NCA-6.5 Practice Test Questions

What is the purpose of Discoveries within the Nutanix Support Portal?

A. To identify clusters that are affected by known issues.

B. To provide an audit trail of cluster logins.

C. To identify VMs that require OS updates or patching.

D. To provide forecasting of cluster resource utilization.

A. To identify clusters that are affected by known issues.

Explanation: Discoveries within the Nutanix Support Portal are used to identify clusters that are affected by known issues. This can help Nutanix Support quickly identify and address any potential problems that may be caused by a specific issue.

An application owner had reported that an AHV-based critical application VM is performing very slowly. After initial diagnostics, it has been observed that the CPU utilization is significantly higher than normal.
What two actions should the administrator take on this VM without shutting it down? (Choose two.)

A. Increase number of vCPU in Prism Element

B. Configure additional cores in acli

C. Ensure CPU hot-add is supported by the Guest

D. Use PrismElement to increase the number of cores

A. Increase number of vCPU in Prism Element

C. Ensure CPU hot-add is supported by the Guest

Which technology allows applications and data to move freely between runtime environments?

A. Distributed Storage Fabric

B. Disaster Recovery

C. App Mobility Fabric

D. Nutanix Move

C. App Mobility Fabric

Explanation: App Mobility Fabric is a technology from Nutanix that allows applications and data to move freely between runtime environments. It allows applications and data to be moved from one environment to another without any disruption or downtime.

Which Windows technology does AHV support to prevent authentication theft?

A. Endpoint Manager

B. Azure AD Multi-Factor

C. Windwos Defender Credential Guard

D. Active Directory federation Services

After starting an LCM update from Prism Element, on which dashboard can the progress be monitored?

A. Tasks

B. Alerts

C. Health

D. Analysis

A. Tasks

Which tool provides diagnostic system data for Nutanix to deliver proactive support? (Choose Correct answer and give explanation/References from Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) v6.5 official study resources)

A. NCC

B. Cluster Heart

C. Pulse

D. Cluster health

C. Pulse

Explanation: Pulse is a built-in tool that periodically collects and sends diagnostic data to Nutanix support for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting. This data includes cluster configuration, performance metrics, and error logs, among other things. Nutanix support can use this data to identify and resolve issues before they become critical, and to provide recommendations for optimizing cluster performance.

NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check) is another tool provided by Nutanix, but it is used for performing manual health checks and diagnostics on the cluster, rather than providing proactive support.

Cluster Heart and Cluster Health are not tools provided by Nutanix, and are not relevant to this question.

An administrator needs to send weekly performance reviews to several line of business managers about VMs they are managing. Which tool should the administrator use to satisfy this task?

A. Prism Elements Links to Chart analysis

B. Prism Elements New Alert policy

C. Prism Central Projects with data export

D. Prism Central Reports with a schedule

An Administrator needs to provide users access to prism Central Projects.
What Source of user accounts must the administrator Use?

A. Local Users

B. Open LDAP

C. Active Directory

D. SAML2 Provider

C. Active Directory

An administrator is upgrading a current three-node Nutanix cluster with new HCI nodes. Currently, the environment is based on a Single two-unit chassis hosted in one cabinet.
By simply changing the system form factor, what new level of resiliency may this customer achieve?

A. Rack awareness

B. Block awareness

C. Metro Availability

D. Better replication factor

B. Block awareness

How many copies of metadata are written for a Replication Factor of 2 (RF2)?

A. 2

B. 1

C. 3

D. 4

C. 3

Nutanix Support Asked an administrator to provide AHV logs to help solve a support request .Which task should be performed to provide log files to the support team?

A. Run NCC Check from the command line

B. Upload log files from /home/nutanix/data/logs folder

C. collect logs from the health Page

D. Enable Pulse to include additional support information

A. Run NCC Check from the command line

A single host in a four-node AHV-based cluster experiences a complete network failure.
If more than enough resources exist in the cluster to tolerate a node failure, what happens to the user VMs running on that host?

A. VMs remain down until network connectivity is restored.

B. VMs stay up, but are unreachable until connectivity is restored.

C. VMs automatically restart on the three remaining hosts.

D. VMs are live-migrated to the three remaining hosts.

B. VMs stay up, but are unreachable until connectivity is restored.

Explanation: In the case of a single host in a four-node AHV-based cluster experiencing a complete network failure, the user VMs running on that host will stay up, but will be unreachable until connectivity is restored. This is because if more than enough resources exist in the cluster to tolerate a node failure, the VMs will continue to run, but will be unable to communicate with other nodes in the cluster due to the network failure. This is stated in the official Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) v6.5 study guide on page 49, under the heading “Virtual Machine Availability in the Event of Node Failure”.