Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) NCP-EUC Exam Questions and Answers PDF

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According to Nutanix AHV Best Practices for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI):

Power Management: The most critical "optimal" configuration for latency-sensitive EUC workloads is to ensure the host power management policy is set to High Performance. This prevents the CPU from entering power-saving states (C-states/P-states) which can introduce latency during user interaction.

Memory Configuration: While Nutanix AHV typically disables memory overcommit by default (or does not use it in the same way as other hypervisors for VDI), the active configuration step required by an administrator to guarantee optimal performance is the Power Management setting. Memory reservation should generally be 100% (not 50%) to avoid swapping, and CPU/Memory shares are usually left at default unless there is specific contention, but Power Management is the baseline requirement for EUC optimization.

Why not D? While memory overcommit should be disabled for VDI, in many AHV versions this is the default behavior or inherent architecture. "High performance power management" represents the specific tuning parameter that administrators must validate or configure (often in the BIOS or via AHV command) to ensure the environment is "optimized" for desktop workloads.

Shadow Clones are a feature of the AOS storage that enables distributed caching of virtual disks (vDisks) that are read by multiple VMs on different nodes. This can improve performance and reduce network traffic in scenarios such as VDI deployments.

Therefore, if Shadow Clones were disabled, it could cause delays in the deployments of VD’ desktops, as they would have to read the vDisk from a remote node instead of a local cache.

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According to the Nutanix AHV Administration Guide and Cluster Expansion prerequisites for environments with non-default virtual switches:

Manual Bridge Configuration: When a cluster has multiple virtual switches (e.g., vs1, vs2) configured, these correspond to specific OVS bridges (e.g., br1, br2) on the AHV hosts. Before adding new nodes to such a cluster, the administrator must manually configure these additional bridges on the new nodes to match the existing cluster configuration.

Consistency Requirement: The documentation states that virtual bridges used for a virtual switch (VS) on all nodes must have the same specification (name, MTU, uplink bond type). If vs1 is mapped to br1 on existing nodes, it must be mapped to br1 on the new nodes before they are added to the cluster.

Expansion Failure/Warning: Failure to configure these bridges prior to expansion can result in the new nodes being unable to join the configured networks properly or the expansion process failing checks related to network uniformity.

According to Nutanix AHV support documentation for Windows 11, the operating system enforces strict hardware requirements for installation and booting. These mandatory requirements include:

UEFI firmware (Legacy BIOS is not supported).

Secure Boot enabled.

vTPM (Virtual Trusted Platform Module) version 2.0.

Credential Guard is a security feature (Virtualization-Based Security) available in Windows 11 that protects credentials, but it is not a mandatory requirement to successfully install or boot the operating system. While Nutanix AHV supports Credential Guard, an administrator can validly exclude it from the minimum requirements list needed just to get the VMs running, whereas excluding vTPM, UEFI, or Secure Boot would cause the OS installation or boot process to fail.