Nutanix NCA-6.5 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 06,2026- Exam Code: NCA-6.5
- Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) v6.5 exam
- Certification Provider: Nutanix
- Latest update: Oct 06,2026
A company’s security team has requested that all IT resources be hardened.
What should an administrator do to increase the security of the Nutanix environment?
- A . Enable Cluster Lockdown
- B . Enable Prism Central KMS
- C . Enable Flow
- D . Enable STIG
A customer is running a three-node Nutanix cluster.
Which data optimization feature cannot be enabled in this scenario?
- A . Post Compression
- B . Map-reduce dedup
- C . Erasure Coding
- D . Inline Compression
Within a Nutanix cluster an administrator is getting frequent failure alerts of the Cassandra and Stargate services for one of the nodes.
What action will be taken by the cluster?
- A . Put host in Maintenance Mode
- B . Redirect I/O path to another CVM
- C . Remove the host from cluster
- D . Reboot Guest VMs to another hosts
An application owner had reported that an AHV-based critical application VM is performing very slowly. After initial diagnostics, it has been observed that the CPU utilization is significantly higher than normal.
What two actions should the administrator take on this VM without shutting it down? (Choose two.)
- A . Increase number of vCPU in Prism Element
- B . Configure additional cores in acli
- C . Ensure CPU hot-add is supported by the Guest
- D . Use PrismElement to increase the number of cores
What does Replication Factor 2 (RF2) refer to?
- A . Number of blocks that can be lost without impact
- B . Number of nodes that can be lost without impact
- C . Number of disks that can be lost in the cluster
- D . Number of copies of data written in the cluster
What is required to successfully live migrate a VM Between two AHV clusters?
- A . Stretch L2 networks across the primary and recovery sites
- B . Configure a Protection domain with synchronous replication
- C . Install and Configure the witness VM on a third Site.
- D . Both clusters must be managed by the same prism central
An administrator is deploying a virtual firewall on each node in an AHV cluster and wants each VM to maintain affinity to its host.
How can an administrator achieve this goal most efficiently?
- A . Create VM Protection Policies
- B . Set the VM labels as firewalls
- C . Create VM Annotations
- D . Set the VMs as Agent VMs
Which LCM feature simplifies upgrades on clusters without Internet access?
- A . One-Click Upgrade
- B . NCC
- C . Direct Upload
- D . FTP
An administrator needs to upgrade AOS in a vSphere-based NutaniSJve-node cluster with no automatic live migration. VMs have neither affinity nor anti-affinity rules configured.
What will happen to VMs during the AOS upgrade?
- A . VMs will be rebooted on other hosts.
- B . VMs will continue to run on the same host.
- C . Upgrade fails because host can’t go in maintenance mode.
- D . AOS automatically live migrate VMs to other hosts.
Which two advanced features requires you to install Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT)? (Choose two.)
- A . Disaster Recovery of a VM between AHV and ESXi Hypervisors
- B . Live Migration of a VM between AHV & other Hypervisors
- C . File recovery from a third-party backup
- D . Self-service file-level recovery from VM snapshots