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NCA-5.20 Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) 5.20 Exam Questions and Answers

Questions 4

An application owner had reported that an AHV-based critical application VM is performing very slowly. After initial diagnostics, it has been observed that the CPU utilization is significantly higher than normal.

What two actions should the administrator take on this VM without shutting it down? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Increase number of vCPU in Prism Element

B.

Configure additional cores in acli

C.

Ensure CPU hot-add is supported by the Guest

D.

Use PrismElement to increase the number of cores

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Questions 5

A company ' s security team has requested that all IT resources be hardened.

What should an administrator do to increase the security of the Nutanix environment?

Options:

A.

Enable Cluster Lockdown

B.

Enable Prism Central KMS

C.

Enable Flow

D.

Enable STIG

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Questions 6

Refer to the exhibit.

NCA-5.20 Question 6

An administrator has enabled Pulse, but is getting the error shown in the exhibit. What is causing this error message?

Options:

A.

Subscription expired

B.

Incorrect licensing

C.

Firewall misconfiguration

D.

Expired SSL certificate

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Questions 7

An administrator needs to group VMs by using a custom attribute. At the same time, this tag must not be used to configure other Nutanix services, such as Data Protection.

Which action in Prism Central should the administrator take?

Options:

A.

Create a user defined category

B.

Select VMs and create a new Label

C.

Create a new Playbook

D.

Create a new Catalog Item

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Questions 8

How can an administrator access a Windows VM running on a Nutanix cluster if it is unreachable via ping?

Options:

A.

Connect using Xi Frame

B.

Open a Virtual Console through Prism Central

C.

Connect using RDP

D.

Open a Virtual Console through Prism Element

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Questions 9

An administrator notices that a VM is slow and unresponsive. The administrator wants to compare performance to other VMs on cluster.

Which chart type is best suited to display multiple VM performance metrics for diagnosis?

Options:

A.

Dashboard Chart

B.

Entity Chart

C.

Analysis Chart

D.

Metric Chart

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Questions 10

Which Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) component is responsible for staging the area to handle bursts of random writes, coalescing them, and then sequentially draining the data to the persistent storage?

Options:

A.

Oplog

B.

Extend Store

C.

vBlock

D.

Unified cache

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Questions 11

What is required to snapshot a group of VMs at the same point in time?

Options:

A.

Volume Group

B.

Categories

C.

Time Stream

D.

Consistency Group

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Questions 12

Which two Protection Domain features require a configured schedule of less than 15 minutes? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Metro Availability DR

B.

Synchronous DR

C.

Asynchronous DR

D.

NearSyncRD

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Questions 13

When a VM generates I/O, which Nutanix component is serving the storage request?

Options:

A.

Hypervisor

B.

Prism

C.

HDD disks

D.

CVM

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Questions 14

An Administrator has created a Volume Group for a specific VM on an AHV Cluster.

What is the next step required to user vDisk in the VM?

Options:

A.

Attach the Volume Group to the VM

B.

Configure CHAP Authentication

C.

Reboot the VMD. Bring the disk Online

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Questions 15

An administrator needs to expand a Nutanix cluster that is tagging the network traffic at the CVM and AHV level. However, the administrator doesn ' t remember the configured VLAN ID.

Which command can the administrator run to find the correct VLAN ID from the CVM?

Options:

A.

ifconfig

B.

manage-ovs

C.

acli

D.

ovs-vscl

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Questions 16

Which Nutanix solution would provide an organization with a Cloud DR capability for their Nutanix cluster?

Options:

A.

Xi Frame

B.

Xi. Lap

C.

Beam

D.

Move

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Questions 17

An administrator wants to view VMs with NGT Installed and Filter by their installed guest operating systems.

How can this task most quickly be accomplished within prism central?

Options:

A.

Use a pre-defined Prism Central report

B.

Create a custome Focus using the OS Column

C.

In the VM dashboard , filter by the nutanix Guest tools - OS field

D.

use the Prism central analysis Panel to create a pie chart by OSType

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Questions 18

An administrator has been tasked with delivering a report on all nutanix Field Advisors (FAs) Affecting each of the clusters.

What is the most efficient way to collect this data?

Options:

A.

Request an environmental audit from the Nutanix Support

B.

Use Prism to run NCC and Check for information on FAs

C.

Review the discoveries information on the support Portal

D.

Review Field Advisories published on the Support Portal

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Questions 19

Which Deduplication technique could be used to increase the effective storage capacity of a cluster?

Options:

A.

Thin deduplication

B.

inline deduplication

C.

Near-line deduplication

D.

Post-process deduplication

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Questions 20

Refer to the exhibit.

NCA-5.20 Question 20

An administrator has created a new VM, but when accessing the console to monitor the guest install, the administrator sees the error shown in the exhibit

What is the likely cause of this issue?

