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Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core 6.8) Questions and Answers

Question 1

An SE is meeting with a prospect that is refreshing infrastructure in 100 retail locations. Currently the stores use vSphere hosts connected to direct attached storage and are managed by 6 separate vCenter servers. On-site retail staff is unqualified to deal with any hardware break/fix issues.

Which two aspects of Nutanix solution should the SE highlight? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

Self-healing infrastructure.

B.

Data Locality.

C.

Prism Central.

D.

Cloud Connect.

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Question 2

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

Options:

A.

Environments use Network Address Translation.

B.

Prism Elements and Prism Central art in different subnets.

C.

Environments do not have Internet access.

D.

Prism Elements and Prism Central have proxy configured.

E.

Environments use the 192.168.5.0/24 CVM management network.

Question 3

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?

Options:

A.

3

B.

4

C.

5

D.

6

Question 4

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

Options:

A.

Use of redundant hypervisor boot-drives

B.

Support for all-flash or NVMe platforms

C.

Leveraging a replication-factor of 3

D.

Distribution of rebuild tasks across all nodes

Question 5

An existing customer is considering deploying a new Splunk project onto their Nutanix infrastructure. The customer inquires about potential storage capacity saving for their splunk workload.

Which two Nutanix capacity optimization features should the SE recommend? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

Erasure coding.

B.

Post-process compression.

C.

Inline compression.

D.

Capacity tier de-duplication.

Question 6

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 7

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?

Options:

A.

AHV

B.

Hyper-V support

C.

ABS

D.

All flash nodes

Question 8

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 9

Oracle HCL for Certified Joint Support with Nutanix has Oracle Linux and Oracle VM via iSCSI listed.

What Nutanix feature is used by this certified configuration?

Options:

A.

OSS

B.

AFS

C.

ACS

D.

ABS

Question 10

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?

Options:

A.

RAW SSD storage (in TiB)

B.

RAW HDD storage (in TiB)

C.

RAM (in TiB)

D.

RAW total storage (in TiB)

Question 11

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

Options:

A.

Visit the nutanix.com website

B.

Open Prism Element > Gear icon Menu > Field Advisories

C.

Visit the Portal.nutanix.com website > Documentation Tab > Security Advisories

D.

Register for Field Advisory email notifications

Question 12

Refer to Exhibit:

An administrator logs in to Prism and sees the status shown in the exhibit within the

Hardware Diagram section.

What should the administrator do?

Options:

A.

Reseat all disk immediately. If this does not help, reseat the nodes.

B.

Check status of applications running on the cluster and call support.

C.

Resolve all alerts and re-import the disks to make sure there is no service disruption.

D.

Restart all CVMs for the cluster to check, confirm health and repartition and add the disks.

Question 13

When using Nutanix Sizer, which solution does the Automatic sizing option provide?

Options:

A.

The lowest cost solution that meets the provided requirements

B.

A solution that balances cost and performance, plus a default 25% growth capacity

C.

The highest performance solution that meets the provided requirements

D.

A solution that meets provided requirements, plus a default 25% growth capacity

Question 14

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 maintenance or disaster without impacting desktop availability. What is the minimum number of nodes necessary to meet the customer's requirements?

Options:

A.

13

B.

26

C.

52

D.

104

Question 15

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 Nutanix feature will help to mitigate the desktop boot times?

Options:

A.

Shadow Clones

B.

Performance Tier De-duplication

C.

Content Based Read Cache

D.

View Acceleration Array Intergration''

Question 16

A customer needs to expand an existing cluster to accommodate workloads. The workloads require 5TB of storage capacity (1.2TB of working set data), 64GB of memory, and 10 physical CPU cores. Their current cluster is configured as follows:

• 4x NX-3060-G5 nodes

• Each node is configured with 2x E5-2620v4 processors (8 Cores each), 128GB RAM, 2x 960GB SSDs, and 4x 2TB HDDs

• The cluster is configured as RF2 and is sized for N+1 availability

• Each CVM is configured with 32GB of memory

To maintain optimal metadata balance and data availability, which configuration should be recommended?

