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Free Nutanix NCS-Core Practice Exam with Questions & Answers

Questions 1

An administrator needs to evaluate if the existing configuration of Protection Domains meets the specified corporate recovery policy for SQL Data. The corporate policy requires that all SQL Servers be recoverable at the DR site within 30 minutes, and must result in a maximum of 60 minutes of data loss. SQL data must be required.

The protection domain is configured as follows:

• Application consistent snapshots are enabled

• The SQL server VMs are assigned to the Protection Domain as their own Consistency Group

• The Protection Domain schedule is configured as snapshots taken every 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm

What must be changed to meet the required policy?

Options:
A.

Revise the schedule tc be 15 minutes

B.

Revise the schedule to be 60 minutes

C.

Revise the schedule to be 30 minutes

D.

Revise the schedule to be 45 minutes

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Questions 2

An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment. Why is this happening?

Options:
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.

Questions 3

A system administrator needs to shut down an AHV node in a Nutanix cluster without causing service disruption. The administrator checks data resiliency and verifies that the cluster can tolerate a node down.

Which three steps should the administrator perform next? (Choose three.)

NCS-Core Question 3

Options:
Questions 4

A CEO asks the IT administrator to provide a list of required resources to protect current workloads and the two new SQL servers from a disaster. The Nutanix environment is managed by Prism Central.

Which option explains how to meet the CEO's request?

Options:
A.

In Capacity Runway, select Optimize Resources and select all VMs that must be protected.

B.

Create a new project and assign the VMs to it to get compute and storage requirements.

C.

Create a new scenario based on a new cluster based on a VM Profile and select Recommend.

D.

Create a new Recovery policy by selecting the VM that needs to be protected and get hardware requirements.

Questions 5

An administrator receives reports about a Nutanix environment. The investigation finds the following;

• VMs are experiencing very high latency

• Each node is equipped with a single SSD, utilized at 95%

• Each node is equipped with three HDDs, utilized at 40%

Why are the guest VMs experiencing high latency?

Options:
A.

CVMs are overwhelmed by disk balancing operations.

B.

All VM write operations are going to HDD.

C.

All VM read operations are coming from HDD.

D.

VMs are unable to perform write operations.

Questions 6

An administrator is deploying an application using Nutanix Volumes. After configuring the volume group and connecting the guest's iSCSI initiator to the volume group, they begin performance testing.

The administrator learns that performance on the virtual disk attached to the iSCSI initiator is far less than that of a virtual disk connected directly to the VM.

Which situation is causing this condition?

Options:
A.

The VM's iSCSI traffic is being routed to the data services IP subnet

B.

The performance test is generating small block random 10.

C.

The duster data services IP address is a bottleneck, shared with other iSCSI traffic

D.

Data Locality ensures that VM attached disks are always faster than iSCSI volumes.

Questions 7

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?

Options:
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.

Questions 8

An administrator needs to expand a cluster based on AHV and running on Nutanix G5 hardware with a new Nutanix G7 system. The cluster is running AOS 5.10 but the operation fails when expanding the cluster. AOS is running on the new system. There are no issues discovering the node.

Why is the operation failing?

Options:
A.

AOS version running on G7 is older than the version on the cluster.

B.

Foundation software has not been updated on the cluster.

C.

G7 hardware cannot be added to a G5 cluster.

D.

EVC needs to be configured before cluster expansion

Questions 9

A consultant runs the Foundation Applet and discovers all the nodes. The consultant wants to use the latest version of Foundation for imaging for support purposes and to cover the latest hardware and software hypervisor support.

What should the consultant do to upgrade Foundation on a node?

Options:
A.

Use crash cart and manually upgrade Foundation files on one node.

B.

Use latest version of Foundation to reimage all the nodes.

C.

Use the Foundation VM to upgrade Foundation on all nodes.

D.

Use the Foundation Applet to upgrade Foundation on a single node.

Questions 10

A consultant needs to upgrade the ESXi hosts on a Nutanix cluster from version 6.7 to 7.0. vSphere DRS and wMoton are working properly. The consultant needs to use One-Click Upgrade.

Which setting should be verified by the consultant?

Options:
A.

vSphere HA is enabled.

B.

Nutanix Prism HA is enabled.

C.

vSphere DRS Automation level is set to Conservative.

D.

DRS automation level on all CVMs is disabled.

Exam Code: NCS-Core
Certification Provider: Nutanix
Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional
Last Update: Jul 15, 2025
Questions: 309