Nutanix Certified Master – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) 5.20 Exam: NCM-MCI-5.20 Dumps

1. An administrator responsible for a VDI environment needs to investigate reports of slow logins. The administrator finds that increasing the number of vCPUs from 2 to 4 will reduce the login times. Production workloads are consuming 75% of the host CPU on the cluster. The administrator increases the vCPU count on all of the VDI VMs.

What are two impacts on the cluster? (Choose two.)

2. An administrator is using Nutanix Move to migrate a Windows VM from ESXi to AHV. Automated

guest preparation is failing with an error:

Account has UAC enabled error

The administrator is using the local built-in administrator account for the Windows VM Admin approval mode must remain enabled.

What should the administrator do to continue with the migration with Nutanix Move?

3. A VM is exhibiting one or more of the following baseline values based on the past 30 days:

• CPU usage < 20%

• CPU ready time < 5%

• Memory usage < 50% (moderately) or < 20% (severely)

• Memory swap rate = 0 Kbps

Which type of VM is being described?

4. An administrator receives reports 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?

5. An administrator has a custom backup application that requires a 2TB disk and runs in Windows.

Throughput is considerably lower than expected.

The application was installed on a VM with the following configuration:

• Four vCPUs with one core/vCPU

• 4GB of Memory

• One 50GB vDisk for the Windows installation

• One 2TB vDisk for the application

What is the recommended configuration change to improve throughput?

6. A customer recently set up Async Replication between Site A and Site B. The customer wants to conduct a planned failover and clicks Activate on Site B.

The customer then runs the following command on Site A:

ncli pd deactivate_and__destroy_vms name=<protection_domain_name>

What does this do to the customer environment?

7. An administrator needs to forecast infrastructure requirements for a new program and its associated applications. Prior to the projected start of the new program, all existing applications will be decommissioned.

How should the administrator perform this task?

8. A customer has a primary datacenter with 12 Nutanix blocks distributed across three racks. The customer wants to achieve the most resiliency possible. They also have a datacenter in a branch office that is 400 kilometers away from the primary datacenter.

Which two solutions should be used? (Choose two.)

9. An administrator inherits a new Nutanix environment and logs in to a CVM to check the network configuration.

The configuration is as follows:

Which action should the administrator take to improve network performance?

10. An administrator is concerned that Prism will be inaccessible if Active Directory is unable to process logins.

Which method should the administrator use to access the cluster in the event of this type of outage?

11. A customer has NearSync configured. When the administrator tries to restore a snapshot from 3 minutes ago, it is not available. The snapshots are happening at 15-minute intervals instead of at the 5-minute configured interval. When the protection domain was initially set up, the snapshots were happening at the expected 5-minute interval.

What should the customer do to enable the snapshots to happen at the expected interval?

12. An administrator deploys Exchange on a Nutanix cluster.

The administrator creates two containers with RF2 configuration:

• One container for Exchange

• One container for the other VMs

The Exchange VM is experiencing I/O performance issues.

Which changes to Storage Optimization should be used on the Exchange container to enhance I/O performance?

13. While creating an image placement policy on the organizations AOS 5.15-based Nutanix cluster, the administrator wants to ensure there are no restrictions on using the selected images on clusters outside of the identified set.

What type of Policy Enforcement must the administrator choose?

14. An alert about RX errors on eth2 on a node is reported in the cluster. The administrator logs in to the CVM in question, checks the ping_* files in the data/logs/syststats folder, and notices intermittent ping loss.

The node in question has the following network configuration:

Which action should be used to troubleshoot without disrupting the VMs running on this node?

15. 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 backups, the replication window is missed due to write volume.

Which two options describe the expected behavior? (Choose two.)

16. An administrator is deploying a three-tier application on a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud consisting of web, application, and database VMs. Traffic between the servers must be limited to specific services/ports. There is an application layer firewall VM deployed on one host in the cluster.

In which way should the administrator meet this requirement?

17. Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance using AHV Turbo.

Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance? (Choose two.)

