Nutanix Exam Nutanix AHV Virtualization & VM Management 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the primary purpose of installing Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) inside a virtual machine?
- To manage cluster-level storage replication policies
- To enable VSS-based application-consistent snapshots and self-service file restore within the guest (Correct answer)
- To monitor host-level network traffic between nodes
- To configure VLAN tagging on the VM's virtual NICs
Correct answer: To enable VSS-based application-consistent snapshots and self-service file restore within the guest
NGT enables in-guest capabilities including VSS-based application-consistent snapshots, self-service file restore (SSR), and enhanced live migration support.
Question 2: In Nutanix Prism Central, what is the primary function of 'Categories'?
- To define storage pool capacity allocation per cluster
- To group VMs and entities for policy-based management and automation (Correct answer)
- To assign VLAN IDs to virtual network interfaces
- To configure CPU affinity and pinning rules for VMs
Correct answer: To group VMs and entities for policy-based management and automation
Categories are key-value metadata pairs assigned to entities in Prism Central, enabling policy-based management for security, DR protection, and compliance automation.
Question 3: Which AHV operation creates a fully independent copy of a virtual machine that can be modified without affecting the original?
- Snapshot
- Template
- Clone (Correct answer)
- Live migration
Correct answer: Clone
Cloning creates a fully independent VM with its own disk images, unlike snapshots which are point-in-time captures linked to the original VM's data.
Question 4: What does 'CPU overcommit' mean in the context of AHV virtualization?
- Enabling hyperthreading on the physical host CPU
- Setting hard CPU limits on individual virtual machines
- Assigning more vCPUs across all VMs than there are physical CPU threads on the host (Correct answer)
- Pinning specific vCPUs to dedicated physical cores
Correct answer: Assigning more vCPUs across all VMs than there are physical CPU threads on the host
CPU overcommit assigns more total vCPUs across VMs than physical thread count, relying on the hypervisor scheduler to time-share physical cores among competing VMs.
Question 5: What is the Nutanix AHV built-in feature equivalent to VMware's Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for automatic VM load balancing?
- Nutanix Calm
- Nutanix Flow
- Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler (ADS) (Correct answer)
- Prism Pro Analytics
Correct answer: Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler (ADS)
The Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler (ADS) automatically balances VM workloads across cluster nodes based on CPU and memory utilization without manual administrator intervention.
Question 6: What does an AHV VM snapshot capture?
- Only the VM's configuration settings such as vCPU and RAM allocation
- Only the virtual disk contents at the time of creation
- Only the hypervisor-level metadata for the VM
- The complete VM state including configuration, in-memory state, and disk contents at that point in time (Correct answer)
Correct answer: The complete VM state including configuration, in-memory state, and disk contents at that point in time
AHV snapshots capture the full VM state — configuration, in-memory data, and all disk contents — enabling a complete rollback to exactly how the VM was at that moment.
Question 7: What technology does Prism Element use to provide VM console access directly within a web browser?
- Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
- SSH port forwarding
- HTML5-based console using WebSocket/noVNC (Correct answer)
- Java-based VNC client plugin
Correct answer: HTML5-based console using WebSocket/noVNC
Prism uses an HTML5/WebSocket-based console (noVNC) for browser-native VM console access without requiring any additional client-side software installation.
Nutanix Exam Nutanix AHV Virtualization & VM Management 2
What is the primary purpose of installing Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) inside a virtual machine?