Nutanix Exam NCP-MCA Topic 5 Question 72 Discussion

Actual exam question for Nutanix's NCP-MCA exam

Question #: 72
Topic #: 5

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator created the Playbook shown in the exhibit to allow for manual reduction of vCPU count on any selected VM within their environment. During a test run of the play on one of the VMs running in development, the administrator ran into an error that the Playbook cannot be completed against the selected VM.

Here are the details of the affected VM:

VM Name: VM2

vCPU: 4

RAM: 8 GB

OS: Windows 2016

Hypervisor: AHV

What caused this Playbook to fail?

AThis play cannot be executed against a VM on AHV.

BThe VM needs to be powered off before vCPU can be reduced.

CReduction of vCPU cannot be done on a VM with a running snapshot.

DThe play will cause the VM to go below the minimum vCPU.

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Suggested Answer: A

A Category in Nutanix is a grouping of entities (such as VMs, hosts, clusters, etc.) into a key-value pair. Categories are used to organize and manage resources more effectively by tagging them with meaningful identifiers.

Nutanix documentation on Categories.

Nutanix Best Practices for Using Categories.

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Sheridan

2 days ago

Hmm, I think the correct answer is B. The documentation clearly states that the VM needs to be powered off before reducing vCPU. Trying to do it on a running VM is a big no-no.

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