Nutanix Exam Nutanix Exam Infrastructure & Architecture 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the minimum number of nodes required to form a Nutanix cluster?
- 1
- 2
- 3 (Correct answer)
- 5
Correct answer: 3
A Nutanix cluster requires a minimum of 3 nodes to provide redundancy and fault tolerance.
Question 2: Which Nutanix component is responsible for managing and distributing data across nodes?
- Prism Element
- Acropolis File Services
- Controller VM (CVM) (Correct answer)
- Flow
Correct answer: Controller VM (CVM)
The Controller VM (CVM) runs on each node and handles all I/O operations and data distribution across the cluster.
Question 3: What does HCI stand for in the context of Nutanix?
- Hosted Cloud Infrastructure
- Hyperconverged Infrastructure (Correct answer)
- High Capacity Integration
- Hybrid Cloud Interface
Correct answer: Hyperconverged Infrastructure
HCI stands for Hyperconverged Infrastructure, which combines compute, storage, and networking into a single software-defined system.
Question 4: Which Nutanix product provides centralized management for multiple clusters across sites?
- Prism Element
- Prism Central (Correct answer)
- AHV
- Calm
Correct answer: Prism Central
Prism Central is Nutanix's global management plane that provides a single pane of glass for managing multiple clusters.
Question 5: What is the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) primarily designed to replace?
- Traditional SAN/NAS storage (Correct answer)
- Physical switches
- Hypervisors
- Load balancers
Correct answer: Traditional SAN/NAS storage
The Nutanix DSF is designed to replace traditional SAN and NAS storage by providing distributed, software-defined storage directly on the nodes.
Question 6: Which replication factor in Nutanix stores two copies of data across different nodes?
- RF1
- RF2 (Correct answer)
- RF3
- RF4
Correct answer: RF2
RF2 (Replication Factor 2) stores two copies of data across different nodes, tolerating the failure of one node.
What is the minimum number of nodes required to form a Nutanix cluster?