Nutanix Exam Quality Assurance & Improvement 2

Question 1

Which Nutanix tool provides continuous health monitoring and proactive diagnostics for a cluster?

Accepted Answer

NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check)

Answer

NCC runs hundreds of health checks across cluster components to proactively identify issues before they cause outages.

Question 2

What does a 'WARNING' severity NCC check result typically indicate?

Accepted Answer

A condition exists that may lead to a problem if not addressed

Answer

WARNING results flag sub-optimal conditions that are not yet critical but should be remediated to avoid future failures.

Question 3

In Nutanix, what is the primary purpose of Prism Pro's Capacity Runway feature?

Accepted Answer

To forecast when cluster resources will be exhausted based on historical trends

Answer

Capacity Runway uses historical consumption trends to predict how many days remain before CPU, memory, or storage runs out.

Question 4

Which metric is most critical to monitor when assessing storage performance quality on a Nutanix cluster?

Accepted Answer

Average I/O latency at the controller VM level

Answer

Controller VM I/O latency directly reflects storage performance quality and is the primary indicator of whether VMs are experiencing delays.

Question 5

What action should be taken when an NCC check reports a 'FAIL' for a disk in a degraded state?

Accepted Answer

Engage Nutanix Support and prepare for disk replacement

Answer

A FAIL on a degraded disk indicates hardware risk; Nutanix Support should be engaged immediately to coordinate disk replacement before data loss.

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