NCI Pro is the minimum listed licensing option that includes the specified capabilities. Official Nutanix licensing documentation states that NKP Starter is included with NCI Pro and NCI Ultimate. NKP Starter provides the Nutanix CSI driver for persistent storage, role-based access control with single sign-on, and load- balancing and ingress services.
NKP Pro also contains these functions because it includes everything in Starter. However, it adds production- oriented services such as an observability stack, backup and restore, service mesh, serverless functions, broader deployment options, and additional platform capabilities. It is therefore not the minimum option among the answers.
NCI Ultimate includes the same NKP Starter entitlement but is a higher NCI tier than NCI Pro. NKP Ultimate is the highest NKP tier and adds fleet management, multitenancy, centralized observability, GitOps, cost management, application-catalog functions, and support for managing broader hybrid multicloud Kubernetes environments.
The decisive requirement is not simply which license contains the features; it is which listed option provides them at the lowest applicable tier. Since NCI Pro includes NKP Starter and Starter supplies CSI, load balancing, and RBAC, option C is technically correct.
NHCF/NCA reference: NCI and NKP editions, licensing, and Kubernetes platform capabilities. Official references: NKP Datasheet and Edition Matrix and Nutanix Cloud Platform Software Options .