Nutanix Certified Associate v6.10 (NCA) — Question 3

An administrator is performing AHV upgrades on an 8-node cluster configured with Redundancy Factor 3.
How many nodes would be placed into maintenance mode simultaneously?

Answer options

• A. 1
• B. 2
• C. 3
• D. 4

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A because with a Redundancy Factor of 3, the cluster can tolerate the failure of up to 3 nodes, which means only 1 node can be placed in maintenance mode at a time without affecting the cluster's availability. The other options would exceed the number of nodes that can be safely taken down without impacting redundancy.