NCP Exam Study Guide Questions and
Answers
Which method can be used to migrate a VM configured for UEFI-boot from a Nutanix
Hyper-V cluster to AHV?
A. Live Migration
B. Storage vMotion
C. Nutanix Move
D. Cloud Connect - Answer-C. Nutanix Move
An administrator needs to report on any alerts generated by a Nutanix cluster that
affected the cluster's availability over the past 10 days. Which method should be used to
locate these events?
A. On the Health dashboard, use the Log Collector to export data based on time stamp.
B. Export the cluster event log to a CSV on the Alerts dashboard. C. On the Alerts
dashboard, filter based on Impact Type and the desired Time Range.
D. Configure an Alert Policy to generate an email with the data on the Health
dashboard. - Answer-C. On the Alerts dashboard, filter based on Impact Type and the
desired Time Range
CPU utilization climbs above 90% on several VMs. This causes performance
degradation for a business-critical application. How can alerts be configured to notify the
administrator before VM CPU utilization hits 90%?
A. On a CVM, use ncli to set the VM CPU Check threshold for the critical VMs to a
value below 90%.
B. On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the alert threshold
below 90%.
C. On a CVM, configure a cron job to run the VM CPU Check more frequently and email
the result.
D. On the Alerts dashboard, ensure that the VM CPU usage alert is not set to auto-
resolve. - Answer-B. On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the
alert threshold below 90%.
In Files, how many FSVMs are deployed by default?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 5 - Answer-3
A two-node ROBO cluster is configured with a witness VM. What happens when Node
A goes down?
A. The- cluster becomes unavailable and goes into read-only mode.
B. All operations and services on the Node B are shut down and go into a waiting state.
,C. The cluster is unaffected and no administrator intervention is required.
D. Node B sends a leadership request to the Witness VM and goes into single-node
mode - Answer-D. Node B sends a leadership request to the Witness VM and goes into
single-node mode
How will an HDD failure affect VMs with data on the failed device?
A. The VMs will crash, and will be restarted once the failed HDD has been replaced and
the data has been restored.
B. A live migration will be initiated, moving the affected VMs to a host that contains the
replica data.
C. The VMs will remain operational on that host and continue to function normally with
no noticeable impact
D. An HA event will occur, causing the affected VMs to restart on a node that contains
the replica data. - Answer-D. An HA event will occur, causing the affected VMs to restart
on a node that contains the replica data.
A guest VM should be able to tolerate simultaneous failure of two nodes or drives. What
are the minimum requirements for the Nutanix cluster?
A. 3 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 3
B. 3 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 2
C. 5 nodes with cluster RF 2 and container RF 3
D. 5 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 3 - Answer-D. 5 nodes with cluster RF 3
and container RF 3
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?
A. A remote Witness VM
B. Active containers in both sites
C. Network latency
D. Unsupported hypervisor - Answer-C. Network latency
The administrator recently had a node fail in an AHV Nutanix cluster. All of the VMs
restarted on other nodes in the cluster, but they discovered that the VMs that make up a
SQL cluster were running on the failed host. The administrator has been asked to take
measures to prevent a SQL outage in the future. What affinity option will prevent the
SQL VMs from running on the same hos?
A. VM-VM anti-Affinity policy
B. Create Affinity Category
C. VM-Most Affinity policy
D. Create Affinity Project - Answer-A. VM-VM anti-Affinity policy
After logging into Prism Element, an administrator presses the letter A on the Keyboard.
What is the expected outcome of this input?
A. Alerts page will launch
B. Analysis will launch
C. About Nutanix page will launch
,D. API Explorer page will launch - Answer-D. API Explorer page will launch
An administrator needs to increase bandwidth available to the AHV host and to the
CVM. How should the administrator complete this task?
A. In Prism, update vs0 to change the configuration to Active-Active.
B. Use manage-ovs commands to update br0 change the configuration to Active-Active.
C. In Prism, create a vsl interface and add any remaining uplinks.
D. Use manage-ovs commands to create br1 and add any remaining uplinks - Answer-
B. Use manage-ovs commands to update br0 change the configuration to Active-Active.
Which inefficient VM Profile can be used to identify a VM that consumes too many
resources and causes other VMs to starve?
A. Over-provisioned VM
B. Inactive VM
C. Bully VM
D. Constrained VM - Answer-C. Bully VM
What is he recommended approach for a constrained VM?
A. Reboot the VM
B. Delete the VM.
C. Increase the VM resources.
D. Decrease the VM resources - Answer-C. Increase the VM resources.
An administrator wants to expand the Failure Domain level of a cluster. What two
options are available? (Choose two.)
A. Node
B. Data Center
C. Block
D. Rack - Answer-Block
Rack
What is a requirement to enable Flow Networking?
