NCSE 2025/2026 EXAM PREP WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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) - ANSWER--
Minimum guest OS version
-Nutanix Guest Tools installed
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? - ANSWER-Use X-Ray with the
included scenarios and deliver the X-Ray PDF report.
When planning an Oracle database deployment on Nutanix, which best practice should
the SE consider? - ANSWER-Choosing nodes with higher clock speed and fewer cores.
A prospective customer uses both Oracle and Microsoft products for critical
applications. The prospect. prefers an all flash array over HCI, because they have made
a recent, significant investment in physical servers for their Oracle environment to save
on licensing costs. Which feature should be discussed to address this objection? -
ANSWER-Volumes
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? - ANSWER-Add 1 node to the cluster
A VP of Applications at a prospective customer is working to transform IT from a cost,
center to a business enabler. In order to address this initiative, the VP has identified the
following areas for improvement: Increased time and expenses related to meeting
business deliverables Missed market opportunity due to slow IT response time Shadow
IT increases risk of security breaches and brand damage Unplanned spend on public
cloud services (AWS) what two key benefits should the SE review to address the
customer's challenges? (Choose two) - ANSWER--Provide developers with a native and
integrated Self Service Portal that can scale on demand.
-Provide a hardened and secured solution that can inherently block Shadow IT.
Which two VMs require further data analysis to accurately size resources? (Choose
two) ?? - ANSWER--prodsrv05
-prodsrv07
, 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? - ANSWER-Volume Group Load Balancer
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 dat
a. 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? ?? - ANSWER-3.0TiB
A prospective customer is concerned about having a single-pane-of-glass manage their
infrastructure because it also provides a single-point-of-failure. How does the Nutanix
Prism architecture address this concern? - ANSWER-Prism runs on every CVM
A systems engineer is creating a workload for a Sizer Scenario that requires Disaster
Recovery (DR) resources with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 6 hours. The
'Protect VMs and other Entities' setting is set to Yes. Async is selected for the RPO.
Which two other options must be enabled to have Sizer create a DR cluster? (Choose
two) - ANSWER-Disaster Recovery
Remote Snapshot
A customer wants to evaluate the performance impact of failing a node while running
workloads on the cluster. Which tool should a systems engineer use to accomplish this
task? - ANSWER-X-Ray
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? -
ANSWER-RAW SSD storage (in TiB)
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 ? - ANSWER-Move on node from each
NX-3460 into the NX-3160 block. Spread the blocks over three racks and enable Rack
Awareness
A prospective customer's migration to their new SAN started six months ago and is sill
not complete. The VP of IT state the previous migration to the existing SAN took almost
eight months to complete. How should the systems engineer describe Nutanix hardware
refreshes to this prospective customer - ANSWER-New nodes can be added to an
existing cluster. and then the old nodes can be removed.
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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) - ANSWER--
Minimum guest OS version
-Nutanix Guest Tools installed
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? - ANSWER-Use X-Ray with the
included scenarios and deliver the X-Ray PDF report.
When planning an Oracle database deployment on Nutanix, which best practice should
the SE consider? - ANSWER-Choosing nodes with higher clock speed and fewer cores.
A prospective customer uses both Oracle and Microsoft products for critical
applications. The prospect. prefers an all flash array over HCI, because they have made
a recent, significant investment in physical servers for their Oracle environment to save
on licensing costs. Which feature should be discussed to address this objection? -
ANSWER-Volumes
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? - ANSWER-Add 1 node to the cluster
A VP of Applications at a prospective customer is working to transform IT from a cost,
center to a business enabler. In order to address this initiative, the VP has identified the
following areas for improvement: Increased time and expenses related to meeting
business deliverables Missed market opportunity due to slow IT response time Shadow
IT increases risk of security breaches and brand damage Unplanned spend on public
cloud services (AWS) what two key benefits should the SE review to address the
customer's challenges? (Choose two) - ANSWER--Provide developers with a native and
integrated Self Service Portal that can scale on demand.
-Provide a hardened and secured solution that can inherently block Shadow IT.
Which two VMs require further data analysis to accurately size resources? (Choose
two) ?? - ANSWER--prodsrv05
-prodsrv07
, 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? - ANSWER-Volume Group Load Balancer
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 dat
a. 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? ?? - ANSWER-3.0TiB
A prospective customer is concerned about having a single-pane-of-glass manage their
infrastructure because it also provides a single-point-of-failure. How does the Nutanix
Prism architecture address this concern? - ANSWER-Prism runs on every CVM
A systems engineer is creating a workload for a Sizer Scenario that requires Disaster
Recovery (DR) resources with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 6 hours. The
'Protect VMs and other Entities' setting is set to Yes. Async is selected for the RPO.
Which two other options must be enabled to have Sizer create a DR cluster? (Choose
two) - ANSWER-Disaster Recovery
Remote Snapshot
A customer wants to evaluate the performance impact of failing a node while running
workloads on the cluster. Which tool should a systems engineer use to accomplish this
task? - ANSWER-X-Ray
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? -
ANSWER-RAW SSD storage (in TiB)
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 ? - ANSWER-Move on node from each
NX-3460 into the NX-3160 block. Spread the blocks over three racks and enable Rack
Awareness
A prospective customer's migration to their new SAN started six months ago and is sill
not complete. The VP of IT state the previous migration to the existing SAN took almost
eight months to complete. How should the systems engineer describe Nutanix hardware
refreshes to this prospective customer - ANSWER-New nodes can be added to an
existing cluster. and then the old nodes can be removed.
