EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which option should be recommended for a customer to get timely notifications of significant product issues is the field?

Question2: A customer has a 3-node cluster configured for RF2 with 100TB of raw disk space. The customer wants to enable Erasure Coding to gain additional usable space. What change will allow EC-X to be enabled?

Question3: For security reason an administrator needs to logically separate management and data traffic on Nutanix cluster.
Which feature should the administrator select for this configuration?

Question4: Which type of data is distributed by Zookeeper to ensure availability in the case of node or block failure?

Question5: Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV?

Question6: Write I/O that is deemed sequential will enter which component of the Distributed Storage Fabric first?

Question7: Oracle HCL for certified Joint Support with Nutanix has Oracle Linux and Oracle VM via iSCSI listed.
What Nutanix feature is used by this certified Configuration.

Question8: An administrator needs to move a Nutanix host from one cluster to another.
Which step should the administrator take after evacuating VMs from the host to be moved?

Question9: A systems engineer needs to size a new project that requires offsite backup using Veeam. The prospect requires an RPO of 24 hours, and the ability to restore from the past 7 days of backups. The prospect's data change rate is 1%. How should the SE configure the SE configure Sizer for this scenario? ????

Question10: Customer requests a 30-day POC to test Microsoft SQL Server performance on Nutanix compared to existing infrastructure.
Which action should be taken to avoid the POC?

Question11: Which method can be used to migrate a VM configured for UEFI-boot from a Nutanix Hyper-V cluster to AHV?

Question12: A prospect is evaluating vSphere alternatives and has received FUD regarding AHV. The SE gives a demo and provides relevant case studies, but the prospect still requests a POC.
What additional option should the SE recommend to avoid a POC?

Question13: when reviewing Nutanix cluster upgrades. a customer engineer is concerned that their VM will be forced to repeatedly migrate between nodes. Which Nutanix feature allows VMs to remain on a host during an AOS upgrade?

Question14: In a competitive POC scenario, the prospect is testing Nutanix against VxRail and Hyperflex. The customer is interested in an ""All in One"" solution that's simple to deploy, manage, and grow.
Which two test plan items should the SE map to POC success criteria?
(Choose two)

Question15: In which scenario should shadow clones be explicitly disabled?

Question16: A prospect needs to refresh their environment but has a very small budget for the project. Four years after their last infrastructure refresh, the prospect's core datacenter is only running at 40% utilization. In addition, they have 25 satelite offices.
Each office has a requirement to run 4 to 6 VMs locally.
Which two Nutanix platform capabilities should the SE hlight to address the prospects concerns? (Choose two)

Question17: With in RVtools output, which tab provides actual utilization information on thick provisioned disk?

Question18: A prospect customer's expected workload consists of the following: 110 vCPU 512GB RAM * 500TB Storage They need a solution to help decrease storage costs. The majority of their storage requirements come from an imaging application that stores scanned JPEG images. Which two Nutanix capabilities should be leveraged? (Choose two.)

Question19: An administrator knows that the disk in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For security reason, these cluster do not have access to the internet. Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)

Question20: An SE and a prospect decide on a specific node configuration. The SE changes the Sizer scenario from Automatic to manual mode to select the exact configuration decided with the prospect.
What additional detail should the SE now consider in the Sizing scenario?

Question21: A customer's current AHV cluster for mixed server workloads consists of 7 NX-3060-G6 nodes with intel Skylake processors spread across two blocks. Growing demand for resources requires the customer to order three additional NX-3060-G7 nodes with Intel Cascade Lake processors. Which supported approach allows the customer the most efficient use of their additional resources?

Question22: A prospects need to refresh their environment but has a very small budget for the project. Four years after their last infrastructure refresh, the prospect's datacenter is only running at 40% utilization. In addition, they have 25 satellite offices. Each office has a requirement to run 4 to 6 VM's locally.
Which two Nutanix platform capabilities should the SE highlight to address the prospect's concerns? (Choose two)

Question23: A customer who uses Nutanix for mission critical workloads is considering migrating public cloud workloads to Nutanix. The customer has experienced difficulty auditing where applications reside and understanding cloud costs on a per application basis.
Which Nutanix product should be discussed to address the customer'sneeds?

Question24: When creating a multi-cluster scenario in Sizer, what does the Summary Failover Capacity indicator (N+0, N+1) display?

Question25: An administrator is auditing the recent alerts on the cluster to report to the management.
Which dashboard in Prism Central can be used to generate this report?

