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Section	Objectives
Perform Day 2 Operations	– Conduct lifecycle management functions – Configure cluster autoscaling – Configure cluster backup and recovery – Conduct performance and health monitoring – Configure authentication and authorization – Configure logging
Prepare the Environment for an NKP Deployment	– Create a bootstrap cluster – Gather information for building a cluster on a target provider – Seed a private registry – Prepare a bastion host – Determine license tiers for clusters – Build machine images or prepare nodes
Manage Building an NKP Cluster	– Customize and deploy clusters – Customize and deploy Kommander and apply appropriate licenses
Conduct NKP Fleet Management	– Attach clusters to a workspace – Configure workspaces – Detach or delete clusters from a workspace – Configure platform applications – Configure projects – Deploy workload clusters to a workspace

QUESTION 35
Using an NKP Ultimate license, a Platform Engineer has created a new workspace and needs to create a new Kubernetes cluster within this workspace. However, the engineer discovers that the Create Cluster option is grayed out, as shown in the exhibit. How should the engineer resolve this issue?

Create the cluster only using YAML and not the GUI.

Attach existing clusters instead of creating a new cluster.

Create an Infrastructure provider for the workspace.

Ensure NKP is upgraded to a minimum version of 2.12.

QUESTION 36
A company is required by NIST to follow FIPS guidelines for compliance.
What is the first step for enabling FIPS in NKP?

Run the command export FIPS_ENABLED=true

Run the command nkp cluster create <provisioner> <options> –fips

Follow the OS vendor’s instructions to ensure that the OS or OS images are prepared for operating in FIPS mode.

Click Enable in the NKP Kommander Web UI, Global Workspace -> Settings -> FIPS menu.

QUESTION 37
A Platform Engineer has been tasked with building a custom image for the deployment of NKP management and worker nodes. The engineer needs to ensure that the proper package versions are used when creating these images. The security team has only authorized version 1.30.5 of Kubernetes and version 1.7.22 of containerd. Where should the engineer go to verify that this is the version being used when building the custom image?

config/pulumi/vars/pulumi.kib.config

terraform/vars/default/terraform.tfvars

ansible/group_vars/all/defaults.yaml

The custom image’s .env file

QUESTION 38

A Platform Engineer sees no insight in all workspaces, and it is a critical feature to control all the alerts on all company’s Kubernetes clusters. What does the engineer need to do to begin generating NKP Insights?

Acquire the NKP Insights Add-on license.

Install nkp-insights in every Kubernetes cluster with kubectl apply -f nkp-insights-1.2.2 –kubeconfig=<cluster>.conf

Create a persistent volume claim and assign it to nkp-insights; this application requires volumes to save logs and data. Install nkp-insights with nkp create appdeployment nkp-insights –app nkp-insights-1.2.2 –workspace kommander-workspace

QUESTION 39
A corporate IT team provides Kubernetes clusters for three groups within the company:
Fin VD
Fin Insurance
Fin TravelThe IT group needs to federate policy for all Kubernetes clusters from a single pane of glass, but separate the Kubernetes clusters according to the group that uses them. How should the IT team license and configure their NKP environment to satisfy these requirements?

NKP Ultimate for fleet management, creating three workspaces and assigning the corresponding Kubernetes cluster to each workspace.

NKP Starter for Kubernetes management, creating Kubernetes clusters for every company.

NKP Pro for project management, creating three projects and assigning the corresponding Kubernetes cluster to each project.

NKP Pro for workspace management, creating three workspaces and assigning the corresponding Kubernetes cluster to each workspace.

QUESTION 40
Which NKP-supported infrastructure will not receive CAPI components when an NKP cluster is deployed to it?

vSphere

GCP

Nutanix

AKS

QUESTION 41

A Platform Engineer is preparing to deploy a new NKP cluster on Nutanix infrastructure into an air-gapped environment. As part of the preparation process, the engineer is supplying a Ubuntu 22.04 instance to be used for NKP cluster nodes that conforms to the corporate OS image hardening standards. However, during the NIB preparation process, the error shown in the exhibit is received.
What is the likely reason the NIB preparation attempt has failed?

The engineer has supplied the inartifacts directory for the OS package bundle in the NIB-prep command.

Ubuntu 22.04 is not a supported OS for NKP nodes on Nutanix infrastructure, therefore the necessary OS package bundle does not exist.

