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NCP-DB Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB v6.10) Questions and Answers

Questions 4

An administrator would like to leverage the Oracle restore feature within NDB for a RAC database.

Prior to the restoration operation, what must the administrator do?

Options:

A.

Ensure the database is in a Down state.

B.

Ensure the database is registered with NDB.

C.

Ensure the database is in an Up state.

D.

Ensure more than one node of the RAC is reachable.

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Questions 5

While registering an Always on Availability Group database, an administrator selects the following option:

Multiple Databases as a Group with One Time Machine

Which statement is true regarding this chosen option?

Options:

A.

PITR-based SLAs are supported for database groups containing mixed Recovery Model.

B.

PITR-based SLAs are not supported for database groups containing mixed Recovery Model

C.

Point in Time Clones are not supported by Database Groups.

D.

PITR-based SLAs are not supported for database groups.

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Questions 6

What is the most efficient way to get information on REST APIs for a task in Era?

Options:

A.

Log into Ere VM end run to list ell the REST APIs.

B.

Navigate to Swagger REST in Era GI-II.

C.

Navigate to and look for the desired

D.

use API equivalent button in a workflow.

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Questions 7

What is causing this issue?

Options:

A.

The VLAN is DHCP

B.

The VLAN is static

C.

The VLAN is stretched

D.

The VLAN is IPAM

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Questions 8

How should an administrator create a database clone using the Era IJI?

Options:

A.

Select Databases, Clones, Create Clone.

B.

Select Databases, Sources, select a source database and then choose Create Clone.

C.

Select Time Machines, select e source database end then choose Create Clone.

D.

Select Database Server VMs, select a database server VM and then choose Create Clone.

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Questions 9

While restoring a PostgreSQL HA instance, an administrator notices that the restore of a standby node has failed. The primary node is ready to seive application traffic.

In what state does NDB leave the database?

Options:

A.

PAKFIAL.READY

B.

OFFLINE

C.

ONLINE

D.

RECOVERY PENDING

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Questions 10

Which two methods can be used to upgrade Era? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Nutanix LCM

B.

Offline Upgrade

C.

Rolling Upgrade

D.

One-click U pgrade

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Questions 11

When trying to restore a database via Time Machine (TM), the option to restore data to a Point in Time is not available.

What should the administrator do to enable Point in Time Recovery?

Options:

A.

Use an SLA that supports Continuous Log retention.

B.

Update the TM schedule to perform DB Log catch up.

C.

Take a Manual snapshot and use it for DB recovery.

D.

Use Brass SLA & update the Log catch up frequency.

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Questions 12

A database administrator is tasked with creating a new clone of a running SQL database. During the clone process, there are no authorized servers are available.

What should the administrator do next?

Options:

A.

Register or provision a new authorized server VIVI.

B.

Click the Action icon to authorize one or more database server VMs.

C.

Register or provision a new database VIVI

D.

Click the Skip icon and choose to authorize later.

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Questions 13

An administrator tried to provision Nutanix Database Service (NDB) from Prism Central Marketplace and is getting the error shown in the exhibit.

Which action would have prevented this issue?

Options:

A.

Configure an IP address when deploying the application.

B.

Import the proper image in the Prism Central.

C.

Provide a subnet with IP Address Management

D.

Register NDB using the correct IP address.

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Questions 14

An administrator is attempting to enable high availability (HA) for NDB across three Nutanix clusters located in separate data centers. If the network latency between two clusters exceeds 25ms RTT, what impact might this have on the NDB HA setup?

Options:

A.

HA will operate with increased delay.

B.

HA cannot be enabled due to the latency.

C.

The clusters will not synchronize.

D.

There will be no impact on HA functionality.

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Questions 15

An administrator needs to patch a PostgreSQL database server VM from version 13.4 to 13.8.

What is the first step within the NDB patching workflow to accomplish this task?

Options:

A.

Create a new Software Profile with PostgreSQL 13.8.

B.

Create a maintenance window and add this PostgreSQL server 13.8 to the queue.

