01. A bank uses MST DR with a pilot-light NC2 cluster. Low-priority VMs are protected by a policy whose only schedule runs from the on-premises cluster to an Amazon S3 bucket. Critical VMs are protected by a regular protection policy that replicates to the pilot-light cluster.
For datacenter maintenance, both groups were moved to the NC2 cluster with a planned failover and will run there for a week. The on-premises cluster stays online.
What is the protection state of the two groups while they run on NC2?
a) The S3-recovered VMs replicate to the bucket again, while the critical VMs run unprotected
b) The critical VMs are re-protected in the reverse direction, while the S3-recovered VMs run unprotected
c) Neither group is protected until a new protection policy is created on NC2
d) Both groups are re-protected in the reverse direction automatically
02. A company that buys support directly from Nutanix has just deployed a new Prism Central for its NC2 environment and connected it to the Nutanix Support Portal. The team plans to register the NC2 clusters with it after a network change next week. Meanwhile, an administrator tries Create Support Case from the Help menu, and no case can be created.
What is missing?
a) Remote Diagnostics turned on for the Prism Central instance
b) An AWS support plan on the account
c) At least one cluster registered to Prism Central
d) An SMTP server entry configured in Prism Central Admin Center
03. A healthcare provider protects non-critical VMs from two on-premises clusters, which use different VLAN subnets, to one Amazon S3 bucket through MST. Each cluster has its own protection policy. To simplify operations, the administrator put all of these VMs into one recovery plan that targets the pilot-light NC2 cluster.
Prism Central now raises an alert that the recovery plan has MST-protected entities spanning multiple source clusters.
What should the administrator do?
a) Expand the NC2 cluster ahead of failover for the VMs of both clusters
b) Create one recovery plan per source cluster, each holding only that cluster's MST-protected VMs
c) Select a second target NC2 cluster in the plan, one per source cluster
d) Move both clusters' VMs into one protection policy with two source clusters
04. A logistics firm watches its NC2 environment in Datadog through the AWS integration, connected to the NC2 AWS account with role delegation. EC2 metrics for the bare-metal hosts arrive, but nothing appears for the cluster's Cluster Protect S3 buckets. One engineer proposes switching the integration to access keys. Another proposes adding S3 read permissions to the IAM roles that the NC2 CloudFormation stack created.
Which two statements are accurate?
(Choose two.)
a) The IAM permissions on the Datadog role decide which metrics are collected
b) Switching the integration over to access keys makes the S3 bucket metrics appear
c) Role delegation collects the same CloudWatch data as access keys
d) Permissions added to the NC2 stack's IAM roles broaden what Datadog collects
05. A power utility protects VMs from its on-premises AZ to its NC2 AZ with an asynchronous protection policy and a recovery plan. During an outage it performed an unplanned failover to NC2. Twenty minutes later the on-premises site came back, and the administrator immediately attempted an unplanned failback.
The failback cannot recover the VMs at the on-premises AZ, although the recovery points taken there before the outage still exist.
What explains the failure?
a) No recovery points have yet replicated back from the NC2 AZ
b) The on-premises recovery points expired when the VMs failed over to NC2
c) The on-premises Prism Central must be paired again with the NC2 Prism Central first
d) Reverse replication starts only after a planned failover
06. A retailer added its AWS account to NC2 in 2022, running the CloudFormation template at that time, and has deployed clusters from it since. It now deploys a new NC2 cluster to use Cluster Protect and creates an empty UVM bucket whose name begins with nutanix-clusters, but protecting the cluster fails because NC2 cannot access the bucket.
Which step was missed?
a) Raising the AWS service quota for S3 buckets in the account
b) Enabling S3 Object Lock on the UVM snapshot bucket
c) Rerunning the CloudFormation template
d) Creating an S3 gateway endpoint in the cluster's VPC
07. A software company runs two NC2 clusters protected with Cluster Protect in one AZ:
- Cluster 1 uses dedicated host tenancy and runs Windows Server VMs licensed per physical host under the company's own agreement. Its VPC, subnets and security groups were created by the NC2 console.
- Cluster 2 uses default tenancy. The network team created its VPC, subnets and security groups in the AWS console.
An AZ failure destroys both clusters. The AZ is available again and recovery is about to start.
Which two statements apply to this recovery?
(Choose two.)
a) Cluster 2's resources must be recreated in the AWS console before recovery
b) Cluster 1 returns on its original dedicated hosts, so the host-bound licenses carry over
c) NC2 recreates the VPC, subnets and security groups of both clusters during recovery
d) Cluster 1 is rebuilt on new dedicated hosts, so license compliance needs review
08. After a power event in an AZ, a protected NC2 cluster stopped serving I/O and its Prism Element is unreachable. All of its bare-metal EC2 instances still exist in the AWS console, and the NC2 console has not flagged the cluster as Failed. The AZ is stable again, and the administrator decides to recover the cluster with Cluster Protect.
Why has the NC2 console not flagged the cluster as Failed?
a) The console flags a cluster Failed on its own only when it detects a deleted EC2 instance
b) The Failed flag waits until Prism Central also stops responding
c) The console cleared the Failed flag once the AZ became available again
d) Cluster Protect holds the Failed flag until the S3 backups have been validated
09. An administrator is writing the Cluster Protect runbook for three NC2 clusters that are registered to one Prism Central in the same AZ. Prism Central protection to S3 has not been configured yet.
Which three statements belong in the runbook?
(Choose three.)
a) Large clusters are split across several recovery plans that run together
b) Each cluster is recovered through one recovery plan of up to 1000 entities
c) The recovery plans for the three clusters cannot run in parallel
d) One recovery plan covers the VMs of all three clusters under one category value
e) The clusters can be protected before Prism Central itself is protected
10. Three NC2 clusters in one AZ, Cluster A, Cluster B and Cluster C, are registered to one Prism Central hosted on Cluster A, and all three are protected with Cluster Protect. Cluster A fails. The administrator sets it to Failed, recreates it as a new cluster and restores Prism Central from its S3 backup onto the recreated cluster. Clusters B and C never failed.
What must the administrator do about cluster registration now?
a) Register only the recreated cluster; the failed Prism Element drops off on its own
b) Register only the recreated cluster, then unregister the failed Prism Element
c) Register Clusters B and C and the recreated cluster again, then unregister the failed one
d) Nothing; all three clusters auto-register with the recovered Prism Central