2021 Latest NCP-DS Nutanix Certified Professional Exam Questions

1. An administrator has deployed a new Files cluster within a Windows environment.

After some days, the Files environment is not able to synchronize users with the Active Directory server anymore. The administrator observes a large time difference between the Files environment and the Active Directory server that is responsible for the behavior.

How should the administrator prevent the Files environment and the AD Server from having such a time difference in future?

2. An administrator is implementing a storage solution with these requirements:

• Is easily searchable

• Natively supports disaster recovery • Access to each item needs to be fast

• Can scale to petabytes of data

• Users are granted access after authentication

• User data is isolated, but could be shared

How should the administrator satisfy these requirements?

3. An administrator is experiencing the following objects failure error message:

IAM service is not healthy

The object store domain entries appear grayed out in the user interface, as shown in the exhibit.

Which commands should the administrator execute to identify the failure source?

4. An administrator's organization is migrating to Files. The administrator has been asked to provision the appropriate access for the Nutanix administrators and Help Desk.

Which two actions will ensure the required access? (Choose two.)

5. An administrator is managing a 4-node Nutanix cluster and will use Capacity Runway to provide resource consumption trend analysis to management

The administrator wants to have Capacity Runway consider two node failures in its calculations,

What should the administrator do to accomplish this task?

6. In a healthy shared cluster, what behaviour is expected of the FSVMs when a host fails?

7. Why should an administrator avoid allocating over half the RAM on a host to a FSVM?

8. An administrator has been asked to create a new user account for an auditor during an audit event. The auditor will write data to a Files share. For confidentiality reasons the auditor’s tasks should be not analyzed by the system.

How should the administrator configure File

Analytics to accomplish this task?

9. An existing Objects bucket was created for backups with these requirements:

• WORM policy of one year

• Versioning policy of one year

• Lifecycle policy of three years

A recent audit has reported a compliance failure. Data that should be retained for three years has been deleted prematurely.

How should the administrator resolve the compliance failure within Objects?

10. After migrating to Files for the company's users home directories, the administrator started receiving complaints that accessing certain files will often result in long wait times before the file is even opened or an access denied error message after four minutes

Upon further investigation, the administrator has determined that the files in question are very large audio and videos

Which two actions should the administrator take to mitigate this issue! (Choose two)

11. An administrator needs to configure VMs in an in-guest cluster running on a vSphere environment. This configuration is for a critical database workload in a demilitarized zone.

The company's Risk Management department requires that data traffic not be exposed to other types of traffic.

What should the administrator do to comply with the Risk Management department's requirements?

12. A company is implementing Files and has these requirements

• Six departments

• Each department needs to access its own shared namespace

• 18,000 users

Given the nature of the workload the administrator has decided to scale up by adding the maximum amount of CPU and RAM

What should the administrator implement to satisfy the stated requirements?

13. Due to a new IP addressing plan for the Desktops network, an administrator needs to change the Files client-side network

Which action should the administrator perform first?

14. Which feature ensures that a host failure’s impact on a Files cluster will be minimal?

15. A company has implemented a new Retention policy requiring all Human

Resources Documents with these characteristics:

• Able to be stored for 7 years and then automatically deleted.

• Previous versions of the document must be retained for a minimum for 1 year.

The company is currently using objects as the backend storage for all data.

Which action best enforces the Retention Policy?

16. An administer has a new requirement to separate management and block storage network traffic for bare-metal workloads.

What should the administrator do to satisfy this requirement?

17. The Files administrator has received reports from users in the accounting department that they can see folders that they don't have permission to access. The accounting department manager has requested that employees should only be able to see folders that they have permission to access

How would a Files administrator ensure that users in the Accounting share can only see folders they have permission to access?

18. A company has deployed several Files clusters, which are managed by a single File Analytics instance. An administrator is trying to get File Distribution by Type information, but the data shown in the GUI seems to be incorrect

What should the administrator do in order to get the correct data?

19. An administrator has selected Files for the file server implementation in the company.

The following key requirements for the environment have been specified:

• All files written on the shares need to be scanned for viruses

• Certain file types must never be created or copied to any of the shares

• End users must beable to restore previous file versions or deleted files on their own

• Each user should not be able to write more than 100 GB of data on any share

Which configuration will meet the above requirements?

20. An administrator is deploying a new Files cluster. After ensuring that best practices have been followed, the administrator begins the deployment Network segmentation for Volumes is not configured.

After some time, the administrator observes that the deployment failed and was rolled back.

