NCA-5.15 Practice Questions
95 real NCA-5.15 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 1 of 2.
- Question #1Health and Troubleshooting
An administrator with an AHV cluster notices that time/date stamps in logs for some VMs are not correct. After investigating, the administrator finds that many of their user VMs ar...
Time synchronizationNTPPrism managementVM time zone - Question #2Nutanix Cluster Management
An administrator needs to have a view of current workloads sorted by vCPU count. What should the administrator do to achieve this task?
Prism CentralCustom DashboardsVMs WidgetWorkload Monitoring - Question #3Nutanix Cluster Management
Refer to the exhibit. An administrator has created a new VM, but when accessing the console to monitor the guest install, the administrator sees the error shown in the exhibit. Wha...
VM ProvisioningOS InstallationVirtual Machine ManagementInitial Setup Troubleshooting - Question #4Nutanix Cluster Management
An administrator wants to copy some virtual machine disk files to ADSF from an external VMware ESXi host. Which two actions should the administrator take to complete this task? (Ch...
NFS ShareContainer AccessExternal Host IntegrationData Migration - Question #5Nutanix Cluster Management
An application vendor had provided a VHD disk for their pre-configured virtual machine. A Nutanix cluster administrator imported that VHD disk into Image Configuration, but the dis...
Image ServicevDisk ManagementVHD to QCOW2VM Creation - Question #6Health and Troubleshooting
Refer to the exhibit. An administrator notices that the Data Resiliency Status of some components has been reduced to 0. making it impossible to support a node failure in the clust...
Data ResiliencyCVM FailureTroubleshootingCluster Health - Question #7Health and Troubleshooting
An administrator has a SQL VM running, which is experiencing high disk latency. What could the administrator do to alleviate this?
Performance TuningDisk LatencyStorage ContainerI/O Optimization - Question #8Health and Troubleshooting
An administrator is experiencing an issue and needs to enable access for Nutanix support to login. What should the administrator do to meet this requirement?
Remote SupportPrism ElementNutanix SupportTroubleshooting Access - Question #9Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Concepts
Which Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) component is responsible for staging the area to handle bursts of random writes, coalescing them, and then sequentially draining the data to...
Nutanix ArchitectureDistributed Storage FabricOplogWrite I/O Path - Question #10Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Concepts
Which Nutanix cluster component is responsible for the cluster configuration?
Nutanix componentsCluster architectureZookeeperConfiguration management - Question #11Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Concepts
Which two CVM components are used to provide data locality? (Choose two.)
Nutanix ArchitectureData LocalityUnified CacheExtent Store - Question #12Networking
An administrator wants a VM to communicate with two separate VLANs. What steps should the administrator complete?
VM NetworkingVirtual NICsVLANsNetwork Configuration - Question #13Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Concepts
Which Nutanix cluster component is responsible for triggering data movement events between SSD and HDD tiers?
Storage tieringILMNutanix architecture - Question #14Data Protection
Which statement best defines Replication Factor 2 (RF2)?
Replication FactorRF2Data RedundancyNutanix Architecture - Question #15Nutanix Cluster Management
An administrator has planned a RAM upgrade on a 3-node Nutanix cluster. Which step should be performed first for a non-disruptive memory upgrade?
NCCHardware UpgradeMaintenance Best PracticesCluster Health Check - Question #16Nutanix Cluster Management
An administrator expanded the disk capacity on a Windows VM, but the VM operator saw no difference in free space. Which additional step must the administrator take?
Virtual Machine Disk ManagementPartition ExpansionWindows VM - Question #17Data Protection
What should an administrator do after a Protection Domain is migrated?
Protection DomainDR MigrationVM OperationsDisaster Recovery - Question #18Health and Troubleshooting
Refer to the exhibit. A team member has built a CentOS VM image for use as a template. An administrator deploys a new VM using the CentOS image as the 05 drive. No other drives are...
VM BootUEFIAHV ConfigurationTemplate Deployment - Question #19Data Protection
Which option allows administrators to specify groups of VMs and assign them to a destination for Disaster Recovery using Leap?
Disaster RecoveryNutanix LeapAvailability ZonesCloud DR - Question #20Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Concepts
An organization runs several core business applications on a Nutanix cluster. System stability and support are critical for these applications, which has an annual maintenance wind...
Nutanix LicensingEnterprise SolutionsCritical WorkloadsSystem Stability - Question #21Health and Troubleshooting
An administrator notices that a VM is slow and unresponsive. The administrator wants to compare performance to other VMs on cluster. Which chart type is best suited to display mult...
VM Performance MonitoringNutanix Prism CentralPerformance ChartingTroubleshooting Tools - Question #22Networking
An administrator needs to expand a Nutanix cluster that is tagging the network traffic at the CVM and AHV level. However, the administrator doesn't remember the configured VLAN ID....
VLANNetworkingOpen vSwitchNutanix CVM - Question #23Nutanix Cluster Management
A customer is running a three-node Nutanix cluster. Which data optimization feature cannot be enabled in this scenario?
Inline CompressionStorage OptimizationCluster ConfigurationFeature Limitations - Question #24Health and Troubleshooting
An administrator receives several alerts indicating a Nutanix cluster is running out of memory. As a preemptive measure, the administrator wishes to try to reduce the consumed reso...
Nutanix ReportingResource OptimizationVM RightsizingMemory Management - Question #25Nutanix Cluster Management
A company's security team has requested that all IT resources be hardened. What should an administrator do to increase the security of the Nutanix environment?
