Question 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 9

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.

Question 10

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 11

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 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 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

Question 14

An alert about RX errors on eth2 on a node is reported in the cluster. The administrator logs in to the
CVM in question, checks the ping_* files in the data/logs/syststats folder, and notices intermittent
ping loss.
The node in question has the following network configuration:

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

Question 15

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.