A. A dedicated virtual switch has been created for Flow Networking.
B. Flow Micro segmentation must be enabled.
C. Microservices infrastructure must be enabled.
D. Prims Central is using a three-node scale-out deployment - Answer-C. Microservices
infrastructure must be enabled
System Non-Root Partition Usage shows a warning or critical alert The administrator
needs to change the frequency of checks and alerts to respond more quickly. Where in
Prism Element should the administrator change the frequency of checks and alerts?
A. Health Dashboard > Manage Crocks > Frequency
B. Alerts Dashboard > Manage Checks > Schedule
C. Health Dashboard > Manage Checks > Schedule
D. Alerts Dashboard > Manage Checks > Frequency - Answer-C. Health Dashboard >
Manage Checks > Schedule
, An administrator is setting up a Nutanix cluster and needs to configure the default
VLAN. Which configuration should the administrator choose?
A. Vlan.0
B. Vlan.1
C. Vlan.2
D. Vlan.7 - Answer-A. Vlan.0
An administrator has been tasked with increasing security on Nutanix cluster by
disabling password authentication when accessing the CVM and AHV hosts and instead
moving to key-based SSH, What is the easiest way for the administrator to meet these
needs?
A. Configure LDAP authentication through a secure server,
B. Enable STIES vie commend line on SSH to CVM.
C. Enable Cluster Lockdown and provide an RSA key.
D. Restrict access with User Management in Prism - Answer-C. Enable Cluster
Lockdown and provide an RSA key
A user is complaining about slowness of a mission-critical MSSQL Server. The
administrator logs into Prism Element to investigate the VM performance and observes
what is shown in the diagram.
A. Disable hyperthreading in the BIOS.
B. Add additional RAM to the user VM.
C. Add additional RAM to the host on which the VM is running.
D. Ensure the host's CPUs ere not excessively overcommitted. - Answer-B. Add
additional RAM to the user VM.
Why has an anomaly been triggered?
A. Controller reached 2500 IOPS.
B. Observed IOPS exceed normal values.
C. Normal Controller behavior has increased.
D. Observed values do not match predicted values. - Answer-B. Observed IOPS exceed
normal values.
Why has an anomaly been triggered?
A. Because the CPU usage crossed the blue band.
B. Because the blue band range increased over the last 2 days
C. Because the CPU usage dropped belon' 20%
D. Because the CPU usage reached 100% - Answer-A. Because the CPU usage
crossed the blue band
An administrator needs to enable inline deduplication for a pre-existing storage
container. When trying to enable deduplication on the storage container. this feature is
grayed-out. What is the reason for this behavior?
A. Replication Factor 1 is configured on the storage container.
Answers
Which method can be used to migrate a VM configured for UEFI-boot from a Nutanix
Hyper-V cluster to AHV?
A. Live Migration
B. Storage vMotion
C. Nutanix Move
D. Cloud Connect - Answer-C. Nutanix Move
An administrator needs to report on any alerts generated by a Nutanix cluster that
affected the cluster's availability over the past 10 days. Which method should be used to
locate these events?
A. On the Health dashboard, use the Log Collector to export data based on time stamp.
B. Export the cluster event log to a CSV on the Alerts dashboard. C. On the Alerts
dashboard, filter based on Impact Type and the desired Time Range.
D. Configure an Alert Policy to generate an email with the data on the Health
dashboard. - Answer-C. On the Alerts dashboard, filter based on Impact Type and the
desired Time Range
CPU utilization climbs above 90% on several VMs. This causes performance
degradation for a business-critical application. How can alerts be configured to notify the
administrator before VM CPU utilization hits 90%?
A. On a CVM, use ncli to set the VM CPU Check threshold for the critical VMs to a
value below 90%.
B. On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the alert threshold
below 90%.
C. On a CVM, configure a cron job to run the VM CPU Check more frequently and email
the result.
D. On the Alerts dashboard, ensure that the VM CPU usage alert is not set to auto-
resolve. - Answer-B. On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the
alert threshold below 90%.
In Files, how many FSVMs are deployed by default?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 5 - Answer-3
A two-node ROBO cluster is configured with a witness VM. What happens when Node
A goes down?
A. The- cluster becomes unavailable and goes into read-only mode.
B. All operations and services on the Node B are shut down and go into a waiting state.
,C. The cluster is unaffected and no administrator intervention is required.
D. Node B sends a leadership request to the Witness VM and goes into single-node
mode - Answer-D. Node B sends a leadership request to the Witness VM and goes into
single-node mode
How will an HDD failure affect VMs with data on the failed device?
A. The VMs will crash, and will be restarted once the failed HDD has been replaced and
the data has been restored.
B. A live migration will be initiated, moving the affected VMs to a host that contains the
replica data.
C. The VMs will remain operational on that host and continue to function normally with
no noticeable impact
D. An HA event will occur, causing the affected VMs to restart on a node that contains
the replica data. - Answer-D. An HA event will occur, causing the affected VMs to restart
on a node that contains the replica data.
A guest VM should be able to tolerate simultaneous failure of two nodes or drives. What
are the minimum requirements for the Nutanix cluster?
