NCSE-Core Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core) Question and Answers

An administrator needs to report on any alerts generated by a Nutanix cluster that affected the cluster's availability over the past 10 days.

Which method should be used to locate these events?

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 many VDI VMs does the SE need to size for, factoring in an additional 10% for growth?

A prospect wants to target Nutanix as infrastructure for running VMs built as part of their new Continuous Integration and Delivery (CICD) pipeline. Hundreds of builds will occur per day across their development organization.

Which two items should the SE identify to begin sizing the Nutanix deployment? (Choose two.)

Which configuration can be used the data encryption on a nutanix cluster regardless of the hardware configuration?

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Based on the Sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?

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A prospect provides the data shown captured from their existing environment using RVTools. The prospect has additional historical CPU utilization data that indicates peak CPU utilization never exceeds 50% on either physical host.

Which vCPU:pCore ratio should be used in Sizer?

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?

An administrator needs to configure Acropolis File Service (AFS). The administrator is setting up AFS for the first time on the Nutanix cluster.

How many file services VMs are created by default?

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 other Entities" setting is set to Yes. Async is selected for the RPO. Which two other options must be enabled to have Sizer create a DR cluster? (Choose two)

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

A prospects storage administrator is concerned about deploying Nutanix for their vSphere server virtualization environment due to anticipated increase to the data retention for compliance purpose and associated costs.

Which Nutanix feature should an SE discuss to convince the prospect to move forward?

An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment.

Why is this happening?

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)

Prospective customer explains their current infrastructure and upcoming goals. They are a fast-growing software company with approximately 3000 employees. Engineering accounts for approximately half of total staff and is behind on product releases.

This department has been building their own infrastructure using available hardware, SaaS offerings, and public cloud.

There's a new CIO attempting to gain control of existing and incoming

information systems while supporting the agile environment responsible for their rapid innovation with a minimal staff. From this information, which two addressable pain points or gaps should be discerned?(Choose two)

A systems engineer is sizing a configuration for a cluster that needs to tolerate up to 2 simultaneous disk failures across different nodes. What is the minimum number of nodes required?

What is the main function of Oplog?

An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance?

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 performance of a hybrid configuration and is evaluating an all flash array. Which two Nutanix features should be discussed to address the concerns of the prospective customer? (Choose two)

Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?

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-ended discovery question should the SE ask to start a conversation about expanding beyond VDI workloads?

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 they have over 1PB of archival data. The prospect expects to save on costs using storage efficiencies that their existing platform does not support. Which two Nutanix differentiators should the systems engineer discuss? (Choose two.)

Which option should be recommended for a customer to get timely notifications of significant product issues is the field?

Which three cluster operations require an administrator to reclaim licenses?(Choose three)

Which three configuration scenarios are valid for the deployment of Prism Central? (Choose three.)

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Based on the sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?

Which AOS feature provides enhanced read performance specifically for virtual desktop environments?