NCP-US Nutanix Certified Professional – Unified Storage (NCP-US) v6 exam Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

According to the Nutanix Support & Insights website1, capacity runway is an estimate of how long your cluster can support its current workload before running out of resources2. The exhibit shows that your cluster has a storage runway of only 1 month, which means you will run out of storage space soon. However, your CPU and memory runways are much longer (more than 2 years), which means you have plenty of CPU and memory resources available. Therefore, it might be possible to reduce the storage capacity requested by your workload or optimize your storage utilization to extend your storage runway. Alternatively, you could also increase the storage capacity for physical nodes or add new physical nodes to the configuration, but these options might be more costly and complex.

S3 stands for simple storage service and it is a widely used object storage protocol that allows you to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. SMBv2 stands for server message block version 2and it is a file sharing protocol that enables access to files on remote servers. Nutanix Unified Storage Objects supports both S3 and SMBv2 protocols for data access.

https://next.nutanix.com/installation-configuration-23/ports-and-protocols-reference-chart-40249

According to Nutanix Objects User Guide1, “Objects supports Active Directory (AD) authentication for users and groups that are part of an AD domain.” However, “To access a bucket using AD credentials, you must have permissions on that bucket.” Therefore, the administrator should verify that the sharing policies for the bucket allow access for the AD account.

According to Nutanix Files :- Exports and Shares Basics1, “A distributed share is an SMB share or NFS export that can be hosted by multiple FSVMs. A distributed share can handle more concurrent sessions than a standard share.” Therefore, the administrator should create six distributed shares for each department to access its own shared namespace and handle 3,000 concurrent sessions.

https://www.nutanix.com/products/files

According to the scenario, the administrator is preparing to migrate data from a legacy storage environment to a new Files scale-out file server in a way that meets the following requirements:

Number of home directories: 4000

Number of Departmental shares: 1

Everyone is permitted to access it

All users use the same Departmental share

The administrator deploys Files using the following configuration:

Number of FSVMs: 3

VCPU & RAM/FSVM: 4VCPU, 12GB

One Distributed share with SSR & ABE enabled for the Home Directories

One Standard share for the Departmental share

Based on this configuration, it appears that the project's requirements are satisfied. The configuration provides a Distributed share for the home directories, which is recommended when there is a large number of files or directories, and this will distribute the load across multiple FSVMs. Note that everyone is permitted to access it.

In addition, the configuration provides a Standard share for the Departmental share, and since all users use the same Departmental share, this will not create any performance issues. Therefore, the correct answer is B, 'Yes, the listed configuration elements satisfy the requirements'.

According to the Nutanix Files Solution Guide1, all the FSVMs have the same basic configuration: four vCPU and 12 GB of RAM1. However, you can add more vCPU, RAM, and FSVMs to the cluster1.

Based on this information, the alert: File Server In Heterogeneous State indicates that the FSVMs do not match in their CPU or memory configuration1. This could affect the performance and availability of the file server

According to Nutanix Files SMB Share Default Permission1, a standard share is created with default permissions for three built-in groups: Administrators, Users, and Backup Operators. This may not be suitable for hosting user data that needs to be evenly distributed across users.

According to Nutanix Support & Insights2, a distributed share is a type of SMB share that allows you to distribute files across multiple file servers for better performance and scalability. This can help optimize the I/O performance within the current environment.

According to Nutanix File and NFS Mount Examples3, a quota policy is a way to limit the amount of space that a user or group can consume on a share. This can help enforce the 1 TB limit on the share and ensure that each user gets an equal amount of space.

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=TN-2041-Nutanix-Files%3ATN-2041-Nutanix-Files

According to Nutanix Support & Insights1, Access-based enumeration (ABE) is a Windows feature that filters the list of available files and folders on the file server to include only those the requesting user can access. ABE can be enabled on a per-share basis for SMB shares.

Therefore, if the Files administrator wants to ensure that users in the accounting share can only see folders they have permission to access, they can enable ABE on the accounting share.

https://www.nutanix.com/support-services/training-certification/certifications/certification-details-nutanix-certified-professional-unified-storage-v6

According to Nutanix Support & Insights1, “When you create a lifecycle policy for a bucket, you can choose whether to apply it only to new objects that are added after creating the policy or also apply it retroactively to existing objects.” Therefore, if this option is not selected, then existing data will not be moved by the tiering rule.

https://www.nutanix.com/blog/objects-33-improved-efficiency-and-time-to-value

Creating a Files distributed share with multi-protocol access would allow for easy and efficient transfer of log files between the Linux collector package and the Windows application. This would provide simplicity in terms of configuration and management, and would also ensure that the log files are stored in a distributed and highly available manner, making it easier to access them as and when required.

