NCM-MCI Online Practice Questions and Answers

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

Refer to the exhibit.

What is the purpose of eth2 on the CVMs?

A. RDMA Network Segmentation

B. iSCSI connectivity

C. Remote site connectivity

D. Network Segmentation

An administrator learns that some security settings in a cluster have been changed. The environment is out of compliance with required policies. Which function should be used to revert any settings that have changed from the defaults and prevent further violations?

A. Cluster Lockdown with strong password enforcement

B. Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE)

C. Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA)

D. Defense Information Systems Agency STIG enforcement

A customer needs a DR solution designed around the following requirements:

1.

There are 8 ms of latency between Sites A and B

2.

The administrator needs the shortest RPO/RTO possible

3.

Application consistent snapshots are required

4.

Use of Nutanix VSS

Which Data Protection Method should be used?

A. Async

B. Metro Availability

C. Near Sync

D. Cloud Connect

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?

A. Replace the switch fabric extenders with 10G line rate switches

B. Upgrade NCC and increase the CVM memory by 4Gb

C. Add 2 additional 10G uplinks from the switch fabric extenders per node

D. Upgrade NCC and increase the vCPU of the CVM

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

1.

Cluster memory utilization: 64%

2.

Cluster CPU utilization: 19%

3.

Cluster storage utilization: 32%

4.

Average VM CPU utilization: 25%

5.

Average VM CPU ready%: 24%

6.

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. (also can be but is physical invas)

D. Reduce the number of VMs on the hosts.

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 VM

D. Run Defrag on the Linux VM

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

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?

A. The customer has the ability to add more VMs up to the 100% storage utilization.

B. There is available capacity in the storage fabric and the cluster is resilient.

C. Node failure is imminent due to storage utilization.

D. The cluster is not resilient in the storage fabric

An administrator receives reports about a Nutanix environment. The investigation finds the following;

1.

VMs are experiencing very high latency

2.

Each node is equipped with a single SSD, utilized at 95%

3.

Each node is equipped with three HDDs, utilized at 40% Why are the guest VMs experiencing high latency?

A. CVMs are overwhelmed by disk balancing operations.

B. All VM write operations are going to HDD.

C. All VM read operations are coming from HDD.

D. VMs are unable to perform write operations.