NCS-Core Exam Preparation Material | Nutanix Certified Services Core Infrastructure Professional

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Question#1

An administrator responsible for a VDI environment needs to investigate reports of slow logins. The administrator finds that increasing the number of vCPUs from 2 to 4 will reduce the login times. Production workloads are consuming 75% of the host CPU on the cluster. The administrator increases the vCPU count on all of the VDI VMs.
What are two impacts on the cluster? (Choose two.)

A. Increase CPU utilization%
B. Increase CPU ready%
C. Increase memory utilization%
D. Increasing CPU counts will decrease memory utilization

Question#2

An administrator recently added in 3 nodes to an existing 5 node cluster. While 1 node came with its own block, the other 2 nodes where added to an existing share. After adding the nodes, the administrator sees that the hardware tab displays the correct number of nodes, but incorrect position in the diagram tab.
What should the administrator do to resolve the issue?

A. Check the factory_config.json for all 3 nodes
B. SSH into CVM and perform genesis restart on each CVM
C. SSH into the CVMs and run genesis acropolis stop; cluster start
D. Check the factory_config. json for the two single nodes.

Question#3

After a consultant runs Foundation, the imaging process fails.
In which two locations can the consultant find the logs? (Choose two.)

A. On the Hypervisor - /home/nutanix/foundation/logs
B. Logs link on the Foundation Imaging Screen
C. On the Foundation VM - /home/nutanix/foundation/logs
D. On the CVM - /home/Nutanix/foundation/logs

Question#4

An administrator is currently using both 10g uplink with LACP and balance-tcp. A single VM should not be allowed to use more than a single 10G uplink, and both uplinks should be utilized.
Which two command should be used to configure the bond? (choose two)

A. Ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-slb
B. Ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=balance-tcp
C. Ovs-vsctl set port br0-up bond_mode=active-backup
D. Ovs-vsctl set port br0-up other_config: bond-rebalance-interval=30000

Question#5

An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issues. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue.
Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

A. Utilize Jumbo Frames
B. Add additional disks to the Volume Group
C. Set the SCSI timeout value to 60
D. Utilize a separate subnet for the Linux VMs

Explanation:
Ref: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1009465

Exam Code: NCS-Core
Q & A: 310 Q&As         Updated:  Sep 25,2026

 

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