NCS-Core Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional Question and Answers

An administrator is updating disk firmware using LCM and receives the following message:

“there have been 10 or more cluster services restarts within 15 minutes in the Controller VM”

The message appears as each drive is upgraded.

What is the reason this message isbeing generated?

After imaging the nodes and creating the cluster successfully, the consultant connects the cluster to the customer network. When logging into Prism, the events dashboard is full of errors.

What is causing the issue?

A consultant needs to verify the make and model of the systems that will be imaged with Foundation. The consultant does not have the Bill of Materials (BOM) available to review.

When should the consultant verify the make and model to prepare for the cluster deployment?

A three-node cluster has a Nutanix Files instance with three FSVMs.

What happens after a node failure?

An administrator deletes a large amount of data from a Volume Group presented to a Linux VM. The administrator notices that the deleted data has not been reclaimed as usable storage.

Whataction should be taken to reclaim the storage capacity?

A consultant creates three storage containers (container-1, container-2, container-3). The customer requires that only container-1, which will be utilized as an NFS datastore, be presented to external hosts.

However, users are able to mount all three containers.

What is causing this problem?

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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?

An administrator needs to install prism central for their 2550 multi-cluster environment.

How should they deploy the application?

A consultant is unable to install virtualization software on a laptop.

Which two versions of Foundation can be used to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)

A VM is exhibiting one or more of the following baseline values based on the past 30 days:

• CPU usage < 20%

• CPU ready time < 5%

• Memory usage < 50% (moderately) or < 20% (severely)

• Memory swap rate = 0 Kbps

Which type of VM is being described?

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 customer is running out of storage in an ESXi cluster. The customer wants to add storage without paying for an additional hypervisor license.

Which option should the consultant recommend to meet the requirement?

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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?

Refer to the exhibit.

User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM group

What are two descriptions of how Files perform quota management? (Choose two.)

A customer wants to run SAP HANA on a Nutanix cluster with the following characteristics:

• AHV nodes

• SAP HANA version 2

• Production database files

Which configuration should be recommended to the customer?

A guest VM is reported to have poor storage performance. It has an I/O profile of 80%read. 20% write, and the HDDs form more than 50% of the read source.

What should an administrator do to resolve this issue?

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?

Over the period of 2 to 3 weeks, a cluster displays the following:

•Periods where Warning Alerts of memory usage over 75% are asserted

•Periods where Critical Warnings of memory usage over 90% are asserted

•Periods of slow of frozen VDI desktops have caused work stoppage or slowdown

•VDI clones have periodically not powered up when called, causing work stoppage

Which steps should be used toprioritize the administrator’s troubleshooting efforts?

The following critical Availability Alert displays in prism Central:

The protection Policy PP-BCA-1HR includes a business critical application with a 1-hour snapshot frequency.

What is causing this issue?

An administrator needs to initiate a new VDI project within a couple of months. Prism Central reports there are no storage resources to accommodate such workloads.

The administrator sees many powered-off VMs and has the authority to delete test VMs powered off at least for 30 days. Test VMs belong to the Test category.

Using Prism Central, which steps are required to identify the correct VMs tobe deleted?

An administrator is deploying a three-tier application on a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud consisting of web, application, and database VMs. Traffic between theservers must be limited to specific services/ports. There is an application layer firewall VM deployed on one host in the cluster.

In which way should the administrator meet this requirement?

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.)

In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single Node Replication Target.

The current schedule configuration is as follows:

• Repeat every 6 hours

• Local Retention Policy 1

• Remote Retention Policy 8

• Starting time 12 am

At 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection.

Which strategy should the administrator use to meet these requirements?

A consultant is using the Foundation applet to create a cluster. During the process the consultant refreshes the progress bar web page and is concerned when nothing loads.

What should the consultant do to verify that Foundation has completed successfully?

Anadministrator is notified that a bare metal database server is down. This database server is being served storage using a Nutanix Volume Group. Upon investigating, the administrator finds that the disks in the database server that map to the vDisks in thevolume group have gone offline.

What is causing this issue?