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

Question 1

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?

Options:

A.

demo.Nutanix.com

B.

X-Ray

C.

Move

D.

Sizer

Question 2

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?

Options:

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?

Question 3

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 WebScale architecture would a systems engineer discuss with them?

Options:

A.

All intelligence in software

B.

No single point of failure

C.

Nutanix can run on multiple hardware vendor platforms

D.

Linear performance with predictable scaling

Question 4

A VDI environment based on AHV Cluster is not performing well. The current environment is using only one bridge (BridgeO). An administrator need to verify if nodes are using all network card associated to BridgeO. Which two menus should be used to check the current configuration? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Host NICs tab in Hardware menu

B.

Host view in Network menu

C.

1.0 Metrics tab VM menu

D.

Network Configuration item in Setting menu

Question 5

CPU utilization climbs above 90% on several VMs. This causes performance degradation for a business-critical application.

How can alerts be configured to notify the administrator before VM CPU utilization hits 90%?

Options:

A.

On a CVM, use ncli to set the VM CPU Check threshold for the critical VMs to a value below 90%.

B.

On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the alert threshold below 90%.

C.

On a CVM, configure a cron job to run the VM CPU Check more frequently and email the result.

D.

On the Alerts dashboard, ensure that the VM CPU usage alert is not set to auto-resolve.

Question 6

A customer has deployed Nutanix with Esxi for VDI workloads and is considering Nutanix for a major server virtualization project. The customer is running z/Virtual Machine today for a mission critical workload and would like to consider Nutanix as a potential platform.

Which reason would currently disqualify this prospect as an opportunity?

Options:

A.

Accurate sizing information is not available

B.

Nutanix does not support z/OS or z/VM

C.

There is no assurance of project progression yet.

D.

New hardware will be announced next quarter.

Question 7

An administrator has a VM that consumes large amounts of storage and has the following characteristics:

• Create large / sequential writes

• Data must be kept for years

• Data is normally only accessed at the end of the year to run report

The administrator decides to use Erasure Coding to save space.

Which feature should the administrator utilize to save space for this VM?

Options:

A.

Inline Compression

B.

Flash Mode

C.

Cache Dedup

D.

Post-Process Compression

Question 8

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

Options:

A.

Self-Encryption Drives

B.

Software Encryption

C.

In-line Compression

D.

SSL Certificate

Question 9

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)

Options:

A.

Nutanix Software Encryption

B.

Nutanix Prism Pro Licensing

C.

A supported key Management Server

D.

Self-Encrypting Drive

Question 10

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.)

Options:

A.

The configuration manager that the customer will use with the application builds

B.

The frequency and lifespan of each application build

C.

The build manager that the company will use for the builds

D.

The configuration/specs of the VMs within each application build

Question 11

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?

Options:

A.

Alerts

B.

Explore

C.

Apps

D.

Analysis

Question 12

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 Nutanix solution. They share the following bill of materials: 3 Hosts , 2x E5-2640v4 CPUs , 512GB RAM , 1 x 480GB SSD , 2 x 8TB HDD , 2 x 1GB NIC What are two reasons to avoid sizing to match a competitor's bill of materials ? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

Sizing data from the competition was shared.

B.

There is no visibility to the actual customer requirement

C.

The assumptions made in the competitor's sizing cannot be determined.

D.

Nutanix Collector is better at capturing the metrics needed

Question 13

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 indicated the cluster contains no business critical applications and has provided the aggregate vCPU and RAM requirements of the existing cluster. which two additional items does the SE require to size the cluster?(Choose two)

Options:

A.

Existing Drive Count

B.

Virtual Switch Configuration

C.

Working Data Set

D.

Storage Capacity

Question 14

Refer to the exhibit.

***Exhibit is Missing***

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

Options:

A.

RF3

B.

N+1

C.

N+0

D.

N+2

Question 15

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

Options:

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

Question 16

A prospect uses VMware, Oracle and Microsoft products for their critical operations. The prospect prefers an all-flash array because they have significantly invested in servers for their oracle environment to save on licensing costs.

Which feature should be discussed to address this objection?

Options:

A.

AHV

B.

Hyper-V Support.

C.

ABS

D.

All-flash nodes.

Question 17

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 the customer's requirements ? (Choose Two)

Options:

A.

Increase the RAM capacity per Node

B.

