[Q73-Q94] Free NCS-Core Questions for Nutanix NCS-Core Exam [Sep-2025]

QUESTION 73
A consultant is working to setup the network before starting the Foundation process.
How should the consultant complete this task?

QUESTION 74
An administrator is updating disk firmware using LCM and receives the following message:
“there have been 10 or more cluster services restarts within 15 minutes in the Controller VM” The message appears as each drive is upgraded.
What is the reason this message isbeing generated?

QUESTION 75
An administrator configures authentication in Prism Central (PC) for the NTNX-Admins group. Users report that they are unable to log in. The administrator confirms that the Active Directory (AD) settings in PC are correct.
Which condition could result in this behavior?

QUESTION 76
A VM does not have enough resources for the demand,which leads to performance bottlenecks. The VM is exhibiting one or more of following baseline values, based on the past 30 days:
* CPU usage > 90% (moderate), 95% (high)
* CPU ready time > 5%, 10%
* Memory usage > 90%, 95%
* Memory swap rate > 0Kbps (no moderate value)
Which type of VM is being described?

QUESTION 77
While creating an image placement policy on the organizations AOS 5.15-based Nutanix cluster, the administrator wants to ensure there are no restrictions on using the selected images on clusters outside of the identified set.
What type of Policy Enforcement must the administrator choose?

QUESTION 78
A consultant is viewing an ESXi host via console without external network connectivity.
Which two IP addresses can be used to connect to the CVM (Choose two.)

QUESTION 79
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.)

QUESTION 80
After a recent installation using a flat switch, a consultant notices issues migrating the Nutanix nodes to the customer’s network. The customer states that they are using VLANs on the production switch but not on the dedicated switch for IPMI. The customer does not require a manual configuration of the host and CVM.
What network changes need to be made to correct the issues?

QUESTION 81
While creating an image placement policy on the organizations AOS 5.15-based Nutanix cluster, the administrator wants to ensure there are no restrictions on using the selected images on clusters outside of the identified set.
What type of Policy Enforcement must the administrator choose?

QUESTION 82
A customer has a four-node cluster and is using Volume Groups to provide storage services to a SQL cluster.
In the event of a CVM failure in the cluster, what is the expected IO path of the volume group’s iSCSI targets?

QUESTION 83
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?

QUESTION 84
Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator logs in to Prism and sees the status shown in the exhibit within the Hardware Diagram section.
What should the administrator do?

QUESTION 85
Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance using AHV Turbo. Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance? (Choose two.)

QUESTION 86
Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain What is causing this alert?

QUESTION 87
A consultant is setting up a new install of Nutanix Files for a customer, but receives this error when attempting to join the customer’s Active Directory domain:
File Server <FileServerName> could not join the Domain because User credentials failed with error Unable to connect to WORKGROUP ads_connect: No logon servers The consultant has already verified the domain credentials provided by the customer are valid and have the correct permissions.
What is the most likely cause in this scenario for a domain-join failure when setting up Nutanix Files?

QUESTION 88
An administrator of a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud has microsegmentation enabled and a firewall VM installed.
The security team notifies the administrator that one of the VMs hosted in the environment has been exhibiting suspect network activity. The administrator wants to isolate the VM from the production network, but must still be able to access it to perform diagnostics.
What should the administrator do to meet the requirement?

QUESTION 89
A consultant is working on an expansion project for a customer that has an existing 7-node RF2 cluster. The customer has purchased four more nodes to add to the cluster. All of the hardware is identical between the existing hardware and newly purchased hardware.
Currently, the 7-node cluster has the following utilization:
*CPU: 48%
*Memory: 66%
*Storage: 91%
During the kick-off call, the customer mentioned they’d like to reserve storage capacity on the cluster if a node were to fail in the future.
What’s the safest and best way to implement this on the cluster?

QUESTION 90
How should a consultant validate the installed version of an NVIDIA driver in a Nutanix VDI deployment?

QUESTION 91
At which prompt should a consultant execute the command nanage_ovs -bridge_nawe brO show_uplinks in a Nutanix cluster?

QUESTION 92
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.)

QUESTION 93
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?

QUESTION 94
For a new AHV cluster installation, a customer has 20 NX-8155-G6 nodes with quad port SFP NICs.
The customer wants to meet the following guidelines:
* Take advantage of all available 10GbE links
* Achieve maximum throughput per VM
* Use of redundant ToR switches
* Fastest reconvergence during link failure
How should the load balancing be configured on the host?