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2. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. 1.What is the expected behavior of the VMs residing on that host when a controller VM becomes unavailable? A. A Live Migration will be performed on the affected VMs. B. The host will automatically redirect I/O and VMs will continue running. C. The impacted host and VMs will automatically shut down. D. VM High Availability will restart the impacted VMs on another host Answer: B 2.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? A. Compression only B. Deduplication and Erasure Coding C. Compressor and Deduplication D. Compression Deduplication and Erasure Coding Answer: C 3.An administrator has been alerted to a VM that has high I/O latency and wants to determine if there are any other factors, such as insufficient network or memory resources that correlate, as part of a troubleshooting process. Which type of chart should the administrator create to allow all relevant data to be easily exported to CSV for later analysis? A. A VM entity chart with each of the relevant metrics. B. A cluster metric chart for each of the relevant metrics C. A cluster entity chart with each of the relevant metrics D. A VM metric chart for each of the relevant metrics Answer: D 4.A configuration is single domain, single forest, and does not use SSL. Which port number should be used to configure LDAP? A. 389 B. 3269 C. 636 D. 3268 Answer: A 5.An administrator wants to use Volumes to connect to physical servers that are not able to be virtualized. Which three things must be configured for Volumes to support iSCSI clients? (Choose three) A. Enable external client access B. Client OS iSCSI initiator C. iSCSI Multipathing I/O D. Cluster Virtual IP address E. Data Services IP address Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest 2 / 19

3. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. Answer: B,D,E Explanation: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details/?targetId=Web-ConsoleGuide-Prism-v51: wc-block-services-c.html 6.Which two private key types are supported by the Nutanix SSL certificate implementation? (Choose two.) A. ECDSA B. ECDH C. ED25519 D. RSA Answer: A,D 7.How many Prism Central instances are required to deploy Leap:' A. One per availability zone B. One per customer environment C. One per physical site D. One per AHV cluster Answer: A 8.Which three configuration scenarios are valid for the deployment of Prism Central? (Choose three.) A. Environments use Network Address Translation. B. Prism Elements and Prism Central art in different subnets. C. Environments do not have Internet access. D. Prism Elements and Prism Central have proxy configured. E. Environments use the 192.168.5.0/24 CVM management network. Answer: A,C,E 9.What are two minimum prerequisites for live migration to succeed? (Choose two.) A. All AHV hosts have IP addresses in the same subnet B. All AHV hosts must be configured on the same VLAN C. All VMs have an IP address in the same subnet D. All VMs are configured for the same VLAN Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest Answer: A,B 10.An administrator needs to bring down a host in a Nutanix Cluster for maintenance reasons. The administrator puts the host in maintenance mode. What should the administrator do to perform an orderly shutdown of the CVM? A. Execute the cvm_shutdown -P new command from the CVM. B. Enter Fever off Server - immediate from the IPMI console. C. Enter Fewer off Server-orderly Shutdown from the IPMI console. D. Execute the cvm_shutdown -P now command from the host. Answer: A 3 / 19

4. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. 11.An administrator is commissioning a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Once the user VMs have been deployed and are running, the administrator finds that VMs on the same host are able to communicate, but are unable to communicate between hosts. What must be changed to enable full inter-VM communications? A. Change the spanning-tree port type on the switch. B. Change the network the VMs are connected to C. Update the switch to specifically allow VLAN 15 D. The VMs need to have static IP addresses. Answer: C 12.A customer has a newly-deployed AHV cluster with nodes that have 2.x 10 GBE and 2.x interface. The customer wants to use all available network interfaces to provide connectivity to the VMs. Which option should the administrator use to achieve this while remaining consistent with Nutanix recommendations? A. Create separate VLANs that map 10GbE and 1GbE interfaces. B. Createbond1 on virbr0 and add the 1GbE interfaces to it for VM use. C. Create a second bond on br0 on each host and assign the 1 GbE interfaces to it. D. Create a second bridge on each host and assign the 1GbE interfaces to it. Answer: D 13.An administrator is configuring data protection and DR for a multi-tier application. All VMs must be protected at the same time. What must the administrator do to meet this requirement? A. Create a consistency group for each VM with identical schedules B. Create a consistency group for the application and place all VMs in it C. Create a protection domain for the application and select auto-protect related entities D. Create a protection domain for each VM with identical schedules Answer: B 14.HOTSPOT What is the proper sequence to perform a one-click upgrade to a Nutanix cluster? Item instructions: For each procedure, indicate the order in which that procedure must take place to meet the item requirements. Not all procedures are valid. Identify any invalid procedures using the drop-down option. Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest 4 / 19

