Nutanix NCP-BC Study Guide Archives Updated on Oct 26, 2026 [Q61-Q82]

Q61. An administrator wants to protect the snapshots created on the cluster. Only authorized users should be allowed to modify or delete the snapshots on the cluster.
How can the administrator harden the security of the snapshots?

Q62. An administrator is migrating from a Protection Domain-based deployment to a Prism Central (PC)-based deployment What occurs if a snapshot is deleted before the protection policy is applied to the migrated entities?

Q63. An organization is finalizing its Disaster Recovery (DR) plan. The primary objective is to balance cost-efficiency with a target RTO of under 15 minutes. Data currently resides in Object Storage, but the team is debating between a Zero Compute approach and a Pilot Light approach.
Why would a Pilot Light infrastructure be selected over a Zero Compute model despite the higher “Moderate” cost?

Q64. An administrator executes a Recovery Plan for a set of high-performance VMs configured with SR-IOV network adapters. The VMs failover successfully to the Recovery Cluster.
What is the state of these VMs immediately after the planned failover completes?

Q65. While attempting to execute a Commvault backup plan, an administrator received the following error for several VMs:
Virtual Machine not found
After confirming the VMs exist, the administrator digs deeper and finds the following related error message:
Event Code 91:4 Virtual machine [Nutanix-Web-Server] was not found. Please verify that the virtual machine still exists and that the host is in the connected state. If the virtual machine does not exist remove it from the subclient. If the virtual machine does exist reselect the virtual machine and re-add it to the subclient content.
Which action should the administrator take to enable successful backups?

Q66. An administrator is planning to deploy some 2-node clusters and is reviewing data protection strategies for some of the critical VMs.
What can be the minimum RPO for these VMs?

Q67. An administrator executes an Unplanned Failover of web server VMs from an on-premises AZ to a Nutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2) on AWS. The Recovery Plan completes, and the VMs are running. However, external users cannot access the websites hosted on these VMs. The administrator verifies that the firewall rules are set correctly.
What specific configuration is required for these VMs to be reachable from the external network after failover to NC2?

Q68. After a failover and stabilization of workloads at the recovery AZ, an administrator removes several VMs from the protection policy because they are no longer required.
Which action should be performed as part of post-failover cleanup to prevent unnecessary storage consumption?

Q69. An organization uses a Recovery Plan to protect a SQL Cluster that relies on Volume Groups (VGs). The VGs are configured with hypervisor attachments. The administrator executes a Planned Failover to migrate the SQL Cluster to the Recovery Site.
The Failover task completes successfully, but the database administrators report that the database is offline.
What is the possible cause of this issue?

Q70. A deployment uses native encryption for replication traffic between two clusters. An administrator subsequently enables network segmentation to isolate this traffic.
Which specific maintenance step must be performed to ensure the encrypted replication functions correctly on the new segmented network?

Q71. During routine monitoring, an administrator notices that replication from the primary Nutanix cluster to the recovery cluster has stopped. New recovery points are not being created, and the DR dashboard shows replication errors.
Investigation reveals:
The primary and recovery clusters are both online and healthy.
Network segmentation was recently enabled to isolate replication traffic from other workloads.
No recent changes were made to firewall rules, protection policies or RPO settings.
Which action should the administrator take first to investigate the replication failure?

Q72. How does Nutanix Disaster Recovery automatically handle Container Mapping if a storage container with the same name does not exist at the recovery Nutanix cluster?

Q73. Which statement describes the automatic detachment timeout period for a snapshot disk mounted to a VM using the Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) Self-Service Restore (SSR) feature?

Q74. An organization has two Nutanix clusters managed by a single Prism Central (PC) instance. They intend to implement Synchronous Replication between the sites. During a failover test, the administrator notices that automatic failover does not occur when the primary site’s storage becomes unavailable.
What is the most likely cause of this behavior based on an analysis of the requirements?

Q75. After an unplanned outage, all VMs were successfully failed over to the recovery site, and users are now accessing workloads from there. The DR dashboard shows the failover is complete and replication from the original primary site has stopped.
As part of post-failover cleanup, what is the most appropriate next action to ensure the DR configuration reflects the current production state and is ready for future protection?

Q76. An administrator managing critical VMs has been tasked with designing a Disaster Recovery solution where the VMs are brought up on the target cluster if the source cluster experience any issues. The failover needs to be triggered without any user intervention and with minimal downtime.
What automatic failure execution solution is best suited?

Q77. Which native Nutanix tool is used to determine connectivity between two sites during disaster recovery testing?

Q78. An administrator intends to configure a NearSync replication schedule with a 15-minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO) on a hybrid 3-node cluster. The current nodes in the cluster are configured with one SSD and four HDDs each.
Which cost-effective modification is required to support this specific replication schedule?

Q79. A Protection Domain exists with a VM, but no new snapshots are being created and replication never starts.
Which is the most likely DR setup issue?

Q80. An administrator migrates a guest VM from a legacy Protection Domain-based DR configuration to a Prism Central (PC)-based Protection Policy. Immediately after migration, the administrator considers deleting the legacy Protection Domain snapshots to reclaim storage.
According to Nutanix guidance, when is it safe to delete the legacy Protection Domain snapshots?

Q81. Which two VM disk types does Self-Service restore support? (Choose two.)

Q82. An administrator is concerned about the operational overhead of manually creating and managing categories across both the primary and recovery sites to ensure Recovery Plans function correctly during failover and failback.
What Nutanix Disaster Recovery behavior minimizes this concern?