Network Appliance NS0-404 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 21,2026- Exam Code: NS0-404
- Exam Name: Hybrid Cloud - Implementation Engineer Exam
- Certification Provider: Network Appliance
- Latest update: Oct 21,2026
You have a hybrid storage environment with on-premises ONTAP 9.8 clusters and Cloud Volumes ONTAP for AWS 9-8 clusters. You have a requirement to automatically discover, map, and classify your data.
In this scenario, which NetApp service satisfies this requirement?
- A . Cloud Secure
- B . Cloud Volume Service
- C . Cloud Sync
- D . Cloud Data Sense
A customer operating an ONTAP 9.7 cluster comprised of six AFF A400 nodes would like to use their Commvault instance to replicate volume snapshots to their existing StorageGRID cluster to free up space. They have the Complete license bundle but have not been provided any additional budget to complete this task.
Which two steps can be taken to complete this without having to purchase anything? (Choose two)
- A . Install the ONTAP One license
- B . Upgrade to ONTAR 9.8P10
- C . Upgrade to ONTAR 9.10.1
- D . Install a SnapMirror license
You have an AFF A400 system with NetApp ONTAP 9.8 installed. You want to configure the NetApp Cloud Tiering service to tier data to AWS object storage. The communication between your cluster and the AWS cloud needs to be encrypted. You have installed the FabricPool license, but your ONTAP cluster cannot reach the S3 bucket.
Which two configurations are causing the error? (Choose two.)
- A . You have not configured the TLS encryption.
- B . You have not configured your firewall to allow outbound traffic on port 443.
- C . You have not configured a LIF with a public IP address.
- D . You have not configured a LIF with the intercluster role.
Your developers each need their own unique copy of source code. Currently, you have 300 developers, and the source code that they are working on is 200 GBs in size.
Which NetApp ONTAP feature would help to solve this issue with the least amount of overhead?
- A . FlexCache
- B . SnapMirror
- C . FlexGroups
- D . FlexClone
You are building a software program for a car dealer to manage their asset inventory.

Referring to the exhibit, which statement is correct about the number and the array name in this JSON output?
- A . three arrays; cars, brand, and models
- B . two arrays; cars and models
- C . one array; cars
- D . four arrays; cars and models
A customer is experiencing an I/O bottleneck with one VMware hosted workload in their NetApp HCI cluster that is part of their hybrid cloud. The solution must be immediate and non-disruptive.
In this scenario, which corrective action should the customer perform?
- A . Dynamically migrate the workload including storage to a nearby AWS region.
- B . Add additional memory and CPU to the ESXi host.
- C . Dynamically migrate the workload to a different NetApp HCI ESXi host in the cluster.
- D . Modify the QoS on this particular workload to allow it to use the resources available.
You are deploying a containerized application to track user data. However, every time the container is re-created, user data is lost.
What do you need to save this data?
- A . Configuration Management
- B . Persistent Storage
- C . Dynamic Proxy
- D . Elastic Compute
You configured your NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP instance to protect your data against ransomware. A previously unknown ransomware file extension infects your data.
In this scenario, which two NetApp technologies will provide a writable volume of the dataset before the ransomware attack? (Choose two.)
- A . FPolicy
- B . SnapRestore
- C . FlexCache
- D . FlexClone
Your software development team creates and deploys applications to Kubernetes. You want to provide the team with metrics from the applications resource usage.
In this scenario, which two products would satisfy this requirement? (Choose two.)
- A . Application Lifecycle Manager
- B . OnCommand System Manager
- C . Cloud Insights
- D . OnCommand Unified Manager
Which file would you configure to ensure that certain files are never committed to a local Git repository?
- A . .exclude
- B . package.json
- C . .npmrc
- D . .gitignore