EMT Practice Test

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Question1: An administrator needs to maximize storage potential in a six-node cluster. The container is configured with the following:
* Post-process compression
* Capacity deduplication
What should the administrator configure to increase space savings?

Question2: An alert about RX errors on eth2 on a node is reported in the cluster. The administrator logs in to theCVM 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?

Question3: 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.)

Question4: An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment. Why is this happening?

Question5: A consultant is running Foundation. The cluster creation fails during the process. The host logs confirm that the nodes have been successfully imaged. The consultant decides to create the cluster manually.
Which command should the consultant use?

Question6: A customer recently set up Async Replication between Site A and Site B.
The customer wants to conduct aplanned failover and clicks Activate on Site B.
The customer then runs the following command on Site A:
ncli pd deactivate_and__destroy_vms name=<protection_domain_name>
What does this do to the customer environment?

Question7: Refer to the exhibit.

A Nutanix host is connected as shown in the exhibit with br0-up set to active/backup. Physical Switch 1 experiences a power outage causing br0-up to failover to using eth2. The CVM and host become inaccessible.
User VMs restart on other hosts in the cluster, which causes a disruption to those VMs.
Which configuration issue likely caused this outage?

Question8: An administrator deletes a large amount of data from a Volume Group presented to a Linux VM. The administrator notices that the deleted data has not been reclaimed as usable storage.
Whataction should be taken to reclaim the storage capacity?

Question9: Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain What is causing this alert?

Question10: Anadministrator needs to evaluate if the existing configuration of Protection Domains meets the specified corporate recovery policy for SQL Data. The corporate policy requires that all SQL Servers be recoverable at the DR site within 30 minutes, and must result in a maximum of 60 minutes of data loss. SQL data must be required.
The protection domain is configured as follows:
* Application consistent snapshots are enabled
* The SQL server VMs are assigned to the Protection Domain as their own Consistency Group
* The Protection Domain schedule is configured as snapshots taken every 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm What must be changed to meet the required policy?

Question11: 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.)

Question12: A consultant is planning an installation and needs to collect configuration items to be used during the install.
The data needed from the customer are IP addresses, Gateway, DNS servers, and NTP Servers.
Which Cluster Deployment document must be completed with the customer?

Question13: 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.)

Question14: To prepare for a new Nutanix installation, a consultant downloads the Foundation VM, imports the VM to their Desktop Virtualization Solution, and powers on the VM. The IPv4 static address on the host workstation and the Foundation VM have been configured, but pings between them fail.
Which two troubleshooting steps should the consultant perform? (Choose two.)

Question15: A VDI environment based on AHV Cluster is not performing well. The current environment isusing only one bridge (Bridge0). The administrator needs to verify if nodes are using all network cards associated to Bridge0.
Which two menus should be used to check the current configuration? (Choose two.)

Question16: A consultant runs the Foundation Applet and discovers all the nodes. The consultant wants to use the latest version of Foundation for imaging for support purposes and to cover the latest hardware and software hypervisor support.
What should the consultant do to upgrade Foundation on a node?

Question17: A consultant is deploying a two-node cluster at a remote branch office.
Which component must be available to complete cluster configuration?

Question18: During the Foundation imaging process, nodes are successfully imaged, but the cluster creation fails.
Which log should the consultant review to determine the cause?

Question19: A customer has a primary datacenter with 12 Nutanix blocks distributed across three racks. The customer wants toachieve 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.)

Question20: Where in the Support Portal is the Best Practices guide for vSphere Networking located?

Question21: An organization is running a Nutanix Cluster based on AOS 5.10.x and VMware vSphere 6.7. Currently, the CVM network is segmented and Storage only nodes not present.
A new security project based on NSX is coming. VMware Distributed Virtual Switches are required. The administrator needs to prepare the environment for the new project.
Which step should the administrator use to initiate the project?

Question22: After a recent installation using a flat switch, a consultant notices issues migrating the Nutanix nodes to the customer's network. The customer states that they are using VLANs on the production switch but not on the dedicated switch for IPMI. The customer does not require a manual configuration of the host and CVM.
What network changes need to be made to correct the issues?

Question23: An administrator is using Nutanix Move to migrate aWindows VM from ESXi to AHV. Automated guest preparation is failing with an error:
Account has UAC enabled error
The administrator is using the local built-in administrator account for the Windows VM Admin approval mode must remain enabled.
What should theadministrator do to continue with the migration with Nutanix Move?

Question24: What reference materials should be provided to the customer during the Knowledge Transfer?

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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.)

Question27: An administrator is trying to correct high cluster IOPs and Cluster Controller Latency. Networking is the suspected issue.
Which networking parameters should be configured in the Nutanix cluster?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A customer has a four-node cluster and is using Volume Groups toprovide 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?

Question30: 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?

