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
An administrator wants to utilize Network Visualization to monitor the physical and logical network on the Nutanix cluster. The first-hop switch has LLDP enabled. The network switch information is still not being displayed.
What is causing this problem?
- A . The ISL between switches is not configured.
- B . SNMP is not configured properly.
- C . br0 and br1 are not defined.
- D . The cluster is using RDMA-enabled NICs.
A customer recently set up Async Replication between Site A and Site B. The customer wants to conduct a planned failover and clicks Activate on Site B.
The customer then runs the following command on Site A:
ncli pd deactivate_and__destroy_vms name=<protection_domain_name>.
What does this do to the customer environment?
- A . VMs get deleted from Site
- B . and the protection domain is now Active.
- C . VMs are powered off on Site A and must be manually powered on at Site B.
- D . VMs get deleted from Site A and the protection domain is no longer active.
- E . Customer must then manually power off VMs at Site A and power them on at Site B.
Refer to the exhibit.
An administrator receive the warning massages shown in the exhibit while validating cluster conversion from EXSi to AHV.
What should the administrator do to address this warning in v Center Server?
- A . Keep active adapters od different speeds as active standby
- B . Remove adapters that are active but not homogeneous.
- C . Keep homogeneous adapter as active and standby
- D . Remove the standby adapters under Teaming and Failover.
An administrator has an existing Nutanix seven-node cluster running at RF2 that must be changed to have the following capabilities:
• RF3 set for the cluster
• Performance tier deduplication
What is the minimum memory needed on the CVMs to allow for these capabilities?
- A . 24GB
- B . 28GB
- C . 32GB
- D . 20G?
An administrator configure Active Directory (AD) authentication for their Nutanix environment.
When login in using an AD user account, the login process takes more than one minute to complete.
No delay occurs when logging a local account.
What should the administrator confirm to resolve this issue?
- A . The user search base for the group is configured correctly
- B . The domain controller being used is configured as a global catalog server.
- C . Active directory lookups are configured to use Non-Recursive mode.
- D . The service Account Username is correct for the domain.
An administrator is performing a set of routine checks and notes that Prism Central is running with 4 vCPUs and 21 GB RAM. The organizations environment is based on two Nutanix clusters with 170 VMs plus a Legacy vSphere infrastructure. No manual changes have been done on Prism Central VM.
Which configuration justifies the current Prism Central configuration?
- A . Nutanix Move is running on Prism Central to import VMs from the Legacy Cluster.
- B . Prism Central was installed for Large Deployment environments.
- C . Prism Central is running on the legacy duster and requires more RAM.
- D . Nutanix Leap and Nutanix Flow have been enabled on Prism Central
An administrator is supporting a business critical environment and deploys metro availability to achieve a zero data loss configuration. The two clusters are connected by a 1GbE connection. A new workload is going to be deployed to this cluster. This workload requires a sustained 150MB/S of write throughput and 20MB/s of read throughput.
Which change must be made to deploy the workload successfully on this cluster?
- A . The bandwidth must be increased to support this workload.
- B . The workload must be configured to read at greater than 12.5MB/S.
- C . The replication frequency must be less than 60 minutes.
- D . Zero data loss nearsync must be used to support this workload.
An administrator is monitoring the Nutanix v5.15-based AOS cluster performance logs and notices that a SQL server VM is greatly exceeding its intended maximum IOPS. The administrator has confirmed that a QoS policy was previously created for the group of VMs this server is a member of.
What are two reasons that this VM would exceed its maximum configured IOPS from the QoS Policy? (Choose two.)
- A . The VM is missing the required snapshot needed to implement the QoS Policy.
- B . The VM was not created as an AFS virtual machine.
- C . The SQL Server VM has volume groups attached.
- D . It was cloned from another SQL Server VM that was a member of the QoS Policy.
A customer has a primary datacenter with 12 Nutanix blocks distributed across three racks. The customer wants to achieve the most resiliency possible. They also have a datacenter in a branch office that is 400 kilometers away from the primary datacenter.
Which two solutions should be used? (Choose two.)
- A . Time Stream to a remote site
- B . Async DR to a remote site
- C . Rack awareness
- D . Block awareness
An administrator manages the following two Nutanix AOS 5.15 cluster environment:
• Corp-cluster-01
• Corp-cluster-02
The VM images must be available only on Corp-cluster-01, but cannot be checked out to cluster Corp-cluster-02. The images also cannot be checked out to any other clusters that are registered with Prism Central in the future.
Which two configuration settings must the administrator choose when creating the image placement policy that satisfies the stated requirements? (Choose two.)
- A . Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-01 as the target cluster
- B . Set the policy enforcement to Soft.
- C . Set the policy enforcement to Hard.
- D . Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-02 as the target cluster.