Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional - NCS-Core Exam Questions

QUESTION NO: 1
An administrator needs to replace the self-signed certificate on a cluster. Which two requirements must be met as part of the process? (Choose two.)

QUESTION NO: 2
A customer with a four-node RF2 cluster is adding application VMs to their system. After adding these VMs, the Prism dashboard shows 81% storage utilization.
What is the consequence of running the cluster at 81% storage utilization?

QUESTION NO: 3
A consultant is showing the Prism Element Web Console to a customer and wants to check that cluster health is OK. During validation, the Health menu raises critical alerts about components using default passwords.
The cluster is based on ESXi as hypervisor, where Prism Central and Nutanix Files are deployed. Passwords have already been changed for a few components, but some of them have been left by default.
How can the consultant check and handle that situation?

QUESTION NO: 4
During a Site Readiness Check, a customer informed the consultant that there is no NTP server currently configured in the environment.
Which two statements should the consultant consider for continuing the cluster deployment? (Choose two.)

QUESTION NO: 5
A consultant has been tasked with increasing security on a Nutanix cluster by disabling password authentication when accessing the CVM and AHV hosts and instead moving to key-based SSH.
What is the easiest way for the consultant to meet these requirements?

QUESTION NO: 6
A customer recently bought services from their consultant to re-configure an existing Cluster for a new use case. The data on the cluster is not important. The customer does not know the CVM usernames and passwords.
Which Foundation tool should the consultant use to resolve this issue?

QUESTION NO: 7
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?

QUESTION NO: 8
For a new AHV cluster installation, a customer has 20 NX-8155 nodes with quad port NICs. The customer wants to meet the following guidelines:
#Take advantage of all available 10G 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?

QUESTION NO: 9
After a consultant runs Foundation, the imaging process fails.
In which two locations can the consultant find the logs? (Choose two.)

QUESTION NO: 10
An administrator knows that the disks in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For security reasons, these clusters do not have access to the Internet.
Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)

QUESTION NO: 11
An administrator is updating disk firmware using LCM and receives the following message:
"there have been 10 or more cluster services restarts within 15 minutes in the Controller VM" The message appears as each drive is upgraded.
What is the reason this message is being generated?

QUESTION NO: 12
Refer to the exhibit.

A Nutanix host is connected as shown in the exhibit with br0-up set to active/backup. Physical Switch 1 experiences a power outage causing br0-up to failover to using eth2. The CVM and host become inaccessible.
User VMs restart on other hosts in the cluster, which causes a disruption to those VMs.
Which configuration issue likely caused this outage?

QUESTION NO: 13
After deployment of a Nutanix cluster, a customer has requested to validate the peak performance of the cluster.
Which tool can a consultant use to satisfy this request?

QUESTION NO: 14
An alert about RX errors on eth2 on a node is reported in the cluster. The administrator logs in to the CVM in question, checks the ping_* files in the data/logs/syststats folder, and notices intermittent ping loss.
The node in question has the following network configuration:

Which action should be used to troubleshoot without disrupting the VMs running on this node?