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Updated May 27, 2024 15 Questions 1 Pages
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Question 1 Selectable Answer
An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment .
Why is this happening?

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Question 2 Selectable Answer
A consultant is using a customer’s switch for installation. Although the 10GbE ports for each of the hosts are connected to the switch, the nodes fail to be discovered.
What is causing the issue?

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Question 3 Selectable Answer
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?

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Question 4 Selectable Answer
An organizations Nutanix Cluster is based on VMware vSphere. The cluster is configured to download software updates automatically. The administration needs to verify and eventually upgrade VMware hypervisor via Prism Ul.
After logging in to Prism, the administrator receives the message shown:
No available versions for upgrade
What is causing the current state?

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Explanation:
ref: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v510:upg-hypervisor-upgrade-esxi-c.html
Question 5 Selectable Answer
An administrator is currently using both 10g uplink with LACP and balance-tcp. A single VM should not be allowed to use more than a single 10G uplink, and both uplinks should be utilized.
Which two command should be used to configure the bond? (choose two)

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Question 6 Selectable Answer
A consultant is setting up a new vSphere cluster. Customer requirements are as follows:
* VMs should automatically failover to another host if the host crashes
* Host CPU and Memory resources should be evenly balanced
* New VMs should be placed on the host with the most resources available.
Which two settings should be turned on to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

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Question 7 Selectable Answer
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?

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Explanation:
Ref: https://next.nutanix.com/server-virtualization-27/iops-latency-issue-1168


Question 8 Selectable Answer
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?

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Explanation:
Ref: https://support-portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details/?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v55:sto-metro-availability-witness-c.html
Question 9 Selectable Answer
An administrator configures authentication in Prism Central (PC) for the NTNX-Admins group. Users report that they are unable to log in. The administrator confirms that the Active Directory (AD) settings in PC are correct.
Which condition could result in this behavior?

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Explanation:
Ref: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v5_10:mul-security-role-permissions-pc-t.html
Question 10 Selectable Answer
A consultant finishes creating a new ESXi cluster. The consultant connects to the nodes via laptop and a personal flat switch. The host/CVM network is on VLAN 23. The customer has the native VLAN on the ToR switches set to 23.
The customer wants to use LACP. Before placing the nodes on the customer network, the consultant tags VLAN 23 for each host and CVM. The consultant connects the nodes to the customer network and finds that they are unreachable.
What is causing this issue?

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Question 11 Selectable Answer
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?

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Explanation:
Ref: http://myvirtualcloud.net/nutanix-scma-the-security-feature-that-could-save-your-organization/
Question 12 Selectable Answer
Refer to the exhibit.



A consultant is installing AOS 5.10 and ESXi 6.5 on three nodes. During the Foundation process, ESXi 6.5 is not available as one of the choices for hypervisor.
Which solution should the consultant use?

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Question 13 Written Answer
A consultant configures a Nutanix cluster and integrates the hosts into vCenter using VMware best practices. The customer has requested that the Nutanix cluster only have a single datastore.
Upon configuring the cluster per the customer requirements, vCenter displays an alert regarding the heartbeat datastore. The consultant adds the das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore value = true rule. The container can be seen from each host, but the alert remains active.
What should the consultant do to resolve this issue?
A. Turn off and then turn back on HA.
B. Make sure the DRS setting is turned on.
C. Create a second container.
D. Whitelist the vCenter IP address within Prism.

Answer: A
Question 14 Selectable Answer
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?

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Explanation:
Ref: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v5_17:arc-configure-fault-tolerance-rack-prism-c.html


Question 15 Selectable Answer
A consultant is imaging a Nutanix cluster with VMware ESXi. Foundation returns an error that the media is not a supported ISO. The consultant checks the whitelist file in Foundation and confirms that the version of the ISO is not listed.
Which three actions should the consultant take to resolve this issue? (Choose three.)

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