NCM-5.15 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Refer to the exhibit.

User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM group.

What are two descriptions of how Files perform quota management? (Choose two.)

A. User 2 can continue to add another 3GB file but will receive a daily notification email.

B. User 1 can continue to add another 5GB file but will receive a daily notification email.

C. User 1 can add an 8GB file to the share without receiving notification.

D. User 2 can add an 8GB file without receiving a notification email.

An organization is planning an upgrade to AOS 5.15 and wants to understand which cluster products and/or services are supported for physical traffic isolation. Which Nutanix component supports its network traffic being isolated onto its own virtual network?

A. Volumes

B. Objects

C. Containers

D. Files

A company needs to replicate their VMs to a remote site and must have an RPO of less than 1 hour. When creating a protection domain, what should an administrator do to meet this requirement?

A. Enable Async Replication with an RPO of 60 minutes

B. Enable Near-Sync Replication with an RPO of 15 minutes

C. Enable Entity Sync on the designated VMs

D. Enable Availability Zones and send the VM to multiple targets

An administrator knows that the disks in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available.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 the Internet.

Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)

A. Configure LCM with a URL to access the firmware bundle.

B. Download a dark site bundle and stage it on an internal webserver.

C. Download the updated firmware .tgz file from the Nutanix portal.

D. Select Upgrade Software, then select disks and upload the updated firmware.

A customer needs a DR solution designed around the following requirements: There are 8 ms of latency between Sites A and B The administrator needs the shortest RPO/RTO possible Application consistent snapshots are required Use of Nutanix VSS

Which Data Protection Method should be used?

A. Async

B. Metro Availability

C. Near Sync

D. Cloud Connect

An administrator receives an alert in Prism indicating that interface eth2, on an AHV host is receiving many CRC errors. After togging into the problematic host, the following command is run to show the indicated output:

What is causing this issue?

A. Incorrect link speeds on the switch

B. The interface is incorrectly configured with Jumbo Frames

C. A misconfigured bond

D. A physical layer network problem

For several days, an administrator notices the following alerts: CVM NIC Speed Low Warning Alerts Warning Alerts of CVM NIC not performing at optimal speed CVM is disconnected from the network Critical Alert Network Visualization page shows excessive dropped packets on CVM/Host.

Which steps should be taken to determine which problem should be addressed first?

A. Access the Hardware Page to verify resources are available Analyze all CVM Speed Alerts in the Alerts/Events page Analyze output for the network and interface properties and connectivity issues

B. Verify Host/CVM connectivity on the Network Visualization page Use to verify the bridge and bond configuration Review alerts/events page for the CVM disconnected error

C. Review Alerts page for NIC speed alerts and alert timing Analyze the genesis.out log file for process failures Assess the NIC properties in the Network Visualization > Host Properties page

D. Restart networking services on the CVM Determine the current configuration of the affected CVM via output Access the Alerts/Events page for the CVM network connection failures

An administrator needs to relocate an AHV cluster to a new datacenter during a maintenance window. The cluster will use the same IPs in the new datacenter.

Which two steps should be taken to prepare for this task? (Choose two.)

A. Stop all Nutanix Files clusters

B. Relocate the linked LDAP servers

C. Shut down all user VMs in the cluster

D. Reconfigure IPMI for the new datacenter

An administrator is migrating 5MB shares from a third-party platform to Nutanix Files with the following characteristics: Shares contain user profile directories DFS-N will be used

How should the administrator create target shares for this migration?

A. Create multiple general purpose shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.

B. Create multiple distributed shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.

C. Create standard shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.

D. Create distributed shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.

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?

A. As a single VM on the Nutanix cluster

B. On hardware external to the Nutanix duster

C. As a clustered VM setup on the Nutanix cluster

D. As a single VM deployed on the host that contains the Prism leader CVM

A customer has Metro Availability configured in Automatic Resume Mode between Site A and Site B.

What happens to VMs if Primary Site A has full network failure?

A. Automatic protection domain promotion in Site B. VMs automatically restart in Site

B. VMs continue to run on Site A following an automatic disable of protection domains.

C. An administrator must unwitness in Site B and promote protection domains in Site B for VMs to restart

D. An administrator must promote protection domains in Site B for VMs to restart.

An administrator needs to expand a cluster based on AHV and running on Nutanix G5 hardware with a new Nutanix G7 system. 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?

A. AOS version running on G7 is older than the version on the cluster.

B. Foundation software has not been updated on the cluster.

C. G7 hardware cannot be added to a G5 cluster.

D. EVC needs to be configured before cluster expansion

An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment.

Why is this happening?

A. NFS default access is set to Read Only.

B. Multi-protocol access is not configured.

C. Access Based Enumeration is not enabled.

D. The system is deployed as a single FSVM.

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. What action should be taken to reclaim the storage capacity?

A. Shrink the Volume Group that is associated with the Linux VM

B. Unmount the Volume Group and then Remount the Volume Group

C. Enable the unman operation on the Linux VMD. Run Defrag on the Linux VM

An administrator migrates a VM onto a new Nutanix cluster. After the migration, the administrator observes the following conditions:

Cluster memory utilization: 64%

Cluster CPU utilization: 19%

Cluster storage utilization: 32%

Average VM CPU utilization: 25%

Average VM CPU ready%: 24%

Average VM memory utilization: 60%

Which two changes should the administrator make to improve VM performance? (Choose two.)

A. Add more memory to the VMs.

B. Reduce the number of vCPUs assigned to VMs.

C. Replace high core count CPUs with high clock rate CPUs.

D. Reduce the number of VMs on the hosts.