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Nutanix NCSE Level 1 Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer (NCSE): Level 1 Online Training

Question #1

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?

  • A . Nutanix Bible.
  • B . Knowledge Base Articles.
  • C . Case Studies.
  • D . Best Practices Guide.

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Correct Answer: D
Question #2

During a sales motion with a new prospect, the prospect and SE agree to evaluate Nutanix and a computing platform using XRay.

The prospect is currently using 3-tier architecture and considering Nutanix and HPE Simplivity.

Which two details must be discussed with the prospect before the POC starts? (Choose two)

  • A . Model of Fibre Channel switch
  • B . Gather details of customer’s existing 3-tier hardware
  • C . ldentify appropriate POC hardware
  • D . A test plan with agreed upon success criteria
  • E . What type of external storage will be connected

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Correct Answer: C,D
Question #3

An SE is in the discovery phase with a new customer. The customer is frustrated with the lack of transparency into their environment with the current monitoring tools. The customer has difficulty correlating the degradation of the end user experience with point-in-time events.

Which Prism feature should the SE demonstrate to show relevant value?

  • A . Analysis page with custom charts and event reporting
  • B . A specific virtual machine’s Performance Summary
  • C . Event tab on the Alerts page
  • D . A specific virtual machine’s virtual disk Additional Stats

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Correct Answer: A
Question #4

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

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Correct Answer: C
Question #5

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)

  • A . Snapshots
  • B . Data Locality
  • C . De-duplication
  • D . Erasure Coding
  • E . All Flash Nodes

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Correct Answer: B,D
Question #6

Refer to the exhibit.

***Exhibit is Missing***

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

  • A . FTT1
  • B . N+0
  • C . N+1
  • D . N+2

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Correct Answer: D
Question #7

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?

  • A . Garther magic Quadrant
  • B . ESG Performance Analysis
  • C . Net Promoter Score
  • D . Reference architectures

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Correct Answer: A
Question #8

Refer to the exhibit.

Using the Sizing Options shown, which two configurations are valid when using Sizer in Automatic mode? (Choose two.)

  • A . 6x NX-3060-G6 (6x 1920GB SSDs per node)
  • B . 4x NX-1065-G5 (3x 3840GB SSDs per node) + 4x NX-6035CG5(6x3840GB SSD per node)
  • C . 6x NX-8150-G5 (4x 1920GB SSD + 20x 2TB HDD per node)
  • D . 3x NX-3060-G5 (2x 1920GB SSD per node) + 3x NX-3055G (4x960GBSSD per node)
  • E . 6x NX-165S-G5 (3x 48GB SSD per node)

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Correct Answer: A,D
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?

  • A . OSS
  • B . AFS
  • C . ACS
  • D . ABS

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Correct Answer: D
Question #10

A prospect’s storage administrator is concerned about deploying Nutanix for their vSphere server virtualization environment due to anticipated increases to data retention for compliance purposes and associated costs.

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

  • A . Linear scalability by adding more nodes
  • B . Acropolis Block Services
  • C . Adding Storage Only nodes
  • D . Extending storage container with existing SAN storage

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Correct Answer: B

Question #11

An SE is conducting a first call presentation with their Account Executive and a prospect. The prospect needs to build a private cloud but has been unable to implement the solution in-house, since using their traditional architecture would require integrating server, storage and networking solutions from six different vendors.

The cost and complexity of that approach is too high. Also their current infrastructure is not built for scalability or performance.

The prospect has considered upgrading their traditional server and SAN storage platforms but could not meet requirements for scale and performance using this approach.

In what order should the SE present the critical product and technology portions of the First Customer Presentation to the IT Director?

  • A . Native convergence of traditional infrastructure.
    Scalable distributed system.
    Data locality and distributed data.
    Application automation with Calm.
    Xi Cloud Services.
  • B . Application automation with Calm.
    Xi Cloud Services.
    Native convergence of traditional infrastructure.
    Scalable distributed system.
    Data locality and distributed data.
  • C . Xi Cloud Services.
    Application automation with Calm.
    Native convergence of traditional infrastructure.
    Scalable distributed system.
    Data locality and distributed data.
  • D . Data locality and distributed data.
    Scalable distributed system.
    Native convergence of traditional infrastructure.
    Xi Cloud Services.
    Application automation with Calm.

