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Nutanix NCSE-Core Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core 6.8) Exam Practice Test

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Question 1

An SE builds a sizer scenario for a prospect's remote site running on an NX-1365S-G5.

Using only the sizer BOM. which two actions can be performed? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Review budgetary pricing

B.

Review workload sizing details

C.

Review power consumption requirements

D.

Review applicable discounts from deal registration

E.

Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration

Question 2

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 3

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 4

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 remain on a host during an AOS upgrade?

Options:

A.

CVM Autopathing

B.

RF3

C.

Data Locality

D.

Shadow Clones

Question 5

Refer to Exhibit.

When entering a Raw Input workload into Sizer, what amount of RAM should be used for the entire workload?

Options:

A.

32GB

B.

42GB

C.

48GB

D.

64GB

Question 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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?

Options:

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

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

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

Options:

A.

Elimination of siloed storage with file, block and object storage in a single platform

B.

IT complexity with outdated infrastructure, processes, and skill sets in silos

C.

Ability to avoid generational infrastructure silos using modem life cycle management

D.

Tedious sizing of compute and storage requirements

Question 12

Which website acts as a single gateway for all Nutanix deal registrations, forums, software downloads, product documentation product alerts and support interactions?

Options:

A.

my.nutanix.com

B.

nutanixbible.com

C.

support.nutanix.com

D.

portal.nutanix.com

Question 13

Which functionality allows workloads to continue to run on the host when as AOS upgrade occurs?

Options:

A.

Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler

B.

High Availability

C.

CVM Autopathing

D.

Autonomous Extent Store

Question 14

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 15

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 16

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 17

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 18

A customer plans to migrate a business critical,highly tranactional SQL Server database to Nutanix Currently the databases is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12CPU cores at > 80% utilization To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the SE recommend for this workload?

Options:

A.

Intel E5 2680v4 (14 cores each @ 2.4GHZ, 28 Cores total)

B.

Intel E5 2620v4 ( 8 cores each @ 2.1GHZ, 16 Cores total)

C.

Intel E5 2643v4 ( 6 cores each @ 3.4GHZ, 12 Cores total)

D.

Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total)

Question 19

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 20

An SE builds a Sizer scenario for SQL server running on Cisco C240 M4 servers.

Using only the Sizer BOM, which two actions can be performed? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

Reference the HCL for additional SKU’s relevant to the configuration.

B.

Review budgetary pricing.

C.

Review workload sizing details.

D.

Build a complete BOM in Cisco commerce Workspace (CCW)

Question 21

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 22

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 23

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 24

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. Which two Nutanix features should an SE discuss with this prospect to address their disk performance issues? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

Snapshots

B.

Data Locality

C.

De-duplication

D.

Erasure Coding

E.

All Flash Nodes

Question 25

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

Options:

A.

Workloads are multi-threaded

B.

VMs have one vCPU configured

C.

VMs have multi-queue disable

D.

VMs have more than one vCPU

Question 26

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 27

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 28

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 29

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 30

With in RVtools output, which tab provides actual utilization information on thick provisioned disk?

Options:

A.

vInfo

B.

vPartition

C.

vCenter

D.

vDisk

Question 31

A customer has a 3-node cluster configured for RF2 with 100TB of raw disk space. The customer wants to enable Erasure Coding to gain additional usable space. What change will allow EC-X to be enabled?

Options:

A.

Add 1 node to the cluster

B.

Add an additional 30TB to the existing cluster

C.

Increase the size of the default storage pool

D.

No changes are required

Question 32

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? ??

Options:

A.

3.0TiB

B.

3.5TiB

C.

4.0TiB

D.

7.5TIB

Question 33

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

Options:

A.

Data Locality

B.

Time Stream

C.

Shadow Clones

D.

Copy on First Write

Question 34

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

Options:

A.

Health

B.

Alerts

C.

Hardware

D.

Analysis

Question 35

Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV?

Options:

A.

MAP

B.

Collector

C.

AWR

D.

RVTools

Question 36

An SE needs to leverage Change Block Tracking when using Xtract to migrate VMs from ESXi to AHV.

Which two source VM requirements should the SE verify? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

Minimum guest OS version

B.

VMware Tools installed

C.

Virtual hardware version

D.

Nutanix Guest Tools installed.

Question 37

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?

Options:

A.

Data at Rest Encryption (Software)

B.

Two-factor Authentication

C.

Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA)

D.

Factory-installed self-encryption drives (SED)

Question 38

An administrator protected a DB VM running on a Nutanix cluster with NearSync Replication, which schedules to repeat every 15 minutes to a second site. The daily change rate is low. During nightly backup, the replication windows is missed due to write volume. Which two options describe the expected behaviour? (choose two)

Options:

A.

The administrator needs to re-enable it manually

B.

Protection Domain transitions back to hourly schedule.

C.

NearSync stops working and fails over to the remote site.

D.

The system continuously tries to get to the NearSync schedule.

Question 39

Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?

Options:

A.

Cloud Connect

B.

Controller VM

C.

Prism Element

D.

Prism Central

Question 40

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 requires the customer to order three additional NX-3060-G7 nodes with Intel Cascade Lake processors. Which supported approach allows the customer the most efficient use of their additional resources?

