Nutanix NCSE Core Online Free Questions

11. In Files, how many FSVMs are deployed by default?

12. 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?

13. In which scenario should shadow clones be explicitly disabled?

14. 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

15. 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?

16. 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.)

17. 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?

18. 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?

19. 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?

20. 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?

21. 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?

22. A custormer's database administrator is concerned about restoring data locality for their VMs after they migrate during an AHV upgrade.

Which feature that addresses the issue should the systems engineer highlight? (Choose Two)

23. A prospective customer asks about failure handing. They have heard all HCI is the same and want to know what happens if 2 nodes fail within 1 hour of each other.

If there is capacity in the cluster, how will this failure scenario be handled?

24. A customer has successfully deployed Citrix XenDesktop on Nutanix, They value the product but view Nutanix as a VDI appliance. The customer mentions a cloud initiative.

Which open-ended discovery question should the SE ask to start a conversation about expanding beyond VDI workloads?

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

What are the minimum requirements for the Nutanix cluster?

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

27. What is an important consideration when using RVTools output for sizing a solution?

28. A prospect is seeking a Nutanix solution for a mission critical application that needs to sustain two simultaneous node outages and prefers that the cluster be able to fully rebuild both data and metadata in the event hardware issues.

What is the minimum number of nodes required for the cluster?

29. A customer has a requirement to run a single instance Oracle Database VM on AHV that is driving over 250,000 IOPs.

Which AOS feature should be positioned to deliver the highest level of performance?

30. 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?

31. 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?

32. A systems engineer is creating a configuration in Sizer for a customer that is building an app for use as an ebooks repository The app requires the following two workloads : 1. 50 generic web server VMs, each with 2 vCPUs on a 4:1 vCPU ratio, 8 GB of RAM, and 100GB of storage each 2. A fileserver workload with 80TB of usable storage available, which contains mostly PDF's and pre-compressed data Any reduction in performance of the web servers must be avoided. After entering the workload with default options, the Sizer outputs the configuration shown in the exhibit.

Which adjustment does the systems engineer need to make to the scenario to meet the performance requirements?

33. A prospect is replacing a 3-tier virtualization infrastructure made up of several ESXi hosts and a SAN. The prospect recently bought a new 4-socket server to host their SQL server workload which uses the same SAN.

Which feature allows the prospect to continue using their new server without buying another SAN?

34. 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?

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

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?

37. 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)

38. From Which page on portal.nutanix.com can an open case be directly escalated?

39. 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)

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

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

42. 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?

43. 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.)

44. An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issue. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue.

Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

45. 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?

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)

47. An administrator needs to relocate an AHV cluster to a new datacenter during a maintenance windows. The cluster will use the same IPs in the new datacenter.

Which two steps should be taken to prepare for this task? (Choose Two)

48. 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?

49. AN SE determines that a POC is necessary to overcome competitive FUD in an opportunity with an Enterprise account evaluating several HCI solutions. The customer will evaluate three solutions in their datacenter simultaneously over the course of 4 days.

The customer schedules all necessary personnel to be available during this time.

Which two network planning items should the SE determine prior to allocation hardware for the POC? (Choose two)

50. 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)

51. 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?

52. 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)

53. 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?

54. 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.)

55. Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?

56. 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?

57. 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%?

58. What are two things that the ADS service does for VMs within AHV? (Choose two.)

59. 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)

60. 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?

61. 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)

62. 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)

63. Which type of data is distributed by Zookeeper to ensure availability in the case of node or block failure?

64. A customer needs to increase availability in their Nutanix environment by enabling rack awareness. The current configuration consists of: 1 RF2 cluster consisting of 7 identical NX-3170 1U nodes, All Storage efficiencies are disabled.

Which two changes should the systems engineer propose to meet the customer requirements? (Choose two)

65. 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.)

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

67. 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)

68. Which two VMs require further data analysis to accurately size resources? (Choose two) ??

69. A two-node ROBO cluster is configured with a witness VM.





What happens when Node A goes down?

70. 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?

71. 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?

72. Multi-hypervisor Support

73. 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?

74. An administrator is migrating ESXi VMs to a Nutanix AHV cluster. The VM data is available to the AHV system.

Which process must the administrator complete below AHV VMs can be create?

75. A prospect is evaluating Nutanix for a large number of Oracle RAC deployments. Time to deployment is a top priority, and the prospect has developed a self-service tool in-house to expedite these deployments.

Which Nutanix feature should be discussed?

76. Refer to Exhibit.





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

77. Refer to the exhibit.

In Sizer, in which two ways can an SE accommodate a specific number of physical host-based software licenses that a customer has available for a project? (Choose two)

78. 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?

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

80. A prospect that is currently virtualized using Dell servers is willing to provide a Live Optics report to assist with sizing a partial infrastructure refresh with Nutanix.

Which two items from an approach for sampling accurate sizing data with Live Optics? (Choose one)

81. An SE is using the output from RVTools to size the storage capacity for a Nutanix Cluster.

Which value most closely resembles the minimum required storage capacity that should be entered for the aggregate workload in sizer?

82. A prospect is seeking a Nutanix solution for a mission critical application that needs to sustain two simultaneous node outages and prefers that the cluster be able to fully rebuild both data and metadata in the event hardware issues.

What is the minimum number of nodes required for the cluster?

83. A prospect is evaluating solutions to support a project. The SE proposes a hybrid model as recommended by size in addition to nutanix, the prospect is evaluating an all flash storage array. The storage administrator is concerned about the performance the hybrid configuration and claims that the flash array is less expensive the it Director sees the benefits of Nutanix but needs to address the team's concerns.

Which two Nutanix features should be discussed to address the concems of the storage administrator? (Choose two)

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

85. 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?

86. An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issue. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue.

Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

87. 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.)

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

89. 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.)

90. An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance.

Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance?

91. 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?

92. 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)

93. A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backup up to a remote location. The remote location is connection using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms.

Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest PRO possible?

94. 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.)

95. A VOI 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.)

96. A two-node ROBO cluster is configured with a witness VM.



What happens when Node A goes down?

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

98. 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?

99. 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.)

100. 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?

101. A prospect provides sizing details for a new application that will require 15TiB of usable storage. The prospect needs to plan for an additional 20% storage growth as part of the initial purchase.

Including capacity to fully re-protect in the event of a node failure, which configuration provides minimal cost while meeting the capacity requirement?

102. 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?

103. Refer to the exhibit.

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

104. 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.)

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

106. 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?

107. Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?

108. 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?

109. An administrator has been alerted to a VM that has high I/O latency and wants to determine if there are any other factors, such as insufficient network or memory resources that correlate, as part of a troubleshooting process.

Which type of chart should the administrator create to allow all relevant data to be easily exported to CSV for later analysis?

110. In which scenario should shadow clones be explicitly disabled?

111. 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?

112. An administrator needs to report on any alerts generated by a Nutanix cluster that affected the cluster's availability over the past 10 days.

Which method should be used to locate these events?

113. 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)

114. Which three cluster operations require an administrator to reclaim licenses?(Choose three)

115. 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?

116. 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.)

117. 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?

118. 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?

119. 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?

120. 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)

121. Multi-hypervisor Support

122. 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)

123. 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?

124. An administrator knows that the disk in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For security reason, these cluster do not have access to the internet.

Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)

125. From Which page on portal.nutanix.com can an open case be directly escalated?

126. Refer to Exhibit.



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