Nutanix Certified Associate v1.0 (NCA)

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Which NIC-teaming configuration balances network traffic based on source/destination IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports?

  • A. Active-Active with MAC Pinning
  • B. Active-Active with LACP
  • C. Active-Backup
  • D. Active-Passive


Answer : B

Which AHV feature proactively monitors a Nutanix cluster for compute and storage I/O contention or hotspots over a period of time?

  • A. Genesis
  • B. ADS
  • C. Prism
  • D. Cluster Maintenance Utility


Answer : B

An administrator is deploying a virtual firewall on each node in an AHV cluster and wants each VM to maintain affinity to its host.
How can an administrator achieve this goal most efficiently?

  • A. Create VM Protection Policies
  • B. Set the VM labels as firewalls
  • C. Create VM Annotations
  • D. Set the VMs as Agent VMs


Answer : A

What data is stored as a file on storage devices owned by a CVM?

  • A. Storage Pool
  • B. vDisk
  • C. Extent Group
  • D. Container


Answer : B

An administrator needs to deploy a two-node cluster on a new ROBO Site.
What is required to maintain High Availability in the case of a node failure?

  • A. Witness VM
  • B. Metro-Availability
  • C. Windows Failover Clustering
  • D. Async Replication


Answer : C

What resource should be used to ensure a successful upgrade of the hypervisors and AOS within a vSphere-based Nutanix cluster?

  • A. Upgrade Paths
  • B. Field Advisories
  • C. Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix
  • D. Hardware Replacement Documentation


Answer : C

Which feature enables Image Placement Policies to be mapped to target clusters?

  • A. YAML
  • B. Labels
  • C. JSON
  • D. Categories


Answer : B

A SQL Server cluster has been deployed on an AHV cluster. To ensure maximum uptime, the administrator wants the SQL Server VMs running on different hosts while leveraging High Availability in case of host failure.
Which configuration would meet these requirements?

  • A. Configure one VM as an Agent VM.
  • B. Disable Host affinity rules in the cluster.
  • C. Create an anti-affinity rule via CLI.
  • D. Disable VM live migration from selected VMs.


Answer : C

Which option is available for an administrator to upload a remote disk file to Image Configuration?

  • A. HTTP
  • B. FTP
  • C. SCP
  • D. SFTP


Answer : D

On which entity is Replication Factor configured?

  • A. Host
  • B. Oplog
  • C. Volume
  • D. Container


Answer : B

An administrator has defined a security policy that needs to be applied to dozens of VMs.
What is the most efficient way the administrator can perform this?

  • A. Within the policy, select all the VMs it should be applied to.
  • B. Apply a category to the VMs, and associate the category with the policy.
  • C. Apply the same label to all the VMs, then bind the policy to the label.
  • D. Use a script to apply the policy to the defined VMs.


Answer : B

Which technology allows applications and data to move freely between runtime environments?

  • A. Distributed Storage Fabric
  • B. Disaster Recovery
  • C. App Mobility Fabric
  • D. Nutanix Move


Answer : C

An administrator needs to upgrade AOS in a vSphere-based Nutanix five-node cluster with no automatic live migration. VMs have neither affinity nor anti-affinity rules configured.
What will happen to VMs during the AOS upgrade?

  • A. VMs will be rebooted on other hosts.
  • B. VMs will continue to run on the same host.
  • C. Upgrade fails because host can't go in maintenance mode.
  • D. AOS automatically live migrate VMs to other hosts.


Answer : B

In an AHV five-node cluster, an SSD fails within a node that has two SSDs and four HDDs installed.
What will happen to the cluster environment?

  • A. Host goes down and VMs will be powered on elsewhere.
  • B. Cluster goes in read-only mode.
  • C. VMs will be live migrated to other hosts until metadata rebuild is finished.
  • D. CVM on the impacted node reboots.


Answer : C

When should Pulse be disabled?

  • A. When the cluster is connected to the Internet with less than 1GbE.
  • B. When the cluster is deployed in a dark-site.
  • C. Before any cluster maintenance activities requiring node reboots.
  • D. Only under the guidance of Nutanix Support.


Answer : D

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