Cluster SecurityCluster HardeningCluster LockdownAccess Control - Question #26Nutanix Cluster Management
An administrator should use which Nutanix component to to create in-guest clustering?
Nutanix VolumesIn-guest clusteringBlock storageShared storage - Question #27Health and Troubleshooting
Refer to the exhibit. An administrator has configured Prism Central to email daily digests of alerts on a cluster. After a week, the administrator notices that digests are not bein...
Prism CentralEmail AlertsSMTP ConfigurationTroubleshooting - Question #28Health and Troubleshooting
An administrator wants to evaluate the overall health of the Nutanix cluster. What should be the first step?
Nutanix Cluster HealthNCCHealth ChecksMonitoring Tools - Question #29Data Protection
Which two advanced features requires you to install Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT)? (Choose two.)
Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT)File-level RecoveryDisaster RecoveryCross-Hypervisor Migration - Question #30Networking
An administrator is unable to discover a Nutanix-hosted iSCSI block device allocated to a bare- metal host. What is causing this issue?
Nutanix iSCSIBlock Storage ConnectivityIP WhitelistingTroubleshooting - Question #31Health and Troubleshooting
Refer to the exhibit. An administrator notices that the Data Resiliency Statue of some components has been reduced to 0. making it impossible to support a node failure in the clust...
Data ResiliencyCVMFailure AnalysisCluster Health - Question #32Health and Troubleshooting
An administrator has received the following critical alert: Node 192.168.148.172 is marked to be detached from metadata The administrator has opened a case with Nutanix and the sup...
TroubleshootingNutanix Cluster Check (NCC)Log CollectionHealth Monitoring - Question #33Data Protection
An administrator needs to provide data integrity at the application level for a VM that is replicated to a secondary site. Which requirement will satisfy this task?
Application-consistent snapshotsData ReplicationVM Data IntegrityNutanix Schedules - Question #34Nutanix Cluster Management
Refer to the exhibit. An administrator needs to upgrade a VM to 10 virtual processors. Which action should the administrator take to complete this task?
VM ManagementvCPU ConfigurationHot-addNutanix AHV - Question #35Nutanix Cluster Management
Refer to the exhibit. In which VM creation stage will the administrator see this dialog?
VM creationOS installationVirtual machine lifecycleNutanix AHV - Question #36Networking
A customer requires the ability to block all network traffic between their VDI VMs and their application VMs running on their Nutanix AHV clusters. What Nutanix product would meet...
Nutanix FlowMicrosegmentationNetwork SecurityAHV Networking - Question #37Nutanix Cluster Management
Which policy specifies that a selected VM will only run on a specific group of nodes?
VM AffinityPlacement PoliciesNutanix AHVVM Management - Question #38Networking
Refer to the exhibit. During VM creation, an administrator clicked on Add New NIC, but there is nothing in the Network Name dropdown list. What is causing this issue?
VM NetworkingNetwork ConfigurationVirtual Machine Creation - Question #39Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Concepts
Which Nutanix concept is responsible for accommodating and remediating node failure scenarios?
Data LocalityNode FailureResilienceDistributed Storage - Question #40Nutanix Cluster Management
An application owner had reported that an AHV-based critical application VM is performing very slowly. After initial diagnostics, it has been observed that the CPU utilization is s...
VM PerformancevCPU Hot-AddPrism ElementGuest OS Configuration - Question #41Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Concepts
An administrator is upgrading a current three-node Nutanix cluster with new HCI nodes. Currently, the environment is based on a Single two-unit chassis hosted in one cabinet. By si...
Block AwarenessResiliencyHardware ConfigurationFailure Domains - Question #42Data Protection
Refer to the exhibit. Management has tasked an administrator to restore the VM, VMforQuestion to a previous point in time (3:20pm), to recover from a corrupted set of files. Which...
VM snapshotsVM recoveryCloning VMsData restore - Question #43Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Concepts
When a VM generates I/O, which Nutanix component is serving the storage request?
Nutanix ArchitectureCVMStorage I/ODistributed Storage Fabric - Question #44Networking
A configuration is single domain, single forest, and does not use SSL. Which port number should be used to configure LDAP?
LDAPPort NumbersDirectory Services - Question #45Nutanix Cluster Management
An administrator has been asked to add 200 virtual machines to their existing Nutanix cluster. Which Nutanix product will help them plan for this addition capacity?
Capacity PlanningPrism Pro FeaturesVirtual Machine Management - Question #46Health and Troubleshooting
An administrator is managing two AHV and vSphere-based clusters. The administrator is able to install a Windows Guest OS from an ISO Image to VMware VMs, but is unable to do the sa...
AHV VMsGuest OS installationvirtIO driversWindows Guest OS - Question #47Nutanix Cluster Management
An administrator recently installed Prism Central to use Categories. After having created Categories and Values, the administrator needs to apply these Categories to multiple workl...
Prism CentralCategoriesVM ManagementResource Tagging - Question #48Data Protection
Protection Domains enable administrators to replicate which two items for Disaster Recovery? (Choose two-)
Protection DomainsDisaster RecoveryReplicationVirtual Machines - Question #49Nutanix Cluster Management
An administrator needs to upgrade AOS for a dark site cluster by using Prism. What step needs to be completed prior to performing the upgrade?
AOS UpgradeDark SitePrismSoftware Update - Question #50Data Protection
What are two types of Protection Domains that Nutanix offers for Data Protection? (Choose two.)
Data ProtectionProtection DomainsReplicationDisaster Recovery