Free NCS-Core Questions for Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional NCS-Core Exam as PDF & Practice Test Engine

  • 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 07, 2026
In which part of the Knowledge Transfer can the customer learn how to create, escalate, comment, and close cases?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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A consultant has configured the cluster networking via the Prism Element Web Console but noticed an error message indicating a bond mode mismatch between an AHV host and the virtual switch (vSwitch0).
Which two commands should the consultant use to manually change the bond mode to active-active? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: B,C Vote an answer
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Refer to Exhibit:

A Foundation install must be done on four NX nodes for a new customer. A consultant need to set up the network onsite before imaging the nodes through the Foundation tool.
The nodes are equipped with two SFP28 25GbE NICs with dual ports, and a 10GBase-T NIC with dual ports as well The customer's ToR switches are 25GbE datacenter switches, already in production.
What is the appropriate hardware to perform the most reliable imaging of these NX nodes?
Correct Answer: A 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,B Vote an answer
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An administrator is deploying Nutanix Files 3.5 and needs to configure the sizing of the FSVMs for an increased number of concurrent SMB connections over the default 750.
What should the administrator do?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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A consultant is showing the Prism Element Web Console to a customer and wants to check that cluster health is OK. During validation, the Health menu raises critical alerts about components using default passwords.
The cluster is based on ESXi as hypervisor, where Prism Central and Nutanix Files are deployed. Passwords have already been changed for a few components, but some of them have been left by default.
How can the consultant check and handle that situation?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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An administrator is supporting a business critical environment and deploys metro availability to achieve a zero data loss configuration. The two clusters are connected by a 1GbE connection. A new workload is going to be deployed to this cluster. This workload requires a sustained 150MB/S of write throughput and 20MB/s of read throughput.
Which change must be made to deploy the workload successfully on this cluster?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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After uploading a hypervisor ISO during the Foundation process, a consultant sees a message that the MD5 sum for the hypervisor is not found in the Whitelist file.
Which step should the consultant take next to resolve this issue?
Correct Answer: C 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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The following critical Availability Alert displays in prism Central:

The protection Policy PP-BCA-1HR includes a business critical application with a 1-hour snapshot frequency.
What is causing this issue?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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An organization subscribes to field advisories from the Nutanix support portal. An administrator receives an email about a rare problem that could cause cluster instability and affect the entire AOS cluster. The organization is running Vmware vsphere 6.x on Nutanix.
What action should be taken to resolve this issue?
Correct Answer: C 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: A Vote an answer
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A consultant is onsite and needs to start their Foundation Virtual Machine (FVM) to image Nutanix hardware.
The FVM fails to boot. The consultant decides to use a different Foundation method.
Assuming the nodes will discover, which Foundation type or configuration option should the consultant select?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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An administrator needs to evaluate if the existing configuration of Protection Domains meets the specified corporate recovery policy for SQL Data. The corporate policy requires that all SQL Servers be recoverable at the DR site within 30 minutes, and must result in a maximum of 60 minutes of data loss. SQL data must be required.
The protection domain is configured as follows:
* Application consistent snapshots are enabled
* The SQL server VMs are assigned to the Protection Domain as their own Consistency Group
* The Protection Domain schedule is configured as snapshots taken every 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm What must be changed to meet the required policy?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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