C.

Create a new Database Parameters profile for PostgreSQL server 13.8.

D.

Create a Software Profile Version with PostgreSQL 13.8.

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Questions 16

An NDB administrator would like to configure a database with a Time Machine protection mode that includes the Log Catchup operation.

What would be the most essential component to make such a configuration possible?

Options:

A.

At least one snapshot must be taken daily on the database.

B.

An SLA retention schedule must be identified for daily snapshots.

C.

A protection SLA with the Continuous Log Retention option must be selected.

D.

The Log Catchup frequency must be selected and conform to RPO requirements.

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Questions 17

It becomes necessary to remove an existing database clone. "To minimize the impact of that removal to users, an administrator would like to schedule this operation for weekend hours.

When scheduling this removal, other than the specified date/time, which option in the Update Removal Schedule is pre-selected as non-optional?

Options:

A.

Create an alert before removal.

B.

Delete supporting snapshot from NDB.

C.

Unregister the database clone from NDB.

D.

Delete the database clone from the VM.

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Questions 18

An online retail application requires data to be synchronized between multiple SQL Server databases. This provides clearer reporting from

multiple databases at the Same time for consistency at the end of each business day.

What is the best way to fulfill this requirement?

Options:

A.

Have all the databases present in the same DBVM and register databases in Era.

B.

Have all the databases present in the same DBVM and register databases in Era with Multiple Databases as a Group with one Time Machine.

C.

Have all the databases present in the same DBVM and register databases in Era with One Database with One Time Machine.

D.

Have all the databases in the same Availability Group and register databases in Era.

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Questions 19

Era allows custom metadata to be assigned to entities (clones, time machines, databases, and database servers) by using which component?

Options:

A.

Tags

B.

Notes

C.

Text

D.

Index

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Questions 20

An administrator selected Bronze SLA for Era Time Machine during database registration.

Which two capabilities are supported by the Time Machine for this database? (Choose two,)

Options:

A.

Provwonng

B.

Log Catch up

C.

Cloning

D.

Snapshots

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Questions 21

What is the terminology used for registering an existing database with Era?

Options:

A.

Greenfield Database

B.

Brownfield Database

C.

Cloned Database

D.

Source Database

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Questions 22

An administrator is attempting to take a manual snapshot of a database in ND8 on an AHV cluster. There are multiple Nutanix clusters in this environment and the administrator would like to replicate the snapshot to one of the remote clusters. When attempting to take the snapshot, only a single cluster appears, as shown in the exhibit.

What is the most likely reason that only a single cluster is shown?

Options:

A.

The remote clusters are running ESXi.

B.

The snapshot will be too big to replicate to a remote cluster.

C.

NDB Multi-cluster has not been enabled.

D.

The remote clusters have an older version of AOS installed.

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Questions 23

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator, whose accounts are shown in the exhibit, is trying to add a new database admin as a local user to NDB, but is unable to complete the task.

What is most likely the cause of the issue?

Options:

A.

The administrator is logged in with the Super Admin account.

B.

An email address is required for the Super Admin account.

C.

The administrator is logged in with the Database Admin account.

D.

Only users in the domain admins group can create local users.

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Questions 24

An administrator has deployed an NDB HA setup. An electrical maintenance window needs to be planned and the clusters where NDB is deployed must be powered off.

After shutting down the load balancer server, what should the administrator do next?

Options:

A.

In the sudo systemctl stop patroni command.

B.

Shutdown the API standby node.

C.

Run the high-availability list command.

D.

Shutdown the API leader node.

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Questions 25

When provisioning an PostgreSQL HA Instance, what are the minimum and maximum number of DB server VMs that can be deployed in a cluster?

Options:

A.

Min 2, Max 6

B.

Min 2, Max 4

C.

Min 1. Max 3

D.

Min 3, Max 5

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Questions 26

What are the three severity levels displayed under the Alert dashboard?

Options:

A.

Critical. Waiting, Failed

B.

Failed, Warning, Stopped

C.

Critical, Warning Info

D.