The engineer has not seeded the local registry with the required NKP images prior to the NIB-prep attempt.

The engineer has not created the OS package bundle prior to the NIB-prep attempt.

QUESTION 42
What is a prerequisite for upgrading an NKP license to Ultimate?

Size the Sidecar containers appropriately to support the installation of default platform services.

Size the ETCD nodes appropriately to support the installation of default platform services.

Size the Control Plane nodes appropriately to support the installation of default platform services.

Size the Worker nodes appropriately to support the installation of default platform services.

The NKPA course explains that upgrading an NKP license to the Ultimate tier unlocks advanced features such as fleet management, air-gapped deployments, and additional platform services (e.g., monitoring, logging, backup/restore). These services are deployed on the Management cluster and require sufficient resources to operate effectively. A key prerequisite is to size the Control Plane nodes appropriately to support the installation of default platform services (Option C).
The Control Plane nodes in the NKP Management cluster run critical components like the API server, controller manager, and Kommander, as well as platform services such as Prometheus, Grafana Loki, and Velero. The Ultimate license increases resource demands due to the expanded functionality, and undersized Control Plane nodes can lead to performance issues or failed deployments. The Nutanix Cloud Native (NCP- CN) 6.10 Study Guide states: “Before upgrading to an NKP Ultimate license, ensure the Control Plane nodes of the Management cluster are sized appropriately (e.g., sufficient CPU, memory, and storage) to support the additional default platform services enabled by the license.” For example, Control Plane nodes might need to be scaled to at least 4 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM, depending on the workload.
Incorrect Options:
* A. Size the Sidecar containers appropriately: Sidecar containers are typically used for specific workloads (e.g., logging agents), not for platform services deployment, and are not a licensing prerequisite.
* B. Size the ETCD nodes appropriately: While etcd is part of the Control Plane, the course refers to the Control Plane nodes as a whole, not etcd specifically, as the sizing requirement.
* D. Size the Worker nodes appropriately: Worker nodes run user workloads, not the platform services, which are deployed on the Control Plane in the Management cluster.
:
Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKPA) Course, Section on Licensing Upgrades.
Nutanix Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 6.10 Study Guide, Chapter on Day 2 Operations.
Nutanix Cloud Bible, NutanixKubernetesPlatform Section: https://www.nutanixbible.com

QUESTION 43

A Platform Engineer is preparing to deploy a new NKP cluster on Nutanix infrastructure into an air-gapped environment. As part of the preparation process, the engineer is supplying a Ubuntu 22.04 instance to be used for NKP cluster nodes that conforms to the corporate OS image hardening standards. However, during the NIB preparation process, the error shown in the exhibit is received.
What is the likely reason the NIB preparation attempt has failed?

The engineer has supplied the inartifacts directory for the OS package bundle in the NIB-prep command.

Ubuntu 22.04 is not a supported OS for NKP nodes on Nutanix infrastructure, therefore the necessary OS package bundle does not exist.

The engineer has not seeded the local registry with the required NKP images prior to the NIB-prep attempt.

The engineer has not created the OS package bundle prior to the NIB-prep attempt.

QUESTION 44
A Platform Engineer is going to deploy NKP to a Nutanix cluster on-prem as well as Amazon EKS. What is the function of the bootstrap cluster for this architecture?

Increases security from a single point of entry.

Simplifies the networking requirements for Kubernetes.

Saves cost by minimizing resources required for provisioning.

Uses Cluster API for infrastructure-agnostic provisioning.