Options:

A.

The installation media was not mounted.

B.

The wrong type of disk was specified.

C.

The boot order is incorrectly configured.

D.

The Nuianix VirtlO driver (SO was not mounted.

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Questions 21

An administrator needs to provide users access to Prism Central Projects Which source of user accounts must the administrator use?

Options:

A.

Open LDAP

B.

Active Directory

C.

Local users

D.

SAML2 Provider

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Questions 22

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NCA-5.20 Question 22

A team member has built a CentOS VM image for use as a template. An administrator deploys a new VM using the CentOS image as the 05 drive. No other drives are presented to the VM.

Following the deployment, the administrator attempts to boot the VM, but is unsuccessful.

What could be causing this issue?

Options:

A.

The VMS Boot Priority must reference disk first before CD-ROW

B.

The VM ' s Disk (scsi.O) setting must be set to make this disk bootable

C.

No Volume Groups have been created for the VM

D.

The CentOS VM image was built with UEF:

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Questions 23

An administrator needs to replace a node in a three-node cluster. The health status for the environment is good and the cluster is able to support a single node failure.

Which step must be performed first?

Options:

A.

Remove the failed node from the cluster

B.

Verify hypervisor versions

C.

Plug in all network cables

D.

Expand the cluster with the new node

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Questions 24

How should an administrator view the storage consumed by the recycle bin?

Options:

A.

On the storage Overview dashboard

B.

In the Cluster Details Page of the cluster setting

C.

On the storage Summary Widget on the Prism Dashboard

D.

In the Diagram or Table view on the Storage dashboard

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Questions 25

Refer to the exhibit.

NCA-5.20 Question 25

An administrator needs to upgrade a VM to 10 virtual processors. Which action should the administrator take to complete this task?

Options:

A.

Power-off the VM and add one vCPU

B.

Update the VM adding two vCPUs

C.

Update the VM adding two cores

D.

Power-off the VM and add one core

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Questions 26

An administrator has planned a RAM upgrade on a 3-node Nutanix cluster. Which step should be performed first for a non-disruptive memory upgrade?

Options:

A.

Stop one CVM at time

B.

RunNCC

C.

Power off one host at time

D.

Live Migrate VMs

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Questions 27

An administrator has a physical server that provides Actr/e Directory service?. IT has been hesitant to virtualize it due to its mission critical nature.

What can the administrator do to ensure that Active Directory experiences the least downtime when hosted on Nutanix?

Options:

A.

Mark the VM as an Agent VM.

B.

Configure Runbook to power on the VM first.

C.

Turn off IPAM for the VM ' s VLAN.

D.

Turn off Live Migration for the VM.

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Questions 28

Which statement best defines Replication Factor 2 (RF2)?

Options:

A.

Data will be written locally, and a second copy then will be replicated to another cluster

B.

Data will be written locally, and a second copy to another disk group

C.

Data will be written locally, and a second copy goes to a remote site

D.

Data will be written locally, and a second copy goes to another node in the same cluster

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Questions 29

A customer requires the ability to block all network traffic between their VDI VMs and their application VMs running on their Nutanix AHV clusters.

What Nutanix product would meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Beam

B.

Calm

C.

Era

D.

Flow

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Questions 30

Which two CVM components are used to provide data locality? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Logical Unit

B.

Unified Cache

C.

Extent Store

D.

Volume Group

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Questions 31

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NCA-5.20 Question 31

An administrator notices that the Data Resiliency Status of some components has been reduced to 0. making it impossible to support a node failure in the cluster.

What failed component caused this issue?

Options:

A.

CVM

B.

Disk

C.

Node

D.

Block

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Questions 32

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NCA-5.20 Question 32

During VM creation, an administrator clicked on ♦ Add New NIC, but there is nothing in the Network Name dropdown list. What is causing this issue?

Options:

A.

No physical NICs have been allocated for user VMs

B.

The nodes nave no NiCs attached to them

C.

Only 1G NIC is attached to the Nutanix nodes

D.

A network was not created during Network Configuration

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Questions 33

An administrator has recently added two nodes to an existing three-node vSphere-based Nutanix cluster.

After adding the nodes to the cluster, the administrator tries to migrate a few VMs to the new nodes, but found that no datastore exist on these new nodes yet

What action should the administrator take to resolve this issue?

Options:

A.

Click Mount on all ESXi hosts on containers

B.

Configure iSCSl Software Adapter on hosts

C.

Configure the firewall to allow NFS datastore access

D.

Add the host IP addresses to cluster whitelists

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Exam Code: NCA-5.20
Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) 5.20 Exam
Last Update: May 8, 2026
Questions: 111

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