Exam NCP-MCA topic 1 question 6 discussion

Actual exam question from Nutanix's NCP-MCA

Question #: 6
Topic #: 1

An administrator wants to be alerted when production VMs become idle. The VMs will be determined to be idle when CPU usage is lower than 5% for more than 5 minutes. All affected VMs are categorized as Environment:Production, since they have Flow microsegmentation rules.
What should the administrator do to satisfy this requirement?

A. Create an alert for all VMs, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger and send an email as the action.
B. Create an alert for VMs in the correct category, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger > take a snapshot > send an email as the action.
C. Create an alert for all VMs, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger > reduce 1 CPU > send an email as the action.
D. Create an alert for VMs in the correct category, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger and send an email as the action.

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️

by Poddo at Sept. 14, 2023, 8:54 a.m.

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yoh007

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Answer is D because the target VMs are in a category

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FrankE

10 months, 1 week ago

D seems to be a better answer. B and C include action. Question says that admin wants to be alerted. A is targeting all VMs. Only Prod VMs are needed for the alert.

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badrulnadzri

9 months ago

D seems more accurage

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Poddo

1 year, 1 month ago

You can create an alert based on vms or category, so also D is correct

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