Nutanix Exam Nutanix AHV Virtualization & VM Management 2

Question 1

What is the primary purpose of installing Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) inside a virtual machine?

Accepted Answer

To enable VSS-based application-consistent snapshots and self-service file restore within the guest

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To manage cluster-level storage replication policies

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To monitor host-level network traffic between nodes

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To configure VLAN tagging on the VM's virtual NICs

Question 2

In Nutanix Prism Central, what is the primary function of 'Categories'?

Accepted Answer

To group VMs and entities for policy-based management and automation

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To define storage pool capacity allocation per cluster

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To assign VLAN IDs to virtual network interfaces

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To configure CPU affinity and pinning rules for VMs

Question 3

Which AHV operation creates a fully independent copy of a virtual machine that can be modified without affecting the original?

Accepted Answer

Clone

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Snapshot

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Template

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Live migration

Question 4

What does 'CPU overcommit' mean in the context of AHV virtualization?

Accepted Answer

Assigning more vCPUs across all VMs than there are physical CPU threads on the host

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Enabling hyperthreading on the physical host CPU

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Setting hard CPU limits on individual virtual machines

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Pinning specific vCPUs to dedicated physical cores

Question 5

What is the Nutanix AHV built-in feature equivalent to VMware's Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for automatic VM load balancing?

Accepted Answer

Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler (ADS)

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Nutanix Calm

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Nutanix Flow

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Prism Pro Analytics

Question 6

What does an AHV VM snapshot capture?

Accepted Answer

The complete VM state including configuration, in-memory state, and disk contents at that point in time

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Only the VM's configuration settings such as vCPU and RAM allocation

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Only the virtual disk contents at the time of creation

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Only the hypervisor-level metadata for the VM

Question 7

What technology does Prism Element use to provide VM console access directly within a web browser?

Accepted Answer

HTML5-based console using WebSocket/noVNC

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Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

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SSH port forwarding

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Java-based VNC client plugin