18. An administrator is performing a set of routine checks and notes that Prism Central is running with 4 vCPUs and 21 GB RAM. The organizations environment is based on two Nutanix clusters with 170 VMs plus a Legacy vSphere infrastructure. No manual changes have been done on Prism Central VM.

Which configuration justifies the current Prism Central configuration?

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

Why is this happening?

20. Refer to the exhibit.

A Microsoft SQL 2016 deployment is shown in the exhibit. The administrator receives user reports that database queries take too long to return.

Which optimization should be made to this configuration to improve performance?

21. An administrator of a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has microsegmentation enabled and a firewall VM installed. The security team notifies the administrator that one of the VMs hosted in the environment has been exhibiting suspect network activity. The administrator wants to isolate the VM from the production network, but must still be able to access it to perform diagnostics.

What should the administrator do to meet the requirement?

22. 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.)

23. An administrator is supporting a business critical environment and deploys metro availability to achieve a zero data loss configuration. The two clusters are connected by a 1GbE connection. A new workload is going to be deployed to this cluster. This workload requires a sustained 150MB/S of write throughput and 20MB/s of read throughput.

Which change must be made to deploy the workload successfully on this cluster?

24. A systems administrator needs to add more VMs to their Nutanix cluster.

Which two actions should the administrator perform to determine if the current cluster can accommodate the new VMs? (Choose two.)

25. A guest VM is reported to have poor storage performance. It has an I/O profile of 80% read. 20% write, and the HDDs form more than 50% of the read source.

What should an administrator do to resolve this issue?

26. 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?

27. 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?

28. A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backed up to a remote location. The remote location is connected using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms.

Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest RPO possible?

29. An administrator needs to deploy an application with a large amount of data connected via Nutanix Volumes.

Which two actions should the administrator take when designing the Volume Group? (Choose two.)

30. Microsegmentation was recently enabled in a Nutanix environment. The administrator wants to leverage Prism Central to create a policy that will block all traffic, regardless of direction, between two groups of VMs identified by their category.

Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?

31. An administrator configures authentication in Prism Central (PC) for the NTNX-Admins group. Users report that they are unable to log in. The administrator confirms that the Active Directory (AD) settings in PC are correct.

Which condition could result in this behavior?

32. An organizations Nutanix Cluster is based on VMware vSphere. The cluster is configured to download software updates automatically. The administration needs to verify and eventually upgrade VMware hypervisor via Prism Ul.

After logging in to Prism, the administrator receives the message shown:

No available versions for upgrade

What is causing the current state?

33. An administrator receives an error indicating that the CVMs in the cluster are not syncing to any NTP servers.

An investigation of the issue finds:

• The NTP servers are configured in Prism

• The time on all CVMs is the same

• Both the CVMs and AHV hosts are configured for the UTC time zone

Which two steps can be taken to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.)

34. An administrator is implementing a VDI solution. The workload will be a series of persistent desktops in a dedicated storage container within a four-node cluster. Storage optimizations should be set on the dedicated storage container to give optimal performance including during a node failure event.

Which storage optimizations should the administrator set to meet the requirements?

35. Refer to the exhibit.

A Nutanix host is connected as shown in the exhibit with br0-up set to active/backup. Physical Switch 1 experiences a power outage causing br0-up to failover to using eth2. The CVM and host become inaccessible. User VMs restart on other hosts in the cluster, which causes a disruption to those VMs.

Which configuration issue likely caused this outage?

36. 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?

37. An administrator recently added VLAN 205 CRM in Prism Element. The workloads attached to the associated NICs are unable to establish network connectivity.

Which Layer 2 protocol allows the administrator to troubleshoot this issue from Prism Element?

38. An administrator is deploying an application that requires maximum I/O throughput for scratch dat a. The administrator is concerned that the throughput requirement is greater than what can be provided by a single cluster node.

What should the administrator do to meet this requirement?

39. 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?

40. 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.)

41. Refer to the exhibit.

What is the purpose of eth2 on the CVMs?