Options:

A.

2x NX-3060-G5 - 2x E5-2620v4 processors, 128GB RAM, 2x 960GB SSDs, 4x 2TB HDDs

B.

1x NX-6035C-G5 - 2x E5-2620v4 processors, 128GB RAM, 1x 1920GB SSDs, 5x 4TB HDDs

C.

1x NX-3060-G5 - 2x E5-2620v4 processors, 128GB RAM, 2x 1920GB SSDs, 4x 2TB HDDs

D.

3x NX-1065-G5 - 2x E5-2620v4 processors, 128GB RAM, 1x 1920GB SSDs, 2x 4TB HDDs

Question 17

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 briefing with Cisco and was impressed by the vision presented.

Management is pushing the arching the architecture tea to adopt Cisco as their HCI standard based on a beief that Nutanix is not a major player.

Which resource should an SE highlight?

Options:

A.

Garther magic Quadrant

B.

ESG Performance Analysis

C.

Net Promoter Score

D.

Reference architectures

Question 18

Which two statements are true regarding SAP?

Options:

A.

Nutanix is a SAP Global Technology Partner.

B.

SAP is certified on Nutanix NX, Lenovo HX and Dell XC hardware.

C.

SAP Sybase DB is only supported on IBM Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix.

D.

Due to SAP certification requirements, no Nutanix SAP reference architectures are available.

Question 19

A customer wants to decrease costs and increase efficiency by eliminating NAS silos and adopting a cloud-like mindset. Which Nutanix product meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Nutanix Calm

B.

Nutanix Xi Frame

C.

Nutanix Files

D.

Nutanix Beam

Question 20

An SE is performing workload discovery with an SMB prospect running SQL Server. The databases is less than 1 TB, but its performance and uptime are critical to the prospect's business operations. Sizer sugests using 1065S nodes.

Which aspects of the NX-1065S-G5 would cause an SE to filter out that nodel from Sizer's Automatic configuration? (choose

two.)

Options:

A.

Single Power Supply

B.

Limited to 4 nodes

C.

1Gb Networking

D.

Single HDD

E.

Single Socket Processor

Question 21

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 three remote sites that will be refreshed within the next year. Each site needs to replicate to their many datacenter. The SE proposes the Nutanix NX line, and the prospect asks to utilize the Xpress line.

For which reason is the Xpress line the wrong choice? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

SX is limited to two 4-node clusters.

B.

SX has a lower services cost for installation.

C.

SX is limited to one 4-node cluster.

D.

SX licensing does not support cluster-to-cluster replication

E.

SX licensing will not support many-to-many- cluster replication

Question 22

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)

Options:

A.

System availability issues

B.

SQL Server performance issues

C.

""Shadow IT"" that increases the risk of security breaches and brand damage

D.

Slow response time from the infrastructure group (SLAs) that could result in product release delays

E.

significantly degraded end user experience

Question 23

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?

Options:

A.

2880

B.

3080

C.

5000

D.

5500

Question 24

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 individual racks in their datacenter Their current solution consists of two NX-3460-G7 blocks and a single NX-3160-G7 block placed in a single rack. what should the systems engineer recommend to this customer ?

Options:

A.

Buy three additional NX-3060 Upgrade nodes and place them into the NX-3160 block Enable Rack Awareness

B.

Move on node from each NX=3460 block over to the NX-3160 blocks. Enable Block Awareness

C.

Move on node from each NX-3460 into the NX-3160 block. Spread the blocks over three racks and enable Rack Awareness

D.

Buy on additional node and place it, into the NX-3160 block. Spread the blocks over three racks. Enable Rack Awareness.

Question 25

An SE is building a solution for 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 Acropolis Pro License.

B.

Self-Encrypting Drives.

C.

A supported Key Management Server.

D.

Nutanix Prism Pro Licensing.