The NKPA course explains the role of a bootstrap cluster in NKP deployments, particularly in hybrid architectures involving Nutanix on-prem and Amazon EKS. A bootstrap cluster is a temporary Kubernetes cluster created during the deployment process to initialize Cluster API (CAPI) components, which manage the lifecycle of the target NKP clusters. The primary function of the bootstrap cluster is to use Cluster API for infrastructure-agnostic provisioning (Option D).
CAPI enables NKP to provision clusters across different infrastructures (e.g., Nutanix AHV, AWS EKS) in a consistent, infrastructure-agnostic manner. The bootstrap cluster runs the CAPI controllers (e.g., CAPX for Nutanix, CAPA for AWS) that orchestrate the creation of the target clusters, abstracting the underlying infrastructure details. The Nutanix Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 6.10 Study Guide states: “The bootstrap cluster in NKP uses Cluster API to provide infrastructure-agnostic provisioning, enabling consistent cluster creation across diverse environments like Nutanix AHV and Amazon EKS.” This ensures that the same CAPI-based workflow can deploy clusters on both on-prem Nutanix and cloud-based EKS.
Incorrect Options:
* A. Increases security from a single point of entry: A bastion host, not a bootstrap cluster, provides a single point of entry for security. The bootstrap cluster is temporary and focuses on provisioning.
* B. Simplifies the networking requirements for Kubernetes: Networking is managed by the target cluster’s CNI (e.g., Calico), not the bootstrap cluster.
* C. Saves cost by minimizing resources required for provisioning: The bootstrap cluster is temporary and does not significantly impact costs; its purpose is provisioning, not cost-saving.
:
Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKPA) Course, Section on Bootstrap Cluster Functionality.
Nutanix Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 6.10 Study Guide, Chapter on Building NKP Clusters.
Nutanix Cloud Bible, NutanixKubernetesPlatform Section: https://www.nutanixbible.com Cluster API Documentation: https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io

QUESTION 45
A development Kubernetes cluster deployed with NKP is having performance issues. The Cloud Engineer commented that worker VMs are consuming a lot of CPU and RAM. The Platform Engineer took a look at the CPU and RAM statistics with Grafana and confirmed that the worker VMs are running out of CPU and memory. The Kubernetes cluster has 4 workers with 8 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM. What could the Platform Engineer do?

Call tech support to take a look at the infrastructure and investigate.

Ask developers to lower the number of application replicas.

Add more CPU and memory to workers with nkp scale –cpu 16 –memory 64 –cluster-name
${CLUSTER_NAME}

Add one more worker with nkp scale nodepools ${NODEPOOL_NAME} –replicas=5 –cluster- name=${CLUSTER_NAME} -n ${CLUSTER_WORKSPACE}

The NKPA course addresses performance issues in NKP clusters, such as high CPU and memory consumption on worker nodes, by recommending scaling options to distribute workloads more effectively.
The Kubernetes cluster in the scenario has 4 workers, each with 8 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM, and is running out of resources. The most effective solution is to add more workers to the cluster to increase overall capacity and balance the load, rather than modifying existing workers or reducing application replicas.
The correct action is to add one more worker using the command nkp scale nodepools
${NODEPOOL_NAME} –replicas=5 –cluster-name=${CLUSTER_NAME} -n
${CLUSTER_WORKSPACE} (Option D). This command scales the specified node pool to 5 replicas (from the current 4), adding one additional worker to the cluster. The new worker will have the same configuration (8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM) as the existing workers, providing additional capacity to alleviate resource contention. The Nutanix Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 6.10 Study Guide states: “To address performance issues due to resource exhaustion in an NKP cluster, scale out by adding workers using nkp scale nodepools
<nodepool-name> –replicas <count> –cluster-name <cluster-name> -n <workspace>.” Incorrect Options:
* A. Call tech support to investigate: While support can help, the issue is clearly resource exhaustion, which can be resolved by scaling the cluster-a task the Platform Engineer can perform directly.
* B. Ask developers to lower application replicas: Reducing replicas may decrease resource usage but could impact application availability or performance, which is not ideal for a development cluster.
* C. Add more CPU and memory to workers with nkp scale –cpu 16 –memory 64: The nkp scale command does not support –cpu and –memory flags for resizing existing workers. Resizing VMs typically requires updating the node pool configuration and replacing nodes, which is more complex than adding new workers.
:
Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKPA) Course, Section on Cluster Scaling and Performance Management.
Nutanix Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 6.10 Study Guide, Chapter on Day 2 Operations.
Nutanix Cloud Bible, NutanixKubernetesPlatform Section: https://www.nutanixbible.com

QUESTION 46
A Platform Engineer would like to deploy an NKP Platform Application to all the clusters within an NKP workspace from the command line. What is the command set to use, and what parameters must be specified with it?

The nkp create appdeployment command set would be utilized. The application ID & version, as well as the NKP workspace of the clusters, must be provided.

The nkp deploy platform-app command set would be utilized. The application ID, as well as the NKP workspace of the clusters, must be provided.

The nkp deploy app command set would be utilized. The application ID, as well as the NKP workspace of the clusters, must be provided.

