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NCSE-Core Sample Question 1

An existing customer is considering deploying a new Splunk project onto their Nutanix infrastructure. The customer inquires about potential storage capacity saving for their splunk workload. Which two Nutanix capacity optimization features should the SE recommend? (Choose two)

A. Erasure coding. 
B. Post-process compression.
 C. Inline compression. 
D. Capacity tier de-duplication. 

ANSWER : A,B

NCSE-Core Sample Question 2

A systems engineer is building a solution for a federal government prospect that requires. FIPS 140-2 Level 2 encryption for data at rest. Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meets the encryption standard? (Choose two)

A. Nutanix Software Encryption 
B. Nutanix Prism Pro Licensing 
C. A supported key Management Server 
D. Self-Encrypting Drive 

ANSWER : C,D

NCSE-Core Sample Question 3

Which two items are considered by Sizer when calculating the required cluster resources with only the Raw input workload type for a multi-VM workload? (Choose two)

A. The vCPU:pCore ratio applied for specific VMs 
B. Large VM NUMA requirements 
C. The required RAM for the CVM 
D. The vCPU:pCore ratio applied to all VMs 

ANSWER : C,D

NCSE-Core Sample Question 4

An SE builds a sizer scenario for a prospect's remote site running on an NX-1365S-G5. Using only the sizer BOM. which two actions can be performed? (Choose two.)

A. Review budgetary pricing 
B. Review workload sizing details 
C. Review power consumption requirements 
D. Review applicable discounts from deal registration 
E. Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration 

ANSWER : B,E

NCSE-Core Sample Question 5

A customer performs a 1-click, non-disruptive upgrade on a 3-node Nutanix cluster. While the CVM on Node A is rebooting, a VM on Node A overwrites an existing block of data. How does Nutanix AOS ensure data integrity during the upgrade?

A. AOS marks the replica as read only and waits until the original replica is back online to prevent corruption.
B. AOS writes two copies across the remaining nodes to maintain resiliency
C. AOS leverages Erasure Coding to maintain resiliency.
D. AOS only overwrite the available copy and waits until the original copy is back online before restoring resiliency

ANSWER : B

NCSE-Core Sample Question 6

A customer plans to migrate a business critical,highly tranactional SQL Server database to Nutanix Currently the databases is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12CPU cores at > 80% utilization To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the SE recommend for this workload?

A. Intel E5 2680v4 (14 cores each @ 2.4GHZ, 28 Cores total) 
B. Intel E5 2620v4 ( 8 cores each @ 2.1GHZ, 16 Cores total) 
C. Intel E5 2643v4 ( 6 cores each @ 3.4GHZ, 12 Cores total) 
D. Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total) 

ANSWER : D

NCSE-Core Sample Question 7

Which website acts as a single gateway for all Nutanix deal registrations, forums, software downloads, product documentation product alerts and support interactions?

A. my.nutanix.com 
B. nutanixbible.com 
C. support.nutanix.com 
D. portal.nutanix.com

ANSWER : A

NCSE-Core Sample Question 8

A customer has a 3-node cluster configured for RF2 with 100TB of raw disk space. The customer wants to enable Erasure Coding to gain additional usable space. What change will allow EC-X to be enabled?

A. Add 1 node to the cluster
 B. Add an additional 30TB to the existing cluster 
C. Increase the size of the default storage pool 
D. No changes are required

ANSWER : A

NCSE-Core Sample Question 9

An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issue. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue. Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

A. Utilize a separate subnet for the Linux VMs 
B. Add additional disks to the Volume Group 
C. Set the SCSI timeout value to 60 
D. Utilize Jumbo Frames

ANSWER : C

NCSE-Core Sample Question 10

A prospect is planning to refresh hundreds of remote locations. Each location has the following configuration: • 2x HPE DL360 servers running vSphere, each using its own local storage • 3-4 Windows VMs with no plans to expand Scheduling the initial meeting to discuss the opportunity has been challenging as the prospect believes a Nutanix solution would be overpriced for their remote site needs. What are two Nutanix capabilities the SE should highlight to address solution cost concerns? (Choose two.)

A. 1 -Node and 2-Node Clusters 
B. Xi DRaaS 
C. Foundation 
D. AHV 

ANSWER : A,B

NCSE-Core Sample Question 11

An administrator is deploying several new application VMs to a Nutanix Cluster. The application is very transactional with a 28/72 random, read/write ratio. What should the administrator do?

A. Add one large SSD to each node and enable Flash Mode for the VMs. 
B. Add a minimum of four virtual disks to each VM and aggregate them on guest OS level. 
C. Add a minimum of four SSDs to each node to ensure all write go to the SSDs. 
D. Add one large virtual disk to each VM and use it for all application data. 

