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The ACSA exam has 50 questions and runs 1 hours.
These 10 free ACSA questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Avid Certified System Administrator, Avid NEXIS blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
When explaining NEXIS to a new support engineer, which pairing correctly separates the System Director's role from the Storage Manager's role?
Correct answer: A - System Director: file-system metadata and coordination; Storage Manager: Media Pack I/O.
A facility is expanding an existing NEXIS F2 with an F2X chassis. The proposed rack plan treats the F2X as another network-attached engine. Which connection plan reflects how an F2X actually extends the system?
Correct answer: D - Connect the F2X expansion chassis to its associated F2 engine using SAS.
An old Management Console bookmark stops working after a NEXIS system is upgraded to version 2024.6. The bookmark uses HTTP on TCP port 80. Client media access continues normally, and the System Director's IP address has not changed. What should the administrator try before interrupting the running system?
Correct answer: C - Open the System Director's address using HTTPS on TCP port 443.
An administrator must allocate a non-Team workspace for 1,800 GB of media using Two Disk protection and engine mirroring. The Storage Group is healthy and qualified for mirroring, with capacity evenly distributed across its engines. After existing allocations and reservations, 4,700 GB remains for the new workspace and its protection overhead. Which capacity entry is correct?
Correct answer: C - Reserve 4,500 GB; proceed with workspace creation.
A support log from a NEXIS 2022.12 Cloudspaces installation records working local workspaces, an active cloud subscription, and successful DNS resolution of the Azure service. Cloud requests fail authentication. NTP is disabled, and the NEXIS system's UTC clock is 22 minutes behind Azure. Which corrective change directly addresses this fault?
Correct answer: B - Synchronize the NEXIS system clock with a reliable time source.
A freelance editor has direct Read permission on the REVIEW workspace but can still overwrite files because the editor also belongs to Finishers, which has Read-Write permission. These are the only applicable grants, and no folder-level permissions are configured. The editor must retain read-only access, while the other Finishers must retain write access. Which change meets both requirements?
Correct answer: B - Remove only the freelancer from Finishers and retain the user's direct Read permission.
Additional Media Packs have been added to a Storage Group and redistribution has finished. The System Administrator sees substantially more free group capacity, but the Sports Team Administrator still cannot enlarge a workspace beyond the Team's existing quota. No other limits are being reached. How is the added capacity made available to Sports?
Correct answer: D - The System Administrator increases the Sports Team's quota in that Storage Group.
Three edit suites undergo simultaneous sequential-read tests with the Avid NEXIS Benchmark Utility. The facility's acceptance criterion is at least 80 MB/s per suite with zero I/O errors. Edit 1 records 94 MB/s and 0 errors; Edit 2 records 66 MB/s and 0 errors; Edit 3 records 90 MB/s and 5 errors. The combined rate is 250 MB/s. Which commissioning decision follows from these results?
Correct answer: B - Accept Edit 1 only; investigate Edit 2's throughput and Edit 3's I/O errors.
A One Disk-protected Media Pack has a known failed media drive. During replacement, a technician accidentally withdraws a healthy neighboring drive instead. The mistake is noticed after 90 seconds; the failed drive remains in its bay, and no replacement or spare has taken over for the removed drive. What instruction takes priority?
Correct answer: A - Return the healthy drive to its original slot immediately.
Editors connected through one access switch experience playback interruptions, while editors on another switch read the same files normally. A Media Pack reports Network Degraded with a 12% packet-error rate. The affected switch's uplink drop counter is rising; disk-error counters are stable and no drive is rebuilding. Where should fault isolation begin?
Correct answer: C - The affected access switch and the network uplink carrying its NEXIS media traffic.
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