NCS-CORE Online Practice Questions and Answers

After imaging the nodes and creating the cluster successfully, the consultant connects the cluster to the customer network. When logging into Prism, the events dashboard is full of errors. What is causing the issue?

A. The cluster was not stopped prior to connecting to the customer network.

B. The Cluster Virtual IP Address (VIP) was not set up during the process.

C. Foundation did not create the cluster successfully.

D. The consultant did not run Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC..

For a new AHV cluster installation, a customer has 20 NX-8155-G6 nodes with quad port SFP NICs. The customer wants to meet the following guidelines:

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Take advantage of all available 10GbE links

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Achieve maximum throughput per VM

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Use of redundant ToR switches

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Fastest reconvergence during link failure

How should the load balancing be configured on the host?

A. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-slb ovs-vsctl set port br0-up other_config:bond-rebalance-interval=30000 ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=10

B. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=active-backup ovs-vsctl set port br0-up other_config:bond-rebalance-interval=30000

C. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-slb

D. ovs-vsctl set port br0-up other_config:lacp-fallback-ab=true ovs-vsctl set port br0-up lacp=active ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-tcp

An organization is running a Nutanix Cluster based on AOS 5.10.x and VMware vSphere 6.7. Currently, the CVM network is segmented and Storage only nodes not present. A new security project based on NSX is coming. VMware Distributed Virtual Switches are required. The administrator needs to prepare the environment for the new project. Which step should the administrator use to initiate the project?

A. Enable Nutanix Flow at the Prism Central Level

B. Manually disable CVM network Segmentation

C. Convert storage only nodes into vSphere nodes

D. Enable Jumbo Frames to accommodate network frames

In a 20-node ESXi deployment, the customer needs additional resiliency to survive the loss of two nodes concurrently. Which configuration should the consultant use to ensure that the appropriate resources are available?

A. Storage reservation for 10%; HA admission control for 10%, cluster RF3

B. Storage reservation for 5%; HA admission control for 5%, cluster RF2

C. Storage reservation for 5%; HA admission control for 5%, cluster RF3

D. Storage reservation for 10%; HA admission control for 10%, cluster RF2

A guest VM is reported to have poor storage performance. It has an I/O profile of 80%read. 20% write, and the HDDs form more than 50% of the read source. What should an administrator do to resolve this issue?

A. Increase SSD capacity

B. Increase the OPLOG

C. Increase the write cache

D. Use HDDs with higher RPM

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain What is causing this alert?

A. Metro Availability Protection domain is active on the remote site.

B. VMware Site Recovery Manager is handling a failover event

C. Metro Availability did not fail over and caused an outage.

D. vSphere moved VMs to the remote container, and the VMs must be moved back.

A consultant is setting up a new vSphere cluster. Customer requirements are as follows:

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VMs should automatically failover to another host if the host crashes

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Host CPU and Memory resources should be evenly balanced

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New VMs should be placed on the host with the most resources available Which two settings should be turned on to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

A.

vShpere DRS

B.

vSphere HA

C.

vSphere vMotion

D.

vSphere Power Management

The networking team makes changes to the Top of Rack switches to which the Nutanix cluster are attached. A few VMs are able to communicate with each other on the same node but are unable to connect to other parts of the network.

What is the likely cause of this issue?

A. There is a VLAN misconfigurationon the VMs.

B. The vNIC port is disconnected on the affected VMs.

C. There is a VLAN misconfiguration on the switch.

D. Jumbo Frame are misconfigured across ports.