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This certification measures the ability to analyze, evaluate, and optimize Nutanix platform performance, configuration, and health. It also validates the ability to remediate and evolve the platform so it meets business requirements. The exam is intended for experienced infrastructure professionals with Nutanix virtualization experience and is delivered in a live lab environment.

Exam Topics

  • Analyze and Optimize Storage Performance0%
  • Analyze and Optimize Network Performance0%
  • Advanced Configuration and Troubleshooting0%
  • Analyze and Optimize VM Performance0%
  • Business Continuity0%

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QuestionQ1

Advanced Configuration and Troubleshooting

An administrator must expand an AHV-based cluster running on Nutanix G5 hardware by adding a new Nutanix G7 system. The cluster runs AOS 5.10, but the cluster-expansion operation fails. AOS is running on the new system, and node discovery succeeds without issues.

Why does the operation fail?

  • A AOS version running on G7 is older than the version on the cluster.
  • B Foundation software has not been updated on the cluster.
  • C G7 hardware cannot be added to a G5 cluster.
  • D EVC needs to be configured before cluster expansion
Explanation

A node added during cluster expansion must run an AOS version compatible with and matched to the existing cluster. An older AOS version on the G7 node is incompatible with the cluster running AOS 5.10 and prevents the expansion. Mixed G5 and G7 hardware is supported when the applicable hardware and software compatibility requirements are met; EVC applies to VMware vSphere rather than AHV.

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QuestionQ2

Analyze and Optimize VM Performance

Refer to the exhibits.

An administrator reports that a new VM is performing poorly.

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After reviewing the information shown in the exhibits, which option gives the best conclusion about this workload?

  • A VM is CPU constrained since the hypervisor cannot provide the required resources.
  • B VM is CPU constrained because more CPU needs to be added to the VM.
  • C VM is Storage constrained, because the workload is waiting for storage access.
  • D VM is not CPU constrained, because the VM is not running, a multithreaded application.
Explanation

A four-vCPU VM at roughly 25% total CPU utilization has the equivalent of only one vCPU fully utilized. That pattern is consistent with a workload that is not using multiple execution threads, rather than a VM-wide CPU-resource constraint. The reported storage I/O latency of 2.33 ms and zero controller IOPS do not indicate that the workload is waiting for storage access.

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QuestionQ3

Advanced Configuration and Troubleshooting

While creating an image placement policy on the organization's AOS 5.15-based Nutanix cluster, the administrator wants to ensure that using the selected images on clusters outside the identified set is unrestricted. Which Policy Enforcement type must the administrator select?

  • A Soft
  • B Internal
  • C Hard
  • D External
Explanation

Soft image-placement enforcement allows images to be placed on clusters other than those matched by the policy's identified cluster set. Hard enforcement instead restricts image placement to the clusters enforced by that policy.

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QuestionQ4

Analyze and Optimize VM Performance

An administrator receives reports of poor VDI desktop performance in an 8-node Nutanix VDI environment. Applications take between 1 and 2 minutes to open. During the investigation, the following conditions are identified:

  • Cluster memory utilization: 80%
  • Cluster SSD utilization: 70%
  • Average VM CPU Wait Time: 11%
  • CVM CPU utilization: 75%

Which action should be taken to improve VDI performance?

  • A Increase the amount of SSD storage in the cluster.
  • B Add memory to the nodes in the cluster.
  • C Add CPU resources to the cluster.
  • D Increase the number of vCPU cores allocated to the CVM.
Explanation

An average VM CPU wait time of 11% indicates CPU contention: virtual machines are waiting to be scheduled on physical CPU resources. Adding CPU capacity to the cluster reduces that contention and improves application responsiveness. The reported memory and SSD utilization levels do not identify those resources as the limiting factor.

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QuestionQ5

Business Continuity

A customer has Metro Availability configured in Automatic Resume Mode between Site A and Site B.

What happens to VMs if Primary Site A suffers a full network failure?

  • A Automatic protection domain promotion in Site B. VMs automatically restart in Site
  • B VMs continue to run on Site A following an automatic disable of protection domains.
  • C An administrator must unwitness in Site B and promote protection domains in Site B for VMs to restart
  • D An administrator must promote protection domains in Site B for VMs to restart.
Explanation

In Metro Availability Automatic Resume Mode, an unplanned failover requires manual promotion of the protection domain at the surviving site before protected VMs can restart. The mode does not require the administrator to unwitness Site B before promoting its protection domains.

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