Practice Exam NCP-MCI: Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure

Question bank: 150 · timed mock exam: 120 min

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  • Manage Clusters in a Multicloud Environment 38 questions
  • Manage Workloads in a Multicloud Environment 38 questions
  • Perform DR and Data Protection in a Multicloud Environment 38 questions
  • Perform Operations and Monitoring in a Multicloud Environment 36 questions
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The 150 questions cover 4 domains: Manage Clusters in a Multicloud Environment, Manage Workloads in a Multicloud Environment, Perform DR and Data Protection in a Multicloud Environment, Perform Operations and Monitoring in a Multicloud Environment. 25 of them are free, without an account.

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Question 1 Manage Clusters in a Multicloud Environment

A new AHV cluster is joining an Active Directory domain. The Windows team suggests that you add the two domain controllers as the cluster's only NTP servers, because every Windows server in the company already uses them. What is the recommended time configuration for the Nutanix hosts and CVMs?

  1. Leave the NTP list empty so that each CVM follows the clock of its AHV host
  2. Point the hosts and CVMs directly at the reliable non-Windows NTP sources that the domain controllers themselves use, with at least five sources in the list
  3. Add the two domain controllers and one public pool.ntp.org server
  4. Add the two domain controllers as the only NTP servers, because they are the time authority of the domain
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: B

In an AD domain, the documented best practice is to bypass the domain controllers and to synchronize the hosts and CVMs directly with the sources the domain controllers use, with a common list of at least five reliable non-Windows NTP sources.

Source: official documentation

Question 2 Manage Workloads in a Multicloud Environment

Two SQL Server VMs, SQL1 and SQL2, are in a VM group with a legacy VM-VM anti-affinity policy set with aCLI. During a busy week, an administrator live-migrates SQL2 and explicitly selects the host where SQL1 is running as the target. What happens?

  1. The migration completes, and ADS then moves SQL2 back to another host to restore compliance
  2. The migration completes, and the anti-affinity policy is removed from the VM group
  3. The migration completes, and ADS ignores anti-affinity compliance for this move because a host was specified
  4. The migration is blocked because it violates the anti-affinity policy
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: C

The VM-VM anti-affinity policy is preferential; it does not block a manual live migration. When a host is specified during a manual migration, ADS ignores compliance with the policy.

Source: official documentation

Question 3 Perform DR and Data Protection in a Multicloud Environment

Site A loses power. On the Prism Element web console of site B, you select the asynchronous protection domain and click Activate. What is the state of the protected VMs right after the operation?

  1. They are restored from the last fully-replicated snapshot and registered on site B, but they are not powered on
  2. Activation is refused until site A is reachable again
  3. They are restored from the snapshot that was still replicating when site A failed
  4. They are restored and powered on automatically with their original IP addresses
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: A

Activate restores the VM and volume group files from the last fully-replicated snapshot, registers them on the recovery site and marks the protection domain active. The VMs are not powered on, so that you can fix network issues such as IP conflicts first.

Source: official documentation

Question 4 Perform Operations and Monitoring in a Multicloud Environment

Rebuild capacity reservation is enabled on a cluster, and used capacity is close to the resilient capacity. To save CVM CPU, an engineer proposes to disable compression on the largest storage container. What is your assessment?

  1. Risky: disabling it can push used capacity beyond 95 percent and put the cluster in read-only mode; add host capacity instead
  2. Safe: compression settings do not change used capacity
  3. Risky only if the container also uses erasure coding
  4. Safe, as long as the Recycle Bin is disabled first
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: A

With rebuild capacity reservation enabled, the guide warns not to disable compression, deduplication or erasure coding: used capacity can jump beyond 95 percent and put the cluster in read-only mode when usage is already near the threshold. The documented remedy near the threshold is to add host capacity.

Source: official documentation

Question 5 Manage Clusters in a Multicloud Environment

You are preparing the network plan for a cluster that will serve Nutanix Volumes to external Windows servers over iSCSI. Which statement about the iSCSI data services IP address is correct?

  1. It must be placed in a dedicated iSCSI subnet, separate from the Controller VM subnet
  2. It must be in the same subnet as the eth0 addresses of the cluster Controller VMs
  3. Each Controller VM needs its own data services IP address, and clients use Microsoft MPIO across them
  4. It must be the same address as the cluster virtual IP address
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Correct answer: B

The guide states that the iSCSI data services IP address must be in the same subnet as the Controller VM eth0 addresses.

Source: official documentation

Question 6 Manage Workloads in a Multicloud Environment

VM-A has affinity policies configured. An administrator clones VM-A to create VM-B. Later, VM-A is lost and restored from a DR snapshot as VM-C. Which VMs get the affinity policies automatically?

  1. Both VM-B and VM-C
  2. Only VM-B, the clone
  3. Only VM-C, the VM restored from the DR snapshot
  4. Neither; policies must always be reapplied by hand
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: C

Policies are applied automatically to a VM restored from a DR snapshot, but not to a cloned VM.

Source: official documentation

Question 7 Perform DR and Data Protection in a Multicloud Environment

Before planned maintenance, you want to move an asynchronous protection domain from site A to site B. Site A is running and reachable. You log in to site B, click Activate on the protection domain, and receive the error "Protection domain is already active on source site". What is the correct next step?

  1. Shut down the site A cluster to simulate a disaster, then Activate on site B
  2. Run ncli pd deactivate-and-destroy-vms on site A, then Activate on site B again
  3. Retry Activate on site B with the force option
  4. Start the Migrate operation for the protection domain from site A
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: D

When the source is reachable, the error message itself tells you to trigger Migrate from the source site. Migrate is the planned failover path.

Source: official documentation

Question 8 Perform Operations and Monitoring in a Multicloud Environment

In the Prism Element Storage Summary widget, you open the warning threshold setting for resilient capacity and choose Use default. Which threshold is applied?

  1. 95%
  2. 50%
  3. 75%
  4. 90%
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: C

The Use default option applies a 75% warning threshold for resilient capacity.

Source: official documentation

Question 9 Manage Clusters in a Multicloud Environment

An analytics VM on AHV has a single vNIC that opens many parallel TCP sessions, and it saturates one 10 GB uplink. The network team can configure LACP and link aggregation on the top-of-rack switches. Which bond type on the virtual switch lets this one VM NIC use more than a single adapter?

  1. Active-Backup
  2. Active-Active with MAC pinning (balance-slb)
  3. Active-Active with LACP (balance-tcp)
  4. No Uplink Bond
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Correct answer: C

LACP with balance-tcp balances the TCP and UDP sessions of a VM NIC among adapters, so it increases both host and VM bandwidth beyond a single 10 GB adapter. It needs LACP and link aggregation on the switches, which is available here.

Source: official documentation

Question 10 Manage Workloads in a Multicloud Environment

You are creating two storage containers for a VDI project: container VDI-P for persistent full-clone desktops, and container VDI-L for Nutanix VAAI linked-clone desktops. The customer's license includes capacity deduplication. Where should you enable capacity deduplication?

  1. On VDI-P only
  2. On VDI-L only
  3. On both containers
  4. On neither container, because deduplication is never recommended for desktops
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: A

The deduplication best-practice table lists full clones and persistent desktops among the cases where you enable deduplication.

Source: official documentation

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