the network switch and follows the procedure to expand the cluster in Prism Element, but the new
nodes cannot be found.
Which issue is preventing the new nodes from being discovered?
A. IPMI is not plugged into the network.
B. IPv6 is disabled on the ToR switch.
C. Node discovery is disabled in the BIOS.
D. Active Directory is not configured
appropriately. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 80
Which container advanced setting should be configured to prevent ISO container images from exceeding a 100GB limit.
A. Reserved capacity
B. Advertised capacity
C. Erasure coding
D. Compressi
on Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 81
A customer needs a 20-node cluster built. The consultant only has a 16-port flat network switch, and the customer is
using VLAN tagging for the hosts and CVMs.
How should the consultant create the cluster?
A. Set VLAN tags on all hosts and CVMs.
B. Create the Nutanix cluster manually.
C. Connect the cluster to the production network.
D. Create a separate four-node
cluster. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 82
A consultant completes a new cluster installation and tries to update the firmware using LCM. The update fails with the
following. operation failed, Reason: Failed to run LCM operation, error: ReadError('not a grip file',).
Which log should the consultant view to get more info?
A. genesis.out
B. zookeeper.out
C. janus.out
D. athena.o
ut Answer A

QUESTION NO: 83
A consultant is planning to use a flat switch for installation.
What is the network requirement for Foundation VM, CVM, Hypervisor, and IPMI
A. Foundation VM, CVM, and Hypervisor must be on the same subnet. IPMI can be on a different subnet.
B. CVM, Hypervisor, and IPMI must be on the same subnet. Foundation VM can be on a different subnet.
C. Foundation VM and CVM must be on the same subnet. Hypervisor and IPMI can be on a different subnet.
D. Foundation VM, CVM, and IPMI must be on the same subnet. Hypervisor can be on a
different subnet. Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 84
From a hypervisor, which IP address should the consultant use to connect to the locally tossed on?
A. 1G2.168.5.254
B. 172.16.16.2
C. 10.100.5.5
D. 162.168.1.254
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 85
The customer notices storage latency issues with their new Nutanix AHW cluster. The deployment includes the following
components:
 2 ToR switches
 7 nodes
Which command should the consultant run to identify issues?
A. manage_ovs show bridges
B. manage_ovs show_interfaces
C. manage_ovs show_lldp
D. manage_ovs show_uplinks
Answer: B
QUESTION NO:
86
Refer to the exhibit.

A consultant migrated multiple VMs to a new cluster. VMs were previously in

VLAN 10. Why can the VMs no longer communicate on their network?
A. The VNIC type should be set to VMXNET2.
B. The GuestOS firewall is blocking traffic in the new cluster.
C. The VLAN ID is incorrect.
D. Static IP addresses have not been assigned to the
new VMs. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 87
During Foundation, all nodes are imaged successfully. The cluster creation step fails. The consultant troubleshoots the
issue and verifies that all Hosts and CVMs are up and running and responding to network pings.
Which method should the consultant select to create the cluster?
A. Log into one of the hosts and run the cluster create command.
B. Image the Bare Metal nodes.
C. Log into one of the CVMs and run the cluster create command.
D. Factory reset the nodes and re-start the Foundation
process. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 88
Where in the Support Portal can it be determined if a version of AOS is supported on a particular hardware platform.
A. Solution Documentation
B. Upgrade Paths
C. Hardware Compatibility Lists
D. Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 86
A consultant deploys a new ESXi-based Nutanix cluster and migrates a sphere deployment to the cluster, After
completing the deploy- ment, the customer states they are experiencing VM performance issues.
Upon observing logs and performance data, the consultant identified the following symptoms.
 Excessive read/write 1/Os on CVMs
 Excessive Motion of
VMs What is causing
this issue?
A. Sphere cluster DRS migration threshold is set to Conservative.
B. DRS is in use and the cluster is configured to use Erasure Coding.
C. DRS is in use and the cluster is configured to use Deduplication.
D. Sphere cluster DRS migration threshold is set to Aggressive
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 60
Refer to the exhibit.
Hypervisor Host Hypervisor Mgmt IP SUBNET CVM IP SUBNET IPMI IP SUBNET
Name (FQDN)
NTNXAHV01 10.170.1.5 255.255.240. 10.170.1.8 255.255.240. 10.170.25.5 255.255.255.
0 0 0
NTNXAHV02 10.170.1.6 255.255.240. 10.170.1.6 255.255.240. 10.170.25.6 255.255.255.
0 0 0
NTNXAHV03 10.170.1.7 255.255.240. 10.170.1.10 255.255.240. 10.170.25.7 255.255.255.
0 0 0