Options:

A.

Create a new cluster using a new block populated by the three additional nodes.

B.

Expand the cluster by fully populating the existing blocks, and adding a new block populated with two nodes

C.

Expand the cluster by fully populating the existing blocks with the three additional nodes

D.

Expand the existing cluster by adding a new block populated with the three additional nodes

Question 41

Which two Citrix desktop creation capabilities are supported on Nutanix AHV? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

Provisioning Service

B.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

C.

Composer

D.

Machine Creation Services

E.

Desktop Delivery Controller

Question 42

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 43

An SE determines a POC is necessary for a prospect that has struggled with application downtime due to hypervisor and firmware upgrades that have exceeded planned maintenance windows. The prospect has also struggled with infrastructure resource planning for their growing development environment.

Which two success criteria should the SE include? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

The solution provides integrated reporting on resource utilization trends.

B.

The solution provides automated upgrades without downtime or performance impact.

C.

The solution can accelerate VM provisioning through REST APIs.

D.

The solution supports provisioning new storage in less than 15 minutes.

Question 44

A prospect is concerned about the suitability and design of using Nutanix for an upcoming Avaya IP Office migration.

Which type of document should the SE provide?

Options:

A.

Best Practice Guide

B.

Reference Architecture

C.

Filed Advisory

D.

Knowledge Base Article

Question 45

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?

Options:

A.

Data on adjacent nodes will be localized.

B.

VM data will remain as originally written and reads will occur across the network.

C.

Active VM data will be localized

D.

All VM data will be simultaneously migrated as part of the VM migration.

Question 46

Which function does the Curator service perform?

Options:

A.

Schedules snapshots

B.

Start and stops other cluster services

C.

Stores cluster configuration

D.

Distributes storage optimization tasks

Question 47

A prospect discloses they have had multiple instances of unplanned downtime in the last 3 months due to server hardware failures. The team has been through multiple reorganizations in support of a struggling cloud migration project. As a result, cummunication whithin the team has suffered and some notifications from their SNMP based monitoring solution have been ignored.

Which Nutanix feature should the SE highlight?

Options:

A.

Pulse

B.

Insights

C.

Prism

D.

Watchtower

Question 48

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 platform management and not application or benchmark performance.

Which approach should an SE recommend?

Options:

A.

Nutanix NX POC

B.

Nutanix community Edition

C.

Nutanix Go

D.

Nutanix Test Drive

Question 49

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

Options:

A.

The indicator shows the worst resiliency level of any cluster in the scenario

B.

N+0, if the RAM utilization for all cluster in the scenario.

C.

The indicator shows the best resiliency level of any cluster in the scenario

D.

N+0, if the CPU utilization for all clusters falls below N+1 resiliency.

Question 50

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?

Options:

A.

Compatibility Matrix

B.

EOL, Information

C.

Upgrade© Paths

D.

Field Advisories

Question 51

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 52

An online retailer currently support over 200 separate PostgreSQL database instances, often with more than 10 copies of each individual database. Their Database Administrators have scripted much of the deploymentprocess for creating dev/test copies, but their infrastructure team struggles to keep up with storage capacity demands. Which Nutanix product should the systems engineer position ?

Options:

A.

Beam

B.

Karbon

C.

Calm

D.

Era

Question 53

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

Which Nutanix feature addresses this pain point?

Options:

A.

AHV-Turbo Mode

B.

Data Locality

C.

Shadow Clones

D.

Persistent Op-log

Question 54

How should an administrator correct an SSL error when connecting to a Nutanix cluster?

Options:

A.

Add the SSL certificate to the workstation’s trusted people store

B.

Create a new self-signed certificate for the cluster with a 4096 bit key

C.

Create a new SSL certificate for the cluster signed by an AD certificate authority

D.

Add the SSL certificate to an AD group policy applied to all computer objects

Question 55

An 8-node hybrid cluster is configured with a Fault Tolerance level of 2 (RF3). All nodes are identical. Which simultaneous failures will result in VM data being unavailable?

Options:

A.

Two HDD failures on one node and a single SSD failure on another node

B.

Single SSD failure on one node and a single SSD failure on another node

C.

SSD failures on two nodes and a CVM powered off on another.

D.

CVM being powered off on one node and two HDD failures on another node.

Question 56

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 hybrid SAN over 10G iSCSI. The hosts each have 256G RAM and 2 Broadwell 2.8Ghz 12 core processors. The largest database VM is configured with 64G of memory. Some databases are fairly old and single threaded Current performance is deemed acceptable. Which configuration component is most important to maintain the customer experience on a new Nutanix cluster and minimize costs ?

Options:

A.

Make sure the cluster uses 25G nics to speed up the network

B.

Make sure the cluster uses similar speed processors regardless of generation

C.

Make sure the cluster uses 512G per host to protect NUMA boundaries.

D.

Make sure the cluster is all flash to speed up data access.

Question 57

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 58

Which three settings are required for network switch discovery in Prism? (Choose Three)

Options:

A.

Switch Management IP Address

B.

AHV Host IP address

C.

Cluster CVM IP address

D.

SMTP Server IP address

E.

SNMP Community Name

Question 59

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''

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