EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A Nutanix cluster is deployed with the following configuration:
* Three four-node blocks (A, B, and C)
* All Flash Redundancy Factor 2
What is the effect of simultaneous disk failures on two nodes located in block A?

Question2: Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator creates a security policy that isolates their financial application from accessing the Internet When viewing the policy in Prism Central, several connections from the application are outbound to the Internet.
What is causing this issue with the policy?

Question3: Refer to the exhibit.

A Microsoft SQL 2016 deployment is shown in the exhibit. The administrator receives user reports that database queries take too long to return.
Which optimization should be made to this configuration to improve performance?

Question4: A guest VM is reported to have poor storage performance. It has an I/O profile of 80% read. 20% write, and the HDDs form more than 50% of the read source.
What should an administrator do to resolve this issue?

Question5: A customer needs a DR solution designed around the following requirements:
* There are 8 ms of latency between Sites A and B
* The administrator needs the shortest RPO/RTO possible
* Application consistent snapshots are required
* Use of Nutanix VSS
Which Data Protection Method should be used?

Question6: An administrator needs to initiate a new VDI project within a couple of months. Prism Central reports there are no storage resources to accommodate such workloads.
The administrator sees many powered-off VMs and has the authority to delete test VMs powered off at least for 30 days. Test VMs belong to the Test category.
Using Prism Central, which steps are required to identify the correct VMs to be deleted?

Question7: An administrator receives an alert in Prism indicating that interface eth2, on an AHV host is receiving many CRC errors. After togging into the problematic host, the following command is run to show the indicated output:

What is causing this issue?

Question8: An administrator configure Active Directory (AD) authentication for their Nutanix environment. When login in using an AD user account, the login process takes more than one minute to complete. No delay occurs when logging a local account.
What should the administrator confirm to resolve this issue?

Question9: An administrator is configuring software only. Data-at-Rest Encryption on their Nutanix cluster. They are planning to deploy a third-party key management server (KMS).
Where should this server be hosted?

Question10: A CEO asks the IT administrator to provide a list of required resources to protect current workloads and the two new SQL servers from a disaster. The Nutanix environment is managed by Prism Central.
Which option explains how to meet the CEO's request?

Question11: An administrator of a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has microsegmentation enabled and a firewall VM installed.
The security team notifies the administrator that one of the VMs hosted in the environment has been exhibiting suspect network activity. The administrator wants to isolate the VM from the production network, but must still be able to access it to perform diagnostics.
What should the administrator do to meet the requirement?

Question12: A customer with a four-node RF2 cluster is adding application VMs to their system. After adding these VMs, the Prism dashboard shows 81% storage utilization.
What is the consequence of running the cluster at 81% storage utilization?

Question13: 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.)

Question14: An administrator has two clusters: Site A and Site B.
Async DR is configured between the clusters as follows:
* Site A is the Primary Site
* Site B is the Secondary inactive Site, no VMs running
* Site A is fully in Production
* Site B used as Backup/Disaster Recovery
The customer wants to perform a planned failover between the sites.
How should the administrator accomplish this?

Question15: In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single Node Replication Target.
The current schedule configuration is as follows:
* Repeat every 6 hours
* Local Retention Policy 1
* Remote Retention Policy 8
* Starting time 12 am
At 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection.
Which strategy should the administrator use to meet these requirements?

Question16: 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?

Question17: A customer has a Nutanix cluster with 10Gb connectivity via switch fabric extenders. The administrator receives NCC health check errors of latency greater than 200ms.
Which action should the administrator take to resolve the NCC errors?

Question18: Refer to the exhibit.

User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM group
What are two descriptions of how Files perform quota management? (Choose two.)

Question19: An administrator is monitoring the Nutanix v5.15-based AOS cluster performance logs and notices that a SQL server VM is greatly exceeding its intended maximum IOPS. The administrator has confirmed that a QoS policy was previously created for the group of VMs this server is a member of.
What are two reasons that this VM would exceed its maximum configured IOPS from the QoS Policy?
(Choose two.)

Question20: An administrator receives a notification that storage in a Nutanix cluster is unavailable. The cluster consists of five nodes and is configured with a Fault-Tolerance level of 1 (FT-1).
Upon investigation, the administrator finds the following:
* All AHV hosts are powered on and the CVMs are running
* Nodes A, B, and C are connected to one top of rack switch
* Nodes D and E are connected to a second top of rack switch
* The cluster status command run on Node A shows that CVM services on nodes D and E are down Which issue is causing the storage outage?

Question21: An administrator is deploying Nutanix Files 3.5 and needs to configure the sizing of the FSVMs for an increased number of concurrent SMB connections over the default 750.
What should the administrator do?

Question22: Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator creates a security policy that isolates their financial application from accessing the Internet When viewing the policy in Prism Central, several connections from the application are outbound to the Internet.
What is causing this issue with the policy?

Question23: An administrator knows that the disks in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For security reasons, these clusters do not have access to the Internet.
Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)

Question24: A new Nutanix cluster is ready for production on a remote site with no IT staff. Changes to the infrastructure will cost money and probably cause a cluster stop. The administrator needs to perform a health check on the environment that should include:
* Network connectivity checks
* Network performance status
* Storage performance status
Which tool should be used to perform this test?

Question25: An administrator has an existing Nutanix seven-node cluster running at RF2 that must be changed to have the following capabilities:
* RF3 set for the cluster
* Performance tier deduplication
What is the minimum memory needed on the CVMs to allow for these capabilities?

