The correct choice is Prism Central Reports with a Schedule, as it provides: Customizable reports on VM performance. Automated scheduling to ensure reports are sent weekly. Email delivery to business managers without manual intervention.

The Data Services IP allows external connections to Nutanix storage presented by the Volumes feature.

The Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) is Nutanix‘s foundational technology that enables scale-out storage across nodes in the cluster.

The Storage Summary widget on the main Prism Dashboard provides a clear and visible display of recycle bin usage. This is the recommended and documented method to view how much storage the recycle bin is consuming.

Snapshot 2, Details, review restore points, then Clone

Incorrect, cloning is not the correct action for restoring to a previous point in time.

Snapshot 1, Details, review restore points, then Clone

Incorrect, cloning is not the correct action for restoring to a previous point in time.

Snapshot 2, Restore

Incorrect, restoring Snapshot 2 will recover the VM to the previous point in time 03:30.

Correct answer

Snapshot 1, Restore

Correct, Snapshot 1 is the correct snapshot for the specified time.

Details:

The administrator should choose Snapshot 1 and perform a restore to recover the VM to the previous point in time 3:20.

The administrator should create a filter in the Prism Central Audits page to check which users have created VMs within the previous two weeks.

The Discoveries feature helps administrators proactively detect and resolve potential issues in the Nutanix environment.

The Data Resiliency Status widget in Prism Element provides a quick overview of fault tolerance and potential risks.

The Hardware dashboard in Prism Element shows if a node is in maintenance mode prior to an LCM upgrade.

The Health and Data Resiliency area displays a cluster‘s current fitness.

The administrator should open a remote support tunnel and run the Log Collector to collect the requested information.

The Data Services IP is the correct IP address to be used for external iSCSI connections in Nutanix Volumes.

The correct answer is “B. IP Address of Any CVM in the Cluster“, as Prism Element runs on Nutanix Controller VMs (CVMs), and you can access it via https://:9440.

The Cluster Runway is a feature that helps administrators understand available capacity and anticipate resource trends across clusters. It is designed to be easily accessible on the Prism Central Main Dashboard, where aggregated and consolidated data from multiple clusters is displayed in an intuitive format. This central placement ensures that critical capacity insights are immediately visible, aiding in proactive cluster management and planning.

Standard configuration is the recommended method for creating a virtual switch on an AHV cluster.

The Recycle Bin is enabled by default on AOS 5.18 and later.  It retains deleted VMs and their contents (vDisks and configuration information) for up to 24 hours, unless the cluster‘s free storage space reaches critically low levels. You can disable the Recycle Bin by clearing the Retain Deleted VMs for 24h checkbox. After disabling the Recycle Bin, AOS automatically deletes any entities within it after 24 hours.

Correct answer

Power-off the VM and add one core

Correct, adding one core will upgrade the VM to 10 virtual processors, and need power off the VM to add cores as the hot-add only for vCPU

Update the VM adding two cores

Incorrect, updating the VM by adding two cores will upgrade it to 12 virtual processors,

Update the VM adding two vCPUs

Incorrect, adding two vCPUs will upgrade the VM to 16 virtual processors.

Power-off the VM and add one vCPU

Incorrect, adding one vCPU will upgrade the VM to 12 virtual processors, and no need to power-off, this can be done hot-add.

Details:

The administrator should update the VM by adding two cores to upgrade it to 10 virtual processors.

During image sysprep

Incorrect, this dialog is not seen during image sysprep.

Correct answer

During OS installation

Correct, this dialog is seen during the OS installation stage.

Upgrading Nutanix Guest Tools

Incorrect, this dialog is not seen during the upgrade of Nutanix Guest Tools.

When powering on a UEFI VM

Incorrect, this dialog is not seen when powering on a UEFI VM.

Details:

The administrator will see this dialog during the OS installation stage of VM creation.

The default bond type in AHV clusters is Active-Backup, which have no dependancy on the network side.

Only Active Directory is supported for assigning users or groups to Prism Central projects. OpenLDAP and SAML2 can be used for authentication, but project-level access control requires AD. Link below.

This command, executed on any CVM in the cluster, will SSH to all hosts and execute the ovs-vsctl show command, which displays Open vSwitch configuration information, including VLAN tags. You‘ll then need to analyze the output to determine the correct VLAN ID. A more targeted approach would be to SSH to the host and use ovs-vsctl list port br0

The administrator should extract the AOS binaries and metadata to the web server and manually upload AOS binaries and metadata to upgrade and change the dark site configuration.

