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
In which part of the Knowledge Transfer can the customer learn how to create, escalate, comment, and close cases?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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A customer wants to expand an existing cluster with three additional nodes. After running the Foundation process on the new nodes, the customer realizes that the wrong IPs where used and the nodes are configured on a different network. The customer decides to create a new cluster instead.
Which method should be used to recreate the cluster?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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In which two ways can the IPMI address be set on a Nutanix hardware installation? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: B,D Vote an answer
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The customer has an existing NX-3160 block and is adding a second node into it.
Where should the node be installed?"
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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The following alert appears on the file server alerts tab in the file server dashboard:

Which two events can generate this alert? (choose two)
Correct Answer: C,D Vote an answer
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A customer has requested that a consultant create a Disaster Recovery Test for their new Nutanix environments.
What should the consultant include in a custom plan to validate VM availability across the network?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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A consultant is planning to use a flat switch for installation.
What is the network requirement for Foundation VM, CVM, Hypervisor, and IPMI
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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A consultant creates a Windows VM after installing a new Nutanix cluster running AHV. The consultant has statically assigned an IP address to the VM but it is unable to communicate on the network.
Which action should the consultant take to resolve this issue?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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An administrator needs to migrate workloads from a Nutanix cluster running VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV.
The migration process needs to be completed in multiple VM groups and support roll back in case any problems are found during user acceptance testing.
Which action should the administrator perform?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A consultant is reviewing a customers Pre-delivery Questionnaire.
The customer wants to deploy their cluster with ESXi as the hypervisor with vSphere Distributed Switch. The customer will be using Cisco Nexus 9k as their switch choice In the kick-off call, it is confirmed that the customer has a business requirement to use LACP in their environment.
What should the consultant ensure that the customer configures on the port-channel interface before deployment?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A consultant is installing AOS 5.10 and ESXi 6.5 on three nodes. During the Foundation process, ESXi 6.5 is not available as one of the choices for hypervisor.
Which solution should the consultant use?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A customer recently set up Async Replication between Site A and Site B. The customer wants to conduct a planned failover and clicks Activate on Site B.
The customer then runs the following command on Site A:
ncli pd deactivate_and__destroy_vms name=<protection_domain_name>
What does this do to the customer environment?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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A customer is considering increasing the Redundancy Factor from 2 to 3 for a Nutanix cluster in their existing environment.
Which option would provide the company with the optimal solution?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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Which two files should be downloaded to deploy Foundation VM on VMware ESXI or AHV Hypervisors?
(Choose two.)
Correct Answer: A,C Vote an answer
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