NCM-MCI-5.20 Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) 5.20 Questions and Answers
What are two types of Protection Domains that Nutanix Offers for data Protection? Choose Two
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?
Which command should an administrator run from the CLI to view the uplink state of all AHV nodes in the cluster?
An administrator recently installed Prism Central to use categories, after having created categories and values, the administrator needs to apply these categories to multiple workloads.
How can the administrator easily perform this task?
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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?
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An administrator has configured Prism Central to email daily digest of alerts on a cluster, after a week, administrator notices that digests are not being received.
What is the most likely cause of the issue?
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
• 192 GB RAM, 60% overall usage
• 2xl920GBSSD
• 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?
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.)
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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?
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?
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?
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?
An administrator reviews the error in the exhibit, the examines the state of the cluster, the administrator finds that the AHV host is up and Functional , but the cluster capacity is low.
What will happen to the VMs on the host with this controller VM?
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?
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?
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?
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?
An administrator has been tasked with delivering a report on all nutanix Field Advisors (FAs) Affecting each of the clusters.
What is the most efficient way to collect this data?
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?
An Administrator Wants a VM to Communicate with two Separate VLANs.
What steps should the administrator complete?
Which Component Allows you to pair sites for disaster Recovery Policy Creation Using Nutanix Leap?
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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.)
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.)
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?
An application owner had reported that an AHV - based critical application VM is performing very slowly, after initial diagnostics is has been observed that the CPU utilization is significantly higher than normal.
What two actions should the administrator take on this VM without shutting it down? choose two.
An administrator needs to upgrade AOS for an air gapped cluster by using Prism Element.
Which two actions allow the administrator to perform the upgrade? Choose Two
An administrator needs to take a single node down for maintenance. Which two steps should the administrator take? (Choose two)
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.)
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 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm
What must be changed to meet the required policy?
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?
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?
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?
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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?
An Administrator expanded the disk capacity on a windows VM, but the VM operator saw no difference in its space.
Which Addition task must the administrator take ?
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?
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 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?
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.)
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?
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?
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 company ' s Security team has requested that all IT resources be hardnened.
What should an administrator do to increase the security of the ntuanix environment ?
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 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?
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?
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?
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