NCM-5.15 Online Practice Questions and Answers

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An administrator is configuring an All Flash cluster to support the following workloads: Full clone virtual desktops Hadoop Write heavy databases

Which correct configuration options should the administrator use to meet the item requirements? 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.

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A system administrator needs to shut down 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 steps should the administrator perform next?

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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

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.

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.

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 all 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

An administrator inherits a new Nutanix environment and logs in to a CVM to check the network configuration. The configuration is as follows:

Which action should the administrator take to improve network performance?

A. Configure VLAN tagging both on br0 and br1 and their physical interfaces.

B. Add eth0 and eth1 to the br0-up bond

C. Configure balance-sib or balance-tcp mode for br0-up if switch configuration allows

D. Remove one 10 Gbs interface from br0-up to make sure all 10 Gbs can be used.

Microsegmentation was recently enabled in a Nutanix environment. The administrator wants to leverage Prism Central to create a policy that will block all traffic, regardless of direction, between two groups of Vms identified by their category. Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?

A. A Quarantine Policy

B. An Isolation Environment Policy

C. An Application Security Policy

D. A Whitelist-Based Policy

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. 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.

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.