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The NCP-MCI-6.5 exam is intended for IT professionals who have experience in managing and deploying Nutanix-based multicloud infrastructures. NCP-MCI-6.5 exam tests the candidate's skills in designing, deploying, and managing a multicloud infrastructure that incorporates public and private cloud resources. NCP-MCI-6.5 exam also covers topics such as data protection, disaster recovery, and automation, which are crucial skills for IT professionals working with multicloud infrastructures.
NEW QUESTION # 24
Administrator is creating a Windows 10 VM that will be used for a virtual desktop template. After creating the VM and booting to the ISO, the administrator is unable to install Windows and receives the following error.
What steps does the administrator need to take to install the OS?
- A. Load the Nutanix Virtual Balloon Driver.
- B. Load the VirtIO Network Ethernet Adaper.
- C. Load the Nutanix VirtIO Serial Bus Driver.
- D. Load the Virtual SCSI pass-through controller.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Load the Virtual SCSI pass-through controller.
The error message shown in the image indicates that Windows 10 setup cannot find any drives to install the OS. This is because the Nutanix AHV hypervisor uses a virtual SCSI pass-through controller to present disks to the VMs, and Windows 10 does not have a built-in driver for this device. Therefore, the administrator needs to load the Nutanix VirtIO driver for the virtual SCSI pass-through controller during the OS installation process. The Nutanix VirtIO driver package contains various drivers that are specifically used by Windows VMs hosted in the Nutanix environment to enhance their stability and performance1. The administrator can download the latest Nutanix VirtIO driver package from the VirtIO downloads page of the Nutanix support portal. The administrator can then follow these steps to load the driver and install the OS2:
On the Windows 10 setup screen, click Load driver.
Insert a USB drive or mount an ISO image that contains the Nutanix VirtIO driver package.
Browse to the location of the driver package and select the folder that matches the OS architecture (32-bit or 64-bit).
Select the vioscsi.inf file and click Next.
Wait for the driver to load and then click Refresh.
Select the disk where you want to install Windows 10 and click Next.
References: 1: VirtIO Driver Versions for Windows 2: Installing Windows on AHV
NEW QUESTION # 25
An administrator needs to create a new Linux image and will to do the following as part of the VM deployment:
* Set the OS hostname
* Add custom users
* Add keys
* Run custom scripts
What package needs to be installed in the Linux image to facilitate this automation?
- A. Sysprep
- B. CloudInit
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 26
An administrator is not able to log into Prism Central by using a new Active Directory user account. After Logging with the local user, the administrator verified that Directory Services and Role Mapping setting are valid.
What is the most likely cause of this issue?
- A. Change password at next logon attribute is set.
- B. User does not belong to the Administrators group.
- C. Active Directory functional level of wrong.
- D. Prism Element authentication is not configured.
Answer: A
Explanation:
The change password at next logon attribute is a setting that forces a user to change their password when they log on to a domain for the first time or after their password has expired. This attribute is enabled by default for new Active Directory user accounts or when an administrator resets a user's password4.
However, Prism Central does not support this attribute for Active Directory authentication. Users with this attribute enabled will not be able to log on to Prism Central using their Active Directory credentials. They will receive an error message saying "Invalid credentials" or "Authentication failed" when they try to log on5.
Therefore, if an administrator is not able to log on to Prism Central using a new Active Directory user account, the most likely cause of this issue is that the change password at next logon attribute is set for that user account. To resolve this issue, the administrator should disable this attribute for the user account or log on to a domain workstation first and change their password before accessing Prism Central6.
NEW QUESTION # 27
An administrator logs in to Prism Element goes to the Network view, and sees the output shown in the exhibit.
Which three steps must the administrator take to increase throughput to the host? (Choose three.)
- A. Connect the 10Gb interfaces to the physical switch.
- B. Change the bond mode to balance-slb or balance-tcp.
- C. Add a new switch to the network and connect 1Gb interfaces to it.
- D. Change the VLAN ID to a higher priority ID.
- E. Remove any 1Gb interfaces still connected from the default bond.
Answer: A,B,D
NEW QUESTION # 28
What is Prism Central primarily used for?
- A. Container creation
- B. Multi-cluster network configuration
- C. Data reduction configuration
- D. Multi-cluster Single Sign On
Answer: D
Explanation:
According to the web search results, Prism Central is a multi-cluster manager that provides a single, centralized management interface for Nutanix environments12. One of the features of Prism Central is multi-cluster Single Sign On (SSO), which allows users to log in once and access multiple clusters without re-entering credentials3.
