Nutanix NCSE Level 1 EXAM 2026-2027 LATEST
VERSION QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS JUST RELEASED
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?
1. Does your company use Microsoft Exchange?
2. Are you using Time Stream for the VDI workloads?
3. What is your process for evaluating new methodologies and technologies?
4. Have you reviewed additional features Nutanix like Calm or Beam yet? -
answer>>>Have you rewied additional features Nutanix like Calm or Beam yet?
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?
1. Recommend the customer install Nuatnix Community Edition.
2. Offer a 10% discount if the customer issues an order without a POC.
3. Share database related Nutanix case studies with the customer.
4. Recommend X-ray to facilitate performance testing and use the Xtract tool to
minimize the migration. - answer>>>Share database related Nutanix case studies with
the customer.
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's needs?
1. Xi
2. Beam
3. Calm
4. Prism Pro - answer>>>Beam
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?
1. Garther magic Quadrant
2. ESG Performance Analysis
3. Net Promoter Score
4. Reference architectures - answer>>>Garther magic Quadrant
During a meetin 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?
1. Data locality
2. Storage Tiering and Prioritization
3. Cluster Components
4. Drive Breakdown
5. Do you have any infrastructure refreshes planned for this year? - answer>>>Data
locality
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)
1. Model of Fibre Channel switch
2. Gather details of customer's existing 3-tier hardware
3. ldentify appropriate POC hardware
4. A test plan with agreed upon success criteria
5. What type of external storage will be connected - answer>>>Identity appropriate POC
hardware
&
A test plan with agreed upon success criteria
, 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?
1. Start date of the POC
2. Defined and measurable success criteria
3. Meeting frequency
4. Number of Nodes/Block to be used during the POC - answer>>>Defined and
measurable success criteria
From Which page on portal.nutanix.com can an open case be directly escalated?
1. Home
2. View Cases
3. 360 View
4. Case Detail - answer>>>View Cases
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)
1. Deploy HCIbench to determine maximum IOPS.
2. Deploy Calm to automate application deployment.
3. Expand the cluster by adding an additional node.
4. Use a single interface to manage and monitor the full stack.
5. Enable all data efficiency settings. - answer>>>Expand the cluster by adding an
additional node.
&
Use a single interface to manage and monitor the full stack
In which scenario should shadow clones be explicitly disabled?
1. when deploying Horizon View virtual desktops
2. when deploying Splunk
3. when deploying an Oracle RAC database
4. when deploying Citrix virtual desktops - answer>>>When deploying an Oracle RAC
database
VERSION QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS JUST RELEASED
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?
1. Does your company use Microsoft Exchange?
2. Are you using Time Stream for the VDI workloads?
3. What is your process for evaluating new methodologies and technologies?
4. Have you reviewed additional features Nutanix like Calm or Beam yet? -
answer>>>Have you rewied additional features Nutanix like Calm or Beam yet?
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?
1. Recommend the customer install Nuatnix Community Edition.
2. Offer a 10% discount if the customer issues an order without a POC.
3. Share database related Nutanix case studies with the customer.
4. Recommend X-ray to facilitate performance testing and use the Xtract tool to
minimize the migration. - answer>>>Share database related Nutanix case studies with
the customer.
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's needs?
1. Xi
2. Beam
3. Calm
4. Prism Pro - answer>>>Beam
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?
1. Garther magic Quadrant
2. ESG Performance Analysis
3. Net Promoter Score
4. Reference architectures - answer>>>Garther magic Quadrant
During a meetin 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?
1. Data locality
2. Storage Tiering and Prioritization
3. Cluster Components
4. Drive Breakdown
5. Do you have any infrastructure refreshes planned for this year? - answer>>>Data
locality
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)
1. Model of Fibre Channel switch
2. Gather details of customer's existing 3-tier hardware
3. ldentify appropriate POC hardware
4. A test plan with agreed upon success criteria
5. What type of external storage will be connected - answer>>>Identity appropriate POC
hardware
&
A test plan with agreed upon success criteria
, 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?
1. Start date of the POC
2. Defined and measurable success criteria
3. Meeting frequency
4. Number of Nodes/Block to be used during the POC - answer>>>Defined and
measurable success criteria
From Which page on portal.nutanix.com can an open case be directly escalated?
1. Home
2. View Cases
3. 360 View
4. Case Detail - answer>>>View Cases
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)
1. Deploy HCIbench to determine maximum IOPS.
2. Deploy Calm to automate application deployment.
3. Expand the cluster by adding an additional node.
4. Use a single interface to manage and monitor the full stack.
5. Enable all data efficiency settings. - answer>>>Expand the cluster by adding an
additional node.
&
Use a single interface to manage and monitor the full stack
In which scenario should shadow clones be explicitly disabled?
1. when deploying Horizon View virtual desktops
2. when deploying Splunk
3. when deploying an Oracle RAC database
4. when deploying Citrix virtual desktops - answer>>>When deploying an Oracle RAC
database