Which IP addresses can be configured for the Foundation VM and Consultant Laptop?
A. FVM: 10.170.25.1.15/24, Laptop: 10.170.25.16/24
B. FVM: 10.170.1.2/20, Laptop: 10.170.1.12/20
C. FVM: 10.170.16.15/20, 10.170.16.16/20
D. FVM: 10.170.25.2/24, Laptop: 10.170.25.12/24
Answer: D
QUESTION NO:
61
A new Nutanix customer suspects that network traffic is going over the 1G interfaces instead of the 10G
interfaces. How should a consultant confirm that the traffic is only traversing the 10G interfaces?
A. Look in Prism Element under Network.
B. Run the allssh manage_ovs show interfaces command.
C. Run the iconfig command on the CLI of each CVM.
D. Run the allssh manage ovs show uplinks
command. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 62
Which Nutanix tool does the Field Installation Guide provide instructions for?
A. Prism Central
B. Foundation
C. As-Built Generator
D. Nutanix
Move Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 63
For a new AHV cluster installation, a customer has 20 NX-8155 nodes with quad port NICs. The customer wants to meet
the following guidelines:
 Take advantage of all available 10G links
 Achieve maximum throughput per VM
 Use of redundant ToR switches
 Fastest reconvergence during link failure
How should the load balancing be configured on the host?
A. In Prism Element, update the virtual switch uplink configuration to Active-Active with MAC pinning.
B. In Prism Element, update the virtual switch uplink configuration to Active-Active.
C. Use CLI to add the interfaces to bridge bro on all hosts.
D. Use CLI to configure Balance-TCP on bridge bro.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 64
A consultant successfully creates a Nutanix cluster. The consultant needs to configure containers for the customers
business critical applications and general server workloads. The customer requirements are to achieve maximum
storage space savings and optimize I/O performance.
What setting(s) should the consultant enable on the storage container(s)?
A. Compression and deduplication
B. Deduplication only
C. Compression and erasure coding
D. Compression
only Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 65
A customer has HE servers with DiscoverOS and wants to install a
Nutanix cluster. Which method should a consultant use to meet the
requirements?
A. Manually create the cluster.
B. Create the cluster using CVM Foundation.
C. Image the bare metal nodes.
D. Create the cluster using Crash
cart. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 66
A consultant is running Foundation discovery with Foundation VM and is unable to dynamically discover the nodes. The
consumer needs another method to image the nodes.
What information does the consultant need to do bare metal Foundation?
A. Serial # of Block
B. IPMI MAC Address
C. LAN MAC Address
D. Serial # of
Node Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 67
A consultant needs to upgrade the ESXi hosts on a Nutanix cluster from version 6.7 to 7.0. vSphere DRS and
vMotion are working properly. The consultant needs to use One-Click Upgrade.
Which setting should be verified by the consultant?
A. vSphere HA is enabled.
B. Nutanix Prism HA is enabled.
C. vSphere DRS Automation level is set to Conservative.
D. DRS automation level on all CVMs is
disabled. Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
68
During which part of the Knowledge Transfer does the customer learn about Nutanix basics and their environment at a
high level?
A. Technical Checklist
B. Technical Handoff Slides
C. Support portal
D. As-Built
Guide Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 66
A consultant installs a new AHV cluster and moves the cluster into the customer's environment. Alter the move, the
consultants notice that traffic is not being balanced across the physical NICs. The ToR switches have been configured
with LACP.
Within Prism Element, which AHV network option should be set to resolve the issue?
A. Active-Backup
B. Active-Active
C. No Uplink Bond
D. Active-Active with MAC
Pinning Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 100