NEW QUESTION # 29
Which two access protocols are supported by Files? (Choose two.)
- A. ISCSI
- B. SMB
- C. FCOE
- D. NFS
Answer: B,D
Explanation:
According to the Network File System web search result3, NFS (Network File System) is a distributed file system protocol that allows a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed. NFS is one of the access protocols supported by Files. According to the [MS-WPO]: File Access Services Protocols web search result4, SMB (Server Message Block) is a Windows file sharing protocol that enables applications to discover, access, and share files that are hosted on or made available by a file server, using a network between them, in a secure and managed environment. SMB is another access protocol supported by Files. Therefore, SMB and NFS are two access protocols supported by Files.
NEW QUESTION # 30
What is the proper sequence to perform a one-click upgrade to a Nutanix cluster?
Item instructions: For each procedure, indicate the order in which that procedure must take place to meet the item requirements. Not all procedures are valid. Identify any invalid procedures using the drop-down option.
Answer:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION # 31
A recently configured cluster is leveraging NearSync with a recovery schedule of 15 minutes. It is noticed that the cluster is consistently transitioning in an Out of NearSyne.
What action should be taken to potentially address this issue?
- A. Add a vCPUs to the user VMs.
- B. Increase network bandwidth
- C. Change the NearSync schedule to 30 minutes.
- D. Configure a secondary schedule in the same Protection Domain.
Answer: B
Explanation:
One of the possible reasons for a cluster to transition out of NearSync is insufficient network bandwidth between the source and target clusters. NearSync requires a minimum network bandwidth of 10 Mbps per VM for replication3. If the network bandwidth is lower than the required amount, the replication of recovery points may take longer than the configured RPO, resulting in an Out of NearSync condition. To address this issue, you can increase the network bandwidth between the clusters or reduce the number of VMs protected by NearSync4.
References: 1: Stargate - Nutanix Bible 2: Nutanix Cluster Architecture Overview - Nutanix Bible 3: NearSync Disaster Recovery (RPO <= 15 minutes) - Nutanix Support & Insights 4: Transitioning in and out of NearSync - Nutanix Support & Insights
NEW QUESTION # 32
An administrator needs to bring down a host in a Nutanix Cluster for maintenance reasons. The administrator puts the host in maintenance mode.
What should the administrator do to perform an orderly shutdown of the CVM?
- A. Execute the cvm_shutdown -P new command from the CVM.
- B. Enter Fewer off Server-orderly Shutdown from the IPMI console.
- C. Execute the cvm_shutdown -P now command from the host.
- D. Enter Fever off Server - immediate from the IPMI console.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 33
Which two types of granular RBAC does Nutanix provide for AHV hosts? (Choose two.)
- A. Category based
- B. Disk based
- C. Cluster based
- D. Project based
Answer: A,C
Explanation:
Nutanix provides two types of granular RBAC for AHV hosts: category based and cluster based3. Category based RBAC allows administrators to assign roles to users or groups based on categories, which are key-value pairs that can be applied to various entities in Prism Central, such as clusters, hosts, VMs, images, and networks. Categories can be used to group entities by different criteria, such as department, project, environment, or location. For example, an administrator can create a category key named Department and assign different values to it, such as Finance, Marketing, or Engineering. Then, the administrator can apply this category to different clusters or hosts and assign roles to users or groups based on this category. This way, users or groups can have different levels of access to different clusters or hosts depending on their department4.
Cluster based RBAC allows administrators to assign roles to users or groups based on specific clusters registered in Prism Central. For example, an administrator can create a role named Cluster Admin and assign it to a user or group for a particular cluster. This way, the user or group can have full access to that cluster and its hosts and VMs, but not to other clusters5.
NEW QUESTION # 34
An administrator needs to limit the amount of storage space that data stored in single container can consume.
Which action should the administrator take?
- A. Store VM snapshots in a different container
- B. Thick prevision the container
- C. Set an advertised capacity for the container
- D. Enable reservation for rebuild capacity
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation
The best way for the administrator to limit the amount of storage space that data stored in a single container can consume is to set an advertised capacity for the container. This will ensure that the data stored in the container doesn't exceed the set limit, and it will also help prevent any potential performance issues due to resource contention. Additionally, the administrator should consider thick provisioning the container, which will pre-allocate the amount of storage space that can be used by the container. This will help ensure that the data stored in the container doesn't exceed the advertised capacity.