E.

Nutanix Software encryption.

Question 26

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 of backups. The prospect's data change rate is 1%. How should the SE configure the SE configure Sizer for this scenario? ????

Options:

A.

Yes

B.

Mine

C.

Veeam

D.

Async

E.

HYCU

Question 27

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 28

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.)

Options:

A.

What are the retention requirements?

B.

How much data needs to be replicated?

C.

What OS will be deployed on the server VMs?

D.

What is the WAN speed and latency between source and target sites?

E.

Will Prism Pro be licensed for each cluster?

Question 29

Which method can be used to migrate a VM configured for UEFI-boot from a Nutanix Hyper-V cluster to AHV?

Options:

A.

Live Migration

B.

Storage vMotion

C.

Nutanix Move

D.

Cloud Connect

Question 30

When configuring Prism Central, which two log modules are able to forward messages to an external syslog server? (Choose two.

Options:

A.

API Audit

B.

Flow

C.

DNS

D.

NTP Synchronization

Question 31

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 32

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 place with the prospect before moving forward with a POC?

Options:

A.

Start date of the POC

B.

Defined and measurable success criteria

C.

Meeting frequency

D.

Number of Nodes/Block to be used during the POC

Question 33

An administrator is managing a highly active SQL workload that is writing I/Os in 2 MB chunks to a vDisk. The administrator wants to optimize capacity setting for the computer.

Which storage optimization technology should the administration select to meet these requirement?

Options:

A.

Erasure Coding

B.

Compression

C.

Capacity Deduplication

D.

Cache Deduplication

Question 34

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 only running at 40% utilization. In addition, they have 25 satelite offices.

Each office has a requirement to run 4 to 6 VMs locally.

Which two Nutanix platform capabilities should the SE hlight to address the prospects concerns? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

Multi-site management

B.

Pay as you grow

C.

Automated data storage tiering

D.

Software only

E.

Single node backup

Question 35

Refer to the exhibit.

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?

Options:

A.

2:1

B.

3:1

C.

4:1

D.

5:1

Question 36

An administrator is deploying several new application VMs to a Nutanix Cluster. The application is very transactional with a 28/72 random, read/write ratio. What should the administrator do?

Options:

A.

Add one large SSD to each node and enable Flash Mode for the VMs.

B.

Add a minimum of four virtual disks to each VM and aggregate them on guest OS level.

C.

Add a minimum of four SSDs to each node to ensure all write go to the SSDs.

D.

Add one large virtual disk to each VM and use it for all application data.

Question 37

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 38

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 does Nutanix AOS ensure data integrity during the upgrade?

Options:

A.

AOS marks the replica as read only and waits until the original replica is back online to prevent corruption.

B.

AOS writes two copies across the remaining nodes to maintain resiliency

C.

AOS leverages Erasure Coding to maintain resiliency.

D.

AOS only overwrite the available copy and waits until the original copy is back online before restoring resiliency

Question 39

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 40

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 41

A guest VM should be able to tolerate simultaneous failure of two nodes or drives.

What are the minimum requirements for the Nutanix cluster?

Options:

A.

3 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 3

B.

3 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 2

C.

5 nodes with cluster RF 2 and container RF 3

D.

5 nodes with cluster RF 3 and container RF 3

Question 42

Which option should be recommended for a customer to get timely notification of significant product issues in the field.

Options:

A.

Visit the Nutanix.com website.

B.

Open Prism Element > Gear Icon Menu > Field Advisories.

C.

Visit the portal.nutanix.com website > Documentation tab > Security Advisories.

D.

Register for Field Advisories email notifications.

Question 43

An administrator needs to make sure an RF2 cluster can survive a complete rack failure without negatively effecting workload performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:

• 30 nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U rack

• Each nodes is configured with 40TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 1.2 PB Usable)

• Current cluster utilization is 900TB storage

Which configuration changes should be made to make sure that the cluster meets the requirements?

Options:

A.

