Nutanix Exam Technology & Digital Tools 5

Question 1

In a Nutanix cluster, what happens to storage access if the Controller VM (CVM) on a node fails?

Accepted Answer

VMs on that node transparently access storage through CVMs on other nodes

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Intelligent tiering between SSD and HDD based on data temperature

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Capacity Runway in Prism Pro

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

The maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time

Answer

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.

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