Failed, Warning, Error

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Questions 27

An administrator needs to restore databases provisioned with a shared disk configuration on Windows Storage Spaces What happens when NDB runs the restore operation?

Options:

A.

NDB restores the disk that are associated with the database.

B.

NDB copies the DB files to be restored to the source volume.

C.

NDB replaces the source volume with the snapshot volume.

D.

NDB performs Tail Log backup to backup any remaining logs.

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Questions 28

What does the Era I-Click Provisioning service do?

Options:

A.

Cloning with security inserting pre and post masking scripts

B.

Customizable recovery SLAs for continuous RPOs

C.

Create space-efficient database snapshots

D.

Create space-efficient clones and zero-byte database clones

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Questions 29

Which disk is omitted from a Software Profile?

Options:

A.

System Page File

B.

SQL Installation

C.

User Database

D.

System Database

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Questions 30

Which response shows two ways to upgrade an NDB Server?

Options:

A.

Out-of-Place Upgrade and In-place Upgrade

B.

One-click Upgrade and In-place Upgrade Auto

C.

Upgrade and Manual Upgrade

D.

One-click Upgrade and Offline Upgrade

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Questions 31

In order to configure and begin taking advantage of the Data Access Management feature of Time Machine, which action should an administrator take first?

Options:

A.

Enable NDB HA to protect the metadata associated with the configuration.

B.

Enable NDB multi-cluster and register required Nutanix cluster(s).

C.

Take an application consistent snapshot of the source database.

D.

Ensure that the source database has been provisioned on the remote Nutanix cluster.

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Questions 32

An administrator needs to maintain five days of time-travel capability to any second, plus an additional seven days of discrete recovery at a daily interval.

How should the administrator define the Frequency and retention on the SLA?

Options:

A.

• Continuous log retention (days): 7

• Daily snapshot retention (days): 5

B.

• Continuous log retention (days): 5

• Weekly snapshot retention (weeks): 1

C.

• Weekly snapshot retention (weeks): 1

• Continuous log retention (days): 7

D.

• Daily snapshot retention (days): 7

• Continuous log retention (days): 5

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Questions 33

How should an administrator modify the Alert Severity level within Era?

Options:

A.

From the dropdown menu choose Alerts Policies. Choose the Policy to be modified and set the desired severity level.

B.

From the dropdown menu choose Alerts > List. Select the message to be changed end choose Set Status to Resolved or Set Status to Acknowledged.

C.

From the dropdown menu choose Alerts Policies. Chose the Poliq to be modified and chose either Set Enabled or Set Disabled,

D.

From the dropdown menu choose Alerts > Policies. Then choose Update next to Alert Retention,

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Questions 34

An administrator is tasked with auditing NDB SLAs. What data will the administrator be reviewing?

Options:

A.

Snapshot schedules

B.

Clone Management

C.

Data retention policies

D.

Recovery Time Objective

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Questions 35

An administrator wants to migrate an existing MSSQL Server database to NDB.

How should the administrator complete this migration?

Options:

A.

Use Nutanix Move to migrate the database server VM.

B.

Provision a new database server VM and database then migrate the data.

C.

Create a new database server VM and database then register it with NDB.

D.

Backup your database VM and import it into Nutanix.

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Questions 36

An administrator needs to provision a database for test purposes with a data protection policy that minimizes storage usage.

How should the administrator best complete this task?

Options:

A.

Disable the SLA for this database during provisioning.

B.

Create a SLA that only leverages zero-byte snapshots.

C.

Select the built-in NONE SLA that is configured for no snapshot or log backup.

D.

Create a custom SLA for this database that only retains 1 day of snapshots and bogs.

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Questions 37

An administrator needs to provision multiple database clones from the same source database for different purposes, such as QA and Test/Development. To avoid resource starving, the administrator wants to differentiate VM resources for each department.

What is the most efficient way to accomplish this task?

Options:

A.

Create multiple Compute profiles.

B.

Leverage NCM Self Service to deploy database clones.

C.

