Nutanix Certified Associate Practice Exam

In an AHV environment, where does a VM user permanently delete a directory?

1. On a physical server

2. On a cloud-hosted service

3. Within a guest VM

4. In the Nutanix UI

The correct answer is: Within a guest VM

In an AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) environment, when a VM user permanently deletes a directory, this action occurs within the guest virtual machine (VM). The guest VM is the operating system environment running on the virtual machine, and any files or directories that are managed within that environment are subject to the same rules as they would be in a physical operating system installation. When a user navigates the file system of the guest OS and chooses to delete a directory, that deletion is processed within the context of that particular VM. The files are removed from the VM's virtual disk, which kicks off the logical process of deletion at the OS level. Information about the deleted data remains until potentially overwritten, but from the user's perspective, the data is no longer accessible from the OS. On the other hand, attempting to delete directories on a physical server would not apply in this scenario since the user is operating within the confines of a virtualized platform. Cloud-hosted services would also not pertain to the permanent deletion of a directory from a VM unless specifically leveraging cloud storage that is directly accessed from within the guest. Interactions through the Nutanix UI could facilitate VM management but would not be the point of deletion action for local files within a VM. Therefore