Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) 5.20 - NCA-5.20 Exam Questions [2026]

QUESTION NO: 1
What is the minimum number of blocks required to utilize block awareness?

A. 3 B. 5 C. 2 D. 4

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 2
Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator has configured Prism Central to email daily digests of alerts on a cluster. After a week, the administrator notices that digests are not being received.
What is the most likely cause of the issue?

A. The tunnel connection has not been enabled. B. Nutanix support is not enabled as a recipient. C. The SMTP server is not configured properly. D. The recipient address is no" registered with Nutanix.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 3
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?

A. Select VMs and create a new Label B. Create a user defined category C. Create a new Playbook D. Create a new Catalog Item

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 4
Which two entity types can be exported by an administrator who only has access to Prism Element? (Choose two.)

A. VM B. Network C. Storage D. Health

Correct Answer: A,C

QUESTION NO: 5
An administrator needs to upgrade AOS for an air gapped cluster by using Prism Element.
Which two actions allow the administrator to perform the upgrade? Choose Two

A. Manually Upload Binaries to a local http server B. Extract the AOS binaries to the CVM C. Use the LCM dark site Option Providing AOS Binaries D. Manually Upload AOS binaries and metadata

Correct Answer: C,D

QUESTION NO: 6
An administrator completed a successful AOS upgrade, but saw the following alert the following day:
Detected incompatible AHV version What is most likely causing this alert?

A. NCC version is not compatible with the current AHV version. B. The upgraded AOS version is incompatible with AHV. C. AHV was upgraded manually prior to AOS upgrade. D. AHV is not at the version that carte with the upgraded AOS.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 7
A developer requests that a VM connects to a block device from an older ISCSI disk array, in order to support an application being transitioned to Nutanix.
What should the Nutanix administrator do to complete this task?

A. Use Volumes to add the device as a drive letter. B. Add the VM to the whitelist to allow it to access the block device. C. Use Flits to map a network drive letter. D. Add the array to the whitelist to access the storage container directly.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 8
When Does AOS automatically Generate a case with nutanix Support?

A. On failure of a scheduled NCC check B. For every alert detected by pulse Diagnostics C. When losing network connectivity to the CVM D. When disk space usage is high above 90%

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 9
An administrator is managing two AHV and vSphere-based clusters. The administrator is able to install a Windows Guest OS from an ISO Image to VMware VMs, but is unable to do the same activity with AHV VMs.
What should the administrator do to successfully perform this action with AHV VMs?

A. Provide virtIO Drivers B. Change VM settings from BIOS to UEFi C. Verify cluster iSCSI Data Services IP D. Manage Nutanix Guest Tools

Correct Answer: A