NCP Storage Management and Data Services 2

Question 1

Which Nutanix service is responsible for managing metadata and ensuring data locality on the platform?

Accepted Answer

Cassandra

Answer

Stargate

Answer

Zookeeper

Answer

Acropolis

Question 2

What is the primary purpose of Nutanix Shadow Clones?

Accepted Answer

To cache frequently read VM disks on local nodes to reduce network I/O

Answer

To create point-in-time snapshots for backup

Answer

To replicate data to a remote DR site

Answer

To mirror data to a secondary storage container

Question 3

What does the Stargate service in Nutanix AOS primarily handle?

Accepted Answer

All data I/O operations including reads and writes

Answer

Cluster configuration and node discovery

Answer

Hypervisor lifecycle management

Answer

Alert generation and reporting

Question 4

In Nutanix, what is the minimum number of nodes required to enable Erasure Coding (EC-X)?

Accepted Answer

4 nodes

Answer

2 nodes

Answer

3 nodes

Answer

6 nodes

Question 5

Which Nutanix protocol allows VMs to access block storage volumes directly, bypassing the hypervisor datastore?

Accepted Answer

iSCSI

Answer

NFS

Answer

SMB

Answer

FTP

Question 6

What Nutanix data service provides native file storage (NAS) capabilities on the Nutanix platform?

Accepted Answer

Nutanix Files (formerly AFS)

Answer

Nutanix Volumes

Answer

Nutanix Objects

Answer

Nutanix Mine

Question 7

When Nutanix compression is set to 'Inline', when does compression occur?

Accepted Answer

Immediately as data is written to disk

Answer

During nightly scheduled maintenance windows

Answer

After data has been cold for 60 minutes

Answer

Only when the storage tier is 80% full