A customer has an ESXi cluster with two 10GbE NICs on each node and the following requirements.
 Solution must follow Nutanix Best Practices
 Network configuration should be redundant
 A vSphere Distributed Switch will be
utilized Which load balancing configuration
should be used?
A. Route based on IP hash
B. Route based on source MAC hash
C. Route based on originating port ID
D. Route based on physical NIC
load Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 101

Which subnet is reserved for CVM internal switch traffic?
A. 1G2.168.5.0/24
B. 162.168.254.0/24
C. 10.100.5.0/30
D. 172.16.16.0/16
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 102

Which configuration item is a hard requirement to deploy a Nutanix cluster?
A. Nutanix cluster name
B. Cluster Virtual IP
C. Motion IP address
D. CVM IP address
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 103

After a consultant runs a bare metal Foundation, the imaging
process fails. In which two locations can the consultant find the
logs? (Choose two.)
A. On the CVM - /home /nutanix/foundation/logs
B. On the Hypervisor - /home/nutanix/foundation/logs
C. On the Foundation VM - /home/nutanix/foundation/logs
D. View Logs link on the Foundation Imaging progress screen
Answer: C, D

QUESTION NO: 104

A consultant is discussing VLAN tagging for a newly deployed Nutanix system. The customer requests that the the vlan
dor the CVMs and AHV hosts be placed in the customer's management VLAN 10. The customer also has VLAN
20 for production VM traffic and VLAN 30 for backup/replication traffic.
Which VLAN should the consultant recommend for CVM and host traffic?
A. VLAN 10
B. VLAN 0
C. VLAN 20
D. VLAN 20
E. VLAN 30
Answer: A
QUESTION NO:
105
A customer has a mail server and needs Nutanix to send email notifications about errors that might occur in Prism. The
following infor- mation is included under SMTP Server Settings
 IP Address of mail server
 Port Security Mode
 From email address
What should the consultant set up before arriving onsite?
A. SMTP server to allow emails from all IPs in customer network
B. SMTP server to allow emails from Cluster VIP and CVM IP addresses
C. SMTP to allow emails from Cluster VIP
D. SMTP server to allow emails from Host IP
addresses Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 106

A consultant completes a manual cluster creation of AHV. When the consultant logs into Prism Element, critical error
messages appear regarding the hypervisor and NTP.
What component or setting, if misconfigured, would cause these errors?
A. Cluster name
B. Name Server
C. Cluster Virtual IP
D. Data Services
IP Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 107

Refer to the exhibit.

On a four-node NX-3460 cluster, two 10G NiCs are connected to redundant Cisco ToR 5K switches as shown in the first
exhibit Port On a four-node NX-3460 cluster, two 10G NICs are connected to redundant Cisco TOR Sk switches as
shown in the fist exthibt. Port failover must be tested.
The network configuration output from the CVM is shown in the second exhibit. To test fallover, a shut command is
executed on the switchport that connects the node to the 5k1 switch.
Refer to the exhibit.
br0-up
bond_mode: active-backup
bond may use recirculation: no, Recirc-ID: -L
bond-hash-basis: 0

A. Active link is disconnected. Passive link takes over.

B. Passive link is disconnected. Active link takes over.
C. Active link takes over. HA Failover takes place.
D. Passive link takes over. HA Failover takes place.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 108

A consultant needs to image nodes that cannot be discovered with the
Foundation VM The nodes are connected to a flat stitch and
are already part of a Nutanix cluster.
What course of action would result in Foundation success?
A. Use the customer's top of rack switch.
B. Buy a new flat switch.
C. Bare metal image the nodes.
D. Change the physical
connections. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 106

Which two files should be downloaded to deploy Foundation VM on VMware ESXI or AHV Hypervisors? (Choose two.)
A. foundation_VM-version-disk-0.qcow2
B. foundation_VM-version. tar
C. foundation_VM-version. vmdk
D. foundation-
version.tar.gz Answer: A B
QUESTION NO:
110
In which part of the Knowledge Transfer can the customer learn how to create, escalate, comment, and close cases?
A. Operations Guide
B. Demonstration of the Support Portal
C. Demonstration of features
D. Handover Slides and
Checklist Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 111