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Correct Answer: D
Question #12

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?

  • A . Best Practice Guide
  • B . Reference Architecture
  • C . Filed Advisory
  • D . Knowledge Base Article

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Correct Answer: B
Question #13

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?

  • A . 2:1
  • B . 3:1
  • C . 4:1
  • D . 5:1

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Correct Answer: C
Question #14

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)

  • A . Self-healing infrastructure.
  • B . Data Locality.
  • C . Prism Central.
  • D . Cloud Connect.

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Correct Answer: A,C
Question #14

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)

  • A . Self-healing infrastructure.
  • B . Data Locality.
  • C . Prism Central.
  • D . Cloud Connect.

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Correct Answer: A,C
Question #16

Multi-hypervisor Support

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Correct Answer: A,C
Question #17

Refer to the exhibit.

Assuming a prospect is currently using Thick Provisioned virtual disk, at a minimum, which two tabs should be evaluated in an RVTools report to determine required resources for sizing? (Choose two.)

  • A . vInfo
  • B . vNetwork
  • C . vPartition
  • D . vCluster
  • E . vDisk

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Correct Answer: A,C
Question #18

A prospects need to refresh their environment but has a very small budget for the project. Four years after their last infrastructure refresh, the prospect’s datacenter is only running at 40% utilization. In addition, they have 25 satellite offices. Each office has a requirement to run 4 to 6 VM’s locally.

Which two Nutanix platform capabilities should the SE highlight to address the prospect’s concerns? (Choose two)

  • A . Multi-Site Management.
  • B . Pay as you grow.
  • C . Automated data storage tiering.
  • D . Software only.
  • E . Single node backup.

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Correct Answer: A,B
Question #19

When sizing for Splunk, the customer states the daily ingest rate is 500GB and they are currently using Search Factor 2 and Splunk Replication Factor 2.

Which two additional input are required by Sizer? (Choose two)

  • A . Data Retention
  • B . Network Bandwidth
  • C . Number of Events
  • D . Number of Datastores
  • E . Concurrent Search Users

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Correct Answer: A,E
Question #20

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?

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Correct Answer: A

Question #21

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)

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Correct Answer: C
Question #22

A Nutanix customer needs to migrate 1000VMs from ACME Public Cloud to a local Nutanix cluster ACME Public Cloud operates on VMware ESXi, Hp ProLiant Servers with 3PAR storage. ACME Public Cloud denies customers access to vCenter or ESXi hosts But they do replicate a copy of the virtual disks to external storage.

Which method should the customer use to migrate the VMs to a local Nutanix Cluster?

  • A . Use Xtract for VMs to migrate VMs from ACME Public Cloud vCenter to local Nutanix cluster.
  • B . Deploy Nutanix Community Edition in ACME Public Cloud and replicate VMs to local Nutanix cluster.
  • C . Use Calm to automate and orchestrate deployment on the local Nutanix cluster.
  • D . Use the latest copy of VMs on external storage to import on the local Nutanix cluster

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Correct Answer: D
Question #23

A customer is asking for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an ERP application containing a 500GB database. The customer has a VSAN ReadyNode quote already and looking for a comparable Nutanix solution.

They share the following specifications

3 hosts

2 x E5-2640v4 CPU

512GB RAM

1 x 480GB SSD

2 x 8TB HDD

2 x 1GB NIC

Which two aspects of the requested configuration should cause concern and need for further discovery? (Choose two.)

  • A . 2 x E5-2640v4 CPU
  • B . 512GB RAM
  • C . 1 x 480GB SSD
  • D . 2 x 8TB HDD
  • E . 2 x 1GB NIC

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Correct Answer: C,E
Question #24

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 . 2880
  • B . 3080
  • C . 5000
  • D . 5500

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Correct Answer: B
Question #25

An SE and a prospect decide on a specific node configuration. The SE changes the Sizer scenario from Automatic to manual mode to select the exact configuration decided with the prospect.

What additional detail should the SE now consider in the Sizing scenario?

  • A . Curator Capacity.
  • B . Block Awareness.
  • C . N + 1 availability.
  • D . CVM Memory overhead.

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Correct Answer: C
Question #26

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?

  • 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

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Correct Answer: A
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