Use a VM Template for each department.

D.

Generate a playbook to resize database VMs when released.

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Questions 38

A Development team is asking for updated data for a cloned MongoDB instance that is being used as source data for a script. Which task should be performed by an NDB administrator?

Options:

A.

Clone the DB from the latest point in time data.

B.

Execute a clone update.

C.

Provision a MongoDB instance.

D.

Run a Clone refresh.

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Questions 39

When the NDB upgrade includes updates to the out-of-the-box (OOB) software profiles, what happens to older OOB software profile versions when upgrading NDB?

Options:

A.

If the database VMs using the software profiles are using Time Machines and have had a successful snapshot in the last 24 hours before the patch.

B.

If the software profiles are not in use, NDB deletes all versions of the profiles from the metadata and protection domains.

C.

If the database VM using the software profiles are shutdown, NDB deletes all versions of the profiles from the metadata and protection domains.

D.

If the database VMs are not using the base version of the software profile NDB deletes all versions of the profiles from the metadata and protection domains.

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Questions 40

An administrator needs to restore a source database from a point in time at 21:50, but the restore option is not available.

What could explain the matter?

Options:

A.

Point in time must be within the most recent range.

B.

Selected Restore time is not available.

C.

Change to snapshot option.

D.

Logs to Backup must be run first.

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Questions 41

Exhibit.

An administrator just created the ndb_test user as shown in the exhibit. Which two tasks can this user perform? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Access Control

B.

Network Profiles

C.

Clones

D.

NDB Configuration

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Questions 42

An administrator is experiencing issues with NDB and some of its operations. A case has been logged with Nutanix Support and a request has been made to gather a diagnostics bundle.

Where are two valid places to generate and download a diagnostics bundle? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Prism Central GUI

B.

Prism Element GUI

C.

NDB GUI

D.

NDB CLI

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Questions 43

An administrator needs to assign a static IP address to the NDB VM using the command, shown below.

era-server > era server set ip=ip_address gateway=gatevay_address netmask=ip_J2etmas^c nameserver=nsl ntp server=ntpl

Which two parameters are optional for this command? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

ntp_server

B.

netmask

C.

gateway

D.

narnesetver

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Questions 44

What is required to cre110ate a network profile in Era?

Options:

A.

The network must contain static IP addresses.

B.

The network must be added to Era.

C.

The network must be managed by Era.

D.

The network must provide IP address management.

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Questions 45

Which file type must be downloaded from the Nutanix Portal for NDB deployment?

Options:

A.

ZIP

B.

QCOW2

C.

OVA

D.

TAR

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Questions 46

In an Oracle upgrade scenario using Era. if the source database is on a nor-Nutanix platform, is it possible to upgrade it with an Era

workflow?

Options:

A.

Yes, it is possible to upgrade database instance on a non-Nutanix platform.

B.

Yes, only if the nan-Nutanix platform is big-endian platform,

C.

No, the database instaru:e must be Era managed to Be upgraded

D.

Yes, only if the nori-Nutanix platform is little-endian platform.

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Questions 47

What behavior is observed when applying patch profiles as a Super Admin?

Options:

A.

Unpublished patches can be applied.

B.

Published patches cannot be applied if currently deprecated.

C.

Hidden patches can be applied.

D.

Deprecated patches can be applied.

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Questions 48

An IT manager is onboarding a new Nutanix systems administrator to manage their NDB deployment. The manager would like to assign the NDB role that provides the minimum amount of permissions to allow provisioning of new databases.

Which role should be assigned to accomplish this task?

Options:

A.

Infrastructure administrator

B.

Super administrator

C.

Database infrastructure administrator

D.

Database administrator

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Questions 49

Which two processes should an administrator take to create a software profile version for a newly-released Oracle ISc patch? (Choose

two.)

Options:

A.

1. Download the required patch from Microsoft Support.

2. Apply the patch to the Oracle Home/Grid Home on e cloned VM of the gold image using

OPatchAuto utiliv.

3. Ensure success of patch application.

B.