A consultant is deploying a new Nutanix cluster. The nodes have the following network interfaces.
 2x 10G NICS
 2x 25G NICS
The consultant is using the default virtual switch configurations for AHV. After creating 10 VMs, the consultant observes
inconsistent network speeds from the VMs on the AHV host.
What should the consultant do to resolve this issue?
A. Configure load balancing on the virtual switch for both 10G and 25G interfaces.
B. Configure a separate virtual switch with 10G NICs on vs o and 25G NICs on vs.
C. Configure Active/Backup for both the 10G and 25G interfaces.
D. Configure all network interfaces with LACP on the same
virtual switch. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 112

A consultant discovers that while the Foundation VM and the consultant's laptop are able to ping each other nodes are
rea discovered while trying to run Foundation on the customer's network.
What should the consultant do to resolve the issue?
A. Connect to same switch as the cluster and ping.
B. Install Java on the Foundation VM.
C. Enable IPv6 and multicast on the switch.
D. Enable IPv6 and multicast on the
laptop. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 113

A consultant is unable to ping the CVM from the hypervisor using the external interface. The customer's network is
configured with the 10.3.12.0/24 subnet without VLAN tagging. The CVM and hypervisor are using the same address
space.
What is causing this issue?
A. The 1GbE and 10GbE NICs have not been separated.
B. The default gateway is incorrect.
C. The switch is trunked without a native VLAN.
D. The CVM/hypervisor only communicates over
162.168.5.0/24. Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 114

A consultant is setting up Prism Central to manage multiple Nutanix clusters. The customer requires til redundancy and
tre aby to man- age up to 12,500 VMs.
Which deployment option should the consultant use to meet the requirements?
A. Maximum CPU and memory allowed for the server hosting the Prism Central VM
B. Prism Central cluster mode
C. Prism Central Scale-out deployment
D. Large Prism Central VM with the maximum CPU and memory
allowed Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 115

Refer to the exhibit.

The customer has an existing NX-3160 block and is adding a second node
into it. Where should the node be installed?"
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Answer: B
QUESTION NO:
116
A consultant and customer agree on a scope of services regarding the deployment of a new
Nutanix cluster. Which two products does this scope apply to? (Choose two.)
E. Foundation
F. Flow
G. X-Ray
H. Prism Central
Answer: A, D

QUESTION NO: 117

A consultant deploys a Nutanix cluster with AOS and ESXi. The cluster is managed by a vCenter
server. After installation, what should the consultant do to ensure the cluster will support
network segmentation?
A. Connect both CVM eth0 and eth2 interfaces to vSwitchNutanix.
B. Manually assign an IP address to the CVM eth2 interface.
C. Connect both CVM eth0 and eth2 interfaces to the assigned portgroups.
D. Add another vSwitch to the
cluster. Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 118

A consultant creates a Windows VM after installing a new AHV-based
cluster. The switchport settings are as follows:
 switchport mode trunked
 portfast enabled
 spanning-tree port type edge trunk
The consultant has statically assigned an IP address to the VM but it is unable to communicate on the network.
A. Mount and install the Nutanix gest Tools
B. Confirm that IPv6 is enabled on the gest VM
C. Set a Group Policy to make sure the Windows Firewall is disabled.
D. Confirm that te VM has a vNIC assigned to the correct VLAN in Prism Element

QUESTION NO: 116

A consultant needs to verify the make and model of the systems that will be imaged with foundation. The consultant
does not have the BOM available to review.
When should the consultant verify the make and model to prepare for the cluster deployment?
A. Upon arriving on-site
B. When reviewing the SOW
C. While conducting the Kickoff Call
D. During the Foundation process

QUESTION NO: 116

A customer asks where to find the password used for initial cluster
configurations. Which document contains the requested information?
A. Deployment Questionnaire
B. Project Closeout
C. Pre-Delivery Questionnaire
D. As-Built Document

