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1. Which three settings are required for network switch discovery in Prism? (Choose Three)

Switch Management IP Address

AHV Host IP address

Cluster CVM IP address

SMTP Server IP address

SNMP Community Name

2. Write I/O that is deemed sequential will enter which component of the Distributed Storage Fabric first?

Oplog

Extent store

Cache

Metadata Ring

3. A customer's current AHV cluster for mixed server workloads consists of 7 NX-3060-G6 nodes with intel Skylake processors spread across two blocks. Growing demand for resources requires the customer to order three additional NX-3060-G7 nodes with Intel Cascade Lake processors.

Which supported approach allows the customer the most efficient use of their additional resources?

Create a new cluster using a new block populated by the three additional nodes.

Expand the cluster by fully populating the existing blocks, and adding a new block populated with two nodes

Expand the cluster by fully populating the existing blocks with the three additional nodes

Expand the existing cluster by adding a new block populated with the three additional nodes

4. An online retailer currently support over 200 separate PostgreSQL database instances, often with more than 10 copies of each individual database. Their Database Administrators have scripted much of the deployment process for creating dev/test copies, but their infrastructure team struggles to keep up with storage capacity demands.

Which Nutanix product should the systems engineer position?

Beam

Karbon

Calm

Era

5. An SE is building a solution for a federal goverment prospect that u???

Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meens the ??? encryption (choose two)

Nutanix Acropolis Pro Licensing

Self-Encrypting Drives

A supported Key Management Server

Nutanix Software Encryption

6. From Which page on portal.nutanix.com can an open case be directly escalated?

Home

View Cases

360 View

Case Detail

7. A prospect's storage administrator is concerned about deploying Nutanix for their vSphere server virtualization environment due to anticipated increases to data retention for compliance purposes and associated costs.

Which Nutanix feature should an SE discuss to convince the prospect to move forward?

Linear scalability by adding more nodes

Acropolis Block Services

Adding Storage Only nodes

Extending storage container with existing SAN storage

8. A customer has a 3-node cluster configured for RF2 with 100TB of raw disk space. The customer wants to enable Erasure Coding to gain additional usable space.

What change will allow EC-X to be enabled?

Add 1 node to the cluster

Add an additional 30TB to the existing cluster

Increase the size of the default storage pool

No changes are required

9. After a meeting with a new prospect to demo Nutanix for a Splunk opportunity, the prospect requests a POC.

To qualify the need for a POC, which question should an SE ask the prospect first?

Are you considering other solutions?

What do you plan to evaluate?

Is this project budgeted?

Which version of Splunk are you running?

10. CPU utilization climbs above 90% on several VMs. This causes performance degradation for a business-critical application.

How can alerts be configured to notify the administrator before VM CPU utilization hits 90%?

On a CVM, use ncli to set the VM CPU Check threshold for the critical VMs to a value below 90%.

On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the alert threshold below 90%.

On a CVM, configure a cron job to run the VM CPU Check more frequently and email the result.

On the Alerts dashboard, ensure that the VM CPU usage alert is not set to auto-resolve.

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11. A customer needs a tool packaged as a VM that uses realistic workloads paired with real-world test scenarios for HCI environments. The goal is to benchmark performance during typica! workflows and failure events.

Which Nutanix tool meets these requirements?

Foundation

Move

X-Ray

Cluster Check

12. Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV?

MAP

Collector

AWR

RVTools

13. Which two items are considered by Sizer when calculating the required cluster resources with only the Raw input workload type for a multi-VM workload? (Choose two)

The vCPU:pCore ratio applied for specific VMs

Large VM NUMA requirements

The required RAM for the CVM

The vCPU:pCore ratio applied to all VMs

14. A prospective customer wants to migrate database workloads to Nutanix. They are currently running these workloads on a 3-tier vSphere architecture made up of 5 hosts connected to a hybrid SAN over 10G iSCSI. The hosts each have 256G RAM and 2 Broadwell 2.8Ghz 12 core processors. The largest database VM is configured with 64G of memory. Some databases are fairly old and single threaded Current performance is deemed acceptable.