The destination cluster is determined manually when uploading images to Prism Central.

The administrator should collect logs from the Health page to provide log files to the support team.

The Controller VM (CVM) serves the storage requests when a VM generates I/O.

The first step to evaluate the overall health of the Nutanix cluster is to run NCC.

The correct answer is ADS (Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler), as it is the AHV feature responsible for monitoring resource contention and dynamically balancing workloads to ensure optimal performance.

No physical NICs have been allocated for user VMs

Incorrect, physical NIC allocation is not the issue.

The nodes have no NICs attached to them

Incorrect, NIC attachment is not the issue.

Only 1GbE NIC is attached to the Nutanix nodes

Incorrect, NIC speed is not the issue.

Correct answer

A network was not created during Network Configuration

Correct, the issue is that a network was not created during Network Configuration.

Details:

The issue is that a network was not created during Network Configuration, causing the Network Name dropdown list to be empty.

Synchronous replication needs to be assigned to a VM to allow cross cluster live migration.

The alert suggests that the node not able to enter in maintenance mode.

Data Services IP enables iSCSI connectivity, allowing Veeam to back up Nutanix storage.

Enabling Cluster Lockdown prevents direct password access to CVMs.

Agent VMs keep running in the same host, and shutdown when server under maintenance mode.

A Witness VM prevents split-brain scenarios in a two-node cluster.

A VM Affinity policy defines a VM to host relationship.

Disabling Pulse should be done only when instructed by Nutanix Support.

Data Protection supports DR between Nutanix clusters.

AHV supports built-in IPAM for VM networking.

A VM must be powered off to ensure consistency before creating a template, as active writes can cause corruption in the template.

Enabling Pulse allows Nutanix Support to gather logs proactively.

Adding two NICs to the VM and configuring one for each VLAN allows the VM to communicate with two separate VLANs.

Containers manage data replication and storage efficiency policies in Nutanix.

Containers define the level of redundancy using Replication Factor (RF).

Availability Zones allow administrators to pair sites for Disaster Recovery Policy Creation using Nutanix Leap.

Block

Incorrect, a block failure is not the most likely cause.

Correct answer

CVM

Correct, a CVM failure is the most likely cause.

Disk

Incorrect, a disk failure is not the most likely cause to reduse zookeeper and metadata.

Node

Incorrect, a node failure is not the most likely cause.

Details:

A CVM failure is the most likely cause of the reduced Data Resiliency Status as metadata and zookeeper is 0.

Active-Active with LACP balances network traffic based on source/destination IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports.

Anti-affinity rules ensure SQL VMs are placed on different hosts for redundancy.

An administrator goes to Prism Center to take a consolidated backup of the Key manager Servers.

By default, Nutanix Files deploys three File Server VMs (FSVMs) within a Nutanix cluster. While it‘s possible to deploy with a single FSVM, this configuration is not recommended for production environments due to high availability and scalability limitations.
For each file server, the number of FSVMs must be less than or equal to the number of nodes in the Nutanix cluster; however, you can create multiple file server deployments, which can share nodes. Starting with Nutanix Files 5.0, each Files cluster can support up to 32 FSVMs. Single-FSVM deployments intended for one- and two-node Nutanix clusters are also supported and can be used in larger clusters.

AHV provides Nutanix‘s native virtualization solution.

AOS automatically generates a case with Nutanix Support for critical issues, primarily related to hardware or software problems.

1 VM per Consistency Group will satisfy the requirement to provide data integrity at the application level for a VM replicated to a secondary site.

If a VM is deleted, the Recycle Bin feature in Nutanix AHV allows administrators to restore it quickly and easily if it’s within the configured retention window (typically 24 hours). This feature preserves the most up-to-date state of the VM and avoids the need for external tools or full DR failovers. Thus, Option B: Use the Recycle Bin is the correct answer.

AHV supports Windows Defender Credential Guard to prevent authentication theft.

The Dark Site Bundle allows administrators to download updates externally and apply them in offline environments.

The administrator should power on Virtual Machines after a Protection Domain is migrated.

The GPU Usage chart should be added through VM entity.

Self-healing is the Nutanix concept responsible for accommodating and remediating node failure scenarios.

The Controller VM (CVM) uses the virbr0 bridge to communicate with the AHV host it resides on.

The CVM restarts to handle metadata updates, but the cluster remains functional.