Nutanix Exam Technology & Digital Tools 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In a Nutanix cluster, what happens to storage access if the Controller VM (CVM) on a node fails?
- VMs on that node transparently access storage through CVMs on other nodes (Correct answer)
- All VMs on the node are immediately powered off
- The node is isolated and data becomes inaccessible until CVM restarts
- A manual failover command must be issued by the administrator
Correct answer: VMs on that node transparently access storage through CVMs on other nodes
Nutanix's CVM autopathing feature redirects storage I/O to remote CVMs on healthy nodes, ensuring transparent continued access if a local CVM fails.
Question 2: Which Nutanix technology allows workloads to run and be managed consistently across on-premises Nutanix clusters and public cloud environments?
- Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) (Correct answer)
- Nutanix Objects
- Nutanix Mine
- Prism Element
Correct answer: Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
NC2 (Nutanix Cloud Clusters) extends the Nutanix HCI stack to AWS and Azure bare-metal instances, enabling consistent management via Prism Central.
Question 3: What type of storage tiering does Nutanix use to automatically move hot data to faster media?
- Intelligent tiering between SSD and HDD based on data temperature (Correct answer)
- Manual administrator-defined storage pools
- Fixed pinning of all VM data to SSD only
- Network-based tiering to a remote NAS appliance
Correct answer: Intelligent tiering between SSD and HDD based on data temperature
Nutanix automatically promotes frequently accessed (hot) data to SSD and demotes cold data to HDD, optimizing performance and capacity utilization.
Question 4: Which Nutanix Prism feature provides predictive capacity forecasting to help plan infrastructure growth?
- Capacity Runway in Prism Pro (Correct answer)
- Storage Reservations in Prism Element
- Cluster Expand wizard
- LCM inventory scan
Correct answer: Capacity Runway in Prism Pro
Prism Pro's Capacity Runway analyzes historical usage trends and predicts when the cluster will run out of CPU, memory, or storage resources.
Question 5: When configuring Protection Domains in Nutanix for backup and replication, what does the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) define?
- The maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time (Correct answer)
- The time required to restore a VM from backup
- The number of simultaneous snapshots retained
- The maximum network bandwidth used during replication
Correct answer: The maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time
RPO defines the maximum tolerable data loss — for example, an RPO of 1 hour means no more than 1 hour of data can be lost in a disaster scenario.
Question 6: What is the role of the Nutanix 'Acropolis' layer in the HCI stack?
- It provides the hypervisor, storage, and networking services that form the foundation of AHV clusters (Correct answer)
- It is the web-based management UI for cluster administrators
- It handles only external network routing between clusters
- It is a container runtime for Kubernetes pods
Correct answer: It provides the hypervisor, storage, and networking services that form the foundation of AHV clusters
Acropolis is the distributed platform layer that integrates AHV hypervisor, distributed storage fabric, and virtual networking into a unified HCI foundation.
Question 7: In Nutanix, what is a 'storage container' and how does it relate to VMs?
- A logical storage pool with configurable policies like compression and deduplication applied to VM disks within it (Correct answer)
- A Docker container used to run stateful applications
- A physical disk group reserved for a single VM
- A backup repository on a remote NFS target
Correct answer: A logical storage pool with configurable policies like compression and deduplication applied to VM disks within it
A Nutanix storage container is a logical abstraction of storage where administrators apply data efficiency policies; VM virtual disks (vDisks) reside inside containers.
Nutanix Exam Technology & Digital Tools 5
In a Nutanix cluster, what happens to storage access if the Controller VM (CVM) on a node fails?