Nutanix Nutanix Certifications NCS-CORE Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  A new Nutanix cluster is ready for production on a remote site with no IT staff. Changes to the infrastructure will cost money and probably cause a cluster stop. The administrator needs to perform a health check on the environment that should include:

  Network connectivity checks Networkperformance status Storage performance status

  Which tool should be used to perform this test?

  A. X-Ray

  B. clurator_cli

  C. NCC

  D. diagnostic, py

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 12:

  An alert about RX errors on eth2 on a node is reported in the cluster. The administrator logs in to theCVM in question, checks the ping_* files in the data/logs/syststats folder, and notices intermittent ping loss. The node in question has the following network configuration:

  

  Which action should be used to troubleshoot without disrupting the VMs running on this node?

  A. Replace the cable from eth2 to the switch

  B. Remove eth3 from br0-up and monitor for new alerts

  C. Check the port on the switch side for any errors

  D. Enable balance-s1b on br0-up and monitor if a problem persists

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 13:

  Refer to the exhibit.

  

  A consultant is deploying a cluster using the customer-provided IP addressing information. Which option in Foundation must be configured to ensure connectivity during the deployment?

  A. Link Aggregation

  B. Range Autofill

  C. Network Segmentation

  D. Multi-homing

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 14:

  An administrator needs to configure snapshots for DRscenarios. The databases get refreshed on Friday nights regularly. The search service application re-indexes the new application on Saturday nights regularly. The remaining front-end and

  middle tier VMs are static but do get minor version updates weekly.

  The administrator needs to have 2 weeks of daily snapshots for all the VMs in an app group and 2 weeks application consist local snapshots only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on the same group of VMs.

  Which two options should the administrator use to configure snapshots?

  A. Create a schedule in a protection domain for all applicable VMs to snap daily with application consistency enabled with 6 days of retention and with no application consistency and 14 days local retention.

  B. Create two consistency groups in a protection domain, one for front-end and middle tier apps with no application consistency, one for database and Search apps with application consistency, and apply the correct schedule to both groups.

  C. Create one protection domain for all VMsin an application group with scheduled daily non-application consistent snapshots and another protection domain for all VMs in an application group with scheduled Friday. Saturday, Sunday application consistent snapshots.

  D. Create a protection domain forall VMs

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 15:

  An organizations Nutanix Cluster is based on VMware vSphere. The cluster is configured to download software updates automatically. The administration needs to verify and eventually upgrade VMware hypervisor via Prism Ul.

  After logging in to Prism, the administrator receives the message shown:

  No available versions for upgrade

  What is causing the current state?

  A. VMware support has expired, so downloads are not available.

  B. vSphere binaries need to be manually uploaded.

  C. The environment is running the latest vSphere version, so no update is required.

  D. The cluster is unable to connect to reIease-api.nutanix-ccm:8D.

  Correct Answer: C

  ref:https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism- v510:upg-hypervisor-upgrade-esxi-c.html

• Question 16:

  An administrator is migrating 5MB shares from a third-party platform to Nutanix Files with the following characteristics:

  Shares contain user profile directories DFS-N will be used How should the administrator create target shares for this migration?

  A. Create multiple general purpose shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.

  B. Create multiple distributed shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.

  C. Create standard shares with multiple top-leveldirectories and distribute migrated data.

  D. Create distributed shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.

  Correct Answer: D

  Explanation: Ref:https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details/?targetId=Files- v3_6:Files-v3_6

• Question 17:

  A consultant configures a Nutanix cluster and integrates the hosts into vCenter using VMware best practices. The customer has requested that the Nutanix cluster only have a single datastore.

  Upon configuring the cluster per the customer requirements, vCenter displays an alert regarding the heartbeat datastore. The consultant adds the das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore value = true rule. The container can be seen from each host,

  but the alert remains active.

  What should the consultant do to resolve this issue?

  A. Turn off and then turn back on HA.

  B. Make sure the DRS setting is turned on.

  C. Create a second container.

  D. Whitelist the vCenter IP address within Prism.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 18:

  Refer to the exhibits.

  

  A consultant is trying to test port failover on the node shown in the first exhibit. A continuous ping test is performed to the host. The consultant shuts down one of the links, after which the host ping request times out. The consultant tries to troubleshoot the issue with the customer and sees the information shown in the second exhibit on their Cisco Switches:

  

  What is causing the issue?

  A. There is a Native VLAN mismatch on the switchport.

  B. The wrong VLAN is tagged on the host.

  C. Bad SPF+ cables are on the active interface.

  D. PortFast is not enabled on the port connected to the host.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 19:

  A Nutanix cluster has 10TB usable storage. The customer wants to create a 100GB datastore for ISO images to eliminate too much storage being consumed by unnecessary images. Which setting should be used to accomplish this goal?

  A. From Container Advanced Settings, configure 100GB for advertised capacity.

  B. From Container Advanced Settings, enable erasure coding.

  C. From Container Advanced Settings, turn on compression and deduplication.

  D. From Container Advanced Settings, configure 100GB for reserved capacity.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 20:

  A customer has a Nutanix cluster with 10Gb connectivity via switch fabric extenders. The administrator receives NCC health check errors of latency greater than 200ms. Which action should the administrator take to resolve the NCC errors?

  A. Replace the switch fabric extenders with 10G line rate switches

  B. Upgrade NCC and increase the CVM memory by 4Gb

  C. Add 2 additional 10G uplinks from the switch fabric extendersper node

  D. Upgrade NCC and increase the vCPU of the CVM

  Correct Answer: A

  Explanation: Ref:https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=System- Specs-G6-Single-Node:set-block-connect-c.html