Exam NCP-MCI-7.5 Topic 1 Question 42 Discussion

This workload stores MP4 video files, which are typically large, sequential, and already compressed. For data with those characteristics, additional compression work often provides little benefit and can create unnecessary processing overhead. The best optimization is to disable compression for that workload through a storage policy so cluster resources are not wasted trying to compress data that is unlikely to shrink meaningfully. ( Nutanix Portal ) The other choices are weaker for this scenario. Capacity deduplication is generally most beneficial for repeated blocks or common-image patterns, not unique media streams. Erasure Coding is a capacity- efficiency feature, but on a small 3-node cluster and for a write-heavy recording pattern, it is not the primary performance optimization answer. Moving the data to Files changes the access method, but it does not address the specific inefficiency already identified in the storage settings. Nutanix exams often test whether the administrator can match the data service to the workload profile. Since MP4 content is already compressed, removing unnecessary compression overhead is the most targeted and sensible answer, making D correct. ( Nutanix Portal )