Free Nutanix NCS-Core Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

An administrator has a custom backup application that requires a 2TB disk and runs in Windows. Throughput is considerably lower than expected.
The application was installed on a VM with the following configuration:
* Four vCPUs with one core/vCPU
* 4GB of Memory
* One 50GB vDisk for the Windows installation
* One 2TB vDisk for the application
What is the recommended configuration change to improve throughput?

Which Nutanix tool does the Field Installation Guide provide instructions for?

In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single Node Replication Target.
The current schedule configuration is as follows:
* Repeat every 6 hours
* Local Retention Policy 1
* Remote Retention Policy 8
* Starting time 12 am
At 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection.
Which strategy should the administrator use to meet these requirements?

For a new AHV cluster installation, a customer has 20 NX-8155-G6 nodes with quad port SFP NICs.
The customer wants to meet the following guidelines:
* Take advantage of all available 10GbE links
* Achieve maximum throughput per VM
* Use of redundant ToR switches
* Fastest reconvergence during link failure
How should the load balancing be configured on the host?

A customer wants to run SAP HANA on a Nutanix cluster with the following characteristics:
* AHV nodes
* SAP HANA version 2
* Production database files
Which configuration should be recommended to the customer?

A consultant is discussing VLAN tagging for a newly deployed Nutanix system. The customer requests that the the vlan dor the CVMs and AHV hosts be placed in the customer's management VLAN 10. The customer also has VLAN 20 for production VM traffic and VLAN 30 for backup/replication traffic.
Which VLAN should the consultant recommend for CVM and host traffic?

An administrator needs to replace an aging SAN and move to a hyper-converged infrastructure. The existing environment consists of the following hosts that are connected to the SAN:
* 5xAIX hosts
* 3x Hyper-V hosts
* 9xESXi hosts
* 2x physical SQL Clusters (Windows Server 2012R2 hosts)
After deploying a Nutanix AHV cluster, which two actions should the administrator take to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

A consultant is working with a customer on a new cluster deployment.
While reviewing the customer questionnaire, the consultant notices that the customer has documented their DNS servers as follows:
*CompanyDNSI 192.168.5.10
*CompanyDNS2 192.1685.20
What should the consultant consider regarding this deployment?

An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment. Why is this happening?

An administrator has two clusters: Site A and Site B.
Async DR is configured between the clusters as follows:
* Site A is the Primary Site
* Site B is the Secondary inactive Site, no VMs running
* Site A is fully in Production
* Site B used as Backup/Disaster Recovery
The customer wants to perform a planned failover between the sites.
How should the administrator accomplish this?

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.)

From a hypervisor, which IP address should the consultant use to connect to the locally tossed on?

An administrator needs to evaluate if the existing configuration of Protection Domains meets the specified corporate recovery policy for SQL Data. The corporate policy requires that all SQL Servers be recoverable at the DR site within 30 minutes, and must result in a maximum of 60 minutes of data loss. SQL data must be required.
The protection domain is configured as follows:
* Application consistent snapshots are enabled
* The SQL server VMs are assigned to the Protection Domain as their own Consistency Group
* The Protection Domain schedule is configured as snapshots taken every 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm What must be changed to meet the required policy?

After a consultant runs Foundation, the imaging process fails.
In which two locations can the consultant find the logs? (Choose two.)