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NCP Study notes Questions with Answers
(100% 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
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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
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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.
An administrator has a Custom backup application that requires a 2TB disk
and runs m Windows. Throughput is considerably lower than expected. The
application was installed on a VM with the following configuration:
* FOU vCPUs with one core/vCPU
* 4GB of Memory
* One 50GB vDisk for the Windows installation
NCP Study notes Questions with Answers
(100% 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
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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
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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.
An administrator has a Custom backup application that requires a 2TB disk
and runs m Windows. Throughput is considerably lower than expected. The
application was installed on a VM with the following configuration:
* FOU vCPUs with one core/vCPU
* 4GB of Memory
* One 50GB vDisk for the Windows installation
