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NCP-DS Nutanix Certified Professional - Data Services Questions and Answers

Questions 4

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

Options:

A.

Concurrent Connections, Throughput and OP sizes

B.

Access time, IOPS and Throughput

C.

Bandwidth, Speed and IOPS

D.

Latency, Throughput and IOPS

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Questions 5

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?

Options:

A.

Volumes on a 5 (or more) nodes cluster with multiple disks per VG; MPIO disabled a

protection domain with all the VGs and VMs

B.

Files on a 5 (or more) nodes cluster with a general purpose share per Exchange VM; SSR

enabled; use the natively created protection domain

C.

Volumes on a 5 (or more) nodes cluster with a single disks per VG: MPIO enabled: metro

availability enabled on the container which holds the VMs and VGs

D.

Files on a 5 for more) nodes cluster with a distributed share DSF enabled create a

separate schedule with 1 hour replication frequency

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Questions 6

What are the three predefined resource profiles when deploying Objects?

Options:

A.

Small, Medium, and Heavy

B.

Light Medium, and Large

C.

Light Medium, and Heavy

D.

Small, Medium, and Large

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Questions 7

What is the most likely cause of an Objects bucket that is shared with multiple users to

approach its assigned capacity limit?

Options:

A.

Objects store capacity includes snapshots.

B.

Some multi-part operations are pending.

C.

Malware infections is causing the usage.

D.

Other users have written to the bucket.

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Questions 8

An administrator needs to configure a Nutanix cluster to support a clustered application running

on two bare-metal servers. This application required shared storage with block-level locking for

use with its native failover mechanism.

Which option satisfies these requirements?

Options:

A.

An SMB standard share with ABE enabled

B.

A volumes instance with external Client Access

C.

An RF2 storage container with file system whitelist

D.

An NFS distributed share and enable Blocked File Types

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Questions 9

An administrator has received the following alert:

File Server In Heterogeneous State

What is the reason for this alert?

Options:

A.

The FSVMs do not match in their CPU or memory configuration.

B.

The FSVMs are not distributed properly on the hosts in the cluster

C.

Performance of the File Server is optimal and the alert can be ignored

D.

The hosts where the FSVMs run do not match in their CPU or memory configuration.

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Questions 10

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?

Options:

A.

Add a second virtual NIC to CVMs, configure them in prism.

B.

Configure Backplane LAN to isolate hypervisor traffic

C.

Configure Management LAN to segment internal communication.

D.

Enable Volumes network segmentation

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Questions 11

A company's IT security policy requires that all network traffic must be secure, and no web

browser certificate error warnings should be accepted by end users.

An administrator is tasked with configuring Objects so that it uses a certificate from an

internal Certificate Authority (CA).

How should the administrator configure Objects to meet the security policy?

Options:

A.

Import the Private key with a Subject Alternate Name of the company domain.

B.

Import the Private key and certificate files from the internal CA

C.

Regenerate the CSR and download certificates from the internal CA

D.

Regenerate the self-signed certificate with RSA 2048 as the bit type.

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Questions 12

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?

Options:

A.

Configure Calm with an application per user

B.

Deploy Objects with AD integration

C.

Implement Volumes with CHAP

D.

Use Files distributed share with ABE

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Questions 13

An administrator needs to create a new Volume Group named vg101 to share storage to four

client initiators using the CLI command:

vg.create vg101 shared=true

After creating the Volume Group, the administrator needs to add disks to the new Volume

Group and attach the Initiator IQNs for each host

Which next two commands must the administrator run to complete this task? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

vg.attach_external va name initiator name= < initiator iqn >

B.

vg.disk create vg201 container=container name create size=disk size

C.

vg. attach_external vg101. attach external initiator name < initiator iqn >

D.

vg.disk create vgl01 create size-disk size container container name index= < index_num

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Questions 14

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?

Options:

A.

Power off the FSVMS

B.

Stop the Files service

C.

Create a new managed virtual network

D.

Remove existing DNS entries

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Questions 15

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.)

Options:

A.

Grant the Help Desk File Server Admin access.

B.

Grant the Nutanix administrator File Server Admin access

C.

Grant the Nutanix administrator Backup Admin access.

D.

Grant the Help Desk Backup Admin access.

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Questions 16

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?

Options:

A.

Connect with MPIO to the ISCSI Data Services IP

B.

Connect without MPIO to the Cluster Virtual IP

C.

Connect without MPIO to the iSCSI Data Services IP

D.