The kubectl create appdeployment command set would be utilized. The application ID, as well as the NKP workspace of the clusters, must be provided.

QUESTION 47

Looking at the nodepools for the Kubernetes cluster named demo, there is a node pool named md-1 with only one worker. This worker should be deleted along with the node pool md-1.
How should this task be accomplished?

Run nkp delete nodepool md-1 –cluster-name=demo

Run acli vm.delete demo-md-1-hQ2sz-mw4p6-fptc

Run ncli vm.delete demo-md-1-hQ2sz-mw4p6-fptc

Run nkp node scale nodepool md-1 –replicas=0 –cluster-name=demo

QUESTION 48
A Platform Engineer needs to create an NKP cluster on vSphere infrastructure, using the vSphere provisioning method. The cluster needs to have 3 worker node pools:
* First node pool should consist of 6 worker nodes
* Second node pool should consist of 3 worker nodes
* Third node pool should consist of 3 worker nodesAdditionally, the worker nodes in the first node pool should be set to 10 CPUs, the second node pool workers should be set to 8 CPUs, and the third node pool workers should be set to 6 CPUs. What is the proper way to create the NKP cluster using the NKP CLI?

First, execute the nkp create cluster vsphere command, including the following parameters:
–worker-replicas 6
–worker-cpus 10
Then, execute the nkp create nodepool vsphere command, including the following parameters:
–worker-replicas 3
–worker-cpus 8
Then, execute the nkp create nodepool vsphere command, including the following parameters:
–worker-replicas 3
–worker-cpus 6

First, execute the nkp create cluster vsphere command, including the following parameters:
–worker-replicas 6
–worker-cpus 10
Then, execute the nkp create nodepool vsphere command, including the following parameters:
–replicas 3
–cpus 6

When executing the nkp create cluster vsphere command, include the following parameters:
–node-pools 3
–worker-replicas 6,3,3
–worker-cpus 10,8,6

First, execute the nkp create cluster vsphere command, including the following parameters:
–worker-replicas 6
–worker-cpus 10
Then, execute the nkp create nodepools vsphere command, including the following parameters:
–replicas 3,3
–cpus 8,6

The NKPA course details the process of creating an NKP cluster on vSphere using the NKP CLI, including the configuration of multiple node pools with specific worker node counts and CPU settings. The correct approach involves creating the cluster with the initial node pool and then adding additional node pools separately.
The steps in Option A align with this process:
* nkp create cluster vsphere –worker-replicas 6 –worker-cpus 10: This command creates the NKP cluster on vSphere with the first node pool, consisting of 6 worker nodes, each with 10 CPUs.
* nkp create nodepool vsphere –worker-replicas 3 –worker-cpus 8: This adds the second node pool to the cluster with 3 worker nodes, each with 8 CPUs.
* nkp create nodepool vsphere –worker-replicas 3 –worker-cpus 6: This adds the third node pool with 3 worker nodes, each with 6 CPUs.
The Nutanix Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 6.10 Study Guide states: “To create an NKP cluster with multiple node pools on vSphere, use nkp create cluster vsphere to define the first node pool, then add additional node pools with nkp create nodepool vsphere, specifying –worker-replicas and –worker-cpus for each pool.” This method ensures precise control over each node pool’s configuration.
Incorrect Options:
* B: The second nkp create nodepool command uses –replicas and –cpus, which are not the correct flags.
The NKPA course specifies –worker-replicas and –worker-cpus.
* C: The –node-pools, –worker-replicas 6,3,3, and –worker-cpus 10,8,6 flags are not supported in a single nkp create cluster command. Node pools must be created separately.
* D: There is no nkp create nodepools command; the correct command is nkp create nodepool.
Additionally, –replicas and –cpus are incorrect flags.
:
Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKPA) Course, Section on Cluster Creation.
Nutanix Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 6.10 Study Guide, Chapter on Building NKP Clusters.
Nutanix Cloud Bible, NutanixKubernetesPlatform Section: https://www.nutanixbible.com

QUESTION 49
A Platform Engineer has been tasked with setting up a secure and isolated environment for managing an NKP environment. The environment will have no access to the Internet but will be required to create additional NKP clusters in the future. The security team has recommended using a bastion host to achieve this goal.
What is the primary purpose of a bastion host in this scenario?

To store and manage sensitive data related to the cluster.

To provide a secure point for creating and operating NKP clusters.