Which configuration component is most important to maintain the customer experience on a new Nutanix cluster and minimize costs?

Make sure the cluster uses 25G nics to speed up the network

Make sure the cluster uses similar speed processors regardless of generation

Make sure the cluster uses 512G per host to protect NUMA boundaries.

Make sure the cluster is all flash to speed up data access.

15. An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issue. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue.

Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

Utilize a separate subnet for the Linux VMs

Add additional disks to the Volume Group

Set the SCSI timeout value to 60

Utilize Jumbo Frames

16. 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?

Add one large SSD to each node and enable Flash Mode for the VMs.

Add a minimum of four virtual disks to each VM and aggregate them on guest OS level.

Add a minimum of four SSDs to each node to ensure all write go to the SSDs.

Add one large virtual disk to each VM and use it for all application data.

17. A customer plans to migrate a business critical, highly tranactional SQL Server database to Nutanix Currently the databases is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12CPU cores at > 80% utilization.

To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the SE recommend for this workload?

Intel E5 2680v4 (14 cores each @ 2.4GHZ, 28 Cores total)

Intel E5 2620v4 ( 8 cores each @ 2.1GHZ, 16 Cores total)

Intel E5 2643v4 ( 6 cores each @ 3.4GHZ, 12 Cores total)

Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total)

18. A customer performs a 1-click, non-disruptive upgrade on a 3-node Nutanix cluster. While the CVM on Node A is rebooting, a VM on Node A overwrites an existing block of data.

How does Nutanix AOS ensure data integrity during the upgrade? Choose Two

AOS marks the replica as read only and waits until the original replica is back online to prevent corruption.

AOS writes two copies across the remaining nodes to maintain resiliency

AOS leverages Erasure Coding to maintain resiliency.

AOS only overwrite the available copy and waits until the original copy is back online before restoring resiliency

19. 74. A VP of Applications at a prospective customer is working to transform IT from a cost, center to a business enabler. In order to address this initiative, the VP has identified the following areas for improvement: Increased time and expenses related to meeting business deliverables Missed market opportunity due to slow IT response time Shadow IT increases risk of security breaches and brand damage Unplanned spend on public cloud services (AWS) what two key benefits should the SE review to address the customer's challenges? (Choose two)

Deliver an on-premises solution with an out-of-the-box cloud like experience.

Provide developers with a native and integrated Self Service Portal that can scale on demand.

Deliver enhanced performance for resource intensive applications.

Provide a hardened and secured solution that can inherently block Shadow I

20. Refer to Exhibit.

An administrator increases the cluster RF to 3. The containers are not modified.

What will the new values in the data resiliency dashboard be for FAILURES TOLERABLE for the Zookeeper and Extent Groups components?

Zookeeper = 1 and Extent Groups = 1

Zookeeper = 2 and Extent Groups = 2

Zookeeper = 2 and Extent Groups = 1

Zookeeper = 1 and Extent Groups = 2

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21. Refer to the exhibit.

***Exhibit is Missing***

Based on the sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?

FTT1

N+0

N+1

N+2

22. A customer has a requirement to run a single instance Oracle Database VM on AHV that is driving over 250,000 IOPs.

Which AOS feature should be positioned to deliver the highest level of performance?

Volume Group Load Balancer

Data Locality

Shadow Clones

App Mobility Fabric

23. A customer wants to decrease costs and increase efficiency by eliminating NAS silos and adopting a cloud-like mindset.

Which Nutanix product meets these requirements?

Nutanix Calm

Nutanix Xi Frame

Nutanix Files

Nutanix Beam

24. What are two key Nutanix value propositions? (Choose two)

One-Click Infrastructure Management

Rapid time to value

Highest performance across all workload types

Lowest initial cost than a comparable competitive HCI or 3-tier solution

25. An administrator is auditing the recent alerts on the cluster to report to the management.

Which dashboard in Prism Central can be used to generate this report?