ANSWER : C

NCSE-Core Sample Question 12

An SE is performing a sizing exercise for a large financial institution. They plan to move 8000 VMs to Nutanix AHV manage those clusters using Prism Central. Which sizing configuration should the SE use for each Prism Central VM?

A. 2 vCPU / 8gig MEM /200 gig Storage 
B. 4 vCPU / 16gig MEM /500 gig Storage 
C. 8 vCPU / 32gig MEM /2500 gig Storage 
D. 10 vCPU / 48gig MEM /3500 gig Storage

ANSWER : C

NCSE-Core Sample Question 13

A prospective customer wants to build a private cloud in addition to provisioning workloads across multiple public cloud providers. Presently, the staff lacks the time and skillset for on-premises infrastructure management. Which two features should qualify this project as a Nutanix opportunity? (choose two)

A. Flow 
B. Calms 
C. Cloud Connect 
D. All falsh nodes 
E. Prism 1-Click operations 

ANSWER : B,E

NCSE-Core Sample Question 14

Using the Sizing Option shown, which two configurations are possible configurations that Sizer could provide in Automatic mode? (Choose two) ????

A. 6x NX-8055-G7 (2 x 7.68TB SSD + 10x 6TB HDD per node) 
B. 4x NX-1075S-G7 (4x 3.85TB SSDs per node) + 4x NX-8035-G7 (6x 3.84TB SSD per node) 
C. 3x NX-3060-G7 (2x 1920GB SSDs per node) + 3x NX-10755-G7 (4x 3.84TB SSDs per node) 
D. 6x NX-3060-G7 (6x 1920GB SSDs per node) 

ANSWER : C,D

NCSE-Core Sample Question 15

During a sales motion with a new prospect, the prospect and SE agree to evaluate Nutanix and a computing platform using XRay. The prospect is currently using 3-tier architecture and considering Nutanix and HPE Simplivity. Which two details must be discussed with the prospect before the POC starts? (Choose two)

A. Model of Fibre Channel switch 
B. Gather details of customer's existing 3-tier hardware
C. ldentify appropriate POC hardware 
D. A test plan with agreed upon success criteria 
E. What type of external storage will be connected

ANSWER : C,D

NCSE-Core Sample Question 16

Customer requests a 30-day POC to test Microsoft SQL Server performance on Nutanix compared to existing infrastructure. Which action should be taken to avoid the POC?

A. Recommend the customer install Nuatnix Community Edition. 
B. Offer a 10% discount if the customer issues an order without a POC. 
C. Share database related Nutanix case studies with the customer. 
D. Recommend X-ray to facilitate performance testing and use the Xtract tool to minimize the migration. 

ANSWER : C

NCSE-Core Sample Question 17

A prospect's business is growing 100% year over year. The prospect is interested in Nutanix for their main datacenter due to the alility to scale quickly and easily. They have three remote sites that will be refreshed within the next year. Each site needs to replicate to their many datacenter. The SE proposes the Nutanix NX line, and the prospect asks to utilize the Xpress line. For which reason is the Xpress line the wrong choice? (Choose two)

A. SX is limited to two 4-node clusters.
 B. SX has a lower services cost for installation. 
C. SX is limited to one 4-node cluster. 
D. SX licensing does not support cluster-to-cluster replication 
E. SX licensing will not support many-to-many- cluster replication

ANSWER : A,E

NCSE-Core Sample Question 18

An SE is conducting a first call presentation with their Account Executive and a prospect. The prospect needs to build a private cloud but has been unable to implement the solution in-house, since using their traditional architecture would require integrating server, storage and networking solutions from six different vendors. The cost and complexity of that approach is too high. Also their current infrastructure is not built for scalability or performance. The prospect has considered upgrading their traditional server and SAN storage platforms but could not meet requirements for scale and performance using this approach. In what order should the SE present the critical product and technology portions of the First Customer Presentation to the IT Director?

A. Native convergence of traditional infrastructure. Scalable distributed system. Data locality and distributed data. Application automation with Calm. Xi Cloud Services.
B. Application automation with Calm. Xi Cloud Services. Native convergence of traditional infrastructure. Scalable distributed system. Data locality and distributed data.
C. Xi Cloud Services. Application automation with Calm. Native convergence of traditional infrastructure. Scalable distributed system. Data locality and distributed data.
D. Data locality and distributed data. Scalable distributed system. Native convergence of traditional infrastructure. Xi Cloud Services. Application automation with Calm.

ANSWER : D

NCSE-Core Sample Question 19

when reviewing Nutanix cluster upgrades. a customer engineer is concerned that their VM will be forced to repeatedly migrate between nodes. Which Nutanix feature allows VMs to remain on a host during an AOS upgrade?

