NCSE-CORE Online Practice Questions and Answers

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?

A. Replace the hypervisor with AHV

B. Build Cluster on a public cloud

C. Position storage-only nodes

D. Use Volumes to provide storage

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?

A. Nutanix Era

B. Nutanix Flow

C. Prism Pro D. Nutanix Beam

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

A. Data Locality

B. Time Stream

C. Shadow Clones

D. Copy on First Write

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 regulatory controls.

Which item should the SE discuss at the next customer visit with IT?

A. Data at Rest Encryption (Software)

B. Two-factor Authentication

C. Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA)

D. Factory-installed self-encryption drives (SED)

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 on the Support Portal is this information located?

A. Compatibility Matrix

B. EOL, Information

C. Upgrade Paths

D. Field Advisories

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+0) When creating the Sizer Scenario in Automatic Mode, how can the systems engineer accomplish this?

A. Customize the CPU threshold in the scenario's sizing options.

B. Use Customize to increase the CPU Core count until the CPU utilization is 80%

C. Select a higher-end processor when defining the workload.

D. Modify the solution by adding compute only nodes to the cluster

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?

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 thin provisioned disks. Based on additional data. the total active working set for the cluster has been datermined to be 1TB. When entering the Raw input workload into Sizer, what is the minimum amount of HDD Capacity required for the workload? ??

A. 3.0TiB

B. 3.5TiB

C. 4.0TiB

D. 7.5TIB

prospect uses Vmware, Oracle, and Microsoft products for a critical application. 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?

A. AHV

B. Hyper-V support

C. ABS

D. All flash nodes

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.