Alerts

Explore

Apps

Analysis

26. Which two Citrix desktop creation capabilities are supported on Nutanix AHV? (Choose two)

Provisioning Service

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Composer

Machine Creation Services

Desktop Delivery Controller

27. During a meeting with a fortune 100 prospect, an SE achieves technical buy-in from the architecture team. The prospect shares that their management recently attended an executive briefing with Cisco and was impressed by the vision presented.

Management is pushing the arching the architecture tea to adopt Cisco as their HCI standard based on a beief that Nutanix is not a major player.

Which resource should an SE highlight?

Garther magic Quadrant

ESG Performance Analysis

Net Promoter Score

Reference architectures

28. A prospect is concerned about the suitability and design of using Nutanix for an upcoming Avaya IP Office migration.

Which type of document should the SE provide?

Best Practice Guide

Reference Architecture

Filed Advisory

Knowledge Base Article

29. Which function does the Curator service perform?

Schedules snapshots

Start and stops other cluster services

Stores cluster configuration

Distributes storage optimization tasks

30. A Nutanix customer needs to migrate 1000VMs from ACME Public Cloud to a local Nutanix cluster ACME Public Cloud operates on VMware ESXi, Hp ProLiant Servers with 3PAR storage. ACME Public Cloud denies customers access to vCenter or ESXi hosts But they do replicate a copy of the virtual disks to external storage.

Which method should the customer use to migrate the VMs to a local Nutanix Cluster?

Use Xtract for VMs to migrate VMs from ACME Public Cloud vCenter to local Nutanix cluster.

Deploy Nutanix Community Edition in ACME Public Cloud and replicate VMs to local Nutanix cluster.

Use Calm to automate and orchestrate deployment on the local Nutanix cluster.

Use the latest copy of VMs on external storage to import on the local Nutanix cluster

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31. A prospect uses VMware, Oracle and Microsoft products for their critical operations. The prospect prefers an all-flash array because they have significantly invested in servers for their oracle environment to save on licensing costs.

Which feature should be discussed to address this objection?

AHV

Hyper-V Support.

ABS

All-flash nodes.

32. A systems engineer sizers an environment based on the customer's requirement of N+2 resiliency for the entire cluster. In which two ways could the configuration be changed to meet the customer's requirements? (Choose Two)

Increase the RAM capacity per Node

Increase the number of Nodes

Increase the CPU capacity per Node

Increase the SSD capacity per Node

33. An SE builds a sizer scenario for a prospect's remote site running on an NX-1365S-G5.

Using only the sizer BOM.

Which two actions can be performed? (Choose two.)

Review budgetary pricing

Review workload sizing details

Review power consumption requirements

Review applicable discounts from deal registration

Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration

34. A prospective customer is evaluating solutions to support a project. The systems engineer proposes a hybrid model as recommended by Sizer. The prospect is concerned about the performance of a hybrid configuration and is evaluating an all flash array.

Which two Nutanix features should be discussed to address the concerns of the prospective customer? (Choose two)

AHV Turbo Mode

Data Locality

Automatic Data Tiering

Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler

35. A prospective customer wants to build a private cloud in addition to provisioning workloads across multiple public cloud providers.

Presently, the staff lacks the time and skillset for on-premises infrastructure management.

Which two features should qualify this project as a Nutanix opportunity? (choose two)

Flow

Calms

Cloud Connect

All falsh nodes

Prism 1-Click operations

36. An SE is performing a sizing exercise for a large financial institution.

They plan to move 8000 VMs to Nutanix AHV manage those clusters using Prism Central.

Which sizing configuration should the SE use for each Prism Central VM?

2 vCPU / 8gig MEM /200 gig Storage

4 vCPU / 16gig MEM /500 gig Storage

8 vCPU / 32gig MEM /2500 gig Storage

10 vCPU / 48gig MEM /3500 gig Storage

37. A prospect is seeking a Nutanix solution for a mission critical application that needs to sustain two simultaneous node outages and prefers that the cluster be able to fully rebuild both data and metadata in the event hardware issues.

