NCSE-Core Exam questions and
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Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization
environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV? - correct answer ✔✔ RVTools
Collector - correct answer ✔✔ A historical and point-in-time performance capture technology
which collects configuration and performance data of servers and its components
A customer is evaluating Nutanix to replace their existing 200TB filer. The filer is used to store
archived images. To achieve maximum storage density. RF2 and Erasure Coding are proposed.
What is the minimum number of nodes required to support the maximum Erasure Coding stripe
size of 4/1 (data/parity)? - correct answer ✔✔ 6 nodes
By default, Nutanix clusters have what redundancy factor? - correct answer ✔✔ RF2
What are the redundancy factor 3 requirements? - correct answer ✔✔ Min 5 Nodes in cluster,
CVM with 32 GB of RAM configured
What are the redundancy factor 2 requirements? - correct answer ✔✔ Min 2 nodes in cluster,
CVM with 24 GB of RAM configured
Cassandra - correct answer ✔✔ Key Role: distributed metadata store. Stores and manages all of
the cluster metadata in a distributed ring-like manner
Zookeeper - correct answer ✔✔ Key Role: Cluster configuration manager. Stores all the cluster
configuration including hosts, IPs, states, etc. The service runs on three nodes in a cluster, one of
which is elected leader.
,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? - correct answer ✔✔ CVM Autopathing
A healthcare prospect looking to refresh their infrastructure with Nutanix has an initiative to
migrate 5 Petabytes of unstructured, archived patient dat a. Which Nutanix product should be
the focus of the discussion? - correct answer ✔✔ Objects
In the event of a primary datacenter failure. a customer wants to power on virtual machines in a
secondary datacenter with an RPO and RTO of no more than 15 minutes. Upon further
discussions with the customer. the systems engineer (SE) finds that round trip latency between
the 2 sites ca reach up to 6ms Which Nutanix feature should the SE recommend? - correct
answer ✔✔ NearSync
Near Sync - correct answer ✔✔ Leverages Lightweight Snapshots that are snapshots of the
metadata. Recovery points can be 1-15 minutes apart.
Asynchronous Replication - correct answer ✔✔ Can be configured by backing up a group of
entities (VMs and volume groups) locally to the Nutanix cluster and optionally configuring
replication to one or more remote sites. Only schedules with RPO >= 60 minutes can be
configured in this mode.
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) - correct answer
✔✔ Ultimate & Pro with Encryption SKU
A System engineer (SE) is gathering requirements to size a hybrid cluster to replace a
prospect's existing IT test and development environment. The prospective customer has
indicated the cluster contains no business critical applications and has provided the aggregate
vCPU and RAM requirements of the existing cluster.
, Which two additional items does the SE require to size the cluster?(Choose two) - correct
answer ✔✔ Working Data Set and Storage Capacity
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 - correct answer ✔✔ AHV Turbo Mode and Automatic Data
Tiering
An HA event occurs, which causes a SQL virtual machine to restart on a different
node.
What impact will this action have on Data Locality? - correct answer ✔✔ VM data will remain as
originally written and reads will occur across the network.
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? - correct
answer ✔✔ Volumes
Compared to a 3-tier architecture. Which two benefits does Nutanix bring to an
organization? (Choose two.) - correct answer ✔✔ Elimination of siloed storage with file, block,
and object storage in a single platform.
Ability to avoid generational infrastructure silos using modern life cycle management.
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Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization
environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV? - correct answer ✔✔ RVTools
Collector - correct answer ✔✔ A historical and point-in-time performance capture technology
which collects configuration and performance data of servers and its components
A customer is evaluating Nutanix to replace their existing 200TB filer. The filer is used to store
archived images. To achieve maximum storage density. RF2 and Erasure Coding are proposed.
What is the minimum number of nodes required to support the maximum Erasure Coding stripe
size of 4/1 (data/parity)? - correct answer ✔✔ 6 nodes
By default, Nutanix clusters have what redundancy factor? - correct answer ✔✔ RF2
What are the redundancy factor 3 requirements? - correct answer ✔✔ Min 5 Nodes in cluster,
CVM with 32 GB of RAM configured
What are the redundancy factor 2 requirements? - correct answer ✔✔ Min 2 nodes in cluster,
CVM with 24 GB of RAM configured
Cassandra - correct answer ✔✔ Key Role: distributed metadata store. Stores and manages all of
the cluster metadata in a distributed ring-like manner
Zookeeper - correct answer ✔✔ Key Role: Cluster configuration manager. Stores all the cluster
configuration including hosts, IPs, states, etc. The service runs on three nodes in a cluster, one of
which is elected leader.
,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? - correct answer ✔✔ CVM Autopathing
A healthcare prospect looking to refresh their infrastructure with Nutanix has an initiative to
migrate 5 Petabytes of unstructured, archived patient dat a. Which Nutanix product should be
the focus of the discussion? - correct answer ✔✔ Objects
In the event of a primary datacenter failure. a customer wants to power on virtual machines in a
secondary datacenter with an RPO and RTO of no more than 15 minutes. Upon further
discussions with the customer. the systems engineer (SE) finds that round trip latency between
the 2 sites ca reach up to 6ms Which Nutanix feature should the SE recommend? - correct
answer ✔✔ NearSync
Near Sync - correct answer ✔✔ Leverages Lightweight Snapshots that are snapshots of the
metadata. Recovery points can be 1-15 minutes apart.
Asynchronous Replication - correct answer ✔✔ Can be configured by backing up a group of
entities (VMs and volume groups) locally to the Nutanix cluster and optionally configuring
replication to one or more remote sites. Only schedules with RPO >= 60 minutes can be
configured in this mode.
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) - correct answer
✔✔ Ultimate & Pro with Encryption SKU
A System engineer (SE) is gathering requirements to size a hybrid cluster to replace a
prospect's existing IT test and development environment. The prospective customer has
indicated the cluster contains no business critical applications and has provided the aggregate
vCPU and RAM requirements of the existing cluster.
, Which two additional items does the SE require to size the cluster?(Choose two) - correct
answer ✔✔ Working Data Set and Storage Capacity
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 - correct answer ✔✔ AHV Turbo Mode and Automatic Data
Tiering
An HA event occurs, which causes a SQL virtual machine to restart on a different
node.
What impact will this action have on Data Locality? - correct answer ✔✔ VM data will remain as
originally written and reads will occur across the network.
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? - correct
answer ✔✔ Volumes
Compared to a 3-tier architecture. Which two benefits does Nutanix bring to an
organization? (Choose two.) - correct answer ✔✔ Elimination of siloed storage with file, block,
and object storage in a single platform.
Ability to avoid generational infrastructure silos using modern life cycle management.
