EMT Practice Test

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Question1: How long must data be 'write-cold' before Erasure Coding can begin optimization?

Question2: 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)

Question3: A systems engineer provides a demo to a prospective customer who wants to be more hands on with Nutanix Which two resources can the customer leverage without support from a systems engineer or Nutanix? (Choose two)

Question4: An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issue. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue. Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

Question5: During a meeting with a fortune 100 prospect, an SE achieves technical buy-in from the architecture team. The prospect shares that their management recently attended an executive briefing with Cisco and was impressed by the vision presented.
Management is pushing the arching the architecture tea to adopt Cisco as their HCI standard based on a beief that Nutanix is not a major player.
Which resource should an SE highlight?

Question6: Which configuration can be used the data encryption on a nutanix cluster regardless of the hardware configuration?

Question7: An SE needs to leverage Change Block Tracking when using Xtract to migrate VMs from ESXi to AHV.
Which two source VM requirements should the SE verify? (Choose two)

Question8: 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?

Question9: An SE is in the discovery phase with a new customer. The customer is frustrated with the lack of transparency into their environment with the current monitoring tools. The customer has difficulty correlating the degradation of the end user experience with point-in-time events.
Which Prism feature should the SE demonstrate to show relevant value?

Question10: A customer has a requirement to run a single instance Oracle Database VM on AHV that is driving over
250,000 IOPs. Which AOS feature should be positioned to deliver the highest level of performance?

Question11: 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?

Question12: How long must data be 'write-cold' before Erasure Coding can begin optimization?

Question13: A prospect facing an upcoming Vmware ELA renewal has a management directive to move to the public cloud due to perceived cost savings. Their virtualization team is currently struggling with refactoring applications for AWS. As a result, the virtualization team is pushing to evaluate VXRail and renew their VMware ELA.
Which two aspects of Nutanix shoud the SE Highlight? (Choose two)

Question14: From Which page on portal.nutanix.com can an open case be directly escalated?

Question15: A prospective customer wants to build a private cloud in addition to provisioning workloads across multiple public cloud providers.
Presently, the staff lacks the time and skillset for on-premises infrastructure management.
Which two features should qualify this project as a Nutanix opportunity?
(choose two)

Question16: 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)?

Question17: A customer needs to deploy 5000 virtual desktops on Nutanix. The requirements can 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?

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: A systems engineer is sizing a configuration for a cluster that needs to tolerate up to 2 simultaneous disk failures aaoss different nodes.
What is the minimum number of nodes required?

Question20: AN SE determines that a POC is necessary to overcome competitive FUD in an opportunity with an Enterprise account evaluating several HCI solutions. The customer will evaluate three solutions in their datacenter simultaneously over the course of 4 days.
The customer schedules all necessary personnel to be available during this time.
Which two network planning items should the SE determine prior to allocation hardware for the POC?
(Choose two)

Question21: An online retailer currently support over 200 separate PostgreSQL database instances, often with more than 10 copies of each individual database. Their Database Administrators have scripted much of the deployment process for creating dev/test copies, but their infrastructure team struggles to keep up with storage capacity demands. Which Nutanix product should the systems engineer position ?

Question22: 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)

Question23: 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?

Question24: A prospective customer asks about failure handing. They have heard all HCI is the same and want to know what happens if 2 nodes fail within 1 hour of each other. if there is capacity in the cluster, how will this failure scenario be handled ?

Question25: A prospective customer wants to migrate database workloads to Nutanix. They are currently running these workloads on a 3 tier Sphere architecture made up of 5 hosts connected to a hybrid SAN over 10G iSCSi. The hosts each have 256G RAM and 2 Broadwell 28 Ghz 12 core processors. The largest database VM is configured with 646 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?

Question26: Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV?

Question27: 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?

Question28: A guest VM should be able to tolerate simultaneous failure of two nodes or drives.
What are the minimum requirements for the Nutanix cluster?

Question29: Which Prism Dashboard should be used to collect CPU/Memory and Disk I/O statistics over time?

Question30: A customers 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?

Question31: Refer to Exhibit.

When entering a Raw Input workload into Sizer, what amount of RAM should be used for the entire workload?

