EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: Refer to Exhibit.

An administrator increases the cluster RF to 3. The containers are not modified.
What will the new values in the data resiliency dashboard be for FAILURES TOLERABLE for the Zookeeper and Extent Groups components?

Question3: 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.

Question4: An administrator receive report that VDI desktop performance in an 8-node Nutanix VDI environment is poor.
Opening applications takes between 1 and 2 minutes. When investigating the issue, the following conditions are found:
* Cluster memory utilization: 80%
* Cluster SSD utilization: 70%
* Average VM CPU wait time: 11 %
* CVM CPU utilization: 75%
Which action should be taken to improve VDI performance?

Question5: Refer to the exhibit.
***Exhibit is Missing***
Based on the Sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?

Question6: An administrator has been alerted to a VM that has high I/O latency and wants to determine if there are any other factors, such as insufficient network or memory resources that correlate, as part of a troubleshooting process.
Which type of chart should the administrator create to allow all relevant data to be easily exported to CSV for later analysis?

Question7: When planning an Oracle database deployment on Nutanix, which best practice should the SE consider?

Question8: 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.)

Question9: A prospect is concerned about the suitability and design of using Nutanix for an upcoming Avaya IP Office migration.
Which type of document should the SE provide?

Question10: what information can be gathered about the configuration of the VM storage?

Question11: A large retailer company recently employed a CIO who decided that all operations should be migrated to public cloud offerings. After 7 months, the project was be a failure and determined to the CIO exited. The retailer's infrastructure consisted of tens of thousand's of VMs on thousands of hosts supported by dozen of storage arrays. Only 10% of workloads were migrated to public cloud during the CIO's tenure.
Which open ended discovery questions should the SE ask to determine pain points or gaps? (Choose two)

Question12: Which CVM service is responsible for providing storage to the hypervisor?

Question13: An SE determines a POC is necessary for a prospect that has struggled with application downtime due to hypervisor and firmware upgrades that have exceeded planned maintenance windows. The prospect has also struggled with infrastructure resource planning for their growing development environment.
Which two success criteria should the SE include? (Choose two)

Question14: A prospective customer is concerned about the suitability and design of using Nutanix for an upcoming Avaya IP Office migration. Which type of document should the systems engineer (SE) Provide?

Question15: 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? ??

Question16: A customer has successfully deployed Citrix XenDesktop on Nutanix,
They value the product but view Nutanix as a VDI appliance. The customer mentions a cloud initiative.
Which open-ended discovery question should the SE ask to start a conversation about expanding beyond VDI workloads?

Question17: A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backup up to a remote location. The remote location is connection using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms. Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest PRO possible?

Question18: A prospect is interested in evaluating Nutanix at no cost for a few months, but wants to useexisting test hardware to deploy a few VMs.
Their primary interest is in experiencing platform management and not application or benchmark performance.
Which approach should an SE recommend?

Question19: A prospective customer is evaluating solutions to support a project. The systems engineer proposes a hybrid model as recommended by Sizer. The prospect is concerned about the performance of a hybrid configuration and is evaluating an all flash array. Which two Nutanix features should be discussed to address the concerns of the prospective customer? (Choose two)

Question20: 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?

Question21: A customer plans to migrate a business critical, high transaction application to nutanix. Currently the application is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12 CPU cores at > 80% utilization. To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the systems engineer recommend for this workload?

Question22: 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?

Question23: What are two key Nutanix value propositions? (Choose two)

Question24: A VDI environment based on AHV Cluster is not performing well. The current environment is using only one bridge (BridgeO). An administrator need to verify if nodes are using all network card associated to BridgeO.
Which two menus should be used to check the current configuration? (Choose two.)

Question25: A customer intends to build out their VDI environment over a period of 18 months. They require a consistent user experience as their numbers grow. what element of the Nutanix WebScale architecture would a systems engineer discuss with them?

Question26: An administrator is managing a highly active SQL workload that is writing I/Os in 2 MB chunks to a vDisk.
The administrator wants to optimize capacity setting for the computer.
Which storage optimization technology should the administration select to meet these requirement?

Question27: One of a prospective customer's security analysts asks about Nutanix's security functionality. The security analyst asks if Nutanix has any feature or capability that reduces the effort required to assess the security with in the Nutanix infrastructure. Which benefit does Nutanix SCMA provide to this prospect?

Question28: How long must data be 'write-cold' before Erasure Coding can begin optimization?

Question29: When Discussing node failures. a customer raises the concern that if a node that host 100TB of data goes offline. building data must take an extended period of time

Question30: A customer performs a 1-click, non-disruptive upgrade on a 3-node Nutanix cluster. While the CVM on Node A is rebooting, a VM on Node A overwrites an existing block of data. How does Nutanix AOS ensure data integrity during the upgrade?

Question31: A prospect indicates a requirement to replicate data offsite for a production workload.
Which three questions the SE ask about the prospect's requirement?
(Choose three.)

Question32: 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 data.
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.)

