Nutanix Certified Professional – Data Services NCP-DS Exam Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. 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)

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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.

8. 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)

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

10. 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?

11. 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?

12. 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?

13. 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?

14. 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?

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

How should the administrator facilitate this request?

16. An administrator receive a warning message concerning file server hosted in a 3 node cluster . The Prism management console recommends optimizing Files resources

How should the administrator resolve this issue?

17. An administrator is notified by a user about a problem regarding a file within a Files share.

The file AIC.docx is being periodically deleted by another user. The administrator is asked to collect information about who is deleting this file.

How should the administrator collect the required information in File Analytics

18. A company has two clusters which run several Files instances on each, as well as a legacy 3-tier cluster analyzed using Files Analytics (FA).

How should this company implement Files Analytics?

19. An administrator is using Objects for the company’s DevOps department.

The administrator must ensure that the data meets regulatory compliance requirements for many critical sectors and still gives users the option to recover from accidental overwrite or unwanted modification of an object.

Which two components should the administrator enable to complete this task? (Choose two.)

20. An administrator would like to convert an existing Volume Group with an attached external Windows client to use Volumes

The administrator has taken these actions

• Disconnect any existing SCSI targets

• Remove targets from the Favorite Targets tab

• Remove targets from the Discovery tab

Which action must the administrator take next to complete this task?

21. A company’s Marketing department requires the ability to recover files hosted in a Files share.

They also require the ability to restore files with a timeframe of 14 days.

Which two configurations are required to meet these requirements? (Choose Two)

22. An administrator needs to configure Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) in a Nutanix

environment using storage provided by the Nutanix cluster.

Which two prerequisites are required to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

23. Where can an administrator find the latency associated with a Files SMB Share?

24. The administrator is migrating users’ home directories from a legacy SAN to Files. The administrator wants to make sure that the users can only access their home directory, and that when a new employee logs in for the first time, a home directory is automatically created.

What should the administrator do to satisfy these requirements?

25. An administrator is upgrading Files.

When running the pre upgrade check, the following message is generated:

FileServer in HA state

Which two steps should the administrator take to resolve this error message? (Choose two.)

26. An administrator wants to centralize the storage of CCTV data from all its branches in a remote datacenter.

To meet compliance standards, the requirements for this solution are as follows:

• Data must be kept for a minimum of 10 years

• Data must be accessible for use at any time

• Data must be secure

How should the administrator satisfy these requirements?

27. The marketing department has complained that they are unable to upload or modify MOV files on all marketing file shares in Files During troubleshooting, the administrator has found that all users are unable to upload MOV files to any share

What is preventing files from being uploaded?

28. An administrator is upgrading Objects when the following error message is shown type (UPGRADE):

code: 500, message: error in processing pod: application post failed: image update failed: unable to pull docker image 444585393164.dkr.ecr.uswest-2.amazonaws.com/nutanix-msp/Poseidon-zookeeper: buckets-1.0: err Max retries done: exit status 1 status_code: 500

How should the administrator resolve this error

29. An administrator has deployed a new backup software suite and needs to meet the following requirements:

• Use S3-Compatible Storage

• Provide One-Year retention

• Protect from deletions or overwrites for one year.

• Meet regulatory requirements

Which setting should the administrator apply to a newly-created objects bucket to ensure the requirements are met?

30. An administrator needs to upgrade Files in a dark site environment without LCM,

Which set of actions should the administrator perform?