To serve as a load balancer for the NKP clusters.

To act as a firewall for the cluster, blocking all incoming traffic.

QUESTION 50
A Cloud Engineer manages an NKP environment and is preparing a machine image to become an NKP cluster node.
Which statement is regarding the default node preparation process?

Shell scripts are used to harden the OS image for use as an NKP node.

Ansible is used to validate the OS image is capable of running NKP.

Goss is used to make the OS image CAPI compliant for use as an NKP node.

Goss is used to validate the OS image is capable of running NKP.

QUESTION 51
NKP cluster nodes require a disk for some of its deployed components, outside of an application’s persistent volume requirements. What are these components and where are they deployed?

kubelet and containerd, in /opt/nkp

kubelet and containerd in /var/lib

kubectl and kubelet in /opt/nkp

kubectl and kubelet in /var/nkp

QUESTION 52
During a deployment of NKP, a Platform Engineer received an error indicating an issue with the bootstrap.
While troubleshooting with support, the engineer noticed that the KUBECONFIG file was missing. How would the engineer recreate the bootstrap cluster and create a context file named bootstrap-cluster.conf?

nutanix create bootstrap –kubeconfig bootstrap-cluster.conf

kubectl create bootstrap –kubeconfig bootstrap-cluster.conf

nkp create bootstrap –kubeconfig bootstrap-cluster.conf

d2iq create bootstrap –kubeconfig bootstrap-cluster.conf

QUESTION 53
A Platform Engineer is looking to backup and restore persistent volumes and other cluster resources. Which two NKP licenses include backup and restore functionality? (Choose two.)

NKP Starter

NKP Essential

NKP Ultimate

NKP Pro

QUESTION 54
A Platform Engineer is a member of an IT team that provides Kubernetes clusters for three groups within a company named Fin Group, Inc.:
* Fin VD
* Fin Insurance
* Fin TravelThe engineer created workspaces for each group. Fin Group Inc. has its own Active Directory implementation, while each group uses their own Identity Provider. Now, the engineer needs to assign the Tenant Administrators role for each workspace. How will the engineer complete this task?

Configure a dedicated identity provider for each group to access their own workspace.

Create a role named admin-tenant-X, where X is the name of the group, and assign that role to manage the corresponding workspace.

Create a role binding and assign it to manage the corresponding workspace.

Configure the global Active Directory and assign a workspace admin user to each group.

QUESTION 55
The bastion host is currently set up with Rocky Linux and the engineer will need to configure it to meet the requirements for the air-gapped cluster.
Which first step should the engineer take to configure the bastion host?

Install the pre-requisites yum-utils, bzip2, and wget.

Create a bootstrap cluster.

Configure the bastion VM with a public IP address.

Set up a connection on the bastion host so that it can pull images from Docker Hub.

QUESTION 56
In a telecom company, two teams were working on the development of two different applications:
ApplicationA
ApplicationBApplicationA’s development team was excited about the release of their new functionality. However, upon deploying their application, they noticed that performance was slow. After investigating, they discovered that the ApplicationB team was consuming the majority of the cluster’s resources, affecting all other teams. How can this problem be mitigated?

Implementing Quotas and Limit Ranges

Setting up Network Policies

Configuring RBAC

Implementing Continuous Deployment (CD)

QUESTION 57
A Platform Engineer is attempting to delete an attached cluster from the NKP UI, but it is stuck in a ‘deleting’ state and does not get removed. How can the engineer resolve this attempt to detach the cluster so that it is removed from the UI and no longer managed by NKP?

Run the kubectl delete cluster command in the context of the NKP management cluster.

Run the nkp delete kommandercluster command in the context of the NKP attached cluster.

Run the kubectl delete kommandercluster command in the context of the NKP management cluster.

Run the nkp delete cluster command in the context of the NKP attached cluster.

QUESTION 58
An ecommerce company decides to apply an autoscaling configuration in its NKP cluster due to the fact that on holidays, they experience service drops due to a huge increase of simultaneous traffic.
Which statement best describes the configuration shown in the exhibit?

The autoscaler could have 15 or 3 nodes.

The autoscaler could increase the number of nodes as needed, but never reduce it below 3.

The autoscaler could increase the number of nodes up to 15, but never reduce the number below 3.

The autoscaler could increase the number of nodes up to 3, but never reduce it below 15.