Nutanix Exam Data Analysis & Reporting 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Nutanix Prism Central feature allows administrators to create custom dashboards with widgets showing real-time cluster metrics?
- Entity Explorer
- Prism Central Dashboards (Correct answer)
- Calm Blueprints
- Flow Network Visualization
Correct answer: Prism Central Dashboards
Prism Central Dashboards let administrators build custom views with metric widgets for real-time monitoring across clusters.
Question 2: In Nutanix Prism, what does the 'Controller VM (CVM) CPU Usage' metric primarily indicate?
- Guest VM workload on the host
- Storage I/O processing overhead on the CVM (Correct answer)
- Network bandwidth utilization
- Memory pressure on the hypervisor
Correct answer: Storage I/O processing overhead on the CVM
CVM CPU usage reflects the overhead of processing storage I/O, data protection, and distributed storage fabric operations.
Question 3: An administrator notices that Prism's storage capacity report shows 'Effective Capacity' is significantly lower than 'Raw Capacity'. What is the most likely explanation?
- Deduplication is disabled
- Erasure coding and replication factor overhead reduce usable space (Correct answer)
- VMs are over-provisioned
- Compression has not been configured
Correct answer: Erasure coding and replication factor overhead reduce usable space
Replication factor (RF2/RF3) and erasure coding consume raw capacity for redundancy, reducing effective usable storage.
Question 4: Which report in Nutanix Prism Central provides a breakdown of VM resource consumption grouped by Nutanix category tags?
- Capacity Runway Report
- VM Efficiency Report
- Chargeback/Showback Report (Correct answer)
- Anomaly Detection Report
Correct answer: Chargeback/Showback Report
The Chargeback/Showback report in Prism Central groups resource consumption by category tags, enabling cost allocation per team or project.
Question 5: What is the purpose of the 'Runway' metric shown in Nutanix Prism's capacity planning?
- Measures current IOPS headroom
- Predicts how many days until a resource reaches capacity (Correct answer)
- Shows VM density per node
- Tracks deduplication savings ratio
Correct answer: Predicts how many days until a resource reaches capacity
Runway is a forward-looking metric that estimates the number of days before a resource (CPU, memory, or storage) is fully consumed at current growth trends.
Question 6: In Nutanix cluster analysis, what does a high 'I/O Latency' value on a specific datastore typically indicate?
- Excessive network packet loss
- Storage contention or insufficient CVM resources for the workload (Correct answer)
- Too many VM snapshots
- Hypervisor CPU scheduling delay
Correct answer: Storage contention or insufficient CVM resources for the workload
High I/O latency on a Nutanix datastore typically signals that CVMs are under-resourced or that the storage workload exceeds the cluster's capacity.
Question 7: Which Nutanix tool allows administrators to schedule automated report generation and email delivery on a recurring basis?
- Prism Central Report Scheduling (Correct answer)
- NCC Health Check Automation
- Calm Action Scheduler
- Karbon Monitoring
Correct answer: Prism Central Report Scheduling
Prism Central's Report Scheduling feature lets admins configure reports to run automatically on daily, weekly, or monthly intervals and send via email.
Nutanix Exam Data Analysis & Reporting 2
Which Nutanix Prism Central feature allows administrators to create custom dashboards with widgets showing real-time cluster metrics?