Question26: A customer is evaluating Nutanix to replace their existing 200TB filer. The filer is used to store archived images. To achieve maximum storage density. RF2 and Erasure Coding are proposed. What is the minimum number of nodes required to support the maximum Erasure Coding stripe size of 4/1 (data/parity)?

Question27: A prospect provides sizing details for a new application that will require 15TiB of usable storage. The prospect needs to plan for an additional 20% storage growth as part of the initial purchase. Including capacity to fully re-protect in the event of a node failure, which configuration provides minimal cost while meeting the capacity requirement?

Question28: A prospect is evaluating Nutanix for a large number of Oracle RAC deployments. Time to deployment is a top priority, and the prospect has developed a self-service tool in-house to expedite these deployments.
Which Nutanix feature should be discussed?

Question29: An SE is working to size a prospects environment that includes production Oracle databases.
Which Oracle output should the SE request from the prospect to collect accurate sizing information?

Question30: An administrator is migrating ESXi VMs to a Nutanix AHV cluster. The VM data is available to the AHV system.
Which process must the administrator complete below AHV VMs can be create?

Question31: A prospect is experiencing disk performance issues in their database environment. The prospect's databases currently run on physical servers and an iSCSI SAN with spinning disks. Which two Nutanix features should an SE discuss with this prospect to address their disk performance issues? (Choose two)

Question32: An existing customer wants to upgrade their non-AHV hypervisor to the most recent version. The customer needs confirm that the hypervisor is supported on their AOS version. Where on the Support Portal is this information located?

Question33: Which functionality allows workloads to continue to run on the host when as AOS upgrade occurs?

Question34: During a meeting with a prospect a storage administrator comments that they're currently using 16Gb Fibre Channel for their SAN and believes that 10Gb Ethernet can't provide adequate bandwidth or low latency.
As a followup to the meeting, which Nutanix Bible section would be most helpful in overcoming the storage administrator's objection?

Question35: ABC Corp currently has 50 VMs currently running in production and is interested in sizing a DR cluster. The RTO is 4 hours and the RPO is 2 hours .
Each VM has 100GB of data, with a 5% daily change rate .for retention the customer wants to keep 2 weeks of snaps on the DR cluster.
What is the minimum amount of storage capacity for the remote cluster to meet the customer's data retention

Question36: Which three configuration scenarios are valid for the deployment of Prism Central? (Choose three.)

Question37: A prospects main goal are to replace their mainframe environment, cut their datacenter footprint, and improve disaster recovery for mission critical applications.
Which collection of documents should the SE use to show the prospect how Nutanix can help them reach their goals?

Question38: Which Prism Dashboard should be used to collect CPU/Memory and Disk I/O statistics over time?

Question39: Refer to the exhibit.
Based on the Sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?

Question40: A customer recently deployed Nutanix for VDI workloads and determine AFS is suitable for their departmental shares. They ask about infrastructure requirements providing the following file workloads specifics:
* 11.8 TB of data.
* 360000 files.
* 2400 Users.
* 800 shares.
Based on the exhibit,

which criteria shared by customer supports the requirement of additional nodes?

Question41: A prospect is evaluating solutions to support a project. The SE proposes a hybrid model as recommended by size in addition to nutanix, the prospect is evaluating an all flash storage array. The storage administrator is concerned about the performance the hybrid configuration and claims that the flash array is less expensive the it Director sees the benefits of Nutanix but needs to address the team's concerns.
Which two Nutanix features should be discussed to address the concems
of the storage administrator? (Choose two)

Question42: From Which page on portal.nutanix.com can an open case be directly escalated?

Question43: A prospect's existing SAN-based environment regularly experiences unpredictable storage performance and latency spikes during peak utilization. The most highly affected workload is general server virtualization.
Which Nutanix feature addresses this pain point?

Question44: An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment.
Why is this happening?

Question45: Using the Sizing Option shown, which two configurations are possible configurations that Sizer could provide in Automatic mode? (Choose two) ????

Question46: Which three settings are required for network switch discovery in Prism? (Choose Three)

Question47: In the event of a primary datacenter failure. a customer wants to power on virtual machines in a secondary datacenter with an RPO and RTO of no more than 15 minutes. Upon further discussions with the customer. the systems engineer (SE) finds that round trip latency between the 2 sites ca reach up to 6ms Which Nutanix feature should the SE recommend?

