EMT Practice Test

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Question1: How should an administrator correct an SSL error when connecting to a Nutanix cluster?

Question2: 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?

Question3: A prospect's business is growing 100% year over year. The prospect is interested in Nutanix for their main datacenter due to the alility to scale quickly and easily. They have three remote sites that will be refreshed within the next year. Each site needs to replicate to their many datacenter. The SE proposes the Nutanix NX line, and the prospect asks to utilize the Xpress line.
For which reason is the Xpress line the wrong choice? (Choose two)

Question4: 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)

Question5: 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)

Question6: 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?

Question7: An SE is building a solution for a federal goverment prospect that u???
Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meens the ??? encryption (choose two)

Question8: 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?

Question9: 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?

Question10: Refer to the exhibit.
***Exhibit is Missing***
Based on the sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?

Question11: An SE is meeting with a prospect that is refreshing infrastructure in 100 retail locations. Currently the stores use vSphere hosts connected to direct attached storage and are managed by 6 separate vCenter servers. On-site retail staff is unqualified to deal with any hardware break/fix issues.
Which two aspects of Nutanix solution should the SE highlight? (Choose two)

Question12: How will an HDD failure affect VMs with data on the failed device?

Question13: 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?

Question14: An SE is working with a financial institution prospect on a VDI environment refresh. The institution currently has 5000 named VDI users, with a peak of 2800 concurrent users.
How many VDI VMs does the SE need to size for, factoring in an additional 10% for growth?

Question15: 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?

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: 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?

Question18: Refer to Exhibit.

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

Question19: 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?

Question20: 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?

Question21: What is an important consideration when using RVTools output for sizing a solution?

Question22: 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)

Question23: 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?

Question24: An SE is performing workload discovery with an SMB prospect running SQL Server. The databases is less than 1 TB, but its performance and uptime are critical to the prospect's business operations. Sizer sugests using
1065S nodes.
Which aspects of the NX-1065S-G5 would cause an SE to filter out that nodel from Sizer's Automatic configuration? (choose two.)

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: 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?

Question28: prospect uses Vmware, Oracle, and Microsoft products for a critical application. The prospect prefers an all flash array because they have significantly invested in servers for their Oracle environment to save on licensing costs.
which feature should be discussed to address this objection?

Question29: A systems engineer is building a private cloud for internal developers that should include self-service and life cycle management for both kubernetes containers and SQL databases. which additional license feature must be purchased to provide this capability?

Question30: Refer to the exhibit.

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

Question31: A guest VM should be able to tolerate simultaneous failure of two nodes or drives.
What are the minimum requirements for the Nutanix cluster?

Question32: 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?

Question33: An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment.
Why is this happening?

Question34: 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?

Question35: A customer is provisioning 1,000 linked clone desktops with View Composer for their call center. During a short period between shift changes,desktops must be rebooted.
Which Nutanix feature will help to mitigate the desktop boot times?

Question36: 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)

Question37: Which configuration can be used the data encryption on a nutanix cluster regardless of the hardware configuration?

Question38: 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)

Question39: Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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?

Question42: Which two Citrix desktop creation capabilities are supported on Nutanix AHV? (Choose two)

Question43: Which Prism Dashboard should be used to collect CPU/Memory and Disk I/O statistics over time?

Question44: Which functionality allows workloads to continue to run on the host when as AOS upgrade occurs?

Question45: Write I/O that is deemed sequential will enter which component of the Distributed Storage Fabric first?

Question46: What are two things that the ADS service does for VMs within AHV? (Choose two.)

Question47: During a sales motion with a new prospect, the prospect asks to do a POC so they can experience Nutanix in their environment.
What is the most important item the SE must have in place with the prospect before moving forward with a POC?

Question48: 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)

Question49: 30. A healthcare prospect looking to refresh their infrastructure with Nutanix has an initiative to migrate 5 Petabytes of unstructured, archived patient data. Which Nutanix product should be the focus of the discussion?

Question50: 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)

Question51: A customer has deployed Nutanix with Esxi for VDI workloads and is considering Nutanix for a major server virtualization project. The customer is running z/Virtual Machine today for a mission critical workload and would like to consider Nutanix as a potential platform.
Which reason would currently disqualify this prospect as an opportunity?

Question52: How long must data be 'write-cold' before Erasure Coding can begin optimization?

Question53: 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.)

Question54: 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.)

Question55: 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?

Question56: Which two capabilities does IPAM provide in a Nutanix networking configuration? (Choose two.)

Question57: With in RVtools output, which tab provides actual utilization information on thick provisioned disk?

Question58: 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?

Question59: A VOI 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.)

Question60: A customer is running AHV in their Nutanix cluster and wants to provide their users with the ability to restore individual files from snapshots what is the minimum level of licensing that must be applied to the Nutanix cluster ?

Question61: 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?

Question62: When using Nutanix Sizer, which solution does the Automatic sizing option provide?

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: An administrator needs to report on any alerts generated by a Nutanix cluster that affected the cluster's availability over the past 10 days.
Which method should be used to locate these events?

Question65: In addition to the total number of physical CPU cores, which hardware component is used to calculate the cost of Capacity Based Licensing for a Nutanix Cluster?

Question66: 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

Question67: 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 ?

Question68: 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)?

Question69: An administrator needs to relocate an AHV cluster to a new datacenter during a maintenance windows. The cluster will use the same IPs in the new datacenter.
Which two steps should be taken to prepare for this task? (Choose Two)

Question70: A prospective customer has a requirement for Data-at-Rest-Encryption for all their data Which two license options are available to address this requirement? (Choose two)

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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.)

Question73: Which website acts as a single gateway for all Nutanix deal registrations, forums, software downloads, product documentation product alerts and support interactions?

Question74: Refer to 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?

Question75: 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?

Question76: 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?

Question77: 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?

Question78: 73. Which two VMs require further data analysis to accurately size resources? (Choose two) ??

Question79: InFiles, how many FSVMs are deployed by default?

Question80: 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)

Question81: 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?

Question82: 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

Question83: Which three settings are required for network switch discovery in Prism? (Choose Three)

Question84: When sizing for Splunk, the customer states the daily ingest rate is 500GB and they are currently using Search Factor 2 and Splunk Replication Factor 2.
Which two additional input are required by Sizer? (Choose two)

Question85: 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)

Question86: 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.)

Question87: When configuring Prism Central, which two log modules are able to forward messages to an external syslog server? (Choose two.

Question88: 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?

Question89: A prospect provides the following details for sizing active working set based on their existing server virtualization environment:
Full backup reports:
January: 10TB
February: 11TB
March: 12TB
April: 13TB
May: 14TB
Average Read/Write Ratio - 75/25
When entering a Raw Input in Sizer, what should the SE use as the minimum amount of required SSD Storage?

Question90: Which method can be used to migrate a VM configured for UEFI-boot from a Nutanix Hyper-V cluster to AHV?