NEW QUESTION # 35
A customer has a newly-deployed AHV cluster with nodes that have 2.x 10 GBE and 2.x interface. The customer wants to use all available network interfaces to provide connectivity to the VMs.
Which option should the administrator use to achieve this while remaining consistent with Nutanix recommendations?
- A. Create a second bridge on each host and assign the 1GbE interfaces to it.
- B. Create separate VLANs that map 10GbE and 1GbE interfaces.
- C. Create a second bond on br0 on each host and assign the 1 GbE interfaces to it.
- D. Createbond1 on virbr0 and add the 1GbE interfaces to it for VM use.
Answer: A
Explanation:
According to the web search results, one of the best practices for Nutanix AHV networking is to create a second bridge on each host and assign the 1GbE interfaces to it3. This way, the customer can use both 10GbE and 1GbE interfaces for VM traffic, and also benefit from network isolation and redundancy.
NEW QUESTION # 36
An administrator wants to use Volumes to connect to physical servers that are not able to be virtualized.
Which three things must be configured for Volumes to support iSCSI clients? (Choose three)
- A. iSCSI Multipathing I/O
- B. Data Services IP address
- C. Enable external client access
- D. Cluster Virtual IP address
- E. Client OS iSCSI initiator
Answer: B,D,E
Explanation:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details/?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v51:wc-block-services-
NEW QUESTION # 37
InFiles, how many FSVMs are deployed by default?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
Answer: D
Explanation:
According to the Nutanix Files Guide, Nutanix Files instances are composed of a set of VMs (called FSVMs).
Files requires at least three FSVMs running on three nodes to satisfy a quorum for high availability. By default, Files deploys three FSVMs when you create a file server instance.
NEW QUESTION # 38
A user is complaining about slowness of a mission-critical MSSQL Server. The administrator logs into Prism Element to investigate the VM performance and observes what is shown in the diagram.
Which action would best improve VM performance?
- A. Add additional RAM to the host on which the VM is running.
- B. Ensure the host's CPUs ere not excessively overcommitted.
- C. Add additional RAM to the user VM.
- D. Disable hyperthreading in the BIOS.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Prism Element is a graphical user interface that allows you to manage Nutanix clusters1. You can use Prism Element charts to understand Nutanix cluster workloads and troubleshoot performance related issues2.
memory optimized virtual machine sizes offer the best performance for SQL Server workloads on Azure VMs. Adding more RAM to the user VM can help reduce paging and improve query execution times.
SQL Server performance can be affected by disk latency and throughput. By creating separate virtual disks for data and logs, you can spread activity across multiple spindles and reduce disk contention.
https://next.nutanix.com/how-it-works-22/differences-between-prism-element-prism-central-and-prism-pro-37137
NEW QUESTION # 39
Refer to Exhibit:
An administrator wants to replace and old node with a node of newer generation in a 3-node cluster. The administrator has already chosen the appropriate node. But unable to remove it from the cluster.
Why is the Remove Host option not shown in the exhibit?
- A. It is only possible to remove a host from a cluster using CLI.
- B. It is not possible to remove a host from a 3-node cluster.
- C. It is not possible to remove a node from a the cluster using Prism Central
- D. The host needs to be placed into maintenance Mode before.
Answer: B
Explanation:
A Nutanix cluster requires a minimum of three nodes to maintain quorum and data availability. Removing a node from a 3-node cluster would violate the redundancy factor and cause data loss. Therefore, it is not possible to remove a host from a 3-node cluster using Prism or CLI. The only way to replace a node in a
3-node cluster is to use the Foundation tool, which will erase the existing cluster configuration and create a new cluster with the new node1.
NEW QUESTION # 40
Which scenario would benefit most from Erasure Coding being enabled on a container?
- A. WEB and API Servers
- B. Long term storage of data which is written once and read infrequently
- C. VDI use cases where a single VM is cloned 100's of times
- D. High performance database where all is relatively hot.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 41
An administrator needs to shut down an AHV cluster to relocate hardware. The administrator upgrades NCC and runs health checks.
Which steps should the administrator perform next?
Item instructions: For each procedure, indicate the order in which that procedure must take place to meet the item requirements.
Answer:
Explanation:


NEW QUESTION # 42
The administrator recently had a node fail in an AHV Nutanix cluster. All of the VMs restarted on other nodes in the cluster, but they discovered that the VMs that make up a SQL cluster were running on the failed host. The administrator has been asked to take measures to prevent a SQL outage in the future.
