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Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) 5.15 Certification Sample Questions and Practice Exam
NEW QUESTION 64
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. Convert Cluster to ESXi and enable Jumbo Frame on Host and CVM
- B. Enable the use of Jumbo Frame on Host and CVM
- C. Enable Jumbo Frame on just the Host
- D. Enable Jumbo Frames on just the CVM
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 65
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 several virtual disks attached to the VM's virtual SCSI controller
- C. Create a volume group with one virtual disk attached to the VM
- D. Create a virtual disk attached to the VM's PCI interface
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
Ref:
https://next.nutanix.com/community-blog-40/scaling-up-vm-storage-performance-on-ahv-volume-group-load-b
NEW QUESTION 66
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. TempDB, and Logs disk Separate the Database. TempDB, and Logs onto their own disks
- C. Configure the VM to use a PCI disk controller
- D. Add a second SCSI controller for the Database.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 67
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. 28GB
- B. 24GB
- C. 32GB
- D. 20G?
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
Ref:
https://next.nutanix.com/how-it-works-22/rf2-rf3-requirements-37206#:~:text=Controller%20VMs%20must%20
NEW QUESTION 68
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. * 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 - D. * 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
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation
Ref: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000CuaDCAS
NEW QUESTION 69
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. Metro Availability
- B. Asyn&DR
- C. NearSync
- D. Leap
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation
Ref:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2005_Data_Protection:BP-2005_Data_
NEW QUESTION 70
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. Inline compression and EC-X
- B. No data reduction
- C. Post process Deduplication only
- D. Inline compression and Deduplication
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 71
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 the plct from 389 to 636
D Change the Domain to use an IP rather than a name - B. Change the Directory URL to use an IP rather than a name
- C. Change leaps to https
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
Ref:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v510:mul-security-authe
NEW QUESTION 72
Refer to the exhibit.
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 policy has been left in monitor mode instead of enforcing mode.
- B. The blocked connections are illustrated for information only.
- C. The 0.0.0.0 address was not specified in the outbound rule.
- D. The Activate box was not checked in the rule, so it is not enforcing.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v510:mul-security-poli
NEW QUESTION 73
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 90-100Mbps
* 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-lacp
- B. Configure bond0 as balance-sib
- C. Configure bond0 as active-backup
- D. Configure bond0 as balance-tcp
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation
Ref:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2071-AHV-Networking:top_ahv_netw
NEW QUESTION 74
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 imported files for the custom certificate must be PEM encoded.
- B. The signed, intermediate and root certificates are chained.
- C. The cluster administrator must restart the interface gateway.
- D. The existing certificate must be deleted prior to replacement.
Answer: A,B
Explanation:
Explanation
Ref:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v55:mul-security-ssl-cer
NEW QUESTION 75
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. The vNIC port is disconnected on the affected VMs.
- B. There is a VLAN misconfiguration on the VMs.
- C. Jumbo Frame are misconfigured across ports.
- D. There is a VLAN misconfiguration on the switch.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 76
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. Follow manual VM preparation guidelines
- C. Place Windows VM in Maintenance Mode
- D. Reboot the Windows VM and try the migration again
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation
https://next.nutanix.com/move-application-migration-19/nutanix-xtract-validation-failed-user-must-belong-in-a-g
NEW QUESTION 77
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 90% 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
NEW QUESTION 78
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 performance test is generating small block random 10.
- B. The duster data services IP address is a bottleneck, shared with other iSCSI traffic
- C. The VM's iSCSI traffic is being routed to the data services IP subnet
- D. Data Locality ensures that VM attached disks are always faster than iSCSI volumes.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 79
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. Check the hardware page for disk failures
- B. Re-run NCC specifying data_resiliency_check
- C. Configure the fqdn for the hosts indicated
- D. Troubleshoot the zookeeper server issue
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 80
Refer to the exhibits.
An administrator has reported that a new VM is not performing well.

After analyzing the information presented in the exhibits, which option shows the best conclusion regarding this workload?
- A. VM is CPU constrained because more CPU needs to be added to the VM.
- B. VM is Storage constrained, because the workload is waiting for storage access.
- C. VM is CPU constrained since the hypervisor cannot provide the required resources.
- D. VM is not CPU constrained, because the VM is not running, a multithreaded application.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 81
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. Revise the schedule to be 30 minutes
- B. Revise the schedule to be 60 minutes
- C. Revise the schedule tc be 15 minutes
- D. Revise the schedule to be 45 minutes
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 82
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 storage live migration
- B. Use Cross Hypervisor DR to replicate VMs from ESXi to AHV
- C. Use Nutanix one-click cluster conversion from ESXi to AHV
- D. Use VMware Converter
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation
Ref:
https://next.nutanix.com/installation-configuration-23/convert-existing-nutanix-vmware-cluster-to-nutanix-only
NEW QUESTION 83
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. Create a new Project selecting Test VMs, sorting by power state
- B. Filter VMs list, choose Test category and Inactive under Efficiency
- C. Use Capacity Runway to filter by Test and Powered-off VMs
- D. Create a new Scenario selecting Test VMs. filter by uptime
Answer: B
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION 84
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 the chronos service on all CVMs.
- C. Restart genesis on all CVMs.
- D. On a CVM. run the command a Hash ntpq -pn.
Answer: A,D
Explanation:
Explanation
Ref: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA032000000bmjeCAA#Review_ntpq
NEW QUESTION 85
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 more than one vCPU.
- D. VMs have multi-queue disabled.
Answer: A,C
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION 86
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. Reduce the number of VMs on the hosts.
- B. Add more memory to the VMs.
- C. Replace high core count CPUs with high clock rate CPUs. (also can be but is physical invas)
- D. Reduce the number of vCPUs assigned to VMs.
Answer: A,D
Explanation:
Explanation
ref http://www.joshodgers.com/tag/cpu-ready/
NEW QUESTION 87
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 Nutanix one-click cluster conversion from ESXi to AHV
- B. Use storage live migration
- C. Use Cross Hypervisor DR to replicate VMs from ESXi to AHV
- D. Use VMware Converter
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation
Ref:
https://next.nutanix.com/installation-configuration-23/convert-existing-nutanix-vmware-cluster-to-nutanix-only-
NEW QUESTION 88
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. Cache Dedup
- C. Post-Process Compression
- D. Flash Mode
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 89
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