Question32: How will an HDD failure affect VMs with data on the failed device?

Question33: Refer to Exhibit.

When entering a Raw Input workload into Sizer, what amount of RAM should be used for the entire workload?

Question34: What are two key Nutanix value propositions? (Choose two)

Question35: Over what period of time does the Nutanix Collector provide performance data?

Question36: A customer previously purchased a Nutanix solution of nine NX-3060-G7 nodes. The customer asks for help to increase the resiliency of their environment after power outages to individual racks in their datacenter Their current solution consists of two NX-3460-G7 blocks and a single NX-3160-G7 block placed in a single rack. what should the systems engineer recommend to this customer ?

Question37: Which two VMs require further data analysis to accurately size resources? (Choose two.)

Question38: When configuring Prism Central, which two log modules are able to forward messages to an external syslog server? (Choose two.

Question39: 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 backup, the replication windows is missed due to write volume. Which two options describe the expected behaviour? (choose two)

Question40: 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.)

Question41: A customer asks for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an ERP application. The customer has a vSAN ReadyNode quote already and is looking for a comparable Nutanix solution. They share the following bill of materials: 3 Hosts , 2x E5-2640v4 CPUs , 512GB RAM , 1 x 480GB SSD , 2 x 8TB HDD
, 2 x 1GB NIC What are two reasons to avoid sizing to match a competitor's bill of materials ? (Choose two)

Question42: A Prospective customer asks about failure handling. They have heard all HCI is the same and want to know what happens if 2 nodes fail within 1 hour of each other.
If these is capacity in the cluster. how will this failure scenario be handled?

Question43: Which three cluster operations require an administrator to reclaim licenses?(Choose three)

Question44: 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)

Question45: A prospect wants to target Nutanix as infrastructure for running VMs built as part of their new Continuous Integration and Delivery (CICD) pipeline. Hundreds of builds will occur per day across their development organization.
Which two items should the SE identify to begin sizing the Nutanix deployment? (Choose two.)

Question46: A two-node ROBO cluster is configured with a witness VM.

What happens when Node A goes down?

Question47: 74. A VP of Applications at a prospective customer is working to transform IT from a cost, center to a business enabler. In order to address this initiative, the VP has identified the following areas for improvement:
Increased time and expenses related to meeting business deliverables Missed market opportunity due to slow IT response time Shadow IT increases risk of security breaches and brand damage Unplanned spend on public cloud services (AWS) what two key benefits should the SE review to address the customer's challenges?
(Choose two)

Question48: 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?

Question49: A customer needs to increase availiability in their Nutanix environment by enabling rack awareness. The current configuration consists of
* 1 RF2 cluster consisting of 7 identical NX-3170 1U nodes
* All storage efficiencies are disabled a single rack
* All nodes are in a single rack
Which two changes should the systems engineer propose to meet the customer requirements?(Choose two)

Question50: An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance?

Question51: A customer asks for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an ERP application. The customer has a VSAN ReadyNode quote already and is looking for a comparable Nutanix solution. They share the following bill of materials
* 3 Hosts
* 2x E5-2640v4 CPUs
* 512GB RAM
* 1 x 480GB SSD
* 2 x 8TB HDD
* 2 x 1GB NIC
What are two reasons to avoid sizing to match a competitor's bill of materials? (Choose two)

Question52: Which two capabilities does IPAM provide in a Nutanix networking configuration? (Choose two.)

Question53: 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)

Question54: When discussing node failures, a customer raises the concern that if a node that hosts 100TB of daa oges offline, rebuilding data must take an extended period of time.
Which feature of the Nutanix solution should the systems engineer point out to address this issue?

Question55: 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?

Question56: Which three settings are required for network switch discovery in Prism? (Choose Three)

Question57: Refer to Exhibit.

When entering a Raw Input workload into Sizer, what amount of RAM should be used for the entire workload?

Question58: How should an administrator correct an SSL error when connecting to a Nutanix cluster?

Question59: 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?

Question60: A prospect's storage administrator is concerned about deploying Nutanix for their vSphere server virtualization environment due to anticipated increases to data retention for compliance purposes and associated costs.
Which Nutanix feature should an SE discuss to convince the prospect to
move forward?