Question31: After deploying an AHV cluster connected to Cisco Nexus 9k switches, unexpected network behavior is observed. The consultant needs to rule out physical network mis-cabling without returning to the datacenter.
Which command from the host should the consultant run?

Question32: A customer wants to know the details of network validation testing.
Where can the consultant find this information?

Question33: An administrator learns that some security settings in a cluster have been changed. The environment is out ofcompliance with required policies.
Which function should be used to revert any settings that have changed from the defaults and prevent further violations?

Question34: An administrator receives an alert in Prism indicating that interface eth2, on an AHV host is receiving many CRC errors. Aftertogging into the problematic host, the following command is run to show the indicated output:

What is causing this issue?

Question35: A consultant is preparing to foundation over a customer network that has the following criteria:
* VLAN segmented network
* VLAN tags on the nodes must be imaged prior to starting the foundation process.
For each node, the consultant has done the following:
* Connected to the Network Crash Cart of the Node
* Logged in using "root" credentials
What should the consultant do next?

Question36: 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?

Question37: A Nutanix cluster has 10TB usable storage. The customer wants to create a 100GB datastore for ISO images to eliminate too much storage being consumed by unnecessary images.
Which setting should be used to accomplish this goal?

Question38: Where can a consultant find Nutanix Enablement Starter Packs (ESPs)?

Question39: A consultant notices while assigning VLAN tags to hosts and CVMs in a running cluster, that Prism Element displays alerts indicating a node is down.
What should the consultant do to prevent these alerts?

Question40: A consultant is setting up a new Hyper-V cluster. The 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 Hyper-V features can be used to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

Question41: 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 thefollowing:
* 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?

Question42: An administrator needs to expand a cluster based on AHV and running on Nutanix G5 hardware with a new Nutanix G7system. 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?

Question43: 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 onCorp-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.)

Question44: In a 20-node ESXi deployment, the customer needs additional resiliency to survive the loss of two nodes concurrently.
Which configuration should the consultant use to ensure that the appropriate resources are available?

Question45: A consultant is onsite with a customer running Foundation VM (FVM) and discovers that there is no connectivity between the FVM and their laptop. The consultant verifies the following:
* The consultant's laptop and Nutanix nodes are plugged into a flat switch.
* The laptop, switch and nodes are plugged into supported power supplies.
* The laptop network adapters and FVM are configured with their corresponding IP addresses.
What is the cause for the connectivity failure to the FVM?

Question46: 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?

Question47: A customer with a four-node RF2 cluster is addingapplication 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?

Question48: 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?

Question49: A consultant is using the Foundation applet to create a cluster. During the process the consultant refreshes the progress bar web page and is concerned when nothing loads.
What should the consultant do to verify that Foundation has completed successfully?

Question50: A Nutanix cluster is deployed with the following configuration:
* Three four-nodeblocks (A, B, and C)
* All Flash Redundancy Factor 2
What is the effect of simultaneous disk failures on two nodes located in block A?

Question51: A consultant is running the Foundation VM using desktop virtualization software. No nodes are discovered.
What should the consultant verify first?

Question52: 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?

Question53: A consultant creates three storage containers (container-1, container-2, container-3). The customer requires that only container-1, which will be utilized as an NFS datastore, be presented to external hosts.
However, users are able to mount all three containers.
What is causing this problem?

Question54: 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 NutanixVSS
Which Data Protection Method should be used?

Question55: A consultant creates a Windows VM after installing a new Nutanix cluster running AHV. The consultant has statically assigned an IP address to the VM but it is unable to communicate on the network.
Which action should the consultant take to resolve this issue?

Question56: During the Knowledge Transfer, the customer askes where to find the details about their Nutanix environment, such as IP addresses, storage containers, and configuration.
Where can the consultant find this information?

Question57: 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?

Question58: A consultant is viewing an ESXi host via console without external network connectivity.
Which two IP addresses can be used to connect to the CVM (Choose two.)

Question59: Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator receive the warningmassages 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?

Question60: 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.)

Question61: Which Nutanix feature creation is described in the Knowledge Transfer?

Question62: A consultant has deployed a Nutanix cluster with AOS 5.10.x, then discovers the customer's environment is running on AOS 5.6.x. The consultant decides to re-image the cluster using the foundation Java applet. During the Foundation discovery, all cluster nodes display a status of Unavailable.
What should the consultant do to resolve the issue?

Question63: Which two components must be identified to validate that software compatibility requirements are met for Nutanix Cluster Installation? (Choose two.)

Question64: After finishing foundation on an AHV cluster, a consultant is preparing to plug into the customer network given the following set of requirements:
* All network traffic on trunks is tagged
* Customer is using LACP
* A native VLAN is not in use
Which set of commands should the consultant use to ensure cluster connectivity on customer equipment?

Question65: 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?

Question66: Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance using AHV Turbo. Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance? (Choose two.)

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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 > 0Kbps (no moderate value)
Which type of VM is being described?