Nutanix Exam Nutanix NCP 4

Question 1

Which Nutanix AOS feature reduces storage consumption by identifying and eliminating redundant data blocks across VMs in a storage container?

Accepted Answer

Deduplication

Answer

Deduplication eliminates duplicate data blocks within a container, significantly reducing storage footprint especially in VDI environments with many similar VMs.

Question 2

In Nutanix, what does 'Erasure Coding' (EC-X) provide compared to standard replication?

Accepted Answer

Equivalent data protection with lower storage overhead

Answer

Erasure Coding provides the same data protection as RF-2 or RF-3 while using significantly less storage capacity by storing parity data instead of full replicas.

Question 3

Which Nutanix product provides a Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications on Nutanix infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

Nutanix Karbon

Answer

Nutanix Karbon (now NKE - Nutanix Kubernetes Engine) is a managed Kubernetes service that simplifies deploying, managing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters on Nutanix.

Question 4

What is the function of the Nutanix 'Stargate' service running on each CVM?

Accepted Answer

Handles all VM I/O requests and data path operations

Answer

Stargate is the data I/O gateway on each CVM that handles all read and write operations between the hypervisor and the distributed storage fabric.

Question 5

In Nutanix Calm, which entity represents a deployable unit consisting of multiple services, configurations, and actions for an application?

Accepted Answer

Blueprint

Answer

A Blueprint in Nutanix Calm defines the complete application topology, including services, dependencies, credentials, and lifecycle actions for automated provisioning.

Nutanix Exam Practice Test

Nutanix Exam Practice Test

Nutanix Exam Nutanix NCP 4