Nutanix ncp practice test

Exam Title: nutanix certified professional 5.10

Last update: Dec 30 ,2025
Question 1

An administrator wants to create a trunked interface on a VM on AOS 5.10.x.
Which two steps should the administrator take first to achieve this? (Choose two.)

  • A. SSH to CVM
  • B. Update VM dialog
  • C. Use acli
  • D. Log in over PE web UI
Answer:

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Reference:
https://vmwaremine.com/2019/05/09/enable-vlan-trunking-on-nutanix-ahv-vm/#sthash.3uIAHeXZ.dpbs

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Question 2

How many Prism Central instances are required to deploy Leap?

  • A. One per availability zone
  • B. One per customer environment
  • C. One per physical site
  • D. One per AHV cluster
Answer:

a

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Question 3

An administrator is configuring NTP for Nutanix cluster.
How many NTP sources must they configure to identify a false ticker and provide redundancy?

  • A. 4
  • B. 2
  • C. 3
  • D. 5
Answer:

a

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Question 4

An administrator has a 3-node cluster and needs to enable Erasure coding on a container.
Which action must the administrator take before enabling this feature?

  • A. Upgrade to Prism Pro Licenses
  • B. Stop workloads on the cluster
  • C. Add a 4th node to the cluster
  • D. Convert the cluster to AHV
Answer:

c

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Question 5

When installing Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) on an ESXi-hosted VM, which port should be enabled on the VM to allow communication with the NGT-Controller VM service?

  • A. 2000
  • B. 2074
  • C. 8080
  • D. 9943
Answer:

b

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Question 6

The Stargate service becomes unavailable on a single CVM on an AHV node.
What is used to maintain I/O operations in the cluster?

  • A. Route injection
  • B. iSCSI redirector
  • C. Hypervisor HA
  • D. Ha.py
Answer:

b

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Question 7

AHV IPAM assigns an IP address from the address pool when creating a managed VM NIC.
At which two instances does the address release back to the pool? (Choose two.)

  • A. The VM is deleted
  • B. The IP address lease expires
  • C. The IP address is changed to static
  • D. The VM NIC is deleted
Answer:

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An IP address is assigned from the pool of addresses when a managed VM NIC is created; the address is released back to the pool when the VM NIC or VM is deleted. Be sure to work with your network team to reserve a range of addresses for VMs before enabling the IPAM feature to avoid address overlap.
Reference:
https://next.nutanix.com/blog-40/virtual-networks-for-virtual-machines-in-acropolis-hypervisor-6640

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Question 8

What is the purpose of the optional CVM interface eth2?

  • A. cvm trunk port
  • B. management traffic within a cluster
  • C. storage traffic between clusters
  • D. intra-cluster traffic between cvms
Answer:

d

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Question 9

How should an administrator make sure that the LCM Framework is always up to date and upgraded to the latest version?

  • A. From the Life Cycle Management page in Prism Element, click Perform Inventory, then edit settings and set LCM Auto Inventory to Daily
  • B. From the Life Cycle Management page in Prism Central, click Perform Inventory, then edit settings and click the Enable LCM Auto Inventory checkbox
  • C. From the Life Cycle Management page in Prism Element, click Perform Inventory, then edit settings and click the Enable LCM Auto Inventory checkbox
  • D. From the Life Cycle Management page in Prism Central, click Perform Inventory every morning
Answer:

c

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Question 10

When VM HA Reservation is enabled, what is the expected behavior for all failed VMs in the event of a host failure?

  • A. Restart on a best-effort basis if resources are available
  • B. Perform a live migration to other hosts in the AHV cluster
  • C. Restart on other hosts in the AHV cluster
  • D. Perform a live migration on a best-effort basis if resources are available
Answer:

c


Reference:
http://www.nutanixpedia.com/p/configuring-ha.html

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