Free Nutanix NCS-Core Exam Questions

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Question 1

An administrator needs to maximize storage potential in a six-node cluster. The container is configured with

the following:

Post-process compression

Capacity deduplication

What should the administrator configure to increase space savings?

A : Erasure coding

B : Inline compression

C : Reserve capacity

D : Cache dedupe

Answer: A

Question 2

An administrator is deploying an application using Nutanix Volumes. After configuring the volume group and connecting the guest's iSCSI initiator to the volume group, they begin performance testing. The administrator learns that performance on the virtual disk attached to the iSCSI initiator is far less than that of a virtual disk connected directly to the VM. Which situation is causing this condition?

A : VM's iSCSI traffic is being routed to the data services IP subnet

B : performance test is generating small block random 10.

C : duster data services IP address is a bottleneck, shared with other iSCSI traffic

D : ta Locality ensures that VM attached disks are always faster than iSCSI volumes.

Answer: C

Question 3

After deployment of a Nutanix cluster, a customer has requested to validate the peak performance of the cluster. Which tool can a consultant use to satisfy this request?

A : Nutanix X-Ray

B : Nutanix HCiBench

C : diagnostics.py

D : Nutanix perfmon

Answer: A

Question 4

A customer is deploying Nutanix AHV clusters over hundreds of remote sites worldwide. Prism Central will

be used to centrally manage all clusters. Customer security policy requires the use of MS Active Directory

(AD).groups to authenticate all network devices.

Which method should be consultant use to meet the requirements?

A : Integrate AD authentication on all CVMs.

B : Integrate AD authentication on Prism Central Only.

C : Proxy Prism Element traffic through Prism Central.

D : Integrate AD authentication on all Prism Element Clusters.

Answer: D

Question 5

A consultant is running Foundation. The cluster creation fails during the process. The host logs confirm that

the nodes have been successfully imaged. The consultant decides to create the cluster manually.

Which command should the consultant use?

A : cluster -c IP_CVM_A, IP_CVM_B, IP_CVM_n

B : cluster create -s IP_CVM_A, IP_CVM_B, IP_CVM_n

C : cluster -s IP_CVM_A, IP_CVM_B, IP_CVM_n create_manual

D : cluster -s IP_CVM_M, IP_CVM_B, IP_CVM_n create

Answer: B

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