Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) 5.15 - NCA-5.15 Exam Questions [2026]

QUESTION NO: 1
Which two Protection Domain features require a configured schedule of less than 15 minutes? (Choose two.)

A. NearSyncRD B. Synchronous DR C. Asynchronous DR D. Metro Availability DR

Correct Answer: A,D

QUESTION NO: 2
Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator has created a new Windows VM and given it to the user. The user states that only the C drive mapping is visible within the Windows OS.
What is causing this issue?

A. The administrator has not run the dd command line community utility. B. The additional disks have not been formatted as ExFAT in Prism Central. C. The additional disks were formatted as NTFS in Prism Central. D. The user has not formatted and assigned drive letters to the additional disks.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 3
An administrator is unable to discover a Nutanix-hosted iSCSI block device allocated to a bare-metal host.
What is causing this issue?

A. External host IP address is not in the Filesystem Whitelist B. Jumbo frames has not been configured on the switch C. Network segmentation has not been enabled D. External client access has not been enabled for the host

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 4
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: 5
Which two Nutanix features offer the ability to restore a VM? (Choose two.)

A. Site Recovery Manager B. Data Protection C. Nutanix Flow D. Nutanix Leap

Correct Answer: B,D

QUESTION NO: 6
Which Nutanix concept is responsible for accommodating and remediating node failure scenarios?

A. Self healing B. Data locality C. Auto resolve mode D. Life cycle management

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 7
What Nutanix product provides multi-cloud cost and security governance?

A. Era B. Beam C. Flow D. Leap

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 8
A customer is running a three-node Nutanix cluster.
Which data optimization feature cannot be enabled in this scenario?

A. Inline Compression B. Map-reduce dedup C. Erasure Coding D. Post Compression

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 9
After adding a remote site cluster, an administrator must map which two entities? (Choose two.)

A. VStores B. Consistency Groups C. Networks D. Virtual Machines

Correct Answer: B,D

QUESTION NO: 10
An administrator needs to have a view of current workloads sorted by vCPU count.
What should the administrator do to achieve this task?

A. Create a New Dashboard adding the VMs widget B. Export the VM list in CSV and use an external tool C. Use the Group function in prism Central D. Create a new Analysis in Prism Element

Correct Answer: A