Nutanix NCP-CI-AWS Exam - Topic 4 Question 28 Discussion

Actual exam question for Nutanix's NCP-CI-AWS exam

Question #: 28
Topic #: 4

An administrator has been tasked with deploying a new production NC2 cluster on AWS and is studying the deployment..

AWS supports EC2 bare-metal instances in regions with at least how many partitions?

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Suggested Answer: B

AWS supports EC2 bare-metal instances in regions with at least 3 partitions. Partitions in AWS provide high availability and fault tolerance by distributing instances across different hardware to minimize the impact of hardware failures.

AWS EC2 Bare Metal Instances Documentation

AWS Regions and Availability Zones

by Yolande at Jul 07, 2025, 06:06 AM

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Sharmaine

2 months ago

Really? I had no idea it was that low!

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Werner

2 months ago

Totally agree, it's 3 for sure!

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Willow

2 months ago

AWS needs at least 3 partitions for bare-metal instances.

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Wai

3 months ago

Wait, I thought it was 5?

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Lettie

3 months ago

Nope, definitely 3. I've checked!

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Celestina

3 months ago

I feel like I read that it was 6 partitions, but I can't recall the exact details. This is tricky!

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Galen

3 months ago

I’m a bit confused; I thought it was just 1 partition. I need to double-check my notes on this.

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Tuyet

4 months ago

I practiced a similar question last week, and I believe it was 5 partitions for EC2 bare-metal instances.

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Youlanda

4 months ago

I think I remember something about bare-metal instances needing at least 3 partitions, but I'm not entirely sure.

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Gerardo

4 months ago

This seems like a tricky one. I'm going to read through the question again carefully and try to break it down step-by-step. Hopefully that will help me arrive at the right answer.

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Paris

4 months ago

I'm a bit confused by this question. I'm not very familiar with the specifics of AWS partitions and bare-metal instances. I'll have to review my notes and see if I can figure this out.

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Celestina

4 months ago

Okay, let's see. The question is asking about the minimum number of partitions required for AWS to support EC2 bare-metal instances in a region. I'm going to go with C - 5 partitions.

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Larue

4 months ago

Hmm, I'm not entirely sure about this one. I'll need to think it through carefully to make sure I don't miss anything.

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Janae

5 months ago

This one seems pretty straightforward. I'm pretty confident the answer is B - 3 partitions.

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Kassandra

7 months ago

Haha, bare-metal on the cloud, what a concept! I'm going to go with D, just to keep things interesting.

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Armanda

7 months ago

Bare-metal on AWS? That's like putting a tank engine in a Prius. I'll go with B, just to keep things simple.

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Krystina

5 months ago

I agree, bare-metal instances on AWS seem like overkill.

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Farrah

5 months ago

I think B is the right answer too. It's always good to keep things simple.

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German

6 months ago

I agree, bare-metal instances on AWS seem like overkill. B is probably the best choice.

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Norah

7 months ago

I'm a bit stumped on this one. Bare-metal instances on AWS... who would've thought? I'm going to guess C, just to be different.

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Kattie

5 months ago

I'm pretty sure it's B, not C.

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Samira

5 months ago

I think it's actually D, not C.

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Carey

7 months ago

I remember reading that it's actually A) 1

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Carmelina

7 months ago

I'm going with D. Six partitions sounds about right for the kind of infrastructure needed to support bare-metal instances on a cloud platform like AWS.

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