NCP-DS Nutanix Certified Professional - Data Services Questions and Answers
What are the three main metrics monitored for each Files instance and per share?
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?
What is the most likely cause of an Objects bucket that is shared with multiple users to
approach its assigned capacity limit?
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?
An administrator has received the following alert:
File Server In Heterogeneous State
What is the reason for this alert?
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?
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?
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?
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.)
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?
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.)
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?
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?
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?
Which two network requirements must an administrator take into consideration when configuring and defining client and storage networks? (Choose two.)
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?
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
Which administrator action within Files will enable the monitoring of users files for malware
and viruses?
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
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?
Which two configuration elements can an administrator find in the File Server - > FILE SERVER DETAILS tab? (choose two.)
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.)
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?
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?
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?
