NCSE-CORE Exam Questions

An administrator is auditing the recent alerts on the cluster to report to the management. Which dashboard in Prism Central can be used to generate this report?

Which Prism Dashboard should be used to collect CPU/Memory and Disk I/O statistics over time?

A System engineer (SE) is gathering requirements to size a hybrid cluster to replace a prospect's existing IT test and development environment. The prospective customer has indicat...

A prospective customer is evaluating solutions to support a project. The systems engineer proposes a hybrid model as recommended by Sizer. The prospect is concerned about the perfo...

An HA event occurs, which causes a SQL virtual machine to restart on a different node. What impact will this cation have on Data Locality?

Compared to a 3-tier architecture, which two benefits does Nutanix bring to an organization? (Choose two.)

What is an important consideration when using RVTools output for sizing a solution?

When creating a multi-cluster scenario in Sizer, what does the Summary Failover Capacity indicator (N+0, N+1) display?

A prospect customer's expected workload consists of the following: 110 vCPU 512GB RAM * 500TB Storage They need a solution to help decrease storage costs. The majority of their sto...

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 do...

A custormer's database administrator is concerned about restoring data locality for their VMs after they migrate during an AHV upgrade. Which feature that addresses the issue shoul...

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...

A prospect is experiencing disk performance issues in their database environment. The prospect's databases currently run on physical servers and an iSCSI SAN with spinning disks. W...

A prospect is interested in evaluating Nutanix at no cost for a few months, but wants to useexisting test hardware to deploy a few VMs. Their primary interest is in experiencing pl...

A prospect is replacing a 3-tier virtualization infrastructure made up of several ESXi hosts and a SAN. The prospect recently bought a new 4-socket server to host their SQL server...

A prospect is seeking a Nutanix solution for a mission critical application that needs to sustain two simultaneous node outages and prefers that the cluster be able to fully rebuil...

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...

A prospect needs to refresh their environment but has a very small budget for the project. Four years after their last infrastructure refresh, the prospect's core datacenter is onl...

A prospect provides sizing details for a new application that will require 15TiB of usable storage. The prospect needs to plan for an additional 20% storage growth as part of the i...

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 thre...

A prospect's existing SAN-based environment regularly experiences unpredictable storage performance and latency spikes during peak utilization. The most highly affected workload is...

A prospect's storage administrator is concerned about deploying Nutanix for their vSphere server virtualization environment due to anticipated increases to data retention for compl...

In addition to the total number of physical CPU cores, which hardware component is used to calculate the cost of Capacity Based Licensing for a Nutanix Cluster?

A customer wants to evaluate the performance impact of failing a node while running workloads on the cluster. Which tool should a systems engineer use to accomplish this task?

A prospective customer wants to refresh their current on-premises infrastructure that. consists of 4 ESXi hosts. each with 20 cores and 512GB of RAM, and 1.2PB of usable SAN storag...

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

Which function does the Curator service perform?

A customer's current AHV cluster for mixed server workloads consists of 7 NX-3060-G6 nodes with intel Skylake processors spread across two blocks. Growing demand for resources requ...

The 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 Nu...

How long must data be 'write-cold' before Erasure Coding can begin optimization?

A prospective customer has a requirement for Data-at-Rest-Encryption for all their data. Which two license options are available to address this requirement? (Choose two)

In the event of a primary datacenter failure. A customer wants to power on virtual machines in a secondary datacenter with an RPO and RTO of no more than 15 minutes. Upon further d...

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 rema...

A prospective customer wants to migrate database workloads to Nutanix. They are currently running these workloads on a 3-tier vSphere architecture made up of 5 hosts connected to a...

A prospective customer is concerned about the suitability and design of using Nutanix for an upcoming Avaya IP Office migration. Which type of document should the systems engineer...

A prospect that is currently virtualized using Dell servers is willing to provide a Live Optics report to assist with sizing a partial infrastructure refresh with Nutanix. Which tw...

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...

A customer has successfully deployed Citrix XenDesktop on Nutanix. They value the product but view Nutanix as a VDI appliance. The customer mentions a cloud initiative. Which open-...

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 customer who uses Nutanix for mission critical workloads is considering migrating public cloud workloads to Nutanix. The customer has experienced difficulty auditing where applic...

During a meeting with a fortune 100 prospect, an SE achieves technical buy-in from the architecture team. The prospect shares that their management recently attended an executive b...

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 adequa...

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 an...

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 pl...

From Which page on portal.nutanix.com can an open case be directly escalated?

In a competitive POC scenario, the prospect is testing Nutanix against VxRail and Hyperflex. The customer is interested in an ""All in One"" solution that's simple to deploy, manag...