What is the minimum number of nodes required for the cluster?

38. prospect uses Vmware, Oracle, and Microsoft products for a critical application. The prospect prefers an all flash array because they have significantly invested in servers for their Oracle environment to save on licensing costs.

Which feature should be discussed to address this objection?

AHV

Hyper-V support

ABS

All flash nodes

39. An administrator knows that the disk in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For security reason, these cluster do not have access to the internet.

Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)

Download the update firmware .tgz file from the Nutanix Portal.

Download the dark site bundle and stage it on an internal webserver

Configure LCM with a URL to access the firmware bundle.

Select Upgrade Software, then select disks and upload the updated firmware.

40. An administrator is managing a highly active SQL workload that is writing I/Os in 2 MB chunks to a vDisk. The administrator wants to optimize capacity setting for the computer.

Which storage optimization technology should the administration select to meet these requirement?

Erasure Coding

Compression

Capacity Deduplication

Cache Deduplication

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41. When using Nutanix Sizer, which solution does the Automatic sizing option provide?

The lowest cost solution that meets the provided requirements

A solution that balances cost and performance, plus a default 25% growth capacity

The highest performance solution that meets the provided requirements

A solution that meets provided requirements, plus a default 25% growth capacity

42. An SE is meeting with a prospect that is refreshing infrastructure in 100 retail locations. Currently the stores use vSphere hosts connected to direct attached storage and are managed by 6 separate vCenter servers. On-site retail staff is unqualified to deal with any hardware break/fix issues.

Which two aspects of Nutanix solution should the SE highlight? (Choose two)

Self-healing infrastructure.

Data Locality.

Prism Central.

Cloud Connect.

43. Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?

Cloud Connect

Controller VM

Prism Element

Prism Central

44. A systems engineer is sizing a configuration for a cluster that needs to tolerate up to 2 simultaneous disk failures across different nodes.

What is the minimum number of nodes required?

45. An administrator needs to relocate an AHV cluster to a new datacenter during a maintenance windows. The cluster will use the same IPs in the new datacenter.

Which two steps should be taken to prepare for this task? (Choose Two)

Stop all Nutanix Files clusters

Reconfigure IPMI for the new datacenter.

Relocate the linked LDAP server

Shut down all user VMs in the cluster

46. A prospect is evaluating solutions to support a project. The SE proposes a hybrid model as recommended by size in addition to nutanix, the prospect is evaluating an all flash storage array. The storage administrator is concerned about the performance the hybrid configuration and claims that the flash array is less expensive the it Director sees the benefits of Nutanix but needs to address the team's concerns.

Which two Nutanix features should be discussed to address the concems of the storage administrator? (Choose two)

Data Locality

NVMe support

40Gb/s support

Capacity Planner

Automatic Data Tiering

47. Which Prism Dashboard should be used to collect CPU/Memory and Disk I/O statistics over time?

Health

Alerts

Hardware

Analysis

48. Which method can be used to migrate a VM configured for UEFI-boot from a Nutanix Hyper-V cluster to AHV?

Live Migration

Storage vMotion

Nutanix Move

Cloud Connect

49. Prospective customer explains their current infrastructure and upcoming goals. They are a fast-growing software company with approximately 3000 employees. Engineering accounts for approximately half of total staff and is behind on product releases.

This department has been building their own infrastructure using available hardware, SaaS offerings, and public cloud.

There's a new CIO attempting to gain control of existing and incoming information systems while supporting the agile environment responsible for their rapid innovation with a minimal staff. From this information, which two addressable pain points or gaps should be discerned? (Choose two)

System availability issues

SQL Server performance issues

""Shadow IT"" that increases the risk of security breaches and brand damage

Slow response time from the infrastructure group (SLAs) that could result in product release delays

significantly degraded end user experience