EMT Practice Test

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Question1: An administrator has been tasked with delivering a report on all nutanix Field Advisors (FAs) Affecting each of the clusters.
What is the most efficient way to collect this data?

Question2: An administrator has a custom backup application that requires a 2TB disk and runs in Windows. Throughput is considerably lower than expected.
The application was installed on a VM with the following configuration:
* Four vCPUs with one core/vCPU
* 4GB of Memory
* One 50GB vDisk for the Windows installation
* One 2TB vDisk for the application
What is the recommended configuration change to improve throughput?

Question3: 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?

Question4: A customer has a four-node cluster and is using Volume Groups to provide storage services to a SQL cluster.
In the event of a CVM failure in the cluster, what is the expected IO path of the volume group's iSCSI targets?

Question5: An administrator needs to install prism central for their 2550 multi-cluster environment.
How should they deploy the application?

Question6: A VM is exhibiting one or more of the following baseline values based on the past 30 days:
* CPU usage < 20%
* CPU ready time < 5%
* Memory usage < 50% (moderately) or < 20% (severely)
* Memory swap rate = 0 Kbps
Which type of VM is being described?

Question7: 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?

Question8: An administrator needs to configure the cluster to ensure all VMs are capable of being restarted in the event of a host failure.
Which option provides this functionality?

Question9: An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment. Why is this happening?

Question10: Which two CVM components are used to provide data Locality? Choose 2

Question11: 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?

Question12: 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.)

Question13: An administrator needs to forecast infrastructure requirements for a new program and its associated applications. Prior to the projected start of the new program, all existing applications will be decommissioned.
How should the administrator perform this task?

Question14: For several days, an administrator notices the following alerts:
* CVM NIC Speed Low Warning Alerts
* Warning Alerts of CVM NIC not performing at optimal speed
* CVM is disconnected from the network Critical Alert
* Network Visualization page shows excessive dropped packets on CVM/Host Which steps should be taken to determine which problem should be addressed first?

Question15: 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.)

Question16: 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?

Question17: An administrator needs to expand a cluster based on AHV and running on Nutanix G5 hardware with a new Nutanix G7 system. The cluster is running AOS 5.10 but the operation fails when expanding the cluster. AOS is running on the new system. There are no issues discovering the node.
Why is the operation failing?

Question18: 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?

Question19: An administrator is migrating 5MB shares from a third-party platform to Nutanix Files with the following characteristics:
* Shares contain user profile directories
* DFS-N will be used
How should the administrator create target shares for this migration?

Question20: After the migration, some SQL queries take longer to execute than prior to migration.
The following SQL best practices were applied while creating the SQL VM on Nutanix:
* 8 vDisks per SQL server VM
* Database and Log files on separate vDisk
* 2 TempDB database drives and 1 TempDB log drive
What should the administrator to do improve the SQL Server performance?

Question21: The following critical Availability Alert displays in prism Central:

The protection Policy PP-BCA-1HR includes a business critical application with a 1-hour snapshot frequency.
What is causing this issue?

Question22: 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?

Question23: An administrator has a 32-node hybrid cluster with CPU, RAM and storage utilization of 80%. A database VM is configured with VM Flash.
What is causing this IO latency?

Question24: 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.

Question25: An organization is planning an upgrade to AOS 5.15 and wants to understand which cluster products and/or services are supported for physical traffic isolation.
Which Nutanix component supports its network traffic being isolated onto its own virtual network?

Question26: An administrator is deploying a new application to a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. The application requires a security to prevent unauthorized access. The application also uses many non-standard ports that are unique to it. Security should not be changed for existing applications.
What should the administrator do to meet these requirement?

Question27: An organization subscribes to field advisories from the Nutanix support portal. An administrator receives an email about a rare problem that could cause cluster instability and affect the entire AOS cluster. The organization is running Vmware vsphere 6.x on Nutanix.
What action should be taken to resolve this issue?

Question28: A customer has NearSync configured. When the administrator tries to restore a snapshot from 3 minutes ago, it is not available. The snapshots are happening at 15-minute intervals instead of at the 5-minute configured interval. When the protection domain was initially set up, the snapshots were happening at the expected 5-minute interval.
What should the customer do to enable the snapshots to happen at the expected interval?

Question29: 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?

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: 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?

Question33: 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?

Question34: An administrator is performing a set of routine checks and notes that Prism Central is running with 4 vCPUs and 21 GB RAM. The organizations environment is based on two Nutanix clusters with 170 VMs plus a Legacy vSphere infrastructure. No manual changes have been done on Prism Central VM.
Which configuration justifies the current Prism Central configuration?

