NCP-MCI-6-10 Nutanix Certified Professional Multicloud Infrastructure 6.10 Practice Questions
Prepare for NCP-MCI-6-10 with more than an answer.
- Exam fee
- $199 USD
- Level
- Professional
- Valid for
- 2 years
Domains covered on the exam 5
- Manage VMs within a Nutanix Multicloud Environment20%
- Manage Clusters within a Nutanix Multicloud Environment30%
- Configure Disaster Recovery and Data Protection within a Nutanix Multicloud Environment20%
- Troubleshoot a Nutanix Multicloud Environment20%
- Conduct Custom Monitoring within a Nutanix Multicloud Environment10%
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A university is deploying a new research application that requires VMs to have direct access to multiple VLANs without the overhead of configuring multiple vNICs on each VM. The network team has already configured the physical switch ports connected to the Nutanix nodes as trunks.
How should the administrator configure the VM's network interface in AHV to meet this requirement?
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Correct answer: B
AHV allows a VM's vNIC to be configured in 'Trunked' mode. This passes tagged traffic for specified VLANs directly to the guest operating system. The guest OS is then responsible for handling the 802.1Q tags. This is the most efficient method for providing a VM with access to multiple VLANs on a single vNIC.
- 2
An administrator is creating a custom report in Prism Central to show the top 10 VMs by average CPU usage over the last month. They want the report to be automatically generated and emailed to the IT management team every Monday morning.
Which Prism Central feature should be used to accomplish this?
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Correct answer: C
The Reports Dashboard in Prism Central is specifically designed for creating, scheduling, and distributing custom reports. It allows administrators to define the report content (like top 10 VMs by CPU), set a schedule (e.g., weekly), and configure email recipients, directly fulfilling all aspects of the requirement.
- 3
True or False: A Nutanix cluster with Replication Factor 2 requires a minimum of three nodes to maintain high availability and perform self-healing operations after a single node failure.
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Correct answer: A
This is True. While a cluster can be formed with fewer nodes under specific conditions (like a two-node ROBO cluster), the standard minimum for a fully resilient, self-healing cluster with RF2 is three nodes. With three nodes, if one node fails, the cluster still has two remaining nodes to host the data replicas and restart VMs, and it has enough nodes to rebuild data to maintain RF2.
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An administrator wants to use Nutanix Move to migrate a group of VMs from an existing ESXi cluster to a new AHV cluster. The source VMs have VMware snapshots that are used by the current backup software.
What is a critical prerequisite regarding the VMware snapshots before starting the migration with Move?
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Correct answer: B
Nutanix Move does not support the migration of VMs that have existing hypervisor-level snapshots. Before a migration can be initiated, all snapshots on the source VMware VM must be deleted and the data must be fully consolidated into the base disk. This is a firm prerequisite to ensure a clean and consistent data copy.
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Case Study:
A manufacturing company operates two data centers, Site-A and Site-B, with a high-speed, low-latency (<5ms RTT) dark fiber connection between them. They are running a critical production control application on a Nutanix cluster at Site-A. The business requires zero data loss (RPO=0) and automatic, transparent failover of the application's storage in the event of a complete failure of Site-A. The application VMs must continue running at Site-B without manual intervention.
The administrator is tasked with configuring the appropriate DR solution. Both sites have Nutanix clusters and are managed by the same Prism Central instance. A third site, Site-C, is available for hosting a lightweight VM.
Which configuration should the administrator implement to meet all business requirements?
graph TD subgraph Site-A ClusterA[Nutanix Cluster A] AppVMsA[App VMs] end subgraph Site-B ClusterB[Nutanix Cluster B] end subgraph Site-C WitnessVM[(Witness VM)] end AppVMsA --> ClusterA ClusterA -- "Synchronous Replication" --- ClusterB ClusterA --- WitnessVM ClusterB --- WitnessVMShow answer details
Correct answer: B
Metro Availability is the only Nutanix solution that provides synchronous replication (RPO=0). The low latency link (<5ms) makes this feasible. To achieve automatic, transparent failover, a Witness VM must be deployed at a third site. The Witness arbitrates in the event of a site or network failure, allowing the surviving site to take control of the storage container automatically. This combination perfectly matches the strict RPO and automatic failover requirements.
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A financial services company is deploying a new AHV cluster and must ensure that back-end storage traffic between CVMs is physically isolated from guest VM traffic and management traffic for security compliance. The network switches are already configured with separate, non-routable VLANs for this purpose.
Which Nutanix feature must the administrator configure on each node to meet this requirement?
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Correct answer: B
CVM Network Segmentation is the feature designed specifically to isolate CVM back-end storage traffic onto a separate VLAN and physical network interface. This directly addresses the requirement for physical traffic separation for compliance. Flow Microsegmentation provides logical, stateful firewalling between VMs but does not physically separate the CVM back-end traffic. Creating a new bridge or bond is part of the process, but Network Segmentation is the overarching feature that orchestrates this configuration.
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An administrator is designing a multi-site disaster recovery solution for a critical 3-tier application. The primary site is in New York and the secondary site is in London. Due to the high latency (>100ms) between sites, synchronous replication is not feasible. The business requires an RPO of less than 15 minutes.
Which Nutanix data protection technology should be used to meet these requirements?
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Correct answer: C
NearSync replication is designed for low-RPO scenarios (1 to 15 minutes) over long-distance, high-latency links where synchronous replication is not viable. It meets the business requirement of a sub-15-minute RPO. Metro Availability provides an RPO of zero but requires low latency (<5ms). Standard Asynchronous replication has a minimum RPO of 60 minutes. Cloud Connect is for replicating to a cloud target, not another physical site in this context.
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A systems administrator is tasked with deploying a three-node scale-out Prism Central instance to manage a growing number of clusters. The deployment must be performed manually on an existing AHV cluster.
Which three disk image files must be uploaded to the cluster's image service before creating the Prism Central VMs? (Select THREE)
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Correct answer: A, B, D
A manual deployment of a Prism Central VM requires three separate disk image files: the boot disk, the home disk, and the data disk. These files contain the operating system, user data, and metadata/service data for the Prism Central instance, respectively. Swap space is managed within the OS and does not require a separate image file.
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A consultant is performing a health check on a customer's 6-node hybrid cluster. The consultant notices that the Data Resiliency Status is Critical because one node has failed. The cluster is configured with Replication Factor 2. The consultant needs to explain the immediate impact to the customer.
What is the current state of the cluster's data resiliency?
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Correct answer: C
With Replication Factor 2, data is written in two copies across different nodes. When one node fails, the data that was on that node now only has one remaining copy on another node in the cluster. The cluster will immediately begin recreating the second copy, but until that process completes, that data is at risk. If another node or disk holding the single remaining copy fails during this time, data loss will occur. The cluster remains fully operational (read/write).
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A new administrator is trying to understand the different alert severities in Prism Central. They want to create an X-Play playbook that automatically opens a ServiceNow ticket only for alerts that indicate a potential for data loss or a production outage.
Which alert severity level should be used as the trigger for this X-Play playbook?
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Correct answer: C
In Nutanix Prism, 'Critical' is the highest severity level for alerts. It signifies a serious issue that could lead to a production outage, data unavailability, or data loss. Therefore, to automate ticket creation for the most severe issues, the 'Critical' severity level should be used as the trigger in the X-Play playbook.
