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Nutanix NCS-Core Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional Exam Practice Test

Demo: 28 questions
Total 191 questions

Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional Questions and Answers

Question 1

An administrator recently added in 3 nodes to an existing 5 node cluster. While 1 node came with its own block, theother 2 nodes where added to an existing share. After adding the nodes, the administrator sees that the hardware tab displays the correct number of nodes, but incorrect position in the diagram tab.

What should the administrator do to resolve the issue?

Options:

A.

Check the factory_config.json for all 3 nodes

B.

SSH into CVM and perform genesis restart on each CVM

C.

SSH into the CVMs and run genesis acropolis stop; cluster start

D.

Check the factory_config. json for the two single nodes.

Question 2

A consultant creates a Windows VM after installing a new Nutanix cluster running AHV. The consultant has statically assigned an IP address to the VM but it is unable to communicate on the network.

Which action should the consultant take to resolve this issue?

Options:

A.

Confirm that IPv6 is enabled on the guest VM.

B.

Confirm that the VM vNIC is tied to the correct VLAN in Prism Element.

C.

Mount and install the Nutanix Guest Tools.

D.

Set a Group Policy to make sure the Windows Firewall is disabled.

Question 3

A consultant successfully installs the Foundation VM on a laptop and needs to ensure the VM can communicate externally.

Which two configuration changes should the consultant make next? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Ensure the vNIC is set to bridged adapter.

B.

Configure the static IP address through the desktop virtualization software.

C.

Open terminal and configure via ifconfig command.

D.

Run the set_foundation_ip_address application on the VM desktop.

Question 4

Refer to the exhibit.

After performing ESXi to AHV conversion on a cluster, the alerts shown in the exhibit display on Prism. What should the administrator do to resolve this issue efficiently?

Options:

A.

Remove the VMs. create a new Protection Domain, and add VMs to it

B.

Remove VMs from the Protection Domain and add them back in.

C.

Delete the Protection Domain, create a new Protection Domain, and add the VMs to it

D.

Create a new Protection Domain and add the VMs to rt.

Question 5

A systems administrator configures a protection domain replication between two Nutanix clusters. After the first successful replication , the administrator tests DR by clicking activate on the remote cluster.

While VMs are active on the remote cluster, the protection domain is marked as active on both clusters.

What steps are required to return both clusters to their original state?

Options:

A.

1. On the remote site, deactivate the Protection Domain using ncli

2. On the primary site, select theProtection Domain and dick migrate

B.

1. On the remote site, promote the Protection Domain

2. On the primary site, change the Protection Domain state from Decoupled to Disabled

3 Enable the original primary site as remote site

C.

1. On the prima7 site,suspend replications

2. On the remote site, deactivate the Protection Domain using ncli

3. On the remote site, migrate the protection domain back to the primary site

D.

1 On the remote site, restore the snapshots from the Protection Domain

2. On the remote site, select the Protection Domain and migrate to the primary site

Question 6

A consultant is planning a new cluster installation and needs to locate the Shared IPMI port for each of the specific nodes that the customer has bought.

Which Support Portal location contains the document that would identify the port?

Options:

A.

Solutions Documentation

B.

Hardware Replacement Documentation

C.

Software Documentation

D.

Knowledge Base

Question 7

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?

Options:

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.

Question 8

During a six-node cluster deployment, one node fails to image successfully and Foundation is unable to automatically configure the cluster. The consultant decides to manually complete cluster formation with the successful nodes, then expand the cluster with the remaining unconfigured node.

Which command should be used to begin the process?

Options:

A.

cluster status

B.

cluster create

C.

cluster start

D.

cluster expand

Question 9

An administrator needs to migrate workloads from a Nutanix cluster running VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV. The migration process needs to be completed in multiple VM groups and support roll back in caseany problems are found during user acceptance testing.

Which action should the administrator perform?

Options:

A.

Use Cross Hypervisor DR to replicate VMs from ESXi to AHV

B.

Use VMware Converter

C.

Use Nutanix one-click cluster conversion from ESXi to AHV

D.

Usestorage live migration

Question 10

A consultant needs to review a customer’s switch port configuration to identify any issues. Other customer requirements are as follows:

* Leverage LACP

* Native VLAN will not be used

* Use Multiple Upstream switches

* Use VLANs 20-25 and 30

* LACP Fallback has been Enabled

* vPC or MLAG has been configured

What must be included in a configuration in order to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Native VLAN set to default

Ports trucked to allow all necessary VLANs

B.

Native VLAN set to default

Ports in access mode to allow all necessary VLANs

C.

Native VLAN set to 30

Ports Trunked to allow all necessary VLANs

D.

Native VLAN set to 30

Ports in access mode to allow all necessary VLANs

Question 11

A customer buys ultimate licensing and wants to use the built-in Nutanix software encryption on their new AHV cluster. The customer needs to create three storage containers and asks the consultant to complete the process as fast as possible.

In which order should the cluster be deployed?

Options:

A.

Create Cluster -> Install License Key -> Encrypt Cluster -> Create Storage Containers

B.

Create Cluster -> Install License Key -> Create Storage Containers -> Encrypt Cluster

C.

Create Cluster -> Encrypt Cluster -> Install License Key -> Create Storage Containers

D.

Create Cluster -> Create Storage Containers -> Encrypt Cluster -> Install License Key

Question 12

Microsegmentation was recently enabled in a Nutanix environment. The administrator wants to leverage Prism Central to create a policy that will block all traffic, regardless of direction, between two groups of VMs identified by their category.

Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

A Quarantine Policy

B.

AnIsolation Environment Policy

C.

An Application Security Policy

D.

A Whitehst-Based Policy

Question 13

A consultant runs the Foundation Applet and discovers all the nodes. The consultant wants to use the latest version of Foundation for imaging for support purposes and to cover the latest hardware and software hypervisor support.

What should the consultant do to upgrade Foundation on a node?

Options:

A.

Use crash cart and manually upgrade Foundation files on one node.

B.

Use latest version of Foundation to reimage all the nodes.

C.

Use the Foundation VM to upgrade Foundation on all nodes.

D.

Use the Foundation Applet to upgrade Foundation on a single node.

Question 14

A consultant is setting up a new vSphere cluster. Customer requirements are as follows:

* VMs should automatically failover to another host if the host crashes

* Host CPU and Memory resources should be evenly balanced

* New VMs should be placed on the host with the most resources available

Which two settings should be turned on to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

vShpere DRS

B.

vSphere HA

C.

vSphere vMotion

D.

vSphere Power Management

Question 15

An administrator receives an error indicating that the CVMs in the cluster are not syncing to any NTP servers. An investigation of the issue finds:

• The NTP servers are configured in Prism

• The time on all CVMs is the same

• Both the CVMs and AHV hosts are configured for the UTC time zone

Which two steps can be taken to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Confirm that the NTP servers are reachable from the CVMs.

B.

Restart genesis on all CVMs.

C.

On a CVM. run the command a Hash ntpq -pn.

D.

Restart the chronosservice on all CVMs.

Question 16

A customer would like to re-image an existing cluster. The Foundation Applet and Foundation VM is unavailable to them.

How can the consultant access Foundation-as-a-Service (FaaS)?

Options:

A.

Through :9443

B.

Through :8000

C.

Through :9443

D.

Through :8000

Question 17

An administrator receives reports about a Nutanix environment. The investigation finds the following;

• VMs are experiencing very high latency

• Each node is equipped with a single SSD, utilized at 95%

• Each node is equipped with three HDDs, utilized at 40%

Why are the guest VMs experiencing high latency?

Options:

A.

CVMs are overwhelmed by disk balancing operations.

B.

All VM write operations are going to HDD.

C.

All VM read operations are coming from HDD.

D.

VMs are unable to perform write operations.

Question 18

An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment. Why is this happening?

Options:

A.

NFS default access is set to Read Only.

B.

Multi-protocolaccess is not configured.

C.

Access Based Enumeration is not enabled.

D.

The system is deployed as a single FSVM.

Question 19

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator creates a security policy that isolates their financial application from accessing the Internet When viewing the policy in Prism Central, several connections from the application are outbound to the Internet.

What is causing this issue with the policy?

Options:

A.

The 0.0.0.0 address was not specified in the outbound rule.

B.

The blockedconnections are illustrated for information only.

C.

The Activate box was not checked in the rule, so it is not enforcing.

D.

The policy has been left in monitor mode instead of enforcing mode.

Question 20

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?

Options:

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.

Question 21

A consultant has deployed a new Nutanix AHV cluster with Foundation. The customer requests separating the management and production traffic in the CVM.

Which feature should the consultant configure?

Options:

A.

Micro-segmentation

B.

Multi-homing

C.

Network Segmentation

D.

VLAN Tagging

Question 22

Which subnet is reserved for internal connectivity within a Nutanix Cluster?

Options:

A.

192.168.5.0/24

B.

192.168.254.0/24

C.

192.168.5.0/23

D.

192.168.5.0/26

Question 23

A VM does not have enough resources for the demand,which leads to performance bottlenecks. The VM is exhibiting one or more of following baseline values, based on the past 30 days:

• CPU usage > 90% (moderate), 95% (high)

• CPU ready time > 5%, 10%

• Memory usage > 90%, 95%

• Memory swap rate > 0Kbps (no moderate value)

Which type of VM is being described?

Options:

A.

Constrained VM

B.

Bully VM

C.

Inactive VM

D.

Over-provisioned VM

Question 24

An administrator receives an alert in Prism indicating that interface eth2, on an AHV host is receiving many CRC errors. Aftertogging into the problematic host, the following command is run to show the indicated output:

What is causing this issue?

Options:

A.

Incorrect link speeds on the switch

B.

The interface is incorrectly configured with Jumbo Frames

C.

A misconfigured bond

D.

A physical layer network problem

Question 25

A customer needs a DR solution designed around the following requirements:

• There are 8 ms of latency between Sites A and B

• The administrator needs the shortest RPO/RTO possible

• Application consistent snapshots are required

• Use of NutanixVSS

Which Data Protection Method should be used?

Options:

A.

Async

B.

Metro Availability

C.

Near Sync

D.

Cloud Connect

Question 26

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?

Options:

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

Question 27

A consultant creates a Nutanix cluster using the 10.10.10.0/24 network and VLAN 10. The customer creates a VM network inside the Prism using VLAN 20. The customer starts to create VMs but is unable to ping the default gateway from these new systems.

What is causing the issue?

Options:

A.

The CVM/hypervisor must be on an untagged VLAN.

B.

The switch port is not set up as a trunk.

C.

Only one VLAN is supported on AHV.

D.

The CVM/hypervisor cannot use the same VLAN as guest VMs.

Question 28

A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backed up to a remote location. The remote location is connected using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms.

Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest RPO possible?

Options:

A.

NearSync

B.

Leap

C.

Metro Availability

D.

Asyn&DR

Demo: 28 questions
Total 191 questions