EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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 forthis task? (Choose two.)

Question2: During a six-node cluster deployment, one node fails to image successfully and Foundation is unable to automatically configure the cluster. The consultant decides to manually complete cluster formation with the successful nodes, then expand the cluster with the remaining unconfigured node.
Which command should be used to begin the process?

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: 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?

Question6: During a technical call with a customer, it is identified that this installation will be software only on Dell servers. The out-of-band management interfaces will not be given IP addresses until the consultant is onsite.
Which Foundation method should be used for this type of installation?

Question7: Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator logged into Prism Element, notices the following in the home dashboard, and showing the exhibit.
Which action should the administrator take next?

Question8: 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 at15-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?

Question9: 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?

Question10: A consultant is running the Foundation VM using desktop virtualization software. No nodes are discovered.
What should the consultant verify first?

Question11: 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?

Question12: A consultant deploys a four-node VMware ESXi cluster and vCenter server. An HA/DRS cluster is configured for all four nodes. The customer deploys five new VMs on the cluster.
During the knowledge Transfer, a network cable on one node is removed to demonstrate HA and migration of the VMs to another host. In the HA/DRS cluster settings, the VM Restart Priority for all CVMs is set to Disabled. The customer observes warnings that the CVM on the ejected host is no longer powered on.
Which ESXi HA/DRS cluster setting is missing?

Question13: An administrator is concerned that Prism will be inaccessible if Active Directory is unable to process logins.
Which method should the administrator use to access the cluster in the event of this type of outage?

Question14: 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?

Question15: 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?

Question16: 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?

Question17: A consultant is installing Nutanix AOS on Cisco UCS.
Which method should be used to install AOS on UCS hardware platforms?

Question18: 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?

Question19: 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?

Question20: A customer is running out of storage in an ESXi cluster. The customer wants to add storage without paying for an additional hypervisor license.
Which option should the consultant recommend to meet the requirement?

Question21: Where in the Support Portal is the Best Practices guide for vSphere Networking located?

Question22: Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator logs in to Prism and sees the status shown in the exhibit within the Hardware Diagram section.
What should the administrator do?

Question23: 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?

Question24: A consultant is performing a Nutanix Cluster installation on Dell XC Core hardware. The consultant decides to use Foundation Portable for Mac to perform the installation. When the consultant arrives onsite, Foundation Portable is unable to locate the new nodes.
Which log should the consultant check to troubleshoot this issue?

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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
* Networkperformance status
* Storage performance status
Which tool should be used to perform this test?

Question27: 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?

Question28: 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?

Question29: 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?

Question30: 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.)

Question31: An administrator iscurrently using both 10g uplink with LACP and balance-tcp. A single VM should not be allowed to use more than a single 10G uplink, and both uplinks should be utilized.
Which two command should be used to configure the bond? (choose two)

Question32: After uploading a hypervisor ISO during the Foundation process, a consultant sees a message that the MD5 sum for the hypervisor is not found in the Whitelist file.
Which step should the consultant take next to resolve this issue?

Question33: A consultant is using a customer's switch for installation. Although the 10GbE ports for each of the hosts are connected to the switch, the nodes fail to be discovered.
What is causing the issue?

Question34: A consultant needs to verify the make and model of the systems that will be imaged with Foundation. The consultant does not have the Bill of Materials (BOM) available to review.
When should the consultant verify the make and model to prepare for the cluster deployment?

Question35: An administrator migrates a VM onto a new Nutanix cluster. After the migration, the administrator observes the following conditions:
* Cluster memory utilization: 64%
* Cluster CPU utilization: 19%
* Clusterstorage utilization: 32%
* Average VM CPU utilization: 25%
* Average VM CPU ready%: 24%
* Average VM memory utilization: 60%
Which two changes should the administrator make to improve VM performance? (Choose two.)

Question36: A customer buys ultimate licensing and wants to use the built-in Nutanix software encryption on their new AHV cluster. The customer needs to create three storage containers and asks the consultant to complete the process as fast as possible.
In which order should the cluster be deployed?

Question37: 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?

Question38: 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?

Question39: 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?

Question40: 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?

Question41: An existing Nutanix customer has several clusters in production and is adding a new cluster. The customer wants to create an AHV cluster that has already been racked and powered on remotely, with the factory image, using Prism Central.
Which step should the consultant take next?

Question42: After installation, network ports are properly configured with the default active-backup bonding.
One 10GbE port goes to switch 1. Another 10GbE port goes to switch 2. A consultant tests failover by manually pulling one of the cables and notices it is taking too much time to failover, which is causing excessive packet loss.
What should the consultant enable to resolve this issue?

Question43: 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 theInternet.
Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)

Question44: Anadministrator is notified that a bare metal database server is down. This database server is being served storage using a Nutanix Volume Group. Upon investigating, the administrator finds that the disks in the database server that map to the vDisks in thevolume group have gone offline.
What is causing this issue?

Question45: 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?

Question46: 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?

Question47: 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.)

Question48: 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.)

Question49: 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?

Question50: 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?

Question51: A consultant is planning a new cluster installation and needs to locate the Shared IPMI port for each of the specific nodes that the customer has bought.
Which Support Portal location contains the document that would identify the port?

Question52: 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?

Question53: A customer needs to meet the following requirements for their business critical application:
* SQL Servers must be on specific hosts to lower licensing costs.
* Oracle RAC servers must be on separate hosts for licensing reasons
Which policy or policies should be implemented to meet these requirements?

Question54: 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.)

Question55: An administrator is deploying a three-tier application on a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud consisting of web, application, and database VMs. Traffic between theservers 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?

Question56: A customer wants to know the details of network validation testing.
Where can the consultant find this information?

Question57: Refer to the exhibits.

A consultant is trying to test port failover on the node shown in the first exhibit. A continuous ping test is performed to the host. The consultant shuts down one of the links, after which the host ping request times out.
The consultant tries to troubleshoot the issue with the customer and sees the information shown in the second exhibit on their Cisco Switches:

What is causing the issue?

Question58: Refer to the exhibit.

A system administrator is using Range-Autofill tool to assign IP addresses to setup a multi-block cluster based on the following configuration:

Which additional changes must be made during the Foundation process to configure the cluster correctly?

Question59: 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.)

Question60: 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?

Question61: A consultant is deploying a Nutanix cluster at a customer location. The consultant will be deploying the latest AOS along with the latest Nutanix hardware.
Which three references should the consultant review prior to this installation? (Choose three.)

Question62: 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?

Question63: 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.)

Question64: During the Foundation imaging process, nodes are successfully imaged, but the cluster creation fails.
Which log should the consultant review to determine the cause?

Question65: A customer wants to run SAP HANA on a Nutanix cluster with the following characteristics:
* AHV nodes
* SAP HANA version 2
* Production database files
Which configuration should be recommended to the customer?

Question66: A consultant finishes creating a new ESXi cluster. The consultant connects to the nodes via laptop and a personal flat switch. The host/CVM network is on VLAN 23. The customer has the native VLAN on the ToR switches set to 23.
The customer wants to use LACP. Before placing the nodes on the customer network, the consultant tags VLAN 23 for each host and CVM. The consultant connects the nodes to the customer network and finds that they are unreachable.
What is causing this issue?

Question67: 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.)

Question68: 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?