Nutanix ncp-5-15 practice test

Exam Title: Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) 5.15

Last update: Nov 27 ,2025
Question 1

An administrator has been alerted to a VM that has high I/O latency and wants to determine if there
are any other factors, such as insufficient network or memory resources that correlate, as part of a
troubleshooting process.
Which type of chart should the administrator create to allow all relevant data to be easily exported
to CSV for later analysis?

  • A. A VM entity chart with each of the relevant metrics.
  • B. A cluster metric chart for each of the relevant metrics
  • C. A cluster entity chart with each of the relevant metrics
  • D. A VM metric chart for each of the relevant metrics
Answer:

D


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Question 2

How should an administrator correct an SSL error when connecting to a Nutanix cluster?

  • A. Add the SSL certificate to the workstation’s trusted people store
  • B. Create a new self-signed certificate for the cluster with a 4096 bit key
  • C. Create a new SSL certificate for the cluster signed by an AD certificate authority
  • D. Add the SSL certificate to an AD group policy applied to all computer objects
Answer:

C


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Question 3

A node with Erasure Coding fails.
What is the impact?

  • A. The node stops utilizing Erasure Coding.
  • B. Potentially increased amount of data stored in the SSD tier.
  • C. Increased Controller VM CPU Load.
  • D. AQS unable to do deduplication during the Erasure Coding failure.
Answer:

C


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Question 4

A configuration is single domain, single forest, and does not use SSL.
Which port number should be used to configure LDAP?

  • A. 389
  • B. 3269
  • C. 636
  • D. 3268
Answer:

A


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Question 5

The Linux administration team has requested access rights to any current or future Linux VM in the
environment
What entity should be selected when assigning this new role?

  • A. Image
  • B. AHV Cluster
  • C. Category
  • D. Project
Answer:

D


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Question 6

HOTSPOT
What is the proper sequence to perform a one-click upgrade to a Nutanix cluster?
Item instructions: For each procedure, indicate the order in which that procedure must take place to
meet the item requirements. Not all procedures are valid. Identify any invalid procedures using the
drop-down option.

Answer:

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Step 1 ---> Login into Prism Element.
Step 2 ---> Select the Gear Icon at top right of the page.
Step 3 ---> Click Upgrade Software.
Step 4 ---> Select the component to upgrade.
Step 5 ---> Click download.
Step 6 ---> Once the download completes, select upgrade.
Invalid:-
1 - Select Prism Central.
2 - Select user login.
3 - On left select upgrade Prism Central.

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Question 7

A customer wants to isolate a group of VMs within their Nutanix environment for security reasons.
The customer creates a VM with two NICs to act as a firewall and installs the appropriate software
and certificates.
However, no one from the outside can access the application.
What is the likely cause of this problem?

  • A. A shared volume group must be used by all isolated VMs
  • B. More than one NIC cannot be added to a VM
  • C. One of the NICs needs to be configured on the internal VLAN
  • D. Wireshark is installed on the NAT VM
Answer:

C


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Question 8

Which two methods are available when migrating a VM from a legacy 3-tier solution using VMware
ESXi to AHV? (Choose two.)

  • A. Deploy the Move appliance.
  • B. Use Cross-Hypervisor DR.
  • C. Import the .vmdk into the Image Service.
  • D. Use shared nothing live migration.
Answer:

A, B


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Question 9

A customer has a 24-node cluster with all containers configured with RF3. Two different nodes have
incurred a simultaneous HDD failure.
What is the result?

  • A. The cluster runs in a degraded state until the failed drives are replaced and the data has been restored to three replicas.
  • B. Sixty minutes after the failures a rebuild of the lost data can remaining HDDs begins to restore to three replicas.
  • C. The VMs with data on those drives crash, and an HA event occurs, restarting them on a remaining healthy node.
  • D. The Nutanix cluster recognizes the failures and immediately begins to rebuild lost data to three replicas.
Answer:

D


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Question 10

An Administrator is working on a one-node ROBO cluster configurations
Which statement is true for this configuration?

  • A. Witness vm required to break cluster quoram
  • B. Supported hardware is NX-1175-G5 and G6
  • C. witness vm should be 8vcp and 20gb ram
  • D. the minimum RPO 8 hours required
Answer:

B


Explanation:
Reference:
https://www.nutanix.com/blog/unlocking-the-roboedge-it-landscape-with-the-launch-of-
nutanix-1-node-cluster

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