NCS-CORE Online Practice Questions and Answers

A customer has a G6 AHV cluster with 4x10GbE NICs on each node and the following configuration:

*

Networking is set to default

*

Only two NICs are connected

The customer receives the following critical message:

The NIC is disconnected from the switch, or the switchport is failing.

What should the consultant verify to resolve the issue?

A. The NICs are configured for active-backup.

B. The VLANs are configured correctly on the switch or tagged on the cluster.

C. The other two 10GbE connections are removed from the default bond.

D. The NICs are connected for balance-slb.

A consultant is using the Foundation applet to create a cluster. During the process the consultant refreshes the progress bar web page and is concerned when nothing loads.

What should the consultant do to verify that Foundation has completed successfully?

A. Return to the Foundation configuration page and start over.

B. Update Java on the Foundation VM.

C. Connect to any CVM IP address from a web browser.

D. Restart the Foundation process.

A customer wants to use NIC teaming on an ESXi host using a vSphere Standard Switch configured with the Route based on physical NIC load load balancing option. The customer does not see the option when editing the Teaming and Failover settings for the switch.

How should the consultant resolve this issue?

A. Change the load balancing option on the switch.

B. Add a vSphere Distributed Switch

C. Add another physical NIC to the team.

D. Install a vCenter server to manage the switch

An administrator needs to initiate a new VDI project within a couple of months. Prism Central reports there are no storage resources to accommodate such workloads.

The administrator sees many powered-off VMs and has the authority to delete test VMs powered off at least for 30 days. Test VMs belong to the Test category.

Using Prism Central, which steps are required to identify the correct VMs tobe deleted?

A. Use Capacity Runway to filter by Test and Powered-off VMs

B. Filter VMs list, choose Test category and Inactive under Efficiency

C. Create a new Scenario selecting Test VMs. filter by uptime

D. Create a new Project selecting Test VMs,sorting by power state

After installation, network ports are properly configured with the default active-backup bonding.

One 10GbE port goes to switch 1. Another 10GbE port goes to switch 2. A consultant tests failover by manually pulling one of the cables and notices it is taking too much time to failover, which is causing excessive packet loss.

What should the consultant enable to resolve this issue?

A. LACP on switch

B. PAgP

C. Portfast

D. Jumbo frames

The following alert appears on the file server alerts tab in the file server dashboard:

Which two events can generate this alert? (choose two)

A. A three-node dusterhosting the file server is undergoing AOS upgrade.

B. A node failed in a three-node cluster.

C. A Nutanix file with four hie server VMs is deployed on a three-node duster.

D. A node is set to the maintenance mode in a three node cluster.

A consultant successfully completes a Foundation using a flat switch. The consultant then works with the customer to move the cluster over to their production network. After the move, the CVMs and hypervisors can no longer communicate,

which prevents the cluster from starting.

Which option should be used to resolve this issue?

A. If the IPMI is in use, check that the IPMI can ping the default gateway over IPv6.

B. Make sure that the IPMI and CVM VLAN is manually tagged on the Host and CVM.

C. Verify that IPv6 Link Local and DHCP is enabled on all switch ports.

D. If using VLANs, confirm the hypervisor/CVM VLAN is set as Native on the switch ports.

While trying to upgrade AOS in a cluster, a consultant receives a warning message that there are two powered-on VMs that need to be powered off for the upgrade to proceed.

What would cause this warning to be issued?

A. Upgrading a single-node cluster requires the VMs to be shut down.

B. Upgrading a two-node cluster requires the VMs to be shut down.

C. There are not enough resources left in the single-node cluster.

D. There are not enough resources left in the two-node cluster.

A consultant creates a new cluster using ESXi as the hypervisor. After creating the cluster, the consultant begins to run Life Cycle Manager (LCM) updates. During the LCM upgrade pre-checks, an error is returned. Which configuration is causing this issue?

A. ESXi cluster admission control is disabled.

B. ESXi cluster DRS is enabled.

C. ESXi cluster HA is enabled.

D. ESXi cluster admission control is enabled.

A consultant is imaging a Nutanix cluster with VMware ESXi. Foundation returns an error that the media is not a supported ISO. The consultant checks the whitelist file in Foundation and confirms that the version of the ISO is not listed. Which three actions should the consultant take to resolve this issue? (Choose three.)

A. Replace and save whitelist file in Foundation

B. Obtain the MD5 checksum of the ISO and confirm MD5 checksum of ISO is listed.

C. Download the iso_whitelist.json from the Support portal.

D. Edit the whitelist file in Foundation.

E. Restart the imaging process in Foundation.