42. An administrator wants to utilize Network Visualization to monitor the physical and logical network on the Nutanix cluster. The first-hop switch has LLDP enabled. The network switch information is still not being displayed.

What is causing this problem?

43. 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?

44. An administrator manages the following two Nutanix AOS 5.15 cluster environment:

• Corp-cluster-01

• Corp-cluster-02

The VM images must be available only on Corp-cluster-01, but cannot be checked out to cluster Corp-cluster-02. The images also cannot be checked out to any other clusters that are registered with Prism Central in the future.

Which two configuration settings must the administrator choose when creating the image placement policy that satisfies the stated requirements? (Choose two.)

45. A customer has a Nutanix cluster with 10Gb connectivity via switch fabric extenders. The administrator receives NCC health check errors of latency greater than 200ms.

Which action should the administrator take to resolve the NCC errors?

46. 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?

47. Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator configures Active Directory authentication as shown in the exhibit. Upon finishing setup, users are not able to log in.

What configuration change should be made to fix this issue?

48. In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single Node Replication Target.

The current schedule configuration is as follows:

• Repeat every 6 hours

• Local Retention Policy 1

• Remote Retention Policy 8

• Starting time 12 am

At 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection.

Which strategy should the administrator use to meet these requirements?

49. A customer with a four-node RF2 cluster is adding application VMs to their system. After adding these VMs, the Prism dashboard shows 81% storage utilization.

What is the consequence of running the cluster at 81% storage utilization?

50. 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?

51. 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?

52. An administrator needs to replace the self-signed certificate on a cluster.

Which two requirements must be met as part of the process? (Choose two.)

53. An administrator needs to evaluate if the existing configuration of Protection Domains meets the specified corporate recovery policy for SQL Data. The corporate policy requires that all SQL Servers be recoverable at the DR site within 30 minutes, and must result in a maximum of 60 minutes of data loss. SQL data must be required.

The protection domain is configured as follows:

• Application consistent snapshots are enabled

• The SQL server VMs are assigned to the Protection Domain as their own Consistency Group

• The Protection Domain schedule is configured as snapshots taken every 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm

What must be changed to meet the required policy?

54. An administrator is monitoring the Nutanix v5.15-based AOS cluster performance logs and notices that a SQL server VM is greatly exceeding its intended maximum IOPS. The administrator has confirmed that a QoS policy was previously created for the group of VMs this server is a member of.

What are two reasons that this VM would exceed its maximum configured IOPS from the QoS Policy? (Choose two.)

55. An administrator needs to make sure an RF3 cluster can survive a failure of two complete racks without negatively affecting performance.

The current cluster configuration consists of the following:

• 30 All Flash Nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U racks

• Each node is configured with 20TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 600TB Usable)

• Current cluster utilization is 500TB storage

• Storage containers have Erasure Coding enabled

Which configuration changes should be made to make sure the cluster meets the requirements?

56. An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issues. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue.

Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

57. An administrator has two clusters: Site A and Site B.

Async DR is configured between the clusters as follows:

• Site A is the Primary Site

• Site B is the Secondary inactive Site, no VMs running

• Site A is fully in Production

• Site B used as Backup/Disaster Recovery

The customer wants to perform a planned failover between the sites.

How should the administrator accomplish this?

58. Refer to the exhibit.

After performing ESXi to AHV conversion on a cluster, the alerts shown in the exhibit display on Prism.

What should the administrator do to resolve this issue efficiently?

59. An administrator is configuring an All Flash cluster to support the following workloads:

• Full clone virtual desktops

• Hadoop

• Write heavy databases

Which three correct configuration options should the administrator use to meet the item requirements? (Choose three.)

For each procedure, indicate whether it is a correct or incorrect procedure that must be configured to meet the item requirements using the drop-down option.

60. A system administrator needs to shut down an AHV node in a Nutanix cluster without causing service disruption. The administrator checks data resiliency and verifies that the cluster can tolerate a node down.

Which three steps should the administrator perform next? (Choose three.)