After further investigation, the administrator discovers that the CVM was not able to ping the IP addresses of all FSVMs.

How should the administrator resolve this issue?

21. What fields are included in Object Store alerts?

22. A company requires that object data that is unused for a period of 12 months should be moved to AWS Glacier. This should be applied immediately to all new and existing data within the organization. An administrator creates and applies the tiering rule, but observes that no existing data is moved from buckets where the tiering rule is applied, despite being created over 12 months ago.

What is the reason for data over 12 months old failing to tier?

23. The solution must meet the following criteria:

• Data is available even if one of the CVMs is down • There will be 5 Exchange databases, one per VM

• Must support a lot of random write activity

• Guest OS re-configuration must not be needed in case of CVM outages

• Must be possible to replicate all Exchange VMs and data to a DR data center

Which product and configuration meets the requirements?

24. An administrator is using Volumes for its mission critical environments to support its highly transactional Oracle database. Users have reported that recent queries to the database are very slow and the response times have increased as the database has grown

The administrator noticed that the database server is built using a single large vDisk for the database and logs

How should the administrator resolve this issue?

25. An administer is determining the most recent operation a user performed on the share cifs1

within the last 24 hours? How should the administrator complete this task in File Analytics?

26. An administrator is upgrading Files and receives the following error File Server preupgrade check failed with cause (s) FileServer in HA state A FSVM was noted to be powered off and was successfully powered back on.

Which command result will now enable the administrator to successfully reattempt the upgrade?

27. An administrator installed a new Log Analyzer which collects data from physical endpoints Data collected needs to be accessible and editable for three years after which the data must be deleted to optimize storage consumption.

Which setting should the administrator apply to meet these requirements?

28. Which two configuration items are mandatory for deploying a Files cluster? (Choose two.)

29. An administrator has mapped a Volume Group named VG1 to a VM. Due to changes in the application running inside the VM, two additional volumes are required. At the time of creation, the VM was assigned to a Protection Domain named PD1.

Which two steps should the administrator take to add the additional volumes to the VM while maintaining data protection? (Choose two)

30. CORRECT TEXT

A developer requires API access to a S3 destination for storage.

The environment is currently configured as:

• 4 node Nutanix cluster

• Both Files and Objects have been deployed

• Active Directory access has been configured for Files and Objects.

How would an administrator grant Read-Write access for the developer?

A • Create a new Share/Export within Files supporting multi-protocol access.

• Check the checkbox to Enable API Access

B. Click + Add People under User Accounts within Objects and add the developer account

• Click the checkbox to enable Kerberos Token Authentication

• Create a new Bucket and add the user.

C. Create a new Share/Export within Files supporting multi-protocol access.

• The developer can utilize the REST API to write to the destination.

D. Click + Add People under Access Keys within Objects and add the developer account.

• Download the Access Key and provide it to the developer.

• Create a new Bucket and add the user.

31. A company has two Files clusters for their workloads. Once cluster is running VDI workloads and another one is running Big Data (large file ingestion) workloads. The administrator is planning to optimize the workload performance on the cluster where the VDI workloads are running.

The administrator needs to complete these requirements:

• Determine the current workload type on the cluster.

• Optimize the file share for operations such as small overwrites into larger files

Which two actions should the administrator take to satisfy this requirement? (choose two)

32. What are the three main metrics monitored for each Files instance and per share?

33. A database application that is already leveraging Volumes with a single vDisk is experiencing performance issues.

How should the administrator solve the problem without reconfiguring the Guest OS?

34. An administrator performed an upgrade to Prism Central. However, after reviewing the configuration, Objects is enabled but was not upgraded to the latest version. The Objects configuration is showing enabled for the environment and Prism Element has beenupdated on the cluster

How should the administrator resolve this issue?

35. An administrator has been informed of a new project, which requires expanding the capacity of the project team's Volume Group without disrupting availability or affecting performance

Which steps should the administrator take to achieve this?

36. Refer to the exhibit.





An administrator reports that a Volume Group (VG) is no longer accessible on their server.

Upon attempting to reconnect, an error is displayed, as shown in the exhibit.

Which condition would cause this error?

37. A company decided to switch their existing windows file server to a new Files instance. After successfully deploying Files, an administrator now needs to plan to reduce the impact of any potential outage. As the source file server resides across the WAN from the destination file server over an unreliable network connection.

The administrator needs to ensure there is minimal impact to data already copied, should a network outage occur.

How should the administrator meet this requirement?

38. The Compliance department would like the administrator to have the ability to revert documents to previous versions.

How should the administrator facilitate this request?