Question61: A systems engineer is creating a workload for a sizer Scenario that requires Disaster Recovery (DR) resources with a Recovery Point Obiective (RPO) of 6 hours. The "Protect VMs and other Entities" setting is set to Yes. Async is selected for the RPO.
Which two other options must be enabled to have Sizer create a DR cluster? (Choose two)

Question62: 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)

Question63: 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)

Question64: Which option should be recommended for a customer to get timely notification of significant product issues in the field.

Question65: A two-node ROBO cluster is configured with a witness VM.

What happens when Node A goes down?

Question66: An existing customer wants to upgrade their non MW hypervisor to the most recent version The customer needs to confirm thee the hypervesor is supported on their AOS version.
Where on the Support Portal is this information located?

Question67: 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?

Question68: What is the main function of Oplog?

Question69: 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)

Question70: A systems engineer is creating a workload for a Sizer Scenario that requires Disaster Recovery (DR) resources with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 6 hours. The "Protect VMs and other Entities" setting is set to Yes.
Async is selected for the RPO. Which two other options must be enabled to have Sizer create a DR cluster?
(Choose two)

Question71: 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.

Question72: When creating a multi-cluster scenario in Sizer, what does the Summary Failover Capacity indicator (N+0, N+1) display?

Question73: A systems engineer is building a private cloud for internal developers that should include self-service and Me cycle management for both Kubernetes containers and SQL databases.
Which additional license feature must be purchased to provide this capability?

Question74: An SE needs to size a new project that requires offsite backup but not remote disaster recovery. The prospect requires an RTO of 48 hours, RPO of 4 hours, and the ability to restore from the past 5days of backups. The prospect's data change rate is 1%.


How should the SE configure Sizer for this scenario?

Question75: 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?

Question76: 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?

Question77: Compared to a 3-tier architecture, which two benefits does Nutanix bring to an organization? (Choose two.)

Question78: An It Manager is struggling to keep up with the ever-increasing demands from the business to provide services more quickdy. The main problem relates to the existing architecture and a mix of vendors who are slow to release updates to their products Which core facet of WebScale architecture should the Nutanix systems engineer discuss?

Question79: A prospective customer's migration to their new SAN started six months ago and is sill not complete. The VP of IT state the previous migration to the existing SAN took almost eight months to complete. How should the systems engineer describe Nutanix hardware refreshes to this prospective customer

Question80: When creating a multi-cluster scenario in Sizer, what does the Summary Failover Capacity indicator (N +0, N
+1) display?

Question81: 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?

Question82: Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV?

Question83: A customer needs a tool packaged as a VM that uses realistic workloads paired with real-world test scenarios for HCI environments. The goal is to benchmark performance during typica! workflows and failure events.
Which Nutanix tool meets these requirements?

Question84: Using the Sizing Option shown, which two configurations are possible configurations that Sizer could provide in Automatic mode? (Choose two) ????

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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)

Question87: A systems engineer is creating a workload for a Sizer Scenario that requires Disaster Recovery (DR) resources with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 6 hours. The "Protect VMs and other Entities" setting is set to Yes. Async is selected for the RPO. Which two other options must be enabled to have Sizer create a DR cluster? (Choose two)

Question88: A prospective customer provides RV Tools data from their existing environment and only wants to size for those VMs in use.
When entering a Raw Input workload into Sizer, what amount of RAM should be used for the workload?

Question89: 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?

Question90: When using Nutanix Sizer, which solution does the Automatic sizing option provide?

Question91: 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?

Question92: 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)

Question93: 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?

Question94: Refer to the exhibit.
Based on the Sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?

Question95: 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.)

Question96: Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?

Question97: 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?

Question98: 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?

Question99: Write I/O that is deemed sequential will enter which component of the Distributed Storage Fabric first?

Question100: 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)?

Question101: A systems engineer needs to size a new project that requires offsite backup using Vertam The prospect requires an RPO GE 24 hours, and the ability to restore from the past 7 days of backups The prospects data change rate is 1% How should the SE configure Sizer for this scenario?

Question102: What are two key Nutanix value propositions? (Choose two)