Free Nutanix NCS-Core Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

  • Exam Code/Number: NCS-Core
  • Exam Name/Title: Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional
  • Certification Provider: Nutanix
  • Corresponding Certification: NCS Professional
  • Exam Questions: 310
  • Updated On: Jul 02, 2026
A consultant notices while assigning VLAN tags to hosts and CVMs in a running cluster, that Prism Element displays alerts indicating a node is down.
What should the consultant do to prevent these alerts?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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As a part of a cluster deployment test plan, a customer asks the consultant for some additional performance and resiliency tests.
How should the consultant best satisfy this request?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A consultant has completed a cluster build according to the following requirements:
*Syslog Setup with ERROR level Logging
*Proxy Setup
*SNMP v3 Trap setup
When adding the cluster to an existing Prism Central with a proxy setup, the following error is triggered in the Prism Gateway logs:
Caused by: corn.nutanix.util .base.ValidationException: Prism Central is unreachable What configuration is likely missing?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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A customer design calls for link aggregation. Despite the consultant verifying all hosts are correctly configured for fallback per Nutanix best practices, initial testing reveals the aggregate bond fails to pass traffic and shows a status of configured.
What is the most likely cause for the bond disabling and reporting a "configured" status?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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An organizations Nutanix Cluster is based on VMware vSphere. The cluster is configured to download software updates automatically. The administration needs to verify and eventually upgrade VMware hypervisor via Prism Ul.
After logging in to Prism, the administrator receives the message shown:
No available versions for upgrade
What is causing the current state?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator logged into Prism Element, notices the following in the home dashboard, and showing the exhibit.
Which action should the administrator take next?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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A consultant creates three storage containers (container-1, container-2, container-3). The customer requires that only container-1, which will be utilized as an NFS datastore, be presented to external hosts.
However, users are able to mount all three containers.
What is causing this problem?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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An organization is planning an upgrade to AOS 5.15 and wants to understand which cluster products and/or services are supported for physical traffic isolation.
Which Nutanix component supports its network traffic being isolated onto its own virtual network?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
A consultant is setting up a new vSphere cluster. Customer requirements are as follows:
* VMs should automatically failover to another host if the host crashes
* Host CPU and Memory resources should be evenly balanced
* New VMs should be placed on the host with the most resources available Which two settings should be turned on to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: A,C Vote an answer
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A three-node cluster has a Nutanix Files instance with three FSVMs.
What happens after a node failure?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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Which subnet is reserved for CVM internal switch traffic?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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An administrator is deploying an application that requires maximum I/O throughput for scratch data. The administrator is concerned that the throughput requirement is greater than what can be provided by a single cluster node.
What should the administrator do to meet this requirement?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A consultant is running operational verifications to validate cluster behaviors What will happen if one power supply is disconnected from a NX-3235-G9 chassis?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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A consultant is using a customer's switch for installation. Although the 10GbE ports for each of the hosts are connected to the switch, the nodes fail to be discovered.
What is causing the issue?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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