NCA (Next Certification Acquired)

Life Cycle Management

100

LCM can be managed through Prism Central only

False. Prism Element can handle LCM for a cluster

200

For Dark Sites the recommendation is to upgrade AHV or AOS first?

AOS

300

3 Hardware Vendor platforms that support full LCM

Nutanix(HPE), Dell (XC), Lenovo(HX)

400

The cluster during an LCM upgrade must be able to reach ____.nutanix.com and ____.nutanix.com

• download.nutanix.com: the address to fetch LCM modules, product meta, and most repository images.
• release-api.nutanix.com: the address to fetch AOS, NCC and Prism Central versions.

500

At what point of the LCM process, does Nutanix recommend you update Firmware?

After upgrading AOS and before upgrading your hypervisor on each cluster, perform a Life Cycle Manager (LCM) inventory, update LCM, and upgrade any recommended firmware.

Basic Administration

100

Describe the difference between Entity and Metric graphs in Cluster Monitoring

Metric = Single Metric, Multiple Entities

Entity = Single Entity, Multiple Metrics 

200

VM Templates are created from what Dashboard in PE/PC?

Compute and Storage -> VMs -> Actions 

in PC

300

What are the 3 ways you can tag your Nutanix License? 

• A common expiration date
• Use case (clusters used by remote offices)
• Assigned organization (clusters used by an engineering department)

400

What page do you navigate to on PE to adjust Admin Session Timeout? 

UI Settings in PE

500

Prism supports what 2 types of Public Keys? 

-RSA

-ECDSA

Maintain Cluster Health

100

The system is having an occasional issue that needs to be resolved. However, the issue is not greatly affecting productivity. 

What Support Case Priority Level would this be?

P3 - Normal

Minor Inconvenience

200

Pulse sends messages through what port?

HTTPS (443)

300

What are the 3 types of checks that can be ran through PE's "Run Checks"?

All Checks,

Only Failed and Warning Checks,

Specific Checks

400

Do Clusters or Category type Alert Policies have a higher precedence? (Which will happen first)

Category

500

Final Jeopardy!!

Name 4 languages that Limited Support is available in.

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic.

(English is not Limited)

(During Countries Business Hours)

Cluster Configuration

100

Name 2 of the 3 Storage Efficiency Techniques available when creating Storage Containers.

(Extra 50 points if you can name the name all 3 and the 2 types of one of them)

Compression, Deduplication, Erasure Coding

200

True or False: You can increase the Replication Factor amount from 1 on a running Storage Container

False. You can not increase a RF1 once the Storage Container has been created

300

What are 2 Container conditions to enable Metro Availability between sites?

• Run VMs on container where their data lives.
  Avoid standby container reads to reduce latency issues.

• Datastore name must match storage container name exactly.
  Keep latency under 5 ms between both clusters.
  Ensure bandwidth supports peak writes; use redundant links.

• Retain minimal snapshots to avoid metadata bloat issues.
  Use third site for extended snapshot retention safely.

• High snapshot count increases vmware.log metadata overhead.

• Gold image must be in same clone container.
  Compression and redundancy can differ across clusters.

400

Cluster A has 4 nodes, Cluster B has 3 nodes, and Cluster C has 7 Nodes. The administrator wants to put the highest level of redundancy factor on every cluster. If possible she wants erasure coding on each cluster as well. How did she set up the 3 clusters?

Cluster A = RF2 with Erasure Coding

Cluster B = RF2

Cluster C = RF3 with Erasure Coding

500

What are the 4 types of Virtual Switch uplink bond types that are configurable? Which one is default?

1. Active - Backup

2. Balance - SLB (Active-Active with MAC Pinning)

3. Balance - TCP (Active-Active)

4. No uplink Bond or Single Uplink