NCP Study Notes Exam Questions with
Correct Answers
Where are Leap Availability Zones configured? - Answer-Prism Central
Which algorithm do snapshots and clones leverage to maximize efficiency and
effectiveness? - Answer-Redirect-On-Write
An administrator has set up a local web server accessible to the Nutanix clusters.Which
two steps are required to set up LCM for an environment without Internet access?
(Choose two.) - Answer-Edit LCM Advanced Settings in Prism Element and enter the
address of the web server.
Download the lcm_dark_site_version. tar . gz LCM bundle from the support portal.
What is most likely the cause of this issue? (image) - Answer-The VLAN was not
created on the upstream switches.
An administrator is commissioning a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Once the user VMs have
been deployed and are running, the administrator finds that VMs on the same host are
able to communicate, but are unable to communicate between hosts.What must be
changed to enable full inter-VM communications? - Answer-Update the switch to
specifically allow VLAN 15
A two-node ROBO cluster is configured with a witness VM. (image) - Answer-Node B
sends a leadership request to the Witness VM and goes into single-node mode.
After configuring Active Directory as the desired authentication service, an administrator
is not able to login into Prism Central using privileged account.
Which configuration must be checked first? - Answer-Role Mapping
What requires iSCSI initiator configuration in the guest OS to use Volumes? - Answer-
Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster
An administrator needs to configure Prism to send encrypted messages to a set of
recipients.
Which setting must be applied? - Answer-Set SMTP Security Mode to STARTTLS
An administrator needs to limit the amount of storage space that data stored in single
container can consume.Which action should the administrator take? - Answer-Set an
advertised capacity for the container
A customer wants to isolate a group of VMs within their Nutanix environment for security
reasons. The customer creates a VM with two NICs to act as a firewall and installs the
, appropriate software and certificates.However, no one from the outside can access the
application.What is the likely cause of this problem? - Answer-One of the NICs needs to
be configured on the internal VLAN
A recently configured cluster is leveraging NearSync with a recovery schedule of 15
minutes. It is noticed that the cluster is consistently transitioning in an Out of NearSyne.
What action should be taken to potentially address this issue? - Answer-Increase
network bandwidth
An administrator is trying to implement the solution that is shown in the exhibit, but has
been unsuccessful.Based on the diagram, what is causing the issue? - Answer-Network
latency
How should an administrator correct an SSL error when connecting to a Nutanix
cluster? - Answer-Create a new SSL certificate for the cluster signed by an AD
certificate authority
Administrator is creating a Windows 10 VM that will be used for a virtual desktop
template. After creating the VM and booting to the ISO, the administrator is unable to
install Windows and receives the following error. - Answer-Load the Virtual SCSI pass-
through controller.
What is he recommended approach for a constrained VM? - Answer-Increase the VM
resources.
Which data savings technique utilizes stripes and parity calculation in a Nutanix cluster?
- Answer-Erasure coding
An administrator is trying to create a custom alert policy for all VMs.
Why is the Alert warning if field greyed cut? - Answer-The Behavioral Anomaly
threshold is set.
When a configuring a syslog server in Prism Central, what two pieces information are
required? (Choose two.) - Answer-IP address/port
Transport protocol
The Stargate service becomes unavailable on a single CVM on an AHV node. What is
used to maintain I/O operations in the cluster? - Answer-iSCSl redirector
Which three cluster operations require an administrator to reclaim licenses?(Choose
three) - Answer-Move Nodes between clusters.
Remove a Node from a cluster
Destroy a cluster.
Correct Answers
Where are Leap Availability Zones configured? - Answer-Prism Central
Which algorithm do snapshots and clones leverage to maximize efficiency and
effectiveness? - Answer-Redirect-On-Write
An administrator has set up a local web server accessible to the Nutanix clusters.Which
two steps are required to set up LCM for an environment without Internet access?
(Choose two.) - Answer-Edit LCM Advanced Settings in Prism Element and enter the
address of the web server.
Download the lcm_dark_site_version. tar . gz LCM bundle from the support portal.
What is most likely the cause of this issue? (image) - Answer-The VLAN was not
created on the upstream switches.
An administrator is commissioning a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Once the user VMs have
been deployed and are running, the administrator finds that VMs on the same host are
able to communicate, but are unable to communicate between hosts.What must be
changed to enable full inter-VM communications? - Answer-Update the switch to
specifically allow VLAN 15
A two-node ROBO cluster is configured with a witness VM. (image) - Answer-Node B
sends a leadership request to the Witness VM and goes into single-node mode.
After configuring Active Directory as the desired authentication service, an administrator
is not able to login into Prism Central using privileged account.
Which configuration must be checked first? - Answer-Role Mapping
What requires iSCSI initiator configuration in the guest OS to use Volumes? - Answer-
Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster
An administrator needs to configure Prism to send encrypted messages to a set of
recipients.
Which setting must be applied? - Answer-Set SMTP Security Mode to STARTTLS
An administrator needs to limit the amount of storage space that data stored in single
container can consume.Which action should the administrator take? - Answer-Set an
advertised capacity for the container
A customer wants to isolate a group of VMs within their Nutanix environment for security
reasons. The customer creates a VM with two NICs to act as a firewall and installs the
, appropriate software and certificates.However, no one from the outside can access the
application.What is the likely cause of this problem? - Answer-One of the NICs needs to
be configured on the internal VLAN
A recently configured cluster is leveraging NearSync with a recovery schedule of 15
minutes. It is noticed that the cluster is consistently transitioning in an Out of NearSyne.
What action should be taken to potentially address this issue? - Answer-Increase
network bandwidth
An administrator is trying to implement the solution that is shown in the exhibit, but has
been unsuccessful.Based on the diagram, what is causing the issue? - Answer-Network
latency
How should an administrator correct an SSL error when connecting to a Nutanix
cluster? - Answer-Create a new SSL certificate for the cluster signed by an AD
certificate authority
Administrator is creating a Windows 10 VM that will be used for a virtual desktop
template. After creating the VM and booting to the ISO, the administrator is unable to
install Windows and receives the following error. - Answer-Load the Virtual SCSI pass-
through controller.
What is he recommended approach for a constrained VM? - Answer-Increase the VM
resources.
Which data savings technique utilizes stripes and parity calculation in a Nutanix cluster?
- Answer-Erasure coding
An administrator is trying to create a custom alert policy for all VMs.
Why is the Alert warning if field greyed cut? - Answer-The Behavioral Anomaly
threshold is set.
When a configuring a syslog server in Prism Central, what two pieces information are
required? (Choose two.) - Answer-IP address/port
Transport protocol
The Stargate service becomes unavailable on a single CVM on an AHV node. What is
used to maintain I/O operations in the cluster? - Answer-iSCSl redirector
Which three cluster operations require an administrator to reclaim licenses?(Choose
three) - Answer-Move Nodes between clusters.
Remove a Node from a cluster
Destroy a cluster.
