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Question#1

An administrator is using Volumes for its mission critical environments to support its highly transactional Oracle database. Users have reported that recent queries to the database are very slow and the response times have increased as the database has grown
The administrator noticed that the database server is built using a single large vDisk for the database and logs
How should the administrator resolve this issue?

A. Increase vDisk size for the mission-critical workload and enable flash-mode.
B. Use between four and eight vDisks for the mission-critical workload
C. Increase vDisk size for the mission-critical workload and enable VGLB
D. Increase the iSCSI MaxTransferlength of the clients.

Question#2

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?

A. Volumes on a 5 (or more) nodes cluster with multiple disks per VG; MPIO disabled a protection domain with all the VGs and VMs
B. Files on a 5 (or more) nodes cluster with a general purpose share per Exchange VM; SSR enabled; use the natively created protection domain
C. Volumes on a 5 (or more) nodes cluster with a single disks per VG: MPIO enabled: metro availability enabled on the container which holds the VMs and VGs
D. Files on a 5 for more) nodes cluster with a distributed share DSF enabled create a separate schedule with 1 hour replication frequency

Question#3

A company requires that object data that is unused for a period of 12 months should be moved to AWS Glacier. This should be applied immediately to all new and existing data within the organization. An administrator creates and applies the tiering rule, but observes that no existing data is moved from buckets where the tiering rule is applied, despite being created over 12 months ago.
What is the reason for data over 12 months old failing to tier?

A. Enable versioning has not been selected on the Tiering Endpoint configuration,
B. The category has not been added to existing data.
C. Tiering lifecycle policies are non-retroactive.
D. The Apply to existing data option has not been selected on the life cycle rule.

Question#4

What fields are included in Object Store alerts?

A. Alert Time, Alert Type, Severity, Title, Message, UUID
B. Title, Source, Impact, severity, resolved, Acknowledged and Create Time
C. Name, Description, Severity, Created and Silenced
D. Severity, Issues, Create Time, Last Occurred, Status, Entities, Documentation

Explanation:
https://support-portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Objectsv3_1:v31-view-osalerts-t.html

Question#5

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?

A. Open a support ticket and report the installation bug.
B. Ensure that the back-end IPs are in the same VLAN as the CVM I
C. Inform the networking team that LLDP is incorrectly configured.
D. Disable the firewall on the CVM to prevent blocked packets

Exam Code: NCP-DS
Q & A: 98 Q&As         Updated:  Sep 21,2026

 

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Exam Code: NCP-DS
Q & A: 98 Q&As
Updated:  Sep 21,2026

 

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