Question48: After a meeting with a new prospect to demo Nutanix for a Splunk opportunity, the prospect requests a POC.
To qualify the need for a POC, which question should an SE ask the prospect first?

Question49: A customer needs to deploy 5000 virtual desktops on Nutanix. The requirements call for an active /active deployment, such that an entire site can be made unavailable due to maintenance or disaster without impacting desktop availability. What is the minimum number of nodes necessary to meet the customer's requirements?

Question50: A prospective customer wants to refresh their current on-premises infrastructure that. consists of 4 ESXi hosts. each with 20 cores and 512GB of RAM, and 1.2PB of usable SAN storage They have recently renewed their ESXi licensing, and all data must remain within their physical network. They are concerned that a hyperconverged solution will not meet their storage requirements without requiring a significant increase in the number of required ESXi hosts and licenses. Which Nutanix capability should the systems engineer review with the customer?

Question51: A prospect has 8500GB of capacity provisioned for a non-production VMware cluster. As Part of migrating to Nutanix. the prospect agrees to convert any thick provisioned disks to thin provisioned disks. Based on additional dat a. the total active working set for the cluster has been datermined to be 1TB. When entering the Raw input workload into Sizer, what is the minimum amount of HDD Capacity required for the workload? ??

Question52: In Files, how many FSVMs are deployed by default?

Question53: An SE is conducting a first call presentation with their Account Executive and a prospect. The prospect needs to build a private cloud but has been unable to implement the solution in-house, since using their traditional architecture would require integrating server, storage and networking solutions from six different vendors.
The cost and complexity of that approach is too high. Also their current infrastructure is not built for scalability or performance.
The prospect has considered upgrading their traditional server and SAN storage platforms but could not meet requirements for scale and performance using this approach.
In what order should the SE present the critical product and technology portions of the First Customer Presentation to the IT Director?

Question54: What are two things that the ADS service does for VMs within AHV? (Choose two.)

Question55: Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?

Question56: What is the main function of Oplog?

Question57: 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?

Question58: A prospects storage administrator is concerned about deploying Nutanix for their vSphere server virtualization environment due to anticipated increase to the data retention for compliance purpose and associated costs.
Which Nutanix feature should an SE discuss to convince the prospect to move forward?

Question59: An existing customer is considering deploying a new Splunk project onto their Nutanix infrastructure. The customer inquires about potential storage capacity saving for their splunk workload.
Which two Nutanix capacity optimization features should the SE recommend? (Choose two)

Question60: During an initial discussion. a prospective customer indicates they are strongly considering vSAN for their HCI initiative. The prospect's workloads are mostly read-intensive and they have over 1PB of archival dat a. The prospect expects to save on costs using storage efficiencies that their existing platform does not support. Which two Nutanix differentiators should the systems engineer discuss? (Choose two.)

Question61: A prospect is evaluating HEP SimpliVity and Nutanix Software-Only on HPE servers and receives FUD from the competition regarding HPE not supporting or officially partnering with Nutanix.
which two items should be leveraged to overcome concern about product supportability? (Choose two)

Question62: Refer to the exhibit.

Assuming a prospect is currently using Thick Provisioned virtual disk, at a minimum, which two tabs should be evaluated in an RVTools report to determine required resources for sizing? (Choose two.)

Question63: A guest VM should be able to tolerate simultaneous failure of two nodes or drives.
What are the minimum requirements for the Nutanix cluster?

Question64: What are two key Nutanix value propositions? (Choose two)

Question65: A prospect that is currently virtualized using Dell servers is willing to provide a Live Optics report to assist with sizing a partial infrastructure refresh with Nutanix.
Which two items from an approach for sampling accurate sizing data with Live Optics? (Choose one)

Question66: Refer to the exhibit.
Using the Sizing Options shown, which two configurations are valid when using Sizer in Automatic mode?(Choose two.)

Question67: A customer needs to expand an existing cluster to accommodate workloads. The workloads require 5TB of storage capacity (1.2TB of working set data), 64GB of memory, and 10 physical CPU cores. Their current cluster is configured as follows:
* 4x NX-3060-G5 nodes
* Each node is configured with 2x E5-2620v4 processors (8 Cores each), 128GB RAM, 2x 960GB SSDs, and 4x 2TB HDDs
* The cluster is configured as RF2 and is sized for N+1 availability
* Each CVM is configured with 32GB of memory
To maintain optimal metadata balance and data availability, which configuration should be recommended?