Expanse the cluster by adding 3 additional nodes per rack, 9 nodes total.

B.

Expanse the cluster by adding 2 additional nodes per rack, 6 nodes total.

C.

Expanse the cluster by adding 9 nodes to a new 42U rack

D.

Expanse the cluster by adding 8 nodes to a new 42U rack

Question 44

30. A healthcare prospect looking to refresh their infrastructure with Nutanix has an initiative to migrate 5 Petabytes of unstructured, archived patient data. Which Nutanix product should be the focus of the discussion?

Options:

A.

Mine

B.

Files

C.

Volumes

D.

Objects

Question 45

In which scenario should shadow clones be explicitly disabled?

Options:

A.

when deploying Horizon View virtual desktops

B.

when deploying Splunk

C.

when deploying an Oracle RAC database

D.

when deploying Citrix virtual desktops

Question 46

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)

Options:

A.

AHV Turbo Mode

B.

Data Locality

C.

Automatic Data Tiering

D.

Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler

Question 47

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 48

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 49

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 50

A customer who uses Nutanix for mission critical workloads is considering migrating public cloud workloads to Nutanix. The customer has experienced difficulty auditing where applications reside and understanding cloud costs on a per application basis.

Which Nutanix product should be discussed to address the customer'sneeds?

Options:

A.

Xi

B.

Beam

C.

Calm

D.

Prism Pro

Question 51

Write I/O that is deemed sequential will enter which component of the Distributed Storage Fabric first?

Options:

A.

Oplog

B.

Extent store

C.

Cache

D.

Metadata Ring

Question 52

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, manage, and grow.

Which two test plan items should the SE map to POC success criteria?

(Choose two)

Options:

A.

Deploy HCIbench to determine maximum IOPS.

B.

Deploy Calm to automate application deployment.

C.

Expand the cluster by adding an additional node.

D.

Use a single interface to manage and monitor the full stack.

E.

Enable all data efficiency settings.

Question 53

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 prospect first?

Options:

A.

Are you considering other solutions?

B.

What do you plan to evaluate?

C.

Is this project budgeted?

D.

Which version of Splunk are you running?

Question 54

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 storage performance. The POC results will be presented to the CIO.

How can this be achieved with the least room for error?

Options:

A.

Use X-Ray to generate a single workload and VDbench for the secondary workload.

B.

Use X-Ray with the included scenarios and deliver the X-Ray PDF report.

C.

Use iOmeter and manually power off the nodes.

D.

Use HCI Bench, manually power off the nodes during testing, and export Prism Analysis data.

Question 55

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)

Options:

A.

Pro with the Encryption SKU

B.

Ultimate

C.

Pro

D.

Starter with the Encryption SKU

Question 56

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 57

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

Options:

A.

One-Click Infrastructure Management

B.

Rapid time to value

C.

Highest performance across all workload types

D.

Lowest initial cost than a comparable competitive HCI or 3-tier solution

Question 58

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

Options:

A.

6x NX-8055-G7 (2 x 7.68TB SSD + 10x 6TB HDD per node)

B.

4x NX-1075S-G7 (4x 3.85TB SSDs per node) + 4x NX-8035-G7 (6x 3.84TB SSD per node)

C.

3x NX-3060-G7 (2x 1920GB SSDs per node) + 3x NX-10755-G7 (4x 3.84TB SSDs per node)

D.

6x NX-3060-G7 (6x 1920GB SSDs per node)

Question 59

A customer plans to migrate a business critical, high transaction application to nutanix. Currently the application is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12 CPU cores at > 80% utilization. To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the systems engineer recommend for this workload?

Options:

A.

CPUs (16 Cores each @ 2.8GHz), 32 Cores total

B.

CPUs (8 Cores each @ 1.8Ghz), 16 Cores total

C.

CPUs (10 Cores each @ 3.4Ghz), 20 Cores total

D.

CPUs (8 Cores each @ 2.1Ghz), 16 Cores total

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