What affinity option will prevent the SQL VMs from running on the same hos?
- A. VM-Most Affinity policy
- B. Create Affinity Category
- C. Create Affinity Project
- D. VM-VM anti-Affinity policy
Answer: D
Explanation:
A VM-VM anti-Affinity policy is a rule that ensures that two or more VMs don't run on the same AHV host. It's useful when an application provides HA and an AHV host can't be an application's single point of failure1. In this case, the SQL cluster VMs should have a VM-VM anti-Affinity policy configured to prevent them from running on the same host and causing an outage if that host fails. A VM-VM anti-Affinity policy can be created using the aCLI commands2. The other options are not relevant for this scenario.
NEW QUESTION # 43
An administrator receives complaints of poor performance in a particular VM.
Based on the VM performance metric, what is the most likely cause of this behavior?
- A. Oplog is full cannot serve IO request from this VM.
- B. The host's CPU is severely overloaded.
- C. The VM needs more vCPUs
- D. SSD tier is not big enough to serve workloads' IOPS demand.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 44
An administrator logs in to Prism Element goes to the Network view, and sees the output shown in the exhibit.
Which three steps must the administrator take to increase throughput to the host? (Choose three.)
- A. Connect the 10Gb interfaces to the physical switch.
- B. Change the VLAN ID to a higher priority ID.
- C. Change the bond mode to balance-slb or balance-tcp.
- D. Remove any 1Gb interfaces still connected from the default bond.
- E. Add a new switch to the network and connect 1Gb interfaces to it.
Answer: A,C,D
Explanation:
These are the three steps that the administrator must take to increase throughput to the host. According to the network diagram, the host has two 10Gb interfaces and two 1Gb interfaces in the default bond, but only one of the 10Gb interfaces is connected to a switch. The other 10Gb interface is disconnected and has a red "X" on it.
The two 1Gb interfaces are also disconnected and have dotted lines. This means that the host is using only one
10Gb interface for all its network traffic, which limits its maximum bandwidth to 10 Gbps.
To increase the throughput, the administrator should connect both 10Gb interfaces to the physical switch, preferably to different switches for redundancy and high availability. This will allow the host to use both 10Gb interfaces for network traffic, which can increase its maximum bandwidth to 20 Gbps. However, this also requires changing the bond mode from active-backup to balance-slb or balance-tcp, which are load balancing modes that distribute network traffic across multiple interfaces based on source MAC address or TCP session1. The default bond mode of active-backup only uses one interface at a time and switches to another interface only when the active one fails2.
Finally, the administrator should remove any 1Gb interfaces still connected from the default bond, as they are not needed and may cause performance issues or conflicts with the load balancing modes. The 1Gb interfaces can be used for other purposes, such as management or backup networks, by creating separate bonds or bridges for them3. Alternatively, they can be left disconnected if they are not required.
NEW QUESTION # 45
An administrator is configuring data protection and DR for a multi-tier application. All VMs must be protected at the same time.
What must the administrator do to meet this requirement?
- A. Create a consistency group for each VM with identical schedules
- B. Create a consistency group for the application and place all VMs in it
- C. Create a protection domain for the application and select auto-protect related entities
- D. Create a protection domain for each VM with identical schedules
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 46
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator is trying to implement the solution that is shown in the exhibit, but has been unsuccessful.
Based on the diagram, what is causing the issue?
- A. Network latency
- B. Unsupported hypervisor
- C. A remote Witness VM
- D. Active containers in both sites
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 47
After configuring Active Directory as the desired authentication service, an administrator is not able to login into Prism Central using privileged account.
Which configuration must be checked first?
- A. Account lock status
- B. Role Mapping
- C. Cluster Lockdown
- D. Local user account
Answer: B
Explanation:
According to the Nutanix Community1, users can authenticate using their Active Directory credentials when Active Directory support is enabled for Prism Central. To enable Active Directory support, you need to configure Role Mapping12, which defines how Active Directory groups map to Prism Central roles.
https://next.nutanix.com/ncm-intelligent-operations-formerly-prism-pro-ultimate-26/configuring-authentication-38051
NEW QUESTION # 48
An administrator is working with Nutanix Support and needs to provide logs for troubleshooting an issue. The cluster is located in a secure environment. Data such as IP addresses and VM names cannot be shared.
Which method should be used to anonymize the log data sent to Nutanix Support?
A)
B)
C)
D)
- A. Option A
- B. Option C
- C. Option B
- D. Option D
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 49
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