Nutanix Nutanix Certifications NCS-CORE Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  Refer to the exhibit.

  

  An administrator configures ActiveDirectory authentication as shown in the exhibit. Upon finishing setup, users are not able to log in. What configuration change should be made to fix this issue?

  A. Change leaps to https

  B. Change the Directory URL to use an IP rather than a name

  C. Changethe plct from 389 to 636

  D. Change the Domain to use an IP rather than a name

  Correct Answer: C

  Explanation: Ref:https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism- Central-Guide-Prism-v510:mul-security-authentication-pc-t.html

• Question 32:

  A consultant creates a new cluster using ESXi as the hypervisor. After creating the cluster, the consultant begins to run Life Cycle Manager (LCM) updates. During the LCM upgrade pre-checks, an error is returned. Which configuration is causing this issue?

  A. ESXi cluster admission control is disabled.

  B. ESXi cluster DRS is enabled.

  C. ESXi cluster HA is enabled.

  D. ESXi cluster admission control is enabled.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 33:

  An administrator of a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has microsegmentation enabled and a firewall VM installed. The security team notifies the administrator that one of the VMs hosted in the environment has been exhibiting suspect network activity. The administrator wants to isolate the VM from the production network, but must still be able to access it to perform diagnostics.

  What should the administrator do to meet the requirement?

  A. Disable the vNIC on the affected VM

  B. Quarantine the VM using the Forensic Method

  C. Create a firewall rule that blocks VM traffic but permits diagnostic access

  D. Create asecurity policy with a service chain directing that VMs traffic to the firewall VM

  Correct Answer: B

  Refhttps://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000LIelCAG

  

• Question 34:

  Refer to the exhibit.

  

  A Microsoft SQL 2016 deployment is shown in the exhibit. The administrator receives user reports that database queries take too long to return. Which optimization should be made to this configuration to improve performance?

  A. Combine both of the OS and SQL Binaries disks

  B. Add a second SCSI controller for the Database.

  C. TempDB, andLogs disk Separate the Database. TempDB, and Logs onto their own disks

  D. Configure the VM to use a PCI disk controller

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 35:

  While trying to upgrade AOS in a cluster, a consultant receives a warning message that there are two powered-on VMs that need to be powered off for the upgrade to proceed.

  What would cause this warning to be issued?

  A. Upgrading a single-node cluster requires the VMs to be shut down.

  B. Upgrading a two-node cluster requires the VMs to be shut down.

  C. There are not enough resources left in the single-node cluster.

  D. There are not enough resources left in the two-node cluster.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 36:

  A consultant is installing Nutanix AOS on Cisco UCS.

  Which method should be used to install AOS on UCS hardware platforms?

  A. Foundation Central

  B. Foundation Applet

  C. Foundation VM

  D. Foundation as a Service

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 37:

  A consultant notices while assigning VLAN tags to hosts and CVMs in a running cluster, that Prism Element displays alerts indicating a node is down.

  What should the consultant do to prevent these alerts?

  A. Restart the Nutanix cluster.

  B. Only change the Controller Virtual Machine VLANs.

  C. Only change the hypervisor VLANs.

  D. Stop the Nutanix cluster before changing VLANs.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 38:

  During the Foundation imaging process, nodes are successfully imaged, but the cluster creation fails.

  Which log should the consultant review to determine the cause?

  A. service.log

  B. foundation.out

  C. first_boot.log

  D. genesis.out

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 39:

  A consultant finishes creating a new ESXi cluster. The consultant connects to the nodes via laptop and a personal flat switch. The host/CVM network is on VLAN 23. The customer has the native VLAN on the ToR switches set to 23.

  The customer wants to use LACP. Before placing the nodes on the customer network, the consultant tags VLAN 23 for each host and CVM. The consultant connects the nodes to the customer network and finds that they are unreachable.

  What is causing this issue?

  A. The customer has LACP fallback enabled on switch ports.

  B. The hosts have not been migrated to a vSphere Distributed Switch.

  C. Under the vSwitch0 settings, the consultant did not select Route based on IP hash.

  D. The host and CVM are incorrectly configured.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 40:

  A consultant successfully completes a Foundation using a flat switch. The consultant then works with the customer to move the cluster over to their production network. After the move, the CVMs and hypervisors can no longer communicate,

  which prevents the cluster from starting.

  Which option should be used to resolve this issue?

  A. If the IPMI is in use, check that the IPMI can ping the default gateway over IPv6.

  B. Make sure that the IPMI and CVM VLAN is manually tagged on the Host and CVM.

  C. Verify that IPv6 Link Local and DHCP is enabled on all switch ports.

  D. If using VLANs, confirm the hypervisor/CVM VLAN is set as Native on the switch ports.

  Correct Answer: D