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
An administrator has a VM that consumes large amounts of storage and has the following characteristics:
* Create large / sequential writes
* Data must be kept for years
* Data is normally only accessed at the end of the year to run report
The administrator decides to use Erasure Coding to save space.
Which feature should the administrator utilize to save space for this VM?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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During the Foundation imaging process, nodes are successfully imaged, but the cluster creation fails.
Which log should the consultant review to determine the cause?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A Nutanix cluster is deployed with the following configuration:
* Three four-node blocks (A, B, and C)
* All Flash Redundancy Factor 2
What is the effect of simultaneous disk failures on two nodes located in block A?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A Nutanix cluster has 10TB usable storage. The customer wants to create a 100GB datastore for ISO images to eliminate too much storage being consumed by unnecessary images.
Which setting should be used to accomplish this goal?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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A customer wants to use NIC teaming on an ESXi host using a vSphere Standard Switch configured with the Route based on physical NIC load load balancing option. The customer does not see the option when editing the Teaming and Failover settings for the switch.
How should the consultant resolve this issue?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain What is causing this alert?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A consultant is onsite with a customer to expand an existing eight-node cluster with four new GPU nodes.
The consultant plugs the nodes into the network switch and follows the procedure to expand the cluster in Prism Element, but the new nodes cannot be found.
Which issue is preventing the new nodes from being discovered?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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What reference materials should be provided to the customer during the Knowledge Transfer?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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A systems administrator needs to add more VMs to their Nutanix cluster.
Which two actions should the administrator perform to determine if the current cluster can accommodate the new VMs? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: B,C Vote an answer
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Refer to the exhibits.
An administrator has reported that a new VM is not performing well.


After analyzing the information presented in the exhibits, which option shows the best conclusion regarding this workload?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
Refer to the exhibit.

User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM group
What are two descriptions of how Files perform quota management? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: A,D Vote an answer
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An administrator has a 32-node hybrid cluster with CPU, RAM and storage utilization of 80%. A database VM is configured with VM Flash.
What is causing this IO latency?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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What are the two most important prerequisites to be validated before the consultant goes onsite? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: A,B Vote an answer
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Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator configures Active Directory authentication as shown in the exhibit. Upon finishing setup, users are not able to log in.
What configuration change should be made to fix this issue?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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