A. CVM Autopathing 
B. RF3 
C. Data Locality 
D. Shadow Clones

ANSWER : A

NCSE-Core Sample Question 20

A prospects need to refresh their environment but has a very small budget for the project. Four years after their last infrastructure refresh, the prospect’s datacenter is only running at 40% utilization. In addition, they have 25 satellite offices. Each office has a requirement to run 4 to 6 VM’s locally. Which two Nutanix platform capabilities should the SE highlight to address the prospect’s concerns? (Choose two)

A. Multi-Site Management.
 B. Pay as you grow.
 C. Automated data storage tiering. 
D. Software only. E. Single node backup.

ANSWER : A,B

NCSE-Core Sample Question 21

An 8-node hybrid cluster is configured with a Fault Tolerance level of 2 (RF3). All nodes are identical. Which simultaneous failures will result in VM data being unavailable?

A. Two HDD failures on one node and a single SSD failure on another node 
B. Single SSD failure on one node and a single SSD failure on another node 
C. SSD failures on two nodes and a CVM powered off on another. 
D. CVM being powered off on one node and two HDD failures on another node. 

ANSWER : C

NCSE-Core Sample Question 22

A prospective customer's migration to their new SAN started six months ago and is sill not complete. The VP of IT state the previous migration to the existing SAN took almost eight months to complete. How should the systems engineer describe Nutanix hardware refreshes to this prospective customer

A. New nodes can be added to an existing cluster. and then the old nodes can be removed.
B. Manual hardware refreshes take time, and the systems engineer understands the customer's current situation.
C. With AHV, vMotion between cluster occurs faster than on a SAN-based cluster 
D. Setting in AHV node's EVC mode is a very fast process that will shorten the upgrade time 

ANSWER : A

NCSE-Core Sample Question 23

During a meeting with a prospect a storage administrator comments that they're currently using 16Gb Fibre Channel for their SAN and believes that 10Gb Ethernet can't provide adequate bandwidth or low latency. As a followup to the meeting, which Nutanix Bible section would be most helpful in overcoming the storage administrator's objection?

A. Data locality 
B. Storage Tiering and Prioritization 
C. Cluster Components 
D. Drive Breakdown 
E. Do you have any infrastructure refreshes planned for this year?

ANSWER : A

NCSE-Core Sample Question 24

A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backup up to a remote location. The remote location is connection using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms. Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest PRO possible?

A. AsyncDR 
B. NearSync 
C. Metro Availability
D. Leap 

ANSWER : A

NCSE-Core Sample Question 25

Which two items represent measurable POC success criteria? (Choose two.)

A. Tested VDI Broker 
B. Deployed 100 desktops on AHV using Citrix MCS plugin 
C. Restored VMs from Protection Domain D. Compare Nutanix to existing infrastructure 
E. Demonstrated Prism 

ANSWER : B,C

NCSE-Core Sample Question 26

main problem relates to the existing architecture and a mix of vendors who are slow to release update to their products. Which core facet of WebScale architecture should the Nutanix systems engineer discuss?

A. Rich analytics 
B. one-click upgrades 
C. enterprise class feature 
D. continuous innovation

ANSWER : B

NCSE-Core Sample Question 27

During an initial meeting with a prospect the storage administrator learns that Nutanix does not use RAID for application data. The prospect's storage array is configured with RAID 10 and the full capacity of the array is required. As a result no hot spares have been allocated. The storage administrator must respond immediately to any disk failures, even outside standard business hours. Which aspect of Nutanix replication factor (RF) will reduce the storage administrator's break/fix burden?

A. Automatic data re-protection using available cluster capacity 
B. Distribution of multiple copies of data across various nodes in a cluster 
C. Checksumming for data integrity 
D. Block awareness

ANSWER : B

NCSE-Core Sample Question 28

A prospect is evaluating Nutanix for a large number of Oracle RAC deployments. Time to deployment is a top priority, and the prospect has developed a self-service tool in-house to expedite these deployments. Which Nutanix feature should be discussed?

A. Calm 
B. Xtract for Databases 
C. ABS 
D. REST API 

ANSWER : A

NCSE-Core Sample Question 29

During a sales motion with a new prospect, the prospect asks to do a POC so they can experience Nutanix in their environment. What is the most important item the SE must have in place with the prospect before moving forward with a POC?

A. Start date of the POC 
B. Defined and measurable success criteria 
C. Meeting frequency 
D. Number of Nodes/Block to be used during the POC

ANSWER : B

NCSE-Core Sample Question 30

A customer wants to decrease costs and increase efficiency by eliminating NAS silos and adopting a cloud-like mindset. Which Nutanix product meets these requirements?

A. Nutanix Calm 
B. Nutanix Xi Frame 
C. Nutanix Files 
D. Nutanix Beam 

ANSWER : C