Question26: An administrator needs to deploy an application with a large amount of data connected via Nutanix Volumes.
Which two actions should the administrator take when designing the Volume Group? (Choose two.)

Question27: 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?

Question28: 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?

Question29: An administrator receives an error indicating that the CVMs in the cluster are not syncing to any NTP servers. An investigation of the issue finds:
* The NTP servers are configured in Prism
* The time on all CVMs is the same
* Both the CVMs and AHV hosts are configured for the UTC time zone
Which two steps can be taken to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.)

Question30: A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backed up to a remote location. The remote location is connected using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms.
Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest RPO possible?

Question31: Microsegmentation was recently enabled in a Nutanix environment. The administrator wants to leverage Prism Central to create a policy that will block all traffic, regardless of direction, between two groups of VMs identified by their category.
Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?

Question32: An administrator is configuring an All Flash cluster to support the following workloads:
* Full clone virtual desktops
* Hadoop
* Write heavy databases
Which three correct configuration options should the administrator use to meet the item requirements?
(Choose three.)
For each procedure, indicate whether it is a correct or incorrect procedure that must be configured to meet the item requirements using the drop-down option.

Question33: An administrator has a VM that consumes large amounts of storage and has the following characteristics:
* Create large / sequential writes
* Data must be kept for years
* Data is normally only accessed at the end of the year to run report
The administrator decides to use Erasure Coding to save space.
Which feature should the administrator utilize to save space for this VM?

Question34: Refer to the exhibit.

After performing ESXi to AHV conversion on a cluster, the alerts shown in the exhibit display on Prism.
What should the administrator do to resolve this issue efficiently?

Question35: An administrator wants to utilize Network Visualization to monitor the physical and logical network on the Nutanix cluster. The first-hop switch has LLDP enabled. The network switch information is still not being displayed.
What is causing this problem?

Question36: Over the period of 2 to 3 weeks, a cluster displays the following:
*Periods where Warning Alerts of memory usage over 75% are asserted
*Periods where Critical Warnings of memory usage over 90% are asserted
*Periods of slow of frozen VDI desktops have caused work stoppage or slowdown
*VDI clones have periodically not powered up when called, causing work stoppage Which steps should be used to prioritize the administrator's troubleshooting efforts?

Question37: 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.)

Question38: A company needs to replicate their VMs to a remote site and must have an RPO of less than 1 hour.
When creating a protection domain, what should an administrator do to meet this requirement?

Question39: An administrator is responsible for the following Nutanix Enterprise Cloud environment:
* A central datacenter with a 20-node cluster with 1.5PB of storage
* Five remote sites each with a 4-node cluster with 200TB storage
The remote sites are connected to the datacenter via 1GB links with an average latency of 6 ms RTT. What is the minimum RPO the administrator can achieve for this environment?

Question40: 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?

Question41: An administrator wants to utilize Network Visualization to monitor the physical and logical network on the Nutanix cluster. The first-hop switch has LLDP enabled. The network switch information is still not being displayed.
What is causing this problem?

Question42: An administrator has an existing Nutanix seven-node cluster running at RF2 that must be changed to have the following capabilities:
* RF3 set for the cluster
* Performance tier deduplication
What is the minimum memory needed on the CVMs to allow for these capabilities?

Question43: In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single Node Replication Target.
The current schedule configuration is as follows:
* Repeat every 6 hours
* Local Retention Policy 1
* Remote Retention Policy 8
* Starting time 12 am
At 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection.
Which strategy should the administrator use to meet these requirements?

Question44: A customer has the following requirement for a Nutanix cluster:
* Must support high-performance Nutanix Volumes iSCSI workloads
* Must utilize AHV nodes
* Must use 10 GbE interface
How should the customer optimize networking?

Question45: A system administrator needs to shut down an AHV node in a Nutanix cluster without causing service disruption. The administrator checks data resiliency and verifies that the cluster can tolerate a node down.
Which three steps should the administrator perform next? (Choose three.)

Question46: 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.)

Question47: An administrator needs to relocate an AHV cluster to a new datacenter during a maintenance window. The cluster will use the same IPs in the new datacenter.
Which two steps should be taken to prepare for this task? (Choose two.)

Question48: 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?

Question49: 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?

Question50: An administrator needs to make sure an RF2 cluster can survive a complete rack failure without negatively effecting workload performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:
* 30 nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U rack
* Each nodes is configured with 40TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 1.2 PB Usable)
* Current cluster utilization is 900TB storage
Which configuration changes should be made to make sure that the cluster meets the requirements?

Question51: A customer with a four-node RF2 cluster is adding application VMs to their system. After adding these VMs, the Prism dashboard shows 81% storage utilization.
What is the consequence of running the cluster at 81% storage utilization?

Question52: A VM does not have enough resources for the demand, which leads to performance bottlenecks. The VM is exhibiting one or more of following baseline values, based on the past 30 days:
* CPU usage > 90% (moderate), 95% (high)
* CPU ready time > 5%, 10%
* Memory usage > 90%, 95%
* Memory swap rate > 0 Kbps (no moderate value)
Which type of VM is being described?

Question53: An administrator needs to migrate workloads from a Nutanix cluster running VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV. The migration process needs to be completed in multiple VM groups and support roll back in case any problems are found during user acceptance testing.
Which action should the administrator perform?