Nutanix Certified Professional Exam 2023 Questions and
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An administrator manages a 4-block 16 node Nutanix cluster. One block experiences a
Power Delivery Unit (PDU) failure. All nodes in that block power off. VMs on the affected
nodes restart as expected. The cluster continues normal operation until power is restored.
Which Nutanix feature is responsible for maintaining operations in this scenario?
Block Awareness
An administrator is installing license on a newly created cluster. The cluster is behind a
DMZ with no connection to the internet.
Which two steps encompass the connect process to install licenses to the cluster?
Enter the cluster summary file info on a system connect to the internet and download a license
file
Upload the license file downloaded to the cluster
Which prism dashboard should an administrator use to set the frequency of NCC?
Cluster Health
An Administrator wants to present storage to an external non-Nutanix host via iSCSI.
Which construct should the administrator in configure to create the iSCSI volume?
Volume Group
Which three drivers are included in the Nutanix vitriol package? (choose three)
NIC Driver
SCSI Driver
Memory Balloon Driver
Which options are available when a live migration is performed on a VM in an AOS 5.5
implementation?
The VM can be moved on a different host
An administrator sets up a protection domain that replicates to a remote site. The
administrator must perform DR test every 6 months.
Which snapshot is used when activate is checked on the remote site`s production domain?
The newest protection domain snapshot at the remote site is used
Which Nutanix Product combines the Distributed Storage Fabric & App Mobility Fabric?
Acropolis
,An administrator finds that guest VMs are offline and storage is unavailable. The
administrator needs to know if any process within the CVMs on the nutanix cluster are
experiencing crashes.
Which log file should the administrator locate to determine if any processes have crashed?
FATAL Logs
An administrator needs to provide iSCSI storage to a VM on the Nutanix cluster running
ESXi
Which native Nutanix feature should be leveraged to meet this requirement?
NFS Whitelist
An administrator wants to configure key based SSH access for an AOS 5.5 Implementation
Which three components can be secured using this method?
The Cluster
The CVM
The Hypervisor Host
An administrator needs to determine current CPU usage across multiple clusters
Which method should the administrator use to get the information?
Prism Central Home
An administrator wants to view the total IOPs, read & write IOPs on a single graph in
prism
Which type of chart on the analysis is capable of allowing this view?
Entity Chart
A Nutanix administrator receives a request from the networking team to start SNMP
Traps to their central reporting solution. The administrator creates the transport. The
central monitoring tool is not able to clearly read the SNMP traps that are being sent.
What does the administrator need to provide to read SNMP traps correctly?
Nutanix MIB File
Which 3 VM components can be monitored in the VM dashboard in prism element (choose
three)
CPU Utilization
I/O Latency
Memory Utilization
What is the maximum RPO that can be configured for VMs using the Near Sync feature?
15 Mins
An administrator needs to manage VMs from Prism when the cluster is running on ESXi.
The VM management options in Prism are grayed out and unavailable.
,Which procedure should the administrator complete to manage VMs from Prism when
using the ESXi
hypervisor?
vCenter must be registered in Prism
An administrator is creating a new windows VM in AHV after migrating its data from
ESXi
Which two parameters should be set identically to the VM settings in ESXi? (Choose two)
Memory
vCPU Core
An administrator wants to be able to manage their application from prism central.
Which feature must the administrator enable to allow for application management?
Self-Service Portal
Clusters are configured with an http proxy server an administrator wants to deploy prism
central
Which scenario require to the administrator to configure the http proxy whitelist method?
ssl port 9440 not open in proxy
Which service performs snapshots in an AOS 5.5 implementations?
Medusa
An administrator is preparing to migrate VMs from a legacy ESXi cluster to a new AHV
cluster.
Which action must be the administrator perform on the AHV cluster to migrate VM data?
Whitelist the ESXi cluster IP address
An administrator has a 4-node Nutanix cluster running on Hyper-V. The administrator
create a new storage container and makes that available to all hosts.
Which storage protocol should be administrator use for the hosts to gain access to the
storage container?
SMB/CIFS
Which Nutanix feature allows for a Less than 60 minutes RPO and leverages light weight
snapshots (LWS)?
Near Sync
An administrator has just executed a maintenance window for some applications running
on their nutanix cluster. After completing the maintenance, they want to assess the health
of the cluster and make sure that there is no impact during the maintenance.
, Which three dashboards in prism will assist the administrator in making this
determination? (Choose Three)
Cluster Health
Alerts
Data Protection
Which item is required to manually upload an AOS update to a Nutanix Cluster?
AOS Binary
An administrator has a cluster in a secure environment. The administrator wants to disable
password authentication over SSH to access the cluster.
Which configure should the administrator use to disable password authentication over
SSH?
Enable Cluster Lockdown in Prism
Which option should the administrator select from the web console to access the prism Rest
API Explorer?
User Icon
An administrator installs Nutanix-specific PowerShell cmdlets. The cmdlets fail to run.
Which two requirements should the administrator verify first? (Choose two)
.Net Framework 4.0 is installed
Powershell 2.0 or later is installed
An administrator wants to configure Near Sync an AOS 5.5 implementations. The Cluster
has the following characteristic
1) 2 nodes at both the primary and remote site
2) 60 TB of storage on each node
3) 1.9 TB SSD disks in each node
4) 8 VMs per protection domain
5) A mix of ESXi and AHV hypervisor
What three steps would need to be taken successfully enable Near Sync? (Choose Three)
Increase the number of nodes at both sites to a minimum of three
Increase the amount of VMs in each protection domain to at least 10
Use all AHV or all ESXi hypervisor in the implementations
Answers Complete
An administrator manages a 4-block 16 node Nutanix cluster. One block experiences a
Power Delivery Unit (PDU) failure. All nodes in that block power off. VMs on the affected
nodes restart as expected. The cluster continues normal operation until power is restored.
