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
Refer to the exhibit.

A Nutanix host is connected as shown in the exhibit with br0-up set to active/backup. Physical Switch 1 experiences a power outage causing br0-up to failover to using eth2. The CVM and host become inaccessible.
User VMs restart on other hosts in the cluster, which causes a disruption to those VMs.
Which configuration issue likely caused this outage?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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Which two components are required to validate and Foundation a cluster with ESXi as the hypervisor?
(Choose two.)
Correct Answer: B,D Vote an answer
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An administrator needs to make sure an RF2 cluster can survive a complete rack failure without negatively effecting workload performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:
* 30 nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U rack
* Each nodes is configured with 40TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 1.2 PB Usable)
* Current cluster utilization is 900TB storage
Which configuration changes should be made to make sure that the cluster meets the requirements?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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An administrator needs to create and start five new VMs for a Data Analytics Project (OLAP). The VM Profile is as follows:
* vCPU:4
* vRAM: 64 GB
* vDisk: 1.5 TB
Each of the four nodes of the Nutanix cluster has the following:
* 24 vCPU. 20% overall usage
* 192 GB RAM, 60% overall usage
* 2xl920GBSSD
* 4x 2 TB HDD
At cluster level, there is a single RF2 container that is 30% utilized and has an extent store capacity of 13.5 TB.
Which component requires administrator attention?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
A consultant discovers that while the Foundation VM and the consultant's laptop are able to ping each other nodes are rea discovered while trying to run Foundation on the customer's network.
What should the consultant do to resolve the issue?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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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.)
Correct Answer:

Explanation:
1 allow vms 2 sd CVM 3 sd node
An administrator needs to install prism central for their 2550 multi-cluster environment.
How should they deploy the application?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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Where can the Foundation version included with an AOS bundle be found?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A customer has the following requirement for a Nutanix cluster:
* Must support high-performance Nutanix Volumes iSCSI workloads
* Must utilize AHV nodes
* Must use 10 GbE interface
How should the customer optimize networking?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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Before deploying a new 3-node cluster, a consultant wants to know which VLAN ID to use during Foundation.
Where can the consultant find this information?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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An administrator needs to relocate an AHV cluster to a new datacenter during a maintenance window. The cluster will use the same IPs in the new datacenter.
Which two steps should be taken to prepare for this task? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: C,D Vote an answer
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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?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A VDI environment based on AHV Cluster is not performing well. The current environment is using only one bridge (Bridge0). The administrator needs to verify if nodes are using all network cards associated to Bridge0.
Which two menus should be used to check the current configuration? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: A,D Vote an answer
A guest VM is reported to have poor storage performance. It has an I/O profile of 80% read. 20% write, and the HDDs form more than 50% of the read source.
What should an administrator do to resolve this issue?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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