Nutanix Exam Quality Assurance & Improvement 4

Question 1

A Nutanix cluster has an RF2 protection policy. How many simultaneous node failures can it tolerate without data loss?

Accepted Answer

One node failure

Answer

RF2 stores two copies of all data, allowing the cluster to survive a single node failure while remaining fully operational.

Question 2

What is the purpose of running 'ncc health_checks run_all' from the CVM command line?

Accepted Answer

To execute the full suite of NCC health checks and generate a diagnostic report

Answer

This command triggers all registered NCC health checks across the cluster and outputs a consolidated pass/warn/fail report.

Question 3

Which Nutanix feature should an administrator configure to receive automated alerts when cluster CPU utilization exceeds a defined threshold?

Accepted Answer

Prism Alert Policies with email or webhook notification

Answer

Prism Alert Policies allow administrators to define metric thresholds and automatically notify teams via email or webhook when thresholds are breached.

Question 4

In Nutanix, what does a high 'Controller Read I/O Latency' value most likely indicate?

Accepted Answer

Data is not being served from cache and is being read from slower storage tiers

Answer

High read latency on the controller typically means cache miss rates are elevated and reads are falling through to slower HDD or remote storage.

Question 5

Which tool within Nutanix LCM (Life Cycle Manager) ensures hardware firmware is at supported and secure versions?

Accepted Answer

LCM inventory and update engine

Answer

LCM inventories all hardware components and provides one-click updates to ensure firmware versions are supported, secure, and compatible.

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