Nutanix NCA practice test

Nutanix Certified Associate

Last exam update: Dec 15 ,2024
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Question 1

An administrator needs to provide data integrity at the application level for a VM that is replicated to
a secondary site. Which requirement will satisfy this task?

  • A. 1 VM per Consistency Group
  • B. 1 VM per Availability Zone
  • C. 1 VM per Protection Domain
  • D. 1 VM per Schedule
Answer:

D

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Question 2

An administrator has received the following critical alert:
Node 192.168.148.172 is marked to be detached from metadata The administrator has opened a
case with Nutanix and the support engineer has requested more information about the error. Which
two actions should the administrator take in the Health Check dashboard to collect the requested
information? (Choose two.)

  • A. Create an Entity chart
  • B. Open a remote support tunnel.
  • C. Run the Log Collector
  • D. Run the Nutanix Cluster Check
Answer:

C, D

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Question 3

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator notices that the Data Resiliency Statue of some components has been reduced to 0.
making it impossible to support a
node failure in the cluster.
What type of failure is most likely the cause of this issue?

  • A. Block
  • B. Disk
  • C. CVM
  • D. Nods
Answer:

C

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Question 4

An administrator is unable to discover a Nutanix-hosted iSCSI block device allocated to a bare-metal
host.
What is causing this issue?

  • A. Jumbo frames has not been configured on the switch
  • B. External client access has not been enabled for the host
  • C. Network segmentation has not been enabled
  • D. External host IP address is not in the Filesystem Whitelist
Answer:

D

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Question 5

Which two advanced features requires you to install Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT)? (Choose two.)

  • A. Disaster Recovery of a VM between AHV and ESXi Hypervisors
  • B. Live Migration of a VM between AHV & other Hypervisors
  • C. File recovery from a third-party backup
  • D. Self-service file-level recovery from VM snapshots
Answer:

A, D

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Question 6

An administrator wants to evaluate the overall health of the Nutanix cluster. What should be the first
step?

  • A. Run NCC
  • B. Run Log Collector
  • C. Run Xi Beam
  • D. Run LCM
Answer:

A

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Question 7

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator has configured Prism Central to email daily digests of alerts on a cluster. After a
week, the administrator notices that digests are not being received.
What is the most likely cause of the issue?

  • A. The recipient address is no" registered with Nutanix.
  • B. Nutanix support is not enabled as a recipient.
  • C. The tunnel connection has not been enabled.
  • D. The SMTP server is not configured properly.
Answer:

D

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Question 8

An administrator should use which Nutanix component to to create in-guest clustering?

  • A. Storage Pools
  • B. Volumes
  • C. Blocks
  • D. Containers
Answer:

B

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Question 9

A company's security team has requested that all IT resources be hardened.
What should an administrator do to increase the security of the Nutanix environment?

  • A. Enable Cluster Lockdown
  • B. Enable Prism Central KMS
  • C. Enable Flow
  • D. Enable STIG
Answer:

A

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6 months ago

Enable STIG


Question 10

An administrator receives several alerts indicating a Nutanix cluster is running out of memory. As a
preemptive measure, the administrator wishes to try to reduce the consumed resources, if possible.
Which two predefined views for Reporting best display potentially reclaimable resources? (Choose
two.)

  • A. List of Inactive VMs
  • B. list of Bully VMs
  • C. Memory Runway
  • D. List of Overprovisioned VMs
Answer:

B, D

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Question 11

A customer is running a three-node Nutanix cluster.
Which data optimization feature cannot be enabled in this scenario?

  • A. Post Compression
  • B. Map-reduce dedup
  • C. Erasure Coding
  • D. Inline Compression
Answer:

D

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Erasure Coding

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Question 12

An administrator needs to expand a Nutanix cluster that is tagging the network traffic at the CVM and
AHV level. However, the administrator doesn't remember the configured VLAN ID.
Which command can the administrator run to find the correct VLAN ID from the CVM?

  • A. ifconfig
  • B. manage-ovs
  • C. acli
  • D. ovs-vscl
Answer:

D

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6 months ago

acli is correct command D is not correct option.


Question 13

An administrator notices that a VM is slow and unresponsive. The administrator wants to compare
performance to other VMs on cluster.
Which chart type is best suited to display multiple VM performance metrics for diagnosis?

  • A. Dashboard Chart
  • B. Entity Chart
  • C. Analysis Chart
  • D. Metric Chart
Answer:

D

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B. Entity Chart

An Entity Chart is best suited for displaying multiple VM performance metrics for diagnosis. It allows the administrator to compare the performance of different VMs on the cluster easily.


Question 14

An organization runs several core business applications on a Nutanix cluster. System stability and
support are critical for these applications, which has an annual maintenance window.
How can the administrator assure that these requirements are met?

  • A. Purchase Mission Critical support.
  • B. Purchase Ultimate licensing.
  • C. Adhere to the STS release cycle.
  • D. Adhere to the LTS release cycle.
Answer:

B

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Question 15

Which option allows administrators to specify groups of VMs and assign them to a destination for
Disaster Recovery using Leap?

  • A. Security Policies
  • B. Protection Policies
  • C. Recovery Plans
  • D. Availability Zones
Answer:

D

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