EMT Practice Test

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Question1: An administrator receives reports about a Nutanix environment. The investigation finds the following;
* VMs are experiencing very high latency
* Each node is equipped with a single SSD, utilized at 95%
* Each node is equipped with three HDDs, utilized at 40%
Why are the guest VMs experiencing high latency?

Question2: 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?

Question3: 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?

Question4: An administrator is configuring an All Flash cluster to support the following workloads:
* Full clone virtual desktops
* Hadoop
* Write heavy databases
Whichthree 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.

Question5: 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?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: 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?

Question9: 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?

Question10: An administrator needs to install prism central for their 2550 multi-cluster environment.
How should they deploy the application?

Question11: 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?

Question12: 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?

Question13: Where in the Support Portal is the Best Practices guide for vSphere Networking located?

Question14: 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?

Question15: A consultant creates a new cluster using ESXi as the hypervisor. After creating the cluster, the consultant begins to run Life Cycle Manager (LCM) updates. During the LCM upgrade pre-checks, an error is returned.
Which configuration is causing this issue?

Question16: An administrator deploys Exchange on a Nutanix cluster. The administrator creates two containers with RF2 configuration:
* One container for Exchange
* One container for the other VMs
The Exchange VM isexperiencing I/O performance issues.
Which changes to Storage Optimization should be used on the Exchange container to enhance I/O performance?

Question17: 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.)

Question18: 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?

Question19: 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 toprioritize the administrator's troubleshooting efforts?

Question20: 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?

Question21: 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?

Question22: 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?

Question23: 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?

Question24: 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.)

Question25: 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.)

Question26: An administrator responsible for a VDI environment needs to investigate reports of slow logins.
Theadministrator 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.)

Question27: 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?

Question28: 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 caseany problems are found during user acceptance testing.
Which action should the administrator perform?

Question29: 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?

Question30: After imaging the nodes and creating the cluster successfully, the consultant connects the cluster to the customer network. When logging into Prism, the events dashboard is full of errors.
What is causing the issue?

Question31: A customer would like to re-image an existing cluster. The Foundation Applet and Foundation VM is unavailable to them.
How can the consultant access Foundation-as-a-Service (FaaS)?

Question32: An administrator is deploying a new application to a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. The application requires a security to prevent unauthorized access. Theapplication 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?

Question33: 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?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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?

Question36: 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?

Question37: A systems administrator configures a protection domain replication between two Nutanix clusters. After the first successful replication , the administrator tests DR by clicking activate on the remote cluster.
While VMs are active on the remote cluster, the protection domain is marked as active on both clusters.
What steps are required to return both clusters to their original state?

Question38: A customer racks all nodes in the new cluster. The customer does not allow IPv6 for node discovery.
The consultant is not allowed to use the consultant's own flat switch in the customer's environment.
Which step should the consultant take to resolve this issue?

Question39: 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.)

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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?

Question42: 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?

Question43: 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?

Question44: A consultant has deployed a new Nutanix AHV cluster with Foundation. The customer requests separating the management and production traffic in the CVM.
Which feature should the consultant configure?

Question45: 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?

Question46: 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?

Question47: Anadministrator recently added VLAN 205 CRM in Prism Element. The workloads attached to the associated NICs are unable to establish network connectivity.
Which Layer 2 protocol allows the administrator to troubleshoot this issue from Prism Element?

Question48: 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?

Question49: 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?

Question50: 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?

Question51: 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?

Question52: 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?

Question53: 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.)

Question54: Refer to the exhibit.

What is the purpose of eth2 on the CVMs?

Question55: 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?

Question56: 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?

Question57: 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.)

Question58: An administrator is configuring an All Flash cluster to support the following workloads:
* Full clone virtual desktops
* Hadoop
* Write heavy databases
Whichthree 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.

Question59: 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?

Question60: What is the minimum number of nodes required for a Nutanix Cluster to support Replication Factor 3 (RF3) on a storage container?

Question61: 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?

Question62: What reference materials should be provided to the customer during the Knowledge Transfer?

Question63: 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?

Question64: A consultant creates a Nutanix cluster using the 10.10.10.0/24 network and VLAN 10. The customer creates a VM network inside the Prism using VLAN 20. The customer starts to create VMs but is unable to ping the default gateway from these new systems.
What is causing the issue?

Question65: 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.)

Question66: 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.)

Question67: A customer wants to know the details of network validation testing.
Where can the consultant find this information?

Question68: A consultant is unable to install virtualization software on a laptop.
Which two versions of Foundation can be used to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)

Question69: 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?

Question70: 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 informationis still not being displayed.
What is causing this problem?

Question71: 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?