1. Create new software profile version from the original software profile using the cloned

VM where OPatchAuto was run successfully using Era Gul.

2. Mark the original patch profile as deprecated.

C.

1. Download the required patch from MyOracle Support

2. Apply the patch to the Oracle Hom€Grid Home on a cloned VM of the gold image using

O PatchAuto

3. Ensure success of patch application

D.

1. Create new software profile version from the original software profile using the cloned

VM where OPatchAuto was run successfully using Era Gul.

2. Mark the original patch profile as hidden.

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Questions 50

An administrator is creating a Windows Domain profile in Era.

Which optional field can be skipped and provided during the provisioning process?

Options:

A.

Domain to join

B.

Domain Account

C.

Organizational Units

D.

SQL Service Startup Account

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Questions 51

What does a Time Machine frozen status indicate?

Options:

A.

The database is paused on the database VM.

B.

The database was de-registered from NDB without removing the associated time machine.

C.

The NDB agent is stopped on the database VM.

D.

The Time Machine is paused and all automatic snapshot and log catch-up activities are halted.

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Questions 52

What is required to create an NDB Software Profile?

Options:

A.

Installer package for database software

B.

Database server VM registered with NDB

C.

Patch file for the installed databases

D.

OS image registered with Prism Element

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Questions 53

What is the first step to add Time Machine (TM) data access to a Nutanix cluster?

Options:

A.

Enable multi-cluster in NDB.

B.

Disable multi-cluster in ND8.

C.

Register the required Nutanix clusters in ND8.

D.

Delete the TM data from the source database.

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Questions 54

An administrator is managing a high availability (HA) NDB environment and has been tasked to configure custom SSL certificates. Which server instances must be updated?

Options:

A.

All API server VMs

B.

All HA Proxy VMs

C.

The API and Repository VMs running on the primary cluster

D.

The primary API, Repository and HA Proxy servers

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Questions 55

Which file format is available when downloading a list of alerts?

Options:

A.

xlsx

B.

csv

C.

xml

D.

pdf

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Questions 56

Nutanix NDB gives an administrator the ability to create highly-available database pairs with which two databases? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

MySQL

B.

PostgreSQL

C.

SQL Server

D.

MariaDB

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Questions 57

An administrator needs to remove the default administrative account in use for NDB operations.

What is the recommended role for the Prism Element user to register a Nutanix cluster?

Options:

A.

Super Admin

B.

User Admin

C.

Cluster Admin

D.

Backup Admin

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Questions 58

What does an NDB compute profile contain?

Options:

A.

vCPUs, cores per vCPU, and the amount of memory for the database server VM.

B.

Windows domain name (FQDN), domain user, and password.

C.

VLAN that the new database server VM will use.

D.

An image of the database and operating system generated from the registered database server VM.

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Questions 59

A database administrator wants to clone an SQL database that has Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) enabled.

Which two steps must be taken on the target server for this clone to be successful? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Backup the .cer and .pvk files from the source database server VM.

B.

Backup the keystore bundle file from the source database server VM.

C.

Run the pre-clone command script.

D.

Run the post-clone command script.

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Questions 60

A database administrator is working with a cloned database and creates a clone removal schedule.

Which two default actions are taken on the cloned database? (Choose two.]

Options:

A.

NDB deletes the cloned database.

B.

NDB de-registers the cloned database.

C.

NDB marks the cloned database as offline.

D.

NDB deletes the cloned database VM.

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Questions 61

A developer with RBAC privileges in Era needs to refresh an existing DB Clone.

What steps must the developer take to perform the refresh?

Options:

A.

Navigate to Databases > Sources, Select the appropriate Database from the table and

Refresh Clone from the Database Actions menu.

B.

Navigate to Databases > Clones, Select the appropriate clone from the table, click

Refresh, select the desired Point In Time or Snapshot and click Refresh

C.

Navigate to Time Machines Select the appropriate Database Time Machine from the

table end Refresh Clone from the Actions menu.

D.