Question33: Which two targets are valid options when selecting a remote site to Prism? (Choose Two)

Question34: An 8-node hybrid cluster is configured with a Fault Tolerance level of 2 (RF3). All nodes are identical. Which simultaneous failures will result in VM data being unavailable?

Question35: Which two items are considered by Sizer when calculating the required cluster resources with only the Raw input workload type for a multi-VM workload? (Choose two)

Question36: 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?

Question37: A Nutanix customer needs to migrate 1000VMs from ACME Public Cloud to a local Nutanix cluster ACME Public Cloud operates on VMware ESXi, Hp ProLiant Servers with 3PAR storage. ACME Public Cloud denies customers access to vCenter or ESXi hosts But they do replicate a copy of the virtual disks to external storage.
Which method should the customer use to migrate the VMs to a local Nutanix Cluster?

Question38: During an initial meeting with a prospect the storage administrator learns that Nutanix does not use RAID for application data. The prospect's storage array is configured with RAID 10 and the full capacity of the array is required. As a result no hot spares have been allocated. The storage administrator must respond immediately to any disk failures, even outside standard business hours.
Which aspect of Nutanix replication factor (RF) will reduce the storage administrator's break/fix burden?

Question39: Compared to a 3-tier architecture, Which two benefits does Nutanix bring to an organization? (Choose two.)

Question40: An SE builds a Sizer scenario for SQL server running on Cisco C240 M4 servers.
Using only the Sizer BOM, which two actions can be performed? (Choose two)

Question41: main problem relates to the existing architecture and a mix of vendors who are slow to release update to their products. Which core facet of WebScale architecture should the Nutanix systems engineer discuss?

Question42: A customer wants to decrease costs and increase efficiency by eliminating NAS silos and adopting a cloud-like mindset. Which Nutanix product meets these requirements?

Question43: 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?

Question44: 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?

Question45: A prospect is conducting a Nutanix POC process that will measure the time to revocer from a power loss, the impact of running multiple workloads on the same cluster, and peak storage performance. The POC results will be presented to the CIO.
How can this be achieved with the least room for error?

Question46: Refer to the exhibit.

In Sizer, in which two ways can an SE accommodate a specific number of physical host-based software licenses that a customer has available for a project? (Choose two)

Question47: A prospect is replacing a 3-tier virtualization infrastructure made up of several ESXi hosts and a SAN. The prospect recently bought a new 4-socket server to host their SQL server workload which uses the same SAN.
Which feature allows the prospect to continue using their new server
without buying another SAN?

Question48: A prospective customer is concerned about having a single-pane-of-glass manage their infrastructure because it also provides a single-point-of-failure. How does the Nutanix Prism architecture address this concern?

Question49: A customer plans to migrate a business critical,highly tranactional SQL Server database to Nutanix Currently the databases is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12CPU cores at > 80% utilization To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the SE recommend for this workload?

Question50: Refer to the exhibit.

A prospect provides the data shown captured from their existing environment using RVTools. The prospect has additional historical CPU utilization data that indicates peak CPU utilization never exceeds 50% on either physical host.
Which vCPU:pCore ratio should be used in Sizer?

Question51: 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?

Question52: An SE builds a sizer scenario for a prospect's remote site running on an NX-1365S-G5.
Using only the sizer BOM. which two actions can be performed? (Choose two.)

Question53: A prospective customer wants to migrate database workloads to Nutanix. They are currently running these workloads on a 3-tier vSphere architecture made up of 5 hosts connected to a hybrid SAN over 10G iSCSI.
The hosts each have 256G RAM and 2 Broadwell 2.8Ghz 12 core processors. The largest database VM is configured with 64G of memory. Some databases are fairly old and single threaded Current performance is deemed acceptable. Which configuration component is most important to maintain the customer experience on a new Nutanix cluster and minimize costs ?

Question54: A System engineer (SE) is gathering requirements to size a hybrid cluster to replace a prospect's existing IT test and development environment. The prospective customer has indicated the cluster contains no business critical applications and has provided the aggregate vCPU and RAM requirements of the existing cluster.
which two additional items does the SE require to size the cluster?(Choose two)

Question55: A prospective customer uses both Oracle and Microsoft products for critical applications. The prospect. prefers an all flash array over HCI, because they have made a recent, significant investment in physical servers for their Oracle environment to save on licensing costs. Which feature should be discussed to address this objection?

Question56: 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?

Question57: 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?

Question58: 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)

Question59: An SE is building a solution for Federal government prospect that requires FIPS 140-2 Level 2 encryption for data at rest.
Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meets the encryption standard? (Choose two)

Question60: 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?

Question61: Refer to the exhibit.
***Exhibit is Missing***
Based on the sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?

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

Question64: A prospect is seeking a Nutanix solution for a mission critical application that needs to sustain two simultaneous node outages and prefers that the cluster be able to fully rebuild both data and metadata in the event hardware issues.
what is the minimum number of nodes required for the cluster?

Question65: A customer is conceded that IT will not be able to take advantage of Nutanix's frequent feature releases due to the man hour requirements of maintaining compliance with industry regulatory controls.
Which item should the SE discuss at the next customer visit with IT?

Question66: 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?

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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)