, Files is a software-defined scale-out file storage solution that provides a single namespace for unstructured data2. Files supports both SMB and NFS protocols, which means you can access the same share from both Linux and Windows machines3. This would provide the best performance and simplicity for your log collector package and analysis application.

According to the Nutanix Files SMB Migration Guide1, Nutanix Files supports SMB protocol V2 and V31. SMB is a native protocol for Nutanix Files that allows file sharing between Windows clients and servers1.

iscsiadm is a command-line tool that allows you to manage iSCSI connections and devices. The error message shown in the exhibit indicates that there is a problem with connecting to the iSCSI target at x.x.x.250.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29954195/error-message-from-iscsiadm-while-trying-to-connect-to-a-iscsi-drive

Nutanix volume groups are collections of vDisks that can be exposed to virtual machines or physical hosts using iSCSI protocol. Nutanix volume groups have a whitelist feature that allows you to specify which clients can access them.

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2049-Nutanix-Volumes:BP-2049-Nutanix-Volumes

B. The administrator has a mistake when inputting the data services IP. This could cause the iscsiadm command to fail to discover or login to the iSCSI target at x.x.x.250. The administrator should verify that they have entered the correct data services IP for the Nutanix volume group.

D. The client’s IQN is no longer in the whitelist of the affected VG. This could cause the iSCSI target to reject or ignore the connection request from the client. The administrator should check that they have added or updated the client’s IQN in the whitelist of the Nutanix volume group.

According to Nutanix documentation on unified storage (NCP-US) v6, Lifecycle policies enable administrators to ensure that objects in a bucket expire after a certain period of time. You can set rules to automate the transition of objects to different storage classes or to expire them altogether. This feature helps to manage storage costs by reducing the need to manually manage data retention policies for individual objects in a bucket.

Lifecycle policies allow you to define rules for automatically deleting or archiving objects in a bucket after a certain period of time1. This feature can help you reduce storage costs and manage data retention.

Audit Trails is a feature of Nutanix File Analytics that allows you to monitor file activities on your file servers. You can search for files by name or path and view audit details such as operation type, user name, IP address, timestamp and status. You can also filter by operations such as open or read to verify if key users have opened the document.

https://next.nutanix.com/community-blog-154/file-auditing-and-analytics-for-your-nutanix-files-enterprise-cloud-31950

The garbage collection process is performed by Curator, a service that runs on Nutanix clusters and is responsible for cleaning up unused data and reclaiming space12. Curator scans run periodically in the background and can be monitored from Prism2.

https://next.nutanix.com/how-it-works-22/ncc-health-check-garbage-egroups-39097

The Objects Storage Network (internal) is a virtual network that connects all CVMs in a cluster that hosts an object store. The Objects Storage Network (External) is a virtual network that connects external clients to an object store. The Objects Public Network (Internal) and (External) are not required for deploying Objects.

https://hyperhci.com/2019/09/18/nutanix-objects-storage-service/

According to the Boot Over ISCSI article1, to boot an operating system over iSCSI for physical servers using Nutanix Volumes, you need to configure the network adapter BIOS settings to enable this feature1. You also need a DHCP server pointing to the Nutanix cluster that provides the iSCSI LUN1.

Based on this information, the components that are needed to meet this requirement are A. A compatible Ethernet adapter per client and C. A DHCP server pointing to the Nutanix cluster.

Prism Central is a multi-cluster manager that provides a single, centralized management interface for Nutanix clusters running any hypervisor2. File Analytics (FA) is a service that enables you to monitor and analyze file activity on Nutanix Files clusters3. To deploy FA, you need to download the FA Virtual Appliance and import it into Prism Central3.

To deploy Files Analytics (FA), the deployment needs to be performed in Prism Central. When the administrator logs into the Prism management console using personal credentials, the administrator is not able to deploy the Virtual Appliance. Therefore, to resolve this issue, the administrator needs to perform the FA deployment using the Prism admin user account in Prism Central