A. 3 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 3
B. 3 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 2
C. 5 nodes with cluster RF 2 and container RF 3
D. 5 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 3 - Answer-D. 5 nodes with cluster RF 3
and container RF 3
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?
A. A remote Witness VM
B. Active containers in both sites
C. Network latency
D. Unsupported hypervisor - Answer-C. Network latency
The administrator recently had a node fail in an AHV Nutanix cluster. All of the VMs
restarted on other nodes in the cluster, but they discovered that the VMs that make up a
SQL cluster were running on the failed host. The administrator has been asked to take
measures to prevent a SQL outage in the future. What affinity option will prevent the
SQL VMs from running on the same hos?
A. VM-VM anti-Affinity policy
B. Create Affinity Category
C. VM-Most Affinity policy
D. Create Affinity Project - Answer-A. VM-VM anti-Affinity policy
After logging into Prism Element, an administrator presses the letter A on the Keyboard.
What is the expected outcome of this input?
A. Alerts page will launch
B. Analysis will launch
C. About Nutanix page will launch
,D. API Explorer page will launch - Answer-D. API Explorer page will launch
An administrator needs to increase bandwidth available to the AHV host and to the
CVM. How should the administrator complete this task?
A. In Prism, update vs0 to change the configuration to Active-Active.
B. Use manage-ovs commands to update br0 change the configuration to Active-Active.
C. In Prism, create a vsl interface and add any remaining uplinks.
D. Use manage-ovs commands to create br1 and add any remaining uplinks - Answer-
B. Use manage-ovs commands to update br0 change the configuration to Active-Active.
Which inefficient VM Profile can be used to identify a VM that consumes too many
resources and causes other VMs to starve?
A. Over-provisioned VM
B. Inactive VM
C. Bully VM
D. Constrained VM - Answer-C. Bully VM
What is he recommended approach for a constrained VM?
A. Reboot the VM
B. Delete the VM.
C. Increase the VM resources.
D. Decrease the VM resources - Answer-C. Increase the VM resources.
An administrator wants to expand the Failure Domain level of a cluster. What two
options are available? (Choose two.)
A. Node
B. Data Center
C. Block
D. Rack - Answer-Block
Rack
What is a requirement to enable Flow Networking?
A. A dedicated virtual switch has been created for Flow Networking.
B. Flow Micro segmentation must be enabled.
C. Microservices infrastructure must be enabled.
D. Prims Central is using a three-node scale-out deployment - Answer-C. Microservices
infrastructure must be enabled
System Non-Root Partition Usage shows a warning or critical alert The administrator
needs to change the frequency of checks and alerts to respond more quickly. Where in
Prism Element should the administrator change the frequency of checks and alerts?
A. Health Dashboard > Manage Crocks > Frequency
B. Alerts Dashboard > Manage Checks > Schedule
C. Health Dashboard > Manage Checks > Schedule
D. Alerts Dashboard > Manage Checks > Frequency - Answer-C. Health Dashboard >
Manage Checks > Schedule
, An administrator is setting up a Nutanix cluster and needs to configure the default
VLAN. Which configuration should the administrator choose?
A. Vlan.0
B. Vlan.1
C. Vlan.2
D. Vlan.7 - Answer-A. Vlan.0
An administrator has been tasked with increasing security on Nutanix cluster by
disabling password authentication when accessing the CVM and AHV hosts and instead
moving to key-based SSH, What is the easiest way for the administrator to meet these
needs?
A. Configure LDAP authentication through a secure server,
B. Enable STIES vie commend line on SSH to CVM.
C. Enable Cluster Lockdown and provide an RSA key.
D. Restrict access with User Management in Prism - Answer-C. Enable Cluster
Lockdown and provide an RSA key
A user is complaining about slowness of a mission-critical MSSQL Server. The
administrator logs into Prism Element to investigate the VM performance and observes
what is shown in the diagram.
A. Disable hyperthreading in the BIOS.
B. Add additional RAM to the user VM.
C. Add additional RAM to the host on which the VM is running.
D. Ensure the host's CPUs ere not excessively overcommitted. - Answer-B. Add
additional RAM to the user VM.
Why has an anomaly been triggered?
A. Controller reached 2500 IOPS.
B. Observed IOPS exceed normal values.
C. Normal Controller behavior has increased.
D. Observed values do not match predicted values. - Answer-B. Observed IOPS exceed
normal values.
Why has an anomaly been triggered?
A. Because the CPU usage crossed the blue band.
B. Because the blue band range increased over the last 2 days
C. Because the CPU usage dropped belon' 20%
D. Because the CPU usage reached 100% - Answer-A. Because the CPU usage
crossed the blue band
An administrator needs to enable inline deduplication for a pre-existing storage
container. When trying to enable deduplication on the storage container. this feature is
grayed-out. What is the reason for this behavior?
A. Replication Factor 1 is configured on the storage container.
