Free NCA Sample Questions — Nutanix Certified Associate

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Question 1

An administrator is deploying a virtual firewall on each node in an AHV cluster and wants each VM to maintain affinity to its host. How can an administrator achieve this goal most efficiently?

  • A. Create VM Protection Policies
  • B. Set the VM labels as firewalls
  • C. Create VM Annotations
  • D. Set the VMs as Agent VMs
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Correct Answer:
D. Set the VMs as Agent VMs
Question 2

How would an administrator upgrade the LCM framework to the latest version?

  • A. Run LCM pre-checks
  • B. Settings/Upgrade Software
  • C. Run LCM inventory
  • D. Run an NCC health check
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Correct Answer:
C. Run LCM inventory
Question 3

What is Nutanix's scale-out storage technology that makes its hyperconverged platform possible?

  • A. Distributed File Services
  • B. Distributed Storage Fabric
  • C. HDD/SDD Storage Tiers
  • D. Hot swappable NVMe/SSD
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Correct Answer:
B. Distributed Storage Fabric
Question 4

What is the effect of enabling Flash Mode?

  • A. Sets the storage tier preference to HDD
  • B. Sets the storage tier preference to SSD
  • C. Sets the metadata tier preference to HDD
  • D. Sets the metadata tier preference to SSD
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Correct Answer:
B. Sets the storage tier preference to SSD
Question 5

What is the minimum cluster size for Redundancy Factor 3?

  • A. 3 nodes
  • B. 4 nodes
  • C. 5 nodes
  • D. 6 nodes
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Correct Answer:
C. 5 nodes
Question 6

Which feature enables Image Placement Policies to be mapped to target clusters?

  • A. YAML
  • B. Labels
  • C. JSON
  • D. Categories
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Correct Answer:
D. Categories
Question 7

Which directory should the LCM Framework Bundle be extracted to on a dark site web server in order to update the LCM Framework?

  • A. release
  • B. upgrade
  • C. software
  • D. install
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Correct Answer:
A. release
Question 8

Which technology allows applications and data to move freely between runtime environments?

  • A. Distributed Storage Fabric
  • B. Disaster Recovery
  • C. App Mobility Fabric
  • D. Nutanix Move
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Correct Answer:
C. App Mobility Fabric
Question 9

Which Nutanix data efficiency mechanism replaces a traditional Replication Factor for suitable data?

  • A. Compression
  • B. Deduplication
  • C. Erasure Coding
  • D. Intelligent Cloning
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Correct Answer:
C. Erasure Coding
Question 10

In Prism Element, to which object are policies such as replication factor and storage efficiency settings applied?

  • A. Container
  • B. Virtual Machine
  • C. Storage Pool
  • D. vBlock
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Correct Answer:
A. Container

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