NCSE-CORE Exam Questions

what information can be gathered about the configuration of the VM storage?

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?

During an initial discussion. a prospective customer indicates they are strongly considering vSAN for their HCI initiative. The prospect's workloads are mostly read-intensive and t...

A customer needs to deploy 5000 virtual desktops on Nutanix. The requirements call for an active /active deployment, such that an entire site can be made unavailable due to mainten...

What are two things that the ADS service does for VMs within AHV? (Choose two.)

A systems engineer sizers an environment based on the customer's requirement of N+2 resiliency for the entire cluster. In which two ways could the configuration be changed to meet...

Which two collection tool outputs can be imported into Nutanix Sizer? (Choose two)

What is the main function of Oplog?

When Discussing node failures, a customer raises the concern that if a node that host 100TB of data goes offline, which building data must take an extended period of time?

A systems engineer needs to size a new project that requires offsite backup using Veeam. The prospect requires an RPO of 24 hours, and the ability to restore from the past 7 days o...

An existing customer wants to upgrade their non-AHV hypervisor to the most recent version. The customer needs confirm that the hypervisor is supported on their AOS version. Where o...

A customer needs to increase availability in their Nutanix environment by enabling rack awareness. The current configuration consists of : 1 RF2 cluster consisting of 7 identical N...

Based on their current workload. a customer request the systems engineer to create a solution that does not exceed 80% CPU utilization when a node is placed in maintenance mode (N+...

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...

A customer previously purchased a Nutanix solution of nine NX-3060-G7 nodes. The customer asks for help to increase the resiliency of their environment after power outages to indiv...

A customer asks for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an ERP application. The customer has a vSAN ReadyNode quote already and is looking for a comparable...

Over what period of time does the Nutanix Collector provide performance data?

A customer intends to build out their VDI environment over a period of 18 months. They require a consistent user experience as their numbers grow. What element of the Nutanix WebSc...

A customer is evaluating Nutanix to replace their existing 200TB filer. The filer is used to store archived images. To achieve maximum storage density. RF2 and Erasure Coding are p...

Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV?

What are two key Nutanix value propositions? (Choose two)

A systems engineer is creating a workload for a Sizer Scenario that requires Disaster Recovery (DR) resources with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 6 hours. The "Protect VMs and...

A prospective customer is concerned about having a single-pane-of-glass manage their infrastructure because it also provides a single-point-of-failure. How does the Nutanix Prism a...

A prospect has 8500GB of capacity provisioned for a non-production VMware cluster. As Part of migrating to Nutanix. the prospect agrees to convert any thick provisioned disks to th...

A customer has a requirement to run a single instance Oracle Database VM on AHV that is driving over 250,000 IOPs. Which AOS feature should be positioned to deliver the highest lev...

Which two VMs require further data analysis to accurately size resources? (Choose two)

A VP of Applications at a prospective customer is working to transform IT from a cost, center to a business enabler. In order to address this initiative, the VP has identified the...

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...

A prospective customer uses both Oracle and Microsoft products for critical applications. The prospect. prefers an all flash array over HCI, because they have made a recent, signif...

When planning an Oracle database deployment on Nutanix, which best practice should the SE consider?

A prospect is conducting a Nutanix POC process that will measure the time to revocer from a power loss, the impact of running multiple workloads on the same cluster, and peak stora...

An SE needs to leverage Change Block Tracking when using Xtract to migrate VMs from ESXi to AHV. Which two source VM requirements should the SE verify? (Choose two)

ABC Corp currently has 50 VMs currently running in production and is interested in sizing a DR cluster. The RTO is 4 hours and the RPO is 2 hours . Each VM has 100GB of data, with...

A customer is asking for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an ERP application containing a 500GB database. The customer has a VSAN ReadyNode quote already...

A customer is conceded that IT will not be able to take advantage of Nutanix's frequent feature releases due to the man hour requirements of maintaining compliance with industry re...

A customer is provisioning 1,000 linked clone desktops with View Composer for their call center. During a short period between shift changes,desktops must be rebooted. Which Nutani...

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 12C...

After a meeting with a new prospect to demo Nutanix for a Splunk opportunity, the prospect requests a POC. To qualify the need for a POC, which question should an SE ask the prospe...

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 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...

An SE is working with a financial institution prospect on a VDI environment refresh. The institution currently has 5000 named VDI users, with a peak of 2800 concurrent users. How m...

A Nutanix customer needs to migrate 1000VMs from ACME Public Cloud to a local Nutanix cluster ACME Public Cloud operates on VMware ESXi, Hp ProLiant Servers with 3PAR storage. ACME...

A prospect discloses they have had multiple instances of unplanned downtime in the last 3 months due to server hardware failures. The team has been through multiple reorganizations...

A prospect facing an upcoming Vmware ELA renewal has a management directive to move to the public cloud due to perceived cost savings. Their virtualization team is currently strugg...

A prospect indicates a requirement to replicate data offsite for a production workload. Which three questions the SE ask about the prospect's requirement? (Choose three.)

A prospect is concerned about the suitability and design of using Nutanix for an upcoming Avaya IP Office migration. Which type of document should the SE provide?

A prospect is evaluating HEP SimpliVity and Nutanix Software-Only on HPE servers and receives FUD from the competition regarding HPE not supporting or officially partnering with Nu...

Which three settings are required for network switch discovery in Prism? (Choose Three)

Which two targets are valid options when selecting a remote site to Prism? (Choose Two)

For security reason an administrator needs to logically separate management and data traffic on Nutanix cluster. Which feature should the administrator select for this configuratio...