Which Nutanix feature is responsible for maintaining operations in this scenario?
Block Awareness
An administrator is installing license on a newly created cluster. The cluster is behind a
DMZ with no connection to the internet.
Which two steps encompass the connect process to install licenses to the cluster?
Enter the cluster summary file info on a system connect to the internet and download a license
file
Upload the license file downloaded to the cluster
Which prism dashboard should an administrator use to set the frequency of NCC?
Cluster Health
An Administrator wants to present storage to an external non-Nutanix host via iSCSI.
Which construct should the administrator in configure to create the iSCSI volume?
Volume Group
Which three drivers are included in the Nutanix vitriol package? (choose three)
NIC Driver
SCSI Driver
Memory Balloon Driver
Which options are available when a live migration is performed on a VM in an AOS 5.5
implementation?
The VM can be moved on a different host
An administrator sets up a protection domain that replicates to a remote site. The
administrator must perform DR test every 6 months.
Which snapshot is used when activate is checked on the remote site`s production domain?
The newest protection domain snapshot at the remote site is used
Which Nutanix Product combines the Distributed Storage Fabric & App Mobility Fabric?
Acropolis
,An administrator finds that guest VMs are offline and storage is unavailable. The
administrator needs to know if any process within the CVMs on the nutanix cluster are
experiencing crashes.
Which log file should the administrator locate to determine if any processes have crashed?
FATAL Logs
An administrator needs to provide iSCSI storage to a VM on the Nutanix cluster running
ESXi
Which native Nutanix feature should be leveraged to meet this requirement?
NFS Whitelist
An administrator wants to configure key based SSH access for an AOS 5.5 Implementation
Which three components can be secured using this method?
The Cluster
The CVM
The Hypervisor Host
An administrator needs to determine current CPU usage across multiple clusters
Which method should the administrator use to get the information?
Prism Central Home
An administrator wants to view the total IOPs, read & write IOPs on a single graph in
prism
Which type of chart on the analysis is capable of allowing this view?
Entity Chart
A Nutanix administrator receives a request from the networking team to start SNMP
Traps to their central reporting solution. The administrator creates the transport. The
central monitoring tool is not able to clearly read the SNMP traps that are being sent.
What does the administrator need to provide to read SNMP traps correctly?
Nutanix MIB File
Which 3 VM components can be monitored in the VM dashboard in prism element (choose
three)
CPU Utilization
I/O Latency
Memory Utilization
What is the maximum RPO that can be configured for VMs using the Near Sync feature?
15 Mins
An administrator needs to manage VMs from Prism when the cluster is running on ESXi.
The VM management options in Prism are grayed out and unavailable.
,Which procedure should the administrator complete to manage VMs from Prism when
using the ESXi
hypervisor?
vCenter must be registered in Prism
An administrator is creating a new windows VM in AHV after migrating its data from
ESXi
Which two parameters should be set identically to the VM settings in ESXi? (Choose two)
Memory
vCPU Core
An administrator wants to be able to manage their application from prism central.
Which feature must the administrator enable to allow for application management?
Self-Service Portal
Clusters are configured with an http proxy server an administrator wants to deploy prism
central
Which scenario require to the administrator to configure the http proxy whitelist method?
ssl port 9440 not open in proxy
Which service performs snapshots in an AOS 5.5 implementations?
Medusa
An administrator is preparing to migrate VMs from a legacy ESXi cluster to a new AHV
cluster.
Which action must be the administrator perform on the AHV cluster to migrate VM data?
Whitelist the ESXi cluster IP address
An administrator has a 4-node Nutanix cluster running on Hyper-V. The administrator
create a new storage container and makes that available to all hosts.
Which storage protocol should be administrator use for the hosts to gain access to the
storage container?
SMB/CIFS
Which Nutanix feature allows for a Less than 60 minutes RPO and leverages light weight
snapshots (LWS)?
Near Sync
An administrator has just executed a maintenance window for some applications running
on their nutanix cluster. After completing the maintenance, they want to assess the health
of the cluster and make sure that there is no impact during the maintenance.
, Which three dashboards in prism will assist the administrator in making this
determination? (Choose Three)
Cluster Health
Alerts
Data Protection
Which item is required to manually upload an AOS update to a Nutanix Cluster?
AOS Binary
An administrator has a cluster in a secure environment. The administrator wants to disable
password authentication over SSH to access the cluster.
Which configure should the administrator use to disable password authentication over
SSH?
Enable Cluster Lockdown in Prism
Which option should the administrator select from the web console to access the prism Rest
API Explorer?
User Icon
An administrator installs Nutanix-specific PowerShell cmdlets. The cmdlets fail to run.
Which two requirements should the administrator verify first? (Choose two)
.Net Framework 4.0 is installed
Powershell 2.0 or later is installed
An administrator wants to configure Near Sync an AOS 5.5 implementations. The Cluster
has the following characteristic
1) 2 nodes at both the primary and remote site
2) 60 TB of storage on each node
3) 1.9 TB SSD disks in each node
4) 8 VMs per protection domain
5) A mix of ESXi and AHV hypervisor
What three steps would need to be taken successfully enable Near Sync? (Choose Three)
Increase the number of nodes at both sites to a minimum of three
Increase the amount of VMs in each protection domain to at least 10
Use all AHV or all ESXi hypervisor in the implementations
