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 protected a DB VM running on a Nutanix cluster with NearSync Replication, which schedules to repeat every 15 minutes # to a second site. The daily change rate is low. During nightly backups, the replication window is missed due to write volume.
Which two options describe the expected behavior? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: C,D Vote an answer
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A consultant migrated multiple VMs to a new cluster. VMs were previously in VLAN 10.
Why can the VMs no longer communicate on their network?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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An alert about RX errors on eth2 on a node is reported in the cluster. The administrator logs in to the CVM in question, checks the ping_* files in the data/logs/syststats folder, and notices intermittent ping loss.
The node in question has the following network configuration:

Which action should be used to troubleshoot without disrupting the VMs running on this node?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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An administrator is planning to deploy a Nutanix cluster to support a few high-performance VMs. This deployment will have the following considerations:
* Individual VMs will likely generate network throughputs in the range of 90-100Mbps
* Due to the configuration of the VMs, it is unlikely that a node will host more than one or two of them at a time
* Individual VMs will communicate with only a few (one or two) remote hosts at a time
* Multicast will not be used in the environment
* The hosts are connected via two 1GbE network connections
How should the administrator configure the network bonds to meet this requirement while maintaining the simplest switch configuration?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A new Nutanix customer suspects that network traffic is going over the 1G interfaces instead of the 10G interfaces.
How should a consultant confirm that the traffic is only traversing the 10G interfaces?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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During the Kickoff/Technical call, the customer highlights these new requirements for the AHV Clusters that were not indicated in the Pre-Delivery Questionnaire or in the Bill of Materials:
* All new and future storage containers on the cluster must be encrypted.
* The encryption cannot be disabled by administrators.
What option for Data Encryption exists for the customer to satisfy this new requirement?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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A customer asks where to find the passwords used for initial cluster configurations.
Which document contains the requested information?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A consultant and customer agree on a scope of services regarding the deployment of a new Nutanix cluster.
Which two products does this scope apply to? (Choose two.)
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An administrator creates a security policy that isolates their financial application from accessing the Internet When viewing the policy in Prism Central, several connections from the application are outbound to the Internet.
What is causing this issue with the policy?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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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.)
Correct Answer: A,D Vote an answer
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A consultant installs a new AHV cluster and moves the cluster into the customer's environment. Alter the move, the consultants notice that traffic is not being balanced across the physical NICs. The ToR switches have been configured with LACP.
Within Prism Element, which AHV network option should be set to resolve the issue?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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After imaging the nodes and creating the cluster successfully, the consultant connects the cluster to the customer network. When logging into Prism, the events dashboard is full of errors.
What is causing the issue?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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An administrator is responsible for the following Nutanix Enterprise Cloud environment:
* A central datacenter with a 20-node cluster with 1.5PB of storage
* Five remote sites each with a 4-node cluster with 200TB storage
The remote sites are connected to the datacenter via 1GB links with an average latency of 6 ms RTT. What is the minimum RPO the administrator can achieve for this environment?
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A customer has provided the following network requirements to their consultant during a discovery session for AHV cluster deployments:
*Maximum Uptime Guest Traffic is a Hard Requirement
*Maximum Throughput for Guest is a Hard Requirement
*Link Aggregation is established at the TORs
Cluster nodes have the following network card configurations:
*2 x 40GbE Adapters
*2 x IGbE Adapters
How should the consultant satisfy these requirements?
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