NCS-CORE Online Practice Questions and Answers

An administrator is implementing a VDI solution. The workload will be a series of persistent desktops in a dedicated storage container withina four-node cluster. Storage optimizations should be set on the dedicated storage container to give optimal performance including during a node failure event.

Which storage optimizations should the administrator set to meet the requirements?

A. Compression, Deduplication, and Erasure Coding

B. Deduplication and Erasure Coding

C. Compression and Deduplication

D. Compression only

After deploying an AHV cluster connected to Cisco Nexus 9k switches, unexpected network behavior is observed. The consultant needs to rule out physical network mis- cabling without returning to the datacenter. Which command from the host should the consultant run?

A. show lldp neighbors

B. show cdp neighbors

C. show interfaces

D. lldpctl

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?

A. Solutions Documentation

B. Hardware Replacement Documentation

C. Software Documentation

D. Knowledge Base

An organization is planning an upgrade to AOS 5.15 and wants to understand which cluster products and/or services are supported for physical traffic isolation. Which Nutanix component supports its network traffic being isolated onto its own virtual network?

A. Volumes

B. Objects

C. Containers

D. Files

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

A. 192.168.5.0/24

B. 192.168.254.0/24

C. 192.168.5.0/23

D. 192.168.5.0/26

An administrator inherits a new Nutanix environment and logs in to a CVM to check the network configuration. The configuration is as follows:

Which action should the administrator take to improve network performance?

A. Configure VLAN tagging both on br0 and br1 and their physical interfaces.

B. Add eth0 and eth1 to the br0-up bond

C. Configure balance-sib or balance-tcp mode for br0-up if switch configuration allows

D. Remove one 10 Gbs interface from br0-up to make sure all 10 Gbs can be used.

Where in the Support Portal is the Best Practices guide for vSphere Networking located?

A. Product Notices

B. Solutions Documentation

C. Software Documentation

D. Knowledge Base

A consultant is onsite and needs to start their Foundation Virtual Machine (FVM) to image Nutanix hardware. The FVM fails to boot. The consultant decides to use a different Foundation method. Assuming the nodes will discover, which Foundation type or configuration option should the consultant select?

A. Foundation VM

B. Use IPMI IPs

C. Use IPMI MACs

D. Foundation Applet

An administrator is deploying Nutanix Files 3.5 and needs to configure the sizing of the FSVMs for an increased number of concurrent SMB connections over the default 750. What should the administrator do?

A. Deploy the Files VMs.power down the three FSVMs. change the CPU and RAM via Prism, and then power the three FSVMs back up

B. During installation, click Customize on the File Server Installation screen, change the number of connections, and finish the installation

C. Complete the default installation change the CPU and RAM m Prism, and then log into the File Server dashboard and change the Filer Server Properties

D. During installation, input the correct number of connections in the File Server Installation screen and complete the installation

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.