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8. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. Explanation: Step 1 ---> Login into Prism Element. Step 2 ---> Select the Gear Icon at top right of the page. Step 3 ---> Click Upgrade Software. Step 4 ---> Select the component to upgrade. Step 5 ---> Click download. Step 6 ---> Once the download completes, select upgrade. Invalid: 1 - Select Prism Central. 2 - Select user login. 3 - On left select upgrade Prism Central. 15.A system 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) A. Enable Deduplication and Ensure Coding B. Utilize Optimize Resources for VM efficiency C. Determine utilization with Cluster Runway D. Perform an inventory with Life Cycle Management Answer: B 16.Which best practice should be followed when creating a bond in a Nutanix cluster? A. Place NICs of different speeds within the same bond B. Configure the bond to use LACP C. Only utilize NICs of the same speed within the same bond D. Use the default bond configuration after installation Answer: A Explanation: Reference: https://next.nutanix.com/blog-40/maximum-performance-from-acropolis- hypervisor-and-openvswitch-6312 17.A customer wants to isolate a group of VMs within their Nutanix environment for security reasons. The customer creates a VM with two NICs to act as a firewall and installs the appropriate software and certificates. Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest However, no one from the outside can access the application. What is the likely cause of this problem? A. A shared volume group must be used by all isolated VMs B. More than one NIC cannot be added to a VM C. One of the NICs needs to be configured on the internal VLAN D. Wireshark is installed on the NAT VM Answer: C 18.In which two scenarios is an automated live migration likely to occur? (Choose two) A. Cluster resource hotspot 8 / 19

9. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. B. AOS upgrade C. Network upgrade D. Hypervisor upgrade Answer: A,D 19.An administrator logs in to Prism Element goes to the Network view, and sees the output shown in the exhibit. Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest A. High Availability B. Protection Domain C. Host Affinity Rules D. Availability Zone Answer: A 22.What is the name of the internal bridge used by AHV nodes and CVMs? A. vnet0 B. br1 C. br0 Which three steps must the administrator take to increase throughput to the host? (Choose three.) A. Connect the 10Gb interfaces to the physical switch. B. Change the bond mode to balance-slb or balance—tcp. C. Remove any 1Gb interfaces still connected from the default bond. D. Add a new switch to the network and connect 1Gb interfaces to it. E. Change the VLAN ID to a higher priority ID. Answer: A,B,E 20.When configuring Prism Central, which two log modules are able to forward messages to an external syslog server? (Choose two. A. API Audit B. Flow C. DNS D. NTP Synchronization Answer: A,B 21.In Nutanix clusters, which feature ensures VMs can be migrated and restarted on another host in case of failure? 9 / 19

10. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. D. virbr0 Answer: D 23.A customer has a 24-node cluster with all containers configured with RF3. Two different nodes have incurred a simultaneous HDD failure. What is the result? A. The cluster runs in a degraded state until the failed drives are replaced and the data has been restored to three replicas. B. Sixty minutes after the failures a rebuild of the lost data can remaining HDDs begins to restore to three replicas. C. The VMs with data on those drives crash, and an HA event occurs, restarting them on a remaining healthy node. D. The Nutanix cluster recognizes the failures and immediately begins to rebuild lost data to three replicas. Answer: D 24.An Administrator is working on a one-node ROBO cluster configurations Which statement is true for this configuration? A. Witness vm required to break cluster quoram B. Supported hardware is NX-1175-G5 and G6 C. witness vm should be 8vcp and 20gb ram D. the minimum RPO 8 hours required Answer: B Explanation: Reference: https://www.nutanix.com/blog/unlocking-the-roboedge-it-landscape-with-the- launch-of-nutanix-1-node-cluster 25.Which algorithm do snapshots and clones leverage to maximize efficiency and effectiveness? A. Continuous Data Protection B. Copy-on-Write C. Split-mirror D. Redirect-On-Write Answer: D Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest 26.Which method can be used to migrate a VM configured for UEFI-boot from a Nutanix Hyper-V cluster to AHV? A. Live Migration B. Storage vMotion C. Nutanix Move D. Cloud Connect Answer: C 27.An administrator adds a node with older generation processors to an existing AHV cluster with newer generation processors. 10 / 19

11. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. What is the effect on live migration? A. Live migration continues to function as expected and VMs can move to any AHV host. B. Live migration is prevented until the administrator enables the legacy migration option. C. Live migration is prevented until the administrator manually changes the newer processor level. D. Live migration of VMs is prevented between newer and older processors. Answer: D 28.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. Distribute workload across multiple virtual disks B. Enable RSS (Receive Side Scaling) C. Use multiple subnets for iSCSI traffic D. Enable thick provisioning on the Volume Group(s) Answer: A,B 29.An administrator notices that most of the VMs in the cluster are on one host. Users report that an application seems to respond slowly. The application server VM has significantly more memory assigned to it than other VMs. How should the administrator fix this issue? A. Reduce the amount of memory assigned to the VM. B. Migrate the VM to a different host. C. Add more memory to the VM. D. Increase the memory on the CVM. Answer: B 30.How many SSL certificates are used by Prism Element on a Nutanix cluster? A. 1 B. 5 C. 256 D. 2048 Answer: A Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest 31.When creating a VM on an AHV cluster, how is the initial placement of the VM determined? A. AHV uses a round robin algorithm, placing new VMs onto hosts based on the numerical order of their UUID B. The administrator right clicks on the desired host and selects Power on VM from the dropdown menu C. The Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler selects a host which provides adequate resources for the VMs configuration D. Placement is determined by the host that holds the new_VM token at the time of VM creation Answer: C 32.An administrator has set up a local web server accessible to the Nutanix clusters. Which two steps are required to set up LCM for an environment without Internet access? (Choose two.) 11 / 19

12. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. A. Download the lcai_disconnecced_version. tar.gz LCM bundle from the support portal. B. Edit LCM Advanced Settings in Prism Element and enter the address of the web server. C. Edit LCM Advanced Settings m Prism Central and enter the address of the web server. D. Download the lcm_dark_site_version. tar . gz LCM bundle from the support portal. Answer: B,D 33.An administrator is adding a node with a higher AOS release to an existing cluster. What is the most efficient action an administrator should take to ensure it is in a supported state? A. Destroy cluster and foundation with the new node in place B. Add the node to the cluster and leave the existing AOS version in place C. Perform standalone reimage of the new node and then add to cluster D. Add the node to the cluster and reboot all running VMs to use new release Answer: C 34.CPU utilization climbs above 90% on several VMs. This causes performance degradation for a business-critical application. How can alerts be configured to notify the administrator before VM CPU utilization hits 90%? A. On a CVM, use ncli to set the VM CPU Check threshold for the critical VMs to a value below 90%. B. On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the alert threshold below 90%. C. On a CVM, configure a cron job to run the VM CPU Check more frequently and email the result. D. On the Alerts dashboard, ensure that the VM CPU usage alert is not set to auto-resolve. Answer: B Explanation: Reference: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Web-Console- Guide-Prismv5_16:Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v5_16 35.Which two access protocols are supported by Files? (Choose two.) A. ISCSI B. SMB C. FCOE D. NFS Answer: B,D Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest 36.An administrator is reviewing performance of a core banking system that routinely has 20,000 concurrent users. During business hours, the CPU on the applications servers runs at close to 100%. The administrator needs to determine if there is a performance issue specific to the app servers, the database servers, or all servers on the cluster. Which metrics should the administrator review in Prism Analytics Graphs? A. Cluster CPU and Memory Only B. Cluster IO, Network, Database and App Server CPU C. Cluster IO, CPU, Memory and Database and App Server CPU D. Cluster IO, CPU, Memory, Network, App Server CPU Answer: B 12 / 19

13. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. 37.Which change can be made on a cluster with software-based Data-at-Rest Encryption enabled? A. Disable encryption on the cluster B. Deploy an additional Native KMS Server C. Enable encryption for a VM D. Change Native KMS to External KMS Answer: D Explanation: Reference: https://next.nutanix.com/blog-40/security-with-simplicity-encryption-for-your- data-with-1-click-28225 38.What is Prism Central primarily used for? A. Multi-cluster network configuration B. Container creation C. Multi-cluster Single Sign On D. Data reduction configuration Answer: C 39.HOTSPOT Async DR is configured between two sites. A network outage occurs at the primary site. Which steps must the administrator perform to bring the VMs back into service at the backup site? Item instructions: For each procedure, indicate the order in which that procedure must take place to meet the item requirements. Not all procedures are valid. Identify any invalid procedures using the drop-down option. Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest 13 / 19

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17. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. 40.An administrator is working with Nutanix Support and needs to provide logs for troubleshooting an issue. The cluster is located in a secure environment. Data such as IP addresses and VM names cannot be shared. Which method should be used to anonymize the log data sent to Nutanix Support? A) B) Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest C) D) A. Option A B. Option B C. Option C D. Option D Answer: D 41.Refer to Exhibit. An administrator increases the cluster RF to 3. The containers are not modified. What will the new values in the data resiliency dashboard be for FAILURES TOLERABLE for the Zookeeper and Extent Groups components? 17 / 19

18. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. A. Zookeeper = 1 and Extent Groups = 1 B. Zookeeper = 2 and Extent Groups = 2 C. Zookeeper = 2 and Extent Groups = 1 D. Zookeeper = 1 and Extent Groups = 2 Answer: D 42.What requires iSCSI initiator configuration in the guest OS to use Volumes? A. SQL Server Always On Availability Group B. Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster C. Oracle RAC D. Exchange DAG Answer: B 43.An administrator needs to boot a VM to a bootable CD. The administrator tries to configure the VM to boot to it, select to add disk, and goes to the images available. The image for the bootable CD is unavailable. What is the Likely issue? A. The CD-ROM interface is too slow. B. The administrator selected a disk attached before it can boot to a CD. C. The VM needs to have a standard disk attached before it can boot to a CD. D. The bootable CD image is corrupted during creation. Answer: B Explanation: Reference: https://next.nutanix.com/prism-infrastructure-management-26/booting-vm-to-cd- no-drives-present-31800 44.AHV IPAM assigns an IP address from the address pool when creating a managed VM NIC. At which two instances does the address release back to the pool? (Choose two) A. The IP address lease expires B. The VM NIC is deleted. C. The IP address is changed to static. D. The VM is deleted. Answer: B,D Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest Explanation: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details/?targetId=BP2029_AHV:BP-2029_AHV Administrators can use Acropolis with IPAM to deliver a complete virtualization deployment, including network management, from the unified Prism interface. This capability radically simplifies the traditionally complex network management associated with provisioning VMs and assigning network addresses. To avoid address overlap, be sure to work with your network team to reserve a range of addresses for VMs before enabling the IPAM feature. The Acropolis master assigns an IP address from the address pool when creating a managed VM NIC; the address releases back to the pool when the VM NIC or VM is deleted. 45.When installing Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) on an ESXi-hosted VM, which port should be enabled on 18 / 19

19. The safer , easier way to help you pass any IT exams. the VM to allow communication with the NGT-Controller VM service? A. 2000 B. 2074 C. 8080 D. 9943 Answer: D 46.Which node type does not deploy a Nutanix Controller VM? A. Storage Only B. Hyper Converged C. Compute Only D. All Flash Answer: D 47.Prism Central will be installed manually on an AHV cluster. Which three disk images must be downloaded from the portal for the Prism Central VM? (Choose three.) A. var B. tmp C. boot D. home E. data Answer: C,D,E Explanation: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-CentralGuide-Prism-v5_10: mul-pc-install-scratch-c.html 48.How will an HDD failure affect VMs with data on the failed device? A. The VMs will crash, and will be restarted once the failed HDD has been replaced and the data has been restored. B. A live migration will be initiated, moving the affected VMs to a host that contains the replica data. C. The VMs will remain operational on that host and continue to function normally with no noticeable impact D. An HA event will occur, causing the affected VMs to restart on a node that contains the replica data. Answer: C 49.The Linux administration team has requested access rights to any current or future Linux VM in the environment What entity should be selected when assigning this new role? A. Image B. AHV Cluster C. Category D. Project Answer: D Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam NCP-MCI-5.15 Study Guide V8.02 Killtest 19 / 19