Nutanix NCS-Core Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 06,2026- Exam Code: NCS-Core
- Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional
- Certification Provider: Nutanix
- Latest update: Oct 06,2026
A customer needs a DR solution designed around the following requirements:
• There are 8 ms of latency between Sites A and B
• The administrator needs the shortest RPO/RTO possible
• Application consistent snapshots are required
• Use of Nutanix VSS
Which Data Protection Method should be used?
- A . Async
- B . Metro Availability
- C . Near Sync
- D . Cloud Connect
Microsegmentation was recently enabled in a Nutanix environment. The administrator wants to leverage Prism Central to create a policy that will block all traffic, regardless of direction, between two groups of VMs identified by their category.
Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?
- A . A Quarantine Policy
- B . An Isolation Environment Policy
- C . An Application Security Policy
- D . A Whitehst-Based Policy
An administrator is concerned that Prism will be inaccessible if Active Directory is unable to process logins.
Which method should the administrator use to access the cluster in the event of this type of outage?
- A . Manage the cluster by using the "nutanix" user on the Prism leader CVM
- B . Create and use an emergency local account on the cluster
- C . Deploy an Active Directory server locally on the cluster
- D . Manage the cluster remotely by downloading ncli to a remote workstation
In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single Node Replication Target.
The current schedule configuration is as follows:
• Repeat every 6 hours
• Local Retention Policy 1
• Remote Retention Policy 8
• Starting time 12 am
At 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection.
Which strategy should the administrator use to meet these requirements?
- A . From the Remote site, activate the Protection Domain, then re-protect the entity.
- B . From the Remote site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot
- C . From the local site, retrieve the correct remote snapshot, then restore the VM locally.
- D . From the local site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot.
An administrator receives reports that VDI desktop performance in an 8-node Nutanix VDI environment is poor. Opening applications takes between 1 and 2 minutes.
When investigating the issue, the following conditions are found:
• Cluster memory utilization: 80%
• Cluster SSD utilization: 70%
• Average VM CPU Wait Time: 11%
• CVM CPU utilization: 75%
Which action should be taken to improve VDI performance?
- A . Increase the amount of SSD storage in the cluster.
- B . Add memory to the nodes in the cluster.
- C . Add CPU resources to the cluster.
- D . Increase the number of vCPU cores allocated to the CVM.
An administrator receives a notification that storage in a Nutanix cluster is unavailable. The cluster consists of five nodes and is configured with a Fault-Tolerance level of 1 (FT-1).
Upon investigation, the administrator finds the following:
• All AHV hosts are powered on and the CVMs are running
• Nodes A, B, and C are connected to one top of rack switch
• Nodes D and E are connected to a second top of rack switch
• The cluster status command run on Node A shows that CVM services on nodes D and E are down.
Which issue is causing the storage outage?
- A . The default gateway for the CVMs and AHV hosts is down.
- B . The switch connecting Nodes D and E is down.
- C . The genesis process is down on both Nodes D and E.
- D . Nodes D and E are in maintenance mode.
An administrator inherits a new Nutanix environment and logs in to a CVM to check the network configuration.
The configuration is as follows:
Which action should the administrator take to improve network performance?
- A . Configure VLAN tagging both on br0 and br1 and their physical interfaces.
- B . Add eth0 and eth1 to the br0-up bond
- C . Configure balance-sib or balance-tcp mode for br0-up if switch configuration allows
- D . Remove one 10 Gbs interface from br0-up to make sure all 10 Gbs can be used.
A VM does not have enough resources for the demand, which leads to performance bottlenecks.
The VM is exhibiting one or more of following baseline values, based on the past 30 days:
• CPU usage > 90% (moderate), 95% (high)
• CPU ready time > 5%, 10%
• Memory usage > 90%, 95%
• Memory swap rate > 0 Kbps (no moderate value).
Which type of VM is being described?
- A . Constrained VM
- B . Bully VM
- C . Inactive VM
- D . Over-provisioned VM
A new Nutanix cluster is ready for production on a remote site with no IT staff. Changes to the infrastructure will cost money and probably cause a cluster stop.
The administrator needs to perform a health check on the environment that should include:
• Network connectivity checks
• Network performance status
• Storage performance status
Which tool should be used to perform this test?
- A . X-Ray
- B . clurator_cli
- C . NCC
- D . diagnostic, py
An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment.
Why is this happening?
- A . NFS default access is set to Read Only.
- B . Multi-protocol access is not configured.
- C . Access Based Enumeration is not enabled.
- D . The system is deployed as a single FSVM.