Navigate to Databases > Clones, Select the appropriate clone from the table, choose

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Questions 62

When an Oracle database is upgraded using Era, what is the type of upgrade category?

Options:

A.

In-place upgrade

B.

Out-of-place upgrade

C.

Disruptive upg raze

D.

Non-disruptive upgrade

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Questions 63

An administrator needs to register a Nutanix cluster with NDB.

Which condition requires the administrator to create a manual storage mapping between the remote container and NDB provisioning container?

Options:

A.

NDB Server container and NDB Provisioning container are separate.

B.

Disaster Recovery Network Segmentation is enabled on the cluster.

C.

Nutanix Database Service High Availability is enabled on the cluster.

D.

DB VMs are stored in the NDB Server or NDB Provisioning container.

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Questions 64

A user wants to apply the latest OS security patches on a Windows server.

How should the user accomplish this task?

Options:

A.

Reboot the system.

B.

Create and apply a Maintenance Plan in NDB.

C.

Update the database.

D.

Use update functionality directly on the VM

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Questions 65

Which action should be completed before updating Oracle Database software?

Options:

A.

Verify CVMs have the required memory allocated.

B.

Perform rolling reboots of the Oracle Database VMs.

C.

Verify the Oracle OS version is supported on AHV.

D.

Download the PSU from Oracle support.

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Questions 66

A new administrator is tasked with changing the NDB GUI password via CLl.

Which command will accomplish this task?

Options:

A.

sudo passwd era

B.

sudo user name admin password

C.

era-server > username admin password

D.

era-server > security password reset

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Questions 67

An organization has NDB HA enabled across multiple Nutanix clusters.

If two clusters are using ESXi and one cluster is using AHV, which additional component is necessary to support cross-hypervisor compatibility?

Options:

A.

Stretched VLANs for all nodes

B.

NGT

C.

Nutanix Prism Central

D.

VirtlO

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Questions 68

What is the maximum number of days allowed for alert retention?

Options:

A.

90

B.

180

C.

270

D.

306

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Questions 69

When provisioning a new database, which two options are available for the target? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Provision database to an existing registered

B.

Provision database to an existing container.

C.

Provision databases to e new container.

D.

Provision database to a new database sender\cluster.

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Questions 70

An administrator needs to work with databases and time machines, but not database parameter profiles. Which role satisfies this requirement?

Options:

A.

Database Administrator (DBA)

B.

super Administrator

C.

Database Infrastructure Administrator

D.

Infrastructure Administrator

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Questions 71

As administrator has been asked to add a database to a PostgreSQL instance already managed by NDB.

Which task should be performed?

Options:

A.

Add a new database to a source DB.

B.

Register a new DB VM to add the DB.

C.

Provision a new DB server VM and add the new DB.

D.

Update a database clone to add a new DB.

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Questions 72

Within the NDB GUI, an administrator needs to set the shortest schedule interval possible for a database log catch up.

Which value, in minutes, will satisfy this requirement?

Options:

A.

5

B.

10

C.

15

D.

30

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Questions 73

An administrator needs to deploy a cumulative update (CU) for SQL Server.

What steps would the administrator take to prepare this deployment with NDB?

Options:

A.

Apply the patch to the profile VM, delete the existing Software Profile and create a new Software Profile using the profile VM as the source.

B.

Create a new Software Profile version using the CU executable and publish that version.

C.

Apply the patch to the profile VM, then create a new Software Profile version using the profile VM as the source.

D.

Create a new Software Profile using the CU executable and publish that profile.

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Questions 74

Which two ports can be used by external applications to make API calls to Era? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

9443

B.

443

C.

8443

D.

9440

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Questions 75

An administrator begins an SQL database clone deletion, but notices it fails almost immediately.

What could be the cause of this failure?

Options:

A.

A refresh operation is in progress.

B.

The clone has been marked as Immutable.

C.

The database was not marked as Offline before the operation.

D.

The database data drives are shared with other applications.

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Exam Code: NCP-DB
Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB v6.10)
Last Update: Apr 2, 2025
Questions: 251
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