Nutanix NCA Exam Questions

Questions for the NCA were updated on : Dec 01 ,2025

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Question 1

What is the easiest way to get a call back from Nutanix Support on an open ticket?

  • A. Send an email to the technician.
  • B. Open a new ticket with Nutanix Support.
  • C. Select Reply within the existing ticket.
  • D. Select Escalate within the existing ticket.
Answer:

D

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Question 2

Refer to the exhibit.

After logging into Prism Element, an administrator sees a red heart as shown in the exhibit.
Which dashboard will help the administrator isolate the cause of the issue?

  • A. Health
  • B. Tasks
  • C. Alerts
  • D. Analysis
Answer:

C

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Question 3

An administrator is using LCM at a connected site to update various components on a Nutanix cluster
and notices that the LCM Framework is not updated to the current version.
What step should the administrator take to ensure LCM is updated to the latest release?

  • A. Upgrade AOS
  • B. Restart genesis across the cluster.
  • C. Perform an inventory.
  • D. Run an NCC health check.
Answer:

C

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Question 4

What is true when adding a storage-only node to the cluster?

  • A. Nutanix Files must be deployed.
  • B. Nutanix Objects must be deployed.
  • C. It must have the same hypervisor as the other nodes in the cluster.
  • D. It can have a different hypervisor than the other nodes in the cluster.
Answer:

C

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Question 5

What type of NTP/time sources are recommended for Nutanix clusters?

  • A. Windows time sources
  • B. Internal NTP sources
  • C. Rate-limited NTP sources
  • D. External ISP NTP sources
Answer:

B

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Question 6

What is the minimum number of nodes required in a cluster for enabling Erasure Coding?

  • A. 1
  • B. 3
  • C. 4
  • D. 8
Answer:

C

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Question 7

An administrator needs to license a new cluster using Nutanix Cloud Platform Package Licensing.
How can the administrator satisfy this task?

  • A. From Prism Central Licensing, follow the specified process.
  • B. From the My Nutanix Licensing Summary page, click Manage Licenses and follow the specified process.
  • C. From the Nutanix Portal Licensing Summary page, click Manage Licenses and follow the specified process.
  • D. From Prism Element Licensing, follow the specified process.
Answer:

B

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Question 8

At an edge installation with only 1GbE uplinks, which interface configuration should be used?

  • A. Round Robin
  • B. Active/Backup
  • C. Balance-SLB
  • D. No Uplink Bond
Answer:

B

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Question 9

How can an administrator work with Nutanix Support to recover a deleted VM, in its most up-to-date
status, within a 24-hour period of the VM being deleted?

  • A. Use Nutanix Recovery Plan.
  • B. Use the Recycle Bin.
  • C. Use NC2 on AWS.
  • D. Use third party tools.
Answer:

B

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Question 10

Which workload type would be a good fit for NFS on Objects?

  • A. End user computing workloads
  • B. Filesystems used for transitory or work spaces
  • C. Large-scale, read heavy workloads
  • D. Workloads that are updated frequently
Answer:

C

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Question 11

An administrator of an AHV cluster needs to deploy a solution that will provide self-service network
provisioning and overlapping IP addresses for true multi-tenant networking with VPCs.
Which product will satisfy this requirement?

  • A. Nutanix Kubernetes Platform
  • B. Flow Network Security
  • C. Nutanix Database Service
  • D. Flow Virtual Networking
Answer:

D

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Question 12

Which is the default native Linux bridge in AHV?

  • A. br0
  • B. virbro
  • C. vs0
  • D. bridge0
Answer:

A

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Question 13

Which AOS component is responsible for monitoring and eliminating hots-pots within the cluster?

  • A. Cerebro
  • B. Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling
  • C. Chronos
  • D. Controller Virtual Machine
Answer:

B

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Question 14

When creating a new storage container, what is the default configuration for Compression?

  • A. Post-process (60 minutes)
  • B. Disabled
  • C. Post-process (15 minutes)
  • D. Inline
Answer:

B

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Question 15


A custom alert policy is configured for a VM named Calm_3_8_VM to generate aWarningalert
ifmemory usageexceeds90%or is below30%for10 minutes.
What action can be taken to prevent this alert policy from creating multiple alerts within a 48-hour
period if the 90% threshold is crossed multiple times?

  • A. Select the Auto resolve alerts checkbox and click Save.
  • B. After alert occurs, uncheck Enable Policy box for 48 hours.
  • C. Set Ignore all anomalies between to 90% and 100%.
  • D. Select highest value in Trigger alert if conditions persist for.
Answer:

A

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