Practice Exam NCP-US: Nutanix Certified Professional - Unified Storage

Question bank: 150 · timed mock exam: 120 min

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  • Deploy and Upgrade Nutanix Unified Storage 38 questions
  • Configure and Utilize Nutanix Unified Storage 38 questions
  • Analyze and Monitor Unified Storage 38 questions
  • Troubleshoot Nutanix Unified Storage 36 questions
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The 150 questions cover 4 domains: Deploy and Upgrade Nutanix Unified Storage, Configure and Utilize Nutanix Unified Storage, Analyze and Monitor Unified Storage, Troubleshoot Nutanix Unified Storage. 25 of them are free, without an account.

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Question 1 Deploy and Upgrade Nutanix Unified Storage

You are preparing a Prism Element deployment of Nutanix Files with three FSVMs. The client network and the storage network are two separate VLANs. How many IP addresses do you reserve on each network?

  1. Storage network: 3, client network: 3
  2. Storage network: 4, client network: 3
  3. Storage network: 4, client network: 4
  4. Storage network: 3, client network: 4
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: B

The storage network needs one more address than the number of FSVMs (3 + 1 = 4), and the client network needs one address per FSVM (3).

Source: official documentation

Question 2 Configure and Utilize Nutanix Unified Storage

A VDI team stores FSLogix VHDx profile containers on a distributed SMB share. They need the strongest reconnect behavior for these disks during FSVM failovers and upgrades. What do you configure?

  1. Nothing: non-disruptive upgrade (NDU) support guarantees SMB reconnection for all shares
  2. Continuous availability (CA) on the share
  3. Self-service restore on the share, so that users can reopen the previous version of the disk
  4. A nested share for each user under the distributed share
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: B

The documentation recommends continuous availability for I/O-intensive workloads with little metadata, such as VHD or VHDx profile disks, and states that CA is best suited for distributed shares.

Source: official documentation

Question 3 Analyze and Monitor Unified Storage

An administrator enables ransomware protection in File Analytics for a file server. The security team wants to be alerted if a ransomware attack occurs. Which statement is correct?

  1. Alerts are sent automatically to the Prism Element admin account, so no recipient needs to be configured
  2. File Analytics detects ransomware only during a weekly scan of the shares, then sends a report
  3. No alert is needed, because Nutanix positions this feature as a complete ransomware solution that blocks every attack
  4. Configure email notifications: add an address under Ransomware Email Recipients
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: D

The guide states that you must configure email notifications to receive ransomware alerts. When you enable ransomware protection, you add at least one email address under Ransomware Email Recipients, and File Analytics sends a notification to that address if an attack occurs. Only the Configure SMTP link is optional: it appears when no SMTP server is configured yet.

Source: official documentation

Question 4 Troubleshoot Nutanix Unified Storage

After a file server deployment, most clients can mount the exports. A group of Linux clients that sits in the same subnet as the Files storage network cannot access any export. What is the most likely cause?

  1. DNS entries for the file server are missing on the domain controller
  2. Clients on the storage network subnet cannot access shares or exports
  3. The Linux clients need unique host names configured locally
  4. NFSv4 is not enabled on the file server export settings
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: B

Clients on the same subnet as the storage network cannot access the shares or exports. When client and storage networks are separate, they must be on different subnets.

Source: official documentation

Question 5 Deploy and Upgrade Nutanix Unified Storage

A company deploys Nutanix Files in a branch office and joins it to Active Directory. The only domain controller at the branch is a read-only domain controller (RODC), and the administrator enters it as the preferred domain controller. The domain join fails. What should the administrator do?

  1. Leave the preferred domain controller field empty so that Files uses the RODC automatically
  2. Enter a reachable, writable domain controller as the preferred domain controller
  3. Join the domain with LDAP instead of Active Directory for SMB clients
  4. Pre-create the file server computer account in the RODC and retry the join
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: B

Files cannot join a domain through an RODC because an RODC cannot create machine accounts. The preferred domain controller must be reachable and allow write access.

Source: official documentation

Question 6 Configure and Utilize Nutanix Unified Storage

A legal department uses an existing standard SMB share. It now wants WORM protection for this data and also wants to tier cold files to an object store. Which statement is correct?

  1. WORM can be enabled on the existing share, and tiering can then be added
  2. Tiering can be enabled on a WORM share once the cool-off interval has passed
  3. WORM cannot be enabled on an existing non-WORM share, and WORM and tiering cannot be enabled on the same share
  4. WORM can be enabled on the existing share, but only through the CLI
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: C

Tiering and WORM cannot be enabled on the same share, and WORM cannot be enabled on existing non-WORM shares. The data must go to a new WORM share without tiering.

Source: official documentation

Question 7 Analyze and Monitor Unified Storage

A share holds 50,000 files. The security team wants an email when a user deletes 2% or more of the files within the detection interval. How do you configure File Analytics?

  1. Anomaly rule with the Permission changed event, Minimum Operations % set to 2, and no SMTP server needed
  2. A ransomware policy with a custom blocked extension for deleted files
  3. Anomaly rule with the Delete event and Minimum Operation Count set to 2
  4. Anomaly rule with the Delete event, Minimum Operations % set to 2 (about 1,000 operations here), and an SMTP server with email recipients
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: D

Minimum Operations % is based on the number of files: 2% of 50,000 files is 1,000 delete operations in the interval. File Analytics sends anomaly alerts through an SMTP server.

Source: official documentation

Question 8 Troubleshoot Nutanix Unified Storage

On Monday morning, all users on all shares of a file server can read files but cannot write. No quota policy was changed. What is the most likely cause?

  1. A hard user quota was reached by one particular user
  2. SSR snapshots were paused on the shares over the weekend
  3. An FSVM failed over to another node during the weekend
  4. The file server or storage container capacity reached 100 percent
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: D

When the file server or container capacity reaches 100 percent, all shares or exports of the file server become read-only and Files blocks writes.

Source: official documentation

Question 9 Deploy and Upgrade Nutanix Unified Storage

On an AHV cluster, you prepare two managed networks before you deploy an object store: one for Objects internal storage traffic and one for S3 client access. What is correct for the Objects public network?

  1. It must have AHV IPAM disabled, because clients use static IP addresses
  2. It must always be a different VLAN from the Objects storage network
  3. It needs AHV IPAM enabled, but its IP pool does not need any addresses
  4. It needs one IP address in the DHCP pool for each worker VM
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: C

For the public network, AHV IPAM must be enabled, but no IP addresses are required in the IP pool. You enter up to four static public IPs during deployment.

Source: official documentation

Question 10 Configure and Utilize Nutanix Unified Storage

A physical Windows database server must use a Nutanix volume group over iSCSI. How do you configure access?

  1. Add the server's IQN to the volume group allowlist and use the iSCSI data services IP address as the discovery portal
  2. Add the server's IQN to the allowlist and point the iSCSI initiator at each Controller VM IP address
  3. Add the server's IP address to the volume group allowlist and use the iSCSI data services IP address as the discovery portal
  4. Add the server's IP address to the allowlist and point the iSCSI initiator at each Controller VM IP address
Show the answer and the explanation

Correct answer: A

The iSCSI data services IP address is the target discovery portal and first connection point. AOS does not support IP addresses in a volume group allowlist, so you enter the client IQN.

Source: official documentation

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