Free Nutanix NCS-Core Exam Questions

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Question 1

An administrator needs to make sure an RF2 cluster can survive a complete rack failure without negatively

effecting workload performance. The current cluster configuration consists of thefollowing:

• 30 nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U rack

• Each nodes is configured with 40TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 1.2 PB Usable)

• Current cluster utilization is 900TB storage

Which configuration changes should be made to make sure that the cluster meets the requirements?

A : panse the cluster by adding 3 additional nodes per rack, 9 nodes total.

B : panse the cluster by adding 2 additional nodes per rack, 6 nodes total.

C : panse thecluster by adding 9 nodes to a new 42U rack

D : panse the cluster by adding 8 nodes to a new 42U rack

Answer: A

Question 2

A customer has a G6 AHV cluster with 4x10GbE NICs on each node and the following configuration: * Networking is set to default * Only two NICs are connected The customer receives the following critical message: The NIC is disconnected from the switch, or the switchport is failing. What should the consultant verify to resolve the issue?

A : The NICs are configured for active-backup.

B : The VLANs are configured correctly on the switch or tagged on the cluster.

C : The other two 10GbE connections are removed from the default bond.

D : The NICs are connected for balance-slb.

Answer: A

Question 3

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

What happens after a node failure?

A : affected FSVMwill get live-migrated to another node.

B : affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its agent VM setting.

C : affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its VM-to-VM anti-affinity settings.

D : affected FSVM willbe restarted on another node.

Answer: D

Question 4

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?

A : Cross Hypervisor DR to replicate VMs from ESXi to AHV

B : VMware Converter

C : Nutanix one-click cluster conversion from ESXi to AHV

D : estorage live migration

Answer: C

Question 5

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 : mbine both of the OS and SQL Binaries disks

B : a second SCSI controller for the Database.

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

D : nfigure the VM to use a PCI disk controller

Answer: C

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