Increase the number of Nodes

C.

Increase the CPU capacity per Node

D.

Increase the SSD capacity per Node

Question 18

A large retailer company recently employed a CIO who decided that all operations should be migrated to public cloud offerings. After 7 months, the project was be a failure and determined to the CIO exited. The retailer’s infrastructure consisted of tens of thousand’s of VMs on thousands of hosts supported by dozen of storage arrays. Only 10% of workloads were migrated to public cloud during the CIO’s tenure.

Which open ended discovery questions should the SE ask to determine pain points or gaps? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

What challenges triggered the public cloud initiative?

B.

Which public cloud offering(s) are utilized?

C.

Is de-duplication q requirement for your workloads?

D.

What are your end users asking for that you cannot deliver today?

Question 19

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

Options:

A.

XI Cloud Services

B.

Physical Cluster

C.

Network attached storage

D.

Cloud

E.

Tape Library

Question 20

A systems engineer is building a private cloud for internal developers that should include self-service and life cycle management for both kubernetes containers and SQL databases. which additional license feature must be purchased to provide this capability?

Options:

A.

Nutanix Era

B.

Nutanix Flow

C.

Prism Pro

D.

Nutanix Beam

Question 21

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 (SE) Provide?

Options:

A.

Knowledge Base Article

B.

Best Practice Guide

C.

Field Advisory

D.

Reference Architecture

Question 22

A prospects main goal are to replace their mainframe environment, cut their datacenter footprint, and improve disaster recovery for mission critical applications.

Which collection of documents should the SE use to show the prospect how Nutanix can help them reach their goals?

Options:

A.

Nutanix Bible.

B.

Knowledge Base Articles.

C.

Case Studies.

D.

Best Practices Guide.

Question 23

An SE is building a solution for a federal goverment prospect that u???

Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meens the ??? encryption (choose two)

Options:

A.

Nutanix Acropolis Pro Licensing

B.

Self-Encrypting Drives

C.

A supported Key Management Server

D.

Nutanix Software Encryption

Question 24

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

Options:

A.

Majority of VMs are Thin Provisioned.

B.

Storage capacity is a problem

C.

VMs have many disks.

D.

Total disk usage is high

Question 25

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 storage They have recently renewed their ESXi licensing, and all data must remain within their physical network. They are concerned that a hyperconverged solution will not meet their storage requirements without requiring a significant increase in the number of required ESXi hosts and licenses. Which Nutanix capability should the systems engineer review with the customer?

Options:

A.

Replace the hypervisor with AHV

B.

Build Cluster on a public cloud

C.

Position storage-only nodes

D.

Use Volumes to provide storage

Question 26

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?

Options:

A.

Linear scalability by adding more nodes.

B.

Acropolis Block Services.

C.

Adding storage only nodes.

D.

Extending storage container with existing SAN storage.

Question 27

How will an HDD failure affect VMs with data on the failed device?

Options:

A.

The VMs will crash, and will be restarted once the failed HDD has been replaced and the data has been restored.

B.

A live migration will be initiated, moving the affected VMs to a host that contains the replica data.

C.

The VMs will remain operational on that host and continue to function normally with no noticeable impact

D.

An HA event will occur, causing the affected VMs to restart on a node that contains the replica data.

Question 28

An administrator receive report that VDI desktop performance in an 8-node Nutanix VDI environment is poor. Opening applications takes between 1 and 2 minutes. When investigating the issue, the following conditions are found:

• Cluster memory utilization: 80%

• Cluster SSD utilization: 70%

• Average VM CPU wait time: 11 %

• CVM CPU utilization: 75%

Which action should be taken to improve VDI performance?

Options:

A.

Increase the amount of SSD storage in the cluster

B.

Ad memory to the nodes in the cluster

C.

Increase the number of vCPU cores allocated to the CVM

D.

Add CPU resources to the cluster

Question 29

Refer to Exhibit.

An administrator increases the cluster RF to 3. The containers are not modified.

What will the new values in the data resiliency dashboard be for FAILURES TOLERABLE for the Zookeeper and Extent Groups components?

Options:

A.

Zookeeper = 1 and Extent Groups = 1

B.

Zookeeper = 2 and Extent Groups = 2

C.

Zookeeper = 2 and Extent Groups = 1

D.

Zookeeper = 1 and Extent Groups = 2

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