QUESTION NO: 120

A consultant is having issues deploying Prism Central on ESXI using the 1-
Click Method. What other method could be used to manually deploy
Prism Central successfully?
A. VHDX
B. QCOW
C. VMDK
D. OVA

QUESTION NO: 121

A consultant is deploying a new 4-node cluster for a customer. During the site readiness checks, the customer states
they have pur- chased a number of different lengths twinax cables for the deployment.
What is the recommended maximum length in meters, for passive twinax cables in a Nutanix cluster?
A. 3
B. 5
C. 7
D. 10
QUESTION NO:
122
A consultant is preparing to deploy a Nutanix cluster at a customer site. The cluster contains Self-Encrypting
Drivers (SEDs). The consultant has been these comments for the customer:
 The nodes were part of the existing cluster
 Customer had destroyed the cluster themself.
While conducting the cluster Foundation, the consultant receives an error and suspects the encryption is enabled on the
disks.
A. Disable encryption from node BIOS
B. Contact hardware vendor to unlock disks
C. Disable encryption from Foundation
D. Contact Nutanix support to unlock disks

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

If hypervisor or CVM have an IP address, connect via SSH or use Console Tool from IPMI
AHV:
- change_cvm_vlan cvm_vlan_tag
- ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=host_vlan_tag

ESXI:
- esxcfg-vswitch -p "network name" -v cvm_vlan_id vSwitch#
- esxcfg-vswitch -p " network name " -v host_vlan_id vSwitch#

-
Hyper-V:
$cvm = Get-VM | Where {$_.Name -match 'NTNX. *CVM' }
Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -VMName $cvm.name -Access -VlanId cvm_vlan_id
-VMNetworkAdapterName External Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -ManagementOS
-Access -VlanId host_vlan_id -VMNetworkAdapterName ExternalSwitch

Note: You may lose connection after setting host VLAN if you are connected by SSH

Active/backup
ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=active-backup
ovs-appctl bon/show

Configure VLAN tags

AHV On Host
nutanix@CVM$ ssh root@192.168.5.1 "ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=10"
nutanix@CVM$ ssh root@192.168.5.1 "ovs-vsctl list port br0"

On CVM
nutanix@CVM$ change_cvm_vlan 10

Remove VLAN
tags on every
CVM.
nutanix@CVM$ change_cvm_vlan 0

on every AHV host to remove VLAN settings.

nutanix@CVM$ ssh root@192.168.5.1 "ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=0"

Configure VLAN tags

AHV Set CVM VLAN
# esxcfg-vswitch -p "VM Network" -v cvm_vlan_id vSwitch0

Set host VLAN

# esxcfg-vswitch -p "Management Network" -v host_vlan_idvSwitch0

Problem: Foundation ran out of disk space during the hypervisor preparation phase
Solution: Free up some space by deleting extraneous ISO images. Foundation needs about 3 GB for ESXi

Problem: The host boots but complains it cannot reach the Foundation VM. You see a “ks.cfg:line 12:”/.pr “script returned
with an error”
QUESTION NO:
122
error message
Solution: Make sure you have assigned the host an IP address on the same subnet as the Foundation VM or you have
configured multi- homing. Also check for IP address conflicts

Problem: Foundation is booting into pre-install Phoenix, but not the ESXI installer
Solution: Check the BIOS version and verify it is supported. If it is not a supported version, upgrade it.

to configure LACP for a team named MyNICTeam

Set-NetLbfoTeam MyNICTeam -TeamingMode LACP

Set CVM VLAN

Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -VMName $cvm.name -Access -VlanId cvm_vlan_id -VMNetworkAdapterName External

Set host VLAN

Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -ManagementOS -Access -VlanId host_vlan_id -VMNetworkAdapterName ExternalSwitch

Problem: SAMBA is not up. If Hyper-V complains that if failed to mount the
install share Solution: Restart SAMBA with the command “sudo service
smb restart”

Problem: Foundation ran out of disk space during the hypervisor preparation phase
Solution: Free up some space by deleting extraneous ISO images. In addition, a Foundation crash cloud leave a /tmp/tmp*
directory that contains a copy of an ISO image which you can unmount (if necessary) and delete. Foundation needs about 6
GB of free space for Hyper- V