Nutanix Nutanix Certifications NCM-MCI Questions & Answers

• Question 81:

  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

  Correct Answer: C

  Ref: http://myvirtualcloud.net/nutanix-scma-the-security-feature-that-could-save-your-organization/

• Question 82:

  The networking team makes changes to the Top of Rack switches to which the Nutanix cluster are attached. A few VMs are able to communicate with each other on the same node but are unable to connect to other parts of the network. What is the likely cause of this issue?

  A. There is a VLAN misconfiguration on the VMs.

  B. The vNIC port is disconnected on the affected VMs.

  C. There is a VLAN misconfiguration on the switch.

  D. Jumbo Frame are misconfigured across ports.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 83:

  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

  Correct Answer: A

  Ref: https://next.nutanix.com/installation-configuration-23/backplane-network-in-aos-5-5-27291

• Question 84:

  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

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 85:

  An administrator needs to maximize storage potential in a six-node cluster. The container is configured with the following:

  1.

  Post-process compression

  2.

  Capacity deduplication

  What should the administrator configure to increase space savings?

  A. Erasure coding

  B. Inline compression

  C. Reserve capacity

  D. Cache dedupe

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 86:

  An administrator is currently using both 10g uplink with LACP and balance-tcp. A single VM should not be allowed to use more than a single 10G uplink, and both uplinks should be utilized. Which two command should be used to configure the bond? (choose two)

  A. Ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-slb

  B. Ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-tcp

  C. Ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=active-backup

  D. Ovs-vsctl set port br0-up other_config: bond-rebalance-interval=30000

  Correct Answer: AD

• Question 87:

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

  1.

  Corp-cluster-01

  2.

  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.)

  A. Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-01 as the target cluster

  B. Set the policy enforcement to Soft.

  C. Set the policy enforcement to Hard.

  D. Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-02 as the target cluster.

  Correct Answer: AC

  Ref: https://next.nutanix.com/community-blog-40/nutanix-just-made-ahv-image-management-painless-33144

• Question 88:

  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.)

  A. Use multiple subnets for iSCSI traffic

  B. Enable RSS (Receive Side Scaling)

  C. Enable thick provisioning on the Volume Group(s)

  D. Distribute workload across multiple virtual disks

  Correct Answer: BD

• Question 89:

  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?

  A. Utilize Jumbo Frames

  B. Add additional disks to the Volume Group

  C. Set the SCSI timeout value to 60

  D. Utilize a separate subnet for the Linux VMs

  Correct Answer: C

  Ref: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1009465

• Question 90:

  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?

  A. Manage the cluster by using the "nutanix" user on the Prism leader CVM

  B. Create and use an emergency local account on the cluster

  C. Deploy an Active Directory server locally on the cluster

  D. Manage the cluster remotely by downloading ncli to a remote workstation

  Correct Answer: B