Nutanix Exam Introduction to Nutanix 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Nutanix service provides enterprise file storage (NAS) natively within the HCI cluster?
- Nutanix Volumes
- Nutanix Objects
- Nutanix Files (Correct answer)
- Nutanix Era
Correct answer: Nutanix Files
Nutanix Files delivers scale-out SMB and NFS file services natively on the Nutanix cluster without external NAS appliances.
Question 2: What is Nutanix Calm used for?
- Network traffic flow monitoring
- Application lifecycle management and infrastructure automation (Correct answer)
- Disaster recovery replication
- Database-as-a-Service provisioning
Correct answer: Application lifecycle management and infrastructure automation
Nutanix Calm is a multi-cloud application automation and lifecycle management platform that uses Blueprints to model and deploy applications.
Question 3: In a Nutanix cluster, what happens to cluster operations if a single node loses power unexpectedly?
- The entire cluster shuts down immediately
- Data is unavailable until the node is restored
- The cluster continues operating using data replicas on surviving nodes (Correct answer)
- All VMs pause until quorum is re-established
Correct answer: The cluster continues operating using data replicas on surviving nodes
Because Nutanix replicates data (RF2/RF3) across multiple nodes, surviving nodes continue serving data from their copies during a node failure.
Question 4: Which Nutanix product provides database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and other databases?
- Nutanix Files
- Nutanix Era (Correct answer)
- Nutanix Calm
- Nutanix Objects
Correct answer: Nutanix Era
Nutanix Era provides one-click database provisioning, patching, cloning, and lifecycle management for multiple database engines.
Question 5: What does the Nutanix 'Expand Cluster' operation allow administrators to do?
- Migrate the cluster to a new data center
- Add new nodes to an existing cluster to increase capacity linearly (Correct answer)
- Split one cluster into two smaller clusters
- Add external SAN storage to the cluster
Correct answer: Add new nodes to an existing cluster to increase capacity linearly
Expand Cluster allows non-disruptive addition of new nodes, with Nutanix automatically rebalancing data and adding capacity immediately.
Question 6: What is Nutanix Objects?
- A key-value database service
- S3-compatible object storage service running natively on Nutanix (Correct answer)
- A virtual object storage gateway for external SANs
- A containerized application marketplace
Correct answer: S3-compatible object storage service running natively on Nutanix
Nutanix Objects is an S3-compatible object store that runs natively on the Nutanix cluster, supporting unstructured data at scale.
Question 7: Which Nutanix component provides one-click upgrades for the entire hyperconverged stack (AOS, AHV, firmware)?
- Prism Central
- Life Cycle Manager (LCM) (Correct answer)
- Foundation
- Move
Correct answer: Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
LCM (Life Cycle Manager) automates and orchestrates non-disruptive rolling upgrades of AOS, AHV, and node firmware from within Prism.
Nutanix Exam Introduction to Nutanix 4
Which Nutanix service provides enterprise file storage (NAS) natively within the HCI cluster?