Question35: An administrator is deploying an application using Nutanix Volumes. After configuring the volume group and connecting the guest's iSCSI initiator to the volume group, they begin performance testing.
The administrator learns that performance on the virtual disk attached to the iSCSI initiator is far less than that of a virtual disk connected directly to the VM.
Which situation is causing this condition?

Question36: While creating an image placement policy on the organizations AOS 5.15-based Nutanix cluster, the administrator wants to ensure there are no restrictions on using the selected images on clusters outside of the identified set.
What type of Policy Enforcement must the administrator choose?

Question37: 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?

Question38: An administrator needs to replace an aging SAN and move to a hyper-converged infrastructure. The existing environment consists of the following hosts that are connected to the SAN:
* 5xAIX hosts
* 3x Hyper-V hosts
* 9xESXi hosts
* 2x physical SQL Clusters (Windows Server 2012R2 hosts)
After deploying a Nutanix AHV cluster, which two actions should the administrator take to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

Question39: Refer to the exhibit.

What is the purpose of eth2 on the CVMs?

Question40: Refer to the exhibit.

Based on the exhibit, What can be definitively determined about host DEMO-AHV-2

Question41: Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator receive the warning massages shown in the exhibit while validating cluster conversion from EXSi to AHV.
What should the administrator do to address this warning in v Center Server?

Question42: An administrator has Created a new VM, but When accessing the console to monitor the guest install, the administrator sees the effect shown in the exhibit.
What is the likely cause of this issue?

Question43: An administrator is updating disk firmware using LCM and receives the following message:
"there have been 10 or more cluster services restarts within 15 minutes in the Controller VM" The message appears as each drive is upgraded.
What is the reason this message is being generated?

Question44: An Administrator expanded the disk capacity on a windows VM, but the VM operator saw no difference in its space.
Which Addition task must the administrator take ?

Question45: An administrator is deploying a three-tier application on a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud consisting of web, application, and database VMs. Traffic between the servers must be limited to specific services/ports. There is an application layer firewall VM deployed on one host in the cluster.
In which way should the administrator meet this requirement?

Question46: Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator is commissioning a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Once the user VMs have been deployed and are running, the administrator finds that VMs on the same host are able to communicate, but are unable to communicate between hosts.
What must be changed to enable full inter-VM communications?

Question47: Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator configures Active Directory authentication as shown in the exhibit. Upon finishing setup, users are not able to log in.
What configuration change should be made to fix this issue?

Question48: An administrator wants to view VMs with NGT Installed and Filter by their installed guest operating systems.
How can this task most quickly be accomplished within prism central?

Question49: 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?

Question50: An administrator is supporting a business critical environment and deploys metro availability to achieve a zero data loss configuration. The two clusters are connected by a 1GbE connection. A new workload is going to be deployed to this cluster. This workload requires a sustained 150MB/S of write throughput and 20MB/s of read throughput.
Which change must be made to deploy the workload successfully on this cluster?

Question51: An administrator needs to take a single node down for maintenance. Which two steps should the administrator take? (Choose two)

Question52: In an AHV cluster, an administrator needs to enable an application to share a disk b group but needs to enable the VMs to see the volume group.
How should the administrator accomplish this task?

Question53: 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?

Question54: An administrator is deploying an application that requires maximum I/O throughput for scratch dat a. The administrator is concerned that the throughput requirement is greater than what can be provided by a single cluster node.
What should the administrator do to meet this requirement?

Question55: An administrator recently added in 3 nodes to an existing 5 node cluster. While 1 node came with its own block, the other 2 nodes where added to an existing share. After adding the nodes, the administrator sees that the hardware tab displays the correct number of nodes, but incorrect position in the diagram tab.
What should the administrator do to resolve the issue?

Question56: An administrator reviews the error in the exhibit, the examines the state of the cluster, the administrator finds that the AHV host is up and Functional , but the cluster capacity is low.
What will happen to the VMs on the host with this controller VM?

Question57: 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?

Question58: An administrator manages the following two Nutanix AOS 5.15 cluster environment:
* Corp-cluster-01
* Corp-cluster-02
The VM images must be available only on Corp-cluster-01, but cannot be checked out to cluster Corp-cluster-02. The images also cannot be checked out to any other clusters that are registered with Prism Central in the future.
Which two configuration settings must the administrator choose when creating the image placement policy that satisfies the stated requirements? (Choose two.)