Connect with MPIO to the Cluster Virtual IP

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Questions 17

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?

Options:

A.

In the Anomalies section, view the anomaly rule created for the user with an interval of 24 hours.

B.

In the Audit Trails section, search for the cifs1 share and view the actions on the share over the past 24hour range

C.

In the Audit Trails section, search for the user and view their last operations.

D.

In the Anomalies section, select Users exceed an operation count threshold an input the 24hour range for share cifs1

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Questions 18

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 been updated on the cluster

How should the administrator resolve this issue?

Options:

A.

Reapply the Prism Central upgrade

B.

Restart Objects service and rerun the upgrade.

C.

Upgrade NCC and rerun the upgrade

D.

Perform LCM Inventory and apply updates

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Questions 19

Which two network requirements must an administrator take into consideration when configuring and defining client and storage networks? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Ensure there is one IP address available for the storage network

B.

Ensure there is one IP address available for client network

C.

The Client and storage networks must have separate subnets.

D.

Ensure the client and storage networks use a tagged VLAN

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Questions 20

Refer to the exhibit.

NCP-DS Question 20

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?

Options:

A.

The client is trying to access the wrong target.

B.

MPIO is enabled for the volume group

C.

Encryption is enabled for the container hosting the VG.

D.

The wrong CHAP secret has been configured.

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Questions 21

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

Options:

A.

Scale out by adding a new FSVM in the duster

B.

Apply the recommendation to rebalance

C.

Scale up the FSVMs resources

D.

Increase the CVM: CPU and RAM

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Questions 22

Which administrator action within Files will enable the monitoring of users files for malware

and viruses?

Options:

A.

Leave the threat detection to the local machine's antivirus application

B.

Connect to an Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) server

C.

Install antivirus on a server and mount the share for scan

D.

Install ClamAV on each FSVM

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Questions 23

A company has distributed a new document bundle, entitled Health and Security Policies to

all employees H has to verify if key users have opened the document

How can an administrator support this request with File Analytics

Options:

A.

Use Audit Trails search for Files View Audit and filter by operations

B.

Use Audit Trails search for Users, View Audit and filter by file

C.

Select the file from the Top 5 Accessed list then filter by user

D.

Select the User from the Top 5 Active Users list the filter by file

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Questions 24

During a recent audit the auditors discovered several shares that were unencrypted. To

remediate the audit item the administrator enabled Encrypt SMB3 Messages on the

accounting, finance, and facilities shares. After encryption was enabled several users have

reported that they are no longer able to access the shares

What is causing this issue?

Options:

A.

Advanced Encryption Standard 128 & 256 are disabled in Linux or Mac OS.

B.

The users are accessing the shares from Linux or Mac OS.

C.

Advanced Encryption Standard 128 & 256 are disabled in Windows 7

D.

The users are accessing the shares from Windows 7 and 8 desktops

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Questions 25

Which two configuration elements can an administrator find in the File Server - > FILE SERVER DETAILS tab? (choose two.)

Options:

A.

Share/Export Count.

B.

Total Number of Files.

C.

DNS Domain Name.

D.

Quarantined Files.

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Questions 26

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.)

Options:

A.

Windows Previous Versions (WPS)

B.

Self Service Restore (SSR)

C.

Object versioning

D.

Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM)

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Questions 27

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?

Options:

A.

Create a Volume Group and mount to a server

2) Configure a LifeCycle policy for a 10year retention

3) Enable encryption on the vDisks

B.

1) Create an Objects bucket

2) Configure WORM for a 10year retention

3) Replace Objects’s self-signed certificate with a CA-signed certificate

C.

1) Create a Storage Container

2) Configure WORM for a 10year retention3) Replace Prism Element’s self-signed certificate with a CA-signed

certificate

D.

Create a Files share

2) Configure a Lifecycle policy for a 10 year retention

3) Enable encryption on SMB protocol

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Questions 28

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?

Options:

A.

Open a support ticket and report the installation bug.

B.

Ensure that the back-end IPs are in the same VLAN as the CVM IP.

C.

Inform the networking team that LLDP is incorrectly configured.

D.

Disable the firewall on the CVM to prevent blocked packets

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Questions 29

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?

Options:

A.

Create a RF3 storage container

B.

Reserve capacity for failure

C.

Create a new scenario increasing current workload by 20%

D.

Add another node to the default scenario

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Exam Code: NCP-DS
Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Professional - Data Services
Last Update: Jun 7, 2026
Questions: 98

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